History

Mirage Comics

In Michaelangelo #1, Mikey is out walking during the Christmas holiday, enjoying the sights and atmosphere. On his travels he finds a stray cat that he picks up and names Klunk.

In The Path, Klunk gets hit by a car and is dying fast. Mikey takes Klunk to a magic man at a dump because he thinks that he can save the kitty’s life. The magic man tells Mikey that the only way to save Klunk’s life is to exchange it for that of another cat. So Mikey finds the nearest stray, drags it to the magic man and tells him to go through with the ritual. As Mike tries to rationalize why Klunk deserves to live and the stray deserves to die, he stumbles and says “nobody loves it”, suddenly realizing that what he’s doing is wrong. Now accepting that he’s powerless to save Klunk’s life, he bids farewell to his little kitty as he dies. Mikey later learns that the stray was actually pregnant with Klunk’s babies and adopts one of them as his new pet.

2003 Series

While enjoying a Christmas eve on the surface, Michelangelo found a stray kitten and named it Klunk. He decided to keep Klunk as a pet. Klunk was caught in a Purple Dragon battle, but escaped unharmed with Mikey.

When the Foot Mystics used their ninja abilities to plague the five members of the TMNT’s minds, they dream’t Klunk drowned whenBishop flooded their lair. Klunk is seen in one episode of BTTS.

Appearances

Klunk made several appearances in other episodes but most of them were cameos. Some of the episodes are listed below. Klunk, along with Serling, does not appear in Turtles Forever.

If you know a episode that Klunk was in that isn’t listed please add it.

1. “The Christmas Aliens”
2. “The Darkness Within”
3. “Reality Check”
4. “The Real World, Part 1″
5. “Bad Day”
6. “Dragons Rising”
7. “Scion of the Shredder”
8. “Prodigal Son”
9. “Identity Crisis”

Mirage Comics

(Baptised name: Maria Isabella Puzorelli) She is the daughter ofAlberto Puzorelli and the woman only known as Gabrielle. Her mother was a waitress at Goathead, Colorado cafe “Graham’s Goodtime Grill”. She was involved with an Italian man named Alberto Puzorelli, with strong connections to the New York mob under mobster Antoine Puzorelli (his father, her grandfather). Not much was known about their relationship, only that he dumped Gabrielle before he died under circumstances unknown, leaving her unknowingly pregnant with Shadow. Gabrielle would soon meet Casey Jones at her cafe. It can be assumed they either had a one-night stand or Gabrielle let him stay at her trailer, in the course of which he discovered her pregnant. Though she expected him to leave her, Casey surprisingly stayed. Overtime, their relationship blossomed into love and soon they were married. But this joy was short lived, as Gabrielle or Gabby (so called by Casey) died giving birth to Shadow (TMNT Vol 1, #58).

With no other family, Casey became Shadow’s legal guardian. Before returning to his mother, Casey scattered Gabby’s ashes over a cliff. After reuniting his mother, he saw April O’Neil (who would quickly become Shadow’s surrogate mother). Developing a relationship with Michelangelo, who was living with them in the apartment complex at that time, Shadow became fond of video games (TMNT Vol. 2, #13). She once told April she wanted a baby brother.

Image Comics

One night when being baby-sat by Michaelangelo, Shadow heard a knock on the door and answered it. Captured by the Foot Clan, she was taken to her paternal grandfather, Antoine Puzorelli. When Raphael learned of Shadow’s abduction he sough council with the Foot, confirming their involvement. He then agreed to kill Antoine Puzorelli for them in exchange for Shadow, a mission he couldn’t complete. Michaelangelo stepped in, disguising himself as a priest in the cathedral where Shadow was to be baptised by Antoine. Only moments after being baptised (making Antoine her godfather), Michaelangelo dropped his disguise and rescued her, taking her to the top of the cathedral and using his shell to make himself appear as part of the gargoyles statues. Shadow was then returned to Casey and April (TMNT Vol. 3, #6 – 8).

Antoine Puzorelli then had his thugs put his apartment on surveillance in an attempt to locate Shadow. When April caught on to this and told Casey, Casey, April, and Shadow went into hiding in the Turtles’ current hideout in the mausoleum of Westwood Cemetery. While Shadow watched, Casey accidentally clubbed Raphael when he returned to the hideout, thinking him an intruder. Shadow, Casey, and April met back up with Leonardo and Michaelangelo when they brought Donatello to their mausoleum hideout, where he was then revived (TMNT Vol. 3, #11, 12 & 15). When Leonardo chooses to give up his artificial, removable hand, Shadow asks if she can keep it. Leonardo gives her permission (TMNT Vol. 3, #23).

Galahad (formerly “Kid Galahad“) is a superhero in the “Big Bang Comics” universe. He was formerly the sidekick to the superhero Knight Watchman, but struck out on his own after Knight Watchman retired.

Galahad’s real name is Jerry Randall, and in his citizen identity, he is a lawyer working under the District Attorney of Midway City. The Knight Watchman, Reid Randall, was his uncle.

