Рассказ черепашки ниндзя на английском

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TMNT they names — Donatello, Rafael, Michelangelo, Leonardo.

They live from Manhattan.

Their teacher — Mouse Splinter.

He is a master of fighting arts.

Their antagonist — Shreder.

Hi is a bad person.

Думаю , как — то так.

Нужно сочинение на тему мой любимый фильм на английском желательно о новых фильмах например там черепашки ниндзя , аватар , гарри поттер и т?

Нужно сочинение на тему мой любимый фильм на английском желательно о новых фильмах например там черепашки ниндзя , аватар , гарри поттер и т.

Срочно помогите написать сочинение про свой любимый фильм на английском по плану : 1 герои 2 сюжет 3 что бы вы пожелали зрителям?

Срочно помогите написать сочинение про свой любимый фильм на английском по плану : 1 герои 2 сюжет 3 что бы вы пожелали зрителям.

Написать сочинение по английскому про любимую книгу по этому плану ?

Написать сочинение по английскому про любимую книгу по этому плану :

Сочинение мой лучший друг по английскому языку?

Сочинение мой лучший друг по английскому языку.

Написать сочинение про любимого мультяшного героя на английском языке) плиз помогите?

Написать сочинение про любимого мультяшного героя на английском языке) плиз помогите.

Помогите написать сочинение по английскому языку на тему моя любимая книга с описанием приключения главного героя?

Помогите написать сочинение по английскому языку на тему моя любимая книга с описанием приключения главного героя.

Помогите написать сочинение на английском языке на тему «моя любимая еда » обязательно в конце вывод какая она полезная или нет?

Помогите написать сочинение на английском языке на тему «моя любимая еда » обязательно в конце вывод какая она полезная или нет.

Напишите пожалуйста сочинение про лучшего друга на английском (если хорошо знаете английский?

Напишите пожалуйста сочинение про лучшего друга на английском (если хорошо знаете английский!

Написать сочинение по английскому языку на тему — мой лучший друг?

Написать сочинение по английскому языку на тему — мой лучший друг.

Мини — сочинение мой лучший друг, на английском языке?

Мини — сочинение мой лучший друг, на английском языке.

1 what time did you wake up? 2 who did phone. 3 when did we meet? 4 what did we have 5 — 6 who did see. 7 what did we do.

1. What is your favorite subject? 2. They are in the tree house. 3. It is a ruler. 4. My name is Marina. 5. I am ten. 6. He is wearing blue jeans. 7. You are not in your room.

1. What is your favourite subject? 2. They are in tree house. 3. It is a ruler. 4. My name is Marina. 5. I am ten. 6. He is wearing blue jeans. 7. You are not in your room.

Sveta loves her dog)).

You left your French homework in your room, didn’t you? You didn’t take your T — shirt, did you? You’ll be late for school, won’t you? You just don’t want to go to school, do you? It’s Sunday morning, isn’t it.

1)talk (надо заменить на hear) 2)always(ничего) 3)does(is doing) 4)пропущено are 5)do (are) и do (doing) 6)paint (painting) 7)is (are) 8)does (is doing).

My brother says that I’m playing football well My father is glad that I’m one of the best students in my class My mother worries that I will fail the test.

— — — 6. — — — 1. I must to buy a ticket on concert! (Я должен купить билеты на концерт! ) 2. I mustn’t to run around the school. (Я не должен бегать по школе. ) 3. I must to have a shower every day. (Я должен принимать душ каждый день. ) 4. ..

Must buy a ticket must have a shower must wear a swimming hat mustn’t run mustn’t bring glass botles mustn’t dive.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Franchise logo
Created by	Kevin Eastman Peter Laird
Original work	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1984)
Owner	Mirage Studios (1984–2009) Nickelodeon (Paramount) (2009–present)
Print publications
Comics	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Studios) (1984–2014) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures (Archie Comics) (1988–1995) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Dreamwave Productions) (2003) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW Publishing) (2011–present)
Comic strip(s)	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (comic strip) (1990–1997)
Films and television
Film(s)	List of films
Television series	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series) (1987–1996) Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation (1997–1998) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series) (2003–2009) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series) (2012–2017) Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018–2020)
Direct-to-video	Mutant Turtles: Superman Legend (1996)
Games
Role-playing	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness
Video game(s)	List of video games
Miscellaneous
Toy(s)	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures
Characters	List of characters

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an American media franchise created by the comic book artists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It follows Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael, four anthropomorphic turtle brothers (named after Italian Renaissance artists) trained in ninjutsu who fight evil in New York City. Supporting characters include the turtles’ rat sensei Splinter, their human friends April O’Neil and Casey Jones, and enemies such as Baxter Stockman, Krang, and their archenemy, the Shredder.

The franchise began as a comic book, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which Eastman and Laird conceived as a parody of elements popular in superhero comics at the time. The first issue was published in 1984 by Eastman and Laird’s company Mirage Studios and was a surprise success. In 1987, Eastman and Laird licensed the characters to Playmates Toys, which developed a line of Turtles action figures. About US$1.1 billion of Turtles toys were sold between 1988 and 1992, making them the third-bestselling toy figures ever at the time.

The action figures were promoted with an animated series, which premiered in 1987 and ran for almost a decade. In some European regions, the franchise was called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles due to the violent connotations of the word «ninja». Three live-action films were released; the first, released in 1990, became the highest-grossing independent film up to that point. Numerous video games have also been released. In 2009, the franchise was purchased by Viacom, now Paramount Global. Viacom commissioned a new comic series, two new live-action films, and new animated series.

History[edit]

1983–1986: Conception and first comics[edit]

The comic book authors Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird met in Massachusetts and began working on illustrations together. In 1983, Laird invited Eastman to move in with him in Dover, New Hampshire.^[1] That November, Eastman drew a masked turtle standing on its hind legs armed with nunchucks.^[2] Laird added the words «teenage mutant».^[1] The concept parodied several elements popular in superhero comics of the time: the teenagers of New Teen Titans, the mutants of Uncanny X-Men and the ninjas of Daredevil, combined with the comic tradition of funny animals such as Howard the Duck.^[3]

Eastman and Laird developed the concept into a comic book. They considered giving the turtles Japanese names, but instead named them after the Italian Renaissance artists Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo, which Laird said «felt just quirky enough to fit the concept».^[2] They developed a backstory referencing further elements of Daredevil: like Daredevil, the Turtles are altered by radioactive material, and their sensei, Splinter, is a play on Daredevil’s sensei, Stick.^[3]

In March 1984, Eastman and Laird founded a comic book company, Mirage Studios, in their home.^[2] Using money from a tax refund and a loan from Eastman’s uncle, they printed copies of first issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and advertised it in Comics Buyer’s Guide Magazine.^[2] This attracted the interest of comic distributors, and all 3,000 copies were sold in a few weeks.^[2] Sales of further issues continued to climb.^[2]

1987–1989: Toys, animation and video games[edit]

