Western Animation examples of Ninjas.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender:
- Katara and Zuko dress in all black and stealth their way around several Fire Nation navy commands, seen by no one until they attack, in order to get information on the man that killed Katara's mother. It's all kinds of bad-ass.
- The Dai Li are Earthbending Ninjas. While they don't do the all black attire normally attributed to the profession, the training and combat style they use fits the bill perfectly. Unlike most Earthbenders, or any capable bender in the series, they use hidden weapons and misdirection in their combat style.
- Also, Zuko in Blue Spirit mode. Silent, stealthy, wears all black, incredibly badass, one of the only characters to be actually deadly in each appearance... total ninja right there.
- The Equalist chi-blockers in Legend of Korra are stealthy mask-wearing fighters that use a pressure points to disable benders alng with bolas and smoke bombs to throw their opponents off balance. True to the idea of ninja, they also don't care about fighting fair, though when your opponents have Elemental Powers you need every advantage you can get.
- Kyodai Ken (a.k.a. the Ninja) from Batman: The Animated Series.
- In Jackie Chan Adventures the Shadowkhan, a milita of demonic ninja, were often deployed by the bad guys to fight Jackie. Season 4 featured nine different groups of Shadowkhan.
- Kim Possible is infested with them: a few one-shot bad guys, some specialized "embarrassment ninjas", a secret ninja high school where Ron spent a week as an exchange student, and of course Monkey Fist's ninja clan made entirely of monkeys.
- It took four seasons before Samurai Jack fought a ninja, but he did — a robot ninja at that. It was, at least, a stealthy one, made completely invisible whenever it stood in shadows. And then Jack revealed he could do the same trick with sunlight, leading to one of the most visually incredible fights in the series (which is saying something), as the series is made of cool.
- Of course, Jack himself is both a Ninja and a Samurai. His skills in Ninjutsu came in handy when he had to go through the labyrinth.
- The short Australian CGI spoof Samurice.
Ninja Rice steal the sacred Soya Scroll, and samurai hero Ricesashi has to get it back. - Basically every and any action/adventure cartoon in the U.S. is bound to feature Ninja at some point. Skunk Fu!, ostensibly a children's show, has Ninja Monkies!
- Strawberry Shortcake: Sour Grapes has ninja ability in 2009 series.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The fab four have been been kickin' shell on weekday afternoons and Saturday mornings since the mid '80s. They started as traditional ninja by operating in secret, or under the cover of darkness. But it wasn't long before the people of NY knew about 'em. Now? Depending on the series and the setting, they're either adored by the public or they're misunderstood.
- In an episode of Thunder Cats, Mumm-Ra summons a samurai named Hachiman and tries to trick him into fighting Lion-O. When that doesn't pan out and one of his minions is captured, he tries to salvage the situation by doing the unexpected: Summon a ninja.Monkian: I don't see anyone!
Mumm-Ra: Look behind you.
[Monkian looks behind himself, only to fall over in surprise]
Mumm-Ra: This... is the NINJA! If the samurai has all honor, then the ninja has none. His methods are silence, secrecy, and stealth. And his weapons — dagger and disguise... - Kabuto, the main villain of Tokyo Mater has ninja racing cars for henchmen. He summons them to distract Mater about halfway through the short, only for them all to be knocked out by Dragon McQueen. At the end of the short, Mater wins the race, and since Kabuto threatened him that if he lost the race, he will strip Mater of his modifications, when Kabuto lost, he is stripped of his own modifications, and is laughed at by his own ninjas who then turn to the side of Mater, now "King of all drift racers."
- Transformers: Animated has Prowl and Jazz as goddamn NINJA ROBOTS. How much cooler can you get? Ironically, Prowl's a pretty honourable guy as a ninja (as is Jazz) but the moment he puts on the Samurai Armour Upgrade, he becomes a totally arrogant asshole one step away from turning into a villain.
- Prowl was slightly arrogant already, as he seems to think a lot of his own abilities. This is tempered by the fact that he actually just is that badass.
- Animated went on to reveal that there's an entire order of ninjas back on Cybertron, which includes Animated versions of almost every Autobot martial artist, melee-weapon user, fist fighter... and Grandus.
- Transformers: Prime has Wheeljack. No longer a wacky scientist with a penchant for inventions that blow up. He's now a badass ex-Wrecker ninja with a pair of laser-deflecting katanas and a mask to boot. Not to mention quite cocky.Starscream: Do you not see that you are vastly outnumbered?
Wheeljack: I see fellas who might vastly enjoy watching me pound some dents into you. - American Dad!:
- When Roger shows up in one episode: "I'm a ninja everybody! I'm doing NINJA stuff now!!"
- Yoshi and Akiko's mother, Mrs. Yashida who sneaks into the Smith's home dressed to rescue her daughter being held prisoner by Francine so Steve can win a spelling bee. She knocks Hayley unconscious with a dart.
- When Roger shows up in one episode: "I'm a ninja everybody! I'm doing NINJA stuff now!!"
- The heroic Technicolor Ninja protagonists in Ninjago are your stereotypical Highly-Visible Ninja. They are able to perform Spinjitzu, which are elemental-powered combat tornado moves.
- Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja features a ninja-superhero protagonist.
- The Canadian animated series Chop Chop Ninja (itself an Animated Adaptation of an iOS game) features a group of students at a Ninja School training to earn the title of "Chop Chop Ninja".
- In Storks, Nate makes it clear in his letter to the storks that he wants a baby brother with ninja skills. Instead, he gets a baby sister ...with ninja skills.
- PJ Masks has Night Ninja, one of the original three Nighttime Villains. He is supported by a group of smaller ninja's called Ninjalinos. As a typical ninja, he is very agile, and some of his powers include (dis)appearing in a puff of smoke, and telepathically levitating objects. Since it is a show aimed at preschoolers, he does not use actual weapons, but he and his mooks have Sticky Splat which can be used for various purposes.