Big Bang Comics #10

In the story Galahad, Jerry tracks down the assassin Headhunter, the murderer of Reid, to New York City. He interrupts a man and woman in mid-coitus and begins attacking the man, who he believes is Headhunter, and tells the woman to lock herself safely in the bathroom. During the fight, the woman re-emerges, revealing herself to be Headhunter, and the man who Galahad had mistaken for the assassin is actually the Japanese crime boss Oroku Saki. Saki steps forward in his full Shredder armor and orders his Foot Soldiers to kill the pair.

Galahad and Headhunter call a truce and begin battling the Foot Clan. Galahad fights his way to the Shredder and explains that he’s only after Headhunter. Shredder refuses to give her up, saying they have unfinished business. Galahad then takes three arrows to the back and a bo staff to the head. As Galahad falls face first to the ground, Headhunter berates him for not taking the Shredder down when he had the chance and angrily calls their truce off. As Headhunter escapes, Shredder orders two of his Foot Soldiers to finish off Galahad while the rest go after Headhunter and bring her back alive. The Foot Soldiers decide to do a half-assed job and just dump Galahad’s body into the sewers.

Downstream, a very, very young Michelangelo and Leonardo are fishing. Mikey snags something that turns out to be Galahad. Raphael then shows up. Unimpressed with yet another dead body in the sewers, the three Turtles fish him out and argue over who he might’ve been. As Leo attempts to remove Galahad’s mask, the superhero comes to life and grabs Leo’s hand. Raph is about to beat him with his stick when Splinter intervenes. Splinter and the Turtles then aid the injured and confused Galahad back to their lair.

Reviving Galahad with some herbal tea, Galahad reveals that his body armor stopped all but one of the arrows. Leo identifies them of ninja design and then all four Turtles begin fighting over it. Galahad explains to Splinter that he had a run-in with the Foot but then finally breaks down and has to inquire just what the Hell is up with all the talking animals. Splinter tells his origin to Galahad: Hamato Yoshi, the Foot Clan, Oroku Saki, the ooze, you know the drill. Galahad is surprised to hear the name Hamato Yoshi, as his mentor had trained under him as well. Splinter than leads him to just below a shoe store that’s secretly operated by the Foot and bids him good luck on his confrontation with the Shredder. Galahad thanks Splinter for his help and leaves. Splinter sighs that Galahad’s code of honor will not allow him to kill the Shredder and resolves to teach his children the more deadly arts for their inevitable confrontation with their foe. As they go back to the lair, the Turtles all agree that Galahad’s mask was just awesome and decide to make some for themselves.

Galahad cautiously enters the shoe store and finds seven Foot Soldiers dead; slashed to death presumably by Headhunter. Galahad then finds the Shredder, sitting behind a desk. Shredder asks if “the White Knight” has come to rescue his damsel in distress, but Galahad insists he’s here to arrest her. Shredder is reluctant to give her up, as she’s a threat to his life and he doesn’t believe any prison can hold her. Galahad insists, leaving Shredder no choice…but to hand her over? It seems that he owes Galahad a debt of honor for (accidentally) saving his life when he was in bed with Headhunter. At any rate, he’s done with Headhunter, anyway. After an interrogation, it seems that seven of his Foot soldiers, displeased with Shredder’s leadership, hired Headhunter to deal with him. Shredder, in turn, dealt with them. Shredder then tells Galahad to go collect Headhunter and then never cross his path again, lest he be forced to kill him.

Galahad finds Headhunter in an interrogation room, badly beaten and with a sai sticking through her hand. Galahad arrests her and is about to bring her to a prison hospital when she offers “a deal”. Galahad refuses anything she has to offer, so Headhunter responds by knocking him out. Giving him a kiss, she promises to come back for him some day after she’s healed from her interrogation.

A few days later, Galahad swears over Terry’s grave that next time Headhunter shows her face anywhere in the world, he’ll take her down.

Image TMNT

Jerry Randall reappears in issue 9 of the Image run, under the guise of Knight Watchman.

Foot Ninja 2k3 Series

Foot Soldiers or Foot Ninjas make up the bulk of the Foot Clan.

Mirage Comics

In the Mirage Comics the Foot Soldiers were loyal servants to Oroku Saki, and later Karai. Each Foot Soldier was armed with akatana/spear/kama/nunchaku/fist dagger/knife/submachine gun/etc. and dressed in the same garb: a black, blue, red, grey, or pink Tunic, black, blue, grey, purple, or pink head mask with eye protectors and some armor on the shoulders. Leonardo commentated that their skills were good, but no match for the Turtles. The Foot Soldiers and the Turtles fought several more times until Saki was finally killed. Afterwards, the Foot fell into various splinter groups and were fighting over control of New York until Karai, the leader of the Foot inJapan, came back, killed each one of the 4 Foot Elites and regained control of the Foot.

