Which Ninja Turtle was the Coolest in your school?

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Michaelangelo was the coolest in my suburban elementary school.

Raphael was the coolest in my friend's NYC school.

DOES THIS REFLECT DIFFERENT SOCIO-CULTURAL VALUES???

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.kaejae-worx.com/~don/videogame/tmnt/images/tmnt087.gif

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

TEH CASEY JOANS

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Michelangelo -- Cambridge, England

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I dunno who the fav at my sk00l was (especially since they all moved on to Power Rangers soon enough, the dumb turncoats), but I definitley preferred Michaelangelo. It's sort of depressing to watch old episodes now and realise what a giant fucking tool he is.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Raphael. He was cool but rude.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Michaelangelo - suburban North london, England

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

it's all about Usagi Yojimbo.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Usagi means frog right?

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

no idea. he was the rabbit ninja.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

ts: Usagi vs that easter bunny from another dimension w/ a Southern accent that showed up once for no apparent reason.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it may have been Leonardo because he had the swords, but that might be personal preference clouding my judgement. It also might have been Donatello since he was the best in the arcade game.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait ... who was Donatello and who was Micahelangelo? Which one was "crazy" and liked pizza?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that was Michaelangelo. Nunchucks? Donatello was the smart one with the bo staff.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Leonardo, but I have a small feeling the school may have preferred Mike in the long run. Mike never beheaded the Shreddder hardcore-style though.

Usagi was a rabbit SAMURAI, but someone else should remember the meaning of his name.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

There were schools that unanimously had a favorite turtle? From what I remember, there was no pattern at my school.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

SHREDDER!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

wait, who was the frog guy

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The arcade game was the first game I ever beat.

I believe Michaelangelo was the favorite among my classmates.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The arcade sidescroller was magnificent.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

This makes me want to leave work and go play my NES.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

dean!@@!@, i was at the most amazing party ever and there were these two kids playing TMNT2 and yelling "get the pizza" a bunch. one of them had cyndi lauper hair and the other had an ALEXINNYC jacket so i felt transported back to the 80's

Also, I was on acid.

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Raphael was cool in north herts. Michaelangelo was one of the least popular cos he was gay.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Michelangelo, Jon. Nobody gave a shit about any of the others, except for the proto-gays who loved Donatello. And the future womanizers who liked April O'Neill, which is, coincidentally the name I gave my first guinea pig.

― x Jeremy (Atila the Honeybun), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the military brats liked Leonardo at my school!

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

So that's where my yellow jumpsuit fetish comes from...

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Michelangelo = stoners
Donnetello = nerds
Leonardo = well, he was the leader, wasn't he. not too sure here. probably jocks.
Raphael = didn't have much of a personality (did he?) so anyone who couldn't identify w/the other turtles would fit here. the individualists perhaps.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Raphael was the angry loner!!

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Raphael = metalheads

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

right, loner, obv. anyway i was a rapheal guy - fuck off haters!

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Donatello was my favourite, for obvious reasons. I did wish he was a bit less nerdy though.

― don (don), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

As I grew up, I became more and more bitter over the fact that there was absolutely nothing even vaguely Jamaican about Rocksteady.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

He seemed more like a grunt in some African guerilla army.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i will be that someone else barima mentioned.
Usagi = rabbit Yojimbo = bodyguard

― timetofaceup, Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Michelangelo at my suburban Mpls. school. I think it boils down to weapons. No one thought Donatello's staff was worth shit until they played the video game.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Michelangelo - Maryville, Tennessee (Donatello second).

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 May 2004 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha I was totally all about Raphael AND I was old enough that I really should have moved on from things like, oh, having a favorite Turtle.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 May 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Did anyone read the original comic books?

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Some friends of mine created a 5th TMNT named Dimiglio. I convinced my little cousins that he was real but was only in the comics and only in the first few issues. They believed me. He shot shuriken out of several points on his body as his power.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

my middle name is Raphael. IT IS OBVIOUS WHERE MY ALLEGIANCE LIES

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

this would be the ideal time for someone to post a link to that movie of Krang sucking his robot's dick now

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha I was totally all about Raphael AND I was old enough that I really should have moved on from things like, oh, having a favorite Turtle.

