Remember Venus De Milo, the woman Ninja Turtle?

[dnealy]

Originally published at: Remember Venus De Milo, the woman Ninja Turtle? | Boing Boing

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[Papasan]

[Brainspore]

I don’t really follow the comics but apparently the “…and no one ever attempted to make a female Ninja Turtle again…” part is now out of date. But she’s apparently a former human member of the Foot Clan who was transformed into a turtle, or something?

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Looks like they didn’t give her weird turtle-boobs like they did with Venus De Milo, so that’s promising.

[Steve_L]

Remember when she appeared in the crossover episode with the Power Rangers?

Though the next time the franchises crossed over Venus didn’t appear. Instead April O’Neil morphed into the Pink Turtle Ranger.

[mr_raccoon]

There’s a good reason why they introduced her

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[Otherbrother]

@dnealy

Notice that while the male turtles are named after artists, the female turtle is named after an art object?

If they’d just stuck with the original naming convention it would have been a great opportunity to introduce kids (myself included) to the fact that there were great women Renaissance artists as well as men. They could have gone with Lavina Fontana, for example.

[RickMycroft]

@dnealy

Why is Venus so reviled?

At the time, it seemed like an 'armless idea.

/runs for the car

[3Salkow]

The look of horror on those children’s faces.

[angusm]

@Otherbrother

If they’d just stuck with the original naming convention it would have been a great opportunity to introduce kids (myself included) to the fact that there were great women Renaissance artists as well as men. They could have gone with Lavina Fontana , for example.

I would watch stories about a mutant turtle named after Artemisia Gentileschi.