Karai (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
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Karai | |
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Jim Lawson | |
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Alter ego | Oroku Karai Hamato Miwa Hamato Karai |
Species | Human Human/Snake Mutant (2012 series) |
Notable aliases | The New Shredder Lady Shredder Snake Lady Princess |
Karai
In comics
Mirage Studios
The character was created by
Karai never properly appears in Image Comics' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, despite Laird previously having considering an idea for Karai to return with "different types of ninja gear for her"[16] as well as introducing a concept that "every new Foot soldier has a third eye ('the Eye of Karai') which is a video transceiver device that constantly relays data back to Karai's central processing computer."[17] It is, however, revealed that she has been deposed as the leader of the Foot in Japan and is presumed to be dead.[18] Had this series continued, Karai would have been revealed as the person behind the mask of Lady Shredder, a character introduced in the series' final issues as a third contestant vying for leadership of the Foot, a character ultimately instead revealed as Donatello's sentient armor, using Karai's daughter as its new host.[19][20]
In the revival of the Mirage Studios' series by Peter Laird and Jim Lawson (without Eastman's involvement), Karai has returned to settle in New York and is using a high-tech armor.[21][22][23] She asks Leonardo to help capture alive one of the mysterious warriors that are giving much trouble for the Foot everywhere.[24][25][26][27][28] When Leonardo sees right through her lie about certain mystic books, even as she is usually a good liar, he suspects that something is either greatly troubling her or something is controlling her.[29] A few weeks later, Karai visits a local high-profile nightclub, meeting Casey Jones, still longing for his wife April O'Neil who has gone on a soul-searching pilgrimage.[30] Karai brings Jones to her private condo, where he awakens naked and remembering nothing of the previous night. He later discovers a noticeably light-hearted Karai knows something of the night before, but is hesitant to tell him.[31] (According to Peter Laird, who shared this issue of the comic online,[32] "what's happening with Mike, and with Karai and Casey, will have significant consequences. And I can say no more than that."[33] Laird also noted: "It's possible that at some point we may know more about Karai's origin and her daughter. I'm not sure exactly how old Karai is, but it might just be that her daughter was adopted. In general, I consider the time span between Volume 2 and Volume 4 to be about fifteen years."[34])
Karai also appears in at least three stand-alone stories in the non-
IDW Publishing
A completely different and much younger Karai appears in
The comic's Oroku Karai is a descendant of Oroku Saki (the Shredder) about three centuries
After
The Last Ronin depicts a dark future where most of the Ninja Turtles and their allies have been killed by the Foot Clan. The exact details are not provided, but at some point Karai formed a truce with the Ninja Turtles, and had a son, Hiroto, but the truce was eventually broken when the Foot Clan attacked Splinter. Raphael subsequently attacked the next Foot Clan meeting, engaging in a brutal battle with many of them that ended with him and Karai fighting in a river, where Raphael ultimately drowned. Karai is shown having been kept on life support by the Foot for the next few decades, but when the titular "last Ronin"- Michaelangelo, the last surviving Ninja Turtle- returns to face Hiroto in a final battle, Hiroto smashes his mother's chamber and kills her, affirming that he always hated her for her neglecting him in favour of focusing on her duty to the clan.
