Characters / Ninjala

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Here are the list of characters appearing in Ninjala and its related media. Much of their info are implicated from their featured shorts, profiles, and loading screen summaries.

Main Characters

Tropes applied to all characters

• A Day in the Limelight: In the webtoon, each character has an episode dedicated to them except Berecca, Burton, and Ron, who are all covered in the CGI prologue short instead.
• The Ace: Being a descendant of a ninja clan means this is a plus. Special mention goes to Kappei, Burton and Ron.
• Badass Adorable: They're all kids (or in the bodies of kids), but they're still plenty capable of kicking ass when the situation calls for it. Their ninja ancestry and Ninja-Gum helps.
• Childish Tooth Gap: The cast does not have the straightest of teeth on account of them being or had their bodies turned into that of a child through the use of Ninja-Gum.
• Fountain of Youth: Berecca, Burton, Ron and Jane are all adults who turned into children as a side-effect of chewing Ninja-Gum.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble:
  • Van and Berecca (Choleric)
  • Lucy and Burton (Sanguine)
  • Kappei and Jane (Phlegmatic)
  • Emma and Ron (Melancholic)
  • The Mascot Gumchi (Eclectic)
• Highly-Visible Ninja: All of their normal outfits are brightly-colored and far from stealthy, despite them training to become ninja. Their training gear consists of a more traditional black attire however.
• Improbable Weapon User: All of the main characters can utilize their Ninja-Gum to for all sorts of weapons, ranging from ninja-appropriated ones like katanas and drills, to downright outrageous like yo-yos and a freakin' stop sign!!
• It Runs in the Family: Shinobi powers are a genetic factor as are some physical traits seen in the bit of family shown in the series thus far.
  • Van's parents also have purple streaks in their hair.
  • Lucy's mother has red eyes.
  • Berecca's father has pink hair.
• Ninja School: Each of the eight characters have some connection to WNA HQ and Academy or reason to go there or take part in Ninjala. Van is training while trying to find out why his dad was attacked. Lucy was encouraged by her parents to understand her power and make friends like her. Ron and Jane are part of the WNA in some fashion and implied to have been sent to research the development of the ninja-gum; they attend the school after taking Ninja-Gum to hide from WNA after they start hunting them. Berecca and Burton hope to find a way to undo the Age Lift side effects of taking Ninja-Gum.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Possibly implied for the de-aged half of the cast as they still seem to be using their given names.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: To summarize the full team, we have: a ninja slacker with a talent for basketball, a no-nonsense scientist, a wacky Thomas Edison enthusiast, an anti-heroic Double Reverse Quadruple Agent, a Cute and Psycho girl with an Eyepatch of Power hiding her Magical Eye, a ninja prodigy from Japan, a hacker with a penchant for sweets, and a street dancer moonlighting as a vigilante. Nothing out of ordinary here...
• Technicolor Eyes: Downplayed. Shinobi all have a small pink dot reflected in their pupils, emphasis on small. It's easier to see in the 2D animations, but it is technically present in the 3D models.
• Token Adult: Burton, Berecca, Ron and Jane were basically this, both in figurative and literal sense, to the other ninja kids like Van, Kappei, Lucy and Emma.

Van

Van

Voiced by: Becky Robinson (English), Yumiko Kobayashi (Japanese, animated short)

• Purple Is Powerful: A majority of his hair is purple and he has ninja abilities in his blood. If it wasn't for the fact he likes to slack off he could probably be a powerful force with the proper training.
• The Rival: He is this to Kappei.
• Series Mascot: Shares this role with Berecca and Gumchi in various promotional material.
• Shonen Hair: Next to Berecca, Van has the most anime hairstyle out of the eight characters.
• Stock Shōnen Hero: Loading screens in the game state that he gets described as being like the hero of a shonen manga. His white and purple Anime Hair helps.
• Taught by Experience: In episode 6 of the anime, he's the only kid who's used Ninja Gum before, not counting Burton and Berecca who were adults prior to chewing the gum after making it.
• Youthful Freckles: Has these around his cheeks combined with a Blush Sticker.

