Michelangelo (2012 TV series)

Michelangelo or Mikey is the "wild one" of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, (though, as the presumed youngest, he would be more accurately described as the 'eternal child'). Though he possesses a "child-like" innocence, he always brings his best game to a fight. He fights with two nunchaku, which convert into kusarigama.

He is voiced by Greg Cipes.

Personality
Mikey is the youngest, shortest, and least mature of his brothers, and he is 15 years old. Enthusiastic, positive and adaptable, Mikey is extremely creative and goes with the flow. He loves to joke and pull pranks especially with his brothers (he mostly uses waterballoons). He loves pop culture and yearns to be a part of the real world; he insists that people will accept the turtles as equals, if given the chance. He is shown to be scatterbrained and somewhat dim-witted, often times causing trouble for the team. However, his brothers are often protective of him, especially his second oldest brother, Raphael.

Biography
Fifteen years before the Rise of the Turtles, Part 1, the benevolent Hamato Yoshi purchased the four turtles as pets. Yoshi came into contact with a rat and had to fight against a couple of Kraang. During the scuffle, the aliens dropped a container of mutagen, causing the mutation of Yoshi and the turtles. Yoshi raised the turtles as his own children and continues to train them in ninjutsu.

Abilities
Mikey is considered the most athletic and Talented of his brothers. His nunchakus match his flexable like abilities when it comes to battle. While he's not as disciplined as Leo, strong as Raph, or as smart as Donnie, Mikey's raw talent, agility and unpredictability make up for it. He also shows a lot of endurance. Splinter considers Mikey the one with the most potential to be more skilled then 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 Doctor Victor Falco). Like his brothers, Mikey is stealthy, can hide in the shadows, sneak around without being detected, and use hand to hand combat.

Weapons
During most of the series, Michelangelo wields a pair of Nunchaku which, like his brothers with their chosen weapons, he is highly skilled with. In Pulverizer Returns, Splinter (2012 TV series) says that the boys are getting too reliable on their own weapons are makes them swap. After this process, Mikey is left with Leo's Katanas (which causes him to do an impersonation of his brother and make him believe he is the leader). During a fight, the turtles become uncooperative with their new weapons and swap back. When Splinter finds out, he takes away all of the weapons, stating that anything can be useful. When he and his brothers are trying to save Timothy, Mikey uses a chain and holds and fights with it in a style similar to his Nunchucks. One of his Nunchucks can convert into a Kusarigama. In ,,Turtle Temper" and ,,The Gauntlet" he also used a Yumi bow and like the rest of his brothers wields shurikans.

Family

 * Leonardo - Mikey's oldest brother. He and Leo are the only ones that don't seem to fight that much with each other, but Leo sometimes criticizes his wacky personality and lack of intelligence at times. Mikey also tends to imitate Leo as a leader in a funny way. Mikey doesn't seem to interact with Leo as much as he does with his other brothers: Raphael and Donatello.


 * Raphael - Mikey's second-oldest brother. He gets beaten up by Raph in a playful manner (sometimes violently), but they really do care about each other. Raph is very protective when it comes to Mikey, such as facing his fear when a giant cockroach took Mikey in Cockroach Terminator or in I, Monster, when Splinter hurts Mikey, Raph immediately becomes angry. It is also shown that Mikey cares for Raph. In The Gauntlet, when Shredder electrocuted Raph, Mikey was the one who ran to him to make sure he was okay.


 * Donatello - Mikey's third-oldest brother. He seems to fight with Donnie the most because of their completely opposite personalities, but they do tend to get along while they're fighting the Kraang and the Foot. Also, they seem to be really close as brothers. It is also shown that Donnie is very protective of him. Such as yelling Mikey's name when he gets hurt, or stopping Dogpound from killing him. (Nickname: "B-Team") He is closest to Donatello and they interact the most.


 * Splinter - Mikey's surrogate father. He usually doesn't understand his sensei's advice very well, and doesn't really take it that seriously, but he trains well under Splinter, despite his slight dimwittedness. Out of all the turtles, Mikey interacts with Splinter the least. But, when it comes to his safety, such as his other brothers, Splinter always gets concerned.

Friends / Allies

 * April O'Neil - Mikey's first human friend. He and April don't seem to interact much, but they care about each other as friends.


 * Leatherhead - Mikey's first mutant friend. When they first met, Mikey seems to be the only one who's nice to Leatherhead, but later on Mikey's brothers seem to accept him as well. When Leatherhead goes through the portal with Traag, he is very upset, and misses him a lot. He is the most upset about this, since he and Leatherhead were great friends.


 * Pulverizer - They never really talk.

Enemies

 * Shredder - Mikey's archnemesis. Mikey first met Shredder in "The Gauntlet" and was terrified at first, but he still managed to escape with his life, along with his brothers. He seems to be intimidated and scared by him, presumably more than his brothers. Maybe because during the battle, Shredder caused a part of a sign to fall on Mikey. His brothers immediately got him out.


 * The Kraang - Mikey's targeted archenemy. Mikey was the first of his brothers to discover these aliens with robot bodies and is freaked out by the brain/squid like creatures inside of them. Not much interaction is shown, but it is obvious that he dislikes them.


