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alt title(s): Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie; Cool Awesome Combination; Ninja Zombie Pirate Robot
Super King has all the powers of a King
Plus all the power of Superman,
Also he's a robot
Ain't it cool? Super King you rule!
I'm a black Scottish cyclops! They've got more f[bleeeeeeeeeeeep] then they've got the likes of me!
This trope is a specific variety of Rule Of Cool, where something is cool because it is either a combination of two cool things or taking something mundane and combining it with something either odd or cool or equally as mundane, and ending up with something with a coolness that exceeds the sum of its parts.
Often enough, this combination is physically impossible or contradictory, like the title of this page. Fortunately, if done right, nobody cares (as it should with Rule of Cool). In other cases, the combination is somewhat classic, for example with Skeleton Pirates, whose appearance matches the skull-and-crossbones of their flags. Zombie pirates have no such excuse.
This doesn't always work, though. Whether the cool things cancel each other out somehow, or it causes an overflow error of coolness that causes it to roll back over to "suck", or if it's just so overwhelming the Willing Suspension Of Disbelief snaps like a brittle twig, you may get left with a piece of camp that is at best So Bad Its Good and at worst So Bad Its Horrible. Just remember Strong Bad's words of wisdom: " Too much of a good thing is an awesome thing. But too much of an awesome thing is...umm...really, really dumb and bad." The term "lasersharking", a reference to the Austin Powers example cited below, is sometimes used to describe this.
Should not be confused with Secret Mutant Hero Team.
See also Monster Mash, Cool Versus Awesome (when the awesome things are fighting each other), Refuge In Cool, Awesomeness Is Volatile.
The title that narrowly lost out for this trope: Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot Cowboy Hobos With Chain-Katanas And Several Revolvers And The Power Of Friendship Fighting Vampire Nazis With Dark Magic Riding Cyborg Dinosaurs With Head Mounted Lasers Voiced By Kevin Michael Richardson Attacked by Snakes On A Motherfrakkin' Submarine Jet With Desert Polar Bears Crashing Into An Ancient Zeppelin With Alien Anacondas In SPACE With Chuck Norris And Samuel L Jackson With Lesbian Time Travelling Bikini Werewolf Catgirls Dual Wielding Febreze Part 2: This Time, It's Personal
Examples:
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Tropes
Anime and Manga
- The Demonic Tournament in Yu Yu Hakusho includes, amongst other things, humans with spirit/psychic powers, demons reincarnated as humans, an ancient-turned-young midget martial arts master, demon shapeshifters, demon NINJAS, human zombie cyborgs, a demonic artist that can kill you by PAINTING you, a demon drunken master... :p
- Macross 7 is a series about a rock and roll band that fights evil space vampires with their Transforming Mecha... and The Power Of Rock and roll. No, really.
- Mai-HiME. It revolves around High School-aged Magical Girls (one of whom has blue hair and rides a motorcycle) who can summon monsters and generate weapons out of thin air for battling Demonic Invaders, infiltrating and destroying a Kill Sat, and eventually fighting each other to the "death". May also contain Robot Girls, crossdressing Ninjas, Ancient Conspiracies, and a constant full moon that's visible even in full sunlight.
- What can we say about Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann that hasn't already been said elsewhere on this very wiki?
- Episode 4 of Welcome To The NHK does this with Moe Moe, to produce the 'perfect' eroge heroine: a wheelchair-bound blind glasses-wearing alien robot ghost maid with a split personality, Alzheimers and a terminal illness who is a childhood friend and classmate of the protagonist, and who was his lover in a previous life. The result is more disturbing than hoped, though
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- Volfogg in Gao Gai Gar. Come on, he's a giant Robot Ninja spy that transforms into a Police car. And can combine with a transforming Motorcycle and Helicopter on top of THAT.
- Compare his Zonderian rival for the first parts of the anime, Pinchernone (or Penchinon, if you prefer it), who compromises the Pirate Zombie Robot of the trope title. In human form, he takes the form of a sailor, and he is always seen sitting and with a huge grin on his face. Late in the series, back as Tomoro-117, he actually befriends Volfogg, with Volfogg commenting on him as an "interesting friend".
- The pirate Perry from the manga Burning Hell. He is a pirate who uses a high speed fighting style based on Voldo-like claws. On chains. Also, he is dead and keeps on moving thanks to his captain's dark magic. He doesn't have any robotic parts but making this trope 3/4 literal still deserves some credit.
- The whole point of Kujibiki Unbalance was to make a show with every possible anime trope to give the characters in Genshiken something to talk about. Witches, aliens, ninjas, whatever, for a mere three episodes.
- The first episode of Mnemosyne has the protagonist, an immortal private investigator, use SHOTGUN GLOVES on a bunch of zombies.
- The villain of the Mahora Festival arc in the manga version of Mahou Sensei Negima is a magical Chinese-Martian Kung-Fu Mad Scientist from the future who's descended from the main character in Powered Armor, who uses a robot army and demon-mecha that shoot stripper rays.
- Hellsing and its Nazi vampires. Synthetic Nazi vampires, people!
- Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds really tries. The show is still about playing Card Games - however, the cardgames are played on motorbikes with transformer sidekicks!
- Come on down to Cromartie High School, and you'll get to meet the likes of delinquents, robots, aliens, monkeys, and some dude who looks like Freddie Mercury from Queen. Those are all students, by the way.
- Robots? What robots? I haven't noticed any robots around Cromartie. I hope you're not considering Mechazawa to be a robot, just because he has very shiny, pale skin! He's just as normal as the rest of us!
- Soul Eater has a blue zombie ninja teaching in the school sponsored by the Grim Reaper. His weapon partner is a brown-skinned mummy nurse, combining three fetishes in one!
- Jojos Bizarre Adventure loves this. First, it's vampires who are fought with Hokuto Shin Ken. Then it's better vampires who eat vampires fighting a Brit, an Italian, and a cyborg Nazi who looks like Guile. Then a vampire who can stop time and his buddies with wacky Psychic Powers fighting two Japanese high school students (also with said Psychic Powers), the aformentioned Brit (now a Cool Old Guy who looks like Sean Connery), a Muslim fortune teller who can control fire, a Frenchman with ridiculous hair seeking to avenge his sister, and a supersmart dog who can control sand. Those are just the first three parts.
- Strike Witches. Repeat with me: Mecha Fighter pilot Magical Cat Girl Lolis in Powered Armor. None of them wears skirts or pants. One of the leads also has a weakspot-revealing eyepatch and wields a katana. You just can't get any more awesome than that!
- G Gundam starts off with sorta-post-apocalyptic kung-fu battling in Super Robots using every ridiculous Martial Arts And Crafts move and Evil Foreigner stereotype they could think of, and just goes Beyond The Impossible from there. The Humongous Mecha design itself pretty much runs on this (Windmills, man. Windmills.) And I haven't even mentioned Schwarz Bruder and his German Ninjitsu yet.
- We forgot to mention that the Big Bad's army is made up of cyborg zombies. Cyborg zombies with giant robots.
- Cyborg zombies with giant robot zombies which come from another Giant Robot that can merge with a Space Colony and zombify other giant robots.
- Witchblade anime indeed features some ninja zombie robots... more precisely, saboteur/assassin zombie werecyborgs and combat robot zombies. Latter just because they were deemed more expendable than human soldiers with comparable equipment.
- Samurai Champloo combines samurai with hip-hop, and has ninjas, pirates, and zombies, but it really outdoes itself with episode 23, which centers around a game of ninja baseball.
- Thorfinn has been described by more than one reader as an emo viking ninja. Now he's an emo viking ninja LUMBERJACK.
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha delights in taking the normal Magical Girl template and checking how many seemingly unrelated stuff they can combine it with. For example, one Magical Girl is a Really Seven Hundred Years Old Elegant Gothic Little Miss Badass sentient program that wields a mechanical hammer that can become rocket-powered, sport a drill, or grow to the size of a large building for Humongous Mecha smashing.
- In Neon Genesis Evangelion we eventually find out that the titular machines are really not robots at all. They are actually giant Artificial Human inhabited by the souls of the dead, wearing armor as a Restraining Bolt, and turned into cyborgs so they can be controlled by human teenagers that hook their nervous system directly into it.
- A ridiculous amount of things in Getter Robo, particularly anything created by the Dinosaur Empire (since all their creations are by default "Dinosaur + 'x'". A T-Rex attached to a twin-barrelled giant tank being backed up by dinosaurs with guns riding on the backs of dinosaurs with missile pods attached while robot pterodactyls fly overhead? Happens all the time [1]◊.
- The reason why the Jeremiah/Sayoko pairing in Code Geass is so popular. He's a cyborg and she's a Ninja Maid.
- Well, that and massive amount of LOYALTY.
- Eureka Seven, anyone? Sky Surfing Super Robots that transform into Le Mans-esque supercars, all while running on The Power Of Love.
- Biomega, or to be more specific, Kozlov Grebnev. I mean, cyberpunk and zombies are cool, cyberpunk zombies are even cooler but a Russian talking bear with a sniper rifle is in a league of his own.
- How come Kisame from Naruto hasn't been mentioned? He's a shark-man that uses a shark-tooth sword that he can ride like a surfboard, will come back to him if he drops it, and cuts into the hands of anyone else who uses it.
- Let's not forget about Sasori, who is a ninja Brain In A Jar inside a puppet with built-in flamethrowers, water cannons, rotor blades attached to a pole on his back, and a poison-covered cable/tentacle in place of his stomache. And that puppet is inside another puppet with built-in poison Whip Sword.
- Can't forget Zetsu. He's a cannibal venus fly trap man whose face halves argue with each other and can teleport from place to place by phasing into the environment. And he can split those halves apart.
- One of Pain's bodies appears to be a some of kind of ninja cyborg. In fact all of Pain's bodies could be considered ninja zombies depending on how you look at it.
- Kidomaru of the Sound Four is a ninja spider-man gamer who can use a giant bow and arrow.
- Ninja Senshi Tobikage, an obscure anime from the 80's, has animal themed tramsforming combining Ninja mecha. The titular Tobikage is a ninja robot. Heck, in some countries, its title was translated as Ninja Robots
- Ride Back: Ballerina terrorist fighting totalitarian world order on motorbike ''that can transform into bipedal mech'', while proclaiming to be pacifist. And wangsting.
- Ninin Ga Shinobuden has a crocodile Ninja.
- From One Piece, we have Franky (a transforming cyborg pirate shipwright powered by cola) and Brook (a afro-wearing perverted skeleton pirate musician who can run across water), the two latest additions to the main cast. If anything, it will probably get more random from there.
- Gun X Sword is a Space Western about a Tuxedo Wearing auto-healing Badass who goes around in search for vengeance kicking ass, stopping bullets with his sword and piloting an empathic Humongous Mecha competing against a samurai.
- Date Masamune's horse is a motorbike. Your entries are invalid
- Nazis, human-animal hybrids, genderless shapeshifters, ninjas, a cute little pseudo-Chinese princess that can use magic and has a dwarf panda as a pet, mutated zombies, spy prostitutes and housewives that punch bears in the face: all these and more in Fullmetal Alchemist.
- Blassreiter presents nanobot-infested Shape Shifting Made Of Iron Badass Biker cyborg saint swinging the blade he grows. While riding Shape Shifting jet Cool Bike with AI who talks via Fairy Sexy projected girl. There are other... interesting characters where these two came from. Even the mooks are transformed by nanobots Brainwashed And Crazy Zombie Infectee, sometimes even corpses reanimated by nanomachines, making them cyborg zombies Made Of Iron. And there's Mini Mecha built by the Ancient Conspiracy. Better Than It Sounds (It Makes Sense In Context).
- CLAMP went overboard with Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. The main nakama comprises a half-chinese Kid Hero that knows kung-fu and magic and has an evil clone, a (cursed) ninja with a cybernetic arm, a (cursed) pretty vampire wizard with an eyepatch, a (cursed) magical princess and a cute cuddly mascot with immense magical powers. In case this wasn't enough, it also features witches, ridiculously convoluted magical conspiracies, loads of clones, dimension-travelling vampire twins, dimension-travelling bounty-hunter brothers, more clones, and the bad guy is so evil he actually wears a monocle.
