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is Mikey really the youngest in the 80's toon? He really doesn't seem like he is the youngest of the turtles in that series from what I've seen. He doesn't really have alot of "youngest memeber of the group" qualites to him from what I've seen of him.
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I don't think Mike is the youngest in the old toon, I think they are all about the same age. Honestly I liked that because he was just a guy who took things more in stride than the others, like in the mirage comics, neighther old toon or Mirage Mike ever acted like the annoying yet cute younger sibling, they where their siblings equals not little brothers that needed extra protection.
Honestly I don't get why this obsession of age order has come from? Or why in recent mediums the writers feel the need to distinguish the turtles age rank by giving them obviouse characteristics that classify them as oldest second oldest, ect. Personaly I like their age placement to be ambiguious so it's not clear
who is oldest and youngest. I don't like it because they tend to give them sterotypical characteristcs of younger and older. Which is what they've done to Mike recently by making him more childish and dependent with a mind set of an eight year old, and they made him the annoying little brother sterotype, ugh! They even went and gave him a more childish nick name "Mikey"; in the mirage comics they never call him Mikey, it was "Mike" which sounds less cutesy and babyish.
In every incarnation Mike is portrayed younger and younger with his easy going and humourous characteristics being converted into immaturity, and does younger siblings always portrayed as being dumb or hyper? Being the youngest in the group doesn't mean you can't be responciable and serious sometimes. What if Mike is the oldest instead of the youngest? The oldest can't be easy going and humourous? Look at CGI Mikey, he barely registered as a teenager in that movie more like a cute eight year old brother acting all helpless and niave. Does any one thing that's a litte at odds to how a fearsome ninja should be portrayed?
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what episode is it that that quote comes from? Is it in season three?
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it's from the episode "what's Michaelangelo good for?" and I can't remember what season it's from. This is a special episode because Mike doesn't once mention or eat pizza in it!
