take one Turtle from each iteration to form a team that goes on some bizarre multiverse adventures.
You've really got me struggling to nail down my ideal multiverse Turtles team. I have favourites, but it's really hard to make a balanced team from different iterations.
The biggest trouble is, unless a series goes out of it's way to highlight a Turtle in solo adventures, I tend to focus more on how any two brothers interact with each other.
2K3 Leonardo is an easy choice, he was the most interesting Leo to me and had a lot of solo development.
Donatello is so tough for me to pin down, because I generally always like Donnie.
I love hearing Rob Paulsen voicing Donatello, so I think that gives Nickelodeon Donatello an edge.
Maybe I should go with Mirage comics Donatello, since that one went on an interdimensional trip with Jack Kirby one time (although so did 2K3 Donnie, and so did a version of Fred Wolf Donnie in a storybook. Agh!)
Can I ask what made
Rise Donatello so memorable, in your opinion?
Michelangelo is such a fine line to walk as a character. He can be a goof-off, but he's naturally the most athletically gifted of the Turtles, so he is more than capable of keeping up with the others. He can be easily distracted, but that doesn't make him "the dumb one," he sees what the others don't.
I once said to Greg Cipes, the voice of Mikey in the Nickelodeon TMNT show, "Mikey is very clever, but his brothers don't really realise it because he vibrates on a higher frequency than they do."
Mikey's ability to adapt to and tame his surroundings in Dimension X (see 2012 series season 2 episode 24
Into Dimension X) perfectly showcases how Mikey can be unconventionally brilliant.
Nickelodeon Raphael is great (especially playing off Nickelodeon Donatello), but whenever I think of Turtles going on wild adventures I only ever imagine Raph in his all black wrestling costume, so, just for the visual, I'm gonna go with Archie Adventures Raphael.
I'm really fond of 2K3 April because she has the scientific background of being Stockman's assistant, she has experience dimension hopping with the Turtles and she eventually learns fighting skills to round out her skillset.
Also, this April has been shown to be able to pilot a helicopter, and that's awesome!
1990 movie Casey is the easiest choice from this whole list. He's just the perfect distillation of the character, so why would you settle for anything less?
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