Created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird as a comic in 1984, the four turtles live in the sewers of New York and learn ninjutsu from their rat master, Splinter. They are named Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello (
多那太罗) and Raphael (
拉斐尔), and their arch-enemy is Shredder,
施瑞德.