In 1987, Eastman and Laird licensed Turtles to Playmates Toys.^[3] Between 1988 and 1997, Playmates produced Turtles toys including around 400 figures and dozens of vehicles and playsets. About US$1.1 billion of Turtles toys were sold in four years, making them the third-bestselling toy figures ever at the time, behind GI Joe and Star Wars.^[2]

Influenced by the success of He-Man, G.I. Joe and Transformers, which had promoted toy lines with animated series, Playmates worked with the animation studio Murakami-Wolf-Swenson to produce the first Turtles animated series,^[4] which premiered in 1987 and ran for almost a decade.^[3] It introduced Turtles elements such as their color-coded masks, catchphrases, love of pizza and distinct personalities.^[3] To make it acceptable to parents and television networks, the series had a lighter tone than the comics, with no expletives, less violence and less threatening villains.^[2] In the United Kingdom and some other European regions, the franchise was renamed Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles for the violent connotations of the word «ninja».^[5][6]

The first Turtles video game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1989, the first of several developed by the Japanese company Konami.^[7] It sold approximately four million copies, making it one of the bestselling NES games.^[2] In response to concerns that the series was drifting from its origins, Eastman and Laird published an editorial in the comic in 1989, writing: «We’ve allowed the wacky side to happen, and enjoy it very much. All the while, though, we’ve kept the originals very much ours.»^[8] Eastman later said there was «some stuff that we wish we hadn’t said yes to», and Laird wrote of his dislike for the softer tone of the animated series.^[2]

1990s: First films, franchise expansion and commercial peak[edit]

The early 1990s saw the commercial peak of the franchise.^[9] The first Turtles film was released in 1990, featuring costumes designed by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.^[9] It was based more closely on the comic than the animated series, with a darker tone.^[9] It was the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1990 and the highest-grossing independent film at that point, earning more than US$200 million worldwide.^[10][11] A sequel, The Secret of the Ooze, was released the following year. With a rushed production and a lighter tone, it received weaker reviews and was less successful at the box office.^[11] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993) was aimed at the Japanese market, the largest foreign market for US films at the time, but failed to see release there^[3] and saw weaker reviews and sales.^[11]

In 1990, a stage musical, Coming Out of Their Shells, featuring the Turtles as a rock band, played 40 shows across the United States.^[2] The musical was sponsored by Pizza Hut and promoted with an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.^[12] A soundtrack album and VHS were released.^[2] After the animated series ended, a live-action television series, Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, was created in 1997 with Saban Entertainment. It introduced a fifth, female turtle, Venus de Milo. The series was canceled after one season;^[2] Laird later said it was the only licensed Turtles project he «truly regrets».^[2]

2000s–present: Sale to Nickelodeon and further series[edit]

Eastman sold his share of the Turtles franchise to Laird in 2000.^[3] In 2003, 4Kids Entertainment launched a new animated Turtles series, which ran for seven seasons, concluding with a television film Turtles Forever in 2009.^[2] Laird had a role in the production, creating a closer adaptation of the original comic.^[2] A computer-animated Turtles film, TMNT, was released in 2007 and earned $95 million at the box office.^[2]

On October 21, 2009, it was announced that Laird had sold the franchise to Viacom.^[3] He said he had tired of working on Turtles, writing: «I am no longer that guy who carries his sketchbook around with him and draws in it every chance he gets.»^[13] In August 2011,^[14] IDW Publishing launched a new Turtles comic series, with Eastman as co-writer and illustrator.^[3] A third animated series^[2] premiered in September 2012 on Nickelodeon, and ran for five seasons before ending in 2017.^[15]

A fourth live-action Turtles film, produced by Platinum Dunes, Nickelodeon Movies, and Paramount Pictures, directed by Jonathan Liebesman and produced by Michael Bay, was released on August 8, 2014. It received negative reviews, but was a box-office success.^[3] A sequel, Out of the Shadows, directed by Dave Green, was released in June 2016.^[16]

A fourth animated series, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, premiered in 2018 and ran for two seasons.^[17] A film sequel to the series released in 2022 on the streaming service Netflix.^[18] Two additional films are in development; Mutant Mayhem, produced by Seth Rogen, and a live-action reboot produced by Bay.^[19][20][21]

Characters[edit]

In most versions, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are created when four baby turtles are exposed to radioactive ooze, transforming them into humanoids.^[22] They fight evil in New York City,^[10] where they reside in the sewers.^[23]

Leonardo, the leader, is the most disciplined and skilled turtle;^[24] an expert swordsman, he wields two katana and wears a blue bandana.^[25] Raphael, the strongest and most reckless and hot-headed turtle,^[24] wears a red bandana and uses a pair of sai.^[25] Donatello uses his intellect to invent gadgets and vehicles;^[24] he wears a purple mask and uses a bo staff.^[25] Michelangelo is the least disciplined and most fun-loving turtle, and is usually portrayed as the fastest and most agile.^[24] He wears an orange bandana and uses nunchucks.^[25]

Splinter is a mutant rat who is the wise adoptive father of the Turtles and teaches them ninjitsu. In some iterations, he was once the pet rat of ninja master Hamato Yoshi; in others, he is a mutated Yoshi.^[26] The Turtles are assisted by April O’Neil, who is variously depicted as a news reporter, lab assistant or genius computer programmer.^[26][27] In most versions, she is pursued romantically by Casey Jones,^[28] a hockey mask-wearing vigilante who usually becomes an ally of the Turtles.^[29]

The Turtles’ nemesis is the Shredder, who leads the criminal ninja clan known as the Foot. His real identity is usually the ninja Oroku Saki.^[30] In most versions, the Shredder’s second in command is Karai, a skilled martial artist; in some iterations she is the Shredder’s daughter.^[30] The Shredder allies with Baxter Stockman, a mad scientist,^[30] and Krang, an alien warlord. Krang was introduced in the original animated series, and was inspired by the Utrom race from the comics.^[30] Also created for the series were the Shredder’s buffoonish henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, a mutant rhinoceros and warthog.^[30]

Comics[edit]

Mirage Studios (1984–2014)[edit]

Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles premiered in May 1984, at a comic book convention held at a local Sheraton Hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It was published by their company Mirage Studios in an oversized magazine-style format using black and white artwork on cheap newsprint, limited to a print run of 3000 copies.^[31] It was initially intended as a one-shot, but due to its popularity it became an ongoing series.^[2]

After publication was temporarily assumed by Image Comics for the third volume (see below), Laird (by then the sole owner of the franchise) and Lawson relaunched the main series at Mirage with a fourth volume in 2001. Following the sale of the franchise to Nickelodeon in late 2009, Laird retained the right to continue the Mirage series,^[32] but no issues have been released since the release of No. 32 in 2014,^[33] and Mirage Studios was wound down in 2021.^[34]

All total, the main Mirage series lasted for 129 issues, spanning four separate volumes of 62, 13, 23, and 32 issues, respectively.^[2] Additional one-shot issues and miniseries were published over the years. Mirage also published a companion book entitled Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which was designed to fill in the gaps of continuity in the TMNT universe.^[35]

