Raphael Hamato [TMNT 2012]

Personality (1)

Just like other incarnations, Raphael is the muscular hothead of the ninja turtle quartet. However in this incarnation, Raph can be erratic emotionally. He is brave, daring, free spirited, and while Michelangelo is the comedian of the turtle quartet, Raphael is the most sardonic and sarcastic. He is very athletically adept. He is also very close with his allies, friends and pets. However, he can be very willful, stubborn, incredibly rude, and aggressive. He is also the most relentless of the turtles, his relentless ferocity makes him a deadly fighter. Raph loves to fight, wrestle, and trash the place. If there’s a brawl, Raphael would love to join in the fight whenever you like it or not. Because of his passion for fighting, he would fight first and reflect and ask questions later. He doesn’t tolerate offensive teasing from anyone. When people and or even his brothers mocks him, he would put up a fight. When Mikey is teasing him in his mischievous ways, Raph would either yell at him or beat him up playfully. Hypocritically, he mocks and taunts his family, allies, and his enemies, often coming up with rude remarks. Raph is not afraid to make light of very dark situations. He would make jokes about dejected and morose people who are miserable. On rare occasions, one of his brothers (especially Leo) or even his sensei may slap him in retaliation. Like his big sister, Miwa (that is Karai), he’s also very cocky and competitive. When he wins games and duels against his brothers, he will rub it in his brothers’ faces, much to their dismay. Raph can be unpredictable, and his ferocious temper can sometimes frighten enemies even his brothers. He can be very aggressive when trying to solve problems, even with his family and allies. Sometimes during training, Raph can get hostile, and he would do anything he can to beat his brothers in sparring matches.

Personality (2)

When he feels misunderstood or irritated, he would erupt at any given moment, occasionally "quitting” the team (more like walking out). This type of situation happened 27 times ("Mutant Gangland"), according to his younger brother Donatello. When he‘s calm, he goes back to rejoin the team. In addition to this incarnation, Raph and Leo’s relationship is a half-love/half-hate relationship. Raph hates the fact that Leo is chosen to be leader. Sometimes, Raph is willing to follow suit and cooperate with Leo, and other times, he’ll instigate. When Raph does instigate, he'll either talk back, get physical with him, or even try to take over as leader. In two episodes during this incarnation, Raph has successfully taken over Leo’s lead after Leo gives in Raph’s rebellious behavior gets in the way of thinking before going into the situation. Sometimes Raph would go down and think before going into situations, and other times he will rebel. Because of his mood swings, his behavior is inconsistent. Sometimes when he actually think things through and tells brothers that they need a plan, it can surprise his brothers. Raph is only angry because he loves and cares for his brothers so much. Despite all this, Raph does have a soft side with his two pets Spike (which turned into Slash), and then in Season 4 Chompy, whom he adores both so much. His pets always calm him down. Sometimes, he shows his soft side to his family and friends. He would do anything to protect them, but he would never admit it in order to stay "hardcore" and to protect his pride. On some occasions, he even has a soft side towards Mikey, as seen in "New Friend, Old Enemy", "New Girl in Town". In "The Wrath of Tiger Claw", he even hugs Mikey, considering he is the youngest, and therefore his little brother. He becomes more softhearted after encountering Mona Lisa in "The Moons of Thalos 3" and especially after Splinter's death in "Requiem".

Skills, powers and abilities

Raphael's most notable ability is his brute strength which is only increased by his anger. His ability to get angry quickly allows him to defeat highly skilled opponents like Leonardo on few occasions (though Leo himself best him on several occasions) and even managed to gain the upper hand against Super-Shredder before eventually later gets defeated by Super-Shredder. Due to his years of intensive and extensive training by Splinter, Raphael is one of the best fighters in the ninja turtles team as well as one of the greatest ninjas on Earth. As evident for his impressive skill, in "The Pulverizer Returns!", Raphael shown to quickly adapt non-lethal weapons like a fence board and utilize it as his primary weapon to defeat the Foot Clans. Raphael is a remarkable teacher as shown in Wanted: Bebop & Rocksteady, Raphael trained his 1987 counterpart and his brothers' incarnations in both armed and unarmed combat. 1 — Mutant Physiology: As a mutant, the Mutagen Ooze heightened Raphael's physical attributes to considerablely 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: 1.1 – Enhanced Strength: Raphael is the physically strongest of the turtles, even stronger than Leonardo. Because of this, he is the first to face off against large and more powerful opponents such as Slash, Triceriton soldiers, and even Super Shredder. He can also carry his three brothers (especially Leo) at will. In "Rise of the Turtles", Raphael shown to easily rip off the arm of a Kraang humanoid robot with his bare hands. Raphael can also overpower regular humans as shown in "The Pulverizer Returns!".

