Leo

**Skin Color**
 **Eye Color**
 **Weapons**
3 Kunai
2 Shuriken
1 Tanto Blade
1 Ooze canister
 **Team**
 **Family**
 **Enemies**
 **Age**
 **Voiced by**

Leo's THE LEADER!

Well, he wants to be. He dreams of leading his brothers to become an unstoppable crime-fighting team. So what is no one takes him seriously?

## Appearance

Leonardo is a mutant red-eared slider with lime green skin, a mustard yellow plastron, and a green-blue carapace with a teal pattern. He has two red crescent-like stripes over his eyes, yellow stripes on his upper arms and thighs, black eyes, three fingers on each hand, and two toes on each foot. He wears a blue bandana with long bandana tails, grey fingerless gloves with blue trim that extend nearly to his elbows, and matching knee-high socks. He also wears a blue belt with a strap that goes over his right shoulder. Attached to his belt are a pair of blue pouches (one on the side and one on the back) and the Turtle emblem placed on the left.

## Personality

Leo is cheerful, prone to making jokes—sometimes at inappropriate times—and uttering quips he believes "fire up the team". His persistently carefree nature causes him to possess an airy quality and he enjoys spontaneity. It's also said in the first episode of the series that humor is how he manages to cope.

Leo has confidence that usually turns into arrogance and his brothers are often annoyed by his lack of humility, making him difficult to play games with such.

Leo is known to be a compulsive liar. He doesn't like being in trouble so he makes his brothers promise not to tell Splinter about Piebald’s fate, even willing to hurt Michelangelo if he tries to tell the truth to Splinter. Leo can be disingenuous as it is not unusual for his charisma to take the form of false flattery just to get into someone’s good graces. His family is aware of this and as such occasionally disbelieves Leo’s compliments.

Leo often prioritizes his own entertainment over disrupting the plans of villains as seen in his interactions with Rocksteady. Among Team Turtles, he isn’t the most altruistic and can be reluctant to help strangers, especially if he knows no gratitude will be shown towards him or his family such when Leo expressed he doesn’t find doing kind acts for the citizens of New York to be worth the hassle or when he doesn’t combat the evil Albeartos due to them terrorizing Albearto Land attendees, but because they are ruining him and his brothers’ band debut.

Leo tends to be lazy and would rather play games and values downtime. Consequently, he highly values convenience, suggesting that instead of focusing on their training they should acquire more powerful weapons. However, because of this Leo can be clever, finding quick, unconventional ways to solve problems, but this can also be detrimental as he can adopt or encourage dangerous or unhelpful manners of problem-solving such as where he is nonchalant about turning the Daves into demons in order to initiate a winning streak for them.

Though sometimes clever in a pinch, Leo isn’t very bright nor interested when it comes to academic disciplines and rarely reads educational content.

While Leo has merit, his utilization of his skills often needs to be spurred by a dire situation or a lack of options as opposed to Leo trying his best when he can. When he does decide to be serious and sensible, he uses his charisma and relaxed, flexible nature to sway his brothers into listening to him.

Leo is irresponsible and known to be generally unreliable among his family due to how flippant he can be even in grave situations and finds it very difficult to take responsibility for his actions while also being boastful about his positive or impressive actions. Although he has been shown to try to reconcile his mistakes and be sympathetic towards others’ plights.

Leo demonstrates forte in analytical thinking, able to plan several steps ahead of Big Mama, but he can be so determined to successfully execute his plans while also having glory that he uses his allies instead of working with them and is comfortable misleading his allies and opponents alike to his achieve goals.

## Biography

Leonardo is intelligent, quick-witted and clever. He can easily assess any situation and use his sharp skills to best his opponent, find a shortcut around an obstacle or spot the perfect time to land one of his many one-liners. Leo likes to think of himself as the "cool guy" on the team - a rascal with a wink in his eye and a sly grin. He's got a rebel's heart and isn't afraid to break the rules when he thinks he's right. He could be a strong leader, but he'd rather go for the hi-jinx than the high road.

## History

Leonardo was a pet turtle along with three others who had been bought by a girl, but the girl tripped and the four turtles fell into a sewer drain. At the time, Splinter, the pet rat of ninja master Lou Jitsu, was rummaging for food in the sewers when he found those turtles and they were splashed with ooze. Over time, the turtles and Splinter built the sewers into their home.

### Turtle Tots

Leo was once a toddler mutant turtle who trained with a bokken. He trained along with his brothers against a punching bag. Their soul mission was to destroy the evil villain known as the Punching Bag of Doom.

## Quotes

* *"Cowwwwabunga!"*
* *"Keeeeya!"*