The Rat King from the 80's toon

[Sage Ninja]

Townsend Coleman has a wide vocal range, not only did he voice the Rat King, but he also voiced **drum roll** Michaelangelo! That's right the surfer speaking party animal Michaelangelo him self shares the same actor as the Rat King.

And I really do like the OT version of him. I really liked that "pied piper" way about him, I would have liked to have seen him do an assault on the city on a grander scale useing his pipe with the rats. Him controling Splinter was awsome, it's to bad he didn't do it very often.

What was cool about the Rat King in the classic toon was that he wasn't personaly after the turtles, he had his own agenda and couldn't care less about them, and because of this he didn't feel the need to pick fights with them (unless they got in his way) and even sided and helped them out on occassion. What I liked about Rat King was when he dicided to attack the turtles he didn't have any qualms about going all the way, and neighther did the turtles.

And yes, the Rat King did seem to have a thing for April. I recall him saying he thought she had very pretty hair.