Mira (TMNT 2012)

Mira is a major character of the  2012 series during the act Raphael: Mutant Apocalypse. She is a young mutant meerkat living in an alternative post apocalypse future where only mutants exist. After the death of her family, Mira went in search of the Oasis, a place still livable but very coveted. On her way, she met an old Raphael and after several events, the two became close friends.
She was voiced by , who also voiced Flame Princess in Adventure Time, Lucy Loud/Lynn Loud in The Loud House, Hanazuki in Hanazuki: Full of Treasures and Hissy in Puppy Dog Pals.
== Appearence==
Mira is a humanoid meerkat with pale brown fur and four-fingered hands. She has cream fur on her belly and a dark patch on her head. She has grey eyes with black patches around them, white fangs and black claws.
She wears an orange bandanna around her neck, a brown utility belt draped over her right shoulder, a black torn tank top which exposes her midriff and belly button, earth green pants through which her tail sticks out, a brown belt, black shoes with white symbols on them, and metal spikes on the bottom of her shoes.
She also wears bandages on her left upper arm, right wrist, her tail and her muzzle. She wears a brown finger-less glove on her right hand while her left hand is bare. She also has the map to Oasis tattooed on her left forearm and a yellow outlined silly face on her tank top.
==Personality==
Mira is resourceful and persevering, having managed to survive alone after the destruction of her clan but had to adapt to a thief's life to support her trip, which initially made her somewhat antisocial with others and having no qualms about stealing them, like when she stole the Shellraisers for going further on her journey.
She is also reckless and wild, not hesitating to attack mutants bigger than her, although she sometimes does it in a rather sneaky way, using an electric whip to put her opponent out of action when she knows she can't win, even letting out a mean smile. The only person who really scares her is Maximus Kong (An amnesiac Leonardo) and preferred to flee rather than face him. At first, quite hostile and cold towards Raphael and Donatello, despising Raph's scavenger lifestyle and calling Dony "a thing" because he was a robot (With his spirit alive), Mira ended up becoming friends with them after the three helped each other during the attack on the honey badgers mutants. She also seemed sad for the loss of their two brothers.
Despite everything, Mira is a hopeful and kind person, believing to the very end in the existence of the Oasis and never giving up her desire to find it. After becoming friends with turtles, she shows her true relaxed, friendly, playful and hopeful personality.
== History==
Mira was born as a mutant meerkat several decades after the earth was struck by a Mutagen Bomb which destroyed humanity and transformed almost the entire planet into a horrible dessert. As a member of the Wild Meerkat Clan, Mira and many others of her, we obtained a mysterious tattoo representing a map which would lead to the only livable place of the ravaged earth where the water is abundant and where there is still real life. In unknown circumstances, the Meerkat Clan was destroyed, with only Mira as a survivor. Now alone and left to her own devices, Mira sets out to find the Oasis by looking for the only person who can read the map to the place, the mysterious Holy Chalupa.
===The Wasteland Warrior===
When Raph searches for water in the ruins, Mira tries to approach it discreetly but not discreetly enough for the mutant turtle who hears it and shoots her but she dodges the shots. She then manages to wrap her electric whip around Raph's wrist then sends an electric shock which knocks out the old turtle before she stealing the Shellraisers. Unfortunately for her, Donatello was on board to the vehicle and chaining the young meerkat before going to recover his brother. Raph told Dony to throw her out, only Dony could not resolve because the young meerkat had no water or food to survive but Raph reminded him that they did not have any either and to demand that she goes away until his brother reminds her that it was not like Splinter had raised them, just so that Raph screams that he no longer remembered Splinter and finally agreed to keep her until next anti atomic shutdown.
Now captive of the two turtles, Mira hears Dony talking about Impossible Westland and reveals that it was there that she was going. Questioned by the robot turtle, she explains that the family had destroyed long ago and that since then they have been looking for someone who lives in Impossible Westland. Raph seems to sympathize with that because he and Dony had two other brothers. After introducing herself as Mira of the Wild Meerkat Clan, she asks Raph how he got Dony, which she calls "this thing", a term that Dony finds offensive because he is actually a mutant turtle who transferred his consciousness in a robot that he had created after the destruction of his original body. Calling Dony's explanation cool despite not understanding anything, Mira asks the turtles where they are going and Raphael replies that they are going nowhere and plans to hunt for water and food to stay alive, a way of life that Mira describes as not a very different that of scavenging. She then recounts her belief in the existence of the Oasis, which Raph describes as dreams but the meerkat assures that he is mistaken because for her the Oasis is real and she will find it.
Arrived at an abandoned service station, Raph will fill up with petrol without the doubt that the meerkat discreetly loosens her chains. Mira submits Dony, whose raid draws Raph inside, from where she takes advantage to attack the old mutant from above. After being outside during their fight, Mira managed to disarm Raph from his gun with her whip before launching a shuriken blade on him so that the turtle dodged it. Mira admits to being impressed that Raph is fast enough despite his age before the mutant turtle submits her by tying her up with a gas pipe. Tied up again, Mira tries to win Raph's pity by pretending that she is the only one who knows how to cross the Impossible Westland and that she knows that another turtle lives there but Raph does not care because for him, his two other brothers died before go back into the Shellraisers and abandoned the young meerkat to her fate.
