Whatever happened to ninjas?

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Back in the eighties ninjas were hugely popular: I remember at the local video store there was a shelf full of ninja movies only, and of course there was stuff like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Last Ninja games, etc. But as the nineties rolled on ninjas faded away. Where did they come from originally, and what happened with them? Is there still an underground ninja culture? Will there ever be a ninja revival?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 22 April 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 22 April 2006 13:14 (twenty years ago)

http://home.pacifier.com/~kloveall/tmnt-Images/6.jpg

― Esteban Butthead (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Saturday, 22 April 2006 13:15 (twenty years ago)

"Hello, we're from the internet"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 22 April 2006 13:16 (twenty years ago)

They got proper jobs

― Ricky Nadir (noodle vague), Saturday, 22 April 2006 13:18 (twenty years ago)

They were all abducted by The Greys. The ensuing war between the two wiped out both factions which is why you never hear about UFOs anymore either.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Saturday, 22 April 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm trying to work Mike Smith into this somehow.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Saturday, 22 April 2006 14:24 (twenty years ago)

They were all abducted by The Greys. The ensuing war between the two wiped out both factions which is why you never hear about UFOs anymore either.

-- Konal Doddz (stevem7...), April 22nd, 2006.

this will change; ninjas and aliens go through waves of popularity. right now the survivors of the 1998 ninja/ET battles are staging their comeback tour. BY JOINING FORCES.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 22 April 2006 18:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.brainbullets.net/images/blahg/Cats_Alien_Ninjas-758199a.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 22 April 2006 18:48 (twenty years ago)

...with cats!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 22 April 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

nabisco otm

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

bushido blade and tenchu both had lackluster sequels is what happened

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Tracer Hand OTFM.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Saturday, 22 April 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe someone beat me to the Ninja Burger link.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:49 (twenty years ago)

(I can't believe I know the Ninja Burger guy)

Yeah, the Ninja revival already happened. You missed it. See also realultimatepower.net. (which probably appeared about the same time as ninja burger).

― mikef (mfleming), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:58 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember any ninjas in bushido blade!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 23 April 2006 01:43 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/simon1801/thatsracist.gif

they were samurais!!! same same, i know.

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 23 April 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the Ninja revival already happened. You missed it.

I meant a proper revival, not just some Internet sites.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 23 April 2006 07:41 (twenty years ago)

And samurais were totally different from ninjas! They were an earlier fad, and most samurai films were actually made in Japan. Also, the tagline of one of those ninja movies from my childhood was, "Even the samurais feared the ninjas".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 23 April 2006 07:42 (twenty years ago)

Yeahman, Samurais are the equivalent of knights in old europe. A Ninja is a stealth assasin. (Hey you probably already all know this but I wasn't sure from the last few answers!)

― AHowdle, Monday, 24 April 2006 09:58 (twenty years ago)

why don't you ask a ninja?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 24 April 2006 10:01 (twenty years ago)

Ninjas are still there but they got better at their job. You'll understand when you're dead.

― mei (mei), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

"ask a ninja" is incredible

― DEEDS NOT WORDS (vahid), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

They didn't get better jobs, they went back to high school.

Or you could read the comic but thats much less torontocentric.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

See also realultimatepower.net.

HI DERE 1999

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:34 (twenty years ago)

"You know, it would scare the shit out of al-Qaeda if suddenly a bunch of black ninjas rappelled out of helicopters into the middle of their camp." - President Bill Clinton, as quoted in the 9/11 Commission Report

― Hatch (Hatch), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:57 (twenty years ago)

See also realultimatepower.net.

HI DERE 1999

% whois ninjaburger.com | grep "Creation Date"
Creation Date: 02-Jun-2000

So, not the only dated link on this thread :)

― mikef (mfleming), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 00:07 (twenty years ago)

http://pages.wejamaicans.com/reggae/images/ninjacutty1.jpg

― BROSAMA (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 01:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.voodoovenue.com/images/DVD/hardboiled.jpg

Crazy filmed kung fu gunfights became the thing over than crazy filmed kung fu swordfights.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 03:20 (twenty years ago)

Ninja High School is a positive hardcore dance-rap band...

Thank god, I've grown so tired of those negative hardcore dande-rap ninjas!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 08:44 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

This question was never properly answered.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

they are sleeping in your closet

― nathalie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

didn't you hear?

http://cache.kotaku.com/gaming/TMNT%2520Poster%2520Art.jpg

― RJG, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

can't you see?

― RJG, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

No, actually I can't.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

won't you click?