Berecca

Berecca

Voiced by: Kailey Snider (English), Akari Kitou (Japanese, animated short)

• Aerith and Bob: "Berecca" is a rather strange name in comparison to most other cast members even if a simple letter swap can turn it into the much more normal-sounding "Rebecca".
• Delinquent Hair: Far from a delinquent, but sports a huge swirly pompadour.
• Disappeared Dad: Her father was a WNA scientist, and was alledgly killed in an experiment gone wrong. The anime reveals that he actually performed a Heroic Sacrifice to save his colleague from the Shadow Ninja attacking them.
• Double Knockout: She and Naomi end up knocking each other out in the Ninjala Tournament, making Burton the winner of the round by default for being the last one standing.
• Locked Out of the Loop: After seeing Burton and Ron fight, she learns that the former has been researching how it awakens hidden ninja powers and create weapons. She's upset that she is out of the loop and wonders if her father is aware.
• Series Mascot: She's this along with Van and Gumchi.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: A female example of this trope, in chapter two of the Ninjala story mode Berecca says "Damn it!" while fighting enemy Ninjas. Makes sense considering she used to be an adult.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: Along with her pompadour.

Burton

Burton

Voiced by: Max Mittelman (English), Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese, animated short)

• Ditzy Genius: He makes plenty of mistakes and at times comes off as one of the more oblivious ones, but in the end he's still leagues ahead of the kids when it comes to intelligence.
• Dumb Blonde: Averted. He might have spiky blonde hair but he's a scientist.
• Fan Boy: Is this to Thomas Edison. Loading screen blurbs have a chance of detailing it goes to the point his level of respect includes directly quoting and having posters of the scientist.
• Hidden Depths: He's shown to be able to defend himself in his fight against Ron in the first episode of the anime. His ninja heritage and the power of the Ninja-Gum likely helped.
• Historical Character's Fictional Relative: Is a descendant of Hattori Hanzō.
• It's All My Fault: Burton admits to feeling responsible for the Space Ninja attacks that have been happening
• Locked Out of the Loop: Does this to Berecca about the truth behind the ninja-gum research because he knew she wouldn't be on board. She furiously agrees after the fact.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: A G-rated example of this trope. Burton says "Who the hell are you?" in the prologue episode and in the game says "crap". He is only one of two characters in the main cast so far to say these "naughty" words, the other being Berecca. Makes sense considering he used to be an adult.
• The Smart Guy: He's in charge of researching the secrets of the ninja-gum, and is implied to know more than he lets on.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Is the only member of the main cast who wears glasses constantly and definitely knows a few things.

Ron

Ron

Voiced by: Regi Davis (English), Hiroki Yasumoto (Japanese, animated short)

• Becoming the Mask: He started out acting as a friend to Burton and Berecca so that he could steal the Ninja Gum formula for Allen. After Allen betrays him and a series of events leads him to teaming up with Jane, the two becoming children, and joining the WNA as students, he tries to keep interactions with Burton and Berecca at a minimum secretly fearing that the two would try to get back at him if he let his guard down. Later on, he even admits that he pretended to be a friend to Burton, but by Episode 26, he truly accepts Burton and Berecca as friends.
• Big Eater: Played for Laughs in episode 10 of the anime, where he eats a number of large foods. In one bite each.
• Defrosting Ice King: When he first joined the WNA as a student along with Jane, he kept it extremely ambiguous to Burton and Berecca whether or not he was the same Ron and generally acted cold to everyone, making it appear like Ron is planning on assassinating Burton and Berecca at some point while in reality Ron doesn't want to let his guard down around Burton. As the time went on, however, it became evident that he wasn't planning on harming either of them anytime soon and was even helping them out when they were in danger. While he kept up his cold demeanor, he appears to be more appreciative of Burton cooperating with him. In episode 20, he finally confirms to Burton that he's the same Ron, showing that he trusts Burton, and in episode 26, he accepts Burton and Berecca's friendship with a genuine smile.
• Experienced Protagonist: He's already a trained ninja by the start of the series.
• No Name Given/The Un-Reveal: When Ron starts attacking, Burton demands to know who he is. It turns out "Ron" is a fake name, as he is forbidden from revealing his true name.
• Properly Paranoid: In episode 11, in the wilderness he's cautious about everyone's surroundings even though they're just in a test. It turns out that he was right about being careful: a group of ninja assassins attempt to kill Burton twice. The second time, Ron gives Burton a weapon to help fight back.
  • Comes into play again in Episode 15, where he get suspicious of the new teacher and currently guesses that he's an assassin.
• Something Only They Would Say: How he finally confirms to Burton that he is indeed the same Ron who did experiments with him in the anime.
  Ron: Burton! We didn't perform 2,502 experiments.
  Burton: Huh?
  Ron: It was 2,503.
• The Stoic: Doesn't show too much emotion. Even after his Character Development, he remains indifferent to many things that catches the interest of the other characters.

