After encountering the turtle vigilante ally Nobody in civilian guise he returns with him to New York to help his brothers battle Baxter Stockman. At the end of the story the turtles, April and Casey move back to New York save for Donatello who chooses to stay in Northampton with Master Splinter to heal from his injury as well as reflect on everything that had happened. Donatello is visibly shaken by the violence and throws the gun away. 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. 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.

In the City at War storyline, the turtles return to New York to put an end to the Foot Clan's civil war. Grabbing a stick, an angry Jones continually pokes the turtle until he loses his temper and sends Casey careening into the water. Donatello suggests they should continue the conversation when Casey is sober. Casey accuses the turtle of using big words and acting better than everyone else. In the Shades of Grey storyline, Casey Jones encounters the turtle by a ravine as he was pondering 'the fractal structure of natural patterns'. The two newfound friends journey to a dimension inhabited by Kirby's creations and help the heroes defeat the invading monsters. 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. He also finds an old typewriter and writes his own personal credo. 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. 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. Later in the issue, Donatello states that he is 'familiar with some computer systems' and helps April O'Neil deactivate the Mousers. The second issue elaborated more on each turtles' personalities and opened with Donatello soldering a circuit. In the first issue, he is the one that killed the Shredder by knocking him and his grenade off the roof. While the comics' portrayal of the team has no official command structure, in the early stories he is depicted as the next in command, and the closest brother to Leonardo. In the comics, Donatello is depicted as the calmest turtle. He is more interested in his work than in his ninjutsu, but he still attends ninja practice and works hard there as well as his projects.Ĭomic books Mirage Comics He doesn't share the love of combat as his brothers do, instead opting for alternative methods of problem-solving and interests that stimulate the inquiring mind. He does not get into a lot of confrontations with his brothers. Donatello is calm, sensible, friendly, and gentle. However, as a natural introvert, he is far quieter and more reserved than his brothers, rarely losing his temper. Donatello is not as rowdy and violent as his brothers, but he can get a little annoyed with them on occasion.

Any science and math skill you can think of, he will do it all. He is responsible for all technological innovations the team utilizes, such as technical expertise, intel gathering, vehicles, homemade bioweapons, and everything in between. He is the most logical and rational of his brothers, possessing a high sense of ingenuity and serving as the second-in-command of the team. He is the favorite turtle of co-creator Peter Laird, who served as the basis of Donatello's personality.ĭonatello is a gifted polymath, possessing a natural aptitude for science and technology, and often speaks in technobabble. Like all of the brothers, he is named after a Renaissance artist in this case, he is named after Italian sculptor Donatello. He is the adoptive and mutated son of Master Splinter, and the brother of Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo. He wields a bō staff, his primary signature weapon in all media. He is the smartest and often gentlest of his brothers, wearing a purple mask over his eyes. Superhuman agility, speed, and strengthĭonatello, nicknamed Don or Donnie/Donny, is a superhero and one of the four main characters of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and all related media.Mastery of ninjutsu, naginata and bō, kobudō, and chi gong, and stealth.

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