Donatello Hamato (Donnie-2012)

Physical appearance Donnie is a mutated anthropomorphic turtle with brownish green skin. His signature color is purple, most prominently featured in his purple mask. His weapon of choise is a bō (rokushakubo) which also converts to a naginata (a Japanese halberd) via a switchblade inside one end of the staff.

Unlike all his previous incarnations, Donnie is much taller and skinnier than his brothers. He also has a gap between his teeth and distinct brown-red eyes. When in combat or when being stealthy, he has whited-out eyes (like the 2003 incarnations).

Just like most incarnations, he wears a purple mask where the tails of the mask are longer than any of his brothers, except for Raph's. His ninja gear consists of brown knee and elbow pads, light brown bandages wrapped around his ankles, wrists and white bandages wrapped around his fingers.

Personality Donatello's characterization more closely aligns with his mischievous 1990s film iteration than his soft-spoken 2003 iteration. The fact that he is only a teenager learning everything on the fly is heavily emphasized and he frequently answers questions from his brothers with sarcastic and outlandish responses before yelling that he doesn't know.

He is much more high-strung and quick to anger than any of his previous iterations. He frequently gets frustrated when he can't accomplish a task. He can be defensive and argumentative, especially when his intellect is challenged (though ironically with Fugitoid, they both get along really well). He has been known to lash out whenever someone messes with his inventions or experiments, especially Mikey, but it's often verbal rather than physical. Despite this, Donnie is overall a compassionate character and would support his family and allies anytime.

That said, he is still incredibly intelligent. He is frequently praised for having "a way with machines". He is a skilled scientist, engineer, and mathematician. He begins to devote more of his time to studying technology, biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, metallurgy, and eventually astronomy (as of Season 4) than ninjutsu.

Although he is a skilled martial artist, he often puts more faith in his high-tech gadgets and machinery than spiritual advice and traditional ninjutsu methods taught to him by Master Splinter. Because of his genius-IQ level, Donnie tends to over-analyze, overthink, and over-complicate things (especially Splinter's advice), ultimately putting too much of a burden on himself and making bad decisions.

Similarly, his social skills are slightly lacking. His nerdiness can sometimes get in the way of properly communicating and connecting with others. He’s frequently teased by his brothers (especially Raphael) about his unrequited feelings for April and his inability to take a hint. Early in the series, he had to make himself a flowchart in order to navigate interactions with her. When it comes to explaining complicated things, he sometimes forgets that others are not on his same intelligence level—leading to confusion and frustration for all parties. However, he becomes more socially skilled as the series goes on.

Skills, powers and abilities Mutant physiology: As a mutant, the Mutagen Ooze heightened Donatello's physical attributes to considerable extraordinary levels. He possesses strength, speed, reflexes, agility, endurance, recovery speed, and stamina much greater than even the finest human specimen athlete. His mutant abilities has been listed as shown below: Enhanced strength: Donatello possesses an adequate level of strength. He and his brothers have been mutated and have had years of training under a grand master of martial arts, so their strength has been amplified as a result. In "The Pulverizer Returns!", Donatello overpowered the Foot Clan humans with no difficulty. Enhanced speed: Despite being a turtle, he is not slow. Donatello is able to move at great speed, able to free run on rooftops without losing momentum. He can also move things at enhanced speeds too, such as twirling his bō staff. He can also spin his staff at incredible speed to momentum to his strikes. Enhanced reflexes: Tmnt206 0751 Donatello also possesses great reaction speed, allowing him to dodge projectiles such as lasers the Kraang's blasters, and enemy attacks. He can run fast enough to avoid laser fire from a Kraang weapon. In "Rise of the Turtles", Donatello was able to dodge laser fire from Snake's weapon designed by Kraang at very close-range. Enhanced agility: Donatello can coordinate his bodily to levels that are beyond then the finest human athlete. In "New Friend, Old Enemy", he has shown to acrobatic flips from one building to another building at further distance. Enhanced healing: Donatello can heal faster than normal humans. He was able to take numerous hits from mutants like Dr. Tyler Rockwell, Dogpound and Slash, seriously injuring himself and was still able to fight. He also was able to fight Shredder, but was hurt by him. In "Slash and Destroy", Donatello healed from severe injuries including his sprained arm from Slash's brute attacks in several days. Enhanced Stamina: Due to his ninjutsu training, Donatello has high-level stamina , which allows him to keep up with his training. A good exhibition of his enhanced stamina is when Donatello is training the Pulverizer. Enhanced endurance: Donatello has high-level endurance and can take hits better than Mikey can take, but not as good when compared to Leo and Raph. Retractable Limbs into Shell: Donatello has the normal ability of a turtle to get into his shell. Semi-aquatic adaptations: He is able to swim long distances, dive deeply and hold his breath underwater for a long time