Hamato Miwa (2012 TV series)

The 2012 animated series version of Karai is a rebellious member of the Foot Clan, a master kunoichi and the teenage (16-year-old) daughter of the Shredder. She is voiced by Kelly Hu. According to IGN, "while Karai does seem to be fairly loyal to Shredder, there's no doubt that she's at least somewhat open to walking the line with Leo and the others."

History
In "New Girl In Town", she and Leonardo have a similar relationship to that of Catwoman and Batman; as she tries tempting him to be more like her. While Leo wants her to see she's as not as bad as she appears. She confronts Leo, who is separate from his brothers. During their first battle, she blinds him before attacking him. However, she leaves him alive. She later runs into him again in an alley and fights him again. They both exchange some banter and some blows until Karai holds a sword against Leo's throat, trying to convince him that he's not as good as he appears. She also notes during her fight with Leonardo that while she understands the Shredder's revenge, but she's uninterested. And that she jokingly stated that he should get a hobby. She tells him to meet her atop of a building without giving him any more information other than she wants to show him something.

Karai meets with the Shredder, who is not happy that she let Leo live. She tries to lie and say that he escaped, but the Shredder doesn't believe her. He tells her that she must kill him or else. Their scene ends with Karai calling him "Father". Her relationship with her "father" may be somewhat abusive, as she intensely becomes frighten after making the Shredder angry at a comment.

At midnight, Leo meets Karai on top of the building she informed him about earlier. She tells him that they're there to steal a famous katana in a museum. Leo refuses to help her, which upsets her. Before she takes out her dagger, Leo stops her and tells her that he believes that there's good inside her. Raphael comes in, and is angry at him for "holding hands with the foot". Upon Snakeweed's attack, she stands there smiling until Leo asks for her help. She throws him a knife and leaves. Whether this was to help him or not is undetermined.

In The Alien Agenda, Karai finds the turtles fighting the Kraang. She becomes somewhat concerned over the Kraang When she tells the Shredder, she tries to convince him to take some concern over them due to the mutations that happened to the turtles, Xever and Chris Bradford, he believes that this is all nonsense, and ignores her. She'd become disappointed that Shredder has no interests or concern over the Kraang. Shredder then reminds his daughter his reason for his ongoing vendetta against Splinter. As he blames him for his disfigurement and then tells his daughter how Splinter hurt "us"; indicating that she believes Hamato Yoshi also wronged her. To find out more she questioned Leonardo when they next fought, during which she flirts with him. But he refused to tell her anything, and also said for her to leave his brothers alone. Raphael asks Leonardo about her, and if they should tell the other two brothers, but Leonardo said that she was going to leave them alone. Raphael thought that that was a stupid idea. She keeps it to a point, as she followed the 4 brothers into the Kraang lair, seemingly undetected. However, when the turtles realized Raph was missing, he had found Karai and pinned her down. The two fought, and while Raphael was a more worthy opponent for her, Leonardo broke them up. Leonardo argued that Karai was good, both Raphael and Karai said that she was evil, while Michelangelo and Donatello were perplexed by who she even was. The fight gathers the Kraang's attention who attempt to subdue them. Karai makes the fight worse by releasing the mutagen and unleashing a monster. She then takes a Kraang droid and brings it to her father as evidence. She also offers it as technology for Baxter Stockman to use against the battle against the turtles.

In Karai's Vendetta Karai appears again to caputre April. She meets her under the alliasis "Harmony". She then reveals her identidy by trying to feed April turtle soup. She then battles April and wins only to be defeated when April mentions losing her mother, causing Karai to hesitate.

Personality
When Karai makes her first appearance in the episode New Girl in Town, airing February 1, 2013. She is described as a rebellious teenager and expert martial artist who stirs up trouble. "As lethal as she is beautiful, Karai brings a whole new level of chaos and complication for the Turtles," says the Nickelodeon description. Kelly Hu said: "I have to admit that I’ve never seen any other version of Karai, so I really have nothing to compare her to -- which is kind of a good thing, because then I just get to play her as I see her myself. But she’s sort of feisty, cunning and kicks butt. She gets to have a little going on with Leonardo. What I like about playing this character is she’s not all bad. She has a conscience that she has to wrestle with...But see, I don’t know about the other Karai's or story lines in other series, so I don’t know how it matches up, if it’s the same or different or what." Hu added that she "was pleasantly surprised at how edgy and cool she was -- and skinny!" Nickelodeon published early character design sketches of their interpretation of Karai on the Internet.

Appearance
She is shown to be taller than Leo. Karai has black hair that is dyed blonde in the back, also two strands of her hair falls over her ears. She wears several black earrings, and red eyeliner on her brown eyes. Karai wear silver armor, black material worn under her armor, traditional Japanese shoes, and a purple belt with design on it.

Shredder
Karai's relationship with her father is complicated. She seems to fear the Shredder just like Bradford and Xever do and she obeys him, but she doesn't appear to respect him as much. It's possible that she wants him to respect her when she mentions the Kraang and shows him the droid she picked up. In Enemy of My Enemy, a little more insight is given to Karai's relationship with her "father". Twice in the episode does Karai save her father from getting zapped by a tazer ball and drowning.

Leonardo
Leonardo is the first of the Turtles that Karai meets. While she attacks and fights with him often, she never does him any serious harm and just enjoys sparring with a worthy opponent. Leonardo, in turn, is both confused by and attracted to Karai (as shown in "New Girl In Town"). She is dangerous, but Leo believes there's some good in her. She seems to be deceitful and manipulative in The Alien Agenda, using Leo's feelings for her against him, especially in his time of need.

In Enemy of My Enemy, she returns, seeking information on the Kraang from the turtles. This time, instead of wanting to fight the turtles, she decides to make a truce with the turtles in order to defeat the Kraang ship. She goes againsst the Shredder's orders because she knows they'll all die if they don't set aside their differences and take down the ship. At first, the turtles, mainly Leo, are very skeptical about her and decline her request for a truce, but after she leads it away from the Shellraiser, they comply. Because Leo saved her and allowed her to speak to all of Turtles, Karai develops some feelings of friendship for him. However, because he and his brothers tried to attack her father, the truce was called off and her feelings were hurt. Now she's vengeful towards the turtles and is willing to do whatever it takes to take them down. Whether or not her relationship will heal in future episodes is unknown.

Raphael
Raphael is the second of the Turtles that Karai meets, and the first to find out about Leonardo's "friendship" with her. Unlike his brother, Raphael immediately distrusts her. Karai, meanwhile, seems to enjoy teasing Raphael due to his frustration which is easily set due to being insulted right away, which brings more amusement to her while fighting with him during battle. Raphael seems like a more worthy opponent for Karai in battle due to the fact he sees her as an enemy working for the Foot, but she sees him more as a play toy for her amusement.

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