- The 2010 Ironman Anime Adaptation preview by Madhouse: Tony Stark (Tonii Sutaakku?) flies around futuristic Tokyo to battle the White Haired Pretty Boy villain's army of humanoid mecha fired from a missile launcher. The villain himself has Beehive Barrier and a Powered Armor that looks like medieval armour.
- Quite possibly the most disturbing example of this trope: cyborg zombie fish.
- Kogarashi of Kamen No Maid Guy: A super-muscled male Meido with a mask, 37 senses, X ray vision, Prehensile Hair, the ability to freeze people with his voice, and Nigh Invulnerability, who used to teach at MIT.
- Seto No Hanayome has Mermaid Yakuza, one of whom is also The Terminator.
- Kujako-Oh the Peacock King. Buddhist ki-and-bead shooting monks ala [[Darkstalkers Donovan]] vs nazi-summoning demons, demon-summoning nazis, demonic nazis, cybernetic demonic nazis with Gatling arms, and a bishounen vampire nazi robot who isn't even aware he's a robot. And it's done in an incredibly serious and dramatic fashion. Yes, really. There's absolutely no comedic value behind any of it as opposed to some of the lunacy in Fullmetal Alchemist. And at one point the nazis went to war with one of the demon lords. And won! Also, FMA appears to have a shoutout to one of the movies, King Bradley looks a heck of a lot like the demonic nazi gaufuhrer, who plays a similar role to the anime's Dante. (He's the BVNR's subordinate, until the BVNR's robot form is revealed when he's supposedly killed, at which point he reveals his eyepatch hides not the mark of the homonculi, but is home to the Final Boss of the demon army!) HSQ drinking games with this series will leave one a soused and broken wreck.
- Mystogan from Fairy Tail is a Quintuple Staff Weilding ninja clone(?) mage.
Board Games
- Atomic Sock Monkey Press offers a free boardgame, Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot, its not-free expansion Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot Deluxe (which also includes Clowns, Cowboys, Mutants, Punks, and Zombies), and Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot: the Roleplaying Game, which includes Aliens.
- A popular variation on Rock Paper Scissors is Bear Ninja Cowboy. Another variant, Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock, introduces two new hand signs.
- Ladies and gentlemen: chess boxing.
Card Games
- Steve Jackson Games came out with the Fan Service-laden card game SPANC: Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls.
- The relevant "Designer's Notes" column in Pyramid Magazine had a Suspiciously Specific Denial concerning the non-existence of an expansion pack called BDSM: Barbarian Dogboy Space Marines...
- Also from Steve Jackson Games, Munchkin's myriad and sundry genre-spanning sets can all be combined, with minimal rule modifications for doing so.
- Recommended combo: Star Munchkin, the new Munchkin Booty, Munchkin Fu, and these rules.
- Z-Man Games has a series of B-Movie card games (all of which can be combined into, well . . .) which basically take every trope you can think of in a genre, and using it. Titles include Grave Robbers From Outer Space, Bell-Bottomed Badasses on the Mean Streets of Funk, Bushwhacking Varmints out of Sergio's Butte, and Kung-Fu Samurai on Giant Robot Island.
- Magic The Gathering's Mistform Ultimus is currently, in alphabetical order, an Advisor, Ally, Angel, Anteater, Antelope, Ape, Archer, Archon, Artificer, Assassin, Assembly-Worker, Atog, Aurochs, Avatar, Badger, Barbarian, Basilisk, Bat, Bear, Beast, Beeble, Berserker, Bird, Blinkmoth, Boar, Bringer, Brushwagg, Camarid, Camel, Caribou, Carrier, Cat, Centaur, Cephalid, Chimera, Citizen, Cleric, Cockatrice, Construct, Coward, Crab, Crocodile, Cyclops, Dauthi, Demon, Deserter, Devil, Djinn, Dragon, Drake, Dreadnought, Drone, Druid, Dryad, Dwarf, Efreet, Egg, Elder, Elemental, Elephant, Elf, Elk, Eye, Faerie, Ferret, Fish, Flagbearer, Fox, Frog, Fungus, Gargoyle, Giant, Gnome, Goat, Goblin, Golem, Gorgon, Graveborn, Griffin, Hag, Harpy, Hellion, Hippo, Homarid, Homunculus, Horror, Horse, Hound, Human, Hydra, Hyena, Illusion, Imp, Incarnation, Insect, Jellyfish, Juggernaut, Kavu, Kirin, Kithkin, Knight, Kobold, Kor, Kraken, Lammasu, Leech, Leviathan, Lhurgoyf, Licid, Lizard, Manticore, Masticore, Mercenary, Merfolk, Metathran, Minion, Minotaur, Monger, Mongoose, Monk, Moonfolk, Mutant, Myr, Mystic, Nautilus, Nephilim, Nightmare, Nightstalker, Ninja, Noggle, Nomad, Octopus, Ogre, Ooze, Orb, Orc, Orgg, Ouphe, Ox, Oyster, Pegasus, Pentavite, Pest, Phelddagrif, Phoenix, Pincher, Pirate, Plant, Prism, Rabbit, Rat, Rebel, Reflection, Rhino, Rigger, Rogue, Salamander, Samurai, Sand, Saproling, Satyr, Scarecrow, Scorpion, Scout, Serf, Serpent, Shade, Shaman, Shapeshifter, Sheep, Siren, Skeleton, Slith, Sliver, Slug, Snake, Soldier, Soltari, Spawn, Specter, Spellshaper, Sphinx, Spider, Spike, Spirit, Splinter, Sponge, Squid, Squirrel, Starfish, Surrakar, Survivor, Tetravite, Thalakos, Thopter, Thrull, Treefolk, Triskelavite, Troll, Turtle, Unicorn, Vampire, Vedalken, Viashino, Volver, Wall, Warrior, Weird, Whale, Wizard, Wolf, Wolverine, Wombat, Worm, Wraith, Wurm, Yeti, Zombie, Zubera. *phew* The list was a lot longer before the Grand Creature Type update. It is a Ninja Pirate Zombie, but, unfortunately, not a Robot. It is a Construct, though. It's also a Mutant Ninja Turtle.
- See also this comic◊ for several other things it is. Unfortunately, with the GCTU, all of these except "Fish Monger" no longer apply.
- Magic also has the Phyrexians, Super Soldier zombie cyborgs.
- The Mistform Ultimus has somewhat lost its unique status with the Lorwyn block and its introduction of the 'Changelings', shapeshifters with an eponymous ability that grants them every creature type at all times. Amusingly enough, there are also some 'tribal' cards with that ability that aren't themselves creatures at all — Wings of Velis Vel, for example, is an Advisor-Angel-Anteater-Antelope-...-Wurm-Yeti-Zombie-Zubera spell that temporarily sets a target creature's power and toughness to fixed values and grants it flying and all creature types in turn for the duration as well.
Comic Books
Film
- One Eyed Monster: Killer Alien Penis. I shit you not.
- Hard Rock Zombies has a zombie heavy metal band fighting a sex cult led by Adolf Hitler.
- Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. Kung Fu Jesus, Lesbian Vampires, one bisexual vampire, and a Mexican wrestler. And a jazz singer named Blind Jimmy Leper, who sings (mostly) unintelligibly about Star Wars.
- Snakes On A Plane combines, obviously, snakes with planes, throws Samuel L. Jackson into the mix, and gives us the premise right there in the title as the cherry on top. And copious swearing!
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery has Dr. Evil expressing a desire for "sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads." In the third film, he actually gets them.
- Grindhouse takes this to previously unseen levels. It's a double feature of faux-ExploitationFilms, with some trailers for imaginary movies sandwiched in between.
- Versus features 'zombie yakuza samurai. Refuge In Cool is putting it mildly.
- Pirates Of The Caribbean has actual zombie pirates (one of whom throws smoke bombs and looks a lot like Edward Teach) in the first movie. The second and third movies feature Fish-People pirates led by Davy Jones (who, for some reason, pilots a ship called The Flying Dutchman and speaks in a Scottish accent), or as some fans call him, "Captain Cthulhu".
- Don't forget the zombie pirate monkey.
- The third movie is summed up as thus: A Zombie Pirate captain teams up with his rival Badass Normal Pirate's crew to defy proven fact that the earth is round and sail over the edge to bring said Badass Normal Pirate back from the dead (Making him a Badass Normal Zombie Pirate Captain) so that he may lead the charge against an unholy alliance between Zombie mutant pirate demons lead by the Zombie mutant sea devil pirate captain and a Tea Company. And the zombie pirate monkey is in it.
- Pluswhich, it's based on a theme park ride, so you can throw "robots" in there, too.
- Godzilla often enters this trope, especially when Mecha Godzilla or Space Godzilla are present. For example, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla is a movie where Killer Space Monkeys try to take over the Earth using a big robot dinosaur. They are defeated by the combined forces of a big non-robot dinosaur and a giant Japanese lion-god. In the sequel, Terror of Mechagodzilla, they combine forces with a Mad Scientist who controls another dinosaur using his Beautiful Daughter, who is also a robot.
- The very name "Godzilla" is the English translation of the original "Gojira," which is a portmanteau of "gorilla" and the Japanese word for whale, "kajira." So, that means that Godzilla was a Gorilla Whale, or something like that.
- Likewise, Mothra in the Rebirth Of Mothra films fall under this. You've got Mothra Leo, Armor Mothra, Aqua Mothra, Light-Speed Mothra, Armor Mothra, and Eternal Mothra. Oh, by the way, these are all different forms of the exact same monster.
- Samurai Vampire Bikers From Hell.
- By the end of Van Helsing, the title character is an Angel Werewolf Vampire-Hunter in a Badass Longcoat wielding an Automatic Crossbow whose sidekick is a Sexually Active Swearing Friar Who Designs 18th Century Anti-Vampire Hand Grenades. And it flopped at the box office!
- The forgettable movie Ring of Darkness involves a zombie boy band.
- Six String Samurai is about a katana-wielding Buddy Holly trying to inherit the crown of King Elvis I of Lost Vegas, After The End. Along the way he must fight cavemen, bowlers, the Red Scare, and a character who is either The Grim Reaper or Slash from Guns 'n' Roses. Or possibly the Wicked Witch of the West.
- An adult film titled Cheerleader Nurses.
- and now there's also Zombie Strippers.
- Santa Claus Conquers The Martians.
Martian: The people of Earth do not realize that Santa Claus has been kidnapped by Martians.
Tom Servo: You do realize what you just said.
- The House of the Dead movie gets a swing and a miss by casting its villains as zombie pirate alchemists. And, no, these are the semi-historical sort, not the cool kind from Full Metal Alchemist or the Atelier series. Not even as cool as The Alchemist from The Venture Brothers.
- Badmovies.com had this to say about The Land That Time Forgot:
In honor of Earth Day, I present you with a film that contains Germans and dinosaurs. If that does not make you want to recycle, I do not know what will.
- The back of the Soldier DVD case has a review from Jay Carr that reads, "Rambo, Death Wish, and Dirty Harry in outer space."
- You Dont Mess With The Zohan is about an Israeli kung-fu ninja commando women's hairdresser. I swear....
- Bubba Ho-tep: an elderly Elvis Presley (played by Bruce Campbell) teams up with a black John F. Kennedy to fight a cowboy mummy.
- The Hellboy film's version of Kroenen is a Ninja Nazi Occultist Zombie Cyborg.
- Death Race: racecar Prison convicts in a Battle Royale (possibly with cheese) fight to the death, using heavily armored Mustangs mounted with miniguns and napalm. Oh, and there's hot minority women's prisoners brought in. And The Transporter stars.
- The original had a cheesecake Nazi and Sly Stallone breaking a violin over some dude's head. That's got to help it.
- Plan Nine From Outer Space. Human Aliens, led by a Camp Gay man, start a very small Zombie Apocalypse with their electrode guns to deliver an Anvilicious Aesop about the arms race. Criswell babbles.
- Fantasy Mission Force: Nazis, Amazons, vampires (and associated other ghouls), Road Warriors and a musical number. Oh, and Jackie Chan. No, we are seriously not making this up.
- The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension ... Buckaroo is a genius theoretical physicist, stunt driver, neurosurgeon, samurai, strategic defense consultant, and gunslinger. Also the front man for the hardest-rocking bar band in Jersey.
- You forgot comic book hero.
- The Thirteenth Warrior inserts a Real Life Arab diplomat into Viking country to fight cannibalistic Neanderthals in a story ripped off from Beowulf.