Volume 4

In Volume 4, the Foot gained a security contract with the Utroms, who were visiting Earth on a peaceful diplomatic course. Although Karai had no problems with the Turtles and some, if not, most of the Foot apathetic to the matter, one Foot Soldier named Cha Ocho, had a strong dislike for the Turtles. The Foot were also attacked by mysterious warriors at this time, in which Leonardo was helping the Foot. They also developed an interest in the occult and distributing books of dark arts.

1987 Series

The Shredder utilized robot ninjas known as “Foot Soldiers” when he began his crime spree in New York City. However, they are not very effective in combat, as they fall apart easily (Turtle Tracks). The Turtles fought them in all five episodes of the first season however as the 1987s series go on they are seen less and less because Shredder usually has to do things himself with Bebop andRocksteady. However in Turtles Forever there are hundreds to thousands of them fighting the 2003 Turtles and the 1988s Turtles underground after leaving the Technodrome with Bebop and Rocksteady leading them into battle. This version of the Foot do not talk at all nor do they use ninja weapons but they use guns. A few episodes show them using swords and other weapons as well, especially during the first two episodes of the first season. In Turtles Forever they had a self destruct sequence that distracted the Turtles while the 1988s Shredder escaped with the Technodrome and almost left Bebop and Rocksteady behind. The 2003 Leonardo is shocked to see that the 1988s Foot Soldiers are robots since the 2003 Foot Ninjas are humans. The 2003 Michelangelo says the 1988s Foot Soldiers are exploding robots. The 2003 Raphael takes pleasure in destroying all of the 1988s Foot Soldiers without his brothers help and was having fun doing it until the 1988s Donatello threw a large boulder down and crushed several of the Foot Soldiers and said strike making the 2003 Raphael angry. In the cartoon, The Shredder once considered making more intelligent Foot Soldiers, capable of learning and taking decisions by themselves. One Foot Soldier named Alpha One was the only Foot Soldier who could talk and was seen in Season Four, in the episode was called The Foot Soldiers are Revolting. However, the idea was quickly abandoned when he rebelled against The Shredder. The Foot robot concept allowed the Turtles to destroy the Foot soldiers without any moral thoughts, allowing Leonardo and Raphael to use their weapons more offensively. Meanwhile the series could keep its younger audience and remain a “family show”. This principle also benefited the video games.

TMNT Adventures

The Archie Comics TMNT Adventures comics features more advanced Foot Soldiers in addition to the basic model. In the comics, The Shredder also built a giant Foot Soldier, who fought against the Warrior Dragon in New York City. The robot was destroyed when it crashed into the Statue of Liberty.

Movies

The Shredder recruited many kids, mostly teens, from the streets and trained in the art of Ninjitsu. The kids made crime sprees in the city, financing their growing crime empire. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) After the Shredder was supposedly killed in the first film, the Foot Ninja were severely beaten into a small group by the ninja turtles. This version of the Foot are dressed in black outfits, have red bandanas on their heads and bug eyes. They usually fight with swords, bo staffs, axes, and other weapons but will fight the Turtles with their bare hands if they have too. They are lead into battle by Tatsu in the first and second movie while Shredder stayed behind. The Foot were victorious in their first battle with the Turtles but in the second battle they went down pretty easily. Foot Ninjas are good in battle but most of the time they’re clumsy and the Turtles appear to be having fun with them in battle. Michaelangelo was taking them down while talking to Donatello and doing his Wheel of Fortune on them at April’s shop. When the Turtles first battle the Foot Michaelangelo says “I thought insurance sales men were pushy”.

2003 Series

Variants

• Standard Foot Ninja
• Foot Tech Ninja
• Large Foot Ninja
• Foot Gestapo/Foot Police (“Same As It Never Was”)
• Foot Gunner Ninja/Foot Mech
• Foot Sumo Ninja (“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus”)
• Scuba Foot Ninja
• Feudal Foot Ninja (“Secret Origins, Part 1″ and “Part 2″)
• Feudal Foot Captain (“Secret Origins, Part 1″ and “Secret Origins, Part 2″)
• Large Feudal Foot Ninja (“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus“)
• 1960′s Foot Ninja (“A Tale of Master Yoshi”)
• Foot Ninja (Zombie) (“The Lost Episodes”)
• “New” Foot Ninja (“Scion of the Shredder”-”Enter the Dragons”)
• “New” Foot Tech Ninja (“Scion of the Shredder” Forward )
• Cyber Foot Ninja (“Back to the Sewer”)
• Foot Officer (“Back to the Sewer”)
• Foot Sentry (“Back to the Sewer”)
• Foot Tech (“Back to the Sewer”)
• Turtles Forever Foot Ninja
• Turtles Forever Robot Foot Soldiers

Toys

1988- Playmates

Foot Soldier (1988 action figure)

The original foot soldier figure was one of the harder to find out of the original releases. Very largely resembling the cartoon counterpart, its figure also largely resembled a primate with long arms and squat posture.

