Karai in the Nicktoon TMNT: why not Pimiko?

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Originally Posted by Candy Kappa

It's the 4Kids shows fault. Karai will never recover from the Shredder's daughter role, ever.

I felt this way for a long time and I know from his blog Laird didn't initialy like the idea of Karai being Shredder's daughter but after a while I began to feel differently.

I remember when I first read "City At War" and thinking Karai was one of the best characters ever and loved the potential of having the leader of the Foot being a quasi-friend to the turtles. Then...nothing.

Obviously she was intended to be Lady Shredder in the Image run but we never really saw that play out and while what we see of her in Vol. 4 seems intriguing we don't know were that's heading if indeed it ever heads anywhere.

It's not that the 4Kids version of the character pales in comparison to the Mirage version so much as she pales in comparison to what I imagined the Mirage versions potential to be.

At this point the 4Kids version is the definitive version of the character and there's certainly a lot of mileage to be had with a character that's conflicted by her personal sense of honour vs her sense of duty to the man who raised her. I can definitely see why Nickleodeon seems to be going down a similar route with the character.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

The target audience is 10 year olds. It is irrelevant what and who in the dwindling pocket TMNT fandom remembers is what...they might as well choose the best fit from the existing source material for the part.

I don't think that is Pimiko.


Pimiko is Shredder's biological daughter but never knew him. She sought revenge against the turtles but seemed to soften her attitude towards the end of the Image series.

As opposed to...

Spoiler:

the Nick version who doesn't seem to be Saki's daughter and doesn't want to blindly do her fathers bidding. Just like the 4Kids version.

Plus y'know her costume might raise a few eyebrows on childrens show.