- The film Outlander basically boils down to a Space Marine teaming up with Vikings to fight Aliens.
- The Chinese cyborg Kung-Fu movie, assuming it really gets made.
- "Manos" The Hands of Fate is about an acid-tripping satyr who works as a Crusty Caretaker to a cult of comatose polygamists whose leader is Immune To Bullets.
- Troll2 is about vegetarian goblins disguised as Corrupt Hicks who eat people and get their powers from Stonehenge. Their leaders are a Large Ham Sinister Minister and an even Larger Ham witch with a corn fetish, and they are defeated by a combination of The Power of Goodness and The Power of a Double-Decker Balogna Sandwich. There's also a Bad Ass axe-wielding ghost who can shoot lightning and stop time.
- Popeye, The Movie, or at least the making of it, can be considered a Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot. Directed by Robert Altman, who directed M*A*S*H and Nashville, produced by Robert Evans, based more on the original comic strip than the animated cartoons that followed, starring Robin Williams alongside Altman alumni like Shelley Duvall, filmed in Malta, in the late 1970s/early 1980s, partly financed on a mass budget by Paramount Pictures and Disney, with Italian cinematographers, with music by Harry Nilsson and Van Dyke Parks. No wonder "directionless" was a common criticism, although one has to admire that such a concoction could be made, whatever its fate.
- Dead Snow. Nazi Zombies. In Norwegian Mountains in Winter. Ein Zwei Die.
- The titular characters in Ninja Cheerleaders are not just ninjas and cheerleaders but strippers and 4.0 grade students too.
- Wall E is a movie in which Johnny Five and an iPod fight HAL 9000 aboard Noah's Ark In Space!.
- Robot Monster: a virtually-immortal robot alien gorilla single-handedly destroys Earth civilization with his bubble machine and then falls in love with a human woman.
- Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness: A smartass with a chainsaw hand and a BOOMSTICK must fight an army of medieval zombies led by his own evil zombie Doppelganger.
- The Harryhausen Movie The Valley of Gwangi. Little can prepare a viewer for the sheer unadulterated awesome of Cowboys roping a Dinosaur.
- German movie Der Goldene Nazivampir von Absam 2 – Das Geheimnis von Schloß Kottlitz : Exactly What It Says On The Tin.
- Uh... it would help if we knew what the tin says. I think part of it says "the golden nazi vampire"? Please tell me "golden" doesn't mean shiny.
- "The Golden Nazi Vampires of Absam [a mountain town in Austria] 2 - The Secrets of Castle Kottlitz."
- Dead Alive (also known as Braindead). Father McGruder fights off zombies with his Ninja like martial arts skills after proclaiming "I kick ass for the Lord!". Soon after his ascent to Ninja Priest he becomes zombified making him now a Ninja Priest Zombie.
- Kung-fu Zombie. The title itself is nearly enough to qualify. The movie also has ghosts, Nice Hats and a kung-fu vampire on fire.
- Jedi Knights. Think about it - they're basically ninjas with telekinetic powers, rocket ships and Laser Blades. Anakin pilots his ships and Luke guides a photon torpedo, both using psychic powers. Darth Vader is technically a Psychic Ninja Cyborg.
- Black Sheep (the New Zealand one) has carnivorous zombie were-sheep and one character who engages in bestial-paedo-incest (unless the sheep was of age in sheep-years, then it's just bestial-incest)!
Literature
- Vampirates, a book series about you-guessed-it.
- His Dark Materials has the Panserbjørne, the Guardians of the Svalbard archipelago, a race of armor-clad warrior polar bears (in fact, "panserbjørne" is Danish for "armored bears"). As a matter of fact, the author gleefully tells us that This Is Just About The Coolest Thing Ever.
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Pirates, a nuclear Steam Punk submarine, giant underwater monsters, and a mad scientist.
- Peter Pan is an early version of this- flying, immortal, juvenile delinquents fight pirates, Indians, and demonic crocodiles in a bizarre fantasy land inhabited by mermaids and fairies—which makes this Older Than Radio.
- The Princess 99 has an alien punk rocker from the future fighting zombies, elves, and wizards in a mixed up Clock Punk fantasy setting that's based on 1920s New Orleans...but with wizards!
- Certain Discworld stories might count as this, considering just how many bizarre concepts tend to be packed into one novel. A good example would be Monstrous Regiment in which a Sweet Polly Oliver joins a military regiment along with a troll, a vampire, a religious fanatic who is also strongly implied to be a Lesbian Schoolgirl, a sergeant and whatever the heck an Igor is to fight a war in the name of a god who is dead, and a mortal who is in the process of ascending to godhood. And it turns out the entire regiment is an Amazon Brigade and didn't know it.
- Sean Cullen's Hamish X series is about a robot orphan with Eyes Of Gold who wants to Become A Real Boy and Turn Against His Masters. It contains a zeppelin, cheese, cheese pirates, a Lost World that is Beneath The Earth in Switzerland and populated entirely by orphans, ninja orphans, a Hive Mind of robot raccoons named George, Bedouins, a mammoth, giant snow monkeys, and an evil assimilating robot MIB from the Uncanny Valley with candy-related names. And yet, when a minor character is seen reading a comic called Vampire Cat Robot, the narrator makes fun of him for it.
- In Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, a French chef named Armand Allegre is pursued by an Implacable, Invisible, Clingy, Jealous, Killer ClockPunk robot duckwith a speech impediment and a fully functional digestive system who wants him to find her Currently Genderless Beta-Copy or else she will take Revenge for all the ducks he has cooked.
- There's also the overarching story about a depressed widower astronomer and a womanizing, land-surveying Quaker studying the orbit of Venus while snarking all over Dutch people and then measuring borders IN AMERICA while discussing dragons. And that bit is true. Less true are the talking dog who knows everything, the Chinese fung shui master who is afraid of turning into a Spaniard, the rabbi secret agents trying to track down rogue golems, golems built by Jesus, the Swedish conspiracy, the Spanish Inquisition's involvement, the ghost, and some witches. And it's all written in Antiquated Linguistics.
- Another Pynchon novel, Vineland, involves hippies, The Mafia, MIBs, ninjas, and a possible kaiju attack.
- Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy is the story of humans fighting back againstan invasion by dead souls possessing the living to escape a horrible living death afterlife and gaining superpowers in the process unleashed when an alien made of pure energy interrupts a satanic ritual and nearly winning until Al Capone comes back and takes over whole star systems then the dead take some planets to over universes except one is a horrific nightmare realm with an enemy made up of a squillion different species liquefied and mashed together into a blob of pure scary and then the guy who started it all summons the scary blob to our universe and everybody nearly dies but someone else saves the day by piloting a living starship to where a god hangs out and talks it into helping. The impressive part is this is actually done in such a way that every premise is plausible and the impacts they have on the world are realistic.
- Elizabeth Bear's Edda of Burdens series: as of Book One: All The Windwracked Stars, we have a post-apocalyptic steampunk valkyrie historian, a two-headed immortal flying cyborg warhorse, magico-genetically spliced catgirl police officers with the souls of dead angels, reincarnated rentboys with superstrength, and a few completely casual mentions of battle shoggoths.
- Surfing Samurai Robots is about an Alien that has a big nose and has come to Earth in order to be a detective. Also, there are some Surfing Samurai Robots, and it turns out that the whole thing was set up by the Femme Fatale's dad, who is a lizard. Once again...
- Complete World Knowledge. Hoboes, presidents, mole-men, cane swords, ferrets, giant iguanas, druids, masturbation out a window, Jonathan Coulton, zeppelins, Time Lords, a sequel to The Catcher In The Rye, samurai, thunderbirds... apparently the only thing that doesn't exist in John Hodgman's mind is Chicago.
- Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, the classic Jane Austen romance retold with the addition of, well, not to put too fine a point on it, ultra-violent zombie mayhem. And ninjas.
- Followed by Sense And Sensibility And Sea Monsters, which features mutant lobsters, rampaging octopi, and pirates. And apparently Davy Jones.
- Followed by Mansfield Park and Mummies, which features spirits of ancient Egyptian pharoahs, vampires, collections of ancient Egyptian artifacts, and, of course, mummies.
- Followed by Emma and the Werewolves. Stand by for the next two — no doubt it will be a short wait...
- The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway. How to describe it? An Afterthe End Catch-22 cowritten by Thomas Pynchon and Douglas Adams by way of Fight Club with heroic Hazmat troubleshooters vs the evil megacorp. And oh yeah, ninjas vs kung fu mimes
- Among the other contents of Un Lun Dun's Hurricane Of Puns are trash bin ninjas called "Binja."
- Tobias Buckell started writing Crystal Rain by listing all the cool things he could think of. Mongoose men fight Aztecs with zeppelins, while the pirate hero (at least he has a hook and likes to sail) battles amnesia on a steampunk quest to the frozen north to recover the secrets of their offworld ancestors. And Sly Mongoose has sky cities and space zombies.
- The Crazy Awesome nature of The Dresden Files cannot be overemphasized. A polka-powered zombie tyrannosaurus! A cult of porn-star sorceresses! Ninja ghouls! Paladins with Kalashnikovs! Secret agent demon werewolves! A wizard with a vampire hairstylist brother! And so on and so forth.
- The Codex Alera series by the same author is full of this too. From the page description: "Magical Roman Legionnaires straight out of Avatar The Last Airbender versus the Zerg. And wolfmen with Blood Magic. And telepathic yetis. And white-haired neanderthal-elves. Riding ground sloths and terror birds..." And, later: "The political dealings of Dune meets a Greco-Roman Society powered by Pokemon." That leaves out the parts where some of the wolfmen get zombified (or maybe "possessed by body-snatching aliens" is a better description), the Zerg learn magic, and a Chrome Champion swordfights.
- Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series (and the related Nursery Crimes series) focus on the titular protagonist's adventures in Book World, where all characters in fiction are the roles played by Book World actors. Gully Foyle of The Stars My Destination polices Science Fiction. The Racy Novels genre is in a border dispute with Feminist. Her uncle Mycroft, a mad inventor, is sought by a multinational corporation for his latest invention, the Book Portal (which started the whole mess), so he hides in the backstory of the Sherlock Holmes series - as Sherlock's elder brother, of course. If a reference sounds vaguely literary, it is. In the "real world", things are even stranger - cloned Neanderthals, dodos, and thylacines exist, as do time travel, werewolves, and the radical Bacon Society, which claims Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays, and is willing to start riots in the streets to prove their point. If you plan to visit, bring a clear jar filled with lentils and rice, and shake it every once in a while. If the mix starts clumping as if something was sorting it, watch out, entropy's going backward.
- In Good Omens Adam describes a story he once wrote:
'It was about this pirate who was a famous detective (...) 'Specially the bit in the spaceship where the dinosaur comes out and fights with the cowboys'
- There is a children's book in which the Loch Ness Monster teams up with little green men from Mars to fight evil spider aliens. Tell me that's not awesome.
- Isaac Asimov's novel I Robot features a telepathic robot.
- Though only an example from a modern perspective the original novel Frankenstein passingly mentioned the creature to have had a large number of firearms on his person.
- Like its film adaptation, The Thirteenth Warrior, Eaters Of The Dead takes a real life Arab diplomat and inserts him into a retelling of Beowulf with the monster replaced by cannibalistic Neanderthals.
- Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash features as it's main character Hiro Protagonist, a ninja computer-hacker pizza delivery boy, who basically invented the Matrix.
Live Action TV
- The Reavers of Firefly are infected space zombies, while the crew of Serenity are space-cowboy-pirates/space-pirate-priests/space-pirate-prostitutes. And River, who is a space-pirate-ninja.
- A psychic (and psychotic) space-pirate-ninja teenage girl.
- The popularity of Star Trek's Borg stems at least partially from the fact that they are basically zombie pirate cyborgs. In space.
- In Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg were actually called "bionic zombies".
- Alternatively, they could be classified as zombie vampire robo mummies.In space.
- Seven of Nine, even though she's been freed from the Borg Collective, has demonstrated that she's a capable cyborg ninja on several occasions.
- Doctor Who did it first in 1966, with the Cybermen. And let's not forget the Daleks, who are Nazi saltshakers. And the fact that the main character is an immortal who flies through time and space in a phone booth and has the power to transform into a new actor whenever needed.
