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View Poll Results: Is 4Kid's Mikey the weakest interpretation of the character?
Yes, they make him a complete joke. 29 17.26%
He was fine until he became the "Battle Nexus Champion!" 29 17.26%
It's a bum rap. 4Kids Mikey is just fine. 110 65.48%
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Old 01-18-2013, 03:11 PM   #241
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87 Mikey is the only one where he wasn't portrayed as either stupid or an attention seeker.
87 Mikey is the ultimate attention seeker. He's always doing things designed to get people to look at him. Performing magic shows despite not being able to do any magic, dancing Irish jigs for no reason, turning the conversational topic to pizza at any opportunity, talking with a California accent for no reason and oh yeah, when it's his birthday he tells everyone "let's throw a humungous party for someone we know." And whilst I don't think he was particularly stupid, Raphael certainly did.

But y'know, this kind of comment just underlines the problem with discussing different iterations of these characters - people ignore the stuff that doesn't fit with their argument and over-emphasise the stuff that does. Truth is, there's very little difference between 2k3 Mikey and 2k12 Mikey. The only real difference is that all the characters are more coherent and consistent in 2k3 and 2k12 because those cartoons weren't thrown together in the same way as the OT.
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Old 01-18-2013, 07:08 PM   #242
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87 Mikey is the ultimate attention seeker. He's always doing things designed to get people to look at him. Performing magic shows despite not being able to do any magic, dancing Irish jigs for no reason, turning the conversational topic to pizza at any opportunity, talking with a California accent for no reason and oh yeah, when it's his birthday he tells everyone "let's throw a humungous party for someone we know." And whilst I don't think he was particularly stupid, Raphael certainly did.

But y'know, this kind of comment just underlines the problem with discussing different iterations of these characters - people ignore the stuff that doesn't fit with their argument and over-emphasise the stuff that does. Truth is, there's very little difference between 2k3 Mikey and 2k12 Mikey. The only real difference is that all the characters are more coherent and consistent in 2k3 and 2k12 because those cartoons weren't thrown together in the same way as the OT.
It was kinda different. The others didn't treat Mikey like an annoying attention-seeker in the 80's cartoon. In fact.. most of the time the others were complaining about Leo being too serious or Donnie being locked in his lab all the time, but not so much about Mikey. The 2K3 Mikey got to the point that it seemed noone wanted to hang with him. The Nick2012 Mikey isn't that bad... yet.... but they're already acting like noone likes to partner off with him on missions. And the ep where they split into A and B teams... Leo and Raph admitted they needed Don, but never once mentioned they needed Mikey.
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Old 01-19-2013, 12:11 AM   #243
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87 Mikey is the ultimate attention seeker. He's always doing things designed to get people to look at him. Performing magic shows despite not being able to do any magic, dancing Irish jigs for no reason, turning the conversational topic to pizza at any opportunity, talking with a California accent for no reason and oh yeah, when it's his birthday he tells everyone "let's throw a humungous party for someone we know." And whilst I don't think he was particularly stupid, Raphael certainly did.
But he was never annoying about it. In fact OT Mikey kinda sulked to himself the few times the Turtles did make fun of him.
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Old 01-19-2013, 04:18 AM   #244
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I like mikey in this series so far, granted I'm not very far but the first turtle titans episode was trash. The ending was dumb and I had a hard time getting through it.I think the nick version of mikey is much more amusing but I like mikey's voice better in the 2k3.
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Old 01-19-2013, 12:17 PM   #245
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IMO, the Mirage version is the worst.
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Old 08-03-2024, 12:34 AM   #246
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I can't help but notice the last post here was a year before the PD movie came out.
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Old 08-03-2024, 01:44 PM   #247
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Guess clips/trailers of that one hit and everyone was speechless. lol


I like 2003 Mikey. A little obnoxious, but he's largely pretty tolerable.

2012 Mikey is the one who'd probably lead me to ingesting vast quantities of poison if forced to be trapped in a room with him for a long period of time with no guaranteed escape.
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Old 08-03-2024, 03:00 PM   #248
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As one of the 108 people who voted that Mikey is "just fine", I will reassert that Mike was my favorite of the 2003 turtles.

That said, it might be worth re-considering who the worst iteration of Mikey's character is, seeing as how this thread was released 12 years ago, before the NICK cartoon even started.

I would say Rise Mike is most "off" from what we expect Mikey to be, but even as I do, it's all art, which is welcomely subjective. So, best I can do is say that Rise Mike is my personal least favorite.
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Old 08-03-2024, 03:18 PM   #249
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I like MM but I'd have to say MM Mikey is one of the worst versions of Mikey. He's just very bland, doesn't have the stand-out personality that most versions of Mikey have. I'm not sure what the casting agents saw in that voice actor cause he doesn't bring much to the table for the character.
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Old 08-03-2024, 03:37 PM   #250
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IMO, the Mirage version is the worst.
It's the only one worth bothering with. He is the most "human" of all of the Turtles. He is contemplative, he has multiple girlfriends, he writes, etc..
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Old 08-05-2024, 04:21 PM   #251
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2014-2016 exists, so no.
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