User blog comment:SonofSamhain/Is Venus really that bad a character?/@comment-24020550-20131006202851

Personally I want to see her redeemed. People really bash on her, but her major issues were due to bad writing and her throwing off team dynamic. The 4 turtles' personalities are based like alot of 'temperment groups'  Here for indepth exploration

(yes it does speak of the 5th one, but most people all recognize the 4th, and you could say April falls somewhere into the 5th.  In which case it turns into this FiveManBand )

So truthfully it never WAS Venus' fault she was hated so much, because in truth she was poorly written, which in comparison to the much more built up 4, made her look like some random Mary-sue some crazed fan-fic writer created that was made reality (which in truth it was just to shut up the FOX ceo-s with their 'has to be a female to each team to increase female viewership' rule bs.)

Now, am I against there being a female on every team? Nope, I actually push for it, my issue has always been the girl either turns into 'healer chick' or 'damsel in the way'. But it's a big trope and people live by tropes, so if she DOES become part of their team (which if done PROPERLY she could be successful, but it's gonna take alot of work) I would more embrace a 'healer girl' in place of what she was in her creation series 'damsel in the way'.

If they are to take her up, her back story needs some SERIOUS work. I mean the Kraang and all do various experiements to various animals and humans, it's NOT like the ONLY possiblity of turtles to be mutated is by that ONE incident that made the boys (Look at the comic of 'The Fifth Turtle' where April is turned into one after all). It's possible that the Kraang might have taken a turtle or a human, much like Leatherhead, and mutated them. And with how Leatherhead fights, when he broke out, there's no definitive way to say that he didn't smash open some other pods containing other critters that made their escape, but haven't surfaced just yet (I mean the Kraang drop Mikey's 'Mom' on a human and some turtles and didn't go after them until the turtles started getting in their way 15 years later, and they only cared about Leatherhead because of the battery, so it's understandable if one of their 'critters' got away that had no use to them, they wouldn't care. XD)

If they want her to take a 'sister' aspect to the group, I would demand she be trained by Splinter, to make her more harmonous with the rest of the group (since he's everyone else's teacher). If she is to be an 'ally' then I don't see why she can't be trained in 'kung-fu' if they keep the 'man from Chinatown finds her' (because I don't think many Japanese frequent Chinatown, in my experience Chinese and Japanese don't typically care for one another ((kinda like how Americans and French feel about one another)), but then again, Splinter did seem to be married to a woman with a Chinese name so...*shrug*)

On that further point, if she does take up the 'sister' aspect, and coming in without any formal training, I expect her not to be ready to fight on the topside, and would see her more as staying in house with Splinter, acting as 'healer' while she trains, much like April. (cause let's face it, unless she's been training for 15 years like them, she's not going to be good in a fight, hell the turtles weren't great fighting together in the pilot after all, you can't expect to throw in a newbie and think she's going to do well, she's not Po from Kung Fu Panda! XD)

If they go the 'ally' route, I would kinda like to see her with Mona Lisa, Spike, and some other mutants, as a helping force when the turtles need a hand (like Leatherhead and whatnot). Heck, they could have them as a group of humans(or pets) mutated wanting to turn back into humans(or pets) (I mean they did it in 'the Fifth turtle' comic, can you tell I liked that one? XD)

As for her bandana, personally I don't care for the cyan blue myself because it looks like they were trying to avoid pink. They avoided yellow for obvious reasons (April is the yellow damnit, you can't make me believe anything else, even if they did make her take a 'white' bandana while she was mutated.), but they still have some other choices: Black, white, green (we're talking lime green, one that stands out), pink, and indigo if you want to get technical (use Japanese Indigo if you want it to really stand out). But if they put her back in cyan I'm not gonna whine. I just think it kinda makes her look like she's 'suppose' to be paired with the blue guy, and I rather ships be left to small nods and hints, much like with Donnie and April and Leo and Karai.

My last note falls on the breast issue. Okay, as a woman, I have never really seen the need for breasts to be used to indicate gender, there's lots of ways to make a female 'look' feminine (case in point, the usual 'Trap' case or This for tropes They rarely have 'breasts'). Shoot, back in the old days the only way to distinguish female from male in anthropormorphic creatures was which had eyelashes and a bow and the other didn't. (See? Not even eyelashes in this one, just a skirt and high-heels!). Now with that said, I know HUMAN males of the straight variety like boobs, which is why MANY things that shouldn't have boobs suddenly get them as soon as they are made anthropormorphic (and I am guilty of doing said 'boob adding' to distinguish females from males on anthro drawings), so it's somewhat expected. So while mentally I can argue all day till I'm blue in the face about how 'reptile women shouldn't have boobs' it's more than likely they're gonna end up with them just because it will make her appear more 'human' and therefore garner more like in 'beauty' points, and just because it's easier then to 'tell which is girl and which is not'.

In short, yeah, I want Venus to be redeemed, SO EXTREMELY BADLY!

Wanna know why? Cause when I was a little girl and I loved the TMNT so much, I wanted to dress up like them for Halloween (heck, I wanted to dress up like alot of superheros, but that was because I was a strange girl who made her Barbies defeat aliens and fight superhero battles with my action figures rather than play house). But despite my love and sheer want, I was always told 'NO! You can't do that, you're a girl! The TMNT are boys!! Dress up as a princess!' (who the heck wants to be a princess T_T). If Venus is brought back, I feel she'll open up another area for young girls who like TMNT, along with April who now is younger and more accessable (I feel atleast) as a character to young viewers. (I mean yeah, sure, NOW they make TMNT dresses, but they didn't when I was little, and they don't make them for little girls now, those are for big girls! Q_Q)

Anyways, thats my......alot more than 2 cents but yeah XD;;