― RJG, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

Page not found.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

owned by tuomas

― g-kit, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://accel2.mettre-put-idata.over-blog.com/0/40/96/47/tmnt-poster.jpg

― RJG, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

I blame Timmy Mallet

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

I like how in that first pic they are wearing god damn flip flops. As if Ninjas would be wearing'em.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.askaninja.com/

― teeny, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

'Raising Shell'

That's just shit.

― blueski, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

NO SHELL OUT
SHELL TO PAY
SHELL FREEZES OVER MY DEAD SHELL

― blueski, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

IF THERE'S SHELL BELOW, WE'RE ALL GONNA GO

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

TONIGHT WE DINE IN SHELL

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

SHELL IS OTHER PEOPLE

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

SHELL YEAH!!

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

SHELL GAS STATION

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

she shells sea shells by the she shore

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

AT MY SIGNAL, UNLEASH SHELL!

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

SHELL IS FOR CHILDREN

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, I can totally update my "21st century so far" list:

1. Robot hegemony
2. Monkey comeback
3. Re-established robot hegemony
4. Zombie revolution (zombies in, robots out)
5. Failed undercurrent of pirate
6. Wizard remains confined to child-fan ghetto
7. Ninja resurgence
8. Skanks
9. Cowboys
10. SPARTANS (I totally failed to predict this)

New predictions:

1. Skank oversaturation
2. Marines
3. Vikings (with a bullet)
4. Bike cops
5. Ghost comeback
6. Skank backlash

Dead predictions:

1. Brief ninja dominance (TMNT will kill it)
2. Ill-advised mummy craze (will remind people of Brendan Fraser)
3. Bikers (thanks, Wild Hogs)

Classics holding strong:

1. Douchebags

― nabisco, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

I am really rooting for ghosts!

― nabisco, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Also please insert "heshers / metalheads" between ninjas and skanks.

― nabisco, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

ghosts are always popular (great for tourism)

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

global warming

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

axl hired them all to 'be available' for the chinese democracy videos

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha slocki punchline

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 5 April 2007 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

The answer: http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/tapestore/mysterymen.png

― Tape Store, Thursday, 5 April 2007 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

i vote mummies

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 5 April 2007 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/jesse.trojaniak.tadieusz.2.800003.html

Police in New Jersey busted a couple of ninja warriors on Thursday. The two young men are now facing serious charges.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/news/stories/2008/08/22/ANTIDRUG_NINJAS_arrest.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/08/21/2008-08-21_ninjalante_duo_nabbed_in_nj-2.html

Points the NYDN for "Ninja-lantes"

― kingfish, Monday, 25 August 2008 21:50 (seventeen years ago)

http://gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2008_08_ninjas.jpg

― kingfish, Monday, 25 August 2008 21:51 (seventeen years ago)

time was you could be an ancient japanese assassin. now the europhiles have literally pranced on the very idea in high heels.

― Local Garda, Monday, 25 August 2008 21:52 (seventeen years ago)

Police said they were on their way to deliver warning letters to drug dealers and drug users urging them to stop their "impure" activities.
The letters said those who persisted would be stopped with "justified yet, merciful force."
See, Jesse says he and Tadeusz are modern day ninjas ... "Shinobi warriors" to be exact.
And that they were on a mission to get dealers to stop selling after a friend of theirs recently got caught up in drug use.
"To tell drug dealers and users to maybe back off the drugs," Jesse said. "It screws up people's lives."
He said they planned on dropping off five letters to drug dealers in the area, saying "You have committed passing on your impurity upon innocent brothers and sisters."

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 August 2008 21:52 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.vgmuseum.com/scans/scans3/Shinobi.jpg

― kingfish, Monday, 25 August 2008 21:54 (seventeen years ago)

They do stress 'maybe', it's not like they're trying to nag or anything

― DJ Mencap, Monday, 25 August 2008 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

*** wachowski-produced ninja demon movie to be released thanksgiving 2009 ***

― historical smoking (☪), Thursday, 19 March 2009 22:15 (seventeen years ago)

"its a lose lose situation....criminal are free to roam the streets and harm our loved ones cops dont do nothing but harass innocent ppl and then have the odacity to ask the help of citizens to help them get a criminal, and when we try to "help" our neighborhood we suffer. we try to take matters in our own hands but it backfires. like kaylee319 said their idiots but at least they tried. lol....they got my support, just next time dont carry your weapons in the car or send your ex girlfriend a threatening letter."

― WOOKIE JOHNSON (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 March 2009 22:27 (seventeen years ago)

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