In Le Tartarughe Ninja, Raffaello is a mutant turtle, and one of the four ninja sons adopted and trained by Hamato Joshi (a.k.a. Splinter), along with his brothers Leonardo, Donatello and Michelangelo.
History[]
After Leonardo rescues April O'Neil from the Piede Ninjia, he takes her back to the lair. April wakes up startled to find she's in the company of mutant turtles and a mutant rat. To ease her mind, Splinter offers to tell her of their back story; he was once a human man, Hamato Joshi, who lived in the sewer with four baby turtles that he believes a child had lost. One day, a canister of a strange substance began to hyper-evolve the turtles, changing them into anthropomorphs. Joshi himself was turned into a rat-man, as before he found the turtles in their predicament, he had been caring for sewer rats. Joshi, a ninja from Japan, raised these Turtles, one of whom he named Raffaello, as his sons and students, training them in the martial art of ninjutsu. Arrivano le Tartarughe
History 2000's[]
The Tartarughe stake out Central Park at 2:00 a.m. as they search for the monster that has been terrorizing the area. Each Tartarughe reports to Leonardo on their area they are watching. Michelangelo has to be scolded for goofing around and pretending to be a secret agent and then Leo asks for a report from Raphael, who says his area is quiet. Reminding them all that Master Splinter sent them on this mission, Leo says they won't disappoint him. A woman arrives and tells Leo she's been treating the animal at her laboratory. The monster, a huge gorilla, arrives and knocks Leo down. Raphael delivers a hard kick to the gorilla’s face and says he knows he felt that. Il Mostro Del Central Park