Favorite and least Favorite TMNT characters ever.
 

This will not only serve as good discussion, but also a voting poll for one of my TMNT comics where I'll show the top 5 fave TMNT and top 5 least fave TMNT characters. I mean anything, the old and new cartoon, the Mirage comics, the movies, whatever. And it doesn't have to be the turtles themselves. Could be anybody.

My fave is Michealangelo, he's basically what TMNT stood for in the old show (he's the one with the most surfer lingo, the biggest pizza addiction and the 'Cowabunga!' that the tmnt were most known for), and he's funny in the movies as well, and it's nice to see him finally kick ass in the new show.

Least fave is Lord Dregg. Just boring and lame, and he looked like one of those 'lame one-shot villian' characters, but instead he was THE villian and replaced Shredder.

My Favorite is Slash. Hopefully if he does make a return in the New Cartoon, He isnt the dumbed down version...heh...

Least favorite...and let et me be the first here, but i know not last... :evilgrin: ..to say Venus. For obvious reasons stated 97849674838 times.

My favorite is Casey Jones without a doubt. Ever since I was a toddler I loved Jason movies (yeah, I was watching them at that age) so I naturally clung to the guy in the hockey mask on one of my favorite cartoons. It was even better that he was a raging lunatic that was just as likely to kick the crap out of one of the turtles as he would a bad guy. I liked his movie version too, though he didn't get a chance to but any heads.

To me the new toon is the perfect balance. He went apesh*t on those Purple Dragons in his premiere episode. Pretty hardcore for a kid's show. But he also calmed down a bit and has a more reasonable side.

My least favorite, of the main characters (not counting any lame-o oneshot characters from the old toon or anything) is without a doubt Michelangelo. I've never liked any form of him except for maybe what I've seen in the Mirage comics. In the old toon he was hellbent on eating pizza 24/7. That's all he EVER talked about. It got old real fast. In the movies it was just one really awful joke after another. Aside from "I love being a turtle" he didn't have any good one-liners. And the new toon is his worst incarnation yet. A whiney little brat. He's totally obnoxious. What bugs me most is that he Won't. Stop. TALKING. It's like the writers can't go a single scene without giving Mike 60 lines of dialogue. And rarely is any of it funny.

I have other favorites and least favorites, but those are my number ones.

fav SLASH
I pray to god to let him to be in the new show


and hated old show stockmen for two reasons

(1)Change his skin color to white

(2) he was a FLY

ummmmm........... probley uuuuuu out of all the epasodes of the old and new, there are non that i don't like.

My favorite is (and always will be) Michaelangelo!! :D He's great in every version I've seen him in and always gets me laughing.

My least favorite is, well, I don't really have a least favorite actually

My all time favorite character from the original cartoon was Rocksteady! Not only was he funny, but he was also more loyal to Shredder and much more able to control his emotions than his pal Bebop!

My least favorite character was Howie, Irma's boyfriend for 2 of the whole episodes. The guy would sing offkey for minutes until April and/or one of the turtles would beg him to shut up. I was so glad he didn't become a regular. By the end of the ep, Raphael was just about ready to beat the crap outta this dork.

My favorite would have to be Slash (Insane Alien Criminal version) or maybe Dreadmon

Least fave: Ehhh I didn't much care for old toon Leatherhead

Old Toon:

Favourite: Shredder (duh)
Alternative favourite: Raph or Don
Least favourite- Leatherhead is pretty annoying.. I Guaran-tee.... :dead:

First Movie:

Favourite: Splinter
Alternative Favourite: Don

Least favourite: Shredder (don't ask... I think I need to have a re-evaluation of my views here!)

My favorite character is Splinter, although Rocksteady is high up there too. I didn't like Mona Lisa (that salamander/lizard chick) or Venus from Next Mutation. Actually, I just wasn't particularly fond of Next Mutation ^^;

I have plenty of favourites from the old toon, Scumbug, Rat King and Slash being some of the few but my least favourites are definately those two blonde kids from the "great boldini" episode. Can't remember names.

that would be Zack the fifth turtle and some friend of his. I didn't like Zack either, so lemme add him to my 'least favorite' list.

There's not really any characters i don't like.

Can't them a single fav as there's so many i liked. My favourite turrtle in the cartoon was always Raphael. He's also my fav turtle in the movie. Another favourite from the movie is Tatsu and Shredder.

Leatherhead was one of my fav minor villains, i like his straight talking. I actually liked him better than Rat King. Krang and Shredder are my fav villains of all time. Splinter is another fav.

I wasn't too keen on Don Turtelli but i've grown to like him. I liked Baxter better as a fly than he was a human. He was more wimpy as a human.

Mr Ogg may be my least fav, along with the neutrinos.

add another one for Mr. Ogg. He was so annoying.. thank God he was a one-shot villian....

