Donnie

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1 pair of headphones
1 pair of glasses
1 Naginata
1 Sansetsukon
1 Shuriken
1 pizza slice
1 Ooze canister
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DONNIE IS DEVASTATINGLY SMART...

And not afraid to let you know it. His intellectual self-assuredness may come across as arrogance. But it's just that his brain is thinking so many steps ahead that he's paralyzed with indecision.

## Official Description

*"Hey. Donnie here. I'm the brains of this operation. I invent gadgets, weapons and awesome vehicles to keep me and my brothers safe. The only thing I can't figure out is to get our friend April to notice me. Can someone PLEASE help me on how to make April to notice me?!?"*

**-** **Donnie**

## Description

Donatello is the team inventor and weaponeer. He creates all their gadgets from the simplest bo-staff to their incredible vehicles. He's utterly brilliant, able to cobble together fantastic stuff from things he's literally scrounged from a trash heap. He's obsessively detail-oriented and often impatient that his brothers can't keep up with him intellectually. But Donnie also happens to be the most reclusive and socially awkward of the Turtles - especially when April is on her way!

## History

Donatello and his brothers were ordinary turtles; when they were infants, they were adopted from a pet store by a young girl. When the girl tripped and the fish bowl they were in cracked open as they all fell in the storm drain. When Splinter, a rat, was rummaging in the sewers for food he found the four baby turtles in a pizza box swimming in mutagen. Even at the beginning Donatello showed great intelligence, being the only one in the box to inspect the mutagen, rather than swim in it.

## Appearance

Donnie is a mutated turtle with greenish brown skin. Unlike all his previous incarnations, Donnie has a snaggletooth. Like most incarnations, he wears a purple mask. Unlike previous incarnations, instead of being the tallest and second youngest, he's the shortest and youngest. He is good with machines and has a talent for making new technology for his brothers. But there's one thing he hasn't gotten right... getting April to notice him.

## Personality

Donnie is prone to recklessness, reveling in dangerous activities such as when he tests the Pizzafire Van’s taxi rocket and enjoys the experience despite having no control of the vehicle and traveling hundreds of feet into the air. He also has a violent streak, as Donnie regularly attempts to physically attack others with little hesitance and can be wild, typically acting more like a deranged scientist than a heedful man of knowledge.

Donnie loves the dramatic as much as he himself is dramatic, at times erupting into song, generally talking in a grandiose manner about himself and events, and prone to being extravagant with his plans, such as when he asks for uranium for his inventions.

While Donnie perceives himself as being emotionless, he is actually quite passionate as well as being easily irritated, especially when others don’t listen and/or appreciate his intelligence. He can be excitable, sometimes the point of distraction such as when sees Atomic Lass in Times Square and loses focus on the mission.

Donnie can be argumentative, contradicting others' viewpoints with his own and insistently trying to convince others that he is correct. He is especially committed to his opinions on science. This is derived from Donnie’s cocky nature. He has a great amount of confidence in himself and his skills and enjoys reinforcing others’ faith in him as well, leading him to show off and consequently panic if things go awry.

## Powers and Abilities

### Mutant Soft-shell Turtle Physiology

Donatello has mutated Soft-shell turtle Physiology, Giving him athletic abilities beyond even the most dedicated training as well as all of the abilities of a turtle but to a heightened mutated level. Donnie still has some kind of durability enhancement  like his brothers, despite being a soft shell turtle.

* **Varied weapon proficiency:** Donnie is proficient with many types of weapons, including blades, rockets, hammers, and drills, all of which are produced by his bō.
	+ **Bōjitsu:** Donnie has been trained in wielding a bō staff, and is highly proficient with it
* **Genius intellect:** Donnie is the team's resident tech-head, and his intelligence allows him to understand and apply whatever he studies with a high level of proficiency. Donnie’s knowledge spans a vast array of disciplines including, but not limited to: chemistry, literature, cryptology, physics, engineering, biology, mathematics, and to a lesser extent, mystic properties.
	+ **Engineering:** Donnie is a whiz when it comes to making things. He can create high-tech weaponry, gear and tools at an astounding rate. He is also shown to be good at sculpting, much like his historical namesake.
	+ **Enhanced Memory:** Donnie was shown to be able to take information and rewrite it into mental lyrics to help memorize things.
* **Ninjitsu:** Donnie is trained in basic ninjutsu skills, some of which include:
	+ **Stealth**
	+ **Speed**
	+ **Agility**
	+ **Strength**
		- **Hamato Ninpō:** As a member of the Hamato clan, Donnie is able to tap into his clan's energy to unleash his own mystic power.
* **Shell Retraction:** In the episode "Lair Games", it was shown that Donnie can fully retract into his shell. However, being a spiny softshell, only his head should be retractable.
* **Dancing:** Donnie has expressed his love for dancing multiple times throughout the series, one of them being through his online gamer tag and computer password: Bootyyyshaker9000.
* **Singing:** Donnie is also shown to have some musical talent throughout the show.

## Equipment

* **Arm remote:** Donnie connects many of his gadgets, and weapons to his Arm remote which can usually deactivate or activate the intended creation with the push of a button.
* **S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N:** Donnie has a drone "sidekick" named Shelldon.
* **Battle Shells:** Battle shells that he creates originally to aid him in battle because of his species. But he also uses them to pick up objects, play music as well as grant him the ability of flight.
* **Goggles**: has goggles, but doesn’t have a stated use.

## Relationships

* **Raph: Older Brother**
* **Leo: Older Brother**
* **Mikey: Older Brother**
* **Splinter: Master/Father**

* **April: best friend**
* **The Krang: creator**

## Trivia

* Donnie is a Softshell turtle, which means that he may have more sensitive shell than in his brothers, as well as previous incarnations of the character.
* To compensate for his soft shell, he built an entire fleet of Battle Shells.
* He's a little bit more confident than previous incarnations and he knows he's good at what he does.
* Donnie is a huge science fiction fan.
* Donnie has a big love for dancing. Where his computer password (and gamer tag) is Bootyyyshaker9000, implying that he loves to dance.
* Donnie's favorite soda is Grape Crush.

## Quotes

* *"Iiii'm a Genius!"*
* *"Baaaack Off!"*