What was the actual point of the toxic ooze in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

We all know that it had the side effect of mutating animals and people, but what was its original purpose?|||It is different in the comics, movies and cartoons.





In the original comics, the ooze was created by an alien race called the Utroms which looked similar to Krang from the cartoon series (Krang wasn%26#039;t a Utrom in the cartoon though). The Utroms crashlanded on Earth and salvaged everything that they could from their spaceship including canisters of mutagen which I believe were a source of fuel but I can%26#039;t remember if the comics actually say that or not. While they were transporting the materials one of the canisters fell off a truck and knocked the fish bowl with the turtles into the sewer.





In the TMNT movies, the scientist that accidentally created the mutagen said %26quot;an unknown mixture of discarded chemicals was accidentally exposed to a series or radiated waves%26quot;. The movies changed the origin of the mutagen because they didn%26#039;t want to have aliens involved with the storyline.





In the 1987 cartoon series, Shredder poured the mutagen down the sewer to try to kill Splinter because he thought it was a deadly poison and didn%26#039;t know that it would cause mutations. There was another episode where Krang created another batch of the mutagen so I assume he created the first batch as well so that Shredder could kill his old foe but he didn%26#039;t know that it would cause the mutation either. I%26#039;m currently watching the series and it hasn%26#039;t given an exact explanation through the first three seasons.





In the 2003 cartoon, the Utroms used it to fuel a %26quot;Transmat%26quot; which was their teleportation device.|||Well, I%26#039;m not an expert on the Turtles, so maybe I%26#039;m wrong. But wasn%26#039;t the ooze deliberately spilled by the Shredder in order to take revenge on his old foe Splinter and make him a rat to hurt his self steem? And in the process he accidentaly created his worst enemies?





Just a theory...|||From what I can remember, I think it was some form of energy for a power-plant or at least combo of waste from the facility along with other things. Or possibly radioactive material that wasn%26#039;t properly disposed of.


(i%26#039;m referencing the classics)|||it%26#039;s like potato-peelings but in the nuclear-industry sense of the word|||mutants