Lucy

Lucy

Voiced by: Reba Buhr (English), Aoi Yūki (Japanese, animated short)

• Anime Hair: She wears her her hair in two massive twintails that nearly reach the ground.
• Anti-Hero: Despite being a good girl, she has a number of Ax-Crazy tendencies that don't go unnoticed.
• Blood Knight: She'll look for literally any reason to fight. As the anime shows, Lucy takes almost sadistic pleasure in fighting her enemies, and she's not subtle about it. She's constantly giggling while in combat, puts herself into danger headfirst regularly, and even disobeys direct orders just so she can have a chance to rip her opponent to shreds, not thinking nor caring about the consequences of her actions.
• Combat Tentacles: She has the ability to turn metal objects such as street signs or railings into tentacles that she can control at will. However, the game doesn't mention of this ability and it only appears in the anime.
• Cute and Psycho: Wears torn punk clothes, has an unhinged and borderline-sadistic personality, and promo art shows her carrying a stop sign as a weapon. The anime reveals what led her to go this route.
• Cute Little Fang: Her whole set of teeth are generally stylized this way in official artwork for the game.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Not exactly dark, but definitely troubled; the power of her Magic Eye labeled her as a monster even though it was used to save people (specifically her two first friends). She confined herself in her room, and wore an eyepatch, until her mother enrolled her to WNA Academy to train and accept herself.
• Evil Laugh: Both in the game and the anime.
• Expy: She looks and acts like a heroic, younger version of Harley Quinn.
• Extra-ore-dinary: She has the ability to manipulate metal objects such and street signs and chains, though sometimes she's able to manipulate other kinds of objects like dodgeballs as well.
• Eyepatch of Power: A cosmetic example. She wears it to hide her red eye that displays the abilities she inherited from her mother's shinobi ancestry. Whenever it comes off, it means it's time to run.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Her main outfit does this through the use of fishnets on her left arm and right leg.
• Hot-Blooded: Boy, is she ever.
• Improbable Weapon User: Is often portrayed as fighting with a stop sign. The anime shows she obtained it during a confrontation with some bad guys. It’s even her gum weapon of choice with the Scrap Saber.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: You can count on Lucy to go ballistic on the enemies with her powers if the situation seems impossible to handle, provided that there are enough resources available nearby.
• Like Mother, Like Daughter: Turns out, Lucy's mom used to be as wild as Lucy's current self during her youth, something which catches Lucy off guard.
• Magical Eye: Possibly the source of her hidden power, usually covered by her Eyepatch of Power.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her right eye is red, and glows brightly whenever her powers are active.
• Shrinking Violet: She became reserved and distanced herself from others after her powers awakened and was labeled a monster by those around her, even transferring schools to prevent the stigma. She becomes more open when she meets Chloe, then drops it completely when she joins the WNA Academy and takes on her new persona.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Subverted. She's not so much evil, but definitely crazy. After being labeled a monster and taking some time to think about it, she eventually decides to stop caring what people think and embraces it fully, taking on a whole new persona and becoming far more chaotic. A monster kid with some crazy power is "exactly who she's supposed to be" according to her, and she changes her appearance to match.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Deciding that she would be the psychotic monster everyone who saw her powers labeled her as did little good for her impulsiveness when it comes to anything involving trouble.
• True Beauty Is on the Inside: Downplayed. Her terrifying powers may have been what had driven away most of her old friends, but Chloe, despite being somewhat traumatized by what happened on the day with the car accident, was relieved when she learned that Lucy had used her powers to save her life and later wrote a letter about how her powers only defined part of her character and that she hopes to see her again. On a similar note, Lucy's parents don't mind that Lucy turned Cute and Psycho since she's getting along with her new friends just fine (it also partially has to do with the fact that Lucy's mom used to act the same way as well.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Until the incident that awakened her power. Jump to present time, and she's become far more chaotic.
• You Monster!/I Am a Monster: The source of her Dark and Troubled Past and what led her to be Cute and Psycho. It got to the point where she eventually accepts it and it becomes part of her persona.
  Lucy: A monster? Sounds good to me!

