Jennika
Jennika is a female comic character who features in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Jennika
As a young girl, she was driven from her home when she found her father beating her mother, and lived on the streets afterwards. She took up with Silas, a young man who pulled her into a life of petty robbery, which ultimately led to her imprisonment as an accessory to murder. Her first encounter with the Foot took place in prison, where an imprisoned Foot ninja defended her from other convicts and became her fast friend. The woman trained Jennika in secret as they plotted to escape the prison, but Jennika's friend was killed by another inmate just as they had gained their freedom. She found her way to the Foot and became one of their number, using her newfound skills at killing on the woman who had murdered her friend.
After Shredder was killed, she came to see Master Splinter weaken the Foot Clan with his ideals of compassion and sympathy for their enemies. This made her question her very role as an assassin in a clan that allowed their enemies to live. Dissatisfied with Splinter's rule, Jennika came to plot a coup with the intention of killing him. For this, she came to ally with the Street Phantoms to aid her in this endeavour. She conducted an ambush where she attacked Splinter whilst the Street Phantoms dealt with the Turtles. Despite these advantages, she was defeated but was shown the error of her ways by Splinter with the Street Phantoms escaping the scene. She came to be forgiven for her actions but faced a demotion where Splinter decided to place her under the Turtles tutelage who served as Splinter's chunin. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW) v1 #52)
During the Triceraton invasion, it was confirmed that Splinter had selected her as his new chunin. However, she was still very impulsive and required his guidance. She was also deeply conflicted about Splinter's plans to kill Commander Zom, eventually arranging for the Turtles' escape from the Foot Clan headquarters in order to stop him. She was not penalized for her disobedience after the invasion ended, and was instead sent out by Splinter to protect Casey Jones. The two eventually began to enjoy each other's company and develop feelings for one another as time went on.
After the Turtles brought a number of orphaned children to the Foot Clan, Jennika helped care for them. When Karai returned from Japan, Splinter was willing to cede leadership of the Foot to her were it not for her insistence that the children be trained as soldiers. Jennika came to Splinter's aid as negotiations failed and Karai was denied the Gauntlet. With her attempt to reclaim leadership of the Foot having failed, Karai declared that war would be coming to Splinter and those loyal to him.
A short while later Karai reached out to Jennika for a truce. Karai attempted to sway the chunin's loyalties away from Splinter, but Jennika refused. Having fully expected this possibility, Karai stabbed her as the first act in her war to retake the Foot from Splinter.
In a desperate attempt to save her life, the Clan Hamato and their allies took her to Harold Lilja's laboratory. There, Harold, Libby, and Lindsey attempted to use the Ooze to heal her, as it had done for John O'Neil. However, the vial of ooze was shattered during a firefight when the Earth Protection Force and Metalhead attacked. Seeing no other option and with time running out, Donatello had Leonardo transfer his blood to her to aid her recovery. This had the desired effect, but also mutated her into a turtle.
Waking up as her mutation completed, Jennika was initially confused about the changes she had undergone. Donatello confirmed what had happened and explained what was going on as they made their way to Brooklyn Bridge's home for shelter, escorted by the Purple Dragons. After repelling an attack from Karai's assassins there, Jennika reconciled with Casey, who put aside his initial lukewarm reaction to her change once he saw her saving her friends.
Following Splinter's sacrifice to put an end to the Dragon, Jennika lived in the New York ghetto now known as Mutant Town, where she is introduced to Mona Lisa when saving her from Bandit and Puggle. After all of the turtles regrouped and started a dōjō as the Splinter Clan, Jenny was inducted as one of the clan's sensei. As well as this function, she essentially acts as a "big sister" to the other Turtles.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Jennika was a young white female who had short blonde hair. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW) v1 #52)
She believed that being a ninja meant to be ruthless and remorseless with them showing no mercy and instead dealt death to others. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW) v1 #52)
At first, she came to resent Master Splinter who she did not acknowledge as leader of the Foot Clan and instead thought he only made them weak. This led to her staging an attempted coup in order to kill him. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW) v1 #52)
Powers and abilities
As such, she was trained to be a ninja and an assassin. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW) v1 #52)
Jennika is well-versed in the art of ninjutsu, including not only hand-to-hand and armed combat, but stealth, espionage, escape, and more. Unlike the other Turtles, she was trained specifically for the purpose of assassination, and has taken lives quite brutally on more than one occasion.
Notes
- Jennika was created by Tom Waltz where she made her first appearance in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles v1 #51 (October, 2015) by IDW Publishing.
Appearances
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
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