How do people feel about Donnie being the doormat of the family?

[victory_angel]

Donatello is obviously my favorite turtle, but it sort of bugs me that he is the doormat of the ninja turtles family. He even admits to being the team doormat it in Enemy of My Enemy.

Yes he's had his moments to shine and really prove himself. But there are also lots of other times where he has been electrocuted, injured, ignored, forgotten, abused, insulted, taken advantage of, teased, tormented, and no one (with the exception of April) seems to care.

Raph being a prime offender here but Leo and Mikey have some faults too. (Yes I'm aware a lot of this is meant to be for laughs, but there are moments that are just too cruel to be considered funny)

Some glaring examples:

Rise of the Turtles: Raph breaks Donnie's staff in two and beats Donnie's shell like a taiko drum.

Metal Head:

• Raph calls Donnie a girl
• Raph makes a snide remark to Spike about Donnie's weapon while Splinter is in ear shot.
• After Donnie saves their lives, both Leo and Mikey congratulate him for coming to his senses and destroying metal head. Raph in the meantime proceeds to rub the fact he was also the reason they were nearly killed in the first place in Donnie's face. (Mikey is the only person who seems to take some concern with that)
• And after returning to the lair the other guys are playing a video game leaving Donnie to mope by himself.

Monkey Brains: Comes home injured, his brothers laugh and crack jokes about the fact it was a monkey that had beaten him up.

The Gauntlet: Donnie being pressured by Leo to dismantle the Kraang Mutagen bomb (yes they had only five minutes to dismantle the bomb, but this sort of still counts in some degree)

Mousers Attack: Donnie and Mikey are essentially told by their older brothers they are more or less the red shirts of the team. (In the Star Trek universe, to be a red shirt is equal to cannon fodder)

It came from the Depths:

• Leatherhead grabs Donnie by the face and shakes him like a rag doll not once but twice in the same episode. No one does anything to help (Yes there is that one flash back still that looks like Raph and Leo are trying to save Donnie, but if you watch the actual fight they don't anything to help him)
• Leo also electrocutes Donnie when he uses Donnie's stun gun on leatherhead. No one notices.
• Leo tells Donnie to jump in the water first even though Donnie isn't sure the power cell could be carried through the water without electrocution.
• Raph stresses Donnie out further by jokingly making Donnie think was being electrocuted before slapping him into the water.

I Monster

• When Donnie expresses that he doesn't want to be the first to attack Splinter because he'll be beaten up. Raph comments that being pounded is his specialty.
• When Leo is tossed against one wall, he looks up to see Donnie flying in his direction and moves out of the way so Donnie hits a pipe face first.

TCRI: Donatello's face is once again grabbed by Leatherhead. Leo explains how they lost the power cell to the Kraang before jumping into the water leaving poor Donnie to suffer at Leatherhead's hands yet again.

Pulverizer returns: Donnie's views on the situation are pretty much disregarded the whole episode.
No one notices that Donnie doesn't even join in the High three moment.

Operation: Breakout- (according to a recently released video clip) Donnie is humiliated by Raph in front of April and his entire family.
(Obviously meant to be an episode where Donnie proves himself as a member of the team and fulfill his goal in rescuing April's dad. )

Still it feels with brothers like Raph at least, who needs enemies. So I want to know how you guys feel about this aspect of his character?