Kappei

Kappei

Voiced by: Kath Soucie (English), Ayumu Murase (Japanese, animated short)

• Book Dumb: Despite being diligent in his training at swordfighting he's still just a kid and can sometimes get confused at what some words mean.
• Childish Tooth Gap: Kappei notably has this to the point of missing one of his teeth.
• Children Are Innocent: Is said to be very innocent and childlike, with a youthful appearance to match.
• Friend to All Living Things: Due to him and his family protecting Gumchi from those who wish to take advantage of his power, Kappei has developed a very close bond with the extraterrestrial being and is fiercely protective of him.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Probably just scratches due to the fact he does have a bandage on his nose but he has an X-Shaped marks below his left eye.
• Loincloth: Van unfortunately found out he wears this style of underwear.
• Signature Headgear: One of his signature features is wearing a baseball cap.
• The Rival: Is this to Van.

Emma

Emma

Voiced by: Kimberly Brooks (English), Megumi Han (Japanese, animated short)

• Ambiguously Brown: While not as dark as Ron, she does have a darker skin tone compared to the rest of the main cast and her hair is in long dreads.
• Cool Board: Uses the Matsuri Board, a Ninja-Gum skateboard weapon, as her weapon of choice. She also uses it to get around quickly.
• Conveniently an Orphan: She was an orphan living at an orphanage before attending WNA. What happened to her parents is unknown.
• Dance Battler: She has tremendous acrobatic skills and is able to supply a perfect sense of rhythm when she is fighting. She also spends her time street performing while scanning for trouble.
• Genki Girl: as her description states, she has a childlike aura that’s full of hope, passion, and confidence.
• Gratuitous English: In the anime, she regularly inserts English words or phrases in her speech.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: She has blue eyes and is a benevolent vigilante who wants to help however she can.
• Parental Abandonment: She's an orphan. The anime implies that something happened to Emma's parents when she was young.
• Super-Hearing: She can hear from great distances, which allows her to listen in on shady deals and meetings and prepare to intercept them the following night.
• Valley Girl: Is prone to saying words like "fam" and "lit" in the English dub of the webtoon.
• Vigilante Girl: Uses her abilities to protect the weak, her heroics and her style of fighting is what made her so famed around the world and is what made a WNA division recruit Emma into Ninjala.

Jane

Jane

Voiced by: Ashly Burch (English), Junko Minagawa (Japanese)

• Age-Inappropriate Dress: Although she technically isn't a child this trope still applies. Her outfit looks very sexy and risque for the age she is now posing as.
• Badass Longcoat: She has a beige one that she wears as an adult while outside.
• Because I'm Good At It: An expert hacker. The moral implications vary, but she has explicitly and repeatedly stated that "she doesn't do dirty jobs".
• Cool Shades: Has a round white-framed pair of sunglasses usually worn above her eyes.
• Everyone Has Standards: Jane's an ethical (legal) hacker, so she draws a line at anything she considers too "dirty" to do, especially if it endangers others' lives.
• Hollywood Hacking: Relies on her laptop for her hacking job.
• She Knows Too Much: She's ordered to be killed off alongside Ron after digging too deep into the WNA's secrets.
• Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: In the webtoon, she gets her heels stuck in gum after being attacked by WNA ninjas and had to pull out one of them after they capture her.
• Skewed Priorities: Though she's surprised she turned into a kid in the webtoon, she becomes more concerned about getting her laptop back.
• Stumbled Into the Plot:
  • In the webtoon, after discovering that WNA's intelligence division wants data from its research department, she investigates the lab shown in the files she extracted; the same lab where her friend Ron is stationed. She ends up turning into a child from ninja-gum, nearly gets killed by her employer, and has her laptop stolen. She now joins Ron in uncovering a possible conspiracy within WNA.
  • In the anime, Jane catches a secret transmission between the WNA Intelligence Division leader Allen and the Komerican president Harold Cook, which is immediately detected by WNA. They send a group of assailants to kill Jane for learning too much, and she has to escape with the help of Ron.
• Sweet Tooth: She has a habit of eating loads of candy, emptying an entire container during work. It also leads her to eat ninja-gum by mistake and turn her into a kid in the webtoon.
• Trademark Favorite Food: As mentioned above she has a liking to candy to the point she eats it out of habit during her hacking sessions.
• Unwilling Suspension: When the enemy ninjas held her captive in the anime, they tie both her wrists and legs and suspends the former on a kunai stuck to a wall, resulting in her hanging with her wrists stretched above her head. She only managed to set herself free, via from a timely conversion to a child.

