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.
