Quiz: Which 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' character are you? - Los Angeles Times

Which Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle are you? Take our personality quiz

August 4, 2023

By Tracy Brown, Jen Yamato, Phi Do, Vanessa Martínez, Sean Greene and Zifei Zhang

BIG APPLE, 3 A.M. — It doesn’t take an investigative reporter to dig up the basic facts about the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.”

Their origin story involves being exposed to transformative ooze as baby turtles. They were raised and trained in martial arts by their Master Splinter, a mutant rat.

Leonardo leads. Donatello does machines. Raphael is cool (but rude). Michelangelo is a party dude. Created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, they have been a pop culture staple since the 1980s.

But April O’Neil will be the first to tell you there is more to these heroes than that.

Taking a page out of April’s reporter’s notebook, we want to know what makes a Leonardo a Leonardo and a Raphael a Raphael.

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With new film “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” now in theaters, we watched as many on-screen depictions of the heroes in a half shell as mutantly possible (for journalism!) to get to the truth about each Turtle. With fact-finding skills honed by years of experience as real newspaper journalists — along with what we remember from science class — we have developed a series of interview questions that will help us definitively determine which member of the team you are most like.

About this story

WRITTEN BY

Tracy Brown, whose lifelong love for Donatello somehow only translated to a 37.5% affinity with him even with the answer key.

Jen Yamato, who according to extremely accurate sai-ence, is 87.5% Raphael and 12.5% Leonardo.

STORY DESIGN AND GRAPHICS BY

Phi Do, whose go-to karaoke song always brings out her inner 37.5% Raphael.

Vanessa Martínez is 37.5% Splinter, but as a journalist, she likes to think she’s 100% April O’Neil.

Sean Greene, who is an awesomely fitting equal parts Leonardo and Michelangelo with a little bit of Raphael.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY

Zifei Zhang, who is a die-hard Donatello fan got the surprising result of 37.5% Raphael.

EDITED BY

Matt Brennan, who got 50% Leonardo and 37.5% Splinter but is at least fun enough to take part in a personality quiz.

Alex Tatusian, who ate enough pizza during the making of this story that being 50% Michelangelo checks out.

Blake Hennon, who is 37.5% Splinter by birth and 25% Michelangelo by living his adult life in Los Angeles.

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