Some moments after that, Raph and Dony are ambushed by Verminator Rex and his honey badger. Mira, who in an unknown way, had managed to sneak under the Shellraisers, then attacked Verminator but by spanking it, she allowed him to see the tattoo on her arm representing the map to the Ooasis that the honey badgers were looking for for a while. Despite their attackers, the trio managed to escape. Once out of danger, they started to repair the damage of the Shellraisers and Dony congratulate the persistence of Mira while Raph recognized her as a survivor, which he appreciates. The young girl then reveals that the person she is looking pretend to be also a turtle who knows many secrets and who calls herself Holy Chalupa, a name that the two turtles recognize as a name coined by their lost brother, Michelangelo.
===The Impossible Dessert===
Now with a common goal, the three friends head to Impossible Wasteland to find the Holy Chalupa, which the two turtles hope to be Michelangelo. According to Mira, the Holy Chalupa is the only one who can translate the map to the Oasis, which Raph continues to believe is just a fairy tale. After Dony qualified the map to be just gibberish, Mira said that the Holy Chalupa must know but that it will take them through the Impossible Wasteland. Raph is not afraid of it because for him it is only one more desert but Mira warns him that this desert has made many drive people mad, which does not impress the turtle which counts well showed what is really "Mad". Arriving in front of Quicksand pits, Raph warns the meerkat girl to cling to her tatoo while he rushes on the pits.
After some twist, They are attacked by a gigantic creature moving under the ground and knocking over the Shellraisers. The trio flees towards boulders but the monster quickly gains ground, forcing Raph to make diversion while Mira and Dony are put in safety. Before the creature, which turns out to be a giant space turtle can kill Raph, the famous Holy Chalupa appears and calms the beast. The Holy Chalupa turns out to be really Michelangelo while the giant turtle is in fact Chompy, the old Raph's pet grown up. After a warm meeting between the turtles, Mira asks Mikey if he really is the mystic Holy Chalupa, which Mikey confirms before the quartet takes to the way.
Escorted on Chompy's back, the mutants arrive at the home of Mikey, an Antonio's pizzeria which miraculously was spared from the cataclysm. After some oddity on the part of Mikey and having learned from him that Leonardo had had no chance of surviving the explosion of the mutagen bomb, Mira humbly asked the Holy Chalupa how to find the Oasis. Mikey reveals to him that it was he who created this card a long time ago but that he had lost it, confirming the existence of the Oasis. Unfortunately, before he could say more, the honey badgers and the Scale Tail Clan ambushed the restaurant and surrounded them before starting the fight. Mira was able to hold out for a moment before being knocked out by the lizards who then locked him in a cage of their vehicle before leaving. Raph, wanting to save Mira, pursued them but in his attempt, the bad mutants tried to kill him with a rocket, only so that the projectile did not explode the pizzeria with Dony and Mikey still inside. Raph was then knocked down by another missile explosion and apparently perished, while Verminator and Reptilicus took Mira to their lair.
Locked in an underground cell, Mira bitterly watched two lizard guards drinking in front of her and one of them gave her his gourd but it was intentionally empty. The young meerkat then insulted the lizards before throwing the gourd in their faces. Verminator and Reptilicus then entered the room and the honey badger grabbed Mira's tattooed arm while an lizard scribe tried to translate but without success. Exasperated, Verminator forced the girl to tell him how to read the map, just to get his nose bitten by the meerkat. She comments that it tastes like an old rat and before the honey badger was unleashed on her, Reptilicus calmed him and the two left after threatening the meerkat to die of thirst.
Raph suddenly appears and quickly beats the lizards before releasing the young girl who is delighted that he has survived. Unfortunately she understands that the others did not have this chance before giving a hug to Raph as sincere thanks. The duo tries to escape but they are quickly overwhelmed by their attackers and captured to then be taken to the pits, a fighting arena.
===Carmageddon===
Raph is forced to fight for his survival in the arena by facing Verminator and Reptilicus, while Mira is retained by the mutants, being able to only watch without being able to do anything. When Raph falls into the water, Mira screams desperately to him, which gives him the strength to return to battle. The turtle finally prevails over his two opponents and is declared the winner, much to the delight of Mira who enthusiastically salutes "Red Stripe" before the crowd of mutants does the same and recognize the turtle as their new leader. Dony, Mikey and Chompy, who also survived, soon joined them. Reptilicus asks his new chef what will happen next, so that Raph looks at Mira who with a confident nod assures that they can all come with them to the Oasis.
Accompanied by the Honey Badger Ravagers (Without Verminator Rex who fled after his defeat) and the Scale Tail Clan now forming the Red Stripe Army, Mira and the turtles set off for the Oasis. Raph asks Mira if they are still far away, so that Mira explains that the map does not really specify a distance, rather marks. They stop at one of his landmarks which is a live tree, which Mira does not know what it is until Mikey explains to him with philosophy that a tree is a magnificent thing and that they has a lot at the Oasis. Mira is amazed because she has only known sand, dust and death in life, without ever seeing green things. Raph then friendly puts his hand on Mira's shoulder and tells her that they will keep going.
