Ninja Turtles
Ninja Turtles
[Four pie graphs, each colored green and brown.] Leonardo [Almost one-half green.] Michelangelo [More than one-half green.] Donatello [Five-sixths green.] Raphael [Roughly half-and-half.] [A legend] Notoriety as a [Brown.] Renaissance artist [Green.] Ninja turtle

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , or Ninja Turtles, are a pop-cultural phenomenon especially prominent in the late 1980s and 1990s. The four turtles are named for four artists of the European Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci , Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi , and Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino . Due to the popularity of the Ninja Turtles in a variety of media, some of the names are now better known through their Ninja Turtle connection than their original artist forebears. The pie charts provide an approximation of this effect - Leonardo da Vinci remains one of the most notable artists of the period, and thus "Leonardo" is depicted as more notable for the artist. Donatello is the most obscure of the four as an artist, and consequently the majority of the current notoriety of "Donatello" is as a Ninja Turtle.
The title text alludes to a similar phenomenon, as two villain characters from the same Ninja Turtles show called "Bebop" and "Rocksteady" are now better known as the characters than for the musical genres they are named for. Similarly, the William Tell Overture became so closely tied to the character of the Lone Ranger in media for the previous generation that, to many, the William Tell Overture is in effect "The Lone Ranger Theme."
[Four pie graphs, each colored green and brown.] Leonardo [Almost one-half green.] Michelangelo [More than one-half green.] Donatello [Five-sixths green.] Raphael [Roughly half-and-half.] [A legend] Notoriety as a [Brown.] Renaissance artist [Green.] Ninja turtle