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The Another blatant Power Rangers knock-off - Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills.
- One episode of Jonathan Creek relied on a gun-axe for its Twist Ending.
- Sorry, doesn't belong here, not weird enough. Look at the rest of this page.
- In The Middleman, Wendy Watson and the Middleman have fought so far: an evil genius trying to take over the mob with apes, a mystical Terracotta warrior intent on bringing about The End Of The World As We Know It, a secret organization of luchedores, a talk show host that hunts aliens in The Most Dangerous Game, a potentional Zombie Apocalypse caused by flying fish, and five alien warlords disguised as a boy band.
- The 1978 made for TV movie KISS Meets The Phantom of the Park (titled Attack of the Phantoms in Europe) features the 70's rockers as superheroes who draw their powers from a set of ancient talismans battling an army of superpowered androids (including robot clones of themselves in the grand finale) created by a Mad Scientist in the middle of an amusement park to a groovy disco soundtrack, all because said scientist thought holding a concert in the park was a waste of company resources.
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer has Adam, the Big Bad of season 4, who was a zombie soldier-robot-demon cyborg megalomaniac.
- Ultraman, who is an intergalactic policeman, looking like a mash-up of a robot and a fish, that fights aliens and dinosaurs by using greco-roman wrestling, rings of death shaped like buzzsaws and his hands being used as a watergun, among other things. He occasionally deals with the Baltans, a race of psychic ninja aliens.
- One episode of The Armando Ianucci Shows [sic] involved the line: "My job is to make sure that the sharks are properly fastened to the airplane wings." I want that man's job.
- One of Lister's favourite movies in Red Dwarf is "Attack of the Surfboarding Killer Bikini Vampire Girls"
- The Spike reality show Deadliest Warrior is based on this trope. They match up the best warriors throughout history and attempt to determine who would win with SCIENCE! So far Pirate beats Knight, Spartan beats Ninja, Samurai beats Viking, and Apache beats Gladiator.
- The 2009 German action series Lasko: die Faust Gottes ("Lasko: the Fist of God") features a Bare Fisted Monk (from a German monastery that emphasizes fighting skills) on secret missions for The Pope. Think of it as Kung Fu meets The Avengers in Germany. Produced by Action Concept, the people who gave you Alarm Fur Cobra 11. Consequently, expect lots of Chase Scenes and Stuff Blowing Up.
Music
Myth And Legend
- The mythological griffin could be seen as an example of this. Part lion (king of the animals) and part eagle (king of the sky) would make it rather awesome for the medieval noble class.
- The chimaera. It's a lion. And a goat. And a dragon. Why? Just 'cause.
- One could argue that it was thusly named so as to provide the title of an NCIS episode, solely for the purpose of the fantastic line, 'They did not name it 'The Puppy.''
- Ancient Egyptian mythology had creatures like this. They were made up from the parts of ferocious and dangerous animals to, well, depict them as ferocious and dangerous. For example there's Tawaret and Ammit. Tawaret had a lion's head and limbs, a pregnant hippopatamus's body, a crocodile's backside and tail, and sometimes carried a knife. She was a goddess that protected pregnant women and new mothers from any complications. Ammit had a crocodile's head; the mane, front body and legs of a lion; and the hind body and legs of a hippopotamus. She was a demon of the underworld who devoured the unpure hearts of deceased ancient Egyptians, thus damning them to nonexistance.
New Media
- This fake Fan Fic summary. Warnings include selfcest, blasphemy in three different religions, and sex atop a sentient flying manta ray.
- There is a MySpace Group known simply as The Lesbian Pirate Ninjas.
- YouTube Poop. That is all.
- The Obamadämmerung and its prequels. The Man Obama fights the landship pirates of Wichita, the Lightning Zeppelin of the Ronpaul, the Gardener(!) Robots of Detroit led by Lord Nader, and more. Combining politics, epic fantasy, and Steam Punk yields what is almost one long progression of awesomitude.
- Mugen.
- Someone recently found out that if you sync the SuperSmashBros Subspace Emissary trailer with the audio of the 300 trailer, you get something awesome. This has spawned some imitators as a result of it's perfection.
- The Vampire Stripper My Little Pony RPG. Thank Rule34 for that.]
- Mocked in the House To Astonish podcast, in an episode entitled "Zombie Pirate Ninja Monkey Viking Cowboy", in which they complain that this sort of thing often isn't nearly as awesome as it sounds, and diminishing returns are setting in on how awesome it even sounds. What set them off was a comic called Werewolves on the Moon Versus Vampires.
- This /tg/ thread. Thought Stupid Jetpack Hitler was awesome? How about almost every WW 2 country getting in on the action?
- Most members of the PPC qualify, as the basic job description there is "interdimensional MIB assasin". Members include were-creatures, elves, Borg, several varieties of alien, mind flayers, anthropomorphic animals, and much much more more. Some even have more than three of the above characteristics in addition to the basic title, such as the ex-Borg-drone were-penguin Time Lord, who kept the Borg implants after rescue (they change size and shape when he does).
Newspaper Comics
Tabletop Games
- The World Of Synnibarr is built around this concept, featuring ninjas, Golden Tiger Mages, gods as player characters, and Giant Mutant Fire Clams. And grizzly bears that shoot lasers from their eyes. And a god of rock 'n' roll.
- Rifts runs neck and neck with Synnibar for weirdness/awesomeness. It gives us techno-wizards on flying surfboards shooting railguns, vampire-hunter cowboys herding dinosaurs, extraterrestrial bikers, genetically engineered humanoid dogs, Alien Cyborg Samurai, Crystal Dragons, Undead Super Soldiers, Psychic Horses, and a power struggle with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse on one side, and King Arthur and his knights in power armour backed up by dragons, demigods and an amnesiac Egyptian goddess on the other side. Oh, and humpback whales who can learn fly-fishing.
- Torg is a crossover game where Action Tropes are real and cyberpunks fight minions of the Cyberpope and their plant-zombie minions with the help of pistol-wielding mystery detectives and heroic knights.
- Exalted is
Dinosaurs Fire-breathing cyborg dinosaur precursors with super science vs Robots Communist ninja robots with lightsabers from outer space! It's a game where Cuchulain is riding around in a Gundam to fight Vincent Valentine, who has been enslaved by Emperor Palpatine, while John Talbain and an army of Celts is going to war with the Roman Legions, who are lead by the cast of Ranma 1/2. If it's cool, then it's supposed to be ganked and put into the game! In other words, Best. RPG. Ever.
- Warhammer 40000 is a setting where power-armored Super Soldiers with rocket-propelled grenade launcher assault rifles and chainsaw swords work alongside space nuns with flamethrowers and the Red Army IN SPACE with lasers and house-sized death tanks (or alternately, the Scottish ninja assassin bagpipe troopers) to battle flaming head sex demons riding hell motorcycles amidst the earth-shattering stomping of three hundred meter tall walking battle cathedrals while psychic space elf Pirates with guns that shoot Ninja stars flit about on hover bikes while surrounded on all sides by green-skinned fungus-warriors whose vehicles literally move faster because they are painted red while being eaten by all-consuming psychic bug-eyed-monsters from hell or flayed into their constituent atoms by undead robots armed with lightning guns and dressed in the skins of their enemies who are in turn getting sniped by alien element-themed Well Intentioned Extremist communists/utilitarians in bunny-eared battlesuits. (*inhale*)
- Don't forget that the power-armored Super Soldiers are gene-modified.
- And that the three hundred meter tall walking battle cathedrals have volcano arms.
- Not to mention that Dreadnoughts (essentially, Mecha piloted by practically undead super-soldiers) come dangerously close to being actual zombie robots, as well as the aforementioned Necrons.
- Necrons could be considered the very page title. The zombie robot part has been explained, wraiths are quite similar to ninjas in their stealth and material phasing abilities, and Necrons often partake in pirate raids.
- At least one of the unofficial harlequin lists had Harlequin Wraithlords which indeed was a Space Elf Ninja Zombie Robot. Depending on fluff it could be a pirate.
- Speaking of the Eldar, here is a fitting description of their heavy infantry, the striking scorpion aspect warriors: power-armored chainssword weilding gunfaced jungle ninjas. Their squad sergeant can fight with an insect-style armor-piercing pincer incorporating a shuriken-firing SMG, to boot.
- And various methods when you just have to absolutely, positively, kill every single motherfucker on a planet.
- Don't forget the various flavors of power-armored Super Soldiers with rocket-propelled grenade launcher assault rifles and chainsaw swords such as: power-armored Super Soldier mongols riding bikes big as cars with dual linked rocket-propelled grenade launcher assault rifles and chainsaw swords, or power-armored Super Soldier Viking Werewolves with chainsaw swords and axes
- Pretty much the whole point of Monkey Ninja Pirate Robot - but with monkeys instead of zombies!
- There are zombies in the expansion.
- Ninja Burger, which combines Ninjas with fast food delivery.
- S.P.A.N.C. : Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls.
- While not a part of 'canon' Dungeons And Dragons, the variety of races, templates, and character classes available can result in ridiculous combinations, like a Fiendish Dragonkin Vampiric Samurai Half-Orc Fighter/Wizard/Monk/Shadowdancer. This is frequently the work of a Munchkin, however it's often ostensibly done for "role playing" purposes.
- The ultimate example of this trope came from a specific thread on the Dungeons & Dragons character optimization boards. The end result was A Zombie Ninja Pirate Jedi with a Demonic Cyborg Midget Monkey Schoolgirl sidekick and a small crew of Mutant Zombie Sea Bass, riding in a Transforming Robot Dinosaur, armed with Lightsabers and Eye Lasers. Sadly, the design was considered too dangerous to ever create as it could easily destroy the world.
- AD&D is responsible for some of the Oldest Ones In The Book - not just in the munchkin possibilities, but in the Monster Manual. Owlbears. What more needs to be said?
- The latest edition offers as one of the playable races the Warforged, which are essentially magical robots. Then, they had an expansion where you can play a deceased-but-reanimated version of any playable race, like an intelligent zombie (at at higher levels can become a ghost too). So you can now play an actual Zombie Robot Ghost!
- Now let's talk Eberron, home of not only the warforged, but also the Valaes Tairn - who can be summed up as Klingon Vietcong Rider of Rohan Blood Knight Elves with double-bladed scimitars.
- Hello! Lady Vol, a half green dragon elf lich.
- And Halfling Barbarians who ride dinosaurs. Some of whom are expert healers or hosteliers.
- Teenagers From Outer Space, an 80s game based on Japanese cartoons, pits the characters in an alternate Earth where high schools are overrun with aliens - literally every kind you can imagine - and teenage humans head to the mall to buy dangerous weaponry in order to wage wars with their classmates. The only rules, besides the bare game mechanics, are the ones that the GM chooses to impose, so it wouldn't be uncommon to see a telepathic raygun-wielding teddybear driving a flying saucer down Main Street while listening to The Pretty Things.
- A recently-released Battletech core rule book: "Tactical Operations" allows players to create units of Orca-riding infantry.
- What, no one has mentioned Shadowrun? Cyberpunk elves and orcs, people! With magic!
- In a word: Monsterpocalypse. In more words: Gundams versus the Martians versus Cthulhu and friends versus the Tyranids versus Godzilla and friends versus Yakuza Ultramen.
- In the early days of White Wolf's old World Of Darkness they published a few modules featuring Sam Haight, a ghoul/werewolf/mage whom, G Ms were told, the player characters were not allowed to kill. After a while even his creators got tired of him, killed him off, and then casually mentioned that his soul had been forged into an ashtray in the underworld.
- Even the more sedate game lines had these. Vampire The Masquerade brought us the Giovanni, a vampiric Mafia clan with a history of necromantic practices. Werewolf The Apocalypse gave us the Stargazers, a tribe of enlightened martial artist werewolves. And Mage The Ascension gave us the Akashic Brotherhood, who can kill you with their brain but prefer to do it with kung fu.
- Mage: The Ascension was this trope writ large. To wit, the heroes were a collection of point-hat wizards, computer hackers, wiccans, kung fu messiahs, mad scientists, shamans, religious zealots, magical stoners, and the Euthanatos.
- The toy line/tabletop game Xevoz featured a figure called Skull Jack that was a Skeleton-Pirate-Samurai with laser vision.
