Best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) Characters

The Top Ten
1 Mikey

He is the best ninja turtle ever! I expected to see Donnie second and I was surprised to see Raph. Mikey is underestimated a lot and is known as a "bonehead", but really, he is a great turtle. He is the nicest turtle and would give the shell off his back if you needed it!

I kind of disagree. Mikey is the least focused on his job in the team and doesn't shut up. I still like him as a character and he has got skill but he is not my favourite turtle. I think all the other turtles are better in character form. Donnie is my personal favourite along with Raph. He has the fighting skill and has the skill of creativity and making inventions. Raph is the hothead but is also the most sensitve of the group, which I like he also has skill with the sai. I also like his pet turtle Spike (does he count as a ninja turtle? ) Leo is the Boy Scout but he is the leader and knows what he is doing and is the king of the katana.

2 Raph

There is no denying that Raphael can sometimes be a hothead. But when you look deeply you see a character that can be described as someone that suffers deeply under the pressure of his darker side, and you can't help but admire his strength in the fact that he finds the power to eventually overcome the obstacles, and always come through for his family. Another thing you have to admire, is that even though he acts like a tough guy, he shows that he loves his bro's many times, proving that actions sometimes make up for the lacking words. Plus he is sarcastic, and can KICK BUTT!

Raph is the best turtle he may be jerk and a hothead at times but if u look into his eyes he is a passionate sensitive turtle he is the strongest turtle and has beaten each turtle multiple times and nobody gives him credit for that and his vision quest suit is so cool and more awesome than the other turtles vision quest suits team raph

3 Leo

Though Michelangelo is the heart of the ninja turtles, Leonardo is the heart of the franchise in general. He role models how to thrive in a world with this much diversity in a way that's more poetic than Michelangelo and Raphael. Plus he has the best fight scenes.

No way leo can be in second place he has the best and most epic fight scenes he should be at first place and I will not stop voting until leo gets first place away from Mikey

Leo should be first because he is the most badass character in my opinion plus he has the best fight scenes not to mention he killed shredder more than

4 Donnie

Mikey!? Really? Donatello is so obviously the best. (Not hating on Mikey whatsoever.) Seriously, he wasn't nearly as good in the old ones as he is now, but he was still the best in the old ones. Honestly, he can kick butt, invent awesome mechanical marvels, and still watch out for his brothers. Seriously, who doesn't like his quotes? Here are a few examples: "Raph, you have the head, of a Turkey." "Thank you Mike, for pointing out the one positive thing, in ONE MILLION BAD ONES! " Donnie is awesome, but is constantly shat upon. "He's the weakest of the ninja turtles, all he does is build stupid machines." SHUT UP! Let me correct that statement. "He's the STRONGEST of the ninja turtles, and builds AWESOME MECHANICAL MARVELS AT AGE FIFTEEN! Come on people, come to your senses.

Donnie is the best! I love all the turtles, but Donnie's my favorite. He's extremely intelligent, he's kind, caring, funny, and his crush on April is adorable.

I only wish that the other characters gave him more credit. He made the Shellraiser, countless amazing inventions, is nothing but nice to EVERYONE - even Casey, after "Race with the Demon" - and what does he get? Nothing but mockery and/or criticism. (Why are smart people always the ones that are put down by others? Is it because they feel inferior? )

Seriously, if you look hard enough, you'll see that the other three are always like "I'm here for you, bro" or "Stay away from my brother! " with each other, be it Leo with Raph, or Raph with Mikey (most common one), or all of them with Mikey. But never with Don. No one ever stands up for Donnie. Why? Because he's smart and therefore has to be alone? Bull. The only one who ever seems to be on his side is Master Splinter.

Believe it or not, being smart isn't easy. Knowledge and wisdom come at a monumental price. You must SUFFER to gain wisdom, and you must spend COUNTLESS hours of studying countless pieces of information countless times to obtain knowledge. Donnie is a GENIUS whose accomplishments are worthy of the respect and admiration of all the great scientists of the world. He should NOT be mocked for liking a girl, he should NOT constantly be called a geek/dork, he should NOT be cut off after 10 seconds of an explanation. He SHOULD be applauded for his great efforts, he SHOULD be the most valued member of the team, heck, he deserves the Nobel Prize, while those who laugh at him deserve punches to the face.

He's Donatello, the best character in the whole show. GIVE HIM A MEDAL ALREADY.

(Wow, I lost it there, didn't I? I just hate it when my favorite characters and smart people in general are put down by others; it makes me so ANGRY. I apologize if I was being unreasonable. )

5 Splinter Splinter, often referred to as Master Splinter by his students, is a fictional character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and all related media.

