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Peter Laird

Peter Laird

Writer, also actor and producer · Born January 27, 1954 (72) · North Adams, Massachusetts, USA

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Peter Alan Laird (born January 27, 1954) is an American comic book writer and artist. He is best known for co-creating Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with writer and artist Kevin Eastman. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Laird, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
January 27, 1954 (72)
From
North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
Works as
Writer, also actor and producer
Titles
17 on MovieCove · 48 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 63 days to Oct 26Down 23% in 30 days

What are Peter Laird's films like?

Across their 14 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.

Genres

Animation6 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 80th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Animation movies
Action3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 47th percentile
: browse their Action movies

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight
Bonds
61%
Self
14%
Society
13%
Morality
11%
Survival
2%
Family bonds12 titles, browse their movies with this themeLoyalty6 titles, browse their movies with this themeIdentity5 titles, browse their movies with this themeCommunity4 titles, browse their movies with this themeComing of age2 titles, browse their movies with this themeJustice2 titles, browse their movies with this themeDuty2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 10 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Light: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their light movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

Light 9 · Serious 1 · Dark 0

Stylized: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their stylized movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 1 · Stylized 5 · Heightened 4

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

A split, not a type: Gentle 3 · Charged 3 · Intense 4

Steady: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their steady movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 6 · Shifting 4 · Whiplash 0

Some laughs: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their some laughs movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 0 · Some laughs 7 · Funny 3

Even-paced: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their even-paced movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 6 · Relentless 3

Casual: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their casual movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 7 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 0

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 10 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Thrilling
13
Joyful
10
Warm
7
Tense
3
Absurd
1
Other
4

How their films linger

Fun12 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFeel-good8 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful6 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteRousing2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end

  • Happy9
  • Bittersweet5

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Peter Laird's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 11 of their 17 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Paramount+ (8).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Peter Laird's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

48 credits, 17 with a MovieCove page; 3 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • Untitled hybrid live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2028)

    Characters

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 - Lost in New Jersey (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    Characters

  • Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(2024)

    Show 12 episodes · Characters

    Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all shows

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem(2023)

    Characters

    Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films

  • Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie(2022)

    Characters

    Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films

  • Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(2019)

    Characters

    Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films

  • Teenage Mecha Ninja Turtles (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Comic Book

  • Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Super Shredder (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Comic Book

  • Pizza Friday! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Comic Book

  • Turtles Take Time (and Space) (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Characters

  • Don vs. Raph (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Characters

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows(2016)

    Characters

    Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Cowabunga Christmas (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Comic Book

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Pulverizer Power (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Comic Book

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Renegade Rampage (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Comic Book

  • Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past(2015)

    Writer

    Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(2014)

    Characters

    Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Enter Shredder (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

    Comic Book

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(2012)

    Show 124 episodes · Characters

    Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows

  • Plaga Zombie: Zona Mutante: Revolución Tóxica(2011)

    Thanks

    Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films

  • Turtles Forever(2009)

    Characters · Creator · as Peter Laird (voice) (uncredited)

    Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films

  • TMNT(2007)

    Characters · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(2003)

    Show 154 episodes · Characters · Creative Director

    Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all shows

  • Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation - East Meets West (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)

    Comic Book

  • Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation(1997)

    Show 26 episodes · Characters

    Midcredits score: 2nd percentile of all shows

  • Mutant Turtles: Superman Legend (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

    Show 2 episodes · Comic Book

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Legend of the Super Mutants (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

    Comic Book · Writer

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtle Tunes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)

    Comic Book · Creator

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: We Wish You a Turtle Christmas (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)

    Comic Book · Creator

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III(1993)

    Characters

    Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all films

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Getting Down In Your Town (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)

    Comic Book

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Turtles' Awesome Easter (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)

    Comic Book

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Planet of the Turtleoids (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)

    Comic Book · Creator

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles at the Earth's Core (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)

    Comic Book

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze(1991)

    Characters

    Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Attack of the Big MACC (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)

    Comic Book

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Coming Out of Their Shells Tour (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1990)

    Characters

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(1990)

    Characters

    Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Cowabunga, Shredhead (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1990)

    Comic Book

  • Operation Blue Line, Starring: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1990)

    Characters

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Case of the Killer Pizzas (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)

    Comic Book

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Incredible Shrinking Turtles (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)

    Comic Book

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Epic Begins (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)

    Comic Book · Creator

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Heroes in a Halfshell (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)

    Comic Book · Creator

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Hot Rodding Teenagers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)

    Comic Book

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(1987)

    Show 193 episodes · Characters

    Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all shows

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Legend of the Yokai (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Comic Book

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:The Four Musketurtles (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Comic Book

Career shape

A full career of 47 titles, 44 of them dated from 1987 to 2025.

Biggest box office

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

$202M worldwide

Highest rated

Turtles Forever (2009)

Midcredits 92nd

Most popular right now

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)

Film career

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting1 of 47: 0 only acting, 1 with another roleWriting46 of 47: 38 only writing, 8 with another role · typical Midcredits score74thProducing1 of 47: 0 only producing, 1 with another roleOther crew8 of 47: 1 only other crew, 7 with another role

47 titles, 8 with more than one role — writing and other crew overlap on 7 of them.

By decade

1980s6 · crew1990s17 · crew2000s3 · 1 acting · 3 crew2010s14 · crew2020s4 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

How do Peter Laird's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 56th percentile, the median of all 12; across their 10 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 70th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

70thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 10

Approval · how many liked their films

76thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 10

Reach · how many have seen their films

90thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 10

Midcredits score across 17 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up6
  • 50th to 74th5
  • 25th to 49th4
  • Below 25th2

Shape of the crowd

7 of their 17 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Universally Loved1
  • Cult Classic1
  • Crowd Pleaser7
  • Broadly Agreed1
  • Mixed7

Most divisive · writer

Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation (1997)

76th percentile spread · 48% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · actor, writer

Turtles Forever (2009)

Midcredits 92nd · 83% liked

Reviewers score the dialogue 49/100 and the plot and story 44/100 in their films, across 9 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Is Peter Laird's work okay for kids?

Across up to 10 MovieCove titles with content scores, sex & nudity, profanity and alcohol & drugs run lighter than most films.

Their medianMedian of all filmsMiddle 80% of their titles
Violence & Gore9 titles33–61 · median 45 · moderatenear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 44
Sex & Nudity10 titles8–21 · median 14 · minimallighter than most filmsMedian of all films: 32
Profanity9 titles5–34 · median 25 · mildlighter than most filmsMedian of all films: 36
Alcohol & Drugs9 titles2–24 · median 10 · minimallighter than most filmsMedian of all films: 33
Frightening / Intense9 titles32–68 · median 44 · moderatenear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 39

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.

Who does Peter Laird work with?

People who share at least 2 of Peter Laird's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Kevin Eastman shares the most, 14.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Composers and editors

Producers

Mixed roles