History Main / CyberNinja

** Subverted with Jetstream Sam in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRising'', as he mainly draws inspiration from [[{{Ronin}} samurais]][[spoiler: and [[BadassNormal barely has any cybernetic enhancements]], instead only having a robotic arm and nothing else.]]

** There's also Hotsuma from ''VideoGame/Shinobi2002'' and Hibana from ''VideoGame/NightshadeKunoichi''.

* In ''[[Literature/TakeshiKovacs Altered Carbon]]'' Takeshi Kovacs temporarily sleeved in a "tech-ninja" body, that particular model had mostly [[BioAugmentation organic augmentations]] [[spoiler: except the shaped charge in the hand]] but some older ones he'd used before were cybered up.

* Shadow Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'' was built from the ground up to resemble a ninja. He's even got a FuumaShuriken!
* The ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series has a few:
** Magna Centipede from ''VideoGame/MegaManX2'' is a ninja [[TheCracker hacker]] [[CreepyCentipedes centipede]] robot who can teleport, hack X's systems and throw homing magnetic mines for shurikens. He used to be from the Maverick Hunter's 0th Special Unit, who were a covert ops unit.
** Blast Hornet from ''VideoGame/MegaManX3'' is a ninja [[WickedWasps hornet]] robot who [[BeeBeeGun throws exploding bees]] in place of shuriken. Like Magna Centipede, he also used to be from the 0th Special Unit.
** Dark Mantis from ''VideoGame/MegaManX8'' is a ninja [[SlayingMantis mantis]] robot who throws {{Battle Boomerang}}s made of darkness, fires arrows made of darkness, performs {{Wall Jump}}s, and has two huge mantis arm blades as his primary melee weapons.
** X is able to become one via the Shadow Armor in ''VideoGame/MegaManX6'', allowing him to survive touching SpikesOfDoom and cling onto walls, but at the cost of using special weapons or air-dashing.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' has Hidden Phantom, one of the Four Guardians of Copy X and the head of the Neo Arcadian intel unit. He's a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Reploid]] like any of his brethren, and is very ninja-like -- using body doubles, FuumaShuriken, a [[KatanasAreJustBetter tanto]] and shadow powers to go along with it.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' has Dusk (aka Dark Miyabi) and his [=NetNavi=] [=ShadowMan.EXE=], proving that even in an advanced world of internets, ninjas are still good and running.

* In ''VideoGame/TheNinjaWarriors'', the title characters are a cyborg ninja and kunoichi. Essentially ninja Franchise/{{Terminator}}s. The SNES remake ''VideoGame/TheNinjaWarriorsAgain'' gives us a SkeleBot9000 ninja named Kamaitachi, and the remake of that adds a small ninja robot girl named Yaksha, as well as Raiden, a 4-meter 32-ton TransformingMecha... who's also a ninja.

* Oddly enough, subverted in ''VideoGame/RedAlert3'', which otherwise gleefully features high-tech versions of Japanese warfare (beam-sword katanas, samurai robots and tanks, a laser-shooting Yamato...). The Shinobi is armed with perfectly mundane shuriken and blades (which admittedly go straight through PowerArmor) and uses a SmokeBomb for defense.

* ''Anime/JuushinkiPandora'': Fau is a cyborg assassin and an efficient henchman of Mr. Gold. Later on, [[spoiler: after his body gets severely damaged, he merges with a dog BRAI and loses all sentience but the instinct of revenge against the people who killed Mr. Gold.]]

* In [=RPGs=] like ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' this is a common variation on the StreetSamurai archetype.

* The entire Foot Clan from ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', but that was more of [[MechaMooks a case of censorship]].

* The Ninja enemies and their variants from ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', while not looking much like their namesakes, they use blades and perform ninja techniques such as NinjaRun and DoppelgangerAttack.

** In the wake of Shao Kahn's invasion of Earthrealm in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3'', the Lin Kuei take to [[UnwillingRoboticization cybernization]] in order to survive Shao Kahn's soul-ripping DepopulationBomb, among other things creating Cyrax and Sektor and also doing the same thing to Sub-Zero's comrade Smoke. Sub-Zero, the only one who wouldn't go through with this and who was one of the warriors protected by Raiden, wound up getting hunted not only by Shao Kahn, but by his own clan as a result.

* Cyrax and all of his clones ([[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 Sektor, Cyborg Smoke]], [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 Cyber Sub-Zero]]]], [[VideoGame/MortalKombatX Triborg]], [[VideoGame/MortalKombat11 Frost]]) from ''Franchise/MortalKombat''.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Generation One'' featured the Nightbird, a twenty foot tall female ninja robot built by the Japanese. The Decepticons make their intent to steal Nightbird and manipulate her for their own ends.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBotsMaster'': Ninjzz is a robot built to be the ultimate ninja warrior, with a personality based on the greatest human ninja who ever lived. He is a WalkingArmory with [[MultiArmedAndDangerous a multitude of arms]] to carry around his extra weaponry with a face resembling a kendo helmet.

Ninjas, as far as popular culture is concerned, are cold, efficient killers. What better way to make them even deadlier than to take out the human factor and make them into literal death machines? Nothing makes a ninja's arsenal more awesome than some high-tech upgrades!

* ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'': Aside from their heavy usage of firearms, the members of Section 9 are this to a tee. Cybernetically enhanced bodies, experts at infiltration, hacking, and hand-to-hand combat, and often finding themselves having to use these strengths against physically more powerful enemies.