In A Bug’s Life, the circus ringmaster is a flea. It’s a flea circus.
Admittedly I had heard the term “flea circus” my entire life but only this morning looked up what it actually was. I mean it’s pretty straightforward, a bunch of fleas made to look like they’re in a circus, but I was missing the history and context.
Daredevil’s sensei is Stick. TMNT is Splinter. The baddies in Daredevil are “The Hand,” in TMNT, they’re “The Foot.”
And the radioactive mutigen that mutated the turtles came from the same canister that blinded Murdock.