Thread:The S/@comment-129731-20180309091559/@comment-995426-20180327074714

In most articles (and in most transcript mentions), it's just "turtles" or "the turtles." "Ninja Turtles" is clear to most people with extremely little exposure to the franchise because of the term's penetration in pop cultrue, but the term is much more rare in story context (as is "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" outside of titles), and most of the time sounds extremely stilted except when used in a purely descriptive manner ("ninja turtle" as in "a turtle who is a ninja"). If I were to transcribe all the comics, we'd seldom see it in dialogue, and perhaps just slightly more often in the Archie comics, I'm guessing. I can see how the article names for the four-member team are "Ninja Turtles" etc. to make it clear they're the turtles who are ninjas (as opposed to something else), but in 99.9% of mentions (including linked in other articles), it comes across as very stilted, in a way that mentioning characters at first mention by their first and last name ("April O'Neil", "Angel Bridge") does not even carry.