Image Comics (1996–1999)[edit]

In 1996, Image Comics co-founder Erik Larsen, seeing they there were no TMNT comics in active publication, oversaw a relaunch of the comics through Highbrow Productions, his studio at Image, with writing by Gary Carlson and art by Frank Fosco. This third volume of the main series, intended as a continuation of the Mirage comics, saw Splinter become a bat, Donatello a cyborg, Leonardo lose a hand and Raphael become scarred and assume the identity of the new Shredder. The series was canceled in 1999 after 23 issues without a conclusion.^[2] In 2018, IDW began reprinting the series in full color as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Urban Legends, and commissioned Carlson and Fusco to create three additional issues to tie up the unfinished story.^[36]

Archie Comics (1988–1995)[edit]

From 1988 to 1995, Archie Comics published Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures, a series aimed at a younger audience.^[2] Initially adapting episodes of the first animated series, it soon moved to original storylines.^[37] The main series ran for 72 issues;^[38] in addition, there were numerous annuals, specials and miniseries. An ongoing spinoff series, Mighty Mutanimals, features a team of supporting characters.^[39]

Dreamwave Productions (2003)[edit]

A monthly comic inspired by the 2003 TV series was published by Dreamwave Productions from June to December 2003. It was written by Peter David and illustrated by LeSean Thomas. In the first four issues, which were the only ones directly adapted from the TV series, the story was told from the perspectives of April, Baxter, Casey, and a pair of New York City police officers.^{[citation needed][citation needed]}

IDW Publishing (2011–present)[edit]

In 2011, IDW Publishing acquired the license to publish new collections of Mirage storylines and a new ongoing series.^[40] The first issue of the new series was released on August 24 that year. Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz wrote the book, with Eastman and Dan Duncan providing art. In 2017 issue No. 73 of the comic was published, making it the longest running comic series in the franchises history.^[41] In addition to the main series and spin-offs set within its continuity, IDW also published comics based on the 2012 Turtles animated series^[42][43] and the 2018 animated series, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.^[44]

Manga[edit]

The Turtles have appeared in several manga series.

• Mutant Turtles (ミュータント・タートルズ, Myūtanto Tātoruzu) is a 15-issue series by Tsutomu Oyamada, Zuki mora, and Yoshimi Hamada that simply adapted episodes of the original American animated series.
• Super Turtles (スーパータートルズ Sūpā Tātoruzu) is a three-issue miniseries by Hidemasa Idemitsu, Tetsurō Kawade, and Toshio Kudō that featured the «TMNT Supermutants» Turtle toys that were on sale at the time. The first volume of the anime miniseries followed this storyline.
• Mutant Turtles Gaiden (ミュータント・タートルズ外伝, Myūtanto Tātoruzu Gaiden) by Hiroshi Kanno is a reinterpretation of the Turtles story with no connection to the previous manga.
• Mutant Turtles III (ミュータント・タートルズ３, Myūtanto Tātoruzu Tsuri) is Yasuhiko Hachino’s adaptation of the third feature film.
• Mutant Turtles ’95 (ミュータント・タートルズ９５, Myūtanto Tātoruzu Kyūjūgo) is a 1995 series by Ogata Nobu which ran in Comic BomBom.
• Mutant Turtles ’96 (ミュータント・タートルズ９６, Myūtanto Tātoruzu Kyūjūroku) is a continuation of the 1995 series when it continued to run through 1996.

Comic strip[edit]

A daily comic strip written and illustrated by Dan Berger began in 1990. It featured an adventure story Monday through Friday and activity puzzles on weekends (with fan art appearing later). The comic strip was published in syndication until its cancellation in December 1996. At its highest point in popularity, it was published in more than 250 newspapers.

Television series[edit]

First animated series (1987–1996)[edit]

Debuting in 1987 as a five-part miniseries and becoming a regular Saturday-morning syndicated series on October 1, 1988, the first animated series follows the adventures of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and their allies as they battle the Shredder, Krang, and numerous other villains and criminals in New York City. The property was changed considerably from the darker-toned comics, to make it more suitable for children and the families. Produced by Fred Wolf Films, the series ran for ten seasons and ended in 1996.

Original video animation[edit]

In addition to the American series, a Japan-exclusive two-episode anime original video animation (OVA) series was made in 1996, titled Mutant Turtles: Choujin Densetsu-hen. The OVA is similar in tone to the 1987 TV series and uses the same voices from TV Tokyo’s Japanese dub of the 1987 TV series. It featured the Turtles as superheroes, that gained costumes and superpowers with the use of Mutastones, while Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady gained supervillain powers with the use of a Dark Mutastone.

Live-action series (1997–1998)[edit]

In 1997–1998, a live-action series, Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, aired on Fox.^[45] It introduced a female turtle, Venus de Milo, skilled in the mystical arts of the shinobi.^[46] The Next Mutation Turtles made a guest appearance on Power Rangers in Space.^[47] The Next Mutation was canceled after one season of 26 episodes.^[45]

Second animated series (2003–2009)[edit]

In 2003, a new TMNT series produced by 4Kids Entertainment began airing on the «FoxBox» (later renamed «4Kids TV») programming block. It later moved to «The CW4Kids» block. The series was co-produced by Mirage Studios,^[48] and Mirage owned one-third of the rights to the series. Mirage’s significant stake in creative control resulted in a cartoon that hews more closely to the original comics, creating a darker and mature tone than the 1987 cartoon, though still considered appropriate for younger viewers. This series lasted until 2009, ending with a feature-length television movie titled Turtles Forever, which was produced in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the franchise.

Third animated series (2012–2017)[edit]

Nickelodeon acquired the global rights to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from the Mirage Group and 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. and announced a new CGI-animated TMNT television series.^[49][50][51] The 2012 version is characterized by anime-like iconography and emphasis on mutagen continuing to wreak havoc on the everyday lives of the Turtles and their enemies; in addition, the tone of this version is similar to the original series, but also features a handful of serious episodes as well. The series ran for five seasons and ended in 2017.

Fourth animated series (2018–2020)[edit]

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the second Nickelodeon-produced animated series in the franchise and premiered in September 2018. It returned to using 2D animation, while also using some anime iconography, and was characterized by its lighter humor.^[52][53] The series aired between 2018 and 2020, and was followed by a feature film released on Netflix in 2022.

Films[edit]

The Turtles have starred in six theatrical feature films. The first three are live-action features produced in the early 1990s: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993). The Turtles were played by various actors in costumes featuring animatronic heads, initially produced by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. The fourth film, a computer-animated film titled TMNT, was released in 2007.

A reboot, also titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles produced by Platinum Dunes, Nickelodeon Movies, and Paramount Pictures was released in 2014. A sequel titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows was released in 2016. A computer-animated reboot titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is set to release in 2023.

