To explain how the UK ended up with the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, we need to look at concerns about portrayals of violence in film and television in the 1980s and the ‘law and order’ agenda of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government. Forgotten by many, those who were children around this time remember it well. One of the more unusual examples is the late 1980s moral panic over ninjas and martial arts weaponry, which meant that when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles first appeared in the UK in 1990, they were rebranded as the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.
But ‘cancelling’ films, televisions shows, books, and musical acts has long been a tradition of the conservative right on both sides of the Atlantic. An oft-repeated right-wing claim today is that the Left have produced a ‘cancel culture’, where individuals, companies and creative works are at risk of being deemed beyond the pale if they transgress the boundaries of ‘wokeness’.
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