Supporting Characters

Gumchi

Voiced by: Stephanie Southerland (English), Honoka Inoue (Japanese)

• Bizarre Alien Biology: Resembles a wad of gum, is fitting for a game about gum.
• Came from the Sky: He's said to have came to Earth by meteorite.
• Evil-Detecting Dog: In the anime, he dances every time the Space Ninja are attacking the students.
• MacGuffin Super-Person: Possesses the power to unlock the power of the Shinobi. The manga has Kappei taking a literal bite of him to accomplish this due to being practically made of gum. The anime short allowed him to act as Kappei's weapon. He has been protected by Kappei's family from those who selfishly want his power.
• Mentor Mascot: Serves as this to Kappei, helping him find Genryusai, his grandfather's brother.
• Really 700 Years Old: Said to have came to Earth centuries ago.
• Series Mascot: Is this for the series, along with Van and Berecca.
• Shapeshifting: Kappei's animated short reveals that he can turn into a sword resembling an IPPON Katana. It's not known if he can transform into anything else yet.

Goro

• The Catalyst: Burton realizing this feline got mixed into the experimental Ninja-Gum formula was just the trigger it needed to become successful.
• The Nameless: Some of his stickers in the game's shop only refer to him as "Cat".
• Series Mascot: Not to the extent of Gumchi but is a recurring element to the series. He also hangs out on your rooftop base along with the previously mentioned alien lifeform.

Genryusai/Master Gramps

Voided by: Erik Braa (English), Chō (Japanese)

• Old Master: Is this to the main cast, and to pretty much the entire WNA as one of the founders of the organization.

Chloe

Voiced by: Julie Nathanson (English), Emiri Katou (Japanese)

• The Cutie: She's very kind and sweet towards Lucy, which helps her open up more and feel better about herself.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After Lucy saves her using her powers, Chloe is never seen nor heard from afterwards, leaving it uncertain what she did afterwards. However, in episode 33 of the anime series it's revealed that she wrote a letter to Lucy expressing that she is relieved that she was saved by her best friend.

Gen'unsai

Voiced by: Erik Braa (English), Chō (Japanese)

Professor Sean

A scientist for the WNA and Berecca's late father. He was presumed dead after some unknown accident when terribly wrong, along with the rest of his team.

• Heroic Sacrifice: According to the anime, this was the real reason he died: he and Leonard were ambushed by Shadow Ninja and Sean was injured in the conflict. Knowing that they're no match for the Shadow Ninja, he forced Leonard out of the fight and used a bomb to blow up the Shadow Ninja at the cost of his own life.
• Posthumous Character: An accident during an experiment took his life. According to the anime, he actually performed a Heroic Sacrifice against the Shadow Ninja to save Leonard.

Leonard

One of Sean's old lab partners who's running from the WNA and Shadow Ninja.

• Bunnies for Cuteness: His suit has a rabbit pin on it.

Lauren Warren

Voiced by: Kari Wahlgren (English), Aya Endo (Japanese)

Dan

Tyler

Naomi

Keith

Ezet

A mysterious kid who saves Burton and Berecca from a fire and later is enrolled into the WNA. He turns out to be from another planet called Meluz.

