Michelangelo - TMNT

To go on a pizza tasting journey across the world, stopping at all the best pizza parlours possible! What is it that makes the pizza so good? My friends at home would like to know, and to see photos of me at these locations. Don't be afraid to include yourself! You can also include recipes for pizza. (Also please don't lose the Nunchaku's - ie., Don't let your kids play with me, thank you!)

Michelangelo (or "Mike" or "Mikey" or "Rooish") is one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT). His bandanna is typically portrayed as orange, his favorite color (although all four Turtles originally wore red bandannas), and his weapons are nunchaku (variously either one or two); however, he has also been portrayed using other weapons like grappling hooks and tonfas, as nunchucks are illegal in many places, so some of the TV show creators avoided using them. He is named after Michelangelo Buonarroti, the famous Renaissance sculptor, architect, painter, and poet.

Michelangelo is probably the most light-hearted/relaxed of the Turtles. Being more fun-loving than his brothers, he was given a much bigger role and was more popular in the 1987 cartoon series, directed at children, than in the more serious original comic books. He came to epitomise the early 1990s popular culture incarnation of the TMNT, coining most of their catch phrases; hence, he is possibly the most famous Ninja Turtle. Some refer to Michelangelo as the youngest of the Ninja Turtles, although they are traditionally all the same age (15 yrs). Because Kevin Eastman's original "ninja turtle" concept drawing (1983) portrayed an unnamed turtle with nunchukus strapped to its arms, some consider Michelangelo to be the first ninja turtle created.