Why No Venus?
 

It has been said in an interview that Venus is not in the Nickelodeon show. Why was this design made? Is she property of Saban?

Because Venus De Milo is a terrible character.

.....I can't find a nice way of saying it.......

so yea...I agree with this XD....

Venus have a lot of baggage, not to mention she is problematic as a character in many ways. One is that she removes the turtles lonesomeness that they are the only of their kind.

Venus just don't fit as a main stay of the group. Also four is already many main characters, adding a 5th and making it a odd number one would get more attention then the rest, as a "super protagonist", the special one. Like Green/White ranger in MMPR

Ah Venus. *smiles* The thing is, Venus was doomed the minute they changed the TMNT's back story and said "there was a fifth turtle with us in the bowl". Or whatever the hell it was they said. She was terrible on that show.

But. She could be reworked into a better charachter easily. So Honestly, who the hell knows? She left a bad taste in fans mouths because of the way her charachter had been portrayed, so that has to be over come before certain fans will accept her.

She was a good example of a charachter with potential done wrong.

Now, when Karai(Miwa) gets turned into a girl turtle (Foreshadowed by Splinter giving April the weapon meant for his daughter, which were fight fans like Venus was supposed to have) maybe she'll change her name?

lol lol lol lol

It's because she's one of the most least liked characters in TMNT.

Surprisingly she has a small fan base on DeviantArt, what bothers is their immaturity over the topic calling Peter Laird sexist for Retconning her.

Pardon my French, but she's the worst f***ing character in TMNT history

Because she's super lame and the worst character ever created for TMNT. That should be an option in your poll.

Why no Pluto?
XD ^_^

Ditto, to everything

She should be brought back...
So she can have a horrible death scene :teek:

The only thing that's possibly sexist is adding a 5th turtle and making her female just for the sake of diversity or whatever nonsense they portray it to be. I mean, that's just condescending to women and girls. Especially when we already have decent female characters like April and Karai.

Can you imagine if they added an orange-skinned turtle to appeal to children from ethnic minorities?

I never liked Venus. She never grew on me. I was only a kid and I can recall the great hostility I felt towards her like I have never felt towards a fictional character.

Venus! I can't believe it! Why hasn't Ciro thought of adding Venus to the show! She could take over Aprils place and get more screen time then the Turtles themselves! Genuis! But they should save her for the Sonic crossover in which She becomes Sonics Girlfriend.

Miru, stop trolling.

She is a horrible character.

There are no bad characters, only bad writers.

wheres the 'because she plain sucks' option??

Even if she was in the new series, what exactly would she do? She basically had no personality in TNM. I feel that now that April is a teenager, there's no need for Venus (there never really was, anyway).

Because I don't care for her.

Even if this current April sucks ass i still would say absolutely not..

But this April is damn AWESOME actually so to hell with venus..

Because Venus is a horrible character and a huge waste of space.

Venus is just awful. Does this even need to be a poll?

I don't hate Venus like other dromers do, but I do see her as unnecessary. She neither adds any dynamic to the turtles as a character, and barely contributed to the plots she was involved in. I wouldn't mind a re-imagining of the character, but I would also be just as satisfied if she never appeared again.

I would like to see her in the show, but she's not neccesary.

I would have her be a gen 2 turtle.

Erghhh guys? :teek:

SOURCE

Second picture down, zoom in.

You can see quite clearly the word 'Venus' written across a bomb. With a blonde (human) female dressed as a ninja turtle.

Apologies if this has been posted before but I only just saw a photo on facebook from April (month, not the character). I'm not sure if Argos is in the USA, but it's a legit UK company at least.

Maybe she's the anti-Karai meets sexier, actually-with-talent female Pulverizer...

:o Wow.

Y'know, if Venus did appear in the show looking like that, I'd totally be okay with it.

The cosplay crew would certainly have fun there. She looks like a TMNT fangirl.

http://i.imgur.com/a0FV8CP.jpg

Hmm.. she looks like a blonde Poison Ivy. Her weapon is a giant bomb? Her figure and shape does look waay better than teenage April.

I think that's just a design made for the tent only though.

That's pretty cool. They made Venus into a WWII style decal.

Looks like Zach's friend, Caitlyn, grew up to be a cosplay model.

:tconfuse:interesting...i wonder why she is there?

Sure...I'll take Venus now!:tgrin::o

bwahahaha to your signature!!

Hmmm, I wonder... and this is a random guess. But I wonder if they might make Venus start out as a human and then become a mutant, similar to Mona Lisa, and becomes some mutant salamander or turtle. Just a shot in the dark, that's all.

...But that is funny it would be on the TMNT 2012 play tent. I guess maybe the "Easter eggs" for the Nick series, are not only on the show but in the merchandise as well...? ;):lol: I have a feeling somebody in manufacturing must have put it there as an inside joke for the parents of these fan children, and that the parents would get a laugh seeing it while setting up the tent. I mean the parental generation would know who "Venus" is, more than the children who are actually using that play tent. Do you think the joke is... "The most offensive weapon for the Battle Tank (or toward the TMNT franchise) is to have a weapon named 'Venus.'"? (Since that character was a "bomb" since she was received so poorly.) Just throwin' it out there.... :lol:

Thanks kelligrafie for showing it to us! :)

Not much of a fan for blondes myself so still wouldn't want her in the show.

What everyone else said. She sucks.

But why would they would put it on the tent if she wasn't going to be in the show in some way.

That's a waste of ink, plus I don't see how kids today would know who Venus was unless their parents or someone had introduced them to the turtles and they were going through the back series? Most would just be aware of the current series I think.

I'm can't speak for the US but here in the UK, the other series such as the live action and '87 haven't been shown on TV for years, that I know of.

I just think it'd be a wasted in-joke y'know?

It's pin-up or cheesecake. Doesn't mean her weapon is a bomb at all.
But it's very odd to have sexy pin-up on a kid's tent... but this is a UK product so... I 'unno.

So you're suggesting they are leaving (sourdough) breadcrumbs for older fans on a children's play tent from across the pond, just to tease or tell us that a character that a majority fanbase disliked to the point that the creators do not acknowledge her COULD appear in the new show that everyone does like?

:lol: