The 10 Most Unmanily Superheroes (A Turtle Makes the List!?)
 

http://www.bamkapow.com/top-ten-unma...oes-442-p.html

I couldn't believe it. If i was gonna pick any turtle who's unmanily it'd be (don't get me wrong, ui love him. He's my close second favorite Turtle, right after Raphael) Donatello. Heck in the previous entry it claims that Mr. Fantastic is unmanily because of his weak power and his intellect. Go fig.

hehehe poor guy, can't catch a break, huh.

Funny...he reminds me of a frat boy alot....so...those guys are soaked in testoterone and beer most of the time :P Oh well. Someday you too will be manly, my young green friend.

What's unmanly is comic book nerds who make lists like that.

Amen to that Spitfire.

In actuality, I wouldn't classify any of the turtles as 'unmanly'. They're all physically fit beings who lay the smack down on their enemies.

Confusion has set in... Batman is on both lists as manly and unmanly... he's #10 on both lists... :o

Don't those dopes know nunchaku can be highly deadly when used right?
Poor Mikey, sure he's a fun lover but he's a little stud in his own right. They all are...

I looked at the manly one...CONAN?? gimme a break...no freaking way, out of who they picked...Logan #1 then Lobo...I mean come on. Logan's got claws and he's hot, furry and all that. Lobo's gotta sweet hog and well, he used to hang with space faring delphinuis.

Mikey's not manly. He's turtlely. :embarass:

What I've always found frightening about Mike is that even though he seems so affable, he's trained to kill... and he's good at it.

Manly turtle. :D

Is He-Man on that list? :P :lol:

He'd be on the most fluffiest man list

Michelangelo is plenty manly.

But more importantly... anyone takes this list seriously when they include freak'n BATMAN?

That's just not right!

What? The Tick ain't on the most manly list? That just can't be.

He has to be manly, he drinks manly beers!

I won't bother reading the lists, but did Dr. Girlfriend make the manly list? If not, people must agree that it's a pretty weak joke the writers of VB are frequenting.

I think the 9th Doctor should have been on the list but he really isn't a "super" hero...but he does go around saving lives, fightign Daleks & Cybergoons and still finds time to romance Rose. He's a man....all man.

Poor Mikey.:( Aquaman is the most unmanily super hero EVER.:tlol:

Well, naturally I am enraged beyond words; although I do have several things to say. Starting with the fact that this has to be the most uninformed paragraph on the page. If I didn't know any better I'd say this was just another I-think-I'll-enrage-people-online-to-overcompensate-for-my-social-inadequacies thing, the internet seems to be full of them, founded on them even.

>Michelangelo –
>
>He’s the team screw-up that causes more problems than he solves. The
>rest of the turtles constantly have to cover for his mistakes. He’s also
>the team idiot who usually just cracks unfunny jokes and eats pizza all

He seems to be treated as the team idiot in all continuities, but he's never really earned it. It's like the only way you know that he's an idiot is because the other characters tell you. That, and someone has to not understand Donatello's techno-babble/pseudo-science jargon so he can give the viewers the short version. Michelangelo has saved the day and been captured several times, I'd say he broke even; the TMNT seem to be equally balanced despite Leonardo being the leader. All the Turtles ate too much pizza and cracked jokes during fights, even Leonardo occasionally.

>the time. But more than anything else, his weapon is his downfall. When
>was the last time you ever saw nunchaku’s kill a man? Not killing men is
>unmanly. He’s also single handedly the character responsible for all the

"Not killing men is unmanly" . . . right. Then that puts almost every DC and Marvel hero on the list, except for accidental deaths where the villain dies and the hero doesn’t save them. Also does this person even know what a nunchaku is? They were the most violent weapon of the series, censored in Europe and ultimately replaced altogether because they were so deadly. Aside from being easy to conceal on the streets, the rope kind can pass through a metal detector. Also he's not taking into account the skill needed to wield them; nunchaku are complex and difficult to wield, they are also prone to inflicting injury on its user. Any idiot can hold a sword (Leo's complicated double handed style is a discussion for another time) and decapitate someone, but nunchaku can bludgeon someone to a slow and painful death. I've often wondered why they weren't Raphael's weapon, and as near as I can tell it's because Splinter wouldn't let him. That, or he can't handle them; you'll notice that when they switched weapons to fool the Turtlebot, Raph grabbed the swords.

