Michelangelo (2012)

Michelangelo is one of the four main members of the Ninja Turtles team.

## Appearance

Mikey is a light green Mutant ninja turtle.

Unlike all of his previous incarnations, Mikey has freckles.

Just like his previous incarnations, however, he wears an orange mask, though like his 1987 incarnation, the tails of his mask are shorter.

Mikey is shorter than his brothers and is considerably shorter than Donatello.

Mikey also seems to be a little pudgier than his brothers.

The animators gave Mikey baby blue eyes to make him look slightly more 'innocent'.

However, like all of the Turtles when they're in combat, the pupils and irises vanish from his eyes, leaving him with empty, white eyes, which are similar to that of the 2003 incarnations.

## Personality

Mikey is the baby of the family.

He is the smallest, and least mature of his turtle brothers.

However, it was confirmed that his maturity slowly increases as the episodes go on.

He is labeled as "The Wild One" and "The Party Dude" as he is the most "fun" out of all the turtles.

He is also very social and wants the outside world (humans) to accept him and his brothers.

He seems to have ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), so overall, he's very impulsive and he can be very excited in certain situations.

In battle, his weapon of choice is a pair of nunchakus.

Mikey might seem unintelligent due to him not thinking things through, but he is actually incredibly smart in his own way.

He is very creative and loves to use his imagination a lot.

He loves to dress up.

He would wear unique creative costumes like “Savage Mikey” for instance.

In addition, he has a high EQ (emotional intelligence quotient).

He loves pop culture and readily accepts opportunities to widen his social group.

He is enthusiastic, silly, social, positive and adaptable.

This is how he expresses himself.

He is proud that he could come up with creative ways to name things. He loves to cook.

He is always openly playful, affectionate and has an honest heart and would accept outsiders like Leatherhead.

While not very bright or book-smart, he can surprise others with his intuition, his keen sense of heart, and his quick reflexes even in the absence of conscious thought.

Mikey is prone to being silly rather than focusing on his training.

However, he is still an impressive fighter.

His natural affinity for the martial arts is present with his ability to learn moves after seeing it only a few times.

He also has the ability to fight without "thinking (logically)", once deflecting Splinter's blows while listening to music with his eyes closed, which was something that Donatello had to learn (Although he was unable to do this when directly asked to fight without thinking in their first fight with the telepathic Victor Falco).

Mikey is very cute and innocent.

However, he is sneaky, mischievous, and scatter-brained, which sometimes causes trouble for the team.

He would sometimes not be considerate as he tends to playfully mock his brothers, especially his second-oldest brother, Raphael, and use the latter's fear of cockroaches against him to try and get permission to read his comics.

He also doesn't always respect personal space as shown when he pokes Raphael during a mission.

His pranks may be annoying but he is not as rude as Donnie and especially Raph.

When his big brothers get annoyed with Mikey‘s antics, they would often get physical with Mikey (mostly from Raph, but Leo and especially Donnie would usually attack him verbally).

Raph and Donnie would be the ones who lash out at Mikey the most.

Although Mikey’s brothers find his idiocy annoying, Mikey surprises them with his good ideas.

Mikey loves to name stuff but someone else names something before he could, he would get very upset about it.

Mikey may have a tendency to make a lot of mistakes, but all of his brothers care very deeply for him.

They all show great distress when he gets hurt or is in trouble, and anger at the one who threatens him, i.e. when Baxter Stockman is throwing Mikey around he is in his more advanced armor.

More often than not, Raphael is the one to shout Mikey's name first and attack whoever has harmed his baby brother, and was distraught when Mikey was injured during his (Raphael's) brief period as leader of the team.

In general, Michelangelo prefers not to be alone, always wanting to hang out with someone else ("Meet Mondo Gecko").

If he does, it's usually because he's upset with his brothers, as seen in "The Croaking" when he runs away from the farmhouse and into the forest once Leonardo and Raphael are done yelling at him.

Whenever Mikey's all by himself, he feels a little depressed.

He also secretly fears being rejected by his own family and friends ("New Friend, Old Enemy").

However, Michelangelo is not above snapping at others if he feels they're acting like jerks.

This happens often whenever his brothers and/or friends refuse to take him seriously ("Mikey Gets Shellacne"; "Buried Secrets"; etc).