Merchandise[edit]

The franchise generated merchandise sales of $175 million in 1988 and $350 million in 1989.^[54] By May 1990, it had generated $650 million in domestic retail revenues.^[55] By 1994, it was the most merchandisable franchise, having generated a total revenue of $6,000,000,000 (equivalent to $10,970,000,000 in 2021) in merchandise sales up until then.^[56]

Toys[edit]

During the run of the 1987 TV series, Playmates Toys produced hundreds of TMNT action figures, along with vehicles, playsets, and accessories, becoming one of the top collectibles for children.^[57] Staff artists at Northampton, Massachusetts-based Mirage Studios provided conceptual designs for many of the figures, vehicles, and playsets and creator credit can be found in the legal text printed on the back of the toy packaging. In addition, Playmates produced a series of TMNT/Star Trek crossover figures, due to Playmates holding the Star Trek action-figure license at the time. Playmates employed many design groups to develop looks and styles for the toy line, including Bloom Design, White Design, Pangea, Robinson-Clarke, and McHale Design. The marketing vice president of Playmates, Karl Aaronian, was largely responsible for assembling the talented team of designers and writers, which in turn, helped germinate continued interest in the toy line.

Never before in toy history did an action-figure line have such an impact for over two decades, generating billions of dollars in licensing revenue. The series was highly popular in the UK, where in the run-up to Christmas, the Army & Navy Store in London’s Lewisham devoted its entire basement to everything Turtle, including games, videos, costumes, and other items. Playmates continued to produce TMNT action figures based on the 2003 animated series. The 2007 film TMNT also gave Playmates a new source from which to make figures, while National Entertainment Collectibles Association produced a series of high-quality action figures based on character designs from the original Mirage comics. In 2012, a new toy line and a new classic toy line from Playmates were announced to be released.^[58]

Video games[edit]

A number of TMNT video games had been produced, mostly by Konami. The first console video game based on the franchise, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) under Konami’s «Ultra Games» label in 1989 and later ported to home computers and eventually for the Wii on the Virtual Console. Also released by Konami in 1989 was an arcade game, also titled simply Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, later ported to the NES as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game, leading to an NES-only sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project, with gameplay taken from the arcade game, as opposed to the first NES game. The next Turtles game, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, was released in 1991 as an arcade game, and was later ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super NES) in 1992, titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time, with a sequel numbering to the NES titles appended. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist was also created for the Sega Genesis in the same year, and used many of the art assets from TMNT IV.

There was also a trilogy of TMNT video games for the original Game Boy system made by Konami, consisting of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue. A PC-exclusive game, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Manhattan Missions was also released. Konami’s last entries during the original run were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters, a set of one-on-one fighting game released for the NES, SNES, and Genesis; each version is a wholly distinct game, sharing only the title and genre in common.

In September 2002, Konami also acquired the license to adapt the 2003 TV series into a video game franchise,^[59] resulting in a new series of games with 3D gameplay inspired by the old TMNT beat ’em up games, consisting of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 video game), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Melee.

In 2006, Ubisoft acquired the rights for TMNT games, beginning with a game based on the 2007 animated feature film, along with a distinct game for the Game Boy Advance similar in style to the Konami arcade games.^[60][61] A beat ’em up game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack was released for the Nintendo DS in 2009, to coincide with the series’ 25th anniversary.^[62]

In 2013, Activision released the downloadable game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, based on the 2012 TV series and developed by Red Fly Studio for the Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and Steam.^[63]

In 2016, Activision and PlatinumGames developed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC. The game is described as a third-person, team-based brawler. The campaign is playable either single-player or co-op and has an original story written by Tom Waltz, IDW comic writer and editor. The art style is based on long time TMNT comic artist Mateus Santolouco.^[64]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Legends, a free-to-play Role-playing video game was released by Ludia in summer 2016 for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Kindle Fire. It is based on the 2012 TV series.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles appear as playable characters in the DC Comics fighting game Injustice 2 as a part of the «Fighter Pack 3» DLC, with Corey Krueger, Joe Brugie, Ben Rausch and Ryan Cooper voicing their roles.

Leonardo, Michelangelo, April O’Neil and Shredder appear as playable characters in the 2021 platform fighting game Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, with Cam Clarke, Townsend Coleman and Jim Cummings reprising their roles from the 1987 animated series while Abby Trott voices the role as part of the June 2022 update of the game. All four of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles also appeared as playable characters in the fighting game Brawlhalla.^[65][66]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, a beat ’em up with all four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, April, Splinter and Casey Jones as playable characters was released in June 2022. It is inspired by the 1987 Turtles animated series and borrows stylistically from the arcade and home console games, developed by Konami during the 80s and 90s.

In other media[edit]

Tabletop role playing game[edit]

In 1985, Palladium Books published Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness.^[67] It is a standalone game, but uses the many key mechanics from Palladium’s Megaversal system and is compatible with material from other Palladium games. It introduced rules for creating anthropomorphic animal mutants. Examples of mutants are included in the appendices as potential antagonists, including the Terror Bears, Caesars Weasels, and Sparrow Eagles, as well as including stats for the Turtles and other characters. A series of supplements were released over the next few years, which remained in print until, due to the cost of maintaining the license, Palladium decided to end its license with Mirage Studios in January 2000.^[68]

Food tie-ins[edit]

During the height of their popularity, the Turtles had a number of food tie-ins.^[69] Among the most notable of these products was Ninja Turtles Cereal, produced by Ralston-Purina as a kind of «Chex with TMNT-themed marshmallows.» The cereal featured many different in-box premiums during its production run. Ralston also produced Pizza Crunchabungas, which were pizza-flavored corn snacks in the shape of whole, circular pizzas (the commercial starred the Ninja Turtles as Will Vinton-created claymations); Hostess Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pies, featuring a crust covered in green glaze with vanilla pudding inside. Each pie came with either one of five yellow stickers with an illustration of one of the turtles on it, or one of 5 different TMNT II: Secret of the Ooze trading cards inside.

There were also four TMNT mail away items available to order from Hostess and Royal OOZE Gelatin Desserts, distributed by Nabisco under «Royal Gelatin» in three different flavors: orange, strawberry, and lime. Shreddies was a Canadian cereal with TMNT-themed box art and promos. One example of a TMNT prize was rings featuring a character from the cartoon (1992). Chef Boyardee also released a canned pasta with the pasta in the shapes of the four turtles. There were multiple versions of the pasta released, including one with Shredder added into the shapes. Customers could mail away for an exclusive Shredder action figure that was darker than the standard Playmates figure, it was shipped in a plastic baggy. This Shredder is one of the more valuable TMNT action figures today.^[70]

Concert tour[edit]

To capitalize on the Turtles’ popularity, a concert tour was held in 1990, premiering at Radio City Music Hall on August 17.^[71][72] The «Coming Out of Their Shells» tour featured live-action turtles playing music as a band (Donatello on keyboards; Leonardo on bass guitar; Raphael on drums and saxophone; and Michelangelo on guitar) on stage around a familiar plotline: April O’Neil is kidnapped by the Shredder, and the Turtles have to rescue her.^[73] The story had a very Bill & Ted-esque feel, with its theme of the power of rock n’ roll literally defeating the enemy, in the form of the Shredder (who only rapped about how he hates music) trying to eliminate all music. A pay-per-view special highlighting the concert was shown, and a studio album was also released.^[74]

The tour was sponsored by Pizza Hut; thus, many references are made to their pizza. Empty Pizza Hut boxes are seen onscreen in the «Behind the Shells» VHS. As part of a cross-marketing strategy, Pizza Hut restaurants gave away posters, audio cassettes of «Coming Out of Their Shells», and «Official Tour Guides» as premiums. The first show of the tour was released on video with a making of video also released. The song «Pizza Power» was later used by Konami for the second arcade game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time. Cam Clarke and Peter Renaday reprised their roles as Leonardo and Splinter during spoken portions of the concert’s kickoff event in Radio City Music Hall, though they went uncredited in the event’s VHS release.

