Ninjutsu , the art of the ninja , is an ancient , closely guarded tradition of stealth , martial art and character assassination that is only taught to the most skilled of Nipponese warrior … and pretty much any livid dude who happens to be in the neighborhood . Seriously , it ’s like ninjas have their own version of Affirmative Action just for clean guys , and thus several Euro - Americans have deal to snag honorary ninja degrees when they had no patronage doing so . Here are 10 of ‘ em .
1 ) Joe Armstrong , American Ninja
The defective news is that Private Joe Armstrong has amnesia ; the good newsworthiness is that he still remembers an telling amount of ninja skills . It seems that when Joe was just a baby , he was get up by one of those kindly ninja who like to adopt livid infants and who taught him the humanistic discipline of ninjutsu until a bomb divide the two and wrecked Joe ’s memory . As a soldier , Joe save his Qaeda air force officer ’s daughter from a ninja approach , and then stops a dude from stealing and sell U.S. military weapons , and who also happen to run an evil ninja training academy or something . But Joe was hardly the only American Ninja …
2 ) Sean Davidson , American Ninja 3 : Blood Hunt
A raw American Ninja was introduced in the third picture , produce many questions . Did Joe Armstrong pass down the title ? Did he go ? Is “ American Ninja ” an elect lieu ? ostensibly , Sean cash in one’s chips to Japan to receive ninja breeding — which he gets with disturbing simpleness — to avenge his dad ’s slaying ( like you do ) . When he wins a martial arts tournament , a bad hombre injects him with some germ warfare - character disease he ’s judge out , and Sean has to 1 ) end the dude , 3 ) come through his army of genetically modified ninja and 3 ) survive the disease . I do n’t desire to spoil it for you , but he expend ninja powers to do all three affair .
3 ) Joe Kastle , American Ninja 5
While Joe and Sean would team up in American Ninja IV : The Annihilation , American Ninja V : Not Good Enough for a Subtitle started from scratch with Joe Kastle ( who was played by the same guy who played Sean Davidson , for maximal confusedness ) . Joe is an American Ninja who does n’t do anything particularly ninja - like , although he does instruct a kid in a very Karate Kid - esque fashion , and the kid dresses like a ninja sometimes , so maybe that counts ? My favorite thing about this movie is this personal line of credit from itsWikipedia entry , in which someone felt compelled to take note : “ Joe in addition to being theAmerican Ninjaalso owns a gravy boat . ”
4 ) Cole , Enter the Ninja
The awesomely mustachioed Cole is the “ White Ninja ” in this 1981 movie , and he helpfully tire an all - blanched ninja costume so people have a go at it it . Cole had to confront the preconception of his fellow scholar Hasegawa as a ninja cadet , one of those backwards guys who think only Japanese people should be ninjas . Their rivalry comes to a header years later when Cole chew the fat a acquaintance and his married woman on their farm in the Philippines , where an malefic big businessman wants the country for the oil reserve underneath . Cole end his goons , so who does the tycoon hire to kill Cole ? None other than Hasegawa . What are the odds ? !
5 ) Christie , Ninja III : The supremacy
participate the Ninja was followed by Revenge of the Ninja , which had the cheekiness to asterisk Japanese actor Sho Kosugi as a Japanese ninja , but things get back on racecourse in Ninja III : The Domination , when … uh … a female aerobic exercise teacher gets possessed by the life of an evil ninja ( the evil ninja was in America , doing evil ninja things , got wounded , and Christie tried to aid him as he exit , if that makes you feel any good ) . in any event , the ninja - filled Christie begins a mission to kill everyone who kill the ninja — which turn out to be a surprising bit of people — until Sho Kosugi , toy a altogether unlike ninja from Revenge of the Ninja , has to mistreat in .
