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,he is 15 years old. 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. His brothers are most 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 fastest of his brothers. His nunchakus match his speed like abilities when it comes to battle. While he's not as disciplined as Leo, strong as Raph, or smart as Donnie, Mikey's speed, agillity and unpredictabillity make up for it. Splinter considers Mikey the one with the most potential of his three brothers combined. Like his brothers, Mikey is stealthy, can hide in the shadows, sneak around without being detected, and use '''hand to hand combat. '''He also is very kind and loveing, dramatically more so than his brothers. Because of this, he tends to be the best at making friends and alliances.

Weapons
Mikey uses nunchucks which matches his flow. One of them can convert into a kusarigama which he can use not only for offense in battle, but for defense, and even as a grappling hook.

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 matter (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 hurt Mikey, Raph immediately became angry. It is also shown Mikey cares for Raph. In The Gauntlet, Shredder slammed Raph and caused him to be electricuted. 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")


 * Splinter- Mikey's adoptive 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 freaked out 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 targetted archenemy. Mikey was the first of his brothers to discover these aleins 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 villian 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 archenemies. Thier interaction is shown that much, but is is assumed that Mikey doesn't like him. Mikey dubbs him Fishface after Xever mutates into a fish.


 * 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 presumely stills knows now. After they became nemisis, Bradford mutated into a dog-like creature which Mikey dubs Dogpound. He sees Dogpound as a threat and most likely, Dogpound might despise Mikey out of all his brothers.

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 acutally 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 fidger 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 who has 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).
 * 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 to Donnie destoying 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 revealed that he doesn't know what "Booyakasha!" means, he just likes yelling it becauce 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, means celebration to the hour.
 * Mikey is the only turtle so far other then Leo to be seen watching TV as seen in TCRI (episode).
 * Mikey is now the only turtle who hasn't rode the stealth bike yet.
 * He was the first turtle to show an anime-ish like face.
 * He is the only turtle who hasn't experinced a painful electrical shock.