Skills, powers and abilities (2)

1.2 — Enhanced Speed: Raphael is able to move at great speed, able to free run on rooftops without losing momentum. He can also spin his sais at incredible speed. 1.3 — Enhanced Reflexes: He also possesses great reaction speed, allowing him to dodge projectiles such as lasers the Kraang's blasters, and enemy attacks. In "Rise of the Turtles", Raphael was able to dodge the laser fire from Snake's weapon designed by Kraang at very close range. 1.4 — Enhanced Healing: Like his brothers, Raphael can heal injuries much faster than normal humans. 1.5 — Enhanced Stamina: Raphael possesses a high stamina and much stronger than Olympic-level athletes. He is highly remarkable of continue to fight for more than several hours if necessary. 1.6 — Enhanced Endurance: Raphael has an extreme levels of tolerance to pain and can survive from extensive amount of punishment throughout his career; for instance, in "Metalhead", He was able to withstand the impact after falling from several stories of a building without showing any sign of injury and discomfort. In "The Gauntlet", he withstood powerful attacks from the Shredder and later shown to have some injuries instead of large injuries like Michelangelo. 1.7 — Retractable limbs into shell: Though rarely depicted, ("It came from the sewers", "The Good, the bad and Casey Jones" and "In Dreams" are the only episodes where he is seen doing so.) he has the normal ability of a turtle to retract his limbs into the safety of his shell. 1.8 — Semi-aquatic Adaptations: He is able to swim long distances, dive deeply and hold his breath underwater for a long time. 2 — Anger: As seen multiple times through the series, Raphael's greatest weakness has been his anger. However, when properly focused, his temper can be used as his greatest strength, increasing his fighting abilities and his raw strength.

Skills, powers and abilities (3)

3 —Okinawan Kobudō (Sai): Raphael was trained by Splinter in the use of sais. Although Raph can use his sais for their intentional purpose of trapping his enemies weapons within their prongs, he also uses them in a manner akin to daggers, stabbing and piercing his opponents. He can also twirl sais in a similar manner to Donnie's bo-staff twirling abilities, allowing him to deflect shuriken and lasers. When holding them in a reverse grip between his fingers, Raph can use the pommel of his sais to increase the effect of his punches. 4 — Shurikenjutsu: Raphael can throw shuriken with remarkable accuracy. 5 — Tegaki Proficiency: In "Vision Quest", Raphael forged his own custom-made Tegaki, which resembled a pair of Tekkō-kagi but with only two blades. He wielded them as though they were gauntlets. 6 — Stealth: Being taught by Splinter, Raphael, as well as his brothers, are able to be one with darkness and hide and move within the shadows without being noticed. 7 — Pressure Point Intuition: As shown in "Slash and Destroy", Raphael is able to use the famous Pressure Point technique which he uses to defeat Slash. He likely learned the technique from Splinter, who has used previously used it on him. 8 — Artistry: "Return to New York" showed that Raphael has some skill as a painter, from when he painted a "Venus de Milo" artwork on the side of the Party Wagon. One of the walls of his bedroom is also covered with splotches of different colors of paint, but without any clear illustration.

