Left handed or Right handed

[ninjitsu_magic_47]

What do you think the Ninja turtles are, left handed or right handed? What about Splinter, April and Casey? And does Hun began a punch with his right fist or his left? Karai? Stalkman? Chaplin? I dunno, I'm just curious.

[Revan]

What do you think the Ninja turtles are, left handed or right handed? What about Splinter, April and Casey? And does Hun began a punch with his right fist or his left? Karai? Stalkman? Chaplin? I dunno, I'm just curious.

Without going through my dvd's and looking for instances where they write and without watching the movie and picking out parts where it would be a give away, here is what I think.

Everyone you listed is right handed except
- Don
- April
- Chaplin

I'm sure we could find out by watching closely but this is what strikes me.

[Roseangelo]

It's actually fairly consistantly established throughout several different universes that Mikey is left-handed.

[ninjitsu_magic_47]

April seemed right handed to me, I don't have any DVD's so I can't check :tcry:

[triplexxx]

The turtles, Splinter, and Karai, because they're all highly trained ninjas, are most likely ambidextrous. April and Hun probably right-handed. Casey, I think is either right-handed or ambidextrous. I think Stockman's right-handed, but I'm not very sure. Chaplin, I've no idea, I'll have to watch his episodes again.

[Revan]

I've no idea, I'll have to watch his episodes again.

Noo that's cheating! The thread is what YOU THINK

[triplexxx]

Noo that's cheating! The thread is what YOU THINK
Well, excuse me then. Thought they were asking for the real answers.

[Revan]

Well, excuse me then. Thought they were asking for the real answers.

Ha no it's fine:) . I'd actually be interested to see how my answers stack up. If you find out for sure, let us know

[triplexxx]

;)You're hilarious, Neutrino.

[Revan]

;)You're hilarious, Neutrino.

ha thanks x
*takes it as a compliment*

[Magdolin]

I know that in the second TMNT movie, that Michelangelo was left-handed.

[Jo Dawn]

Rose is right. Mikey is the only left-handed among them.

[Aignatius]

Agreed, the main characters are right handed except for Mike. :)

[ninjitsu_magic_47]

Really? Never noticed, I should watch youtube someday...

[Rooish]

Wow, that's really interesting. I would have thought Don would be the left-handed one. A lot of the lefties I know are really smart and reclusive, but I could just be stereotyping.

[ninjitsu_magic_47]

I should watch out for this.

Anyway, I suppose the Shredder could use both hands to write, being a robot and all

[Sparvid]

I looked through the Raphael comic on the official site, but couldn't find any panel where Casey clearly holds his hockey stick either as a lefty or a righty...

[odupianist]

http://www.ninjaturtles.com/comics/mirage/volume01/17/1704.jpg

[Revan]

http://www.ninjaturtles.com/comics/mirage/volume01/17/1704.jpg

haha cute picture. is that mikey?

[Kunoichi_Haruko]

haha cute picture. is that mikey?

Yuppers. :)

[Revan]

What is he writing? I thought perhaps a comic book but it looks like words with no pictures. :ohwell:

Funny batman shirt. oh mikey

[Rooish]

Wow. Now that's the cutest thing I've ever seen.

[odupianist]

It's from Vol. 1. Issue 17 I think. It's on the main site. It's a cool story, then you find out it's Mike that's writing it. Just read the synopsis on the site.

[wyze2099]

What is he writing? I thought perhaps a comic book but it looks like words with no pictures. :ohwell:

Funny batman shirt. oh mikey

The Image series established him as working on a novel, and that series was based on Mirage continuity, so it's possible he was working on a prose story.

[jenna]

Wow, that's really interesting. I would have thought Don would be the left-handed one. A lot of the lefties I know are really smart and reclusive, but I could just be stereotyping.

Left handed people use the right side of their brain more, so left handed people tend to be quite artistic, more impulsive like Mikey.

Right handed people use the left side of the brain more so can be more logical, more scientific like Don. This is the most common as it is usually the most exercised part of the brain.

[Sage Ninja]

wow, Michaelangelo is a lefty huh? I never pegged him as being a left handed person. Is this true in the only the Mirage comics or is this the case in also the new toon?

