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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 02-07-2012, 10:33 PM   #81
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This is a big reason why the live-action movies and the Image run are probably my favorite universes.
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Old 02-07-2012, 10:45 PM   #82
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While I see why Laird was trying to keep the show serious and therefore Mikey got most of the jokey lines (as his OT character was pigeon-holded by it), I agree with the opinion that the others should have joked a little more as well. It would have been cool seeing Leo and Don lighten up more.
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Old 02-08-2012, 09:37 AM   #83
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One of my favorite parts of 2K3 was how much he teased everyone after winning the Battle Nexsus. I actually tell people about this when explaining how good the show was.
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Old 02-08-2012, 11:38 AM   #84
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This is a big reason why the live-action movies and the Image run are probably my favorite universes.
Yeah gotta say that the first movie is my favorite incarnation of any universe. I love the donny and Mikey combo so funny
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Old 02-09-2012, 08:00 PM   #85
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One of my favorite parts of 2K3 was how much he teased everyone after winning the Battle Nexsus.
Hell yeah. I think the Battle Nexus is one of the best recurring arcs, written so well, love it!
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Old 02-09-2012, 10:01 PM   #86
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On a side note, another HELL YEAH for us 62.50% that love 2k3 Mikey! Seems to me like the people who didn't like him just voiced their opinions more loudly, because they are actually the minorty. We should start a club - "Defenders of the TURTLE TITAN"! That's it...new saying-under-my-name-thingy.
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Old 02-10-2012, 03:11 AM   #87
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He acted no worse then any of the OT turtles and argue all you want but they weren't very funny either.
And your arguements are more valid than ours, because?

Also, you seem to be basing your entire judgment of the OT Turtles on Turtles Forever, which was incorrect. OT Mikey does bear a lot of similarity to his 2003 counterpart, but the other Turtles were much more different in the OT than in Turtles Forever. For example, all of the other Turtles in the OT would typically call him out when he was slacking off or obsessing about pizza.

However, given that OT Mikey was the most popular turtle, his attitude was the one that came to be associated with the whole franchise, so they probably used 2003 Mikey as their repository for OT throwbacks. As has been said, part of the reason he was annoying might be that all the humor came from him. I feel none of the OT Turtles are as annoying because though they all had humorous bits on occasion, the humor was uniquely suited to their personalities. With Mikey being almost the only humorous character in the 2003 show, almost the only type of humor they had was the loud, in-your-face type. Some that is okay. A bunch of it is grating.
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Old 02-10-2012, 08:42 PM   #88
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I think, as other's have already stated, that in the "Fast Forward" and "Back to the Sewers" seasons, Mikey's character is almost a caricature of himself. As TV Tropes would put it, a "Flanderization", where his most prominent characteristics were magnified and exaggerated. ( http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...Flanderization )

But, before FF and BttS, the 2K3 series' interpretation of Mikey is definitely one of my favorites!
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I liked him in what I saw, but I stopped watching regularly around the time of the Battle Nexus-life was always getting in the way and I fell behind. By the time I started being able to watch, FF was happening, and I was feeling "meh" about that...

But Mikey is my favorite!
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It's worth noting that as annoying as 4Kids Michelangelo was in some other places, he has "The Christmas Aliens" to compensate. It's one of my all-time favorite episodes of that series, the only good Turtles Christmas special, and one of my favorite Christmas specials, period. It has a heart, Klunk is adorable, and it's one of the few Christmas specials to include a car-chase. That's worth a lot.
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Old 02-12-2012, 04:54 PM   #91
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It's worth noting that as annoying as 4Kids Michelangelo was in some other places, he has "The Christmas Aliens" to compensate. It's one of my all-time favorite episodes of that series, the only good Turtles Christmas special, and one of my favorite Christmas specials, period. It has a heart, Klunk is adorable, and it's one of the few Christmas specials to include a car-chase. That's worth a lot.
That was the first episode I watched of the 4Kids, and the one that hooked me to the series.