Splinter should get a lot of credit because without him tmnt would not be super hero's at all splinter is the one who taught them to fight thanks to master splinter the teenage mutant ninja turtles are saving the world

Splinter is the best, the most intelligent, most wise and by far rhe most powerful TMNT character. He has beaten the Shredder, Dogpound, fishface, many foot ninjas and the rat king. He even handled LEATHERHEAD (the second best for me) with one hand He even almost killed Tigerclaw in season 2 episode 13 snd 14 wormquake... This guy is amazing! If not the most amazing!

He is a very good character, but sadly shredder destroyed him. but fortunately, in season 4 the turtles went back in time and I am guessing splinter is alive again.

6 April O'Neil April O'Neil is a character from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a TV reporter and personal friend of the turtles.

Yer she is nice. Karai even makes fun at tte 87 turtles by insulting them. And we see leo is going down the dark path. Because of her toxic ways.

April O Neil is still damsel in distress but soon going to learn how to kick butt like the turtles.

7 Shredder Oroku "The Shredder" Saki is a fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and all of its related media.

He is so malevolent, that I do not feel bad for his awful backstory. in fact, NOBODY SHOULD, we should all feel happy and joyful for his past misfortunes and all that! his hatred has turned him more of a monster rather than human, and totally deserved getting hurt by Leatherhead in "the invasion", the season 2 finale, getting hit with April's psyquick powers in "Annihilation Earth", and he would be crazy enough to even work with the Kraang to take all of New York City, his evilness is greater than all the villains in the series COMBINED, and should be put on the last place in here, as nobody loves him and nobody likes him, and is very ugly, so ugly that he makes the horribly scarred helmut zemo from marvel comics look HANDSOME
compared to him.

I acually feel bad for Shredder because of his past. It must really hurt a lot to be raised by your enemy and hide you true story behind. How would you feel if you had to suffer Shredder's fate, having your true backstory hidden from you, raised by your own enemy.

8 Casey Jones

BEST character EVER! There are WAY too many haters. Casey Jones is AWESOME!

No. He is like a Male Riley Anderson (Missing Blonde Hair and Blue Eyes.)

He is pretty much a jerk (which means junior educated rich kid).

9 Rocksteady

This new Rocksteady is awesome! Unlike the 80s Rocksteady who was a complete moron this version smarter, stronger, and totally badass. I also love his Russian accent. "I pop your head like blueberry"

I love everything about Rocksteady except he seems to get a lot dumber all of a sudden when he mutates.

Rocksteady is funNY to

10 Bebop

He's way dumber than his 80's version but is still very funny badass and a really good character.

He's actually quite fat in the 80's version

Agreed. Rocksteady Is Better Though.

The Contenders
11 Dr. Stockman

He's become Baxter Fly and scary... Awesome right!

I like the name Buzzkill for him better even though Minky didn't it and Xever did instead.

He is SO... (Throws Up all over Stockman 2012.)

12 Rahzar

Why not a martial arts teacher turn into a mutt turn into a pile a bones best Pokemon evolution ever lol

He is the best

13 Serpent Karai

Except when she was brain washed by Shredder and almost killed everyone in

She is nothing but a bully. Think if it really. We hate her.

I also like Karai, when she just discovered the truth!

14 Slash

Awesome character

15 Tiger Claw

I don't really hate him or like him, he is so-so to me.

16 Xever

He was my favorite villain and I love his fighting style

Yes! No one should ever forget him, he's amaze-balls!

Xever kicks butt.

17 Leatherhead

He is a very good character and Mikey was right about taking him with them because he is very good-hearted and fortunately likes to help in fighting kraang.

He's awesome and he should win 2015 ultimate mutant champion

He is super strong

18 Footbots

Not really that important

19 Speed Demon

I think I kinda liked him when he ate Donnie and Donnie was him!

Ugly Man Eating Car.

20 Fishface

He is a strong fish to walk on the ground

Sometimes I feel bad for fishface

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21 Karai

This version is a like a whole different character. She is stronger, more skilled, and pretty kickbutt. This Karai even has a whole different back story! She's Splinter's daughter - lied to all her life by Shredder. That makes her even more entertaining. The creators are actually wanting to make Karai an interesting character this series.

She looks awesome, its cute how Leo has a crush on her, and what happened to her in the past almost made me tear up. Why is she so low on the list? If this were my opinion she would be number one!

Really? Karai is one of the most interesting characters! Granted, the turtles are great, but Karai is way less annoying than April!

22 Kraang

LOL. I love the Episode "Plan 10." Best Kraang Episode Ever.

So Badass and Hilarious.

23 Creep
24 Kraang Prime

Most Badass and Hilarious Villain of all time.

A dude alien who sounds like a old lady.

Because an old lady voices her!

25 Dave Beaver

Lol best one shot character ever

Shut up dave ha ha. Makes my day.

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