Actually given the fact that the turtles only have three fingers and are rather blunt and think, I'm supriced they have the dexterity to hold a pen and do such things detailed things like writting and stuff. I wouldn imagine that it would have been more difficut for them.

[Courk]

Maybe I don't hold a pen properly, but I only really use three fingers to hold one.

[Revan]

Actually given the fact that the turtles only have three fingers and are rather blunt and think, I'm supriced they have the dexterity to hold a pen and do such things detailed things like writting and stuff. I wouldn imagine that it would have been more difficut for them.

It's probably not that difficult after 15+ years. I'm sure they have no problem doing the things most people do. Heck, midgets can do the same things as other people they just do it in their own way at their own pace.

[bullet]

Maybe I don't hold a pen properly, but I only really use three fingers to hold one.

same. i also only use 3 fingers for chopsticks.

[Kunoichi_Haruko]

Okay, because I am an absolute dork with too much time on her hands, I just taped my fingers together and wrote something. It may look (and feel) awkward, but it's easy-- the guys wouldn't have any problems at all. Also, I'm left-handed so I know how Mike must feel when having to jot something down.

...yeah okay, you can stop laughing now...

[Revan]

Way to do some research there, Kunoichi. We are lucky to have you

[ninjitsu_magic_47]

Okay, because I am an absolute dork with too much time on her hands, I just taped my fingers together and wrote something. It may look (and feel) awkward, but it's easy-- the guys wouldn't have any problems at all. Also, I'm left-handed so I know how Mike must feel when having to jot something down.

...yeah okay, you can stop laughing now...

I did the same thing, only I tried to go through the entire day :evilgrin:

[Roseangelo]

I never questioned the ability to write with only three fingers, but the whole typing thing does puzzle me.

[Kunoichi_Haruko]

I imagine they're a bunch of key-peckers. Like how Don was in the second movie.

[bullet]

haha, my sister types with 2 fingers.

sometimes when i'm eating chips or summin i'd only type with one hand, using 4 fingers (since i rarely use my pinky). so with 6 fingers combined im sure they can type just fine.

[Revan]

I imagine they're a bunch of key-peckers. Like how Don was in the second movie.

I noticed in this FF ep that the keys are huge. No problem for are large-fingered friends here.

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w21/ZakNeutrino/donandstarlee.jpg

[bullet]

can't say the same of starlee. she's like "WTF am i supposed to pound it with my fist?"

[Courk]

I was in a cast for a while once due to a broken finger, and I got pretty good at typing with one hand. It's really not that hard. You're slower, sure, but your free fingers learn to pick up the slack, so I don't think the number of fingers would be the biggest hindrance. As I said, it would force them to be just a mite slower, but not too terrible. Though I agree hitting just the intended key may be a bigger challenge with their fingers.

I was going to say "I wonder if their fingers really are that large," but that makes it sound like I can't tell fiction from fact. :-) I don't know how to say this, exactly. I think it would look out of proportion for them to have 3 regular sized fingers on a regular sized palm, so they have a regular sized palm with bigger fingers.

[Warhorse]

Left handed people use the right side of their brain more, so left handed people tend to be quite artistic, more impulsive like Mikey.

Right handed people use the left side of the brain more so can be more logical, more scientific like Don. This is the most common as it is usually the most exercised part of the brain.

Really? Hmmm. I am right handed, but I am very artistic! Tell me, what do you think of my artwork?

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a392/Warhorse_1978/artavatar.jpg

I have never heard of your theory being applied to which hand a person uses. But I have heard of a similar theory, the one where if your eyes look to the right, you are creating or lying but if your eyes look to the left, you are recollecting stuff from your past or telling the truth It's a little test police like to try when interrogating a person in custody!

[Mr. Stay Puft]

If I remember correctly, in "The Unconvincing Turtle Titan", Mikey was drawing with his right hand. I could be wrong and I don't have a DVD to verify this, but I could have sworn he was drawing right-handed. Perhaps he's ambidextrous.

[Roseangelo]

If I remember correctly, in "The Unconvincing Turtle Titan", Mikey was drawing with his right hand. I could be wrong and I don't have a DVD to verify this, but I could have sworn he was drawing right-handed. Perhaps he's ambidextrous.

