Daredevil and the TMNT share their origins! - From cracked.com

[Raphael]

I read this earlier and thought it was awesome. And when I saw the thread about Clark Kent in Thor, I knew this was good enough to share.

 

The article is from cracked.com -

 

http://www.cracked.com/article_19323_6-movie-tv-universes-that-overlap-in-mind-blowing-ways_p2.html

 

Here is is also pasted -

 

Superhero crossovers are nothing new, but what makes this one special is the blatant illegality and in-story significance of it. Daredevil had existed for 20 years before the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles showed up in the '80s -- and yet their origins establish that they are both the products of the same traffic accident and the same mysterious goo.

 

Daredevil's origin, as shown in Daredevil #1, is that when he was young he saved a blind man from getting hit by a truck, only to have a radioactive canister fall off the same truck and hit him in the face. This was before, of course, the "Put Some Time into Securing Your Radioactive mess" shipping laws that we take for granted now.

 

Between the radioactivity of the substance, the impact of the hit and the cylinderness of the container, Daredevil was left blind. But he was extra good at his other senses, so he ended up a superhero, obviously. The real question wasn't "How is getting blinded by a can after saving a blind guy an origin story?" It was "What happened to the mysterious canister after it bounced off proto-Daredevil's kisser?"

 

Fast forward 20 years: The creators of the Ninja Turtles were big fans of Daredevil, especially the issues by Frank Miller. Not content with simply borrowing Daredevil's origin, they actually went ahead and wrote their characters into it. In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1, we see the exact same scene as before only from a different perspective. The radioactive canister hits the boy in the head ...

 

... then falls into a sewer and mutates some baby turtles into cowabunging ninjas.

 

Of course, the boy is never explicitly identified as the future Daredevil, but that's because the character belongs to Marvel Comics and the Ninja Turtles do not. Still, it's pretty obvious that it's the same kid, and the fact that the canister turned out to be full of mutating goo does explain how getting hit in the head by something could possibly give someone superpowers. (Life tip: It usually doesn't.)

 

So if young Daredevil hadn't been there, the canister probably wouldn't have fallen into the sewer and those four regular turtles probably wouldn't be fighting crime today. All the TMNT cartoons and movies show variations of the same origin, and the radioactive ooze in particular has become an iconic part of the Turtle brand -- even though it was completely stolen from another comic.

 

 

 

 

The images really help to ground the article with evidence, and I really recommend checking the link.

 

 

[Icculus308win]

I knew I liked these characters all too much not to have some sort of common bond between them. All of my spending has been justified now! Sweet!!

[dupont2005]

I always knew TMNT was considered a Daredevil parody but since I wasn't a Daredevil reader I never knew why.

[RedRaven]

That was very cool.

I read the whole article and was particularly impressed with the 'Grand Unification Theory' by which it was explained that the only true TV show was the last 5 minutes of ST Elsewhere with the rest (due to interconnections with ST Elsewhere) by neccesity existing in the Autistic boy's mind.

 

http://www.slushfactory.com/content/EpupypyZAZTDOLwdfz.php

[rabidwolf]

I knew I liked these characters all too much not to have some sort of common bond between them. All of my spending has been justified now! Sweet!!

 

+ 1. Explains why TMNT and Daredevil are my 2 most wanted titles.

[shadroch]

Didn't the Rat learn his Kung Fu by watching a women who loked very much like Electra?

[Icculus308win]

I knew I liked these characters all too much not to have some sort of common bond between them. All of my spending has been justified now! Sweet!!

 

+ 1. Explains why TMNT and Daredevil are my 2 most wanted titles.

 

 

I don't know about you, but when I saw the title of the thread - I couldn't open it up fast enough! !!! "Jenny and me go togetha like peas and careots!!"