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Tang Shen was a young woman who was married to Hamato Yoshi, and killed by Oroku Saki. Her daughter was Hamato Miwa. Tang Shen was loved by both Hamato Yoshi (Splinter) and Oroku Saki (The Shredder).

At some point, she married Yoshi and gave birth to their baby daughter, Miwa. A resentful Saki attacked Yoshi in the family's home, and during their battle, Yoshi's house caught fire. While Yoshi survived, Tang Shen did not and Miwa was taken away by Saki. After this, Saki claimed that Yoshi was the cause of her death, although he was the one who slaughtered her accidently when she tried to stop Saki and Yoshi from killing each other. Following her death, Yoshi left Japan and moved to New York City. Shen's death is possibly the reason that Yoshi bought the turtles in the first place.

Physical appearance[]

Tang Shen was a Chinese and Japanese woman with long straight dark brown hair, brown eyes, light skin, and a thin figure. She wore a white button up shirt with rolled up sleeves, black cuffed skinny jeans, a brown woven belt with gold hardware, and dark red sneakers with white laces and soles.

Personality[]

Tang Shen was a very beautiful, kind, caring, loving and motherly woman, who was the loving wife of Hamato Yoshi and caring mother for her baby daughter, Miwa. Despite the fact that she choosing Yoshi over Saki, Shen nevertheless loved Saki as a brother-in-law, but Saki was none too pleased with it.

Tang Shen also doesn’t like confrontations. It was seen in the flashback in “Turtle Temper”, where she was shocked when Saki harshly insulted Yoshi right in front of her, and when her husband lost his temper and in his rage, punched Saki to the ground, Shen was struck with shock.

While loving Yoshi, she disapproves her husband’s loyalty to the Hamato Clan, claiming that this is the last clan of its kind and even begging Yoshi to stop thinking of his clan, saying that the ninjas have no more place in this world. While initially horrified upon seeing the time-traveling Ninja Turtles, she quickly developed a close bond with them. It is then, the Turtles advise her to listen to her heart, which she does. Shen and Yoshi eventually reconciled with each other, but this happy reconciliation would be ruined by Saki, who urged Shen to divorce Yoshi, but Shen, now disgusted by Saki’s cruelty towards Yoshi, refused.

Shen is also a firm believer that Yoshi and Saki were brothers. When Shen begged them not to fight, claiming that they’re brothers, Saki coldly retorted that he and Yoshi were never flesh and blood, having found out about the fact that he was adopted. When Yoshi asked Shen to take Miwa and go further away from their fight, Shen begrudgingly agreed, but upon seeing the duel between Yoshi and Saki becomes even deadlier that caused the destruction of the dojo. Shen left Miwa unattended and ran to the house to save Yoshi. When Shen saw Saki about to deliver a deathblow to Yoshi, Shen threw herself in front of Saki, which proved to be fatal for her and her life was taken by Saki (although he never intended to kill her).

History[]

Shen was originally from the city of Fukuoka. At some point, she met Hamato Yoshi (Splinter) and Oroku Saki (The Shredder). Both men fell in love with her, but her love belonged to the latter so much so that she moved from her native Fukuoka to Tōkyō to be near him.

Eventually, Yoshi and Shen had married and were blessed with a baby girl, Miwa. Saki had trouble accepting her choice and felt that Yoshi "stole" her through some dirty trick. Her and Yoshi's marriage was strained after Miwa's birth due to him spending more time focus on the Hamato Clan than her and Miwa. Shen felt ninja had no place left in the world and wanted a better life for her and her family. Not wanting her daughter to follow the path of the Hamato Clan, she tried to convince Yoshi to leave Japan and move to New York City.

Following an argument on the matter, she encountered the Ninja Turtles, who had traveled back in time. Thinking them to be yōkai, she was afraid until Saki arrived and chased them off. He then tried to convince Shen to leave Yoshi and go to New York with him, where they could raise Miwa together. However, upon meeting the Turtles again, she learned of their goodly nature, and they tried to convince her not to leave Yoshi. She confided in them that Saki maybe was a better man than Yoshi. They warned her that Saki was bad news and that Yoshi does love her, she then changed the subject to think about their warning. Later, she met up with her husband and after a long talk decided that he was the right man for her.

Shen was urged by Saki once more to divorce Yoshi and be with him instead, but she refused. Once it became clear that the brothers wished to skirmish, she begrudgingly left them to fight. As they battled inside their home, a fire broke out and eventually burned the house to the ground. Shen left Miwa outside during the battle fought in the blaze and ran to save Yoshi from one of Saki's blows, only to be struck down, albeit not by Saki's intention. Badly burned, Saki escaped and abducted Miwa, renaming her Karai. As she aged, he would tell her that Yoshi had murdered Shen, raising her to unknowingly hate her own father.

Shen has been mentioned several times by Splinter throughout the series. She was as beautiful as she was kind, and as kind as she was intelligent.

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Trivia[]

  • Like many of her previous incarnations, Shen always dies first.
  • Unlike Shen's past incarnations, she has a biological child.
  • Shen and Karai share a strong resemblance, surely part of the reason why Splinter recognized her as his and Shen's daughter.
  • Tang Shen's name is not Japanese language—it is Mandarin Chinese.
  • Shen is 1/4 Chinese through her grandfather, making Karai 1/8 Chinese through Shen.
  • Shen is voiced by Minae Noji, the same actress who played Karai in the 2014 film.
  • Although Shen and Yoshi are married, Japanese law requires since 1896 that spouses adopt either the husband’s or the wife’s surname, thus their married names should be "Hamato Shen" or "Tang Yoshi".

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