Venus de Milo, her original name Mei Pieh Chi, was introduced in Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation as a fifth mutant turtle. Her background involves her being a fifth turtle that was covered with the Mutagen that had mutated the other Turtles, but swept away in the sewers to New York City's Chinatown district. There, she was found by a Chinese Shinobi master known as Chung I. Chung I took her back to his hometown of Shanghai, China, and taught her the way of the Shinobi, raising her for 18 years.