Roller coasters and amusement rides[edit]

Nickelodeon Universe at American Dream Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which opened in 2019, contains several TMNT themed rides, including two coasters that broke world records upon their opening. The TMNT Shellraiser, a Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter, is the steepest roller coaster in the world at 121.5 degrees. The Shredder, a spinning roller coaster themed to the Shredder, is the world’s longest free-spinning coaster where riders could spin the car freely along the track, with a length of 1,322 feet (403 m) and a maximum height of 62 feet (19 m).^[75][76]

Nickelodeon Universe at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, also contains rides themed to the TMNT franchise. These include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shell Shock, a roller coaster that opened in 2012,^[77] and Shredder’s Mutant Masher, a pendulum ride that opened in 2015.^[78]

Parodies[edit]

Although the TMNT had originated as something of a parody, the comic’s explosive success led to a wave of small-press, black and white comic parodies of TMNT itself, including Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters, Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung-Fu Kangaroos, and a host of others. Dark Horse Comics’ Boris the Bear was launched in response to these TMNT clones; its first issue was titled «Boris the Bear Slaughters the Teenage Radioactive Black Belt Mutant Ninja Critters». Once the Turtles broke into the mainstream, parodies also proliferated in other media, such as in satire magazines Cracked and Mad and numerous TV series of the period. The satirical British television series Spitting Image featured a recurring sketch «Teenage Mutant Ninja Turds».^[79]

See also[edit]

• List of animal superheroes
• Ninjas in popular culture

References[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

• Eastman, Kevin (2002). Kevin Eastman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Artobiography. Los Angeles: Heavy Metal. ISBN 1-882931-85-8.
• Wiater, Stanley (1991). The Official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Treasury. New York: Villard. ISBN 0-679-73484-8.

External links[edit]

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia

Michelangelo is an ornate box turtle who was mutated to become part human. He is one of the main protagonists of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He is the youngest Turtle and wielded a kusari-fundō, which possessed a «mystic whip» ability until its destruction where it was then replaced by his nunchaku.

Physical appearance

Michelangelo is a mutant ornate box turtle with blue-green skin, a bright yellow plastron, and a blue-grey carapace with a yellow pattern. He has geometric yellow markings on his shoulders and thighs, black eyes, a tooth gap in the left side of his upper jaw, three fingers on each hand, and two toes on each foot. He wears an orange bandana with short bandana tails, orange wristbands and socks, and orange knee pads with red faces on them (a dead face on the right and a smiley face on the left). He also wears a pair of magenta and cyan stickers on his plastron (a triangle and a lightning bolt) and a dark orange chest harness over his left shoulder with the Turtle emblem placed over his heart.

Personality

Mikey is playful and lighthearted. He is intuitive, able to adopt new skills quickly, determine others’ problems, and at times accurately predict situational outcomes.

Mikey is quite creative and has a passion for a variety of different art mediums such as illustration, music, and cooking. He is attuned to pop culture shown by some of his word choices and his knowledge of relevant celebrities such as Rupert Swaggart. However, Mikey has mixed appreciation for certain retro/old school icons as he is disappointed with the dated graphics in Hot Soup: The Game («Hot Soup: The Game»).

Mikey is easily frightened and often retreats into his shell instead of confronting the threat. This results in others having to carry him to safety themselves. Despite this, Mikey enjoys watching thrillers/horror as long as he is a passive viewer as he watches Baxter Stockboy’s haunted video on the ghost named the Gumbus.

While Mikey will lie, he has a disdain for it as he is increasingly frustrated with Leonardo’s lying behavior in «Flushed, but Never Forgotten» and insists on him and his brothers revealing the truth to Splinter. Mikey finds it hard to cope with the guilt of lying and thus doesn’t keep secrets reliably.

Mikey is competitive as seen in «You Got Served» when he is determined to win a one-sided competition against Leo and boasts about his previous victory, labeling himself as the «all-time champ of today».

Mikey is family-oriented and compassionate as in «Repairin’ the Baron» he helps Baron Draxum recover from wearing the Kuroi Yōroi unprompted. He prefers to see the good in others, a quality that can border on naiveté such as when he tries to rationalize Foot Recruit’s suspicious attitude to himself during their first encounter in «Hot Soup: The Game».

Mikey has three personas he created: Doctor Delicate Touch, Doctor Feelings, and Doctor Positive. To deliver a harsh truth in his «Doctor Delicate Touch» method, Mikey often starts off being sweet, but quickly becomes angry and frank («Man VS. Sewer»). Doctor Feelings uses his emotional intelligence to advise others («Breaking Purple»), and Mikey faces issues with determined optimism as Doctor Positive («Repairin’ the Baron»).

Mikey is openly sentimental and encourages others’ emotional vulnerability as well. He highly values intimacy and tries to cultivate it in his relationships (sometimes to the point of insistence). This openness can make him excitable, acting hastily and injuring himself as a result. It also leads to Mikey being rude just as often as he is kind such as when he snaps at his brothers for not reacting appropriately to a restaurant he liked being destroyed in «Pizza Pit» or expresses how he wishes to expel Donatello from the Mad Dogs right in front of him in «Bullhop».

Mikey doesn’t allow others to diminish his contributions or take him for granted and will sharply correct attempts to («Mystery Meat»). He can also be insulted when others regard him as dependent such as in «Hot Soup: The Game» when he is eager to complete a mission without his brothers’ aid. Mikey’s confidence in his capacity to be independent isn’t always shared by the other Mad Dogs due to him being the youngest, much to his frustration.

Mikey is also the one who never gives up and has faith in himself and his brothers. In «Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie,» Mikey had faith in Leo breaking Donnie’s pizza box stack record and in himself to create a gateway to rescue Leo after many failed attempts to do so during the course of the film.

History

Mikey began life as a juvenile turtle in Draxum’s laboratory. Wishing to create a mutant army with formidable combat capabilities, Draxum used Lou Jitsu’s DNA paired with his ooze to turn Mikey from an ordinary turtle into a mutant. He and his brothers were then stolen from Draxum’s laboratory by Lou Jitsu promptly after their mutation and Mikey went on to be raised in the sewers of New York City alongside his brothers by Splinter. Eventually, Mikey and his brothers met a human girl named April and forged a strong bond with her through the years.

