how were the artists of the same names (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael) related to the characteristics of the turtles? =]
2007-10-04 10:14:59 · 4 answers · asked by jenners92 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
In the original publication, before they got famous, Splinter found a book on Renaissance art washed down the sewer where they were living, and chose names for the turtles from it. He didn't know any better. He'd only been mutated into intelligence himself recently, by the same glop that blinded the kid who saved the old man crossing the street from being run down by the truck hauling the stuff, and which also mutated the turtles.
How many of you didn't know that the turtles were originally a spoof on Marvel's Daredevil origin story...?
5 OCT 07, 0518 hrs, GMT.
2007-10-04 17:14:53 · answer #1 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ninja turtles were created as a student project, and the students used famous artists to name the turtles. it was later turned into the tmnt we know today
2007-10-04 10:58:39 · answer #2 · answered by Spartan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Splinter named them after artists he studied under his master. I outgrew comic books when I was 13 but I don't think the explanation ever got much deeper than that.
2007-10-04 10:23:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they're not, splinter just named them cuz he found an old book about them and decided to name them, at least that's how it happened in the live-action films.
2007-10-04 10:42:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