Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Developer	Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird
Publisher	Mirage Studios, Nickelodeon
Platforms	see below
Released	1984-present
Added to Museum	see below

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, also known as the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, are characters that are part of an American multimedia series consisting of books, comics, films, magazines, music, television series, and video games.

The characters premiered in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in 1984.

Character biographies

The series follows four turtles that gained humanoid forms from a mutagen.

They are given the names Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo after famous Italian artists.

The four turtles were trained in the Japanese ninja arts by a mutant rat named Splinter.

Their primary enemy is a helmeted supervillain named Oroku Saki but is best known by the name Shredder.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Comics)

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles first appeared in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 by Mirage Studios in May 1984. This is the original version, in which all four turtles wear red bandanas, rather than the different color bandanas for each turtle as seen in most other iterations.

Film

Title	Producer	Release	Formats	Notes
Turtles Forever	4Kids Entertainment	2006	DVD	Multiverse story with the 1987, 2003, and Mirage Comics versions of the turtles.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 television series)

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that appeared in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television series premiered on December 28, 1987. This is the first version that gave each turtle a different colored bandana. Leonardo's was blue, Raphael's was red, Donatello's was purple, and Michelangelo's was orange.

Film

Title	Producer	Release	Formats	Notes
Turtles Forever	4Kids Entertainment	2006	DVD	Multiverse story with the 1987, 2003, and Mirage Comics versions of the turtles.

Video games

Title	Developer	Platform	Release	Notes
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Konami	NES	1989
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Konami	Arcade	1989
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of The Foot Clan	Konami	Game Boy	1990
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers	Konami	Game Boy	1991
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project	Konami	NES	1991
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time	Konami	Arcade	1991
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist	Konami	Genesis	1992
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue	Konami	Game Boy	1992
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters	Konami	Genesis	1993
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters	Konami	SNES	1993
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters	Konami	NES	1994
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection	Digital Eclipse	NES	2022	Emulated collection including the North American NES and Japanese Famicom versions of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project, the North American NES version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters, the North American arcade and NES versions plus the Japanese arcade and Famicom versions of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the North American and Japanese Game Boy versions of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of The Foot Clan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue, the North American arcade and SNES versions of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time the North American SNES and Japanese Super Famicom versions of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters, and the North American Sega Genesis and Japanese Mega Drive versions of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge	Tribute Games	Switch	2022

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 television series)

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that appeared in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television series premiered on February 8, 2003. This version kept the bandana colors from the 1987 series, but it was closer to the Mirage Comics version because the turtles were raised to be ninja assassins.

Film

Title	Producer	Release	Formats	Notes
Turtles Forever	4Kids Entertainment	2006	DVD	Multiverse story with the 1987, 2003, and Mirage Comics versions of the turtles.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW Publishing)

The version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from the comic series by IDW Publishing premiered in August 2011. In this version, the turtles have their red bandanas until issue five when Splinter gives them their blue, red, orange, and purple ones.

Comics

Title	Producer	Release	Notes
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	IDW Publishing	2020-2022

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin

The version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles featured in IDW Publishing's The Last Ronin premiered in October 2020. In this version, three of the turtles have lost their lives with only a solitary turtle left to avenge their deaths.

Comics

Title	Producer	Release	Notes
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin	IDW Publishing	2020-2022