Talk:Michelangelo (IDW)/@comment-995426-20180609121357

It's worth mentioning that Michelangelo may or may not have originally been named Tezuka. It could be a middle name he chose for himself in homage to manga legend Osamu Tezuka, and of course Mikey as a huge manga fan probably knows about him. But Mikey's also the only one of the reincarnated turtles who still speaks Japanese, and it seems entirely possible that Tezuka was his original human name and he merely remembers it. But with or without Tezuka as a middle name, it's still entirely logical to call himself Michelangelo Hamato, as Hamato was his father's surname and they still identify as Clan Hamato.