Other faves of mine were classic Leatherhead and Slash. I mostly liked Archie Slash causehe was protrayed more as the hack-n-slash psycho the toy portrayed him as, but he was ok in his first cartoon episode appearance. i also liked April, but mostly due to her looks since sometimes she got annoying. At time it felt like she was somehow forced into the episode cause they just HAD to have her in nearly every single episode... I like how the new toon sometimes just involves the TMNT themselves and don't always have to have April and/or Casey in em. Another fave of mine was Mondo Gecko, I felt the Archie comic protrayed more as the crazy heavy metal skateboarder he was meant to be than the cartoon. I also liked Armaggon from the Archie comics as well as their take on April, kicking ass under Splinter's teachings. I also like Oyuki, always thought she was cute, and wished she also learned to fight like April did, but oh well. At least she became a regular. Ninjara was cool too.


I also didn't like the cartoon's versions on Wingnut and Metalhead...

favorite: Triceratons

least favorite: Zach, the fifth Turtle....and his brother too.

My Fav is Tokka but Raph and shredder are up there too.

My least fav is Lord Dregg he didn't tickle my fancy as the main baddie insted of shredder.

Favoritre Character: Leatherhead in all and any forms! No ones cooler or better. Plus in the old toon his voice owned! And he fought Ratking and teamed up with him to! Wish he was in the old show more! He better be in the new show more :P
Most hated Character: Veren annoyed the hell out of me. He was a whinny little baby and he wou;d never shut up. Plus he looked like a reatrd

Other than the turtles, my favourites would have to be any one of the Mutanimals, I always loved those comics as a kid. I also liked Groundchuck and Dirtbag from the old show. As for least favourites, it'd have to be Venus, and then Walker from the third movie.

Old show fav: Raph... he was tough but funny in the best sarcastic way possible (:

Old show fav villian: KRANG! What's not to love about a disembodied brain? >_> Plus he was more serious than Shredder and had more of a developed character.

Old show least fav: One-shot villians...x_x bleh! Wasn't ever a fan of Bebop and Rocksteady either, they just did too many stupid things. Vernon was irritating and stupid...

Didn't like much of anything in Next Mutation.
Movies.....Raph and Mikey tie but I think Mikey is up there a bit. Fav villian is Shredder ;)
Least fav... the fat guy in III, not because of him, but because of all the jokes made ABOUT him...okay...so he's fat...big deal...get over it ^_~

New show fav: MIKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Obviously >_> ) Everything he says and does cracks me up XD Though sometimes it seems like he gets made out to be TOO wimpy and TOO easily distracted just to make a joke when in other episodes we've seen him get serious when he needs to be.

New show least fav: GARBAGEMAN...-_-;;;

favorite: Donatello

Least favorite: Wingnut

Usagi Yojimbo, though not particulary a TMNT character, but he appeared in both series, is another fave of mine. I haven't seen him in the new show yet, but I did like both of his apearances in the old show. He brought in some cool swordmoves that even Leonardo didn't show off.


I'm also a fan of classic Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady. They all ha good jokes, plus the episodes where the Shredder would actually seriously fight against the TMNT and/or Splinter were always the best.

I'm still undecided on my opinion of the new Shredder. He seems bad-ass, but I'll have to wait until his appearance as an Ultrom.

Favourite: Without a doubt, Leatherhead. Won't go into detail on why.
Least Favourite: Krang's Brain. One of the main villians, I know, but the shrill voice and his ugly appearance just kind of seemed close to disgusting.

Old show fave: Leonardo. He was the serious leader, though not as much as the new toon.

Old show least fave: The mobster they were pretty stupid and pointless, plus April's boss and male co-worker (Vernon?).

New school faves: I can't pick one. The Triceratons but I'm leaning towards Zog and Traximus. Leatherhead too. But if I had to pick...Traximus.

New school least fave: Garbageman because he was disgusting :sick: and maybe a little of new school Leo. I don't know but I think they've powered him up way too much, made him way too important, and way too skillful. Old school Leo seemed more balanced out and he actually had a sense of humor. This incarnation is like Cyclops from X-men. :dead: He's kind of stern and wooden.

By the way, I haven't seen much of the new cartoon, since what I saw of it was not as good to me as the old. What do the new incarnations of all the villians look likem like Rock Steady and Bebop and Leatherhead and Super Krang?

Leatherhead isnt a villian....only in the old show
Anyways out of you lsit only Leatherhead is in the new show because the others werent in the orgnial comics

Ah. Okay.

Glad Krang isn't in the new one. As mentioned before, He was just annoying.

Splinter is my favorite.

And I HATE those frikkin nuetrinos (in particular zach) and mikeys annoying and he pukes too much.

Just wanted to have 3 "warned" members post in a row.

On topic, I never liked April in any form. She was constantly in the old show, every episode. It got irritating. In the new show she's pretty bland. I just don't find her character interesting in the least.

