Line #47 Series/SupahNinjas


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3	''Supah Ninjas'' is a {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} live-action {{ninja}}-[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin themed show]]. Mike Fukanaga's grandfather (Creator/GeorgeTakei) recently passed away, but it's not long after that Mike (Creator/RyanPotter) and his best friend Owen (Creator/CarlosKnight) discover that he took a few secrets to the grave with him after they find an entire secret ninja dojo under Mike's bed. Now it's up to Mike, Owen, and the LoveInterest Amanda (Creator/GracieDzienny) to fight off all the baddies who appear in their town. Also Mike's dead grandpa [[ProjectedMan appears via hologram]] and trains him and his friends the same way everyone else in his family trained to be ninjas, excluding Owen's father, a cop, who must not know about all the secret business going on right under his nose.
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5	Several [[StoryArc story arcs]] tie into the plot as well, largely focusing on Mike's family's ninja background, and that not everyone uses their powers for good. However, you might find it hard to keep up with due to Nickelodeon [[ScrewedByTheNetwork never airing a single preview]].
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7	!!This series provides examples of:
8	* ActorAllusion: The character of The Rhymer is basically an excuse for Christopher Reid (of Music/KidNPlay and ''Film/HouseParty'' fame) to put his rap skills to use.
9	* AffectionateParody: Of action comedies, supervillains, and teenage superheroes.
10	* AlliterativeName: Season 2 introduces an AntiVillain named '''F'''lint '''F'''orster.
11	* AlphaBitch: Amanda [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] this. You'd think she would be one, given that she comes from a wealthy family, is a cheerleader, is the most popular girl in school, and has her own GirlPosse. However, she's also a straight-A student and doesn't have a mean bone in her body.
12	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Martin Fukanaga, Mike's dorky dad.
13	* AntagonistTitle: Most episodes are named after their main villain.
14	* AsianAndNerdy: Mike.
15	* TheBGrade: Amanda is seen going nuts on her training in "Checkmate" because she got an A- on a biology test.
16	* BluffTheImpostor: Mike tries to do this to Jellyface when the latter is in the guise of his dad, but it fails because the impostor has done his homework. However, Mike already knows he's a fake, with or without the bluff. The thing that tips him off? The impostor said that Mike "would make a great cop someday." Mike's father [[OutOfCharacterAlert doesn't think Mike can be a cop.]]
17	* BumblingDad: Martin Fukanaga. He’s very goofy.
18	* CannotDream: Owen mentions it in "DJ Elephant Head", that is, until DJ Elephant Head put him to sleep.
19	* TheChessmaster: Checkmate, fittingly enough.
20	* CityOfAdventure: Empire City
21	* ClipShow: ''Ninja Intervention''.
22	* CoolSword: The Floating Sword.
23	* CriminalMindGames: Checkmate plays them.
24	* DanceBattler: In "DJ Elephant Head", the titular Villain of the Week is helped by two backup dancers that also can back him up when it comes to fight. Their fighting moves are actually a mixture of martial arts and dance moves, and the two henchwomen fight in tune with the music and synchronized with each other. Amanda comments that it looks pretty, but the heroes are also able to use it against them to read their moves.
25	* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the cast, but props to Hologramps for putting the emphasis on 'Dead.'
26	* DudeMagnet: Amanda. Several boys get a crush on her throughout the show: Mike, Cameron, Flint, an unnamed, muscular, handsome guy and two sci-fi nerds in ''X'', Kickbutt and the other members of the computer club in ''Kickbutt'', and Connor.
27	* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: Of course, being ninjas, our heroes know martial arts. However, a surprising number of antagonists also know martial arts, including for instance the evil DJ of "DJ Elephant Head" and his backup dancers
28	* EvilTwin: Kagema Fukanaga, Hattori "Hologramps" Fukanaga's older brother.
29	* {{Expy}}: Forester is for ComicBook/GreenArrow and Myth/RobinHood. His name, however, is most likely a reference to ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}. (Hawkeye's real name is Clint while Forester's first name is Flint.)
