7. Venus de Milo
Ninja Turtles Ranked
The bane of Turtle fans worldwide. The late 90s were the teenage years for the faltering empire, and it was just as awkward and unpleasant as real-life pubescence.
To summate everything that is wrong with Venus de Milo, you need only remind people that she’s the Turtle with boobs, and that’s a phrase that should never escape the confines of a furry convention. I think she’d be more of a scaley, but now we’re arguing therian semantics.
In all fairness, Venus de Milo (aka Mei Pieh Chi) was not actually that bad of a character, fundamentally; she just happened to have surfaced during the lambasted Next Mutation series. The puppets were rubbery, the writing was grating, and instead of giving this Chinese warrior a unique fighting style as a point of difference, they settled on her being a Shinobi.
Somehow, this translated to… a ninja with magic? It’s all kinds of appropriation, and I don’t like it.
Her very existence has been forcibly erased from our memories for the most part, and she only appears in the communal discussion like some kind of boogeyman. Her most treasured book is Winnie the Pooh, in case you were curious, and yes that’s canon.
