Are the Turtles super strong?

[Leo656]

Rather the opposite. Keep in mind, as fitness trainers go, I'm a strength training specialist. More than any single thing I do, I deal in what it takes to get strong, and what it takes to build power. As a fitness professional, I'm more aware than most how you get back exactly what you put in as far as training, especially training at an "Elite" level. Effort = Results when all other variables are equal. Leo puts more work in, thus there's absolutely nothing anywhere, at all, to suggest that Mikey would be any stronger than him. Everything we know about Mikey as a character - laid back, the group's designated "slacker", usually consumes more sugar and junk food than the other three - directly contradicts that theory. Only someone who was rabidly Pro-Mikey and wanted to see him "win" in all things could possibly hypothesize that argument. Mikey's also usually shown as being on the smaller side compared to the others, and while I'm personally living proof that size isn't everything insofar as strength, it doesn't help the case any insofar as Mikey being any kind of powerhouse. A little guy who only trains 2/3s as often or as hard (at best) as his larger brethren simply isn't going to overpower any of them. It's science.

Factually, he could only really be considerably stronger than Donnie, because Donnie's actually probably even less enthusiastic about training than Mikey is, on account of it cuts into all his time in the lab or the garage, where he'd rather be. To me, I think Raph is probably the strongest with Leo about equal, but for some reason I think Raphael has more natural testosterone which can make a huge difference. Mikey and Donnie are definitely in the lower half, probably with Mikey ahead. I definitely see Mikey as the fastest and most agile (with Raphael coming in last in either category), and agree with those who say Leo is the most well-rounded, as in, while not as fast or as Mikey or having as much explosive power as Raph, for example, only trails by a hair's breadth in either category.

Keep in mind, even the "weakest" of them is still a ton stronger than the average human being, but then so am I. There's little to suggest "super-human" strength, but just by virtue of the shape they're in, they'd all have to be much stronger than the average guy. I deal with "average people" all day long... I'm amazed most people can carry a backpack. Nobody lifts enough, it's sad.

As far as what I base all this on, it's a mix of my own professional experience, and what we've seen them do in the older movies, since that's the closest thing to "real life" we have to compare to. I completely ignore any video game or cartoon examples because by definition reality is going to be "relaxed" and physics will be really inconsistent, thus skewing the data. For that same reason I also ignore the 2014 movie, obviously, because holy sh*t all of that was horrible.