- Characters in Maid RPG can easily end up as this, depending on what you roll and how many special qualities you use. If you're willing to try for it, it's perfectly possible to have, for instance, a Zombie Catgirl Spider Demon.
- Feng Shui is crazy with this. Where else can you find sorcerous kung fu cops, cyborg monkeys who like to BLOW THINGS UP, transformed animal assassins involved in an Ancient Conspiracy, creepy Magitek-modified cyborg demon Super Soldiers from the future, eight-armed demon-hunting Girls With Guns, a Sinister Minister with a gun-laden church/fortress and a cyborg arm that shoots out razor-edged silver crucifixes, a giant monster mecha left over from WWII in a hidden base in Hong Kong and much, much more? And that's all before you turn your players loose.
Theatre
Video Games
- LEGO Universe is including them all, and then some. It'll be interesting to see if it succeeds.
- Command And Conquer: Kane's Wrath has the Marked of Kane, whose basic infantry squad is composed by undead tiberiummutated cyborgs of religious fanatics armed with, intead of arms, heavy machine guns and EMP cannons.
- This trope is named for one of the familiars in Kingdom Of Loathing.
- Note: that familiar was named for a clan of exactly the same name.
- Killer 7. An old senile hitman, who spends the duration of the story getting raped by his maid, with seven split personalities which can manifest into the real world fighting suicide bomber zombie things who are really happy all the time. The split personalities are comprised of a black guy with resurrection powers, a badass anime stereotype with a revolver that can shoot energy balls, Tommy Vercetti with super jumping powers, a white gangsta midget who can run really freaking fast, a sniper chick who really really likes blood, an albino knife freak who can turn invisible, and a macho libre wrestler.
- Turok has you playing as a Dimension hopping Native American who kills Dinosaurs, Cyborgs, Zombies and Aliens with increasingly over compensatory, bizarre and incredibly over-powered guns.
- In the climactic battle of the game Escape from Monkey Island, you control a Talking Kung-Fu Pirate Monkey Humongous Mecha. And you fight a statue possessed by a Demon Zombie Ghost Pirate From Heck.
- For the combination of mundane and awesome, you can't beat Kingdom Hearts. Disney and Square Enix sounds like an unlikely combination, until you sit down and play it. Of course, which of the two companies is mundane and which is awesome is entirely up to you.
- Rayman 2: the Great Escape contains an actual Ninja Pirate Robot, sorry though no zombie there. The closest to zombies we get are Skeletal Chicken Ghosts.
- In certain versions of Rayman 2, like the Dreamcast version, there are zombie versions of the robot pirates in one of the levels, so there are actual Zombie Pirate Robots. Unfortunately, they're not ninjas.
- Lunar Knights among other things contains a light-dark-ice elemental robotic giant enemy crab controlled by a vampire and powered by said vampire, a solar flamethrower gun slinging vampire hunter, and a multi-tailed fox that is the embodiment of ice on the earth.
- The third Ratchet And Clank game parodies this with its Game Within A Game 'robotic pirate ghosts'.
- ...the fourth gives us both zombie and ghost robots...
- ...and the PS3 entry gives us a fleet of actual robot space pirates.
- ...and they return in the sequel, as ghost robot space pirates.
- ...As well as Captain Qwarks 'Mission Briefing' for Zordoom Prison "...And an entire school of Zombie Ninja Panda Bears" Unfortunately there weren't any, there were however Goldfish Heavily Armed Robotic Commandos.
- ...Of course, all of these pale in comparism to the second and third games' lawn ninjas.
- Almost all of the weapons in Painkiller are this Improbably Cool. Unless you're one of the title's Puzzle Bosses, you do not argue with the chaingun-plus-rocket launcher. As Ben Croshaw said, "all you really need to know is that there's a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning. I wish I could make something like that up. It shoots shurikens and lightning; it could only be more awesome if it had tits and was on fire."
- Orevore Courier features pirates vs. zombies in space.
- Time Splitters worked on monkeys, robots and zombies being cool on their own in the first two games, but descended into madness by the third, with zombie monkeys, robot monkeys and ninja monkeys (and a pirate).
- Metal Gear Solid has Gray Fox, a ninja zombie cyborg.
- More egregious example - Metal Gear 2 had a ninja astronaut. Who used to be an architect resistance fighter.
- It also has anorexic psychic gimps, Eskimos on steroids, hot stalker snipers, ghosts, Russian cosmonauts with frickin' flamethrowers, men covered in bees, bisexual dancing vampires, time paradoxes, monkeys (wearing, bare with me here, pants that make them smart), 100-year-old snipers who photosynthesize, alligators, otaku, and crazy men who think they're spiders, among other things.
- It says something about a series when the most mundane element may very well be the Humongous Mecha scale tanks with legs that can level cities with conventional weapons and either shoot nukes or uses a giant water gun as a weapon.
- Behold! The Shark Gun for the Nintendo Wii (and/or Wü)!
- Zero Punctuation describes Psychonauts, completely accurately, as a game featuring "a telekinetic bear, a dentist who harvests brains, a sequence wherein you become a giant Godzilla-style monster and terrorize a society of talking fish, and a shadowy trenchcoated government agent who disguises himself as a housewife by brandishing a rolling pin and talking disjointedly about pies".
- Not to mention his later review of Painkiller, specifically the particular projectiles launched by a certain weapon. "Shurikens and lightning!"
- Gungrave is built around this. If Gungrave: Overdose didn't feature Rocketbilly Redcadillac - a rockabilly ghost possessing an electricity-shooting guitar - I wouldn't have bought it. Did I mention it's all designed by the creator of Trigun?
- The mod for the Half-Life series named Pirates, Vikings and Knights. Guess what it involves.
- Disgaea has all four: Ninjas (especially Yukimaru, zam), Pirates (in the Item Worlds of D2, which can include both Zombie Pirates and Ninja Pirates), Zombies (including one with a "horse's wiener"...what?) and Robots (THURSDAY!, the Robot Buddy of Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!)
- Earthbound. Psychic Powers, Killer Yoyos, dangerous hippies, malevolent aliens, sentient vomit...and so forth...and a little boy from Eagleland is at the center of it all.
- However, Mother 3 takes this trope and deconstructs it. In the second half of the game, most of the enemies are Mix And Match Critters or mechanized animals created by the Pigmasks. It really makes you want to kill their leader that much more.
- Chainsaw bayonets from Gears Of War.
- And the sequel is set to feature chainsaw bayonet duels. Responses are very similar to the Calvin and Hobbes example, I.E. "This is so cool!" or "This is so stupid."
- Pirates Vs. Ninjas Dodgeball. And it doesn't stop at those two. There are other teams like robots, zombies, and aliens.
- Some of us thought we were seeing things when we saw the first trailers for Lego Star Wars.
- Para World probably takes the prize for this trope. Where to begin? Among others, the units available include ninjas, voodoo doctors who can restore you to life after you die, pirates who come from the same clan as the aforementioned ninjas, a guy who destroys buildings by headbutting them- buildings, now!-, a catapult that shoots raptor eggs that hatch on impact and attack the nearest living creature, a guy with a gatling gun- made of [[Bamboo Technology wood]]-, vikings, amazon warriors, a guy who kills himself with snakes as his main form of attack, and, oh, yes, jetpack vikings. The dinosaurs have upgrades ranging from adding blades onto their tusks to drugging them up so that they don't take damage until the high wears off. Attempts to describe any battles that occur in this game- which is, surprisingly, subpar even with all this- are entertaining, to say the least. "Then his submarine dinosaur sank my flamethrower ship!"
- The Oneechanbara stars Aya, a Japanese girl who is decked out in a cowboy hat and bikini who uses a katana to fight zombies commanded by her evil half-sister who killed her father. Add to this the fact that part of the gameplay involves her getting soaked in blood (which triggers an Unstoppable Rage) and there's an unlockable costume that is exactly the same of the original - but made of black leather. And a red scarf.
- In sequels, her Cute Bruiser Little Miss Badass half-sister makes a Heel Face Turn and joins up with her, after Aya rescues her from another, more legitimately evil Big Bad. Said sister fights in a seifuku, and uses a combination of a katana and throws powerful enough to dismember zombies. Basically, it's probably easier to name the things in the series that don't run on this or the standard Rule Of Cool.
- Star Fox Adventures is: Furries save magical talking dinosaurs IN SPACE!
- Dino Crisis 2 and 3. The former with a giganatosaurus as the Big Bad that nearly sets of a pre-historic nuclear holocaust, farting, poisonous Oviraptors, and Black Ops teenagers with rifles that shoot exploding disc saws. The latter has mutant, hammer-headed velociraptors that can turn invisible and shoot electricity bolts at you, lavaral, insectoid Giganotosauruses, that, if allowed to mature, turn into two-headed, armored Giganotosauruses, zombie T-Rexes, spiky Spinosaur things that shoot acid, and space marines. If you don't think that's cool, 'NOTHING IS.
- The PC strategy game Paraworld somehow incorporated dinosaurs, ninjas, and steampunk into the same game. And even into the same units. One example would be the Vikings-riding-a-triceratops-with-a-ballista-mounted-on-it unit. It's too bad the game wasn't particularly well-executed, for all that.
- Certain types of enemies in Brave Fencer Musashi are called Vambees; part vampire, part zombie.
- Oh, Super Smash Bros. As of Brawl, the roster includes two fire-throwing plumbers, two psychic children, a dinosaur that can turn into a dragon, a turtle-dragon, two monkeys (well, all right, a monkey with a jetpack who shoots his enemies with peanuts and a bongo-playing ape wearing a tie), a penguin with a sledgehammer, a robot with laser eyes, a warrior angel with Improbable Aiming Skills and a Dual Wielding Swiss Army Weapon, some furry space mercenaries who drive tanks, a female space mercenary in a battlesuit, a race car driver/bounty hunter, a princess who fights with an umbrella, a magic princess/ninja (who, in her own series, has a magic princess pirate counterpart), an astronaut leading flower aliens, a badass elf-looking chap with loads of weapons, an evil wizard/kickboxer, a smaller cartoon version of said badass elf, a 2-D stick figure guy, an Extreme Omnivore pink puffball, a blue ninja/Batman/Vader puffball, a singing, self-deflating puffball with hypnosis powers, an electric mouse, a canine Bruce Lee Clone on fire, a dinosaur plant, a mutant turtle with ninja moves (teenage status unconfirmed), a flying fire-breathing dragon, a pre-teen trainer of the above three, a pair of mallet-wielding eskimo children, a blue-haired Japanese speaking swordsman prince, a blue-haired mercenary with a huge sword, an obese, flatulent Italian man with an infinite supply of edible motorcycles and a superhero alter-ego, a blue speedy hedgehog and a fourth-wall-painting spy assassin clone. And the Big Bad is a glowing Space Angel, controlling a giant sentient glove. And that's not even getting into the assistant characters.
- Not too long ago, there was a low-budget game that would have been completely forgettable if it hadn't been titled Ninjabread Man.
- Shadow Pirates in Metroid Prime. In addition to the baseline coolness of Space Pirates, they turn invisible, drop from the ceiling, dodge missiles and fight with swords. That sounds like a ninja to me.
- The various Expansion Packs of The Sims 2 introduce a new paranormal creature each, which can frequently be combined. In order of release: half-alien hybrids, zombies, vampires, robots, werewolves, Plantsims, Bigfoot, Genies (NPCs, unfortunately) and, in the upcoming Apartment Life, a Witch Species.
- Earthworm Jim. A worm in a super-suit fights a cat that rules Ironic Hell, an insane crow, a fire-breathing steak named Flamin' Yawn, and the aptly named Professor Monkey-For-A-Head.
- The Protoss Dark Templar from Starcraft are psionic alien ninja. With spaceships. And cyborgs. Who fight giant bugs.
- Some of Haseo's weapons in .hack//GU falls under this: [[BFS giant swords with]] chainsaw teeth, Big Scythes with chainsaw teeth, with the blade flipping out to make it a chainsaw-glaive combo at times! It's a Scythe-Glaive-Chainsaw, woohoo!
- Captain Falcon of F-Zero fame is part racecar driver, part bounty hunter. It doesn't hurt that he actually IS badass.
- Then there's Bio Rex, a beer-drinking dinosaur racecar driver. and Billy, a money-obsessed chimpanzee racecar driver.
