2003 TMNT Animated Series
In the 2003 animated series, Jones has a much more important role. He speaks in a Brooklyn accent, voiced by Marc Thompson in English and Tokuyoshi Kawashima in Japanese. This incarnation's personality is on par with Raphael. Raphael first meets Casey while the vigilante tries to stop a mugging. Seeing a lot of himself in Casey, Raphael tries to reason with him and prevent him from letting his anger get the best of him. Though initially uninterested in what he has to say, Casey eventually bonds with Raphael and becomes a valuable ally of the Turtles.
Casey's backstory is fleshed out over the course of the series. When he was a child, his father's shop was burned down by Hun and the Purple Dragons for being denied protection money. Despite being threatened not to, his father (Arnold Casey Jones Sr.) later went to the police over it. It is implied that he was killed for doing so. This gave Casey his hatred for crime and an essential lifelong war against the Purple Dragons.
It is revealed in episode "The Lesson" that he and the Turtles had met when they were kids (though neither the Turtles nor Casey are aware of the truth). During a trip to the surface, the young Turtles witness bullies picking on young "Arnold." Disguising themselves as a human child, they attempt to teach him self-defense. However, their unique perspectives and attitudes lead to more trouble than not. In the end, however, young Casey angrily jumps to the defense of a friend against the bullies, proclaiming they were no match for "Arnold Casey Jones!" (In a bit of foreshadowing, he uses a bully's hockeystick against them.)
Despite his lack of intelligence and apparent incompetence, he was early on in the series referred to by Hun as "Our (the Purple Dragon's) greatest enemy", and a fighting tournament was held to see which Dragon would have the honour of killing him, indicating how serious a threat the criminal underworld views him as.
In the series, Casey has a good heart, but is easily enraged and occasionally bumbling. He loves motorcycles. In a symbolic way, he sees the Turtles as the little brothers he never had. As such, he often comes to their aid against Shredder, the Foot or other enemies. His main catchphrase is the battle cry "Goongala!" "The Lesson" reveals this came from young Casey being unable to pronounce a battle cry young Michelangelo kept trying to teach him. "Goongala" was the best he could come up with.
Early on, Casey meets April and there is an initial attraction. However, their conflicting personalities lead to frequent arguments at first. Over time, a serious relationship develops. In the Back to the Sewers season, Casey proposes. In the finale "Wedding Bells and Bytes", they are married, with the Turtles serving as best men, many recurring characters being in attendance and the ceremony performed by the Fugitoid. In the Fast Forward season, the Turtles and Splinter are transported to 2105, where they meet April and Casey's great grandson, Cody Jones.
Read more about this topic: Casey Jones (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Famous quotes containing the words animated and/or series:
“And what if all of animated nature
Be but organic Harps diversely framed,
That tremble into thought, as o’er them sweeps
Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,
At once the Soul of each, and God of all?”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“The woman’s world ... is shown as a series of limited spaces, with the woman struggling to get free of them. The struggle is what the film is about; what is struggled against is the limited space itself. Consequently, to make its point, the film has to deny itself and suggest it was the struggle that was wrong, not the space.”
—Jeanine Basinger (b. 1936)