Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28655620-20161117184919/@comment-28655620-20180309073620

Easol1 wrote: My personal take on it is that she shouldn't, for two reasons:

1. The whole backstory reminds me of bad fanfic. It really does make me cringe.

2. The name and what it implies. Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo are the names of great men who contributed greatly to art and culture. Venus de Milo... was not an artist of any kind, or even a person. It is a thing. An object. Having the only female character be named after a literal object, while the males are all given "people" names, has some very bad connotations. I can respect your opinions but I like to add my piece.

1. Don't blame the stories. Blame the writers.

2. Just because their names are named after artists and inventors that doesn't mean it defines them. Michelangelo in real life is Italian Sculptor but TMNT Mikey, he's not making statues. So none of these names are defining them and they're not living up or looking up to them. Venus De Milo aka Mei Pei Chi doesn't define her in anything, so their names don't really define anything. It's like naming your truck Bessie because it was given personality.