- Final Fantasy V has Faris, a pirate, who can become a Ninja via one of the Fire Crystal's shards; there also exists a status effect called Zombie, so it's easy enough to make Faris a Ninja Pirate Zombie.
- Zelda of The Legend Of Zelda series is, by default, a magic princess. Versions of her have also been a ninja (Ocarina of Time), a pirate (Wind Waker), and a ghost (Spirit Tracks).
- The FPS Darkwatch: Curse of the West puts you in the shoes of a vampire cowboy.
- World Of Warcraft manages a few of these, the most notable definitely being the Lich King, a human-orc-ghost-zombie-shaman-paladin-death knight-necromancer-physical god. Although admittedly he/they haven't been quite all of those at once. Lesser examples include the original death knights, orc warlock ghosts put into human bodies.
- It is possible to create a Ninja Pirate Zombie (a Forsaken rogue wearing certain pirate-y items) and give him the Engineering profession, allowing him to create robotic baby dragons that act as short-term battle pets. Unfortunately, full-on Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie action is not possible (yet).
- The game already dances around the possibility of undead werewolves, although they might not exist in game yet. However, they definitely will be in-game in the next expansion when werewolves (Worgen, they're called) become a playable race because all death knights, which will include any worgen people create, are considered dead in the lore.
- Long-time antagonist Cervantes de Leon from the Soul Series is a zombie Pirate who can turn invisible (ninja), spawn ghosts and levitate his weapons (telekinetic). He weilds part of the series' most important sword (BFS) and shoots superpowerful bullets from his other sword, (which is named 'Nirvana', which probably belongs in this trope on its own.)
- And don't forget Ivy, his estranged white-haired daughter who is a busty scantily clad dominatrix alchemist countess who fights with a sword that turns into a whip.
- Yoshimitsu is a Robin Hood type suicidal Ninja, who's arm is powered by "gears".
- Some of the weapons from Dead Space are like this, such as the Ripper, which is essentially a Laser-guided Kinetic Buzzsaw Launcher.
- Auron, from Final Fantasy X, is a ghost-zombie/samurai. And if that's not enough, he is also either a magician or a demon, considering his power to kill things to death. Or with fire.
- Is there a way to kill things without killing them to death?
- Bloodrayne anyone? Half-vampire fighting (with a chain gun, elbow blades and metal stiletto spikes) insectazoid swamp monsters, zombies, deformed werewolfy vampires, many types of Nazis (aside from normal Nazis - Magic Nazi, Mad Scientist Nazi, Indentical Psysically-linked Twin Nazis, Cyborg Nazi, Nazi Priest with pulpit that has machine guns attached, Fire Breathing Nazi, Ninja Nazi, Demonically Possessed Nazis, Double Agent Half-Vampire Tibetan Nazi) and a giant skeletal mega-vampire. Rayne also has slow-mo and "aura-vision".
- Pokemon's Garchomp gets honorable mention, why? Because it's a shark crossed with a dinosaur, dragon, and a jet (With torpedoes on its head!). Unsurprisingly, it's considered a Game Breaker.
- Many people forget that the subtitle for the old SNES game Joe and Mac is "Caveman Ninja".
- The appropriately-titled Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman for the PS 1 featured a cowboy armed with a samurai, who fights ninjas and humongous mecha.
- Super Robot Wars, aside from having featured just about every other Super Robot that may or may not have been mentioned on this page, adds many more in its own Original Generation. Take RyuKoOh and KoRyuOh, the Ancient Chinese Transforming Dragon-Tiger Super Robots. And then there's Wodan Ymir, the Evil Alternate Universe Undead Robot Clone of a German Samurai in a Giant Robot.
- The hero of Rocket Knight Adventures is an opossum who wears a jetpack and a suit of armor, and wields a sword that can shoot beams of energy. His Evil Counterpart, Axle Gear, has all of that plus a possum-shaped mecha.
- When Gaia Online was still developing its MMO, zOMG!, this was mentioned as a selling point of the ring system: players can mix and match different abilities. Equipping a specific set of four rings on one hand results in a Ring Set that provides a status buff. The sets have labels such as Athlete, Chef, Demon... and yes, even Ninja and Pirate. And yes, you can have two ring sets active at once.
- Tribes: Vengeance: the assassin Mercury is a Cybrid... an actual ZOMBIE CYBORG NINJA... who even proves this by getting shot in the face and still being able to fight. Also, he has a jetpack and access to the usual insane menagerie/armoury of Tribes weaponry.
- The bosses of Persona 4 probably count. To put it simply the most mundane one is a cyborg/detective/mad scientist with toy lasers and a jet pack (oh and a pimpin' police hat).
- We've also got a ninja man-frog, a dominatrix wearing a bright yellow Klan hood being held up by three Japanese schoolgirls, a giant phoenix who's also a princess, a giant homosexual who attacks with two golden male symbols, a nulticolored stripper with a satellite dish for a head, a colossal nihilistic teddy bear, a fetus that can turn itself into an old-school game character, the father of all New Age Retro Hippies, and last but not least, a disco eyeball that shoots frickin' laser beams. Oh, and we've got the Japanese goddess of death, but that kinda pales in comparison.
- The unlockable Nazi Zombies mode in Call Of Duty: World at War consists of you and up to three friends fending off hordes of Nazi zombies. And you can fight them off with a Ray Gun, chain-lightning-style Wunderwaffen, or, in the latest downloadable map, monkey bombs. Yes, exploding monkey toys.
- The Ninja Warriors, a fairly obscure SNES game, has you playing as a robot ninja. One of the bosses is a robot samurai with a CHAINSAW.
- The first boss of I Wanna Be The Guy, in appropriately over-the-top fashion, is a titanic, fire-breathing Mike Tyson.
- And shortly after him, you come face-to-face with Mecha Birdo. Half Birdo, half Ikaruga boss. Who spits climbable egg-shaped warheads at you, attacks with swarms of Shy Guys, and shoots eye lasers at you.
- A later boss: Kraidgief. Half Kraid, half Zangief. Who fires Blankas and Hadokens at you. And can do a spinning piledriver that will kill you like Kenshiro if you let him get his hands on you.
- The Lost Vikings stars three vikings on a Time Travel adventure. In the sequel, the vikings gain cybernetic equipment, in addition to being accompanied by a dragon and a werewolf.
- The Metal Slug series features many goofy contraptions, including animals with vulcan cannons strapped to their backs, but one particular boss, Big Shiee can accurately be described as a "land-battleship".
- A later installment features what is essentially a land-sub.
- At the end of Metal Slug 3 you get to fight blood-spewing zombie clones created by the Martians, in a game that lets you ride an ostrich and an elephant, and has you fight also "normal" zombies, yetis, mummies, robots, UFOs, man-eating plants, huge locusts, crabs, snails and pillbugs and what looks like some kind of Aztec god that shoots energy wolves! How could you possibly forget these?!?!
- The Baldur's Gate series makes a decent attempt at the Trope, if you create your character to be a Half-God/Half-Human/Half-Elf (Seriously, just don't ask how they worked that one out) Fighter/Mage/Thief.
- Neverwinter Nights goes down a similar route, except that the Character isn't a Demi-God but can instead choose a combination of 3 classes from a potential list of about 20. Half-Orc Barbarian/Sorcerer/Assassin, anyone?
- Excitebots: Trick Racing features robotic animals and bugs that race on wheels, but they can also race on foot when given the right power-up.
- Figaro Castle of Final Fantasy VI is a steampunk land-sub castle.
- And the Phantom Train. An undead train.
- Okami has Lechku and Nechku, a pair of twin demonic clockwork owls. With Nice Hats.
- After you beat the final boss, you fly to the Celestial Plain in a 200-year old bishounen's spaceship. The bishounen is from the moon.
- Gaul in The Legend of Spyro is, in short, a Dual Wielding spellcaster baboon with a laser eye. And he steals all your mana before you fight him. No wonder he's the ape king. Love or hate the series, you have to admit that's just awesome.
- Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar.
- MMORPG City of Heroes can be described as "anything goes." Ninja, zombies, robots, pirates, aliens, mobsters, ghosts, vampires, nazi, mutants, soldiers, wizards, monsters, walking plants and many, many more (often several in the same faction) all walk the streets of Paragon City, going about being evil. And that's just on the surface.
- Take a Japanese-American ninja, an ambitious pirate, a modern-day vampire, a kickboxing cyborg, and several other characters from varying time periods and force them to fight to the death so that one of them can live again. The result? Eternal Champions and its sequel, Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side.
- The bosses of Monster Lair include a puppet mannequin, a cactus Jack-O-Lantern, a baby Frankenstein vampire, and a robot knight.
- Touhou Project boasts vampires, ghosts, aliens, were-creatures, witches, miko, catgirls, psychics, ninja maids, shinigami, and much, much more. And every single one of these characters is a Little Miss Badass.
- Sometimes more than one of these combined into a single character. Imperishable Night, for example, features a psychic moon rabbit as a boss, and Perfect Cherry Blossom has a dual katana wielding half-ghost gardener.
- The Battle For Wesnoth is by and large avoids this trope by keeping it relatively accurate in depicting Medieval Fantasy themes, but then came the Drakes. The Drakes can simply be described as Magical Samurai Dragon Blacksmiths that had Swimming Lizards Wielding Spears and Magic for allies.
- The MMORPG Guild Wars expansion Eye of the North introduced the Norn, who are Russian Amazon Viking Bear-people. Even better, they will be a playable race in Guild Wars 2.
- The Aqua Teen Hunger Force videogame plays with this trope in the title: Zombie Ninja Pro-Am. There don't appear to be any zombies or ninjas involved in the actual game (apart from one mummy), although robot turkeys, psychotic shifter wrenches, and machine-gun toting tulips do appear in various stages.
- Those are actually characters from the show. "Tulip Sniper" who uses a machine gun, Turkatron who is somehow related to the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future, and the giant wrenches who abducted Dusty Gazongas. Also, you left out the name "Aqua Teen Hunger Force", as they are in no way water-related, they're not teens, they don't fight hunger (anymore), and they've ceased to be a force of anything except hilarity/stupidity.
- The Shoot Em Up Revenge of the Mutant Camels.
- House Of The Dead features midget zombie ninjas. And midget cyborg ninjas. And ninja zombies with stealth camouflage. And the Magician is a Cyborg Dragon Zombie.
- Monkey Island gives us Lechuck, who's been a Ghost, Zombie, Demon, and giant statue, did I mention he's a pirate? And in the latest game, he's been turned into a human.
- Darkstalkers. A fighting game in 1994 by Capcom? Check. Cast consists of monsters? Check. One of the characters is a Catgirl who fights entirely nude? Check. Another character is an Australian zombie that plays heavy metal and blows up dinosaurs with the power of rock-and-roll named Lord Raptor? Check.
- A Catgirl nun who fights entirely nude...
- In ADOM, one unique monster is an undead dwarven chaos berserker.
- Castle Crashers of course! As you make your way across the ocean of peril, and salt water, you're ambushed by Ninja Pirates.
- WET is seemingly the result of this trope in action — apparently, someone decided that a video game that combines the gunplay and acrobatics of 80s-90s Hong Kong action films with the aesthetics of the grindhouse films and drive-in B movies of the 70s would be completely awesome.
- Sakura Taisen features Takarazuka actresses with magical powers piloting steam-powered mechas to fight demons. And it's also Dating Sim.
- The fifth (and to date, final) game takes it to another level, with one of the girls also being a half-Japanese/half-American Samurai Cowgirl Maid. With a Split Personality.
- One of the late-game random enemy encounters in Final Fantasy IV is the Dinozombie. An undead, skeletal dinosaur. Complete with will o' wisps. Oh, and Dinozombies can breathe fire.
- I've read through here about 5 times, and I still can't find Castlevania... Why? Of the top of my head, there's a whip using barbarian fighting Dracula, now lord of evil with [[Death]] himself at his beck and call, every monster known to greek mythology and the usual hosts of Frankensteins and Zombies. Sequels put you in the hands of the aformentiond lord of darkness' son, Alucard, the aformentioned lord of darkness' reincarnation, Soma(Who meats Alucard posing as the Japanes secret agent, Genya [[Engrish Arikado]].) These ones have Ninja Maids. The 3D ones give you another whip-using barbarion, a Magic School Girl and a Werewolf. The DS entries give you the aformentioned reincanation, another Barbarian, another [2]Magic School Girl and Shanoah.