Therefore, he goes to drastic measures in order to prove his point (i.e. fighting the bad guys alone).

He also calls them out for hurting each others' feelings or other people's feelings (e.g. "Newtralized!"; "A Foot Too Big"; etc).

## Skills & Abilities

Michelangelo is considered the most acrobatic and talented of his brothers. His nunchakus match his flexible abilities when it comes to battle. While he's not as disciplined as Leonardo, rebellious as Raphael, or as smart like Donatello, Mikey's raw talent, agility, and sheer unpredictability make up for it.

* **Mutant Physiology:** As a mutant, the Mutagen Ooze heightened Michelangelo's physical attributes to considerable extraordinary levels. He possesses strength, speed, reflexes, agility, endurance, recovery speed, and stamina much greater than even the finest human specimen athlete. His mutant abilities has been listed as shown below:
	+ **Enhanced** **Strength:** Michelangelo's strength is enhanced to levels that are superior to any Olympic-level weightlifter. In Turtle Temper, He was able to effortlessly lift and throw barrels over his head at Spider Bytez. He was also strong enough to kick back Rahzar during the fight at the Auman Chemicals factory. Mikey was also strong enough to lift a mailbox from the sidewalk and throw it at Traag. His ninja training with Master Splinter has helped to improve and condition his strength. In The Pulverizer Returns!, Michelangelo overpowered the Foot Clan humans with no difficulty.
	+ **Enhanced Speed:** Michelangelo is able to move at great speed, able to free run on rooftops without losing momentum. He can also spin his nunchaku at incredible speed to add momentum to his strikes. Mikey can run much faster than an Olympic-class runner.
	+ **Enhanced Reflexes:** Michelangelo possesses great reaction speed, allowing him to dodge projectiles such as lasers from the Kraang's blasters, and enemy attacks. In Rise of the Turtles, Michelangelo along with his brothers quickly dodge the laser gunfire from Snake at close-range.
	+ **Enhanced Agility:** Michelangelo can coordinate his bodily to levels that are beyond then the finest human athlete. In New Friend, Old Enemy, he has shown to do acrobatic flips from one building to another building at a further distance.
	+ **Enhanced** **Balance:** Mikey's skills as a skateboarder and a ninja give him a great ability with extraordinary balance.
	+ **Enhanced Healing:** Like his brothers, Michelangelo can heal faster than normal humans. In Slash and Destroy, he fully healed from all of his bruises and injuries after getting beaten up by Slash in short amount of time.
	+ **Enhanced Endurance:** Michelangelo is resilient to great amount of injuries. In Metalhead (episode), he was able to withstand the impact after falling from several stories of a building without any sign of discomfort and injury.
	+ **Enhanced Stamina:** Michelangelo has extraordinary stamina and is the most energetic of his older brothers combined.
* **Potential:** Splinter considers Michelangelo the one with the most potential of all of his three brothers combined, particularly complimenting his ability to fight without thinking (Although he cannot do this when actually *asked* to do so, panicking when Donatello asked him to confront the telepathic Dr. Victor Falco). His potential also translates to his intelligence. This is shown whenever he is in Dimension X. There, Mikey is shown to know how the dimension works, what its creature's are, and how to handle Kraang technology in the dimension.
* **Unpredictability:** Mikey has shown many times to be completely unpredictable.
* **Ninjutsu:** Mikey is the most agile of all his brothers; his training as a ninja helped to balance and improve this, but his skills in skateboarding and dancing also gives Mikey an edge that will often shock his brothers. Mikey is an extremely good fighter. He's got a great knowledge with ninjutsu, which is why he is a good fighter. He may have the most raw talent of the four, but he does not seem to have the skill or the inclination to develop it. In Rise of the Turtles, Michelangelo was able to hold his own against his oldest brother, Leonardo, though Leonardo later gets the upper hand. In New Friend, Old Enemy, He also defeated Chris Bradford on his own in hand-to-hand combat.
* **Pranks:** He refers to himself as Dr. Prankenstein. Since he the funniest of his brothers and he hasn't shown to be wrong since he was able to show his pranking skills against his brothers like water balloons as he wants to prank them all and he was able to use his prank of water balloons to use against the tank of the truck.