Accessories included a clamp-spear, and a weapon resembling a modern morning star.

1992

Movie Star Foot Soldier

Based off the Foot from the movie.

1993

Mutatin’ Foot Soldier

1994

Robotic Foot Soldier

1996

Ninja Power Mutatin’ Foot Soldier

2003

Foot Soldier – Based off the 2003 cartoon

Mini Foot Soldier

Foot Tech Ninja

Foot Gunner

Mutatin’ Foot Soldier

2004

Air Ninja Foot Soldier

Mutations: Foot Soldier VS Leo

Speedeez Foot Ninja Set: Includes the Battle Shell, Foot Soldier on Razor Jet, Leo on Shell Cycle and Foot Helicopter.

2005

Ninja Action Foot Soldier

S.W.A.T. Attack Pack (S.W.A.T. Raphael, Foot Tech Gunner)

2007

Mini Movie Foot Ninja – Based off the 2007 moive

Foot Ninja

Mini-Mutants Don vs. Foot Tech

Video Games

Unlike the 1987 cartoon series on which they were based, the TMNT videogames introduced Foot Soldiers with uniforms of several different colours. These colours represent the type of weapons they are carrying.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Manhattan Missions uses Foot Soldiers from the Mirage Comics though they dress in black like the films.

Video games, based on the 2003 animated series, have Foot Soldiers which appear as they do in the 2003 series including a playable appearance in TMNT: Mutant Melee, where they are voiced by Jason Anthony Griffith.

Video games based off the 2007 film have Foot Soldiers from the film.

The fighting game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash-Up, allows you to play as a Foot Ninja, looking similar to the ones from the 2007 movie.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack brings back the concept of multi-colored Foot Ninja with different weapons, with standard, blue, and red (2003) and standard, gold, blue, and red (Cyber).

Foot Soldier NES Game

Donatello from 2007 Movie

Donatello (Don or Donnie) is a fictional character and one of the four main characters in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and all related media, he sports a purple bandana. His signature weapon is the bō staff. In all media he is depicted as the most knowledgeable of the four turtles, often speaking in technobabble with a natural aptitude for science and technology. He is the third oldest brother out of the four.

He is named after the sculptor Donatello.

OriginBiography

Donatello (nicknamed ‘Don or Donny) is the brains of the team.

It seems when Donatello was young he used to build his own (and his brothers’) toys. No one knows the exact age he found out he was a natural technician, but when he did, he was the one who hooked up the electricity and fixed all of the junk from the sewer into their own furniture and supplies. When the other turtles would practice their ninja skills during free time, little Donny would be tinkering with some kind of mechanical device. Even from day one, Donatello has been one the world’s most lovable tech-geeks.

Personality

Donatello is typically the calm, logical Turtle. He is often in good terms with all his brother and seems to be very close toMichelangelo. His favorite music is classical & classical rock, his favorite book is A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. Donnie is described as the “brain” of the TMNT, he is fairly studious and industrious, and a reasonable “Mr. Fix-It”. Donatello has a knack for inventing cool new gadgets and machines. He is considered the most reserved out of the four turtles. He would rather talk things out than fight and uses violence as a last resort.

Though he is often portrayed as being more focused on his studies than ninjutsu training, Donatello has shown himself to be a very capable fighter, in particular, when he is in a life-or-death situation. He can set up plans as quickly as Leonardo, if necessary, though they usually centre around one of his inventions or something else that would bar Leonardo from knowing the ins and outs of the plan in question. It is presumably for this reason that Donatello is often viewed as the level-headed second to Leonardo’s command.

Mirage Comics

Volume 1

In the comics Donatello is originally presented along with Leonardoas one of the two calmer turtles and while the originals have no official command structure, in the early stories he is depicted as the second in command. In the first issue he is the one that killed theShredder by knocking him and his grenade off the roof.

The second issue elaborated more on each turtles personalities and opened with Donatello soldering a circuit. Later in the issue Donatello states that he is “familiar with some computer systems” and helps April O’Neil deactivate the Mousers.

In the Donatello one shot, Donatello encounters an artist called Kirby(an homage to the comic artist Jack Kirby) whose mysterious crystal brings his drawings to life before disappearing. The two newfound friends journey to a dimension inhabited by Kirby’s creations and help the heroes defeat the invading monsters.

During the turtles’ exile to Northampton Donatello becomes obsessed with fixing up and repairing the many broken things within the farmhouse they were living in. Most notably he spent days and nights fixing the boiler to give his family hot running water and builds a windmill and a water wheel to provide electricity. He also finds an old type writer and writes his own personal credo.

In “Shades of Grey” Casey Jones encounters the turtle by a ravine as he was pondering “the fractal structure of natural patterns”. Casey accuses the turtle of using big words and acting better than everyone else. Donatello suggests they should continue the conversation when Casey is sober. Grabbing a stick, an angry Jones continually pokes the turtle until he loses his temper and sends Casey careening into the water.

