Elisabetta (2012 TV series)

## Elisabetta

**Elisabetta,** often called **Elisa** or **Betts,** is one of the main protagonists in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 television series. She is the adoptive daughter of Master Splinter/Hamato Yoshi, the adoptive younger sister of Miwa/Karai, the adoptive younger step-sister of Oroku Asami, and the biological sister of Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo. She was also the pet owner of Poppy until she got mutated.

Elisa is known as the joyful and sometimes sarcastic one on the team. Although childish, she is as skillful as her brothers when fighting in a serious brawl. Like her brothers, she loves pizza, video games, comics, and skateboarding. Elisa's main weapon of choice is the twin tessen fans, and her mask, as well as her signature color, is pink. America Ferrera voices her in this series.

## Physical appearance

Elisa is a light green-colored anthropomorphic mutant turtle ninja. Her eyes are light green, but like her brothers, when shown fighting or in stealth mode, they disappear, leaving her eyes white. She wears a pink mask. The tails are braided in the back, resembling a ponytail, making her mask tails the longest out of her brothers.

Due to being a different gender, she is thinner, leaner, more athletic, and slimmer. Her plastron is shaped; at the front, the underside has round protrusions resembling breasts. She is the same height as Raph, making her shorter than Leo and Donnie and taller than Mikey.

## Personality

Elisa is the youngest of the five turtles and has the same personality as her older brother, Mikey. Elisa is bubbly, colorful, imaginative, fun, and innocent, and can make anybody smile. Sometimes, she can be calm and more mature than Mikey, making her think she is the older one between the two. When she wants to, Elisa takes things seriously, more so when she's in a serious brawl.

Elisa loves to hang out and spar with her brothers, but Elisa is closer to Mikey than any of her brothers due to their personalities and being the youngest.

## History

Fifteen years before Rise of the Turtles, Part 1, Elisabetta and her brothers were once ordinary turtles; when they were infants the benevolent Hamato Yoshi purchased the five as pets. When their soon-to-be father walked passed a strange man, he felt something odd about him and followed. Unfortunately, Yoshi gave away his position when he accidentally stepped on a brown rat's tail. The Kraang found him and attempted to kill him, but Yoshi fought back hard.. During the scuffle, the aliens dropped a container of mutagen, Yoshi, having to have stepped on that rat, thus mutated into a humanoid brown rat by the name of "Splinter", while Elisa and her brothers, after having been in contact with Yoshi and the clerk of the pet store where they were bought, mutated into humanoid turtles. Yoshi raised the turtles as his own children and to train them in Ninjutsu.

Splinter knew they would never be accepted in society and with the Kraang hot on his trail, the six of them lived in an abandoned water tower and a warehouse avoiding detection. During all of these trials, Splinter and the Turtles bonded and after he noticed the baby turtles trying to copy his Ninjitsu training, Splinter decided that there was an opportunity to turn this new life he was thrust into to his advantage, Taking one of his favorite books about the Renaissance art named them after the Artists he admired the most.

After the last fight against the Kraang in the sewers in Splinter overheard the Kraang talking about how it became impossible for them to track Splinter and the Turtles there, Splinter decided to remain there. Thus making it that Splinter had found the safe environment where he could raise his adopted sons and daughter. Knowing the world would be dangerous and there would be a time where they want to explore the outside world, Splinter started to train the siblings in the art of Ninjitsu. Eventually, Splinter gave Elisa her twin tessens were "beautiful and powerful as her."