Raphael (2012 TV series)

Raphael is the "hot-headed muscle" of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He often lets his impulsiveness get in the way instead of using rational thinking. He has a soft-side. His weapon of choice is, like in every other variation, twin Sai. He is voiced by Sean Astin.

Personality
"Raph" is tough, fearless and a brawler. Quick-to-act and hot-tempered, he prefers to hit first and ask questions later. While he loves his brothers fiercely, he is the first to give them a hard time, and he is constantly questioning Leonardo's leadership, Donatello's intelligence and Michelangelo's sanity. In the prequel comic, Splinter describes Raph as his second and strongest son, but laments the fact that he often to acts before he thinks. In other words, while in all previous installments Raph was merely hot-headed and needed to be active, 2012 Raph is an all-out bully hero, though while he always gives his brothers a hard time, he wants nothing to happen to them. Ironically, Raph also has a pet turtle named Spike, which he pampers and secretly confides in.

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

 * Raph has a bolt-shaped gap at the upper, left side of his plastron.
 * He can easily be compared to Knuckles the Echidna from the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
 * Raphael is often called "meat-head" by Donatello.
 * Raph (irrationally) has a fear of insects and is terrified of Donatello's pet cockroach Chong.
 * Raphael has a pet turtle named Spike.
 * A running gag is that he often likes to attack or hit his brothers whenever he is annoyed or angry with them (especially Michelangelo) or simply to dull boredom.
 * He is easlily insulted.
 * He is shown to care a lot about his youngest brother Michelangelo as he didn't know what to do anymore when he got hurt. But he also cares about his other brothers as he said: "I don't care risking my own life, but my brothers..."
 * It is seen in The New Girl in Town Raph gets under so much pressure being the leader for a short time he froze up with antixity.
 * He's the third turtle to use Mikey's catchphrase " Booyakasha!" As seen in New Girl in Town, which is proof not only that he cares about Mikey, but that Mikey has had an influence on him after all.
 * Raphael is the second oldest of the turtles.
 * Raph is the only turtle in this series to have green eyes