Karai (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Karai
The IDW Publishing comic series version of Karai (art by Tyler Walpole)
Publication information
Publisher	Mirage Studios, IDW Publishing
First appearance	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Studios) Issue #53 "City at War" (Nov. 1992) City at War, Part 1 (2003 series) New Girl In Town (2012 series)
Created by	Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird
In-story information
Alter ego	Oroku Karai/The New Shredder (2003 cartoon) Hamato Miwa (2012 cartoon)
Notable aliases	The Shredder/Lady Shredder (Mirage comics) The Shredder (2003 cartoon) Princess or Snake Girl/Lady (2012 cartoon)

Karai is a fictional character in various installments of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) comics and related media, where she is usually a high-rank member of the Foot Clan outlaw ninja organization. She was originally introduced in Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's comic book series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 1992. Since then, she has appeared in several different TMNT comics, cartoons and films, as well as in about a dozen video games (including as a playable character in Tournament Fighters, Battle Nexus and Smash-Up).

In some incarnations of the character (including the 2003 cartoon, the 2012 cartoon, and the 2010s comics), she is closely related to the villain Shredder as his adopted daughter or biological granddaughter. However, in her original comic incarnation, Karai was completely unrelated to the Shredder and was actually higher in the Foot Clan's global hierarchy. In the animated and game adaptations, Karai is primarily voiced by Karen Neil, Zhang Ziyi and Kelly Hu, while Minae Noji and Brittany Ishibashi portray the character in live-action films.