• Character Development: When he returns to Earth in episode 88, he reveals that he told the other students that he's from space and he trusts them not to tell the world about it, in strong opposition to him being distrustful of Earthlings in his earlier appearances.
• Doesn't Trust Those Guys: He doesn't trust anyone on Earth when he first arrived, even believing that some of them may be N325 (known on Earth as the Space Ninja). However, his distrust is completely unfounded, being based on paranoia rather than a legitimate bad experience. He finally calms down in episode 73 when Burton offers to help him.
• Hypnotic Creature: According to him, members of his species are capable of mind controlling other people. So far, however, it hasn't worked on humans.
• Internal Reveal: Him being an extraterrestrial was revealed as early as the second episode he appears in, but the cast doesn't figure this out until episode 73.
• Kryptonite Factor: Downplayed. Despite his species presumably having ninja blood, he, and other Meluzians, are unable to use Ninja Gum, as it seems to intoxicate them instead.
• The Only One I Trust: He stops being afraid of Gumchi when his device tells him that the creature isn't N325.
• Really Royalty Reveal: In episode 87, when explaining his reasons for being unable to sneak in a visit to Earth, he says that it would be unbecoming of a member of the royal family, something that catches Burton off guard. He's surprised when he realizes he never mentioned it.

Antagonists

Allen

Leader of the Intelligence Division of the WNA. He has secret plans to take over the organization and form an army.

• Big Bad: He's the leader of the Oniwabanshu and the main antagonist of the anime. He's also the one responsible for sending the Oniwabanshu to assassinate Burton, Berecca, Ron, and Jane.
• He Knows Too Much: Sends his assassins to kill Berecca and Burton, and late Ron and Jane, for learning too much information.
• Villain Respect: He acknowledged the main crew's feats in stopping the Space Ninja and reclaiming the Oedo site. He decides to stop hunting Burton, Berecca, Ron, and Jane for this reason and even gives them a detail regarding the incident with Van's father. After his final defeat by Ron, he respects him and regrets not taking in a more compliant ninja.
• Would Hurt a Child: Shows no remorse in attempting to kill Ron or siccing his assassins to kill him, Berecca, Burton, and Jane on multiple occasions. Subverted in that they're technically all adults turned into children, but this doesn't stop him in the slightest. Fortunately, he decided to stop hunting them after they defeated the Space Ninja and reclaimed the Oedo site.

Tsukikage

• And Your Little Dog, Too!: During his bout with Burton and Ron, he threatens to kill Berecca and Jane in Oedo next when he's finished with them. Bad idea.
• Master of Disguise: His signature ability. He can disguise himself into any form he wants, even that of a child. However, the one thing giving him away is that he can't change the shape of facial features.
• Morphic Resonance: His eyes and mouth stay the same between forms.
• Not So Invincible After All: Every time Berecca, Burton, or Ron encounter Tsukikage, they're only saved thanks to the arrival of another adult, and he still manages to escape unscathed every time. He's finally defeated by Burton and Ron in episode 24 when he's caught off guard by Burton distracting him with his gum spitting ability, followed up by Ron finishing him off with his own technique.
• Would Hurt a Child: Has no issue attacking Berecca and Burton in their child forms. The same applies to Ron and Jane as well.

The Space Ninja

A race of unidentified ninja lifeforms who are heavily rumored to come from outer space.

