Michelangelo (The Next Chapter)

Michelangelo, commonly referred to as Mikey is one of the main protagonists of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Next Chapter. He is the adoptive son of Master Splinter/Hamato Yoshi, the adoptive brother of Karai/Hamato Miwa, and the biological brother of Leonardo, Raphael, and Donatello. Mikey is known as the "wild one" of the team and loves games, skateboarding, pranks, and pizza. Though he possesses a "child-like" free-spirited and carefree innocence, he always brings his A-game in a serious brawl. His character design was also updated, making him slightly shorter than his brothers and giving him dark freckles and shorter tails on his mask.

Physical Appearance
Mikey is a light green Mutant ninja turtle. Unlike all of his previous incarnations, Mikey has freckles. Just like his previous incarnations, however, he wears an orange mask, though like his 1987 incarnation, the tails of his mask are shorter. Mikey is shorter than his brothers and is considerably shorter than Donatello. Mikey also seems to be a little pudgier than his brothers. The animators gave Mikey baby blue eyes to make him look slightly more 'innocent'. However, like all of the Turtles when they're in combat, the pupils and irises vanish from his eyes, leaving him with empty, white eyes, which are similar to that of the 2003 incarnations.

Personality
He is the third tallest, and least mature of his turtle brothers. He is labeled as "The Wild One" and "The Party Dude" as he is the most "fun" out of all the turtles. He is also very social and wants the outside world (humans) to accept him and his brothers. He seems to have ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), so overall, he's very impulsive and he can be very excited in certain situations. In battle, his weapon of choice is a pair of nunchakus.

Mikey might seem unintelligent due to him not thinking things through, but he is actually incredibly smart in his own way. He is very creative and loves to use his imagination a lot. He loves to dress up. He would wear unique creative costumes like “Savage Mikey” for instance. In addition, he has a high EQ (emotional intelligence quotient).

He loves pop culture and readily accepts opportunities to widen his social group. He is enthusiastic, silly, social, positive, and adaptable. This is how he expresses himself. He is proud that he could come up with creative ways to name things. He loves to cook. He is always openly playful, affectionate and has an honest heart and would accept outsiders like Leatherhead. While not very bright or book-smart, he can surprise others with his intuition, his keen sense of heart, and his quick reflexes even in the absence of conscious thought.

Mikey is prone to being silly rather than focusing on his training. However, he is still an impressive fighter. His natural affinity for martial arts is present in his ability to learn moves after seeing them only a few times. He also has the ability to fight without "thinking (logically)", once deflecting Splinter's blows while listening to music with his eyes closed, which was something that Donatello had to learn.

Mikey is very cute and innocent. However, he is also sneaky, mischievous, and scatterbrained, which sometimes causes trouble for the team. He would sometimes be inconsiderate as he tends to playfully mock his brothers, especially his second-oldest brother, Raphael, and use the latter's fear of cockroaches against him to try and get permission to read his comics. He also doesn't always respect personal space as shown when he pokes Raphael during a mission. His pranks may be annoying but he is not usually as rude as Donnie and especially Raph.

When his big brothers get annoyed with Mikey‘s antics, Raph and Donnie would be the ones who lash out at Mikey the most. Although Mikey’s brothers find his idiocy annoying, Mikey surprises them with his good ideas. Mikey loves to name stuff but if someone else names something before he could, he would get very upset about it.

Mikey may have a tendency to make a lot of mistakes, but all of his brothers care very deeply for him. They all show great distress when he gets hurt or is in trouble, and anger at the one who threatens him, i.e. when Baxter Stockman is throwing Mikey around he is in his more advanced armor.

History
Eleven years before the events of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Next Chapter, Michelangelo, and his brothers were once ordinary turtles; when they were infants the benevolent Hamato Yoshi purchased the four as pets. When their soon-to-be father walked passed a strange man, he felt something odd about him and followed. Unfortunately, Yoshi gave away his position when he accidentally stepped on a brown rat's tail. The Kraang found him and attempted to kill him, but Yoshi fought back hard... During the scuffle, the aliens dropped a container of mutagen, Yoshi, having to have stepped on that rat, thus mutated into a humanoid brown rat by the name of "Splinter", While Mikey and his brothers, after having been in contact with Yoshi and the clerk of the pet store where they were bought, mutated into humanoid turtles. Yoshi raised the turtles as his own children and trained them in Ninjutsu.

Splinter knew they would never be accepted in society and with the Kraang hot on his trail, the five of them lived in an abandoned water tower and a warehouse avoiding detection. During all of these trials, Splinter and the Turtles bonded, and after he noticed the baby turtles trying to copy his Ninjitsu training, Splinter decided that there was an opportunity to turn this new life he was thrust into to his advantage, Taking one of his favorite books about the Renaissance art named them after the Artists he admired the most.

After the last fight against the Kraang in the sewers Splinter overheard the Kraang talking about how it became impossible for them to track Splinter and the Turtles there, and Splinter decided to remain there. Thus making it that Splinter had found a safe environment where he could raise his adopted sons. Knowing the world would be dangerous and there would be a time when they want to explore the outside world, Splinter started to train the boys in the art of Ninjitsu. Eventually, Splinter gave Mikey his nunchakus' because "they would be perfect for him."

Weapons
During most of the series, Michelangelo wields a pair of nunchaku with which, like his brothers with their chosen weapons, he is highly skilled. In fact, he uses both a kusarigama and nunchaku. Sometimes he refers to them as 'chucks'.

Trivia

 * Mikey and his brothers are all fans of Bruce Lee.