Oroku Karai

Oroku Karai is the daughter of Shredder and Tang Shen and is often refered to as the Princess of the Foot Clan.

Unlike her 2012 she is a complete ally to the protagonists and is the offical daughter of Shredder.

## Appearance

As a human she is shown to be slightly taller than Leo and April.

Karai has black hair that is blonde in the back with an angled bob and long ear-tails.

She wears several black earrings and red eyeliner on the top of her eyelids.

She has amber eyes.

Karai wears silver armor, black material worn under her armor, traditional Japanese shoes, and a purple belt with a design on it like the Shredder's.

She does have a civilian outfit as well with a punk design, consisting of worn jeans, biker boots and a leather biker jacket with metal studs.

### As a Mutant

As a mutant she is a two armed white and purple serpent with green eyes, snake heads instead of hands, a mouth in the back of her head and with her armor melded into her skin.

### Between Forms

She appears mostly human, but with Snake eyes, fangs, tongue and her skin is paler with certain parts scaly.

## Personality

When Karai makes her first appearance in "New Girl in Town", she is portrayed as quite a rebellious, intelligent, arrogant teenaged kunoichi who stirs up trouble at times.

Karai is much more inclined to taunt, and be extremely sarcastic, even directly at Shredder.

She has some nerve to talk back to the Shredder when she want to.

However, Karai is a beautiful young girl.

She has style and poise and would be able to blend in to the city streets with street clothes.

She speaks fluent English and Japanese with ease and understands the cultures of many around her, including the Kraang's.

She wears ninja gear which looks somewhat stylish and fashionable.

Karai is very good at planning and perfecting schemes, meaning that she’s well educated.

This shows that she is two-faced: although she usually maintains a calm, yet arrogant and sarcastic when dueling.

Karai knows what she wants and will do absolutely anything to get it.

While she takes her work seriously, she possesses a dark sense of humor, and trades verbal barbs with Leonardo as they both engage in a battle of wits.

## Powers, Skills & Abilities

Karai is still highly trained in high leveled moves in ninjutsu and hand-to-hand combat ever since she was a girl.

Her weapons are a tanto knife (which symbolizes her higher rank as a full-fledged kunoichi of the Foot clan) and several shuriken.

Her natural fighting skills make her incredibly agile in battle, even equal to Leonardo's high skill level.

In the episode "Karai's Vendetta", Karai engages in a chase, rides a motorcycle with great skill, and performs stunts like a pro, despite not having learned to drive.

Karai eventually gets inadvertently mutated into a semi-mindless purple-and-white snake.

However, due to the Retro-Mutagen that was included in the mutagen mixture, she is able to transform back to her human form for short periods, retaining snake fangs, prehensile tongue, serpent eyes and extended serpentine arms.

Her face even had scaly parts and her eyes had remained a greenish color instead of their normal brown.

Her snake form grants her several abilities attributed to her type of snake; such as further increasing her hearing, speed, agility, endurance, stealth and flexibility to superhuman levels, even giving her greater eyesight and night vision.

However as the violent convulsions during her transformation suggests, the transformation itself actually is a very painful affair.

In addition, Karai can infect her victims with extremely lethal poisons and highly toxic venom that is quite fatal in a matter of hours, capable of seeping through skin in seconds.

They have no antidote but can be counteracted with the ancient healing arts of "the healing hands" mantras.

When Stockman Fly had used his scientific intellect to give her complete control over snake form, allowing her to appear fully human without any noticeable snake traits, and even turn full snake at will.

When used in conjunction with her highly extensive ninjutsu skills, her snake abilities makes her quite a formidable opponent.

Some time later, she learned how to use her snakelike abilities to heal severe injuries she has sustained (such as burns or bruises) by simply shedding her damaged skin and replacing it with brand-new skin, similar to how a snake sheds its skin.

As a snake, Karai can also hypnotize her opponents with her stare.

As a human, her fighting and combative skills as a kunoichi are so great that she can take on Leonardo one-on-one or all four Turtles at once.

Her primary weapon choice is a wakizashi (a short yet sharp Japanese blade).

As a mutant serpent she has incredibly fast endurance, flexibility, reflexes, an amazingly strong tail that can be used for whipping, constricting and crushing, and she can spit blinding venom.

Fortunately, she is also shown to be able to morph between her human and mutant form with some difficulty.

But later it appears she might have lost this ability as her mind has slowly been deteriorating.

However, her face apparently remains the same in either mode.

As the mutagen Utrom Shredder set up was designed to turn the victim into a mindless snake, Karai does struggle to keep her human mind in tact compared to other mutants.

Donatello notes that Karai is a special type of mutant, as normal retro mutagen doesn't seem to turn her back to normal.

In "Serpent Hunt" Karai reveals to have a mouth on the back of her serpent head which she can hide for surprise attacks.

In "The Deadly Venom" she is seen with her mind completely restored (albeit under Shredder's control) and has better control of her morphing ability, she can also switch between human and serpent, like having a human body with snake arms.

She also seems to have gained telepathic control over snakes and her venomous bite (or kiss) can cause numbness, weakness, paralysis, then black out and sometimes hallucinogens.

If not treated soon, the venom can prove deadly.

In "The Fourfold Trap", she is shown to be able to revert to her completely human form with no serpentine characteristics.

As shown in "Broken Foot", Karai now also has the ability to heal damage to her skin (such as severe burns) simply by shedding it when turning into half-snake form.

It is possible that she has an extended lifespan and slowed aging as she is a mutant with healing ability.

## Weapons

* Katana
* Shuriken
* Tanto
* Naginata

## Family

* Hamato Yūta (Adopted Grandfather)
* Oroku Keiji (Grandfather, Deceased)
* Oroku Saki (Father)
* Tang Shen (Mother)
* Hamato Yoshi (Uncle)
* Luna Ordeis (Aunt)
* Leonardo (Adopted Cousin)
* Raphael (Adopted Cousin)
* Donatello (Adopted Cousin)
* Michelangelo (Adopted Cousin)
* Hamato Miwa (Cousin)
* Adam Ordeis (Cousin)
* Many Cousins
* Hamato Takeshi (Uncle)