#kluh

Painting turtle shells is really bad for turtle due to their porous shells. When their shells are painted, Turtles absorb all the toxins from the paint, are unable to properly sunbathe and regulate body temperature, and it can cause respiratory issues and the feeling of suffocating. All of that plus it can stunt a turtle’s growth.

So i have a little head cannon that Michelangelo paints his own shell because it looks super cool- and then he’s always so sick afterwards and has no idea why he’s constantly getting worse and sicker and sicker after painting the sistine chapel on himself. (That’s also why he’s short lmao) But i feel like even if he did find out painting his shell was bad for him he wouldn’t stop. He gets attention finally because he’s halfway dead and he’s like “its called going out in style” but I’m pretty sure it counts as a form of SH, Mikey.

infact im 100 percent sure he wouldn’t give a damn if painting his shell killed him, i bet he would love that because he has no self preservation instinct.

Michelangelo’s lack of self preservation is seriously concerning. Like during his second fight with Kluh he just lets himself get beat the fuck up until Kluh threatens to kill Michelangelo’s family. Like he basically goes limp and let’s Kluh break him into itty bitty pieces. He knew Kluh wanted to kill him, and he was seriously just gonna let that happen while his entire family watched, and that’s pretty sick and twisted. Like it’s great he cares about his family or whatever but he was stupid, masochistic, and sewerslidal during that fight or something. Maybe he was like “yeah, everyone’s right, they’ve always been right. It was luck that i won, I’m not a real champion. I’m nothing. Guess i’ll die.”

And nobody in his family is like “hey dude why did you take like half an hour and wait for all of your bones to be broken until you actually started to fight back?”

He wanted to teach Michelangelo a lesson

Mikey had spent weeks if not MONTHS bragging about his Battle Nexus win, and it shows just how serious it was that Splinter IS so irritated about it.

Mikey was bragging, refusing to train and was acting like an egotistical ass, news flash, parents sometimes NEED to let their kids go through something rough so they can learn a lesson and grow, so they don’t grow up into a jerk who throws tantrums at forty years old over fast food or slaps his mother because she won’t let him get a nipple piercing (yes I have encountered these sorts of people working at mc-hell)

And people who have gotten things they didn’t deserve but acted like they are the best thing ever for getting it despite the fact they only got it because of technical issues or friends in high places.

We could even argue that Kluh and his father serve as a dark mirror to Mikey and Splinter, aka a spoiled brat who can’t fathom that he lost and a father who allows his sons worst traits to go unpunished and even supports them.

Splinter did not know it would be a death match, he thought it would all be fair and safe, that at worst, Mikey might get a few bruises and a wounded ego

To pull in a hard earned win, or accept an honest loss

Heck Mike might not even have told Splinter just how psycho Kluh was, and, be honest, would you believe that someone wanted to MURDER over something as stupid as getting food spilled on them and an empty threat?

Especially after that person saved them from getting sucked into a black hole?

So yeah, not Splinters fault for wanting Mikey to face some consequences for his behavior, because you can’t just toot your own horn and cause a bunch of problems without consequences and just keep getting what you want and expect your parents to support your bad decisions.

Splinter is a good dad because he does not put up with BS and forces his sons to face consequences and try to be better, because life won’t give them a candy bar for messing up, its going to smack them in the face.

Mikey even states near the end of the episode when Kluh thinks Mikey will be as petty as him…

TMNTtober - Battle Nexus

Nova (Sam Alexander) is fighting Kluh (the inverted Hulk) when he is grabbed and gets his arm bitten. Despite the pain, Sam manages to punch Kluh in the nose, forcing the monster to let go of him.