And the Channel 6 people go without saying. I never liked them, even when I was a kid.

Slash, the toy, not the cartoon version. I really want an update of him as a psycho criminal from an alternate reality, he could be Ralph's doppleganger and lead the teenage mutant ninja criminals :)

I really, really, really hate Krang wannabe Shredder Utrom thing :cry: I miss Saki :dead:
"Now I will finish what I began with your ear!"

I'll leave out the core characters in my like part since its kida easy for me to put up those since there in or almost in every version of the Turtles and I would like to give credit to the lesser known characters. But really though Micky and Shredder are still my fav out of everything.

Fav: Armaggonthis guy was one of the coolest villains ever. I cant remember much of his backs tory now since its been years since I read the Future Shark Trilogy. But I remeber I loved to play as him in Tornament fighters and he is still one of the coolest looking Mutants ever sadly I dont think the guy ever got a toy.

Hounarable mentions:
Slash
Krang
The Mutanimals
Leatherhead (New show and Archie version)
Ninjara
Savanti Romero
Karai

Hated: Venus De Milo I couldn't stand her I feel the only Turtles that should be part of the group are the four brothers no one else. Adding a girl just ruined it for me and I thought it was one of the stupidest ideas ever. Not to metnion I felt like she was trying to takeing April's place in the Turtles family and that just made me hate her even more. Also I hated that stpud shinobi magic and they gave her a color one Turtle already had why make light blue? If they were going to have one wear the same color as antehr they should have just all have worn red.

Dishounarable mentions:
Lord Dregg: Really what was the point of getting rid of Krang if the nect thing you make is anther overlord from Dimsion X but isn't even half as interesting. Really whats the point of replaceing the main villains with the same thing but duller.

Oz or whatever that Mr. Mxziplic ripoff with the Peewee herman voice was called.

I'm just going to name my least favorite characters:

Vernon
Burne Thompson
The mob bosses like Pinky McFingers and Mad Dog
Irma
Dregg
Barney Stockman
Venus
Zack

Hmm, I'll have to be the same character on both for me.

Slash

The Archie one was a real good written psycho that (on rare occasions) could be resonable. A perfect guy to throw in when you needed to burn a few pages on someone slicing bodies to pieces :evilgrin:

The old toons two versions of the guy must something of the worst I've ever seen in a cartoon. first as the archie psycho, only with no violence and ten times stupider. then the psycho again, but still without violence and a bad attempt to make him intelligent

thanks alot guys, the results will be shown in my latest TMNT comic issue.

My least favorite character from the old show was Irma! I really didn't like how she whined all the time and I couldn't stand Zach either! LOL

my least fav would have to be the mutant frogs form the old show and fav would be Leo. just cause :D

My all round most favorite character is Leonardo! He's just so damn awesome! :anime:

Other characters I really like are:

Shredder

the other three turtles

April

Casey

Splinter (though I wish they would go deeper into his character and make him more important and interesting in the series).

Tatsu (He is perhaps the coolest assistant Shredder has ever had)

Krang

Rocksteady & Bebop

Neutrinos

Karai

Usagi Yojimbo (though he isn't a TMNT character he's made plenty appearences with the TMNT through out the years)

Tokka & Rahzar


Characters I don't like are:

Lord Dregg

Mobsters from Dimention X

Super mutant versions of the turtles (I didn't see the point. They got physicaly stronger but more clumsy, and they just looked ugly and kinda stupid)

Garbage man

Justice Force (Ugh! Why the shell were they put into the new series!?! I didn't like them back then when I read the comic, and I still don't like them now!
I was hoping that the new series wouldn't have any corny super heroric men in tacky spandex. If I wanted to watch a bunch of goofs run around in tights, I would have watched "Super Friends" instead.
The Justice Force is just a silly concept that shouldn't be put in a serious animation like TMNT.

I've only seen the old show and I hated Dregg. I only saw a few Dregg episodes though. How could you possibly replace Shredder? At least kill him instead of just not having him in the cartoon anymore.

I haven't seen the new show but I've heard bad things about so I don't know if I wanna see it. I'm 27 and was in high school and middle school when the old show was on. Based on what I.ve heard I can't imagine anybody from my generation liking the new show. I guess thats kind of off topic. Sorry. Oh yeah I don't have any particular favorite. I tried to think of one.

Someone in this thread hates letherhead. You gotta be kidding me!

Hmmm.... well, I don't think you should be so quick to judge just because it's a new series. If you like the old Mirage Studios TMNT comics than you would definetly like the new series. It's very close to the Mirage TMNT.
Well, I'm 23 and I love the new series! This is coming from someone who grew up watching the old series! To be honest, both series are are great in their own ways. Give it a shot. :)

Um dude I am 22 and I LOVE the new show :P