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Mona Lisa is an ally of Team Turtles. She was captured by Baxter Stockman and dropped into a mutagen vat at Techno-Global Research Industries. She is the love intrest of Donatello.

## Etymology

Like Venus de Milo, Mona Lisa is named after a work of art. In this case, one created by da Vinci, who is Leonardo's namesake.

## History

Mona grew up with four younger brothers. She was a college student before the mutagen bomb transformed her. Since she is no longer able to attend, she spends her time helping the impoverished of Mutant Town, which includes stealing food from Mutanimals warehouses to bring back to Alopex's shelter. Jennika came to her rescue on one such occasion, and the two struck up a friendship before being forced to defend themselves from Genealdo and Maxence.

## Personality

She is an upbeat and friendly young lady who described herself as a "good person." Mona is saddened by the fact that she can't see her parents, but she is very optimistic seeing her mutation as a "Once in a lifetime transformational experience". She has a soft spot for children as seen when she became very fond of three young weasel mutants and their little turtle friend and was outraged by Baxter Stockman's willingness to trade them up for food and supplies to the Foot Clan. Mona is also shown to be a fan of Metal Music because she accompanied the turtles and their other friends to the Kennel Klub for a After the Bomb concert.

## Appearance

As a mutant, Mona Lisa is a slender female salamander mutant of medium height with a long tail and feathers in place of hair that is usually kept in a ponytail, and small yellow horns on the side of her face. Her scales are grey, with yellow spots and a yellow underbelly. She wears glasses with the bridge covered in tape; she uses her horns in place of ears.

Her prior human appearance has not been shown.

## Powers and Abilities

Before her mutation, she was a college student majoring in physics.

As a mutant salamander, Mona has shown she can defend herself from an assailant using her own tail.

## Relationships

* **Mona's parents:** Mona bemoans not being able to see her parents in Maryland since her mutation. When she was finally able to contact with them, they hung up on her upon seeing their daughter's new mutated form; Mona was then stricken with grief.
* **Turtles:** She quickly befriended all of them and volunteered to show them around Mutant Town while they were setting up their new dōjō.
	+ **Jennika:** Jennika saves Mona from a pair of mutants and chats with her. Jennika calls her theft of food from the warehouse "badass." They have become very good friends.
	+ **Leonardo:** Mona has not been seen interacting with Leo much but but she is very cordial to him and trusts him as much as the other turtles.
	+ **Raphael:** Mona heard of Raphael's vigilantism before meeting him.
	+ **Donatello:** Mona first met Donatello when Jennika introduce them. She is very impressed with Donnie's intelligence. Since their meeting, there have been moments when Mona has appeared to flirt with him, such as walking arm-in-arm with and kissing him in the cheek.
	+ **Michelangelo:** Mona gets along well with Mikey and was concerned when Jay accidently prisoned him.

## Notes and Trivia

* This character is an adaptation of Mona Lisa, first created by Charles M. Howell IV and the Murakami Wolf Swenson team. This version was developed by Sophie Campbell for the IDW comic books.
* A prototype of the design using a skin color closer to the original Mona Lisa was posted to Sophie Campbell's Tumblr account in 2016, the design was updated based on feedback after she posted the prototype design on a fan site on July 11, 2019, roughly six months before her official debut.
* This is the first adaptation of Mona Lisa who isn't in love with Raphael, instead, with Donatello.