In the universe Eastman and Laird's original comic books, the Foot Clan was started by two Japanese men named Sato and Oshi, ironically, by a mistake by the Ninja Turtles. In Volume 1 Issue 47, the Turtleand Timestress Renet traveled to a time prior to the Foot's creation in an attempt to stop their enemy Savanti Romero. There Raphael met two friendly Ronin, Sato and Oshi, and not realizing who they were, taught them Ninjutsu. After the Turtles returned to the present, Sato and Oshi decided to follow the ways of the ninja. The the two men founded the Ninja Clan under the philosophy that it would grow up from a small beginning, step by step to become a powerful force. Oshi declared: "We must never again mention the strange shelled creatures. In time, others will join us and we will become a