It very well may be the case that this episode shows him as right-handed. I remember watching an episode or two of the 2K3 series and being mad because it showed Mike as right-handed when he's left-handed everywhere else.

[bullet]

Really? Hmmm. I am right handed, but I am very artistic! Tell me, what do you think of my artwork?

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a392/Warhorse_1978/artavatar.jpg

I have never heard of your theory being applied to which hand a person uses. But I have heard of a similar theory, the one where if your eyes look to the right, you are creating or lying but if your eyes look to the left, you are recollecting stuff from your past or telling the truth It's a little test police like to try when interrogating a person in custody!

nice horse. i was gonna say that i'm an artist who's right-handed as well, excelling in writing, drawing, etc...anything that involves the creative process...and i'm absolutely sad at anything mathematic or logistical. i mean, the hemispheres of the brain aren't all that black and white.

but the theory you've heard about looking left and right is very interesting. i've never heard of that before, i'm certainly going to research on that. if it's true it'd help me in the future! eheheh.

[jenna]

Really? Hmmm. I am right handed, but I am very artistic! Tell me, what do you think of my artwork?

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a392/Warhorse_1978/artavatar.jpg

I have never heard of your theory being applied to which hand a person uses. But I have heard of a similar theory, the one where if your eyes look to the right, you are creating or lying but if your eyes look to the left, you are recollecting stuff from your past or telling the truth It's a little test police like to try when interrogating a person in custody!

Yes, that's true - it's all to do with what part of your brain is active when you're lying.

The right / left handed thing is true - but not black/white; either/or etc. Most people use both sides of their brain. I'm also right handed and very artistic and creative, but I'm also very logical too (left brain - right handed). Although interestingly, I am more ambidexterous than most. (can't write neatly with my left hand, but can write with it and play sports with my left hand, too). An example of people using only one side of their brain might be applied to some of the plonkers who live around here - I live in Cambridge and as you probably know the top university in the country is here in the city. Some of the people here are too intelligent for thier own good. So intelligent that they have absolutely no common sense!

As for your art work - truly outstanding, girl. You get multiple thumbs up from me. Do you have any more? I love looking at people's art work - could you PM me some of your stuff?

[Revan]

Some of the people here are too intelligent for thier own good. So intelligent that they have absolutely no common sense!

Interesting. How do you mean. I love learning about stuff like this. Psych/Soc major. :)

[jenna]

Interesting. How do you mean. I love learning about stuff like this. Psych/Soc major. :)

To be honest, I can't remember the exact science behind it - but the right side of the brain is more for creative / artistic function, spatial awareness, language and the left side of the brain is for logic / science processing etc.

Everyone uses both sides of the brain, but often one side more than others ie you get some people who are really scientifically minded or some who are really creative (this might be reflected in what hand they use).

My example of Cambridge academics is about the fact that you need to constantly keep exercising the brain to keep it functioning and a lot of people who are extremely gifted academically spend so much time exercising the left brain through study and such, that they end up not using the other side of the brain. Examples I've seen are university professors bumbling along through the streets and stepping into oncoming traffic; having no sense of direction (which is a right brain process due to visual aspect of it)... the biggest problem in Cambridge is uni students who ride bicycles. They seem to be completely oblivious to other traffic and just lack.... common sense... (is the only way I can think to put it). In really extreme cases, I've seen people spending so much time in their own head that they lose all awareness of their physical self - forget to shave, wash etc. I'm only talking about a small portion of society, but there seem to be a lot of them around Cambridge university - especially the professors.

A personal example is that I have always been quite right brained - ie artistic, creative, good sense of direction. I used to draw, act, play piano and music. I'm now a financial adviser and have done a lot of studying... I have completely lost my sense of direction and spatial awareness.... I don't know where it went.

[Revan]

^ Cool. It makes sense that someone can use one side more than the other and be very smart but have no common sense. Now that you got me thinking, I do have some friends that are quite inteligent but completely socially retarded.

[Rooish]

What I wonder is how the boys played guitar and bass in "Coming out of their Shells," with only three fingers. ;)

[jenna]

^ Cool. It makes sense that someone can use one side more than the other and be very smart but have no common sense. Now that you got me thinking, I do have some friends that are quite inteligent but completely socially retarded.