- The Mega Man franchise, full stop. Its myriads of mechanoids are often a combination of a robot and something else. The classic series alone has a robot ninja and a robot pirate, as separate boss characters.
- The second Mega Man Star Force game stretches this to its limits; depending on what game you choose, you can become a sentient waveform ninja, knight, or dinosaur. And you can also temporarily turn into a combination of two of the three.
- There is arcade beat'em up called Ninja Baseball Bat Man, featuring a group of 4 robot ninjas dressed in baseball gear, and fighting with baseball bats. Not only that but most of the enemies are baseball related from fighting baseballs, baseballl gloves, punpkins wielding bats, baseball bats wielding bats, playing cards, & dogs carrying Tommy guns. That 's just the tip of the whackiness in tis game.
- Runescape has a lot of these. Among other things, a Zombie Pirate Surgeon, Ninja Monkeys, etc.
- Shadow Hearts: Covenant's Joachim Valentine is a Hard Gay Large Ham Vampire wrestler who thinks he's a superhero and an Improbable Weapon User. He's also one of the party members.
- While not as extreme as the other entries on this list, the teams on Team Fortress 2 consist of:
- Hakumen from Blaz Blue is a samurai robot-thingum who may qualify for zombie because of his near-death as Jin.
Web Animation
- Homestar Runner dips into this territory now and again, such as when Strong Bad desires "flamethrowers that shoot chocolate hundred-dollar bills," as well as the time he checked an email while parachuting with narwhals and celebrities.
- How to Kill a Mockingbird is made of this trope.
"And then the pirate's like "No way!" and pulls out his musket. Actually it was more like a laser. Well, a laser sword. With guns on it. And it shot other swords."
"The ninjas all started flying, and some of them were turning into fireballs, and dinosaurs, and Presidents - wait, not Presidents, I meant volcanoes. The pirates were all flying on their burning sharks, and many of them were shooting angry bears. That were on fire. Cold fire."
- Anicopters: Armageddon not only parodies mass-marketing kids shows via having a squadron of animal heads with elemental powers and helicopter rotors, but the Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot trope, as the credits display various characters that didn't even appear in the short, such as Captain Deadsaws (zombie pirate with chainsaw hands), Aborted Potato-Hitlers, Cannon Santa, and even Lucifer. The fake soundtrack credits also include a song titled "GIANT POTATO-HITLER VS. TWO THOUSAND VELOCIRAPTORS".
- Chris the Ninja Pirate from Weebl And Bob. He's not that cool, though, so he may be a parody of this phenomenon.
- The pirate being the natural enemy of the ninja, it's possible he's just supposed to represent a Thing That Should Not Be.
Webcomics
- The main character of Homestuck, John Egbert, with the use of his "Alchemiter", is able to combine his stuff into various badass (and not-so badass) items; Particularly, the kick-ass Pogo Hammer.
- Dave's bro is a ninja puppeteer rapper. He seems to make a living by combining these talents... and also selling puppets.
- Goats: Pretty much the entire comic. For example, in the story arc "Infinite Typewriters", a cyborg fish is incensed by the movie "Good Hitler vs. Space Hitler", sets a goat's magical underwear on fire and embarks with a foul-mouthed baby chicken on an interdimensional journey, using a singularity stolen from a pair of grey aliens' spaceship to build a potato-powered teleport robot which burns holes in the walls of reality with demon matches from the Mayan underworld. Features a headless corpse with a robot arm used as a sort of prosthetic body by the baby chicken, a bisexual ninja with exploding Oreos, infinite monkeys, the Starbucks at the center of the multiverse, and lesbian corn.
- From the webcomic xkcd comes this "fragment" of action adventure involving a damaged space station, a volcano, motorcycles and dinosaurs. Oh, and Janeane Garofalo.
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is about an Irish-American ninja who is also a medical doctor, with a gorilla for a receptionist, mentoring an orphan boy raised by bandito scientists. The boy has an impressive mustache, is a crack shot with his revolvers, and rides a velociraptor. He (Dr. Mc Ninja, not one of the others) once fought an opponent who was armed with chainsaw nunchucks. There's an entire Story Arc devoted to (in the completely accurate words of the author) "GhostWizardVampireZombieHeadlessHorseman nonsense".
- As an April Fool's joke, Dan, Mitzi, Dark Smoke Puncher, and Gordito all die from "their one weakness... Bullets. From a gun." Shortly afterwards they all rise from their graves "as ninja pirate robot monkey clown bandito werewolf zombies!" How CRraAAaaZZzzyyyyyy!. Are we having a Trope-orgasm yet?
- This Nodwick strip, which also serves as a Lampshade Hanging of this trope.
- 8-Bit Theater: "Swordchucks, yo!"
- Goblins: Life Through Their Eyes favourite donation strip character, Tempts Fate, takes on a "Pirate Ninja" during a battle with a party of poorly thought out RPG characters.
- After reading this comic by Tailsteak, you'll start to think ninja are as indispensable a part of a pirate ship as a mast or a crow's nest.
- Charby the Vampirate, a comic about... hum, yeah, you guessed it. A Kid Vampire Pirate.
- I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space!. Enough said.
- Gunnerkrigg Court is usually pretty understated. This just makes instances of this trope stand out even more, such as the time Annie escapes from robots by riding on the back of a Big Badass Wolf (who is actually a toy possessed by a fox demon thing). Or the time the trickster-god beech-slaps the eight-foot-tall tree-armed wolf-man. But what really takes the cake is the buggy drawn by a robot horse quoting Milton's Paradise Lost.
- Robot laser cows that shoot lasers from their eyes and mow the lawn.
- Laser Cows. Just like real cows. Only with lasers.
- Dominic Deegan, for one arc at least, gave us a Frankensteins Monster Pirate Bassist.
- Definition of uber cool: In this strip of Loserz.
- In Irregular Webcomic, Mercutio asks Will Shakespeare to insert catgirls into his novelization of the Lord of the Rings movies. When Will thinks that "this isn't really working", he promptly rewrites them into catgirl ninjas.
- The Ham Smash 'Em Up is so cool that it can't even exist.
- This ExtraLife strip reveals what happens when the trope is overdone.
- Sluggy Freelance has this a few times, most notably in this strip where an extra-dimensional Alien, a Mad Scientist with a gatling gun, a Killer Rabbit with a switchblade, and a talking ferret with glider wings set out to fight some vampires. Subverted in the very same strip.
- Erfworld. A flying rock battle between mafia vampires and K.I.S.S. midgets riding dragons. Really, can it get more awesome than that?
- One of the mafia vampires' allies is a bisexual barbarian princess who rides around on giant flying marshmallow peeps.
- Order Of The Stick: "Oh, so first she's a ninja, then she's a clown? Was she a pirate-robot-monkey too?" No, but she is a Half Human Hybrid ninja who the speaker thinks is a superhero.
- Men In Hats: "The monkey also has a jetpack."
- Tales of the Great Pirate/Ninja War. Self-explanatory, really.
- Adventurers!: "Wait! I know! We could have chain-smoking monkey sharks with lasers flying helicopters and when they smoke they shoot lasers at everyone!"
- A German webcomic features the concept for the ideal tv show: nazi dinosaurs fighting cyborg-vampires with katanas
- The Inexplicable Adventures Of Bob has a fair bit of this, since the main character is the adopted father of a superintelligent fuzzy pink lab accident, his grandson is a giant robot built out of a milking machine, his niece is a clone of his adopted daughter, his daughter's pet is a giant alien bunny with tentacles who got shrunk to the size of a basketball, one of his closest friends is a giant alien butterfly disguised as a gorgeous woman who is heir to the throne of the local space empire and rides a fire-breathing dragon descended from dinosaurs, and another of his close friends was recently revealed to be a bald bigfoot whose people hide their giant footprints by riding unicorns.
- The Official Creebobby Comics Archetype Times Table.
- In one of their semi-affectionate riffs on Michael Bay's... distinctive style, Faulty Logic brings us Bay's own pirate cyborg pterodactyl. In fact, Faulty Logic is no stranger to this, although "squirrel" has an odd way of finding its way into the mix.
- Dumnestor's Heroes: Early in their adventure, the heroes comes accross a Necromancer who wants to animate ancient robot ninjas (well, they're probably more like cyborgs) to create Zombie Robot Ninjas. Later, a village is raided by Vampire Pirate Monkeys. The comic has a good laugh at all this in this strip.
- Errant Story has the Ensigerum, and order of Ninja/warrior-monk/time-mages who are some of the deadliest fighters and assassins in the world.
- In this Wondermark strip, it's mentioned: "Communists", "Pirates", "Communist Pirates", "Ninjas" and "Ninjas in unicycles".
- Wondermark also features the "piranhamoose" running gag.
- Schlock Mercenary refs this very trope with a potential giant robot ninja-pirate terrorist.
- Tiny candles boxing on a potato chip floating in coffee in Mountain Time.
- Tweep suggests the atomic cherrywood gelato maker.
- Axe Cop has a half dinosaur, half avocado, flute-wielding cop with a unicorn horn that grants wishes. And that's just The Lancer.
Web Original
Western Animation
- The title says it all: Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!
- Transformers has, in fact, had pirate robots, ninja robots, and even zombie robots. We lied a little at the top of this page: Mechanical Lifeforms can in fact become undead enough to qualify as zombies. Almost all of them are aliens, they're all robots, and all of them are Transforming Mecha. This trope is almost Transformers' raison d'etre. It's filled with Humongous Transforming Mecha, and each one of them has its own specialties, including:
- The Dinobots - Fire-breathing Transforming Mecha robot dinosaurs. You'd think they'd have been the first thing on the page.
- Not only do we have robot zombies, we also have G1 Starscream, who was temporarily a robot ghost.
- The entire The Transformers: The Movie, which is about 80s-Futuristic Transforming Mecha with Viking-Helmet-Heads fighting Robot-Squids of two different kinds (and members of one kind of Robot-Squid have five faces each) as well as Transforming Mecha made of Garbage as well as a Transforming Mecha the size of a planet that eats planets and turns into a planet. To 80s hair metal.
- No forgetting Primus, Unicron's Good Counterpart and the Transformers' creator in-fiction. Transforming Mecha Physical God Planet-sized Reality Warper robot loaded with More Dakka that's all BFGs and Really Big Guns and also turns into a planet, once seen Dual Wielding moons as Epic Flails and also once seen using a Cool Starship as a Wave Motion Gun to close an Omnicidal Magic Black Hole.
- The latest Rule Of Cool characters are in Transformers Animated:
- Prowl - a Robot-Ninja. He's a Friend To All Living Things, an alien, has Cool Shades, and his transformation is a cop's motorcycle. He has been a medic, a Bounty Hunter, a zombie, a Samurai, psychic, almost dead, a ghost in the machine, on the moon, can use an Improvised Weapon, and ended his career as an actual ghost.
- Lockdown - his Robot-Pirate rival. He's a full-time bounty hunter, he collects trophies of his captures, his alt mode is a huge muscle car that's a mashup between a '60s Cougar and an '80s Corvette, he has what a human would call tattoos, a hook, a chainsaw, his own spaceship, and has worn a robot sized poncho. On the moon. He seems to also gain new abilities every time we see him - but then, he is a sucker for upgrades. He was designed to look a little like an undertaker with a skull for a head. Oh, and the latest version of his toy is on fire. We later find out in "Five Servos of Doom" that he is also a ninja (though he quit and turned traitor before completing his training). Oh, and those upgrades we mentioned? They tend to come off of other Transformers, so you could also count him as a cannibal.
- Then there's Bulkhead, a demolition vehicle, Gentle Giant, artist, and Genius Ditz with space bridge technology.
- Jazz - another Robot-Ninja who is a Soul Brotha beatnik with Dual Wielding nunchucks. He can deflect lasers.
- Don't forget Soundwave, who starts a robot uprising and wields a guitar and a keytar that double as sonic weaponry and mind control devices, all while wearing Cool Shades. Did I mention that his sonic weapons can transform into robots as well?
- Speed Racer: The Next Generation turns Chim-Chim into a ROBOT MONKEY. Read that again.
- Megas XLR features another example of zombie robots in the episode "Junk in the Trunk." Guess no combination is truly impossible.
