Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
EpicLLOYD as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Character information
Full name	Leonardo Raphael Donatello Michelangelo
Nickname(s)	Ninja Turtles TMNT
First appearance	March 1984 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1
Physical description
Hair	None
Eyes	Black
Based on
Rap battle information
Appeared in	Artists vs TMNT
Vs	The Renaissance Artists
Release date	July 14, 2014
Official vote(s)	18%
Location(s)	The Sewer Lair

“

We're the TMNT, drop kicking Italy! — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

”

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a team consisting of Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo who battled the Renaissance Artists in Artists vs TMNT. Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael were voiced by Nice Peter; Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo were also voiced by EpicLLOYD; they were all physically portrayed by Lloyd, with Xin Wuku as the stunt double. The suits were created by Dragan Radic.

Information on the rappers

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (often shortened to TMNT or Ninja Turtles) are a fictional team of four teenage anthropomorphic turtles who were mutated from the ooze in the sewers after a boy accidentally dropped his baby turtles in it. Named after the Renaissance artists, they were trained by their anthropomorphic rat sensei named Master Splinter in the art of ninjutsu. From their home in the storm sewers of New York City, they battle petty criminals, evil overlords, mutated animals, and alien invaders while attempting to remain isolated from society. Their main villain is The Shredder, who leads The Foot Clan. The Turtles are allies with vigilante, Casey Jones, and reporter, April O'Neil.

The characters originated in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book in 1984, created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, before their expansion into a cartoon series, films, video games, toys, and other general merchandise. During the peak of the franchise’s popularity in the late 1980s through the early 1990s, it gained considerable worldwide success and fame.

Lyrics

[Note: Leonardo in blue, Donatello in purple, Raphael in red, Michelangelo in orange, and more than one person rapping at the same time is regular text.]

Verse 1:

The wisdom of our master (Splinter)

Taught us not to rush to violence, (Splinter)

But our master (Master Splinter)

Ain't here, dude! (Heeyah!)

I don't think you wanna mess with my katana blades!

Get back in your floppy helicopter, fly away!

I can Bebop and Steadyrock a mic, sucka!

I'm a pristine Sistine nun chucka!

(Uh!) Oh hi, I'm a cool but rude guy!

Put you back in school with the tip of my two sai!

Uhh, Dona-tell me who you are again, dude,

'Cause I don't Gattamelata clue what you do.

Verse 2:

Yo, go ahead and hate. We'll just skate on by!

You guys draw more dicks than New York pride!

We're the TMNT, drop kicking Italy! (Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!)

Chowing on your tower made of pizza! Save a slice for me!

Trivia

• They are the third/fourth group rappers announced together in the beginning, after the Mario Brothers, the Wright Brothers, and the Renaissance Artists.
  • They are the second group of rappers to have their names announced individually, just after the Renaissance Artists.
    • They are the sixth title card group to rap together in general, after the aforementioned groups, as well as Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson and Santa Claus & the Elves.
      • They are also the third group of four rappers, after Santa and his elves, and just after the Renaissance Artists.
• If you look closely on the arcade machine in the Turtles' background, you can see the Mario Brothers from Mario Bros vs Wright Bros.
  • This is a reference to the Mario Brothers' opponents, the Wright Brothers, portrayed by Rhett & Link, who also portrayed two of the TMNT's opponents, Leonardo da Vinci and Donatello Bardi, and the fact that the Mario Brothers are also associated with the same era as the Ninja Turtles.
• The turtles are tied with Boba Fett for the most actors out of any character in ERB, at three, with Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD as the turtles' actors and Xin Wuku as the turtles' stunt double.
• Some of the Turtles' voices sound as if they could be switched at the beginning of their verse. Leonardo sounds like Michelangelo and vice versa. Raphael sounds like Donatello and vice versa.
• They are the third, fourth, fifth and sixth characters to require a stunt double, after Mr. Rogers and Bruce Lee.
• The Turtles' 2014 movie, produced by Michael Bay, is mentioned by Stanley Kubrick in Steven Spielberg vs Alfred Hitchcock.
• They are the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth comic book characters to rap, after Batman, Robin, Rick Grimes, Superman and Goku.
• Lloyd posted a photo on Facebook of a beta version of the TMNT costume.
• Due to the Turtles' segment being filmed behind a blue screen, filming using Leonardo's blue headband was not done. Instead, post-editing altered the colors of the existing headbands to a shade of blue.

Gallery

EpicLLOYD as Leonardo (with Xin Wuku as a stunt double)

EpicLLOYD as Michelangelo (with Xin Wuku as a stunt double)

EpicLLOYD as Donatello (with Xin Wuku as a stunt double)

EpicLLOYD as Raphael (with Xin Wuku as a stunt double)

Beta version of the TMNT costume