Yeah that's exactly it. Social skills is a right brain function.

Of course, it's not quite as simple as I'm making it out to be. The brain is so complex that really I'm simplifying as my understanding is limited to 'A level' psychology / biology. But the essence is there.

[Revan]

What I wonder is how the boys played guitar and bass in "Coming out of their Shells," with only three fingers. ;)

If I remember correctly, the guitars only had one string to pluck.

(And I don't want to be a buzzkill but I doubt they actually played them anyway. I know I'm ruining all the fun here. :ohwell: )

[bullet]

^ Cool. It makes sense that someone can use one side more than the other and be very smart but have no common sense. Now that you got me thinking, I do have some friends that are quite inteligent but completely socially retarded.

there are too many of those people, lol. i wouldn't say socially retarded, but they seem to have people skill problems. this is true of my friend who always scored straight As and ended up in genetics. he's horribly tense when he talks to ANYone, even me sometimes.

[Rooish]

If I remember correctly, the guitars only had one string to pluck.

(And I don't want to be a buzzkill but I doubt they actually played them anyway. I know I'm ruining all the fun here. :ohwell: )

Haha, no worries. I know it wasn't "real." But I think it was supposed to fool us?

Anyway, I doubt anyone could play chords on a guitar with only one string. ;):roll:

[bullet]

there is an instrument like that with 2 strings, though. and i THINK 1 string as well, but it might be summin else.

[Warhorse]

Yes, that's true - it's all to do with what part of your brain is active when you're lying.

The right / left handed thing is true - but not black/white; either/or etc. Most people use both sides of their brain. I'm also right handed and very artistic and creative, but I'm also very logical too (left brain - right handed). Although interestingly, I am more ambidexterous than most. (can't write neatly with my left hand, but can write with it and play sports with my left hand, too). An example of people using only one side of their brain might be applied to some of the plonkers who live around here - I live in Cambridge and as you probably know the top university in the country is here in the city. Some of the people here are too intelligent for thier own good. So intelligent that they have absolutely no common sense!

As for your art work - truly outstanding, girl. You get multiple thumbs up from me. Do you have any more? I love looking at people's art work - could you PM me some of your stuff?


I'd love to, but you'll probably going to have to wait over the weekend and cross your fingers. I've been having issues with my pc, and I have to upload all my scans. The picture I had I just happen to have still in my photobucket account.

I do the Turtles to, and I'll try to find them. It's been a long time, and most of them are just doodles I did in high school when I was getting bord with class!

[Jo Dawn]

What if you're ambidextrous, like me?


...I'm special. ;) :P

[ninjitsu_magic_47]

You're ambidextrous? O_O wow...

[Anarky]

I can tell you the writing hands of at least two of the three Foot Soldiers on this image:

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w161/ninjitsu_magic_47/04.jpg
From left to right:
Probably righty.
Lefty.
Righty.

Now you know so much more about the deepness of the TMNT-universe. It's amazing. Almost like an epiphany.

[ninjitsu_magic_47]

O_O Didn't notice that either!!

[Revan]

I can tell you the writing hands of at least two of the three Foot Soldiers on this image:

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w161/ninjitsu_magic_47/04.jpg
From left to right:
Probably righty.
Lefty.
Righty.

Now you know so much more about the deepness of the TMNT-universe. It's amazing. Almost like an epiphany.

I think you're wrong. Here is what I think it is from the viewers left to right.

Lefty - He's holding the katana in his left hand

Lefty - His left hand is above his right, hence a lefty. Left handed throwers in baseball place their left hand above the right when holding a bat.

Lefty - Again the left had is on top

[Roseangelo]

Swinging a sword isn't like swinging a baseball bat. Correct sword form is actually right over left, no matter which hand is your dominant hand.

[Revan]

Swinging a sword isn't like swinging a baseball bat. Correct sword form is actually right over left, no matter which hand is your dominant hand.

well then the ninjas are holding their katanas wrong. but the baseball analogy still makes sense since they are not even using correct sword form. What else do we have to go on?

[jenna]

I'd love to, but you'll probably going to have to wait over the weekend and cross your fingers. I've been having issues with my pc, and I have to upload all my scans. The picture I had I just happen to have still in my photobucket account.