Dan OTM. Even I'm a little bit old for this thread. It was all the kids in my younger brother's class that were into the Turtles and WWF.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

if i ever get an ulcer, i will blame http://www.1001juegos.com/emuladores/turtlenes.gif , regardless.

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

VANILLA ICE

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

to answer the q, i liked michaelangelo and then - briefly - leonardo. i think raphael was the prototype for chandler, really.

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Michelangelo at my suburban Mpls. school. I think it boils down to weapons. No one thought Donatello's staff was worth shit until they played the video game.

Nah...sure, Mike had a cool weapon, but I think that the reason I (and most other kids, judging by the consensus on this thread, though *not* most ILXors) adored him was because he brought the funny (much more so than Raphael, who to pre-pubescent kids not yet taught in the ways of "good bad but not evil" just seemed like a rude jerk.) Plus his bumbling naive ways were very childlike, so one could relate (FUCK Zack tho!)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i couldn't relate to michaelangelo, he was a homo. I always identified strongly with Raphael's tell-it-like-it-is 'tude. nb. my favorite sesame street character was Oscar the Grouch. I guess i was kind of a cranky kid.

("was")

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

GO NINJA GO NINJA GO

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Raphael was def the coolest. Although Michelangelo was a close second.

(this in North London)

― cis (cis), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i saw the first TMNT movie at the theaters, and i was like 13 then. Too old for the cartoon, just loving the arcade & HORRIBLE SHITTY FUCK FUCK FUCK LICENSED BITCH NES games.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm totally TMNT generation, you old fogeys freak me out sometimes with your "Thundercats" and "Transformers".

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

And Gobots. And Rocklords.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

And Mask!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone remember C.O.P.S.?

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

And She-Ra!

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

and Centurions!

And those glow in the dark techno knight things that had the hologram banner dealies!

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Thundercats and Transformers were totally before my time!! I think of that as the shit my big brother watched when he was a kid. TMTNTMTOEMSL

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked the motorcycle guy from C.O.P.S., cos you know, A SUPER FAST MOTORCYCLE!! And Long-Arm!

Mainframe was hott, too.

xpost

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

and "He-Man"!!! I mean, wtf was up with THAT shit?? Thank God I was too young to enjoy it, I watched "DuckTales" instead.

xpost I remember "C.O.P.S."! Fucked up show, that, but I remember liking it.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!

I never understood how the Centurions transformed without breaking their limbs.

Also, is it just me or was there never an actual explanation for the Transformers existing?

The Gobots movie is one of the best films of all time - no jokes.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

KIngfish is thinking about Luminaries.

And please please don't diss He-Man - one of the first things other than Superted I remember being fanatical about.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"KIngfish is thinking about Luminaries."

I thought it was Visionaries, not Luminaries. I might be wrong though.

I thought the Battle Beasts were cooler, though.

I lived through all those major toy franchises. He-Man, GI Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, Silverhawks, Voltron, etc. 80's action figures were the shit! After Ninja Turtles though I was getting too old for that stuff. By the time Power Rangers came around I was way too old to enjoy them without laughing at them.

I loved wearing my He-Man shirt, it made me feel powerful. I also had a Silverhawks t-shirt. Voltron pajamas, too. When I was in the shower I used to pretend I was Voltron getting cleaned before going out to battle.

The ninja turtles movies were HUGE. I remember going to see it and it was packed. The projectionist's booth even had a little plush ninja turtle (the kind with suction cups) hanging in the window.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

C.O.P.S!!!!

They were fucking bad-ass. Must google now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

visionaries, quite right.

Have we mentioned MASK yet - that was one of the best ones. There's no better character name than Dusty Hayes

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

ADRIAN LANGSTON HERE IS THE MOVIE!

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~schapira/tmntnet2.mov

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Friday, 21 May 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

BRAVESTARR. Nevar forget.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 21 May 2004 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to have the first issue of the TMNT comic. My second grade homeroom teacher confiscated it the day after I bought it. My parents even talked to her so as to claim it back. She said she had already given it to her son and that it would be wrong to take away a gift. Bitch.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 21 May 2004 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

TMNT ruled!!!,
I have asked a lot people who was your favorite turtle, and found interesting socio-cultural results.
I go to an engineering school, so most kids here liked Donatello.
Rafael does seem to be popular among future metalheads and other angry nihilists individualists (guess who I liked most)
Leonardo = he was the leader, so most people that later became high school presidents and shit like that liked him. He was best among preppy Harvard types.
Michaelangelo = well everybody liked him, so I guess that leaves the bulk of the population.

