The IDEA of Karai mutating into Venus

[Andrew NDB]

On paper, the Nick Karai/Hamato Miwa mutating into Venus is actually kind of the most brilliant way of going about a female Turtle.

* She's already basically their sister, as Splinter was her father.

* As such, there wouldn't be any of the weird sexual tension that NT:TNM desperately tried to inject into things.

* Since the Nick universe makes no attempt or illusion of playing upon the TMNT as unique or outcasts (they can go to the store anytime and sit down and eat pizza gyoza, and there's like a million other mutants running around New York now) making Karai/Miwa into Venus wouldn't take away from that aspect... because it doesn't exist here.

* Having so much mileage already on the show as a human and right hand of the Shredder, her complicated origin by having been raised by and lied to her whole life by the man who basically killed her mother and screwed over her real father... she brings to the table a compelling character.

* The show gets a free pass on the Bechdel Test from here on, more or less.

The big downside of course, is we lose one more from the already greatly diminished human cast. And when we get SuperShredder (or rather, Super-er Shredder, since he's already like a walking SuperShredder on the show), who's left? Just Casey, since April's some kind of freak. And a couple of Purple Dragons.

There's also the question: do we even want a female Turtle?