Donatello (original movie incarnation)

Donatello (or "Don" or "Donny" or "Donnie"), a fictional character, is one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT). His bandanna is typically portrayed as purple, his favorite color (although originally all four Turtles had red bandannas), and his weapon is a bo (quarterstaff), which he sometimes uses as a tool or a walking stick. He is named after Donatello (Donato di Nicollo di Betto Bardi), the famous Renaissance sculptor. Image File history File links Donatello; Ninja Turtle This is a copyrighted poster. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; (clockwise from left) Raphael, Leonardo, Michaelangelo and Donatello. ... A fragment of an actual Purple machine found in Berlin at the end of WWII In the history of cryptography, 97-shiki-obun In-ji-ki (九七式欧文印字機) (System 97 Printing Machine for European Characters) or Angooki Taipu B (暗号機Båž‹) (Type B Cipher Machine), codenamed PURPLE by the United States, was a... Image of a human-shaped silhouette holding a Bo (棒, Japanese Weapon) A bo (棒) is a long stick usually made out of wood or bamboo. ... Quarterstaffs in use, from Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs, published 1891 A quarterstaff is a Medieval English variant of the staff weapon, consisting simply of a long shaft of hardwood, usually oak, hawthorn, hazel or ash. ... Statue of Donatello at the Uffizi Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi) (1386 - December 13, 1466) was a famous Florentine artist and sculptor of the Early Renaissance. ... By Region: Italian Renaissance Northern Renaissance *French Renaissance *German Renaissance *English Renaissance The Renaissance was an influential cultural movement which brought about a period of scientific revolution and artistic transformation, at the dawn of modern European history. ... Sculptor redirects here. ...

Donatello is portrayed as something of a geek. He is good with technology and he invents many of the gadgets used by the other team members, thereby saving them on countless occasions. Something of a pacifist (although he fights alongside his brothers), he is the most introspective and nonviolent of the Turtles, preferring to use his mind and intellect to find a solution to a problem. Accordingly, his weapon appears less lethal than those of his brothers. In the North American version of the 1987 cartoon show, Donatello's voice actor is Barry Gordon, who also voices Bebop. In the 2003 cartoon show, he is voiced by Sam Regal. StephTheGeek is a prime example of a female geek A geek is a person who is fascinated, perhaps obsessively, by obscure or very specific areas of knowledge and imagination. ... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an animated television series produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson Film Productions Inc. ... A voice actor (or voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animation (including animated feature films, television series, animated shorts), radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... dee-dee is in luv with H.J.J.H but his stupid a$$ dont even know this isnt that bad only if he knew what he had he would be the happiest person in the whole wide world class of 08 to the fairley softball team {outfield} and the... Bebop in the 1987 TMNT cartoon. ... The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, first aired on February 8, 2003, marked the revival of the franchise by Fox Network, with the help of 4Kids Entertainment, as a Saturday-morning cartoon in Foxs Fox Box programming block (which has since been renamed 4Kids TV). The 2003...

Donatello is generally not in the "spotlight" in any of the portrayals of the TMNT, but co-creator Peter Laird has on occasions announced that Donatello is his favorite Turtle, and Donatello has a large fan following. He tends to stay out of trouble, but he does get captured occasionally in the 2003 animated series, and in the Image Comics incarnation of the TMNT, he became a cyborg after his body was partially destroyed from being shot and dropped out of a helicopter. (He maintained a positive attitude nonetheless.) This was not considered part of the "official" storyline, however. Peter Laird (born January 27, 1954 in North Adams, Massachusetts), created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 1984 along with Kevin Eastman. ... Image Comics is the third or fourth largest comic book publisher in the United States. ...

External link

• Donatello profile on official TMNT web site