I do the Turtles to, and I'll try to find them. It's been a long time, and most of them are just doodles I did in high school when I was getting bord with class!

Ooh yeah, please can I see your turtles pics?

[Time Mistress]

What is he writing? I thought perhaps a comic book but it looks like words with no pictures. :ohwell:

Funny batman shirt. oh mikey

He's also got a TMNT action figure on his shelf if you look closely.

Mike's novel in that issue is set in feudal Japan about a wandering warrior looking for his brothers along the way he fights a local warlord and rescues a princess. I absolutely love the issue, a must have for any Mike fan. We get to see Mike fight with both sword and nunchaku. Talbot's art in that issue makes for a very bad@ss Mikey.

[Roseangelo]

Mike's novel in that issue is set in feudal Japan about a wandering warrior looking for his brothers along the way he fights a local warlord and rescues a princess. I absolutely love the issue, a must have for any Mike fan. We get to see Mike fight with both sword and nunchaku. Talbot's art in that issue makes for a very bad@ss Mikey.

Couldn't agree more. This was actually the very first Mirage comic that I ever read and it's still one of my favorites.

[sango]

It very well may be the case that this episode shows him as right-handed. I remember watching an episode or two of the 2K3 series and being mad because it showed Mike as right-handed when he's left-handed everywhere else.

Yah I was puzzled by that too..but I ALWAYS try to notice his lefty-ness! Eheheh! Being one muhself I always notice another leftybop!

I know in the lost season when Mikey's a lil beby and he's coloring, he's definitely using his left hand until Raph grabs his crayon XPPP

[zkarlette]

Since Mike knows very well how to fight with two nunchuks (which is kind of difficult for some) I he could easily be ambidextrous

[Tinuvielsdreams]

Yeah they could be very ambi considering the massive amount of coordination (I assume) it takes to use two dangerous weapons at the same time.
I the world of film and animation, consistency is important but I know sometimes things are changed to get the right shot too.
They switch it up a lot and I know I have seen Mikey and Donny go lefty before
Specifically in the newer FF eppy with all the crazy time stuff. Donny drew something to send out in the mail and he drew with his left hand.

[Gokhan]

i only put this because it interested me an because im amberdextrious (sp).

ive noticed that raph an mike are leftys where leo an don are right handed.

in the tmnt movie raph eats his cereal left handed an in the cartoon mikey colors with his left.

although splinter probably taught the tmnt to do everything with both hands so they wouldnt rely heavily on one

[Cure]

I dunno about the rest, but I've heard somewhere Mikey was ambidextrous.

[triplexxx]

I dunno about the rest, but I've heard somewhere Mikey was ambidextrous.
They are ambidextrous, all of them. They've all had situations where they've each used either hand. I think what's being asked is, which hand do they each prefer to use most.

[Revan]

check this out

http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=19988

[Cure]

They are ambidextrous, all of them. They've all had situations where they've each used either hand. I think what's being asked is, which hand do they each prefer to use most.

Jesus Christ, lighten up. I was just trying to add what I knew, excuse me for not knowing every detail about which hand they prefer.

[Revan]

Mike's a lefty

[Jo Dawn]

Right. Whilst they are all competent with both hands, Mike is the only true lefty. The others are all righties.

By the way, I'm ambidextrous, too.

[triplexxx]

Jesus Christ, lighten up. I was just trying to add what I knew, excuse me for not knowing every detail about which hand they prefer.My apologies, I meant nothing by it, I was just confirming what you said and clarifying what the posed question of this thread was.

[ToTheNines]

Yea, that didn't seem like a malicious post to me, I think your the one who needs to lighten up a bit Cure

[Gokhan]

mikey and raph are both left handed. if u watch the movies you can pick up on raph also being a lefty. in the new 2007 movie when at the breakfeast table he eats left handed as well as attacks left

[twigs232]

Mike left handed, everyone else right handed

[Warhorse]

mikey and raph are both left handed. if u watch the movies you can pick up on raph also being a lefty. in the new 2007 movie when at the breakfeast table he eats left handed as well as attacks left


Eating with your left hand is no sign that you are left handed. I drive, eat and walk my dog with my left, but I write, solder, weld and weed wack with my right.