2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Were A Daredevil Parody
Daredevil's pull over popular culture is pretty weak, with the character at the very most dimly remembered by the general populace as a result of the 2003 film. They might be more familiar with some of the aspects of the character that will be included in the upcoming Netflix series, however, thanks to a totally different franchise. Eventually Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became a huge merchandising phenomenon that lasts to this day. But before all the movies, cartoons, toys and live action stage shows, the Ninja Turtles were the stars of a self-published, black-and-white comic book that was intended as a one-off parody of superhero tropes. Specifically, the name was a play on the teenage mutants X-Men, and the actual specifics of the Ninja Turtles were taken from Daredevil. The masks and ninja stuff, their mentor being the anthropomorphic rat Splinter (Murdock's was called Stick) and their enemy clan called the Foot (as opposed to Daredevil's Hand).
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