Why Jennika, the New Ninja Turtle, Is Her Own Worst Nightmare

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Jennika is her personal worst enemy, and all she will be able to do is hope that the nightmare she’s ready for by no means begins.

WARNING: The next accommodates spoilers for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Jennika II #4 by Ronda Pattison, Jodi Nishijima, and Shawn Lee, on sale now.

On this planet of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, life in Mutant Town is not straightforward for anybody, least of all of the Splinter Clan who’ve been attempting to guard their metropolis from all method of threats, solely to have extra thrust upon them within the type of a dire warning from the future.

Jennika has been having an particularly troublesome time of issues between retaining Mutant City’s status with the skin world in examine, and discovering that she is seemingly the only purpose the Turtles are staring down such a darkish future within the first place would not assist. As arduous as she has tried to flee her violent previous, nothing Jenn does can maintain her from being her personal worst nightmare, as she simply realized in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Jennika II.

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Lita, the white turtle mutant that the Splinter Clan has taken in, returns from many years sooner or later, all grown up and shaken to her core. After explaining how she got here into possession of the scepter which let her journey again, she tells the Turtles that she’s come again to attempt to stop the horrific future she’s lived by. Jennika is outraged by the mere thought that she may nonetheless be that sort of cold-blooded killer someplace inside herself, however that outrage comes from a spot of worry extra so than wherever else. Her worries run so deep, in truth, that each one she will be able to dream about at night time are the our bodies of her buddies piled on high of each other after being slaughtered by her very personal hand.

Jennika wakes up screaming in a chilly sweat from the nightmare, younger Lita’s face just under Jenn’s blades burned into her thoughts. Unable to relaxation, Jennika goes out for a late patrol and comes throughout a well-dressed mutant banging her fists towards one of many Mutant City gates, demanding to be set free. The lady acknowledges Jennika as a Ninja Turtle, however is not positive precisely who she is. When requested what’s so vital to her on the opposite aspect, the lady replies that she has been separated from her son. Jennika brings her to the neighborhood middle to allow them to discuss, studying that the lady’s husband was a mob boss earlier than he was killed. Not solely is Jennika’s new acquaintance embroiled on the earth of organized crime, however her scenario hits too shut for consolation as soon as she realizes that she was the one who took the person’s life.

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Earlier than she turned one of many Turtles by a lifesaving blood transfusion, Jennika was one of many Shredder’s most favored lieutenants among the many Foot Clan’s ranks. Jennika spent almost her total life after escaping jail as a part of the Foot, her devotion bordering on fanatical at occasions. It was solely after Splinter killed Shredder, claimed dominion over the Foot Clan, and defeated Jennika in fight that she even started to return round to any perspective aside from one framed in absolute violence. Splinter’s teachings and her time with the Turtles and their allies have given her a second likelihood at life, one the place she will be able to shield and construct as a substitute of destroying.

Now, Jennika is within the untenable place of being haunted by that previous life whereas additionally trying ahead to reliving it, with no approach of realizing tips on how to save herself.

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