City at War

In City at War the turtles return to New York to put an end to theFoot Clan’s civil war. During a battle with Shredder’s Elite Guards in the ruins of the Second Time Around Shop Donatello falls through the floor and breaks his leg. Seeing their ally Karai subdued and about to be killed, Donatello grabs one of the Foot’s machine guns and repeatedly shoots the Foot Elite. Donatello is visibly shaken by the violence and throws the gun away.

At the end of the story the turtles, April and Casey move back New York save for Donatello who chooses to stay in Northampton withMaster Splinter to heal from his injury as well as to reflect on everything that has happened.

Volume 2

While meditating with Splinter, Donatello receives a vision of the future where he is in the village of Chihaya inJapan. When Donatello asks what he would be doing there, his master simply replies “To bury me”.

After encountering the vigilante Nobody in civilian guise, Donatello returns with him to New York to help his brothers battle Baxter Stockman.

Volume 4 Comics

In the current comics Donatello finds an armored truck in the sewers which apparently had been part of a bank robbery in the sixties. Along with Raphael and Casey Jones, he undertakes the task of fixing up the vehicle.

After the death of Splinter, Donatello secretly goes to his body and asks forgiveness before clipping something off him. Shortly after, Donatello decides to accompany the Utroms on a mission to Tepui to search for two missing research teams. The group is attacked by strange wooden creatures who shrink them to miniature size. The creatures turn out to be a group of Utroms which had been stranded in the jungle during their first stay on Earth and had been living in secret thanks to their Quantum Inversion Redimensioning Device, which could alter their size. The process could not be reversed on Donatello, possibly due to his mutation, leaving him the size of an action figure.

While the Utroms work on returning him to normal, Donatello puts his new size to use infiltrating a terrorist organization’s warehouse. He’s also made a robotic body for himself made to resemble a turtle to help him move around.

1987 series

Donatello was the most scientific minded turtle, and was responsible for the creation of most of the Turtles high tech equipment, including the TurtleVan, the Turtle comms, and the Turtle Blimp. He also managed to build a working inter dimensional portal though it is unknown how he found the necessary equipment to do so. He also thwarted a super knowledgeable Slash without any assistance. He wore purple and, as with his other incarnations he carried a Bo staff. He was voiced by Barry Gordon. The running gag in the show was that Donatello’s inventions usually had the habit of breaking down or blowing up at his face, although there are many times the team rely on him whenever they were faced with scientific or mechanical problems.

The 1987 series briefly hinted of Donatello’s vocal reluctance to the group’s role as crime fighters and helping humans in particular, both in the five pilot episode and a plot point in the “Red Sky” episode Cry HAVOC. He seemed to be the least interested among his brothers towards human culture, and even reflected if being a normal turtle would have given them a much easier life. Despite this, it never deterred him from appreciating human food such as pizza, and even bothered to get himself a college degree through mail. On the rare moments when Leonardo was kidnapped or incapacitated, Donatello usually takes on the role as the group leader.

In the film Turtles Forever he was the one who created the Trans-Dimensional Portal Stick in order to reach theTurtle Prime Universe. When his skeptical 2003 counterpart (whom he fondly nicknamed “Mr. Wizard”) voiced his concerns over calling a wrench a hammer, Donatello replied that science was more than just facts and details. He was voiced by Tony Salerno.

Archie Comics

Coming Out of Their Shells

Don played keyboards and background vocals in the stage show.

Movies

First Movie

Donatello seemed less intelligent in the first movie. He struck up a strong friendship with Casey Jones and the two playfully insulted each other frequently while fixing an old pickup truck. Also, in the first movie, there seemed to be more of a best friend relationship with (Casey Jones, of course), but also Michelangelo. If you watch the scene where Michelangelo and Donatello are watching the classic Tortoise and the Hare, you can tell they seem intellectually equal and the two “jokers” of the team. Oddly, though, Donatello has a comedic inability to match his brothers’ surfer slang throughout the first three movies, instead using nonsensical terms such as “bossa nova”, “a cappella”, “Chevy Nova”, and “eclectic”. According to some sceptics, Donatello bears a strange resemblance to Mike Jones, rap artist famely know for his hit song “Who is Mike Jones.”

Second Movie

In the second movie his knowledge and scientific originality were brought to the forefront and he was instrumental in developing the anti mutagen that revertedTokka and Rahzar to their animal forms. As further evidence of his mechanical inclination, he is also shown hacking into a computer at T.G.R.I. There is also evidence in this film that Donatello shows great emotional support for his little brother, Michelangelo, in a more obvious way; unlike Leonardo and Raphael. Mikey tried making his brothers laugh by imitating a quote from the movie, “The Karate Kid” with his own “wax on, wax off..” routine. Of course, Raphael was the one to bully Michelangelo, as Michelangelo said, “wax on…” Raphael then interrupted, teasing “mouth off!”, thus urging Donatello to confront a rather disappointed Michelangelo and trying to comfort him with a friendly pat on the shoulder, and comfortingly stating, “everybody’s a critic.” He also related to Professor Jordan Perry on a personal and professional level, as they both rack their brains to create an anti-mutagen for Shredder’s newly evolved mutant-monsters.