In other media
Television
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003–2009)
Karai appears in the
Karai made her animated debut in the
With her adopted father exiled and dead in the eyes of the world, an embittered and vengeful Karai takes over the Foot as well as the name of The Shredder (in a deleted scene she even says that Karai "no longer exists", completely replaced by The Shredder[60]). This new Shredder "would retain the traditional iconic elements, but have a different treatment"[61] Furious at what she saw as a betrayal by the Turtles, Karai spends the season plotting her revenge against them, first attacking them on the psychic plane via Foot Mystics, and later coordinating and leading an assault against them at their lair.[62][63][64] She later once again duels Leonardo, who defeats her but then departs with the warning to leave his family alone, giving her one last chance for redemption.[65] Karai next faces the Turtles during their attempt to retrieve a Foot amulet called the Heart of Tengu, but failing to stop them despite her efforts.[66][67]
Unbeknownst to the Ninja Turtles and
Karai is not involved in any main story lines in the
In the series finale,[75] having been invited to attend the wedding of April O'Neil and Casey Jones, and arriving at the ceremony with Dr. Chaplin by her side. She and Chaplin later assist the Turtles in fending off the sudden onslaught of the Cyber Shredder, the new Shredder and main antagonist of the seventh season.[Note 4] An alternate future version of Karai appears as a villain in an alternate-future third-season episode "Same As It Never Was", in which she is serving the Shredder following his successful conquest of the Earth, in a timeline where Donatello vanished and the Turtles fell apart without his stabilising influence. She and her robots kill Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael, but she is then herself killed by the missiles fired by April.[77] [Note 5]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012–2017)
In the 3D CGI version, Karai debuts in the first season voiced by Kelly Hu.[80] Nickelodeon published early character design sketches of their interpretation of Karai on the Internet.[81] In the series, Karai is a 16-year-old teenager and rebellious member of The Foot and a master kunoichi with strong ties to the Shredder.[82] The character was introduced in the episode "New Girl in Town". Leonardo gains affections for her after first seeing her which he retains during the series. She used her cunning tactics to coerce Leonardo into shouldering less responsibility and live his own life. Wanting to see him at midnight, she showed him the legendary katana of Miyamoto Musashi and expressed a desire to have him steal with her. When he refused, she became "bored", saying how doing such dishonorable things were "fun". She then left him to fend off Snakeweed, but not before throwing her tanto knife near his head which allowed the Turtle leader to break free.
She had made her second appearance in "The Alien Agenda", where she first encountered the inter-dimensional aliens known as the Kraang. Curious about these extraterrestrials and their involvement with the Turtles, Karai had followed to retrieve an inactive Kraangdroid which she demonstrated to the Shredder and Baxter Stockman, thinking that the scientist could make use of such complex technology from space. Shredder then ordered her to learn more about the Kraang, as their highly advanced technology would prove quite useful in their centuries-old feud with Splinter and the Turtles. In the
Karai reappears in the
Karai made two nonspeaking cameos in "The Legend of the Kuro Kabuto" when she was visited by Shredder who tried to explain that it would have been wrong for her to be raised by "scum like Splinter" and that he had done only what he had to do, what he knew was right. She turned away from her "father", refusing to even acknowledge his presence. Once he had left, she began hacking away at the bars of her prison cell, determined to escape. In "Vengeance is Mine", Karai is rescued by the Turtles and brought back to the lair. However, after hearing the story of their rivalry and her mother's death from her biological father, she got so angry that she returned to Shredder's lair to put an end to him once and for all, only to be captured once more as Shredder orders Rahzar and Tiger Claw to take her to Stockman-Fly. Shredder's real plan was to use her as bait to mutate the Turtles into snakes - reasoning that, as the natural enemy of the rat, the mutated turtle-snakes would then eat Splinter, who would be unable to fight his sons. Stockman-Fly then proceeds to add the DNA he harvested from an albino horned viper into the mutagen vat. During the fight, Shredder accidentally causes Karai to fall into the mutagen, turning her into a mutant snake that goes on a rampage before escaping as she regains control of herself when about to kill Splinter. Although Donatello hopes to create a retro-mutagen to cure Karai, it is revealed that she is a special kind of mutant and can almost completely change back to her human self, retaining only her greenish snake eyes, venomous fangs, and prehensile tongue. This was due to the fact that an extra ingredient was accidentally spilled by Stockman-Fly when Shredder surprised him.
In the second season two-part finale, "The Invasion", Karai had two non-speaking cameos; where she appeared near an alley way to hide from the Kraang, and at the end when she had rescued
In "The Deadly Venom", not only has Baxter successfully helped Karai control her mutation (allowing her to remain in human form but shape-shift her arms into snakes, as well as infect her enemies with various toxins, poisons and acidic venom), but he also brainwashes her into working for and obeying the Shredder once again, forcing her to call him "Father" against her will. She is forced to hunt down the Turtles, and their trusted human allies (April O'Neil and Casey Jones) to ultimately get to Splinter. After infecting April, Casey, Mikey and Raphael with her incurably lethal snake's venom, she faced Leonardo; one-on-one who had managed to counteract her lethal venom by utilizing his newly developed healing gifts of "the healing hands" mantra Splinter had taught him earlier. Although defeated, she managed to escape while Leonardo was distracted. Many nights later, in "Attack of the Mega Shredder", Karai is seen connected to a Kraang-like contraction that injects her brain with multiple brain-worms. She again staged a plan to capture the Turtles' and place in four separate traps. This would then force Splinter to fight her to the bitter end for his sons' lives. Fortunately, Splinter later used his "healing hand" mantra, which weakened the brain-worm inside her head, causing her to spit it out, therefore restoring her free will. Although the Turtles' searched long and hard, she had fled from the city of New York; presumably back to Japan.
