Chikara-Shisho is a member of the Ninja Tribunal and the ninjutsu master of strength. She is the only woman in the Tribunal. When she's not using her outrageous strength in battle, her favorite weapon is the kanabo. She is prominently appeared during the fifth season of the 2003 TV series training the acolytes to fight against the Shredder.
Chikara also appears in the Fast Forward episode The Journal and once more in Back to the Sewer during the wedding of Casey Jones and April O'Neil.
Personality[]
As the ninjutsu master of strength, Chikara is naturally a rather violent woman. She is short tempered and shows a hatred for weakness and sloppy work, but congratulates strength and hard effort. She also shows caution and sometimes questions her colleagues' decisions, but is completely unaware that the Shredder's Heralds have disguised themselves as two other members of the Ninja Tribunal until it is too late. Chikara's immortality has also deteriorated her sense of compassion, a flaw shared by the other members of the Tribunal, with the possible exception of Hisomi. Although she and her fellow Ninja Tribunals acknowledged their refusal to ally with Hamato Yoshi and the Utroms in their war against the "imposter" was because they foresaw Yoshi's death to be crucial in shaping Splinter and the Turtles into what they are in the present thus highlighting their belief in the greater good, the same belief unfortunately results in a cold and almost cruel disregard for the lives around her.
Powers[]
Chikara possesses several potent abilities due to her training in the mystic arts. She possesses great strength, and has demonstrated abilities such as energy projection, flight, telekinesis, teleportation and the ability to manipulate the elements of nature. Along with that, she has achieved spiritual perfection, which allows her to sense the presence of others. She also possesses telepathic abilities that can even create realistic illusions. Her mastery over chi has also rendered her ageless and seemingly immortal. On top of this, she is presumably an excellent ninjutsu and martial artist master. She uses a Kanabo as a main weapon. As a last resort, she, like all the other three members of the Tribunal, can transform herself into the avatar of a mystical dragon. She also possesses the omnipotent ability to warp reality at the benefit of the Tribunal.
Trivia[]
- Chikara (チカラ) in Japanese translates into "power" or "strength" in English.
- Interestingly, Chikara's weapon is incorrectly called an "ono" in the Ninja Tribunal design art. The ono is a Japanese war axe. The more accurate term for Chikara's weapon is kanabō.