All you shred-happy office assistants out there, try to contain yourselves before you break into an active sweat. Perhaps the title should’ve been a little more descriptive “Master Shredder” isn’t a new, heavy duty paper-shredding machine capable of making Optimus Prime look like an Easy-Bake Oven. In fact, Master Shredder isn’t even here to help. He is a villain, a cold, hardened killer hell-bent on finally enjoying a hard-fought bowl of turtle soup.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fans will remember Master Shredder as the primary nemesis of Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo and Rafael, controlling the Foot Clan (his army of misguided wrong-doers) towards one evil ploy after another. Born as Oruku Saki, Shredder takes his nickname from the sharp edged armor he wears at all times, capable of mincing even the thickest encyclopedia to mere scraps. Shredder is a “master” as the result of years of ninjutsu training, a title given to those who have reached the highest level of the Japanese art of fighting.Master Splinter, who serves as the Turtles’ “sensei” or mentor, was actually a member of the same clan as Shredder back in their native country. According to the cartoon, Shredder framed Splinter for the attempted murder of their clan’s leader, at which point Splinter fled to New York City and sought refuge in sewers beneath the city streets. While living underground in exile, Splinter came across four abandoned turtles, taking them in as pets and raising them as his own. When Splinter finds his turtles crawling around in a mysterious oozing chemical he tries to clean them off with his bare hands, but the mutating effects transform Splinter into an oversized sewer rat and all four of his pets into turtle-like humanoids. With the turtles now capable of a full range of motion, Splinter founds the world’s first amphibian dojo, using his advanced martial arts knowledge to train his new students in the craft, as the Ninja Turtles quickly begin to take shape.