<p>Say guys I just learned something:
</p><p>When they were planning to make a second season for Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, Splinter was shockingly going to be killed off (most likely by the Dragonlord) leaving the Turtles to learn how to fight without their master's guidance or presence, but it was cancelled before this could happen.
</p><p>So this gets me wondering could Splinter's death in Annihilation Earth be a reference to what would have occured in the cancelled second season of Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation?
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