>damn catch phrases like ‘cowabunga’ and so on. Noting more harmful to
>youth culture can be presented than the promotion of the word
>‘cowabunga’. As if the world needed more pseudo-surfer slang.

You know before the internet I had no idea there was an anti-cowabunga conspiracy society, same with pizza and female superheroes (Women in Refrigerators). I mean, who doesn't like pizza? It was a way for the audience to identify with them, if they ate worms and garbage they would just be grotesque monster vigilantes; but when we see them eating pizza we realize that they're "only human." Anyway, I'm getting off track; the word was used by Snoopy, Garfield and several other popular characters long before TMNT arrived on the scene. Cookie Monster of Sesame Street began to exclaim "kowabunga!" in the 1970s. (Note the "K" spelling. He used it during a Letter Of The Day segment as an example of a "K" word. When challenged by Prairie Dawn that it was not a word, he replied: "Kowabunga too a word. It esoteric, but it poetic in its own right.") Besides all the Turtles said it, usually after an important victory; and when you’re jumping off of something there are only two things to say 1) Cow-a-bunga! or 2) Ger-on-i-mo! and the later makes even less sense.

A single simple swing of an (wooden octagonal) nunchaku is able to completely shatter a solid coconut, (which is stronger than a human skull.) I learned this while being taught to use "Sahng Jeol Bahngs," (Korean for nunchaku.) So, Mikey's weapons are actually more effective than Raphs even (depending - BTW, a sai is not a bladed weapon.)

Has anybody seen Fast Times at Ridgemont High? I always figured Michaelangelo's character was based off of "Spicolli". If so, what we see is a very censored version of a truly righteous turtle.

Pfft... unmanly and has WAAAAAAY too much time on his hands.

Means ALL the Turtles would be on that list. I mean, other than attacking robots, they use their weopons in the old series mainly to cut pizzas. They just trip everyone else into traps or something. I find it very closed minded this guy based Mikey solely off the old cartoon series, and not even trying to bring up the comic book. Even in the new series he gets in the way, but damn... it's more interresting than if he had no personality whatsoever.

Indeed ....plus whoever made that article apparently isnt capable of saying anything without bashing it with hate , apparently he needs someone to show him what you can actually do with a nunchuk....

wow I didn't wake up this moring intending to be a bitch, but damn that artical pressed my bitch button!

where do I even start?

I find it interesting that the list is supposed to be reasons for why a character is unmannly, but there isn't a single example that really goes under the catergory of unmannliness. All the things listed are examples of why the writer thinks Michaelangelo is a screw-up, or an idiot (examples that are obviously just biased opionions that have nothing to back it up). the artical doesn't even come close to giveing a true example of unmasculine behavior on Michaelangelo's part. He didn't even throw in the fact that once or twice Michaelangelo has been made to wear a dress, which would have been at least a valid example of unmannliness--but didn't.

If this artical was on "which characters are the biggest screw-ups in boy cartoons" he might actually have some validilty in his list. But it isn't. So I can only conclude that the writter is just a petty Michaelangelo basher who just wanted to piss on the character for no appreant reason, other than he probably needed another character for his unmannily list.

His paragraph is biased and stupid, especially for the aim of the artical. Now if he had an artical un cartoons most useless charcters for what reason I might take what he says seriuosly.

I agree. But, here's a question among TMNT fans, which is the most and least manly Turtle?

they are all manly in their own ways. This artical is pretty damn stupid. And he only talks about classic toon Michaelangelo. Who I have to say, in all the incarnations that I have been aquanted with him with; Is far from a screw-up or unmasculine. Classic Michaelangelo was just as involved in battles as the other turtles where, and was reliable in a battle too. There where a few instances where he was intrusted in doing some important things on occassion, instead of just acting a decoy. ANd he was far from being a dumb-ass.

