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
In this series, Raphael has the same personality and short temper that he is known for. "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 slow-witted-ness. His relationship with Leonardo does not involve a lot of fighting but trust and care. With Michelangelo he insults him but he cares this is shown when in "New Friend, Old Enemy" he comforts him when he feels down by telling him that he is an awesome guy. His relationship with Donatello involves threats, glares, hitting, insulting, and bullying. Like in "I, Monster", where he throws a rat at him to get him to stop talking. Donatello cares for Raph, for instance having a hard time insulting him in "Turtle Temper", and trying to give him a hand when he his later in the van with the Kraang. 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 during major points of his life. Some of the time, he slaps or threatens to slap his brothers (sometimes for their own good). He is also very sarcastic, often joking around whenever Donnie or Mikey say anything stupid.

Biography
During the first portion of the first episode, "Rise of the Turtles, Part 1", he is seen in one of his training fights with Donnie, it was shown that he has exceptional agility, able to dodge all of Donatello's Bo Staff strikes, before snatching and breaking it and beating on him until he's down, He then fought Leo, (who beat Mikey in a fight before) and then won the training tournament by throwing Leo with his Sai. However, when Splinter congratulated them, Raph bragged about his win, which caused Splinter to hit a pressure point on his neck and forced him to compliment his brothers. The turtles are later seen eating a dish Mikey prepared called "Algae and Worms." After the meal Splinter relays the story of how they were transformed (which is fairly different from the other origin stories told in the other series). 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 agonist 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. Splinter agrees after some begging to let the turtles go to the surface. It is here that Raphael scares a Pizza delivery guy, who speeds away on his motorcycle.

Raphael's character design was updated, giving him green eyes as well as a small, lightning shaped chip cut out of his plastron across his left shoulder. His shell shows distinct battle damage, and the tails of his mask are tattered and worn. On the new ninjaturtles.com, Raphael says that he usually uses his sai as a pair of pizza forks.

Quotes
"You better hand over the phone, or so be it, I'll kick your hairy butt all the way to New Jersey!"- Turtle Tumper.

"That wasn't very silent, Leo!"- I Think His Name Is Baxter Stockman.

"We're not Kung Fu frogs, We're Ninja Turtles!"-Turtle Temper

"All right! An all you can beat buffet!"- Rise Of  The Turtles Part 2.

"You know what else is an option? Slapping you!"-MetalHead

"And the award for worst leader goes to Leo."-New Girl In Town.

"It makes things go boom."- Baxter's Gambit.

"I said I'm SOOORRRRYYY"- New Girl In Town.

Raphael: "I can't believe I'm going to say this...(imitates character from Space Heroes)Get it together captain, your our leader, so act like one!"

Leonardo: "Your right, Raph, that was the anxiety ray talking."

Raphael: "What, that's it? Your not gonna slap yourself?"-Panic in the Sewers

"Cockroach? Why did it have to be a cockroach?"-Twice in Cockroach Teminator

Trivia

 * Raphael's name is Hebrew, meaning "God has Healed".
 * In Katakana, Raphael's name is spelt: ラファエル (Rafaeru).
 * Raphael is the second oldest of his brothers; Leonardo, Donatello & Michelangelo.
 * Raph is the only turtle in this series to have green eyes.
 * Raph has a bolt-shaped gap at the upper, left side of his plastron.
 * Raphael is often called "meat-head" by Donatello.
 * Raph (irrationally) has a phobia of cockroaches and is terrified of Donatello's pet SpyRoach.
 * 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.
 * Raph's the third tallest/second shortest of the turtles.
 * He has extra wraps under his leg pads.

Gallery
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