Many months later, Karai is later used by Splinter and April as a motivation for the Shredder to aid in fending off the Triceraton invasion in season three two-part finale "Annihilation: Earth!", but Shredder ultimately betrays and kills Splinter anyway in cold blood. Karai is then killed off-screen with the Earth's destruction, but she is saved when the Ninja Turtles create a brand-new timeline in "Earth's Last Stand". Finally free of the vile brain-worm that had controlled her, a furious Karai focuses all her efforts on taking down Oroku Saki and his criminal empire with the help of her old friend Shinigami, a Buddhist witch who possesses extraordinarily powerful dark magic. To give more thought to her new drive, new Foot soldiers are recruited for her own army which she herself commands. Unfortunately, she is later captured by the Shredder (who has now become an unusually strong bladed, muscular mutant himself) and used as a leverage to force Splinter into another duel to the death. Suspended in chains, Karai is forced to watch as her biological father is constantly pulverized by the Super Shredder's immense strength. She manages to use her mutant-snake abilities to break free of her restraints and joins up with April and the Turtles but are blocked by several Chrome Domes. Later, Karai runs off with April and the Turtles to the Undercity and is horrified to see her father, Splinter, barely holding his own against Super Shredder. Before she can rush to her father's aid, more Chrome Domes attack and she watches in horror as Splinter and Oroku Saki fall 1,000 feet; presumably to their deaths.
Karai then joins with Leonardo and April, to attract Oroku Saki to the surface. Ambushed by Tiger Claw, she defends April and comes to assist Leonardo, who is being torn apart by Super Shredder. She brutally attacks him with her tanto. She is almost crushed to death by a truck but is saved by April's strong telekinetic grip. She distracts Saki by "offering him the chance of redemption" without the need for vengeance, which was merely a ruse for a badly injured Leonardo to escape. She then took advantage of the Super Shredder's distraction to attack him directly by punching his pulsating mutated heart. She abandoned the chase to help April get Leonardo back for medical attention. Some weeks later, Karai is shown to be working with the Mighty Mutanimals to plan her next move. She is shocked when they are interrupted by the sudden arrival of Super Shredder himself. She furiously attempts to attack him with her
Starting in the
In "Heart of Evil", Karai later worked alongside April, who were pursuing Bebop on a motorbike. When the bike was destroyed by the mutant-warthog's purple energy whips, she was saved from sustaining any injury via April's strong telekinetic abilities. She then fought Kavaxas by even turning full snake and managed to gain the mystical Seal of the Ancients from him for a short time. Some nights later, in "End Times", Karai aided her April and the Turtles in recovering the fragments of Shredder's heart. She road with April on a motorcycle in pursuit of Bebop. When they were seen, she was saved from falling hard by April's incredibly strong telekinesis. Despite her best efforts, she was not able to stop the heart of her adopted "father" from falling into the hands of Tiger Claw and Kavaxas. She eventually shows up at the Lair riding on Leatherhead's back. She then went with Leonardo, Michelangelo and Leatherhead to stop Kavaxas and the revived, zombie-like Super Shredder. She watched as the two were dragged into the Netherworld via a portal. As the sunset, she bed a final farewell to her father's spirit in the form a warm and loving hug. She wanted to appreciate the beautiful sunset with Leonardo and the others before going home.
