Splinter Infinitives

Oh, the battles over languages.

For years, apparently, children on this side of the Atlantic enjoyed the cartoon Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. They were still dressed the same, had the same back story of being from Japan and everything, but they were heroes, a more positive term, apparently, than the violent ninjas. In the movies, they were still ninjas. But on the small screen, heroic turtles.