blue For the TV show, TMNT creator Peter Laird decided to give each Turtle a different color to make it easier to tell them apart: Leonardo has a blue bandana, Raphael a red bandana, Donatello a purple bandana and Michelangelo an orange bandana.

Lean more about Leonardo, the oldest brother of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Leo is your classic oldest sibling. He's a little bit bossy, but he firmly believes he has everyone's best interest at heart! As the oldest, Leo considers himself the leader of the brothers.

Jennika After being severely wounded by Karai, Jennika is transformed into a mutant turtle when Donatello uses Leonardo's blood to give her an emergency blood transfusion. As a mutant turtle, she wears a yellow mask and wields tekkō-kagi.

Michelangelo appears in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles portrayed by Noel Fisher. In the film, he is the youngest and the jokester of the group who loves watching viral videos, playing video games, and skateboarding.

Like his brothers, he is named after an Italian Renaissance artist, in this case, Leonardo da Vinci. In the original comics, all four of the Turtles wear red masks, but for the creators to tell them apart, he was written and redrawn to have an ocean-blue mask.

While the 1987 cartoon adaptation that rocketed the Turtles et al. to stardom took the horrifically dark turn of having Splinter be a human man mutated into a rat monster, the film remains true to the comic's origin story of Splinter having always been a rat, the beloved pet of the ninjitsu master Hamato Yoshi.

All of the Turtles: Leo is both the oldest and the leader of his brothers and little sister of the TMNT. And he likes to be the one on the team who is not afraid of anything. That's why Raph refers to him as "Fearless Leader" sometimes.

Venus That honor goes to Venus, TV's first (and still only) female Ninja Turtle. Unlike her male counterparts - Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo, all of whom were named after noteworthy Renaissance artists - Venus got her name from the famously arm-less Greek statue depicting the goddess Aphrodite.

Like it's done in the original. Books are beating up the earth protection force it's the secret government agency whose job it is to hunt down and capture aliens or mutants.

Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, trained in the art of ninjutsu by a wise rat sensei they call Master Splinter.

10 Most Powerful Turtles in TMNT Canon (Ranked)

1. 1 Donatello. Donatello is a certified genius with inventions that could match those of Marvel Comics' Reed Richards.
2. 2 Slash.
3. 3 Leonardo.
4. 4 Raphael.
5. 5 Michelangelo.
6. 6 Jennika.
7. 7 Venus.
8. 8 Metalhead.

Once each ninja got his own specific and vastly different personality, Raphael quickly and explicitly became the designated "cool" Turtle of the group, a title he lives up to across multiple forms of media including this new piece of fan art.