Third Movie

In the third, and final, live action film, Donatello’s knowledge comes to the forefront in explaining the principals of the time machine that sends the turtles back to ancient Japan. As he tells the other turtles, for every person that is sent backward in time, another person must be sent forward in time. Therefore, the time machine, a sceptre, must be held by the same number of people in both the past and the future for the “cosmic trade” to be made. Donatello’s insight’s allows the turtles to return to modern day New York. .

Fourth Movie

Continuing the trend of being able to relate to humans(and all three of his brothers) better than any of the otherTurtles, Donatello was put in charge of keeping the group together in Leonardo’s absence. Although he tried his best, the three were moving in separate directions with their lives. Both Michelangelo and himself got jobs dealing with the public, while Raphael spent his nights fighting crime. Donatello worked at an IT Tech Support.

With Leo’s return the group once again came together, and Donatello helped his brothers in ridding the earth ofMax Winters’ evil generals. In this movie, Donatello was voiced by Mitchell Whitfield

Image Comics

In the Image Comics incarnation of the TMNT, he became a cyborg after his body was partially destroyed from being shot and dropped out of a helicopter (he maintained a positive attitude nonetheless, although he was constantly at risk of losing his mind to the cyborg half). The Image Comics were later treated as non-canon by the Mirage Publications.

Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation

Donatello in Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation is voiced by Jason Gray-Stanford. In the Next Mutation Donatello uses a shorter metal version of a bo-staff. Also in the show, he is a lot more knowledgeable and is more concerned on what is controlling the lair, science or magic which leads him to constantly arguing with Venus De Milo.

2003 series

Like in the Mirage comics, Donatello has a complex personality in the 2003 animation and thus is a popular character. Several episodes concentrate on him, as well as his emotional and intellectual struggles. He was voiced by Sam Riegel.

As in his other incarnations, Donatello is knowledgeable, a skilled technician and tinkerer, and very introspective, frequently becoming pensive over things he doesn’t understand. He typically has a very close, however platonic, relationship with April. He also displays closeness with Michelangelo akin to that seen in the original movie. Even more pacifistic than his other incarnations, Donatello shows a greater interest in technology than his ninjutsu training. During his first Battle Nexus Tournament, despite being a very gifted ninja, he lost in the first round of the competition. Even so, Donatello will defend his brothers at any cost, and he frequently assists the team in many ways through the technology he develops, mostly vehicles and communication devices.

In this series’ incarnation, Donatello is generally well-liked by all of his brothers, never engaging in major confrontations with them. In fact, Donatello was the one to reunite his brothers against the Shredder in the episode “Same As It Never Was.” His skin color is a light, brownish green color; this particular color is only used for him in the 2003 animation. In the fourth season, he was infected by a monster, and in the episode “Adventures in Turtle-Sitting”, he mutates into a monster himself (which happened to Raphael in the Mirage Comics).

Ninja Tribunal

Donatello became one of the Ninja Tribunal’s Acolytes along with his brothers. He was the first ninja shown to focus his spiritual energy through his Amulet of the Acolyte. This is perhaps due to the fact that the Acolytes training began with studying in a library, where Don enthuiastically absorbed knowledge of the secret arts. His spiritual avatar is that of a dragon.

Fast Forward

A time window malfunction (that turned it into a time machine) caused Donny, his brothers, and Master Splinter to be “fast-forwarded” to 2105, hence the show’s name “Fast Forward”. Donatello was one of two Turtles, alongside Michelangelo, that adapted best to the new lifestyle of the future. He was extremely interested in the new technology and quickly bonded with Cody Jones. Using his ideas, Cody had made many new, high-tech turtle weapons and vehicles. In the episode “The Journal”, which features the Turtles going back to their own time, he uses his knowledge of the future to build new gadgets such as a fusion generator.

Back to the Sewer

After a long time, Cody and Don were able to finish repairing the time portal and were finally able to back to their own time. Unfortunately, Viral took overSerling and sent them jumping around time until Donny managed to repair Serling enough to create another time portal to their own time. But Viral took control of Serling again and was about to blast the Turtles, but Splinter took the blast.

Donatello was devastated by the loss of his teacher and father, and for some time was obsessive with gathering up all of Splinter’s bits in order to restore him; constantly blaming himself for the incident. After some time when Don was faced with the choice of saving his brothers or gathering more of Splinter’s bits, he realized that he should be there for his brothers more often. In the episode “Web Wranglers”, Raphael has stated that Don has an IQ of 637 – a likely highly inflated stat. It should be noted that Don was the one who killed (with Splinter) the Cyber Shreder by blasting him with the same energy beam Viral shot at splinter at the beginning of the season. After that, he sees Casey and April getting married.