- Samuel Leroy Jackson voices a guy with a huge afro that uses a katana to fight Ron Perlman and his Guns Akimbo and "does the nasty", If You Know What I Mean, with Kelly Hu, to a soundtrack by The RZA. Only on Afro Samurai.
- You forgot his Dual Wielding, cyborg former best friend who wears a giant teddybear head with a respirator in it.
- And the Giant
Mook Monk with a rocket launcher in his backpack. Another monk is a cyborg that talks like a stereotypical black preacher with ho's and has a Red Right Hand.
- The Kids Next Door once had to face an A.D.U.L.T in a 10 foot-tall, heavily armored mechanized suit with guns, missiles, and two flaming chainsaws.
- Dexters Laboratory used this in the Three Shorts companion, The Justice Friends, combining hard rock legend Eddie Van Halen with Thor to create "Val Hallen, the Viking God of Rock." Easily the coolest super hero in history, except possible "Monkey" the superpowered monkey from the same show.
- The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy had Hos Delgado, Spectral Exterminator, who is a cross between Ash from Evil Dead and Snake Plissken. He had an artificial hand that's main function is a chainsaw shooting crossbow.
- Dino-Riders: Two races of aliens fighting with high-tech weapons while riding dinosaurs!
- The Bots Master had cookbots, sports bots, and yes, a ninja bot.
- In one episode of Re Boot, one game crashed, and the User loaded another game on top of it, resulting in a mishmash of a dinosaur adventure and a military game, notably including Pterodactyl jets and a Tankasaurus Rex.
- Kim Possible. Monkey ninjas, and Mystical Monkey Powers. Really, monkeys are awesome.
- And in one of the video games, robot monkey ninjas.
- One episode went out of its way to invoke this with "Monkey Ninjas in Space". (The best thing about it was the title.) In a later episode, a director independently tries to use it as a movie idea, only to be shut down with a "been there, done that" reaction.
- Don't forget the Samurai Gorillas from "Gorilla Fist".
- Kim Possible; Sumo Ninja. So Yeah.
- More scary than cool, but The Batman Vs Dracula has Vampire Joker◊, which is at least as disturbing as you would think. The fact that the character in question is voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson adds some awesome, however.
- The Simpsons mentioned this, when Homer stood up against Mr. Burns:
Mr. Burns: I suggest you leave immediately.
Homer: Or what? You'll release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouths, and when they bark they shoot bees at you?
- In a deleted scene, he goes on to sic a robotic Richard Simmons on him.
- It is actually possible for characters to create the-dogs-with-bees-in-their-mouths-and-when-they-bark-they-shoot-bees-at-you in Mage: The Ascension/Awakening - it just needs 3 dots of Life magic and a normal dog, or 5 if you have to make the dog too.
- Also: the future has several Forbidden Zones. One has, flying, man-eating uni-clams.
- Poochie from Itchy and Scratchy is intended to be this, as he introduces himself as being "half Joe Camel and a third Fonzarelli, I'm a kung-fu hippie, from gangsta city, I'm a rappin' surfer." However, he's actually a very unpopular character because of this, and annoys the viewers.
- You forgot Mr. T. ("You the fool I pity.")
- Most of the combat in Storm Hawks is swordfighting done on flying motorcycle-biplane hybrids.
- Biker Mice From Mars, anyone?
- The Invader Zim episode "Zim Eats Waffles" features a flesh-eating robot demon squid that summons an army of cyborg zombie soldiers. Other episodes have mention of similar things, for example laser weasels and a mongoose dog (although the latter was courtesy of the series Cloud Cuckoo Lander).
- In the Venture Bros. episode "Eeny Meeny Miney... Magic!", Brock Samson's Joy Can vision includes ninjas raining from the sky, cowboys with flamethrowers riding Tyrannosaurs, polar bears on motorcycles, and SCUBA divers with machine guns. And he has to fight them all. And he kills them all, winding up on a mountain of ninja/cowboy/dinosaur/bear corpses.
- Hilariously parodied on Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends, with Bloo's ridiculously over the top contest film T-Rexatron Alienwolf 3: A Prequel in Time: The Unrelenting.
- Batman The Brave And The Bold:
Plastic Man: Are you seeing what I'm seeing? Because I'm seeing gorillas, riding pterodactyls... with harpoon guns... stealing a boat.
- Lasers, racecars, airplanes.
- Lest we forget: the Ford ThunderCougarFalconBird.
- REAL HOLOGRAPHIC SIMULATED EVIL LINCOLN IS BAAAAAAAAAAACCKKK!!!!!
- At some point in the '90s, there was a CG show called Vanpires. In this show, the protagonists would fuse with various vehicles to combat other vehicles who turned into giant robots who woke up after dark drained normal vehicles of fuel (the Vanpires in question). They did basically every Saturday morning cliche in the book, but... man, mid-'90s CG cyborg car robot vampire hunters!
- Sponge Bob Square Pants, in the imagination episode, mentions Robot Pirate Island, and Squidward wants to arm wrestle with cowboys on the moon.
- South Park had a fabled discussion (among the members of KORN) over whether the apparations of the episode were pirates who died and became ghosts, or ghosts who died and became pirates.
- There's an episode in Star Wars Clone Wars that has three Jedi and a bunch of clone troopers fight alien bug warriors who are also zombies.
- Adult Swim once spent a week talking about a hypothetical battle between a flying shark and a flying crocodile.
Real Life
Food & Drink
- Fast food chain Wendy's has introduced a sandwich called "The Baconator", apparently combining the the deliciousness of bacon with deadliness of the Terminator. Or possibly vice-versa. Either way, you die happy.
- "Pizza Bells", which are Taco Bell/Pizza Hut combined restaurants. This may be an inversion, depending on your opinion of the respective fare of either.
- "KFC Huts" for Pizza Hut and KFC and the ultimate greasy experience.
- There is even a song about them: "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" Warning: It may get stuck in your head, which will then explode like in Scanners.
- One KFC/Taco Bell/Pizza Hut manages to top all of these. The proper name would be "KenTaco Hut".
- There's one better: A&W AND KFC, delicious root bear floats with your chicken.
- A&W and Long John Silver's. Floats, Fries and Fish (That is also fried). They also have Hushpuppies. That you eat.
- There's also Orange Julius and Dairy Queen. Queen Julius?
- Taco Johns is a Taco Bell/Long John Silvers.
- Half the items on Burger King's menu, such the "Tendercrisp," a chicken sandwich with bacon on it. They seem to be on a quest to produce as many heart attack-inducing sandwiches with cool names as possible.
- They lose to the Double Down sandwich from KFC, which uses three animals at once. Fried chicken, bacon, and some of the most processed cheese you've ever seen.
- The Luther burger. Oh God the Luther burger. A half-pound beef patty smothered with cheese and onions in between two grilled Krispy Kreme donuts. If that doesn't send you into insulin shock just reading about it...
- The hamdog. I'm gonna let you figure this one out on your own. Bonus points for onions, chili, and egg. *barf*
- Elvis Presley had a thing for grilled peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches, apparently.
- According to Gunther Toody's he also had a penchant for french fries, topped with sausage gravy and shredded cheddar.
- Carl's Jr. for a short time had a 1/3-pound burger topped with pastrami. That's right, they used meat as a condiment. The executive vice president of marketing said, "It combines two great tastes - a delicious Carl's Jr. burger and a classic, steaming hot pastrami sandwich - into one awesome mutant burger."
- Unfortunately, they were late to the party, since several local chains in Utah have been serving pastrami burgers since the 70s.
- Carl's Jr. has also marketed the Philly cheesesteak burger (a burger topped with chopped steak and cheese, which could be had in a triple burger variant - yes, that's three patties plus chopped steak, for those playing along at home), and the breakfast burger (a burger topped with a fried egg and hash browns) has become a staple on its menu. Suffice to say, Carl's Jr. loves this trope.
- And their latest creation, the prime rib burger, a burger topped with horsradish sauce and sliced prime rib.
- Since Carl Karcher bought out the Green Burrito franchise, an awful lot of Carl's Jr/Green Burrito locations have been popping up all over the west coast, and most Carl's Jr. locations at least offer the Green Burrito taco salad. Which is awesome.
- It's only awesome until you've prepared one, or seen that nasty refried-bean stuff by itself. Ugh, instant inedibleness.
- Hell, the whole concept of the taco salad in general is a classic example of this trope.
- Turducken, chicken inside duck inside turkey, it is the Russian doll of both food and birds.
- There is also the fabled osturducken: A chicken inside a duck inside a turkey inside an ostrich. And apparently in Georgia (the central Asian country, not the U.S. state; but there's so much going on in America, you never know) you can get a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey inside a lamb inside an ox. This blog post talks more about the practice of stuffing dead animals inside each other.
- There is also "Baturducken," in which each stage of the turducken is wrapped in bacon.
- The ducken from Red Vs Blue beats that. You start with a hummingbird, stuff that in a sparrow, stuff that in a chicken, stuff that in a duck, then a turkey, then a BIGGER turkey, stuff that in a penguin, stuff that in a peacock, then an eagle, shove that in an Albatross, then an emu, next comes an ostritch, then a leapord, (For presentational purposes) put all that into a pteradactyl, and then stuff it into a Boeing 747.
- That almost beats the Nodwick version: a hedgehog inside a dire boar, inside a bulette, inside a purple worm, inside a tarrasque. (Apart from the hedgehog, these are Dungeons And Dragons monsters of increasing size and ferocity. None of them are recorded as being appetizing, though.)
- Yet another version, claimed to be served at feasts for Arab royalty involves fish stuffed with rice stuffed into chickens which are then stuffed into a sheep with are stuffed into a camel.
- Gaze on the wrongness of the 100x100. Eventually someone's going to buy a whole steer and grind it.
- That could feed an entire family for weeks.
- In-N-Out Burger is famous (or infamous, depending on your definition of Food Crimes) for doing almost anything to a burger. Try the double cheeseburger with french fries on it.
- This is the driving force that made Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles a legend in its own time.
- At the risk of over-doing the food examples, behold the fatty melt. A hamburger with two grilled cheese sandwiches being used as the buns.
- Baked Alaska flambe. Cake + ice cream + meringue + Incendiary Exponent.
- The fool's gold loaf. Take one hollowed-out loaf of lightly toasted Italian bread, then add one whole jar of creamy peanut butter, one whole jar of grape jelly, and one pound of warm crispy bacon. Somewhat unsurprisingly, Elvis repudtedly had a fondness for these...
- Condiment example: Baconnaise; mayonnaise with bacon already in it. As Jon Stewart put it, it's "for people that want a heart attack, but are too lazy to actually make bacon."
- It goes great with Jimmy Dean Chocolate Chip Pancakes & Sausage on a Stick.
- Bacon vodka. That is all.
- The Long Island Iced Tea: Vodka, Tequila, White Rum, Triple Sec, Gin, sour mix, and a splash of cola. Seven tastes that taste surprisingly mild, and get you fucked up good.
- The Juicy Lucy. Unique to St. Paul, Minnesota, it is a cheese burger with the cheese inside the burger patty. When in doubt, put things inside other things.
- Love chocolate? Love bacon also? Why not combine both of these unhealthy yet gloriously delicious foods and try chocolate-covered bacon?
Other Real Life
- Weapons: monkeys on fire, bomb-dropping bats and war pigs.
- The Curse of DarKastle ride at Busch Gardens Williamsburg takes the riders through a castle haunted by a werewolf ghost.
- Voytek the soldier bear, a nazi-killing, drinking and smoking bear that fought for the Polish army. Never have I been more proud to be Polish.
- Let's not forget Woody Allen, which according to Wikipedia is: "an award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian and playwright".
- And a philantrophist, and even had sex with his daugther
- Mother Angelica, more commonly known on the internet as the pirate nun.
- The vampire squid, an actual animal that lives in the deep ocean. The squid's latin name is apparently Vampyroteuthis infernalis, which literally means 'vampire squid from hell'.
- The Pirate Castle, London◊
- Hobart's Funnies, a modified tank division from WWII. Go to "designs" and read on - it starts out with a flame-thrower tank and things get even awesomer from there.
- The LeMat revolver, a Confederate pistol that combined Revolvers Are Just Better, Shotguns Are Just Better, and Hand Cannon into one convenient package.
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