TMNT's New Shock Origin Changes the Most Controversial Turtle Forever
Warning: contains spoilers for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #130!
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ controversial sister Venus De Milo is stepping out of the shadow of her controversial past and forging a fascinating new identity. After years of being ignored, Venus is re-emerging in IDW Publishing's continuity after a round of Frankenstein-inspired body horror has rendered her both punk frog and turtle.
Venus made her debut 25 years ago, as part of 1997’s short-lived live-action television series Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation. Though the series lasted only one season, the plot twist of a missing sister courted controversy, branded both sexist and tokenistic, especially since the team's one female member was named after a piece of art, not an artist like her brothers. Now, the most controversial Ninja Turtle is being re-imagined in a way that gives her a fair shake.
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Venus De Milo’s appearance in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #130 by Sophie Campbell and Pablo Tunica (with Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz in consulting roles) moves as far as possible from Venus sharing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' origin, as it turns out she was formerly a mutated frog. Clyde the Punk Frog is so convinced of her resemblance to his former lover Bonnie that he is desperate for her to return with him. Donatello, on the other hand, knows that Venus and his brothers share a connection of their own and advocates for her to come with him, putting her into direct conflict with her motivations as a turtle-and-frog hybrid. Rejecting these binary paths, Venus chooses to go her own way.
This shocking re-imagining of her story goes one step further when it is revealed that a dash
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