Bio

As the youngest Turtle, Mikey has a wild and colorful personality. He is an artist and spends his time tagging the Turtles’ lair and his shell with graffiti. He’s an eternal optimist and an absolute natural at ninjutsu.

Abilities

• Fire generation: Mikey wields a mystic fire-generating kusari-fundō with a laughing weight and a chain that can extend nigh-infinitely. With its extensive reach, he can burn, grapple, and cut opponents/objects.
• Weight rejection: Anything within his kusari-fundō’s grip instantly becomes weightless, allowing Mikey to manipulate opponents/objects of a normally colossal weight with ease.
• Power Fun Jutsu: By spiraling his kusari-fundō’s chain, Mikey can generate a funnel of flame capable of engulfing opponents or transporting a large number of objects from one place to another.
• Mystic Whip Grip: The spiked weight of his kusari-fundō is capable of latching onto surfaces to anchor Mikey to them.
• Ninjutsu: Mikey possesses an innate aptitude for learning ninjutsu, unlike his brothers, and is skilled in basic ninjutsu. But due to Splinter’s reluctance to advance their training and the Turtles’ own lack of focus on learning the art, he and his brothers’ skills aren’t honed.
  • Stealth: As a practitioner of ninjutsu, Mikey can slip in and out of areas undetected. These skills significantly improved after additional instruction in «The Ancient Art of Ninja Hide and Seek», Mikey now being capable of blending in with his environment to the point where he can seamlessly pose as objects.
    • Lights-Off Jutsu: By clapping his hands, Mikey can turn off any lights in an area to use the darkness to his advantage.
  • Speed: Mikey possesses a great amount of speed, capable of moving in bursts faster than the eye can follow. His speed has been capable of keeping up with Leo, making Mikey comparable to him and/or possibly second fastest turtle of the four, in You Got Served.
  • Enhanced agility: Mikey is exceptionally agile, even compared to the other Mad Dogs, and is known for this among his family. He can perform acrobatics with ease, scaling, swinging, flipping, and tumbling from structures to elevate his combat choreography and ability to evade attacks.
  • Strength: Mikey possesses strength greater than the average human.
    • Hamato Ninpō: As a member of the Hamato Clan, Mikey is capable of tapping into his clan’s energy to unleash his own mystic might.
      • Weapon generation: Mikey can use random objects to form weaponry, namely nunchaku.
      • Mystic whip: Mikey can extend the chain of his nunchaku nigh-infinitely to grapple opponents.
      • Gateway opening: Mikey discovered this new power in «Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie.» This enables him to rip open a gateway anywhere in space and time. But it’s very dangerous to use as it nearly took his own life in the process.

• Super tongue: Mikey can identify and analyze specific ingredients in food by merely tasting it as shown in “Pizza Puffs”.
• Durability: Due to his mutation, Mikey’s body can experience a higher threshold of physical trauma without lasting repercussions than the average human.
• Shell retraction: Mikey is able to fully retreat into his shell.^[2]
• Skateboarding: Mikey is a seasoned skateboarder and enjoys it as one of his hobbies.
• Mandolin playing: Mikey knows how to play the mandolin as shown in “Nothing But Truffle”.
• Cooking: Mikey is quite proficient in cooking, creating excellent dishes, and knows a variety of recipes such as soup, pizza tots, and risotto.
• Ballet: According to “Lair Games”, Mikey is a master of ballet.
• Illustration: Mikey is a prolific and skilled visual artist, versed in multiple mediums such as aerosol paint and graphite pencils. Mikey as an artist has been described as «our version of Banksy».^[2]

Relationships

Family

• Michelangelo’s parent(s)
  • Hamato Yoshi / Lou Jitsu / Splinter: Splinter is Mikey’s father. Mikey loves him deeply and, out his brothers, has the most positive relationship and perception of Splinter. Even so, he isn’t afraid to be brusque with Splinter such as in «Hidden City’s Most Wanted» or «Repairin’ the Baron».
  • Baron Draxum: Draxum is Mikey’s father. It was Mikey more than anyone else that chose to believe in Draxum and help him get back on his feet after he was forced to flee the Hidden City. He has a lot of faith in Draxum’s capacity to be good and while he doesn’t take Draxum’s physical and emotional distance personally, Mikey is firm with him when he tries to cause trouble.

• Donatello: Mikey gets along well with Donnie, though he doesn’t always share his interests or understand why some things upset him. It is not unusual for Mikey to team up with Donnie such as in «The Ancient Art of Ninja Hide and Seek» and he is supportive of him whether it is about his latest tech or when he versed Raph in a fighting match in «Sparring Partner». He considers Donnie to be his «second favorite brother» («Lair Games»). However, Mikey also teases him regularly, boasting about stealing his things and how much more he likes S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. than him. Mikey is also very protective of Donnie whenever he’s not wearing his battleshell. He’s aware of how vulnerable Donnie is with just his softshell and is usually protecting him when he loses it or tells him not to take it off as seen in «Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie.»
• Leonardo: Mikey is most competitive towards Leo, shown in «You Got Served» and «Mrs. Cuddles» that he often plays games against him. Mikey appreciates Leo’s leniency towards his independence and that he doesn’t coddle him like the other Mad Dogs are at times inclined to, treating him in the mature manner he yearns for as shown in «Hot Soup: The Game». He gets along quite well with Leo as they share similar upbeat attitudes and love for fun and jokes, though Mikey can be exasperated by Leo’s lack of responsibility and inappropriate humor. In «Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie,» Mikey was the one who never gave up on Leo after he got trapped in the Prison Dimension and used his newfound gateway powers to rescue Leo.
• Raphael: While Mikey loves Raph and though they typically get along quite well, he finds his overprotection especially aggravating and patronizing. Despite this, he often uses Raph’s body for protection from threats and he can often be seen perched on him.
• April O’Neil: Mikey really loves April and hanging out with her as shown in «The Gumbus» and «Mystery Meat». He is very encouraging towards her and ensures that April knows her efforts are appreciated.
• Piebald: Piebald is technically Mikey’s sister, but he didn’t meet her as a mutant until «Flushed, but Never Forgotten» where she orchestrated an unsettling prank on him and his brothers. Mikey felt very guilty about never telling Splinter what happened to her and felt bad for Piebald, believing she deserved better than to secretly be replaced. However, he now feels ambivalent about the situation.
• Hamato Karai: Karai is Mikey’s ancestral grandmother. Although Mikey only spent a short time with her, it is clear that Mikey loves Karai a lot. He included Karai in a family portrait he drew for her and was overjoyed to hear from her again in «Anatawa Hitorijanai».

