For almost forty years the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have seeped into our collective consciousness through various different adaptations and become a cultural touchstone that most of us can feel affinity for. No cartoon, comic, or video game can work without a cast of characters and TMNT is no different. That’s why we’ve decided to take a peek at the top 10 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters and do to them what should’ve been done a long time ago – rank them.
It’s turtle time.
Baxter Stockman
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We’ll start at the bottom. Baxter Stockman isn’t the worst character ever by a long way but in terms of Turtle power rankings he’s severely lacking. Never a full villain he’s more an irritant, never managing to get the attention he wants. Most are probably familiar with him in fly-human form either from the TMNT cartoon or the 1980s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show.
Casey Jones
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Casey Jones isn’t a bad character all things considered, a hockey-themed vigilante isn’t necessarily a bad idea. What puts Casey Jones so far down the list is his position as merely a supporting character, one who shares a few visual attributes with a certain Mr. Jason from a certain horror film series. He’s fine, serviceable. No-one complains if he’s there in a storyline but relatively few would complain if he were absent.Michelangelo one michelangelo He’s a party dude ok? And you will never, ever, ever be allowed to forget that. Michelangelo is the team comic relief which would work if he were funny, alas he rarely is. He doesn’t even get the cool weapons – instead being stuck with nunchucks, a weapon that inspired many children to smack themselves in the face. But hey, he loves pizza, and that’s a redeeming quality in this writer’s eyes.Splinter splinter from the live action earl;y 90s films It’s hard to put Splinter into a place here, without him there wouldn’t be any Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the first place and he does an admirable job raising them. That said, he can be a little one-note. He’s wise, calm, patient, and an excellent teacher. Often though, that’s it. There simply isn’t much more to the character in some adaptations and while that means he’s great, he falls in the middle of the pack in this ranking.
Leonardo
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Ah Leonardo. The leader of the group who comes armed with twin katanas. Leonardo can be a nuanced character, sometimes worrying about their position as leader and their anxieties about taking over for Master Splinter, but often they too are a little flat as a character. In the real world people devoted to doing good are wonderful but often in fiction they can be a little dull, in this case our poor Leonardo often comes out on the flatter side.
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