Rat King (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) cameo appearance in "Teenage Mutant Ninjas Turtles" Vol. 4, watching as Splinter succumbs to a heart attack and dies while retrieving milk from a refrigerator. Much of the Rat King's origin is later revealed in an issue of "Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Vol. 2; the story reveals that a group of beings known as the Pantheon exists, with each member of the group having jurisdiction over a species of animal. When the time of the Pantheon member who rules the rats reaches an end, a new one is chosen, a scarred and heavily bandaged (explaining the Rat
Splinter (band) about how Mal Evans discovered Splinter and 'Lonely Man' in this the last APPLE film (1974)", Tom Brennan's Splinter Library, 26 November 2011 (retrieved 25 October 2012).</ref> Harrison was impressed with one of their songs, "Lonely Man", which he felt would be ideal for a film he was producing, based on the stage play "Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs". Harrison and his then bride of two weeks Patti Boyd attended the play's opening in 1966. Harrison initially intended to sign Splinter to Apple Records and held sessions at Apple Studio in central London to work on the