Which is manly and least manly? that's corny.

they're all manly all in their own ways. Now studly, definantely...they're well built.

to be completely honest this sort of thing about Michaelangelo being the team screw-up or worst fighter, or most unmanly turtle is pissing me off. Especially since i've been seeing things like this more and more recently on the web.

What the hell! Why is it Michaelangelo is the turtle that is the victim of so much character bashing. Its always, Michaelangelo is the stupid turtle, the worthless one. Seriously where are all these things coming from? Michaelangelo in any medium is far from being the worthless one in the group and I'm tired of seeing so many fans saying stuff like that to put him down. it pisses me off.

If your going to bash him why don't they use character quirks about him that are least true. why is it always : Stupid, Screw-up, and worthless as ways to bash him, when they aren't true!!! :evil: :evil:

Mikey screws stuff up, sure, but only a little more than the others. Leo screws up, Raph screws up, Don screws up. Each in their unique ways.

Old toon Mikey was based on the fad of the surfer dude back in the 80's, brought on by things like Fast Times, and Bill and Ted (which post dates the old cartoon, but it emphisizes my point).

Mikey is,has been, and always will be my favorite turtle in all forms...even though Raph keeps gaining. Mikey clowns around, and I feel people are equating goofiness with incompetence. They seem to think he has a "Corporal Capeman" (from Inspector Gadget) level of annoying goof-o-city about him. But even if that were true, I'd rather have a team "screw up" than a character devoid of personality. I always loved characters with wacky personalities, and it explains why I don't like Leo as much as the others (but I still love Leo, don't get me wrong).

And I feel Mikey had more clout with the group tahn Old Raph did. Old Raph did get messy, he did fight, but sometimes seemed too preoccupied with cracking snide remarks. New and Comic Raph could aslo be seen as the screw up for a completely different reason... he's too damn agressive. Maybe he's the most manly one.

But it does seem this article writer has WAAAAAAY too much time on his hands... I'll stop it right there before I get into a totally inappropriate "what's also on his hands" joke.

you make some good points Drtooth. All the turtles screw-up on occasion (especially in the old toon :P ) and there where a few times in the old toon where Michaelangelo gets blamed for somethings that wasn't even his fault :| Times like that always ticked me off. And I think as far as screwing up goes Raphael and Michaelangelo are about even.

Although putting the screw-up portion aside. The thing the kinda irks me about this artical is the notion that the only way to be manly is through violence and physical prowess :roll:. I think Michaelangelo is plenty manly in the fact that he always steps to the plate when he has to, and he is honest.

and sports. Don't forget sports. It's all the entire Guys and Gals stereotype that has been around since the dawn of time. You could say wearing a dress is unmanly, but having the balls to wear one is pretty manly in and of itself. It's a real big Philosophical debate, if you think about it.

yeah I know :roll: hate that stupid genderising of certain sports. When will people learn from the ancient Greeks?! 8) .

But seriously I think there is more to be a man than just how physically strong you are or how well you can kill. I think it has to do of how true and comfertable you are with your self and present your self. Michaelangelo comes across to me of some one who is very comfertable in his own masculinity. So much so that he isn't afraid to show when he is upset, and show emotion. He's not afraid to act freaked out if one of his brothers are hurt (movies) or so insecure he wouldn't take a typically girly animal for a pet like klunk the cat (new toon/Mirage) or an exotic bird named Pete (Old toon), or even to explore his creative side by writting or drawing (Mirage/image) which typically has been something as a taboo to most males to engage in/to do. I like how Michaelangelo is secure enough in himself that he doesn't feel threatened by doing these types of things and still manages to to one kick ass warrior.

Heck he's well balanced and thats sexy and its cool he doesn't take himself so seriously that he is a staunch cookie cutter male figure. I think any guy who can pull off wearing a dress to act as decoy for the imporatance of achieving an objective, and still kick ass and use those nunchucks with out acting self conscience is plenty manly; only some one comfertable with himself and his masculinity could do that. Michaelangelo is a modern guy.