What kind of 'Dere' fits each of the turtles?

[victory_angel]

In anime there is a personality trait called a 'Dere' Type. Dere itself is a sufix slang term used by fans of anime and manga to describe various character attitudes and personality traits. More often then not these types are associated with girls, but I have seen them applied to boys as well.

The four most common types of 'Dere' are:

Tsundere

Yondere

Kuudere

and Dandere

There are other 'Dere' types as well, but these four are the more commonly used.


Tsundere is the most basic of the Dere types.

Tsundere tend to be angry, rude, and mean to the world around them. But occasionally show they have a softer side.

Raph fits the Tsundere Type, at least IMHO. On the outset he's gruff, quick to anger, always has a less then friendly attitude. But yet he's occasionally shown to have a gentle caring side towards animals and towards his brothers when they are injured, in serious danger, or troubled. Particularly when said brothers is Mikey.


Yondere is the exact opposite of the Tsundere.

A yondere is gentle, kind, and open to being with other people. However occasionally they do show they have a vicious streak as well. Particularly when it comes to a love interest as in extreme cases a Yondere will go into a murderous fixation. Such as killing their love interest so no one else can have them, or killing off rivals for said love interest.

Donnie strikes me as a Yondere since he's often calm and level headed. He strives to help out his family where he can. And even if the result isn't favorable, the intention was in the right place...most of the time. However Donnie has also shown he has a dark sense if humor sometimes such as his black widow comment in Turtle Temper. He was also willing to go as far as to kill Karai to save April if it absolutely had to come to that. And also while he does feel bad whenever Casey supposedly dies, he does find humor in seeing Casey getting hurt on occasion.

Leo is harder to place.

I'd say he's somewhere between a Kuudare and a Dandare.

A kuudare is a person is similar to a Tsundere, in that they are blunt, cynical, and cold to those around them but sweeten as they open up to you. A Dandere on the other hand is calm and quiet, but will become more talkative as they open up.

Mike is more of a Deredere character.

Deredere are characters who are entirely sweet and energetic and they show this personality to everybody.


What is everyone else's opinion?

[CyberCubed]

Oh lawd, more tumblr/anime memes. Just what we need.

The only one of those terms I recognize is Tsundere because virtually every anime has one hot-headed female character who acts bitchy and bosses around others for no reason at all.

[Powder]

I'm practically weeaboo trash & even I find this thread cringey.

& a lot of what you wrote isn't even accurate at all...

[CyberCubed]

Its amazing the TMNT fandom survived from 1984-2012 without any anime memes/tropes invading the franchise. Then the Nick cartoon attracted a whole bunch of anime fans who never watched TMNT before and started applying all these tropes to the characters. Tumblr being a hive mind didn't help.

I seriously don't remember any anime fans following the 2k3 series when it was airing. This all started around the Nick era.

[TurtleTitan97]

I'm pretty sure this sort of thing existed for the franchise way before the nick show aired, CyberCubed.

On another note, I agree with Powder. And I say this as someone who likes certain anime.

[victory_angel]

Originally Posted by Powder

I'm practically weeaboo trash & even I find this thread cringey.

& a lot of what you wrote isn't even accurate at all...

It was very rough paraphrase. But even then a lot of the Dare types are a spectrum so there isn't one fixed setting.

Here's a better run down on each type:

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Spoiler:

[ssjup81]

I keep forgetting what all that dere stuff is, but I always thought it mostly was used for pairing stuff. For instance, Tsundere (which is the only one I actually remember) was explained to me a few months ago and the first character to pop into mind for me was Helga from Hey Arnold because of how she treated Arnold, when in reality, she was in love with him. Also seems people go by how the characters treat their love interests. In other words, in my mind, I associate it with characters with crushes on some other character or romance.

That aside, I guess I can't picture either of them as anything dere or whatever.

[snake]

Originally Posted by Powder

I'm practically weeaboo trash & even I find this thread cringey.

& a lot of what you wrote isn't even accurate at all...

Came here to post weeaboo trash.

Thanks for doing my job.

[Ashwolf]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Its amazing the TMNT fandom survived from 1984-2012 without any anime memes/tropes invading the franchise. Then the Nick cartoon attracted a whole bunch of anime fans who never watched TMNT before and started applying all these tropes to the characters. Tumblr being a hive mind didn't help.

I seriously don't remember any anime fans following the 2k3 series when it was airing. This all started around the Nick era.

I watched tmnt LONG be4 I got in2 anime and back then, I only watched the 03, only went through the ot series after the nick series started

[victory_angel]

Originally Posted by ssjup81

I keep forgetting what all that dere stuff is, but I always thought it mostly was used for pairing stuff. For instance, Tsundere (which is the only one I actually remember) was explained to me a few months ago and the first character to pop into mind for me was Helga from Hey Arnold because of how she treated Arnold, when in reality, she was in love with him. Also seems people go by how the characters treat their love interests. In other words, in my mind, I associate it with characters with crushes on some other character or romance.

That aside, I guess I can't picture either of them as anything dere or whatever.

Dere comes from Deredere which does mean lovestruck or loveydovey.

And yeah it is often used as love interest kinda things which is why these traits revolve around girls. For example if the main female lead is a shrew to the main guy who also happens to be her love interest such as Taiga from Toradora. Some of the guys from Hetalia such as Germany is a Tsundere, while Russia is a Yandere, and Prussia is a Kamidere

However like I said these are not flat personality styles but personalty spectrum's.

For example I consider Donnie a Yandere. However Shredder fits the Yandere description a lot better as he fits the more extreme side of the Yondere trope. (I.e. Committing murder for a love interest)

Still Donnie does have behaviors that lean into the Yandere trope to a lesser extreme (Obsessed with April that borders on unhealthy, threatened by Casey's relationship with April, at times finds amusement in Casey getting hurt *i.e. Casey getting kick into the dirt by April during Visionquest*

[Powder]

It's yandere, with an A, damn it.

[victory_angel]

Originally Posted by Powder

It's yandere, with an A, damn it.

Thanks for the correction, Power. I'm mildly dyslexic so typos and misspellings are common.