― Cacaman Flores, Friday, 21 May 2004 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't forget Captain Power, or pretty much every other toyline that Matt at X-Entertainment has written about

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 21 May 2004 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Captain Power? I thought this was going to become a discussion of environmentalist cartoons.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 21 May 2004 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

(because I read that as Captain Planet, obv.)

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 21 May 2004 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I think at my school(s), Michaelangelo was the favourite. For some reason I really liked Leonardo - maybe i was really anal. Also, Mitchnet, OTM, that level on the nes was hard as hell, used to drive me nuts. And it was hero turtles in the UK (your guess is as good as mine).

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 21 May 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG WTF GO GO USAGI!!!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 21 May 2004 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

BASTARDU RABBITO!

http://galeon.hispavista.com/komakino/cgs/021115_usagi300.jpg

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 21 May 2004 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

And it was hero turtles in the UK (your guess is as good as mine).

They started showing old episodes again here in Portugal, and oddly enough *some of them* have "teenage! mutant! ninja! turtles!" as their theme song, while others have "teenage! mutant! hero! turtles!", so it might not be a nationality thing.

Mind you, both of those are better than the last breath era episodes where they tried to turn 'em all grim & gritty by getting rid of Shredder & Krang, replacing them with an evil alien space lord, and having the turtles be subjected to odd mutations that temporairly turned them into Mr.Hyde type monsters. The theme song to that era commited all kinds of heresies, chief amongst them being replacing the wonderful and aesthetically pleasant "when the evil Shredder attacks/these turtle boys don't cut him no slack!" with the awkward "when the evil Shredder attacks/turtles....fight back!"

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 21 May 2004 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

fuckin silverhawks! I loved that show and no one seems to remember it. Yes-Man and Monstar.

does anyone know of any websites that have the themesongs of all these 80's cartoons downloadable?"?????

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 21 May 2004 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.vandegrift.net/evert/retro.html

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 21 May 2004 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

awesome. thanks!

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 21 May 2004 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Did anyone read the original comic books?

Of course I did. Why d'you think you couldn't remember seeing Leo beheadING Shredder anywhere ever ;-)?
Comic Mike was far less mental than his counterparts - he liked a fight, read and wrote his own fiction, big hearted, ultra-sociable, adopted a pet cat, was apparently an excellent chef - HE HAD DEPTH, PEOPLE.

Also, C.O.P.S. was weird but fun. In a total shocker, the lead was black but next thing ya know, we got Hammerman.

― Barima (Barima), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/cartoonresource/cops_banner.jpg

Darrin Baker as Donny "Hardtop" Brooks
Len Carlson as Brandon "The Big Boss" Babel and Sergeant Colt "Mace" Howards
Jeri Craden as Whitney Morgan
Paul De La Rosa as Berserko
Paulina Gillis as Ms. Demeanor
Marvin Goldhar as Squeaky Kleen
Elizabeth Hanna as Mirage
Dan Hennessey as Turbo Tu-Tone
Ray James as David "Highway" Harlson and Stanley "Barricade" Bach
Peter Keleghan as Hugh "Bullseye" Sikorsky
Mary Long as Tina "Mainframe" Cassidy
Nick Nichols as Buttons McBoomBoom and Rex "Bowzer" Pointer
Ron Rubin as Dr. Badvibes
Ken Ryan as Baldwin "Bulletproof" Vess
Jane Schoettle as Rafaella "Nightshade" Diamond
John Stocker as P.J. "Longarm" O'Malley
Brent Titcomb as Rock Crusher

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

'Beserko' and 'Ms Demeanour' are names indelibly etched in my memory. I also had the dude with a rocket head in action figure form. Don't remember the white box with a red cross though.

― I owned Captain Power (Barima), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I just remembered that when I first heard of Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot, it made me think of C.O.P.S.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

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