Something That I Have Kind Of Noticed Is That Donnie & Leo Are The Turtles That Kind Of Seem The Most

Something that I have kind of noticed is that Donnie & Leo are the Turtles that kind of seem the most similar to Splinter, Big Mama & Draxum

Splinter: Once the hounds sniff out the boys, I ninja them out!

Leo: Relax. We’ll do what we always do. Ninja in, ninja their faces, ninja out.

In most iterations of TMNT, Leo is often arguably the Turtle most similar to Splinter & the same seems to be to be true in Rise as well as we often see similarities between Leo & Splinter throughout Rise with Leo sometimes showing similar behaviour to Splinter or even saying similar phrases to Splinter.

Members of the Rise team have also said that putting Leo in a Lou Jitsu outfit in the episode Many Unhappy Returns was also partly meant to be symbolic on how Leo is the Turtle most like a younger Splinter

Splinter: New York, what a town

Donnie: New York! What a town!

Similarly to Leo, Donnie has also been shown to have similar behaviour to Splinter & has also said similar phrases to thing Splinter has said as well meaning that it could be possible that Donnie picked up those phrases from Splinter in the first place.

Splingter: That is a lie! I taught him that one

Splinter has even admitted that there are certain things that Donnie has originally picked up from him. 

Big Mama: Big Mama never goes back on a deal, she does however alter the terms at the very last second

Leo: My deal was no weapons for you, not me

Leo: We could have if Donnie didn’t change the rules at the last second because he’s a sore loser!

Similarly to Big Mama both Donnie & Leo have been shown to twist rules & words into something that will be in their own favour with Leo willing & being able to use the wordings of agreements so deals end up in his favour & Donnie having been shown to be willing to change a games rules in order to increase his chances of winning.

Draxum: Only a true genius could choreograph this many betrayals AND double crosses

Leo: Triple betrayal! Everybody’s on fire tonight!

It is possible that Leo’s strategic mind & his love of betrayals & double crosses comes from Draxum as similarly to Leo, Draxum also seems to enjoy betrayals & double crosses.

Draxum: Now to do some like removing of one thing attached to another thing

Donnie: Now to do some light removing of a thing attached to another thing

Meanwhile both Donnie & Draxum seem to be similarly scientifically minded with Donnie even saying some phrases similar to Draxum.

The fact that Leo & Donnie both kind of take after the adults in their lives the most is kind of interesting but it also kind of possibly shows that the two of them might possibly be more alike than either of them realise.