Line #2 PlayingWith/McNinja


1	'''Basic Trope''': A {{ninja}} who isn't Japanese.
2	* '''Straight''':
3	** Bob is an American ninja.
4	** Bob is a black ninja.
5	* '''Exaggerated''':
6	** Bob, an American ninja, regularly hangs out with Pierre, a French ninja; Olaf, a Swedish ninja; Omar, an Egyptian ninja; and Wallace, an Australian ninja.
7	** Bob is a conservative, beer-drinking, all-American GoodOlBoy from Texas who wears a ninja suit, speaks both English and Japanese fluently, quotes eastern philosophy, carries a ninjato and shurikens, and lives in a traditional Japanese-style house. In Texas.
8	** Obo is an alien ninja from District 92 of the 35th Line City from Eemorykah.
9	** BOB is a robot ninja made in a Russian test lab in the U.S.A.
10	** Bawb is a mutant ninja that comes from another dimension.
11	** Bob is an American ninja on the wildly diverse CosmopolitanCouncil of ninja clan representatives from around the world.
12	* '''Downplayed''':
13	** Feng is [[InterchangeableAsianCultures a Chinese ninja.]]
14	** Bob is a ninja and part Japanese. But he either identifies more with his non-Japanese heritage, he is only a quarter Japanese (or less) or both.
15	* '''Justified''':
16	** [[TruthInTelevision Bob traveled to Japan to be trained in ninjitsu.]]
17	** Bob is accepted into the ranks of the ninja, because the series [[RealityIsUnrealistic portays ninja realistically]] as people who infiltrate and spy via [[BeneathNotice disguising themselves as everymen of low social status]], and Bob fits in better in America than many of the Japanese ninja would.
18	** Bob was stranded in Japan, and went through Ninja training in a similar fashion as to how Yasuke (a black Samurai) went through Samurai training.
19	** (Of inverted) Takeshi got stranded in America for some unexplained reason. Seeing that he can't find a feasible way to go home again, Takeshi spends the rest of his life becoming a cowboy and starting a new life in the Land of Opportunity.
20	** Ninjistu traditions explicitly involve taking in outcasts to train. Bob as a western illegal immigrant in Japan.
21	* '''Inverted''':
22	** Ryuji is a SamuraiCowboy.
23	** Takeshi is a Japanese knight.
24	* '''Subverted''':
25	** Bob is Japanese-American.
26	** Bob is an Asian using LatexPerfection (or perhaps some [[{{Blackface}} more]] [[{{Brownface}} controversial]] [[WhiteLikeMe methods]]) to look like he's of different race.
27	** There is a report of an assassin wearing loose fitting clothing, making impressive climbs to reach his target, and dispatching him with a curved sword. He is actually a hashasin.
28	* '''Double Subverted''':
29	** ...however, his parents were Americans living in Japan who moved back to America.
30	** Bob might be Asian, but he's not Japanese. He's actually Vietnamese.
31	* '''Parodied''':
32	** Bob is an OccidentalOtaku who thought it'd be cool to become a ninja.
33	** Bob is an obese white American ninja who hangs out with his black friends.
34	** Bob is set up as an American ninja... but [[TheReveal the major plot twist reveals]] that the ''real'' ninja is [[CatNinja his pet cat]], Mr. Muffins.
35	** Bob is a Ninja that bears many traits that are rather fitting of being TheIdiotFromOsaka... But seeing as he's actually American learning Japanese, he only speaks in keigo, and broken keigo at that.
36	* '''Zig Zagged''':
37	** ...but although his father was white, Bob's mother was Japanese.
38	** Bob is very ninja-like in his training but it turns out that he is actually an accurate depiction of a more obscure culture's stealthy warriors. Except it turns out ironically he was Japanese and adopted.
39	* '''Averted''':
40	** If ninja show up at all, they're all Japanese.
41	** It's impossible to tell what nationality the ninja are, as they're masters of stealth, disguise, and subterfuge.
42	* '''Enforced''':
43	** "Ninja are cool and they should be in, but this show doesn't take place anywhere near Japan. I'm sure we can bend the rules a bit."
44	** [[CastTheExpert The most experienced and knowledgeable historian of ninjitsu the show's authors could cast for the main role]] is not actually Japanese.
45	* '''Lampshaded''': "Who cares if I'm not Japanese? I can still be a ninja if I want to!"
46	* '''Invoked''': Impressed by his potential, a Japanese ninjitsu master allows Bob to train under him so that he can spread the art of ninjitsu to America.
47	* '''Exploited''':
48	** Bob works with a group of ninja who ''are'' Japanese and send him to infiltrate in a situation where a Japanese person would be out of place.
49	** The idea that all ninja are Japanese is a falsehood spread by the ninja to throw people off.
50	* '''Defied''': Bob's sensei refuses to train him because he does not want to share his teachings with outsiders.
51	* '''Discussed''': "Wait, aren't ninja supposed to be Japanese?"
52	* '''Conversed''': "Why'd they throw in an American ninja? Do they think that being cool is better than being accurate?"
53	* '''Implied''':
54	** The ninja show up in Amsterdam mere minutes after a legendary ninja sword is discovered in the city, and it's outright stated that they didn't know about it in advance, thus revealing they wouldn't make it in time if they came from Japan.
55	** A group of Japanese ninja are looking to attend a secret gathering of ninja clans - and part of their preparations includes brushing up on several foreign languages and planning for stealthy border-crossings.
56	* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's American heritage makes his fellow ninja unable to take him seriously, and he's branded as a poser.
57	* '''Reconstructed''':
58	** Bob refuses to let the views of others get in his way and continues to train to become a ninja, eventually becoming a master.
59	** They only call him a poser as a person. Other than that, they respect him as a ninja.
60	* '''Played For Laughs''': The ninja (including the Japanese ones) are all low-key stereotypical, with a lot of ([[ShownTheirWork surprisingly accurate]]) odd quirks specific to their nationalities that they show both as people and as ninja.
61	* '''Played For Drama''': The story is ''about'' the [[WainscotSociety secretive worldwide ninjitsu community]], and mines quite a bit of drama from tensions bubbling beneath its surface due to CultureClash, conflicting objectives, feuds between the ninja clans in different countries or regions, and so on.
62	* '''Played For Horror''': The main antagonists - [[GoodIsNotSoft or even]] [[TerrorHero protagonists]] - of the story are fearsome ninja assassins who are able to [[HiddenInPlainSight hide in plain sight]] all across the globe thanks to their multicultural membership, always ready to strike...
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