Jei is a major antagonist of Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the fifth season of the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series. He served as the main antagonist of the 3-episode Usagi Yojimbo arc.
He is evil demon who can brainwash people into his control and possessed the body of many people to immortalize himself, and views himself as a savior cleansing the world of evil.
He is an incarnation of the villain of the same name from Usagi Yojimbo comics, where all of his mitigating factors from his mainstream version are completely omitted. He is the archenemy of the Ronin, Miyamoto Usagi.
He was voiced by Keone Young, who also voiced Kai Ti Chang in Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- He ruined the lives of many people by possessing their bodies so he can be immortal.
- He brainwashed all the monks in a temple to be his evil Samurai army attack and destroy villages to find Kintaro, the golden boy.
- He killed an innocent family and tried to justify that they were infected with evil.
- After transporting the Turtles into his dimension, he has them brainwashed to kill Usagi and kidnap Kintaro and bring him. While he told "Don't hurt the boy", it was all pragmatic to use him as a vessel.
- He psychologically torments the Turtles when they manage to free themselves from his control. It went as far as killing most of them in a dream with only Leonardo surviving, to which he taunts him while he is grieving by telling he senses great evil in him.
- It was revealed he tricked Usagi into teaching Kintaro, a very young boy, good values such as humility and compassion to unlock his power so he can use him as his most powerful vessel.
- He brainwashed the turtles again to make sure they help him possess the young boy.
- He tries to kill Usagi during his final battle, while holding Kintaro as leverage so he won't kill him. This ultimately leads to his death when Kintaro fights back and Usagi takes the opportunity by taking his spirit out of his body and kills him.
- Unlike many villains in the show, Jei has no redeeming qualities, no honor, and he has a moral agency despite his delusions, and has full control on the actions he did.
- Despite failing the Heinous Standards, his crimes of razing villages, killing families and possessing bodies are very unique for the show's Heinous Standards so he doesnt fail to badly.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- Despite committing unique crimes for the show's Heinous Standards (killing whole families, having villages razed), he still fails them considering most Near Pure Evils/Pure Evils in the show have attempted to commit worse deeds than him. There are a few villains in particular who have done far worse with less resources than him, which includes:
- The Shredder, with his worst MEH crossing was before he mutated, who is obviously less powerful than Jei, when he kills Splinter right before he can save the world from destruction, willingly putting his vendetta over his planet's life, which was all luckily prevented in the reversed timeline. Not to mention his other crimes such as selling out the Earth to ensure the Kraang's apocalyptic invasion comes to a success and mutating Baxter Stockman, Ivan Sterenko and Anton Zeck. Jei never attempted to do crimes as big of a scale as this.
- There is also the Rat King, while he brainwashes, is obviously less powerful than Jei since he cannot possess other sentient beings and can only brainwash rats, yet he tried to commit genocide against humanity, and while claims he wants to help the rats and does treat them like sentient beings, it is nearly always only for power and pragmatic reasons, as he is anyway willing to experiment, brainwash, mutate and even sacrifice them for his own gain, plus attempted to mutate some people he kidnaped into human-rat hybrids and spread it to the rest of the humans in the world, that too in a painful manner to which they will be immediately brainwashed by him to his control. Jei may have razed villages, but even he never attempted genocide against his own kind (or even attempted to kill that amount of people) to mutilate billions of people to which he will brainwash later.
- Also, both of them are more personally evil to the protagonists than Jei so the other side of the Heinous Standards is also covered and truly, he does not pass it.
Trivia[]
- He is easily the most evil incarnation of Jei.
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