I like all the versions of Mikey, and although at times his 4kids personality wavered on obnoxious, to be fair, all four turtle personalities were exaggerated to obnoxious lengths sometimes during the series. I've always had a sore spot whenever the cartoons /certain movies tried to play up stupidity with the turtles. Despite having four very unique personalities and interests, they are all trained, disciplined, battle savvy, and intelligent creatures. They're still funny when they're allowed to be smart- Mike is clever funny, and Raph is sarcastic/deadpan funny. Noone needs to be dumb funny. That being said, I still liked the series as a whole, and I generally liked all four turtles, just not as much as their first and second movie personalities.
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It's worth noting that as annoying as 4Kids Michelangelo was in some other places, he has "The Christmas Aliens" to compensate. It's one of my all-time favorite episodes of that series, the only good Turtles Christmas special, and one of my favorite Christmas specials, period. It has a heart, Klunk is adorable, and it's one of the few Christmas specials to include a car-chase. That's worth a lot.
Good point. I do love that episode, aside from the inclusion of Silver Sentry, Daimyo, Professor and his gang and Angel, but that ain't Mikey's fault.
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Good point. I do love that episode, aside from the inclusion of Silver Sentry, Daimyo, Professor and his gang and Angel, but that ain't Mikey's fault.
Does this mean we've won you over to the 4kids Mikey side, Nines?
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Does this mean we've won you over to the 4kids Mikey side, Nines?
I wouldn't go that far, Christmas specials are my kryptonite lol.
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Good point. I do love that episode, aside from the inclusion of Silver Sentry, Daimyo, Professor and his gang and Angel, but that ain't Mikey's fault.
I don't really get why people hate those characters. I would much rather a Christmas special be about getting together with friends and partying and feasting than about a debate whether Santa exists, and a revelation that he does and the people who know better are just fuddy duddies, and showing people who would have trouble belonging to any other crowd doing it is great. Besides, we got to see Genosuke cosplay Rocksteady! That's a big plus!
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I don't really get why people hate those characters. I would much rather a Christmas special be about getting together with friends and partying and feasting than about a debate whether Santa exists, and a revelation that he does and the people who know better are just fuddy duddies, and showing people who would have trouble belonging to any other crowd doing it is great. Besides, we got to see Genosuke cosplay Rocksteady! That's a big plus!
I like the Christmas Aliens episode. Centered around children, Michelangelo fits best being the most kid-friendly one.
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Old 02-13-2012, 05:50 PM   #97
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I would much rather a Christmas special be about getting together with friends and partying and feasting than about a debate whether Santa exists, and a revelation that he does and the people who know better are just fuddy duddies, and showing people who would have trouble belonging to any other crowd doing it is great. Besides, we got to see Genosuke cosplay Rocksteady! That's a big plus!
I agree with all of this, but Gen dressed as Rocksteady in Samurai Tourists, not Christmas Aliens.
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I don't really get why people hate those characters. I would much rather a Christmas special be about getting together with friends and partying and feasting than about a debate whether Santa exists, and a revelation that he does and the people who know better are just fuddy duddies, and showing people who would have trouble belonging to any other crowd doing it is great. Besides, we got to see Genosuke cosplay Rocksteady! That's a big plus!
I like all those characters (except Silver Sentry), but bringing them all to the lair at the same time was just... dumb.

And, what Jester said.
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To be fair, though, there are an abundance of Christmas specials where heroes and villains just forget about their whole feud and party together, so seeing the Turtles reveal the location of their lair to close friends seems pretty sane by comparison.
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To be fair, though, there are an abundance of Christmas specials where heroes and villains just forget about their whole feud and party together, so seeing the Turtles reveal the location of their lair to close friends seems pretty sane by comparison.
They do it in the old show not only to April, but to Irma and April's aunt Aggie, Zach's friend Caitlin.
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