Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28655620-20161117184919/@comment-995426-20190706070037

I hope she doesn't have the Venus de Milo alias. It was never that good an appellation anyway&mdash;the other turtles were named after Renaissance artists, and some other characters like Mona Lisa (1987 TV series) were named after Renaissance art subjects, but Venus de Milo was named after a nude statue of a goddess of love and her character was fought over by two other male characters as if she was a prize to be won. It follows an unfortunate pattern in which men are remembered by what they do, and women are remembered by how they look or who claims them. If other turtles had been named after male art subjects, such as (Michelangelo's) David, it wouldn't seem like such a double standard, but since the turtles were named after artists, it would have been more appropriate for a similarly theme-named female character to be named after another artist.

All that said, I hope Jennika is still called Jennika or Jenny, as she's always been in the series. If she's suddenly given a theme name to fit the other turtles, it will feel just as forced, artificial and campy as Venus de Milo herself.