The next day, while skirting a canyon, the vile Maximus Kong, warned by Verminator of the existence of the map, ambushed the mutants with his gigantic combat truck and demanded that they give him the meerkat and he will let them live. Mira begins to panic when she explains to Raph who is Maximus Kong and shouts to go faster but Raph is not intimidated by the tyrant and even answers him by insulting him that he will not deliver her. On the enemy vehicle, small oil monsters under the orders of Maximus and helped by Verminator, attack the mutants and quickly massacring the honey badgers and the lizards. Raph orders Mira to take down Verminator while he goes to take Maximus, what she accepts and encourages the turtle to succeed before taking a motorcycle and threw herself into the fight.
After Verminator killed Reptilicus, Mira started the fight against the vile honey badger and managed to win against him using her whip on his handlebars to make him lose control of his motorcycle, spanking him crashing and exploding, taking Verminator Rex to death. She and Mikey then came to help Raph in trouble against Maximus and managed to temporarily immobilize him until the evil mutant managed to free himself from their grip before throwing them out of the truck but luckily Chompy was able to catch them at time.
The battle ended after the truck crashed into a dead end. Mira, Dony and Mikey found a Maximus unmasked under the debris and shocked by the two turtles, the tyrant was in fact their older brother, Leonardo who was supposed to have died during the explosion of the mutagen bomb but had actually mutated more and had lost his memory. Raph, who first discovered that Maximus was Leornado after removing his mask from their fight, also turned out to have also survived the crash and was able to help Leo recover all of his lost memories.
The meerkat girl Mira, the Ninja Turtles reunited again, and Chompy finally reached the long-awaited Oasis. At the sight of all this natural greenish beauty, Mira expresses her joy at seeing so much life. From that point on all of them together lived their final days together in peace.
==Relationship==
===Raphael===
Raphael is one of Mira's close friends and a brotherly figure to her, although their beginnings were quite complicated.
The first meeting between Mira and Raphael had at first started off in a hostile way, when Mira sneakily attacked Raph and stole his vehicle after knocking him out with her electric whip. During their second meeting, when Mira was chained in the Shellraiser Tank, Raph immediately wanted to get rid of her without worrying about what could have happened to the thief girl but he was convinced by Dony he did not grant it yet a little respite. In parallel, the two were easily the opposite of the other, while Mira was sneaky, a little mean and firmly believed in the existence of the Oasis, Raph was bitter, grumpy and considered the Oasis as absurd dreams , to the disgust of the young meerkat.
A second confrontation occurred between them, when Mira tried to steal the Shellraisers a second time, although this time the meerkat was a little less hostile, as when she admitted to being impressed that Raph was fast for his age and when she was done again immobilized, she swallowed her pride and tried to convince the turtle to go to the Impossible Westeland with him but without success, before Raph abandoned her.
Despite that, Mira came back to Raph and Dony with a helping hand during the ambush of the honeys badgers and after having managed to escape, Raph ended up accepting the meerkat, even calling her a survivor. From that moment, the relationship between them began to improve more and more, to the point that when Raph to free Mira from the Scale Tail Clan, she gave him a sincere hug for the thanked. Mira had even become attached to the old turtle to the point that she was worried about him during his disadvantaged fight against Verminator Rex and Reptilicus, calling him desperately when he fell in the water, showing that she really cares about him. When Raph ended up winning the fight, she exciting cheered him, once again showing that she really like him.
When Maximus Kong required that Mira be delivered to him in exchange for their survival, Raph refused to do that and even insulted the tyrant in the process. During the battle, Raph was confident that Mira could get take Verminator while the meerkat prayed that the goddess green would be with him when he fought Maximus.
At the end of the journey to paradise, Mira settled with Raphael and his brothers in the Oasis and was even considered as part of their family.
===Donatello===
Mira first met Donatello when she stole the Shellraiser Tank, not knowing it was in there before being chained by him. Dony had no bitterness towards the young meerkat and even convinced his brother not to throw her on the road. Despite this, Mira called Dony something instead of a person and when Raph stopped to refuel, she took the opportunity to attack Dony and temporarily render him inoperative.
Even after this event, Dony did not blame Mira for her actions and eventually became friends with her when she helped them against Verminator Rex.
===Michelangelo/Holy Chalupa===
Mira was desperately looking for Michelangelo, whom she only knew by the name of Holy Chalupa so that he could translate the map to the Oasis. When she finally met him, Mira was very polite and respectful towards her elder and was just slightly disturbed by his quirks.
===Leonardo/Maximus Kong===
Initially Mira was very afraid of Maximus Kong, although she ended up being forced to put her fear aside when Raph was in trouble against him and attacked the monstrous turtle with Mikey's help. When Maximus Kong turned out to be really Leonardo who then regained memory thanks to his brothers, Mira was no longer afraid of him at all and considered him as a friend in the same way as the others.
== Quotes==
==Trivia==
*Given her attitude and size, Mira is probably in her mid-teens.
* She is currently the first and only meerkat mutant to appear in the TMNT franchise.
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