Toys

• List of Donatello Toys

Quotes

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

• ” Good thing these guys aren’t lumberjacks.”
• “You’re a claustrophobic.” (to Casey)
• “Bossanova!”
• [April and Casey fight then go into different rooms, slamming the doors after them] Gosh, it’s kind of like Moonlighting. Isn’t it?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

• Yee haw! Ninja cowboy!
• Hey, everyone’s a critic.
• These nets are very effective and very well constructed.
• Ah! Thanks, Raph, I may never have the hiccups again! (after Ralph yells out for Shredder)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

• OK, so my Japanese is a little rusty. Uh, Suzuki, Kawasaki…
• You were expecting maybe the Addams Family?
• Think of it the bright side, April. We could’ve landed in a great, big, greasy pile of…
• Mud wrestling is definitely a spectator sport.
• Do you think I could *possibly* live without a single microchip?

TMNT (2007 Film)

• [Acting as a technical consultant over the phone] Sir? Sir. Sir. Did you turn the computer on? Have you plugged it in? Yeah, that would help. No, I’m not playing hard to get. I’m telling you, sir, it’s not that kind of phone line. I’m not your enemy. I’m just Donnie, your friendly IT tech support here to help you 24-hours a day, sir. Yeah, I’m sorry. Ma’am!
• [examining a dart taken out of Raphael] Yep. This has Winter’s name written all over it.

Turtles Forever

• Mirage Donatello: What’s with the multi-coloured headbands?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series)

• These mousers are incredible! The servo mechanics, the circuitry, the articulation…!
• Nighty-Night Dragon boy! [Punches Purple Dragon thug]
• Too bad he had such a rotten parent.
• [after beating the Purple Dragons] Well, that was easier then expected.

Trivia

• Given his knack for invention it is ironic that Donatello is not named after the painter also known for his inventions and advancements in technological thinking. Live Action Donatello is not so smart but it developes in the second and third. Live Action Donatello also has a good friendship with Casey Jones but in all three movies Donatello is a fun loving turtle like Mikey.
• Donny is also like Drako and Warrior Dragon in SSB 4, they are all red and wear purples masks.
• Donatello is the first known confirmed character (and as of early December 2010, only confirmed character) of Nickelodeon’s TMNT series, with the advent of Rob Paulsen confirming his role as Don on his Twitter account
• He is co-creator Peter Laird’s favorite Turtle.
• According to Raphael in TMNT Back To The Sewer, Donatello has an I.Q of 637
• Out of the four turtles Don is the only one to carry one weapon while his brothers carry a set of their weapons (Leo, two katanas, Mikey, two nunchucks and Raph, two sais)

Etymology

• Gender:Boy
• Origin:Latin
• Meaning:Given [by God]
• Pronunciation:(do nah TEL loh)

The most famous historical bearer of this name was the artist Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi). Donatello was one of the most influential painters and sculptors of the Italian Renaissance, though is perhaps best known today for giving his name to one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Cover: Simon Bisley
Writer: Kevin Eastman

Layouts: Kevin Eastman

Pencils/Inks: Simon Bisley

Letters: Steve Lavigne

Colors: Altered Earth Arts

First Printing: 1996

Number of story pages: 100

Additional Material: 8 pages of “behind the scenes” images and commentary from Kevin featuring his layouts alongside Simon’s finished pages.

Casey Jones and Raphael find themselves assisting an assassin on the run from her former employer, who has sent men to kill her. Extremely violent and intended for adults.

Cover: Simon Bisley
Story & Layouts: Kevin Eastman

Pencils & Inks : Simon Bisley

Letters & Color Guides: Steve Lavigne

Computer Colors: Altered Earth Arts

First Printing: July, 1996

Johnny and Midnight face-off in mortal combat… only one lives to tell the tale.

Cover: Simon Bisley
Story & Layouts: Kevin Eastman

Pencils & Inks : Simon Bisley

Letters & Color Guides: Steve Lavigne

Computer Colors: Altered Earth Arts

First Printing: May, 1996

Midnight and the boys flee the Club Dead just as Johnny Woo! Woo! destroys it (causing the club owner to swear vengeance). Our heroes seek refuge with well-armed friends in an old church – but it’s not long before Johnny and his thugs come a-knockin’ and a-shootin’.

Cover: Simon Bisley
Story & Layouts: Kevin Eastman

Pencils & Inks : Simon Bisley

Letters & Color Guides: Steve Lavigne

Computer Colors: Altered Earth Arts

First Printing: April, 1996

Midnight, Casey and Raph get into a deadly car chase with Johnny Woo! Woo! and his boys.