In the two-part episode "When Worlds Collide", Karai seems to remain with the Ninja Turtles and her good friend April O'Neil in the Lair, where she frequently spars with Leonardo, whom she expressed her mutual romantic feelings for during their "playful" training sessions. She waited on the rooftops as the two Salamandrians arrived, and was obviously repulsed that Raphael had a thing for "
In "The Frankenstein Experiment" Karai briefly appeared in an illusion that the mummified Pharaoh had cast to torment Leonardo, as a vampire with the Super Shredder behind her, which gravely worried the Turtle leader. In "The Foot Walks Again" and "The Big Blowout" Karai returned, along with her good friend Shinigami (who was previously injured by Tatsu along with Casey in "Heart of Evil"), and confronts the much less intimidating Shredder from the 2D world of the '80s–90s Ninja Turtles. She joins up with her allies April and Casey, and later the Ninja Turtles, their 1980s counterparts and the Mighty Mutanimals, to stop the present Bebop and Rocksteady from working with Krang and Shredder to rip apart both dimensions and destroy the entire multiverse.
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018–2020)
Karai appears in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, voiced by Gwendoline Yeo. Karai debuts in the four-part series finale as ancestress of Splinter as the ninja master-turned-rat's maternal great-great-great-great grandmother, which prompted the Turtles to call her "Gram-Gram." In this comedic series, she is the biological daughter of Oroku Saki as opposed to being adopted by him, who recognized just how corrupt her father's soul was by the dark magical armor that warped him into the relentless, villainous Shredder. To put a stop to this battle of bloodshed, Karai went against her father and founded the Hamato Clan and imprisoned her own father in the Twilight Realm along with herself for five centuries.
After valiantly and tirelessly battling the once peaceful Foot Clan, Hamato Karai's spirit ended trapped within the Twilight Realm to suppress Shredder's full strength, and was referred to as "the weapon that could put an end to the Shredder" by her Hamato descendants, one of whom was Splinter's late mother. Once found by the Turtles and Splinter, she was surprised to see turtles and a rat standing on two legs and introduced herself as Hamato Karai, much to Splinter's excitement at meeting finally his maternal great-great-great-great grandmother. In the end, Oroku Saki is released from the dark force that had consumed his entire being and hugs his long-lost daughter. She then leaves for the Heavens with Saki's own essence to finally rest in peace.
Film
- Karai appears in TMNT, voiced by Zhang Ziyi. In the film, Karai is the new leader of the Foot, hired by the mysterious billionaire Max Winters to help him and his Stone Generals hunt down the thirteen ancient immortal monsters.[83] She fights with Leonardo (whom she clearly recognizes) and rejects his offer to help them, also engaging in battle with April O'Neil while the Foot battles the Turtles and their allies. During the tide of the battle, both the Foot Clan and the Turtles realized that Winters, revealing himself to be an immortal warlord named Yaotl, only wanted the monsters to be returned to their world to undo the immortality curse he and his Stone Generals had endured. Unfortunately, the Stone Generals have betrayed Winters by deliberately missing the final monster and intend to use the portal to finalize their conquest of Earth. When the Stone Generals offer the Foot a chance to join them in world conquest, Karai refuses, saying that they would honor their contract to Winters. Aided by April and Casey, she then leads her ninja in retrieving the last of the monsters. In the end, Karai parts ways with the Turtles peacefully, but gives a cryptic last word that Turtles "have passed" something (she refuses to elaborate) and "soon we will have further business together; the kind that involves familiar faces from your past", implying on the Shredder's inevitable return to life.
- Karai appears in Turtles Forever, with Karen Neill reprising her role from the 2003 animated series. She frees Ch'rell from the clutches of the 1987 series' Shredder, Krang, Bebop, and Rocksteady. Karai then aids the Shredder in modifying the Technodrome with Utrom technology.[84] The Utrom Shredder, consumed with rage for revenge on the Turtles, wants to destroy every dimension where the Ninja Turtles exist even though it will most likely destroy himself, but Karai intervenes rescuing the classic Turtles, the 1987 Shredder, Krang, and the 2003 Splinter. In the end at the Turtles Prime dimension (Mirage Turtles), Karai fights alongside the Turtles, Splinter, as well as the 1987 series' Shredder and Krang, to stop the Utrom Shredder's insane plot.[85] Even though Ch'rell is blown to smithereens, seemingly for good, Karai states that he shall return.
- Karai appears in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, portrayed by Minae Noji.[86] Karai is depicted as Shredder's assistant who leads many of the Foot Clan's field missions. Karai is seen many times accompanying Eric Sacks and Shredder. Karai is last seen in a car chase with the Turtles where Raphael causes her jeep to crash into a tree.