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relationships — Leonardo

His relationship with Leonardo is complicated, causing Raph to lash out. He and Leo tend to fight about who would be a better leader of the turtles, but Leo always comes first, making Raph envious. They seem to fight the most out of all their brothers, but they still care about each other. The two are shown to trust one another more in the family as they are often discussing things privately away from Donatello and Michelangelo such as Leonardo's relationship with Karai. Raph (and sometimes Donnie) often expresses annoyance at Leo's constant attempts at 'hero speak', especially in Season 1 when Leo is most influenced by Space Heroes. However, Raphael does gain some sort of respect for Leonardo after being the leader himself for a while and finding it very difficult. After the Kraang Invasion of New York, Leo was severely injured to the point he was in a temporary coma. Raphael was the one who watched over Leonardo day and night until he got better. While Leo was still healing from his wounds, Raph appeared to have become the de facto leader as he was the one to lead the training sessions with Donnie and Mikey and the one giving orders when Leo could not. When Leo becomes the group's sensei after their father's death, Raphael gains greater respect for him.

relationships — Donatello

Raph fights with Donnie the least, though they argue frequently (especially in the first two seasons). However, Donatello is no angel either because he would yell at Raphael, often making fun of his temper and calling it babyish (“big baby”). Raph also blames Donnie in certain situations such going into a different dimension. Like Leo, Raph also has a tendency to rush Donnie in battle situations when Donnie tries so hard to focus on the technical parts of the battle operation. Both of them have similar fiery tempers. They both challenge Leonardo’s leadership at times, and they are both very impatient with Michelangelo's antics. In "A Foot Too Big", he tried to console Donnie about his feelings for April, telling Donnie to give up because he was a mutant and she was human and that he should get used to it sooner so the pain would be less. He's also very protective of Donatello's feelings (as seen in "The Invasion: Part 1"). Raph also understands how important Donnie is to the team and is extremely worried about him after he gets injured in "Broken Foot".

relationships — Michelangelo

He beats him up in a playful manner, but he loves him. This is shown in "New Friend, Old Enemy" when he comforts Mikey by telling him that he is an awesome guy. Michelangelo messes with Raphael (and Donatello), causing him to retaliate aggressively. Raphael is seen to guiding his baby brother to somewhat the dark side when it comes to villains like in Never Say Xever where he told Mikey not to apologize for dropping Bradford, and Mikey obeyed. He seems to have little respect for Mikey (and Donnie) as a fighter. This is seen in "Mousers Attack!" when Raphael (and Leonardo) kept labeling Donnie and Mikey 'the B-Team'. It wasn't until the near end and dubbed him and Mikey the A Minus-team (which they were fine with, as it was as good as they were going to get from Raph), as he playfully gave Mikey a nuggie. Despite all that, he cares a lot about Mikey and gets furious (like the other two) everytime Mikey gets hurt by an enemy (as seen in "I Think His Name is Baxter Stockman"). He was also the first to show major concern when he realized Mikey was in danger in "New Friend, Old Enemy". He was extremely concerned when Mikey got hurt during the battle with Snakeweed, even giving him a hug. In "Cockroach Terminator," when Mikey was kidnapped by Spy-Roach when playing bait, Raph decided to put his fears aside to go save Mikey. Raph (along with Donnie and Leo) even threatened Leatherhead to stay away from him in It Came from The Depths. Raphael seems to be very close with Michelangelo and is as protective of him as much as he is with the others as seen in "Invasion of the Squirrelanoids" when he rescues Mikey from drowning with the Squirrelanoids In "The Invasion", Raph and Mikey really show off their love and feelings for each other. When the other was sad or scared, he would give him a hug or tell him something comforting.

relationships — Michelangelo (2)

Furthermore, whenever someone hurts Mikey, Raph stands up for his little brother. Raph seems to be the most protective of Mikey. Though he doesn't show it very often, Raph deeply cares about him. Raph is very close with Mikey, sometimes joking with him. For example, in "Panic in the Sewers", Donnie starts rattling on about frost, and Mikey asks Raph if "Maybe he's [Donnie] got an off switch somewhere" Raph smacks Donnie on the back of the head, causing Donnie to yell "OW!" and shut up. Raph then turns back to Mikey and says "Found it!" and the two share a laugh.

relationships — April O'Neil

Raphael's first human friend. He and April don't interact that much. He got a little defensive when the Purple Dragons tried to mug her, but he also laughed at her when they thought Pigeon Pete attacked her. He was also impressed that she escaped from Karai. He and April are good friends. Since season 3, they have become more like family, and Splinter and Mikey specifically consider April and Casey part of their family.

relationships — Casey Jones

Raphael initially fought Casey the first time they met, and then became close friends, having a lot in common (having similar tempers). They're both shown patrolling together frequently. Since Season 3, they have become more like family, as he considers April and Casey as part of their family, though he would never mention it out loud.

