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''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' (or [[TMNT]]) began as a comic book by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, who formed the idea from a napkin drawing one of them made while eating at a pizzeria. The first story began as a tale in the vein of [[Frank Miller]]'s ''[[Daredevil]]'', with the four titular ninja battling the Shredder to avenge the murder of Master Splinter's master, Hamato Yoshi. After a fierce battle, they successfully kill him. A surprise hit (often attributed to the unique name), the series continued with applying a [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] motif: with time travel, robots, and aliens introduced within the first ten issues. Despite their inauspicious beginnings, the series became so popular that an action figure deal was struck, which then snowballed into an animated series, movies, and every type of merchandise under the sun, turning it into one of the biggest [[Cash Cow Franchise|cash cow franchises]] of the mid-eighties/early nineties.

'''Other media franchises''': There are also other media franchises of the series, including [[wikipedia:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles food tie-ins|food tie-ins]] (Ninja Turtles cereal, Chef Boyardee TMNT pasta, Ninja Turtles cookies, etc.); a ''Coming Out of Their Shells'' concert tour that first premiered at the Radio City Music Hall (with Donatello on keyboards, Leonardo on bass guitar, Raphael on drums and sax, and Michelangelo on guitar, as the story had a feel similar to ''[[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure]]'', with its theme of [[The Power of Rock|the power of rock n' roll]] literally defeating the enemy, in the form of the Shredder (who only rapped about how he hates music), trying to eliminate all music); and a stage show at the Disney-MGM studios theme park in Orlando, Florida from 1990 to 1996.

 

{{tropelist|The ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' franchise has the following tropes:}}

* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]