- Karai appears in Baxter Stockman. Karai accompanied Shredder and some Foot Ninjas to recruit Bebop and Rocksteadyto the Foot Clan. Karai is last seen in a fight with April which ends with April knocking Karai out.
Video games
- Karai appears as the (in addition, the regular ending has Karai saying that it was only her clone that has been destroyed, as she can be truly killed only in the alternative ending after finishing the game at the hardest difficulty setting).
- Karai appears as a boss and an unlockable playable character in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus, voiced by Karen Neill.[93]In the game's story mode, the Turtles meet Karai after she very uneasily decided to obey the Shredder's order to put them to death. After defeating Karai in combat, Leonardo pleads for her to choose honor over the loyalty to the Shredder, even going as far as allowing her to strike him down if she chooses so, but she finds unable to do so and asks him to kill her instead. Leonardo refuses in turn and leaves, telling her that he believes they will one day understand each other.
- Karai appears as the penultimate boss in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare, voiced again by Karen Neill.
- Karai has a voice-only appearance in TMNT, voiced by Jennifer Morehouse.
- Kara appears as a boss in TMNT. She appears masked and displays more abilities in the fight against her than she does in the 2007 animated film (including duplication and teleportation).
- Karai appears as a playable character in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up, voiced by Karen Neill.[94] In the game's story mode, featuring a motion comic with an original plot co-written by Peter Laird, Karai looks more like in Mirage comics and is the Shredder's daughter who appears to ally with the Turtles. But after they defeat the Shredder, Karai reveals that she used the Turtles to get rid of him so she could usurp the Foot Clan as a next in line. Unexpectedly, the Shredder rises up, but Leonardo kicks him into Karai, landing them into the alien Transmat device that then teleports them away and "that problem is solved."
- Karai appears as a boss in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack.
- Karai appears as a recurring boss in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, voiced by Renee Faia.
- Karai appears in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, voiced by Kelly Hu. She stops Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael and tells the Foot Clan to attack them.
- Karai appears as a boss in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Danger of the Ooze, voiced by Kelly Hu.
- Karai appears as a boss in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan, voiced by Tammy Nishimura.
- Karai is a playable character in the DLC Dimension Shellshock of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge.[95]
Toys
- Playmates Toys released an action figure of Karai from the 2003 cartoon in her Shredder armor (with a removable helmet) in 2005, packed with bonus DVD.[96]
- Playmates also released a larger action figure based on as she has appeared in the film TMNT (featuring a changeable head, with or without the face mask and hood) in 2007.[97]
- In 2014, the TMNT Lego set included two versions of Karai: from the ongoing TV show,[98] and from the new movie.[99]
- Karai from the Mirage comic series was included in the first wave of TMNT Blind Box miniature Funko Mystery Minis action figures.[100]
- A "Karai Snake" action figure from the 2012 cartoon was released by Playmates in 2015.[101]
- A "Human Karai" action figure from the 2012 cartoon was released by Playmates in 2016.[102]
See also
Notes
- ^ Karai's name is the same as the Japanese adjective karai (辛い)[1] that generally translates into "spicy" (for describing foods), but also covers less common meanings like "severe" or "harsh". It also resembles words like kurai (暗い),[2] meaning "dark", and kerai (家来)'[3] a word for retainers who serve under a lord or clan. In Japanese localizations of TMNT media, Karai's name is written with the phonetic katakana script as karai (カライ), rending any connections to actual Japanese vocabulary ambiguous. Her name's pronunciation was changed to "Karrai" in Brazil, to avoid confusion with a local pronunciation of the word "caralho" (dick), also used as a slang.[4]
- ^ In 2014, Eastman referred to the Shredder as "her father",[14] but no such connection was ever made in the actual comic. He also commented that Keith David's inking of the "dangerous/sexy" Karai in the arc reminded him of Michael Dooney's work on female characters in the series.[15]
- ^ In a homage scene, the way Karai held Leonardo hostage is exactly how the Shredder held him in the first live-action film to force the other three to surrender.
- ^ Laird wrote he was "disappointed" to see Karai at April and Casey's wedding and fighting on the side of the "good guys" in the end.[76]
- ^ In an early draft of this episode, her title was Princess Karai[78] and April would get into Karai's "Dark Princess outfit" to defeat the Shredder and take control of the Foot in guise of her.[79]
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