6 ) Snake Eyes , G.I. Joe : A Real American Hero
Snake Eyes — material name separate — has had several line in the many incarnations of G.I. Joe , but they pretty much all terminate up with him being a ashen guy who gets himself some serious ninja breeding , either before or after his face is disfigured and vocal chords destroyed in an attack . In the Marvel comedian , he just heads to Japan after his accident and enrolls in ninja school , but in the pic , he ’s a dispossessed livid kid who breaks into a dojo , and has a knockdown , drag - out battle with an equally immature Storm Shadow , which impress the Hard Master ( which is an incredibly unfortunate name for any instructor at an all - boys shoal of any sort ) . At any charge per unit , despite his ninja skills , Snake Eyes stays true to his American root by being just as well-off with a gun as he is with a katana .
7 ) Nicholas Linnear , The Ninja Cycle
The star of Eric Lustbader ’s six - book “ Ninja Cycle ” series , Nicholas Linner is not completely Causasian , but in reality a Chinese - American ; since he end up being a ninja when neither land has anything to do with the Japanese nontextual matter of ninjutsu , I ’m make a lowly elision . Linnear is a follower of the aka I ninjutsu — or “ carmine ” ninjutsu , a.k.a . “ skilful ” ninjitsu . His curse , cousin Saigo , is a kuji / opprobrious / evil ninja who hates the hell out of Nicholas for beating him in a affaire d’honneur as kids . The first book , merely titled The Ninja , have Nicholas as he tries to protect his young girlfriend ’s dad from an assassin who of course turns out to be Saigo . But in later books , thing plainly take a dark turn when Saigo pink both Nicholas ’ girl and Nicholas and then drink down the girl . Yikes .
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- Casey Bowman , Ninja
Much like Snake Eyes — okay , exactly like Snake optic — Casey Bowman , the star of 2009 ’s Ninja , is embrace by a ninja tribe at a young years , becomes really proficient at it , and annoys the hell out of Masazuka , the Japanese former top school-age child . finally , Masazuka becomes a highly pay assassin , kills the dojo ’s sensei , and tries to get a pectus containing a ancient ninja gem , but Casey manage to spirit up it away to New York first . There , Scott is couch for murder , the sensei ’s girl is capture , a police post is pass through and ninja are fought — all received ninja operating procedure , at least until the girl is poisoned and Casey realizes his katana has an counterpoison hidden inside it because “ katana can mend ” or some nonsense . by the bye , Casey is played by Scott Adkins , who was also the mouthless Deadpool in X - Men Origins : Wolverine , so … gross .
9 ) Frank Dux , Bloodsport
Trained by a Japanese original of ninjutsu , Frank Dux enters the Kumite soldierlike arts tourney in Hong Kong . Despite being trained by a master of ninjutsu , Frank uses almost no ninjutsu in any of his fights , rather using very generic martial arts with perhaps a slight preference for kickboxing . And during the training collage ( above ) with his ninja master , the professional does n’t teach him any ninja movies either — just more canonical martial arts , how to serve tea blindfolded , and forcing him to endure some balmy torment . Seriously , the only thing even more or less ninja - like about any of this is that people say it ’s ninjutsu , even when it clearly is n’t . Interestingly , Bloodsport is actually free-base on a literal book by a real Frank Dux who claim to be a real ninja himself . Shockingly , Dux ’s tale seems to be gross bullshit .
10 ) John Peter McAllister , Master Ninja
Finding himself at loose ends and charm by the tranquility of post - war Japan ( ? ) , John Peter McAllister stuck around after struggle in World War II and ended up as “ the first Occidental - American to ever reach the status of the ninja . ” He refund to America in the ‘ 80s to look for the girl he of a sudden happen upon he has , gets dog by a ninja who is really upset he left Japan ( play by Sho Kosugi ) , and forgather Max , a retard with a hamster and a vanguard , whom McAllister teaches the ways of the ninja while they travel from small town to small Ithiel Town , depend for John ’s daughter and getting into adventures . ( For the record , Max is played by Timothy Van Patton , who would go on to be an Emmy - win HBO television receiver director of Deadwood , Game of Thrones and more , which never fails to blow my nous . ) This was actually part of a abruptly - lived goggle box series called The Master , which was redact into a few inexplicable movies dubbed Master Ninja , two of which end up on Mystery Science Theater 3000 . I used the MST3 K version because MST3 K rules .
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