Karai never properly appears in Image Comics' "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series, despite Laird previously having considering an idea for Karai to return with "different types of ninja gear for her" as well as introducing a concept that "every new Foot soldier has a third eye ('the Eye of Karai') which is a video transceiver device that constantly relays data back to Karai's central processing computer." It is, however, revealed that she has been deposed as the leader of the Foot in Japan and is presumed to be dead. Had this series continued, Karai would have been revealed as the person behind the mask of Lady Shredder, a character introduced in the series' final issues as a third contestant vying for leadership of the Foot.