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. Enthusiastic, positive and adaptable, Mikey is extremely creative and goes with the flow. 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. In the prequel comic, Splinter describes Mikey as his most impulsive son, naturally gifted and having more raw talent than his brothers combined, but he wishes Mikey would focus more on his training. He is shown to be scatterbrained and somewhat dim-witted, sometimes causing problems for the team because of this. Sometimes, one fan might see he can be intelligent sometimes. It is also shown that he is most close to Donatello. And he is highly protected by his brothers.

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.

Quotes
"AHHHH!!! THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!!! RUN!!!"

"BOOYAHKASHA!!!!!"

"Gardening! Oh, yeah! Mikey put the sprinkles on that sundae!"

"We should call him metalhead. Why, you ask? Because it's got a head and its made of-"

"Michalangelo is on the move, I'm over here, now i'm here, I could be Anywhere!"

"I have a low attention spa- OOH, Gum!"

Trivia

 * 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 if one of the sticks of each nunchaku, and extra lengths of chain stored in the other stick of each nunchaku.
 * This new feature acutally makes it's first appearence 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 appearence 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.
 * He is depicted as having blue eyes, like his brother, Leo, but Mikey's eyes are a lighter shade of blue.
 * He is the one who gives the names to the people who has been contaminated with mutagen but also other things like the T-pod. He also gets somewhat irritable when someone else does the nameing of new items & bad guys.
 * Mikey and Beast Boy (from Cartoon Network's Teen Titans) seen 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, they both even have the same skin tone, (which is green), and have similar catchphrases, (Booyah! VS. Booyakasha!)
 * 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 of the floor, or if it came from the trash, (as shown in Panic in the Sewers).