Highly Scientific & Informative, Ys.

[chronographia]

Hello there - I seem to have garnered some new readers over the past twenty-four hours. In order to get to know you a bit better (and partly to squeeze in one last poll before my paid account expires), I present to you this highly scientific and informative question, as based upon the 1987 cartoon series:

Poll Turtle Power

Comments

[electricwitch]

Which one´s the one with the purple bandana?

[chronographia]

That would be Donatello.

[stylishbastard]

Clearly people agree that Michelangelo was a prick.

[chronographia]

But when asked, they would probably agree that he serves a vital purpose as the target, however pathetically easy a one, for Raphael's sarcasm.

[stylishbastard]

Michelangelo is like a borderline retard who somehow winds up being one of the coolest people at school.

[chronographia]

Thus the importance of Raphael's sarcasm in maintaining the social balance.

(Granted, the display of superior wit was usually lost on Michelangelo. The problem inherent in mocking from the intellectual high ground is that the mocked don't understand it as mockery.)