 * Baxter Stockman - Mikey's nemesis. Mikey accidently gave Baxter Stockman a power-up that made him a villain and an enemy against the turtles. He defeated Baxter by shoving bees in his face, causing Baxter to dislike the turtles. Although further interaction is unknown, he is shown to dislike him. He dubbs him The StockmanPod after Baxter upgraded his armor.


 * Fishface / Xever - One of Mikey's enemies. Thier interaction is shown not much, but it is assumed that Mikey doesn't like him. Mikey dubbs him Fishface after Xever mutates into a fish.


 * Rahzar/Dogpound / Chris Bradford - One of Mikey's archenemies. As a human, Bradford managed to trick Mikey into thinking they were friends. Although Mikey had taken a liking to him, even to the point of nicknaming his 'friend' Rad Brad. Bradford seemed to despise him and only became 'friends' to get information out of him and use him as bait. Bradford teaches Mikey the Death Dragon which Mikey presumably stills knows now. After they became nemesis, Bradford mutated into a dog-like creature which Mikey dubbed Dogpound. He sees Dogpound as a threat and most likely, Dogpound might despise Mikey the most out of all his brothers.
 * Snakeweed - Another of Mikey's enemies. He was the first enemy of the turtles who was named by Mikey.
 * Rat King - He is the first mutant enemy of the turtles who wasn't named by Mikey.
 * Spider Bytez - He is the second mutant enemy of the turtles who was named by Mikey.

Quotes
See: Michelangelo (2012 TV series) / Quotes 

Gallery
See: Michelangelo (2012 TV series) / Gallery

Trivia

 * Michelangelo's name is Italian, meaning "Who is like God, an Angel". Given the fact that he was adopted by Hamato Yoshi/Splinter, Michelangelo's full name would be "Hamato Michelangelo".
 * In Katakana, Michelangelo's name is spelt: ミケランジェロ (Mikeranjero).
 * While Michelangelo still fights with his weapons of choice, a pair of Nunchaku, in this incarnation they can both be converted into Kusarigama, (a "chain-sickle"), via a retractible blade inside of one of the sticks of each nunchaku, and extra lengths of chain stored in the other stick of each nunchaku.
 * This new feature actually makes it's first appearance in Rise of the Turtles, Part 1, when Mikey takes on a lone Kraang and in fear uses the blade of the kusarigama inside one of his nunchaku, slicing open it's face, revealing it to be a robot, (the actual first appearance of Mikey's kusarigama is shown in extended version of Rise of the Turtles, Part 1   during a change-screen, where the Turtles are ready to go up on their first excursion to the surface, as all four turtles are shown with their weapons, Mikey's nunchaku are shown becoming kusarigama.
 * He is the shortest one of the group, as well as the youngest of his brothers; Leonardo, Raphael & Donatello.
 * It has been confirmed that the reason that Mikey is the youngest and shortest of his brothers is because he was confirmed as "The runt of the litter" (shown on the back of his action figure box).
 * He is depicted as having blue eyes, like his brother, Leo, but Mikey's eyes are a lighter shade of blue. He is also shown with freckle-like spots on his cheeks.
 * In this incarnation, Mikey is the one who primarily does the cooking, even after discovering Pizza.
 * He is the one who gives the names to the people that have been contaminated with mutagen, but also other things like the T-pod. He also gets somewhat irritated when someone else does the naming of new items & bad guys.
 * Mikey and Beast Boy (from Cartoon Network's Teen Titans) seem to be similar; same VA [voice actors], they like pizza (more accurately they both like junk food), comic books and video games, they like to make jokes, listening to music and goofing around, and they both even have the same skin tone (which is green), they're both the closest to the smart one of the group(Mikey & Donnie and Beast Boy & Cyborg).
 * He is shown to hate Polka music (see "I Think His Name Is Baxter Stockman").
 * In 'Tales Of The Turtle Lair', Splinter mentions of all four turtles, Michelangelo is the youngest.
 * His catchphrase in this incarnation is "Booyakasha!" (which is an equivalent of the infamous "Cowabunga!").
 * Mikey seems to develop his own unique fighting style, which he calls "hot nunchaku fury" although it's hard to estimate if it's really a fighting style or just a fancy name.
 * Part of his secret kata consists of Kamen Rider V3's henshin pose.
 * He was the first to taste pizza and so far he's the one who likes it the most. He will even eat it off the floor, or if it came from the trash, (as shown in Panic in the Sewers), and he overreacted after Donnie destoyed a slice with Kraang Water(as seen in Karai's Vendetta).
 * In "Never Say Xever", Mikey claims he wants a tattoo. When he shows them the tattoo by sweeping down his hand, the tattoo is the 1987 version of himself.
 * In Enemy of My Enemy, it is revealed that he doesn't know what "Booyakasha" means. He just likes yelling it because he thinks it fun. Donnie said it in Metalhead and Raph said it in New Girl in Town.
 * According to Greg Cipes, Booyakasha means, "Blessing and love to the very moment.". So when Mikey or any of the turtles say it, it means celebration to the hour.
 * He was the first turtle to show an anime-ish like face.
 * This incarnation of Michelangelo has ADD, is confirmed in his bio.
 * He has a proficiency for naming things and pranking.
 * He is the first turtle to talk when his eyes are in stealth mode (I Think His Name is Baxter Stockman).