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Donatello & Raphael's personalities vs the 1987 cartoon
posted by tmdb43737777STAFFMOD on November 16, 2018 at 9:27 PM
First I understand now that this film was more so based on the original mirage comics with elements of the t.v. show sprinkled in such as the turtles love for pizza but when I was a kid I was always confused by how different their personalities were from the show. Leo and Mikie were very consistent with their personalities from the cartoon but Raph and Donnie were quite different. Raph is portrayed as the angry,aggressive loner of the group rather than sarcastic wisecrack he was on the cartoon. Ironically it's Donnie who takes on cartoon Raph's traits as the sarcastic wisecrack (quite memorably by Corey Feldman) rather than the tech savvy nerd from the cartoon.
Reply by A-Dubya
on January 15, 2019 at 10:57 AM
He was always my favorite, so I agree. I wished he had more tech savvy moments in the film. The only time it even comes up I think, is when he is helping Casey Jones with the old car. It does show he is a deep thinker, when he asks Michelangelo about Splinter in the early moments of the film. You're right though, he cracks jokes more than his cartoon counterpart did.