Hello everyone! Have you ever heard of Ninja Turtles? It is a group of fictional superheroes. They appear in the comic books of Mirage Studios and all comic book adaptations. The authors of the characters are Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were created in November 1983. Eastman, as a joke, drew a picture with the annotation Ninja Turtle showing the turtle standing on his hind limbs, wearing a mask, and wielding a nunchucks. Later, Eastman developed this idea by drawing three more turtles equipped with various melee weapons used by the ninja. Laird then added Teenage Mutant to the name. Initially, the creators wanted the characters to have Japanese names. However, they quickly rejected this idea and gave turtles the names of Italian Renaissance painters: Leonardo, Michael Angelo, Donatello, and Raphael.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a team of four turtles transformed into anthropomorphic creatures with high intelligence. It was as a result of the action of a mutagen. Under the guidance of their sensei – an anthropomorphic rat named Splinter, they were trained in the art of ninjutsu. The four turtles have become the city’s defenders, fighting common criminals, masters of crime, other mutants, or alien invaders. They live separately in New York’s storm sewer system. Their battle cry is “Cowabunga!”. The turtles’ favorite dish is pizza.
The peak of popularity of these characters was at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. Based on the comic books, several various TV and cinema adaptations, computer games, and a whole range of other goods distributed based on the franchise were created.
One day, two little homeless boys – Yoshi and Mashimi – met a man named Ancient One. He invited them to his home for dinner and then befriended them. He adopted them. He taught them ninjutsu for many years. But years later, the friendship of boys who were like brothers to each other was shaken by a girl – Tang Shen. The girl came to the boys’ master to look after the household. Mashimi and Yoshi fell in love with her. Tang Shen noticed that, and she preferred Yoshi. Mashimi couldn’t accept it. One evening, the three of them went for a walk around the city. Suddenly, they noticed that the ninjas were attacking a stranger. Yoshi and Mashimi went to the rescue. It turned out that the stranger was Mortu, who invited them to join the Guardians. However, Ancient One did not agree to it, but the boys joined them anyway and had to defeat Shredder Utroms. However, while fighting him, Mashimi joined Shredder and became one of the Foot ninjas. One evening, as Yoshi went out to the Utroms, Mashimi came to Tang Shen and killed her. Yoshi avenged his beloved and murdered Mashimi. Only her rat remains after Tang Shen Yoshi, which he named Splinter. Together with the Utroms, he came to New York, where he founded a martial arts school. Shredder found Yoshi and wanted to get information about the Utroms’ headquarters. However, he remained silent, so Shredder killed him. During the fight, the cage with the rat broke. Splinter was free. He witnessed the truck almost run over the blind man. During braking and a sudden turn, a container fell out. As it fell out, it broke the jar with four turtles held by the boy and fell with them into the open manhole of the sewer. The container shattered, and the turtles were poured with liquid. Splinter tried to wash it off their shells and thus smeared it on himself. All five began to grow and become smarter until they finally walked on two legs and talked. It was then that Splinter began learning hand-to-hand combat using weapons and stealth. Once he found a book about the Renaissance, he chose the names for his charges: Leonardo, Michael Angelo, Donatello, and Raphael. Over time, they became real ninjas.
There are four main characters which are, of course, Ninja Turtles. They are brothers. The first one is Leonardo, an honorary turtle and a leader of the four. He always follows the Bushidō code. His bandana is blue in color. He uses two katanas as a weapon. The second of the turtles is Donatello. It is the “brain” of the group, inventor, mechanic. He has great intelligence and always thinks before doing something. Purple is the color of the bandana he wears. His weapon is the bō stick. The third turtle is called Michelangelo. It is a turtle with a great sense of humor. His bizarre ideas got him and his friends into trouble several times. He has an orange bandana and two nunchucks as a weapon. The last brother of the four is Raphael. This is an impulsive, brave, and aggressive turtle. He always goes his own way and rarely agrees with others. He fights with two sai and wears a red bandana.
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