* **Teaching:** Despite of Michelangelo's immatureness, he is a skilled teacher. He has shown Napoleon the right way of Ninjutsu correctly as he was shown great success as he may not be the great Ninja turtle for thinking of correctly of logic from his brothers but he proven to teach others to fight well. In Wanted: Bebop & Rocksteady, Michelangelo has also shown his 1987 counterpart the better way of fighting in armed combat.
* **Cooking Skills:**  He shows to to love cooking for his family even though his brothers don't think his tastes great but to Mikey it does. Leatherhead seems to love his cooking skills. (Probably because he has never eaten anything delicious) In Mikey Gets Shellacne, it is revealed that he's usually the one who makes breakfast and that the others are a real hazard in the kitchen when they have to do so. Revealing that Mikey DOES know what the others like and how to give that to them.
* **Shadow Puppet Skills:** He able to make different shadows out of his hands very well to be appear realistic of different objects. He used this to deceive the Kraang, Fishface, and Rahzar.
* **Intelligence and Communication:** Mikey is actually really smart, though he doesn't act like it. He has an extremely high EQ (emotional intelligence) and creativity, as he has shown to be excellent naming creatures if their appearance, abilities, or powers. Just like any other creature mutated of humanoids, he's able to speak human languages (English). He also uses his comic intelligence to defeat the mutation Squirrels and true genius in Dimension X. He is typically smarter than his brothers believe him to be, for he is capable of creating antidotes and retro-mutagen from random ingredients, though his brothers continue to doubt his intelligence for obvious reasons for example when Mikey sprinkled botched retro-mutagen onto his skin when Donnie had clearly labeled it as being dangerous. He actually pays close attention to Donnie's experiments, despite his inattentiveness at times.
* **Creativity:** Michelangelo has to be quite creative both in and out of combat. This mostly when he comes up with the names for most of the villains or allies. He also experiments with lots of ingredients in the kitchen while he's cooking.
* **Emotional Intuition:** As shown in Buried Secrets and Clash of the Mutanimals, Mikey has a strong intuitive sense for when other people are "off". He can also sense whenever his brothers and friends are sad, and tries cheering them up.
* **Okinawan** **Kobudō (Nunchaku):** Michelangelo was trained by Splinter in the art of the nunchaku. Aside from using them to wrap around an opponent's joints and weapons to disarm, Mikey swings and strikes with them in the manner akin to flails. Given Mikey's unpredictable nature, his able to make extensive use of his nunchucks in rather uncommon but effective ways in a fight as well as mix his attacks with the capoeira fighting style.
* **Kusarigamajutsu:** Mikey's ability with the nunchaku also translates to his use of the kusarigama. His nunchucks both possess a retractable blade at the end them and can also extend in chain length. With it, Michelangelo possesses an even greater range of attack than with his regular nunchucks, able to swing it overhead and strike with the bladed end, or entangle his enemies with chain and swing them around.
* **Kama Proficiency:** In Vision Quest, when the Turtles were preparing to venture into the spirit plane, Mikey forged himself a pair of kama to use in battle.
* **Tonfa Proficiency:** While traveling in space to fight the Triceratons, the Fugitoid invented a pair of laser tonfa for Michelangelo to fight with.
* **Kyūjutsu:** Michelangelo also possesses aptitude in archery and uses a yumi and arrow to fight long-ranged.
* **Shurikenjutsu:** Michelangelo can throw shuriken with remarkable accuracy.
* **Weaponry:** In The Pulverizer Returns!, Michelangelo learned to adapt his surroundings and shown to use other non-weapons, such as chains to fight the Foot Clan.
* **Stealth:** Being taught by Splinter, Michelangelo, as well as his brothers, are able to be one with darkness and hide and move within the shadows without being noticed. Mikey has the ability to move in the shadows, like his brothers. He is also very stealthy, but does not enjoy when stealth is used on him.
* **Teasing:** As a grand prankster, Mikey is great at teasing his opponents. While others may not see this as a skill, his teasing has shown to be skilled enough to make his opponents lose control of themselves and attack senselessly, making their attacks become sloppy and ineffective, which makes it easier for him to take them down.

## Family

* Luna Ordeis/Tang Shen (Adopted Mother)
* Hamato Yoshi/Master Splinter (Adopted Father)
* Leonardo (Brother)
* Raphael (Brother)
* Donatello (Brother)
* Karai (Sister)
* Adam Ordeis (Brother)