30	** Checkmate bears more than a few similarities with [[Characters/BatmanTheRiddler The Riddler]].
31	* ExtracurricularEnthusiast: Amanda, demonstrated in "Checkmate". When [[TheBGrade fretting about her A-]], she says that her parents will make her drop cheerleading, which will only leave her with Tennis, Debate Team, and a number of others. Mike's response: "[[SarcasmMode What will you do with all of that free time?]]"
32	* FakeOutMakeOut: Between Mike and Amanda in the second episode.
33	* FatalFlaw:
34	** Amanda's is that she has trouble accepting anything less than perfection for herself. She gets over this in "Checkmate", following Hologramps' advice that "The perfect ninja knows there is no such thing as perfection"
35	** Checkmate has one similar to the above, in that he never learned how to accept when he was beaten.
36	* GracefulLoser: Amanda in "Checkmate" when forfeiting her chess game with the titular villain.
37	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode is named after its main antagonist(s) with the exceptions of:
38	** ''Detention'', which features the return of a villain from a previous episode.
39	** ''The Floating Sword'', named for the McGuffin.
40	* InstantWebHit: Kickbutt, aka Spencer, is a famed Internet superhero who builds his reputation by recording his attacks on criminals with a camera attached to his helmet.
41	* JiveTurkey: Owen. Not only does he speak in a lot of slang, he's also makes the most jokes, takes things the least serious, and is the main source of comic relief. UncleTomfoolery too.
42	* {{McNinja}}: Mike's an interesting borderline case, given that he's Japanese-American and presented as being from a long line of ninja. Owen and Amanda are textbook-straight examples.
43	* MeaningfulName: Antagonist Mrs Morningstar fights with a spiked ball-and-chain weapon; the spiked ball bringing in mind the medieval weapon called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_star_(weapon) morning star]].
44	* MightyGlacier: Two Ton Harley.
45	* MuggedForDisguise: In "Morningstar Academy", Amanda defeats one of the criminal girls of the Morningstar Academy offscreen and is shown in the next shot wearing the girl's uniform.
46	* {{Ninja Brat}}s
47	* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: All three of the main heroes are in high school.
48	* PoliceAreUseless: Despite Hologramps claiming that Martin is a good cop, he’s a goofy bumbler, and he and the rest of Empire City’s police force prove completely incapable of handling the supervillains and criminals causing trouble in Empire City.
49	* RhymesOnADime: The Rhymer's gimmick, if his name wasn't an obvious hint. [[spoiler:But despite his skills, his rhyming venacular is a bit lacking, as he was outwitted and out-rhymed by Amanda, who managed to make more rhymes ending in "eez" than him.]]
50	* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: Quentin]] becomes this to the ninjas.
51	* ShirtlessScene: Mike while training in "Ishina."
52	* ShoutOut:
53	** One of the villains is named [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Katara]].
54	** [[ComicBook/KickAss Kickbutt]]
55	** In ''Checkmate'', after Amanda concedes the chess match against Checkmate:
56	--->'''Checkmate:''' That's not how you play the game. You have to play to win.\
57	'''Amanda:''' Not this time Checkmate. [[Film/WarGames The only winning move in this game is not to play]].
58	%% * SpiritAdvisor
59	%% * StageMagician: Owen
60	* StoutStrength: ''" Two Ton Harley"'' is about the eponymous member of a biker gang who was formerly a seven foot tall bean pole. After the rest of his gang was put in jail he put on massive amounts of weight so he could literally throw it around and bust them out by breaking through walls and bending steel.
61	%% * TalkingIsAFreeAction
62	%% * TokenTrio
63	* UncleTomfoolery: Owen spends WAY too much time being laughed AT, as opposed to laughed WITH.
64	%% * VirtualGhost: Hologramps.
65	* WritingAroundTrademarks: Arkham-sorry, ''Eternum'' Asylum.
66	* WorkingThroughTheCold: Mike had to do this during "Morningstar Academy."
67	* {{Yandere}}: Gina AKA Wallflower, to Owen.

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