9 Movies, TV Shows, and Comics You Didn’t Know Shared a Universe

7. ‘Daredevil’ and ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’

Though several incarnation of the Turtles’ origin story have essentially erased the connection, the original comic book was an ode to the blind hero of Hell’s Kitchen, Daredevil. As comic fans know, Matt Murdock was blinded as a boy when he leapt into the street to save a blind man from getting hit by a truck. As a result, Matt was blinded by a strange chemical which also granted him heightened senses. When TMNT writers Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird set about creating their fearsome foursome, they continued the story of the strange chemical. In the opening pages of the original TMNT comic, the ooze that transforms the turtles falls off a truck, splashes an unidentified boy in the face, and then continues to trickle down into the sewer where it coated the unsuspecting turtles and their mentor Splinter.