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Turtelli

Don Turtelli is a minor villain in 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show. He is a mafia boss, and grandson of Tony Tickler Turtelli.

Background

As mentioned, Don Turtelli is grandson of Tony Tickler Turtelli.

What connects those two beside family is their method of interrogating people, by using a feather to tickle peoples bare feet, to make them talk.

Tortelli made appearances in session 3 of the show only in three episodes. When first introduced, he had a different animation design. In the next two episodes Tortelli's appearance was the same. Also some people think that in the first episode when he appeared it is not the same guy.

Plot

In his first appearance, in Burne's Blues Tortelli crashed into the hiding place of spies who were torturing Vernon Fenwick and his boss Burne, by tickling them with a feather. When the spies ran away Tortelli asked Vernon and Burne about the turtles, and when they said they didn't know anything, Tortelli pulled out a feather to, make them talk.

In the second episode, "Case of the Hot Kimono", Tortelli (now in a different animation style and appearance), wants to find out where is the kimono that contents a map to hidden treasure, so he sends his henchmen to steal all kimonos in town. April O'Neil reported on TV about the theft of kimonos, so Turtteli sent his henchmen to capture her and Vernon.

In his penthouse Tortelli asked his victims about kimonos. When April refuses to talk, he tickled her bare foot with a feather, only for a few seconds, than he started to tickle Vernon on his socked foot.

The Turtles fond Don Turtelli with help the of April's aunt. Turtelli escaped, but is later caught by the Turtles, and handed to the police.

In his final appearance in, The Great Boldini, Turtelli hires his cousin, magician Boldini to steal Toretlini's emerald from a museum. But when Boldini goes in the museum basement to find the emerald and meet with Turtelli, two kids Zach and Catlin, friends of the Turtles follow them, and steal the emerald from them. However Turtelli capture the girl Catlin, and threatens the boy Zach that if he doesn't give him the emerald, he will tickle Catlin.

The times runs up for Zach, and when Turtelli was ready to tickle Catlin, asking her, Were do you want blondie, under your arm or soles of your feet, the Rat King appears. The kids use Turtelli's and Boldini's arguing with the Rat King to escape, but the villains make a deal, and the Rat King, with the help of his rats send everybody out of the museum, and lock the museum so they can capture the kids.

The kids hide the emerald, but the villains capture them, tie them up, and Turtelli begins tickling them on their bare feet with a feather. Catlin didn't break, but Zach after long periods of prolonged tickling cracks, and tell them where the emerald is.

Meanwhile, the Turtles get into the museum and save the kids, and catch Turtelli and Boldini, and hand them to the police.

Apearence

Turtelli is midlesized, bulky man, with black hair and mustache similair to Clark Gebel's mustache.

He wears a grey suit of clothings with the grey hat, and white glowes. He alwas carries a white pointed chicken feather, that he uses to interogate his victims.

As a person, he is very cruel, has dark sense of humor, and he didn't steped back from tickle torturing two young children a girl and a boy one thier bare feet for long period of time, to get what he wanted.

Aldo many bad can be said about him, it can be also said that he doesn't uses tickle torture if it is not necesary, and he doesn't concentrate on his victims when he needs them no more, like during his and Boldinis escape, when Zach and Catlin run away, Boldini wanted to capture them again, Turtelli said to let them go, since they got what they wanted.

Also from his first few minutes with Zach and Catlin, it can be noticed Turtelli can negotiate, but also use mean metods, and likes to play cat and mouse. He also negotiated with Rat King.

From his statment to Catlin ,,Where do you want blondie,under arm, the sole of the feet, he can be seen as molestor, who enjoy torturing inocend people, even small kids, when he got chance.

From his encounter with Turtles, he can be seen as weak oponent, who can't go on toes to toes with Turtles.

Trivia

Turtelli went down in infamy for his tickle torture feet methods of interrogation, but in the episode The Great Boldini, he threatened to tickle Catlin on her soles or under her armpit.

During his tickling interinagtion, it is shown that Turtelli tickles males longer than females, but that is probably to not discriminate against the rights of women.

Turtteli is one of most ruthelss villains in the Ninja Turtles series, even if he is a minor villain, since other villains like Shredder didn't used any form of torture and are just fighting and bringing the heroes into dangerous situations, while Turtelli's tickle torture is the meanest form of brutality allowed in s G rated show. His ruthlessness is also shown that he didn't step back from torturing two young kids for long time to get what he wants.

Acording to one of Turtteli's henchmen, people think Don don't have a sense of humor...But it seems that Turtelli in fact has some sort of humor, since he mocked Rat King with sentence ,,And whic one of these is your Rat Qeen bandage face, also he told Zach that he don't have time to discus his and Catlin reletionship that is in some way humor.

Acording to Teenage Mutant Nija Turtle. com, Turtelli was the only villain in entire show that actually used torture methods. No other villain in show has beside Turtelli used torture. TMNT.com also counts Turtelli in one of most oddest and formidable villains due to his unusual torture method by tickling victims feet, which hardly any of his victims could endure, for what they say he is formidable foe.

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