TMNT Redefines First Female Turtle's Sexist Name with Horrifying New Form
Warning: contains spoilers for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #127!
After nearly 25 years, Venus de Milo, the original female turtle member of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, has finally returned to the heroes in a half-shell, but not as fans would expect. While the character is often derided, her return is promising a much different version of the Turtles' lost sister.
According to the story as told in the 1997 live-action television series Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, originally five baby turtles were exposed to the vial of radioactive ooze that fell into the New York sewers. However, one of the turtles, Venus, got separated from the other four and somehow ended up in Chinatown, where she was found by a martial artist named Chung who trained her as a ninja. Years later, she runs into her four brothers while battling a demon called the Dragon Lord. However, the television series was canceled after the first season, and Venus was ignored in later iterations of the franchise.
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That is, until the recent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #127 — from Sophie Campbell and Pablo Tunica - where Donatello finds her under the care of Dr. Jasper Barlow, the mysterious scientist who claims his off-putting experiments on mutants are to help them regain a modicum of the humanity they had before their transformations. Here, however, Venus' design is very different to the blue-masked turtle fans remember, and she is presented in a zombie/cyborg form. Cover art suggests that Venus will control her arms through technological means, despite them being severed from her body in the style of the statue that acts as her namseake.
Despite being relegated to the comic
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