Friends and allies

• Todd Capybara: Mikey constructed Todd’s Cuddle Cakes Puppy Rescue alongside Donnie in «Repo Mantis» and considers Todd to be his friend. He is the only Turtle seen hanging out with him beyond being forced to or meeting by coincidence and made a meal for both of them in «Nothing But Truffle».
• Mayhem: Mikey thought Mayhem’s appearance was quite bizarre when he first encountered him in «Mystic Mayhem» and cares for him, sympathizing with his plight of being trapped in a mirror in «Mystic Library».
• S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N.: Mikey was the first to feel sour about S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N.’s favoritism towards Donnie and altered his programming to be more like him, Leo, and Raph. He quite likes S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N., in some ways more than Donnie as expressed in «The Purple Game». Mikey was sympathetic towards his anguish involving Donnie in «Breaking Purple» and tried to get him to understand S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N.’s perspective, encouraging Donnie to be gentler towards him.
• Señor Hueso: Mikey likes Hueso and was willing to become a waiter for his restaurant in «You Got Served». When the MoB bosses offered compensation for hurting Hueso, he declined the offer and saved him from their assault.
• DIGG: Mikey tried to stop DIGG from destroying New York pizza parlors in «Pizza Pit», but was friendly towards them when he realized that they merely wanted to perform their music publicly.
  • Groundhog: Mikey found Groundhog’s love for saying «dig» quite annoying and fought against her in their final confrontation.
• Marcus Moncrief: Mikey deeply admires Marcus Moncrief’s work in the Jupiter Jim franchise and is often thrilled to interact with him.
• Red Fox: Mikey seems to have respect for Red Fox and sought her out to reunite her with Marcus Moncrief in «Sidekick Ahoy!».
• Stanley / Bullhop: Mikey is the one who tells Bullhop off for his bad behavior in «Bullhop» and when he turns out to be a good teammate, Mikey states that he is willing to kick Donnie out of the Mad Dogs for him to join instead.
• Franken-Foot: Though initially eager to destroy Franken-Foot, Mikey’s attitude swiftly changed once Raph admitted his fondness for him and Mikey changed Franken-Foot’s emblem from the Foot Clan to the Turtle emblem to solidify his new alliance. When him and Leo were being pursued by Piebald in «Flushed, but Never Forgotten», Mikey tried to pull Franken-Foot to safety, but was unsuccessful.
• Sunita: Mikey has not been shown interacting with Sunita, but as a dear friend of April’s, Mikey most likely has little issue with her.
• John: Mikey encountered John in «The Clothes Don’t Make the Turtle» bound alongside two other magicians in the Magic Town House, but didn’t free him, choosing to pursue Hypno instead.
• Cassandra Jones / Foot Recruit: Mikey was the first Mad Dog to meet Foot Recruit in «Hot Soup: The Game» when they fought over a ownership of a video game. Despite being allied to opposing clans, Mikey can relate to Foot Recruit in terms of wanting to complete a solo mission. He refers to her as a «frenemy» in «How to Make Enemies and Bend People to Your Will». They finally became allies in the season 2 finale, «Rise».

Enemies

• Albearto: Mikey fought against Albearto’s robot army when he gave them sentience in «Al Be Back» and performed a song with his brothers to prompt the Albeartos’ widespread destruction.
• Robot Vampire: Mikey fought Robot Vampire after she and her group of mutant crooks stole him and his brothers’ money meant to be spent on Splinter in «Mascot Melee».
• Mutant silverfish: Mikey first encountered mutant silverfish in «Donnie’s Gifts» on the streets of New York City and has fought them multiple times since.
• Big Mama: Mikey initially found Big Mama quite charming when he first met her in «Bug Busters», but after realizing that she wanted to kidnap him and his brothers and force them to work as the Battle Nexus’ rodeo clowns, his opinion on her soured and he now considers her an enemy.
• Gus: Mikey distracted Gus with a tennis ball when he found his target of pursuit, Leo, throwing it down the hall so he and his brothers could continue their escape from the Grand Nexus Hotel. He later succeeded in stealing his ID tag from his collar in «The Ancient Art of Ninja Hide and Seek».
• The Foot Clan: The Foot clan are the sworn enemy of the Hamato Clan.
  • Foot Lieutenant:
  • Foot Brute:
  • Oroku Saki / The Shredder: Saki is technically Mikey’s human ancestor as he is the ancestor of the Hamato bloodline through Karai.
• Repo Mantis: Mikey was willing to repossess others’ loaned items for Repo in order to own the Jupiter Jim Moon Buggy he had on his salvage lot in «Repo Mantis». However, Mikey ended up successfully stealing the vehicle from him when he backed out on their deal and has been his enemy since. In «The Evil League of Mutants», Mikey fought and defeated Repo using a weaponized ladder. He later posed as a junk mogul to deceive Repo into allowing him and his brothers to search for a piece of the Kuroi Yōroi in «One Man’s Junk».
• Mrs. Nubbins: Mikey recaptured Mrs. Nubbins in «One Man’s Junk» after she was accidentally released from her enclosure by Raph and Leo and attempted to eat Repo.
• President Pepperoni: Mikey used a Skee-Ball machine at Albearto’s to defeat President Pepperoni when Albearto made him and Cheery Tomato sentient.
• Baxter Stockboy: Mikey is an avid watcher of Baxter’s video-sharing channel, meeting him in «The Gumbus» and foiling his haunted grocery store hoax. When Baxter was framing him and his brothers as menaces in «The Mutant Menace», Mikey was enthusiastic about performing acts of kindness around New York to turn his family’s image around. He ruined Baxter’s plan to publicly reveal him and his brothers’ identities by forcibly rerouting the Turtle Tank’s path of travel out of sight of the crowd Baxter had attracted.
• Mezmer-Ron / Hypno-Potamus: Mikey fooled Hypno into believing he was a fellow hippopotamus being wearing a disguise in «Newsworthy», but he quickly grew wise to his scheme.
• Mrs. Cuddles: Mikey didn’t believe that Mrs. Cuddles was sentient despite Raph’s vehement warnings and was captured by her while skateboarding with Leo, his ceaseless screaming granting her increased power.
• Ghostbear: Mikey attended what would have been Ghostbear’s 200th wresting match victory alongside his brothers in «Shell in a Cell» and assisted Raph and Leo when they were losing the fight against him. Mikey later engaged in a vehicular chase on the Shell Hogs to reclaim his and his brothers’ stolen DVD from Ghostbear in «Late Fee», deceiving him into returning it on-time. His family day-out at a park was ruined by Ghostbear in «Snow Day» and he worked to defeat him alongside the other Mad Dogs.
• Mutant magpie: Mikey and his brothers tried to rescue Donnie from the grasp of a mutant magpie in «Shadow of Evil» and struggled to subdue it, but eventually succeeded by stripping it of its feathers and rendering it unable to fly.
• The Sando Brothers: Mikey sought to defeat the Sando Brothers after him and his brothers discovered they were disrupting a school field trip in «The Evil League of Mutants», but was unable to defeat them. Despite being enemies, he later saved the Sando Brothers in «Man VS. Sewer» from being cooked by Raph in his Savage Raph state.
• Warren Stone: Mikey found the prospect of Warren being a worm with the ability to speak exciting in «Newsworthy», but never remembers who he is.
• The Purple Dragons: Mikey had to fight the Purple Dragons’ rampaging Giant Mech unknowingly piloted by Donnie in «The Purple Game», but was unable to take it down in the end.
• Rupert Swaggart / Meat Sweats: Mikey calls Rupert Swaggart his «personal hero» and used to often watch his cooking show Kondescending Kitchen when he was human. However, he is aware that Meat Sweats was a mean person before his mutation, but watched and loved him anyway for the entertainment and educational value. He was very happy to hang out with him in «Nothing But Truffle», but fell for his deception. Regardless, Meat Sweats and his show are still a powerful source of culinary inspiration to Mikey. Later in «Battle Nexus: New York», Mikey had to compete against Meat Sweats to feed a bicephalic snake Yōkai named Amphisbaena in order to prevent getting eaten by it. He and Meat Sweats were able to win the Battle Nexus match—albeit unconventionally—when Amphisbaena ate its other head in its hunger.
• Huginn & Muninn: Mikey was often in conflict with Huginn and Muninn as henchmen to Draxum as they helped him fulfill his goals.
• Guardsmen: Mikey fought Garm and Freki in aid of Mayhem as they tried to capture him in «Mystic Mayhem». He later worked with Raph to successfully defeat them when they attempted to take Draxum into their custody in service of the Council of Heads in «Repairin’ the Baron».
• The Makers of Brutality: Mikey waited the Makers of Brutality’s table for them as a favor for Hueso.
  • Boss Beverly: Mikey served Beverly and her members at Run of the Mill Pizza and when she became hostile towards him, Leo, and Hueso, defeated her using the swarm of unicorns she gave him in payment of his quality waiting service.
• Scor-Pion: When Marcus Moncrief and Raph were threatened by Scor-Pion, Mikey staunchly deactivated his explosives and eventually caused him to flee the fight.
• Harold / Stinkbomb: Mikey met Stinkbomb when he and his brothers broke into a New York botanical garden for fun in «How to Make Enemies and Bend People to Your Will». Mikey was seemingly unable to defeat him, overwhelmed by his noxious spit, and considers Stinkbomb to be simultaneously his «favorite and least favorite mutant».
• Tim Dunkman: Mikey defeated Tim in a basketball game in «Air Turtle» to revert him and the rest of his team back to their human forms after they were turned into demons by the Arch of Aquinnah.
• Alex Noe: Mikey snuck into Alex Noe’s camp when he and his Tooth Fairies abducted Todd in «Todd Scouts». As he fled his camp accompanied by Todd, Mikey was pursued by them and was struck with their numbing darts.
• Sloppy Joseph: Mikey assisted April in an effort to capture Sloppy Joseph when he was loose in April’s high school during Draxum’s career evaluation in «Mystery Meat». However, Mikey was unable to subdue him as Sloppy Joseph’s body rapidly grew in size and he was eventually swallowed by him, but was rescued by Draxum along with the other devoured victims.
• Amphisbaena: Mikey was assigned the left head of Amphisbaena as a Battle Nexus Wizbang opponent in «Battle Nexus: New York» and was tasked to cook meals to feed it before it lost its patience and ate him instead. He managed to make one meal for it, but Amphisbaena’s right head ate Mikey’s meal before the left head had a chance to.

