“ | Donatello is a fellow, has a way with machines! | ” |
—Theme Song |
Donatello, aka Donnie, is a member of the Ninja Turtles. He is a mutant Red-Eared Slider turtle who is the brains of the Ninja Turtles and the third oldest of his brothers. As the brains of the Ninja Turtles, he is the one in charge of building and designing the vehicles, weapons, gadgets, and antidotes for the team. Even though he has a genius intellect for April O'Neil, and stressing out, which can affect him in his training with Splinter and his Ninjutsu skills. Wearing a purple bandanna that represents his intelligence, he wields a 6-foot-long Bo-Staff/ Naginata as his signature weapon of choice. He is in love with April O'Neil. He has a rivalry with Casey Jones, Baxter Stockman/ Baxter Fly, Dr. Victor Falco/ The Rat King, Takeshi/ Tiger Claw, Anton Zeck/ Bebop and Frankenstein's Monster. Donatello debuts in Rise of the Turtles Part One.
Backstory
Fifteen years ago, Hamato Yoshi had suffered from the loss of both his wife, Tang Shen, and his daughter, Hamato Miwa, by the hands of Oroku Saki after a fire that took place in the Hamato Dojo in Tokyo, Japan one night. Since Yoshi had lost everything on that night, he fled to New York City to start a new life, which was the place that Tang Shen wanted to move to with Yoshi and Miwa. One day in New York, Hamato Yoshi went to a pet shop and bought four baby turtles. As he was leaving from the pet shop to head back home, he bumps past a strange man in the streets. Yoshi had bad vibes about this man and decided to follow him, leading him into an alley.
That was where he saw the man meeting up with a group of men that were identical in appearance to him. As they gathered around, one of the men was seen holding what seemed to be a canister with a weird, green substance. But then the meeting was interrupted when Yoshi accidentally steps on a rat that was passing by him, causing him to blow his cover. The group of men spotted him and so a fight occurs when Hamato Yoshi tries to defend himself from the men. During the fight, the canister falls on both Yoshi and the four baby turtles, causing the substance to spill and mutates all five of them.
With the ooze coming in contact with them, Hamato Yoshi mutates into a humanoid brown rat, which was the last animal he came in contact with before his mutation. In the other hand, the four red-eared slider turtles mutate into humanoid versions of themselves. Due to their new mutant forms, they fled from the surface and moved into the Sewers so that they could live there. The five mutants move in an abandoned subway station, which they now call home. Hamato Yoshi, now adopting the nickname of "Splinter" becomes the adoptive father of the mutant turtles and names them all after his four Renaissance Italian artists. One of the turtles was named Donatello, named after the Renaissance Italian artist, Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi. At some point while Splinter started to raise the turtles, he introduces them into the ways of Ninjutsu in order for them to become the new ninjas of his family's clan, The Hamato Clan. During their training, Donatello was given a purple bandanna and a 6-foot-long Bo-Staff/ Naginata as his signature weapon of choice.
History
Appearance
Personality
Powers, Abilities, and Weaponry
Weaknesses
Relationships
Inventions
- Party Wagon
- Patrol Buggy
- Shellraiser
- Stealth Bike
- T-Rawket
- The Turtle Racer
- Turtle Blimp
- Turtle Sub
- Blow Gun Darts
- Tegaki
- Bo-Staff
- Electro-Grenade
- Laser-Guided Missile Launching Staff
- Metalhead
- Ninja Smoke Bombs
- Stun Gun
- Turtle Mech
- Cheese Phone
- Donatello's Laptop
- Filtration Units
- Grappling Hooks
- Gripping Handel
- Mutagen Tracker
- Ooze Specks
- Practice Dummy
- Retro-Mutagen
- Spy-Roaches
- T-Phones
- T-Pod
- Turtle Gliders
- Mind Control Cure
- Giant Bug Spray
- Zip-Line Backpacks
Episodes
Season 1
- Rise of the Turtles Part One (Debut)
- Rise of the Turtles Part Two
- Turtle Temper
- New Friend, Old Enemy
- I Think His Name is Baxter Stockman
- Metalhead (Episode)
- Monkey Brains
- Never Say Xever
- The Gauntlet
- Panic in the Sewers
- M.O.U.S.E.R.S Attack!
- It Came From the Depths
- I, Monster
- New Girl in Town
- The Alien Agenda
- The Pulverizer
- TCRI
- Cockroach Terminator
- Baxter's Gambit
- Enemy of my Enemy
- Karai's Vendetta
- The Pulverizer Returns!
- Parasitica
- Operation: Break Out
- Showdown Part One
- Showdown Part Two
Season 2
- The Mutation Situation
- Invasion of the Squirrelanoids
- Follow the Leader
- Mutagen Man Unleashed
- Mikey Gets Shellacne
- Target: April O'Neil
- Slash and Destroy
- The Good, the Bad, and Casey Jones
- The Kraang Conspiracy
- Fungus Humungous (Episode)
- Metalhead Rewired
- Of Rats and Men
- Wormquake! Part One
- Wormquake! Part Two
- Mazes & Mutants
- The Lonely Mutation of Baxter Stockman
- Newtralized!
- Pizza Face (Episode)
- The Wrath of Tiger Claw
- The Legend of the Kuro Kabuto
- Plan 10
- Vengeance is Mine
- A Chinatown Ghost Story
- Into Dimension X
- The Invasion Part One
- The Invasion Part Two
Season 3
- Within the Woods
- A Foot Too Big
- Buried Secrets
- The Croaking
- In Dreams
- Race with the Demon
- Eyes of the Chimera
- Vision Quest
- Return to New York
- Serpent Hunt
- The Pig and the Rhino
- Battle for New York Part One
- Battle for New York Part Two
- Casey Jones VS. The Underworld
- The Noxious Avenger
- Clash of the Mutanimals
- Meet Mondo Gecko
- The Deadly Venom
- Turtles In Time
- Tale Of The Yokai
- Attack Of The Mega Shredder!
- The Creeping Doom
- The Fourfold Trap
- Dinosaur Seen in Sewers!
- Annihilation: Earth! Part One
- Annihilation: Earth! Part Two
Season 4
- Beyond The Known Universe
- The Moons of Thalos 3
- The Weird World Of Wyrm
- The Outlaw Armaggon!
- Riddle Of The Ancient Aeons
- Journey to the Center of Mikey's Mind
- The Arena of Carnage
- The War for Dimension X
- The Cosmic Ocean
- Trans-Dimensional Turtles
- Revenge of the Triceratons
- The Evil of Dregg
- The Ever-Burning Fire
- Earth's Last Stand
- City at War
- Broken Foot
- The Insecta Trifecta
- Mutant Gangland
- Bat in the Belfry
- The Super Shredder
- Darkest Plight
- The Power Inside Her
- Tokka VS. The World
- Tale of Tiger Claw
- Requiem
- Owari
Season 5
- Scroll of the Demodragon
- The Forgotten Swordsman
- Heart of Evil
- End Times
- When Worlds Collide Part One
- When Worlds Collide Part Two
- Yojimbo
- Osoroshi no Tabi
- Kagayakei! Kintaro
- Lone Rat and Cubs
- The Curse Of Savanti Romero
- The Crypt of Dracula
- The Frankenstein Experiment
- Monsters Among Us!
- Wanted: Bebop and Rocksteady
- The Foot Walks Again!
- The Big Blowout
Gallery
Trivia
- This incarnation of Donatello has diastema (a gap between his teeth).
- He is right-handed.
- He is the second youngest of the four turtles.
- This incarnation of Donatello has a crush on April.