Flying the Triceraton aircar through the skies above New York, Don’s cyborg body suddenly goes on the fritz. Apologizing to Zog, Don crashes the aircar in the streets. At the current HQ of the New York branch of the Foot, Cheng addresses the Lady Shredder. He informs her that his spiritual tether to Splinter via the Astral Plane has proven most beneficial and that the two “surprises” she ordered for the Turtles have been prepared. An Elite Guard orders Cheng to leave so that the Lady Shredder can psychologically prepare herself for the coming battle with the Turtles. The Lady Shredder, actually Tang Amaya, remembers back thirty years, to her youth in Japan’s Chihaya village. There, she met a young Oroku Saki, who was training in the art of ninjutsu to slay the killer of his brother: Hamato Yoshi. Saki told Amaya that after killing his brother, Yoshi kidnapped her sister, Tang Shen, and fled to America. This shared tragedy bonded the two and together they gained entrance into the Foot Clan. They spent many years training together, and at age 18, Saki was elected to lead the New York branch of the Foot Clan while Amaya was selected to join him as a member of his Elite Guard.

Nineteen years ago. After learning the location of Hamato Yoshi and Tang Shen, Saki (now going by the alias “the Shredder”) left to gain his vengeance, forbidding Amaya from accompanying him. Saki returned, having slain Yoshi, though he arrived too late to save Shen from a deadly beating at the hands of Yoshi. As a token, Saki gave Amaya the gauntlet he used to slay Yoshi. For a time after that, Amaya took on the identity of “the Headhunter”, a mercenary taking contracts out on other underworld figures. This was all a ruse to help her weed out traitors within the Foot as well as enemies attempting to assassinate Saki. Impressed even more with her skill, Yoshi selected her to lead Goseico (a profitable business front for the Foot) following the death of Gosei Kenji. Years later, Saki was killed by a freakish ninja clan trained by Hamato Yoshi. Swearing vengeance, Amaya donned the gauntlet Saki had given her and prepared herself to hunt down the “turtles”. However, her vengeance would be postponed once the Foot Mystic Mashima resurrected the Shredder as a blasphemous creature stitched together by worms. Amaya rejected the Worm-Shredder as merely an imposter of Saki even if he retained all of the original Saki’s memories. The Worm-Shredder then revealed that he knew that Amaya had secretly bore Saki’s child and had given the girl up years ago. Amaya refused to divulge any further information, not that it mattered, as shortly afterward, the Worm-Shredder was decapitated by Yoshi’s clan.

More years passed and Amaya eventually had her first reckoning with the Turtles at the Goseico building. Though she lost Goseico in the battle, a sleeper agent within the company informed her that one of the Turtles was parading around in Saki’s armor. Enraged and ready to take her rightful place as leader of the New York Foot, Amaya used her contacts with the Oroku clan still among the Japanese branch of the Foot to solidify her leadership (though she feared such tactics might dishonor her in a manner similar to Karai). She then arranged for the duel between Raphael and Pimiko, two others claiming leadership of the New York Foot, as a means to draw her enemies out. Now going by the name Lady Shredder, Amaya dons her armor and prepares for her final assault on Yoshi’s clan. At the mausoleum HQ in Westwood Cemetery, the Turtles and Pimiko spar and prepare themselves for their impending battle with the Foot as Splinter and Dr. X look on. All are unaware that the Foot gather just outside; Cheng’s spiritual bond to Splinter having led the ninja to the cemetery.

Down in the sewers, a badly malfunctioning Don has reached his secret lab and reactivates the imprisoned cyborg remains of Dr. Baxter Stockman. Don implores Stockman to help him, though Stockman has a price: he wants Don’s living nanite-infused metal. Don refuses, knowing Stockman will use it to resurrect himself, but the Turtle is running out of time.

On the Utrom Homeworld, Security Officer Yat escorts Leatherhead to the presence of Ambassadors Klag and Korobon. The Triceraton that had been teleported alongside Leatherhead has been dealt with and Leatherhead rescued. The Ambassadors thank Leatherhead for his previous service to the Utroms, defeating the Illuminated Utrom Alliance. Leatherhead, still suffering his mental conditions, remembers nothing of that adventure. The Utroms disregard his mental troubles and offer him a new challenge: to bring his friend, Dr. X, back to the Utrom Homeworld.

Back at the mausoleum, Mike tries over and over again to call Sara “Horridus” Hill, but there’s no answer. Suddenly, Splinter senses the presence of enemies. Outside, Lady Shredder orders the strike to begin and several rocket launcher-toting Foot Soldiers proceed to obliterate the mausoleum.

Down in the lab, Donatello finally concedes defeat and willfully gives up his living metal to Stockman. As Stockman begins to reform himself, he lets the helpless Don know that they’re about to have “a little bit of fun”.

Summary written by Mark Pellengrini from TMNT Entity

Published by: Independently by Andrew Modeen (unofficial publication)
Publication date: May, 2011

Writer: Andrew Modeen
Penciller/Inker: Arseniy Dubakov
Penciller (page 3)/Cover art: Frank Fosco
Tones: David Seltzer
Notes: Gary Carlson
Letters: Adam O. Pruett
Additional plot/Edits: Ross May
Back cover art: A. C. Farley
Front & Back Cover Colors: Courtland Brugger
Includes additional backup story art from Dennis Kennedy