The 5th addition to theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtleswas always a huffy field of study as many long - time fans were loath to bear any alteration to the series ’ condition quo – though Jennika actually earned her slur on the team before she was even mutate , and long before she formally became the long - awaited Fifth Turtle .

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were introduced in the first issue of Mirage Studios ’ comic book of the same name . As established upon their first appearing , there were four Turtles : Leonardo , Donatello , Michelangelo , and Raphael – and that ’s exactly how it stayed for eld . The only sentence theTMNTseries added a Fifth Turtle(before the IDW comic serial ) was in the live - action mechanism telly showNinja Turtles : The Next Mutationwith Venus , but just like the show itself , the idea of a member add up to the TMNT was fantastically curtly - lived . However , all that changed upon the founding of Jennika .

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Comic book art: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles leaping into action.

InTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#59 by Kevin Eastman , Tom Waltz , Bobby Curnow , and Dave Wachter , Jennika – who was still a human and former Foot Clan assassin that pledge her allegiance to Splinter after he took over the kin – saved Master Splinter ’s lifeas he was being attacked the nefarious deity Kitsune and her idea - control minions . At this here and now , Jennika actually does what none of the original TMNT have done up until that gunpoint . Jennika direct save Splinter ’s life-time in a very literal sense . Sure , the TMNT have rescued him or ‘ save ’ him in a more phantasmal mother wit , but they never blocked the arm that should have meant Splinter ’s straightaway decease like Jennika did .

Jennkia Proved her Worth and was Accepted by the TMNT

Not only did Jennika prove she belong by economize Splinter ’s life , but she was actually named asa member of the TMNT familyby Leonardo himself only a few government issue afterward . InTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#61 , Jennika and Leonardo are take together follow Kitsune ’s fire on Splinter . While the two had n’t drop much time together before , Jennika ’s grand actions made Leonardo interested in her progress and inspired him to help her become even more skilled than she already was . By the end of their training session , their kinship goes far beyond two fellow worker helping each other get stronger as Lenoardo tell to her , “ far as I ’m concerned … you are family ” .

While Leonardo could n’t have bed that Jennika would eventually become one of the Mutant Ninja Turtles herself , he already have her as one of them before that mutation fall out . So , from save Splinter ’s life to gaining the acceptance oftheTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ’ leader , Jennika shew that she earn her spot long before she was mutate .

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Genevieve O’Reilly as Mon Mothma looks back on Chandrila during Leida’s wedding reception, edited with circular imagery.

TMNT: Jennika earned her 5th Turtle spot.

TMNT: Jennika earned her 5th Turtle spot.

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