I don't really see TMNT as a talking animal franchise, is that weird?

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Even then there's not that many female mutants.

Mona Lisa was only ever in 1 episode. Venus just appeared in the poorly received Next Mutation back in the day. Ninjara was a major part of the Archie comics and to be fair her design was sexualized, but it didn't seem too bad since it was a kids comic after all.

Besides that there were literally no other female mutants (not counting stuff like April transformed into a cat for a single episode), until basically to the modern era with IDW.

April turned into a mutant turtle in one issue of the Archie comic, This predates Venus.