Donatello Is the Most Underrated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
The Big Picture Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a franchise that has existed for decades without growing old or stagnant. With the release of Seth Rogen’s Mutant Mayhem, the new film proves that the turtles are still very much beloved in modern pop culture, with each new iteration taking a new spin on the characters.
The Leader is fairly self-explanatory: they take the burden of responsibility and call the shots for the other members of the team. Leonardo consistently takes this role, with nearly every TMNT iteration making him the obvious choice for a leadership role. This trope does come with limitations: the Brains is often portrayed as less physically capable than other members of the team, and they can sometimes have a more complicated relationship with emotions. The Brains comes in all forms of personality, though, and is usually more accurately defined by their skills and the level of their intellect than how they behave in relation to other characters.
This sort of flexibility in a character archetype is immensely helpful for characterization within the story, as well as adaptability for an IP as old as TMNT. There’s a lot of potential here for different directions to take the character — and modern iterations of Donatello have taken full advantage of that.
2017 saw the fifth and final season of Nickelodeon’s cartoon adaptation, which was a bit of a return to the more traditional Brains archetype by portraying Donatello as more of a lovesick nerd. He also serves as the voice of reason alongside Leonardo, often acting as a steady support system, much like the Bay movies.
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