• Aliens Are Bastards: They would do anything to get their hands on the Ninja Gum and the meteorites, and they only further cement themselves as this when one Chocomin tricks Burton into believing that they're a case of Not Evil, Just Misunderstood in order to track down the Ninja Gum factory.
• All There in the Manual: Some of their names are only presented only in episode titles and in-game items. The only two that have been explicitly named so far are the basic blue one (Chocomin) and the flying orange ones (Orenji).
• Arc Villain: A certain Chocomin appears as the most prominent Space Ninja in episodes 22 and 23, being the one to feign innocence to fool the students into taking it with them so that it could locate the Ninja Gum factory and alert its location to their friends.
• Demonic Possession: They can inhabit inanimate objects to turn themselves into powerful monsters.
• I Have Many Names: From where Ezet is from, they're called N325.
• Healing Factor: Episode 82 reveals that they can quickly recover from any form of physical damage that isn't Gum Weapons. Robbit is shown to slash them open, only for the wounds to immediately close back up. Only when Van and Kappei join the battle with their Gum Weapons do the Space Ninja start going down.
• Mook Promotion: A Chocomin who tricks Burton becomes a major antagonist for a few episodes.
• Not So Invincible After All: While the Space Ninja weren't so threatening on Earth due to their weakness to Gum Weapons being shown in their debut, the Meluzians spent years believing that they had no weakness, so the revelation that Gum Weapons have the power to dissolve the Space Ninja in a single blow was a welcome surprise for them.
• Pokémon Speak: The Space Ninja seem to only speak their name or parts of it.
• Put on a Bus: After failing to take over the Ninja Gum factory in episode 23, the Space Ninja which weren't wiped out went into hiding, effectively removing them from the plot for several episodes.
• Smarter Than You Look: Initially, they appeared to be purely animalistic in behavior with the exception of the more humanoid looking leaders. However, episode 22 reveals that even a Chocomin, the most basic mook, is capable of strategizing (which the Chocomin demonstrates by fooling Burton), something which completely catches everyone off guard. Burton noted in episode 24 that they likely would've located the Ninja Gum factory whether or not they tricked Burton given how smart they are.
• The Unreveal: For most of the series, it's never explained why the Space Ninja want the Ninja Gum or Odeo meteorite, nor their true origins. However, Ezet's arc does show that they've invaded his home planet as well. Episode 86 gives a potential answer for the latter, as on Meluz, their leader is shown to draw power from it in order to bust down a locked door.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Their main weakness is Gum Weapons, which are ironically created from the very thing they're addicted to: Ninja Gum.

Harold Cook (SPOILERS)

The Komerican president who's secretly working with Allen for some purpose.

• President Evil: Downplayed. He's the president of Komerica and appears to be a major antagonist working with Allen. His plan was to strengthen the Komerican military with the power of the Ninja Gum but, thanks to Burton, he finds out that Allen left some key information that ruins this. Later, he ends up getting manipulated by Master Shadow into declaring that all ninjas must be purged.
• No Party Given: It's never confirmed which party Harold Cook is in, assuming they exist in Ninjala's world.
• Phenotype Stereotype: He has blond hair and blue eyes, and is the president of Ninjala's version of America.
• Trumplica: His general design seems to be...well, resembling a recent US President.
• Ungrateful Bastard: While being abducted by Shadow Ninjas and betrayed by his former colleague Allen does leave him pretty paranoid, he vowed to shut down the WNA despite the students associated saving his life. Genryusai manages to talk him out of it thanks to video evidence with him colluding with Allen.

The Gumdiva (SPOILERS)

The leader of the N325 (the Space Ninja) on Meluz. Unlike its underlings, it is more humanoid in proportions and is significantly more intelligent.

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• Ambiguous Gender: It's never referred to with gendered words, though it seems to take on a feminine appearance.
• A Father to His Men: Ambiguous gender example. The Space Ninja look upon the Gumdiva and do everything for it. The Gumdiva seems to care about the Space Ninja population thriving and is clearly upset when it finds out that they can be killed by Gum Weapons.
• King Mook: It resembles a Chocomin in terms of features and is the most humanoid of the Space Ninja. It possesses strength unlike its underlings, being able to drill a metal door open after absorbing the power of the meteorites.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: Even moreso than its underlings, as it is able to regrow its appendages if they get cut off and it's the only Space Ninja that can tank multiple hits from Gum Weapons. It even manages to regenerate after its eye take a direct hit from a Rising Devil powered Burton, though it choosing to flee Meluz with the rest of the Space Ninja suggests that it has its limits.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Following its defeat in episode 87, it, along with the rest of the Space Ninja, flee Meluz via a UFO.
• Shapeshifter Weapon: It is capable of morphing its appendages into blades.
• You Can Talk?: Everyone expresses surprise over the Gumdiva speaking their language, as it is the first instance of a Space Ninja doing so.