Quotes

• «They look exactly the same! And they don’t look like either of those things!» («Mystic Mayhem»)
• «Man. This seemed like a really good idea until we didn’t succeed at it.» («Origami Tsunami»)
• «Roger, skipper.» («Bug Busters»)
• «So you’re saying that not only did you destroy everything I love in the world, but you didn’t even have the common courtesy to know you were doing it?!» («Pizza Pit»)
• «It’s just a—um, uh, pushy clerk trying to sell me the extended warranty. Heh. I’m not interested!» («Hot Soup: The Game»)
• «Why am I the pawn?» («Mind Meld»)
• «No, I’m pretty sure you’re a woodchuck.» («Nothing But Truffle»)
• «I must remember how much I hate those guys like twenty times a day.» («Sparring Partner»)
• «Dear me, Armbruster, I just found money in my pocket! Remind me burn this when we get back to the slag lake at Martha’s Scrapyard.» («One Man’s Junk»)
• «Not the dancing, anything, but the dancing.» («Air Turtle»)
• «Well, I reckon ya did. Shmoo, shmoo.» («Bad Hair Day»)

Trivia

• Among the TV series incarnations, this version of Mikey is the least goofy and more serious than previous incarnations of himself.
• While Mikey is specifically an ornate box turtle, box turtles in general possess a hinged shell capable of fully closing using their plastron. This offers higher defense compared to turtle species without hinged shells.^[3] This real-life adaptation may be part of the reason why Mikey retreats into his shell far more frequently than his brothers.
• Mikey calls the color orange his «life color» in «Donnie’s Gifts».
• This version of Mikey is the second Turtle in TMNT to be designed with a tooth gap.
  • The first Turtle to be given this feature is Donatello from the 2012 TV series.
• This is not the first incarnation of Mikey to wield a kusari-fundō in TMNT as in the original Mirage continuity story, «The Passing», his training weapon was also a kusari-fundō.
• Mikey is revealed to have a close relationship with Leo who takes him under his wing.
• Mikey’s voice actor Brandon Mychal Smith stated in an interview that Mikey likes extreme sports.
• According to the writers, Mikey is the sweet and loving Turtle of the team.
• Despite being referred to as a kusari-fundō in the official character releases, Mikey’s mystic weapon more closely resembles a chigiriki.
• One of Mikey’s catchphrases is «Omigosh».
• Mikey’s favorite music genre are boy bands («Al Be Back»).^[4][5]
• In real-life, Mikey’s species of turtle is terrestrial, unlike his brothers who are all aquatic turtle species.^[6]
• Mikey’s gamer tag is «Flavortown» as seen in «Smart Lair».
• In «Bug Busters» Mikey mentions that he has taken a rodeo clown class.
• Both Leo and Mikey sport a stylized square-shaped pattern on their carapaces, Leo having three and Mikey having two.
• Mikey is interested in horoscopes as he mentions the predictions he got for the day in «Late Fee».
• It was revealed in February 2020 from Rise of the TMNT writer Russ Carney in a Tweet that, «Two characters we looked at when thinking about the direction #rottmnt’s Mikey and Donnie should go, were Troy and Abed from Community.».^[7][8]
• Mikey exclusively chooses «scissors» when playing Rock, Paper, Scissors («The Ancient Art of Ninja Hide and Seek»).
• Ron Corcillo confirmed that Mikey has ADHD (ADD). ^[9]

Gallery

• Michelangelo (Rise of the TMNT)/Gallery
• Michelangelo (Rise of the TMNT)/Animations
• Michelangelo (Rise of the TMNT)/Appearances

References