Donatello (2012 TV series)

Donatello is the brains of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He is in charge of the design and manufacture of all the tools and weapons in their arsenal. He fights with a bō, which converts to a naginata.

He is voiced by Rob Paulsen.

Personality
"Donnie" is extremely intelligent and technical, always working on a strategy whether building machines or battling villains; the complete opposite to the free-flowing Mikey. He talks a lot in order to describe or explain a situation or theory in full, even when in the face of danger. He is very protective and complimentary of April, whom he has a huge crush on.

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

Trivia

 * Donatello has a crush on April O'Neil.


 * Donatello is the tallest in the group, presumably at five feet, if this [[Leatherhead (2012 TV series)|Leatherhead] scale refers to the Turtles' maximum height.]
 * Donatello has Diastema, (a gap between his front teeth).
 * Donatello is an expert in fields of metallurgy.
 * Rob Paulsen, Donatello's VA, voiced Raphael in the 1987 TV series.
 * It is revealed at the New York 2012 Comic Con that Donatello has a pet cockroach named Chong, who will go under two mutations and will become a villain.
 * According to J.R. Ventimilia (executive producer) Donatello is "(...)a little obsessive compulsive, a little high-strung"
 * While Donatello still fights with his weapons of choice, a Wikipedia:Bō|Rokushakubo]], (a Bō staff), in this incarnation his staff be converted into Naginata, (a "pole-blade"), via a retractible blade inside one end of the staff.
 * His eye color tends to shift between red and brown
 * Donnie is the first turtle other than Mikey to use the catchphrase booyakasha