Relationships — Spike (Slash)

Raph's relationship with Slash is complicated, to say the least, as a pet love that turned into a conflicted ambiguous love between two fully-grown sentient mutant turtles. Slash was originally Raph's pet turtle Spike, and one of the only individuals Raph showed love and affection to, Raph usually speaking to him as if to another person rather than to a pet; indeed, Spike's first scene in "Rise of the Turtles, Part 2" showed Raph sharing solemn tender words of love to another unseen male character, only for the scene to reveal the recipient to be his non-verbal pet turtle Spike. In the same scene, Raph was deeply embarrassed that Michelangelo witnessed this exchange, implying that Raph prefers not to show tenderness to Spike when others are watching. This kind of tenderness occasionally carried over to Raph and Slash as mutants, as shown in a scene in "Clash of the Mutanimals" when Raph worriedly rushed to see if Slash was okay. When Spike became the mutant Slash in "Slash and Destroy", he demonstrated that he really had been listening to Raph all those years, finally requiting the love Raph had shown him. The two planned to become their own ninja team, but Slash proved unstable, possessive, and violent when he tried to kill Raph's brothers to have Raph all to himself. Raph rejected what Slash had become, and Slash escaped feeling betrayed by the only person he'd ever loved. Raph was so aggrieved by Slash's loss that Splinter had to teach him how to cope with the loss of loved ones.

Realitionships — Spike (Slash) (2)

Slash and Raph did not interact much when they met again in "Metalhead Rewired", but Slash protected Raph from harm, demonstrating he still cared about him. Raph and Slash finally fully reconciled in "Newtralized!", when Slash's stabilizing conscience steadily alienated him from his then-ally, the Newtralizer, and Slash eventually turned against the Newtralizer to defend Raph, his brothers and Casey Jones. Raph invited Slash to come back home, but Slash declined, choosing to remain alone for the time. In "The Invasion, Part 2", when the turtles were permanently evacuating the Turtle Lair, Raph revealed his most cherished personal possession to be his photograph of Spike, expressing how much he still worried about Slash. After an exile in North Hampton, Raph and Slash met again in "Battle for New York, Part 1", immediately re-establishing their ties. Raph trusted Slash even while his brothers (particularly Leonardo) still doubted him. From this point on, their relationship is more casual, with Raph and Slash appearing as loyal friends but sharing far less affection, except for one scene in Clash of the Mutanimals. Slash is one of the few close friends or family who consistently addresses Raph by his three-syllable name, "Raphael," except for two utterances of "Raph" in "Slash and Destroy".

Relationship — Hamato Miwa (Karai)

Raphael's technically older adoptive sister. Raphael intensely hated and distrusted Karai from the moment he saw her. He did try to warn Leo at least not to believe her so easily, but also acknowledged how Leo thought Karai looked hot "in an evil kind of way". Both are very similar in their personalities: they're both rebellious, stubborn, cocky, headstrong, and argumentative. In fact, Raph was the most distrustful of Karai throughout the first two seasons, as well as being highly cynical of Leo's adoration of her while brawling with Karai both physically and verbally. Later in the second season, after finding out the truth about his sensei's daughter, in time Raph became more sympathetic towards her like the rest of his siblings.

Relationship — Splinter (Hamato Yoshi)

Raphael's adoptive father. Splinter is the person that Raphael listens the most despite Raphael’s stubborness. Raph witnessed Splinter being ultimately killed by the hands of Super Shredder, the sight deeply haunting him.

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