Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot / Webcomics

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• 8-Bit Theater: "Swordchucks, yo!"
  • The staff-chucks.
  • The side advice column "Ask Red Mage" also engaged in this gratuitously, eventually culminating in a Ninja riding a Pirate-Jedi-Cyber-Dinosaur on a Hoverboard versus a horde of Abraham Lincoln Clones at the Febreeze factory.
  • Also, ""What if he's an undead robot?"
  • And then there's the Military Mashup Machine that is the space helicopter. Or land submarine.
  • "AND THEN I SHOOT LAZERS BEAMS POWERED WITH SWORDS (WHIC ARE ALSO LASER POWERED!!!!!!!!!!"
• Adventurers!: "Wait! I know! We could have chain-smoking monkey sharks with lasers flying helicopters and when they smoke they shoot lasers at everyone!"
• The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is about an Irish-American ninja who is also a medical doctor, with a gorilla for a receptionist, mentoring a gun-toting 12-year-old orphan boy raised by his bandito paleontologist uncles, who grew an impressive mustache out of sheer force of will, and rides a Velociraptor like his previously mentioned bandito paleontologist uncles. He (Dr. McNinja, not one of the others) once fought a uberninja who was armed with chainsaw nunchucks. There's a 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?
  • The good Doctor's adventures are one of the few places where the question "Are dinosaurs immune to zombies?"^note YES can be asked and make sense in context. Oh, and the zombies in question are ninjas, too. From the people who became zombies taking an illegal ninja drug that turned you into a ninja before dying and being resurrected.
• Captain Snow from Archipelago is one part pirate king, one part undead bastard who won't die, and one part Magitek cyborg.
• Axe Cop is full of these. For one, there's a half dinosaur, half avocado, flute-wielding cop with a unicorn horn that grants wishes. And that's just The Lancer. It also contains a vampire werewolf shark crab wizard ninja from the moon and his brother, a vampire wizard ninja swordfish with fire powers. Even Axe Cop's mustache and beard have practically qualified in one of the styles he once wore: Crazy pizza hair with a super curly beard and mustache with a robot ghost inside. And in at least one case, it's not even easy to tell what the parts are supposed to mean: the Vampire Man Baby Kid.
  
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• Blip: In her dreams, K fights a pirate rabbit transvestite robot. While armed with weapons and powerups from Bleach, Star Wars, Dragon Ball Z, and Sailor Moon.
• Bug has pirate hippies.
• Zeke from Cassiopeia Quinn is a robotic space cowboy.
• The now defunct webcomic Chainmail Bikini has [xXKillStealr69Xx], a Half Ogre, Half Dark Elf, Half Human Warrior/Rogue character with the Shademaster and Gladiator backgrounds in the fictional role-playing game the characters are playing, with all the benefits from each class and his impossible heritage (according to the player, the three parents had a threesome).
• Charby the Vampirate, a comic about... hum, yeah, you guessed it. A Kid Vampire Pirate.
• The Official Creebobby Comics Archetype Times Table. Part 2 and 3.
• Ctrl+Alt+Del has a comic titled "This is how the world ends" featuring a robot pirate attacking a zombie ninja riding a dinosaur.
• Cry 'Havoc' features Mercenary Werewolf super soldiers, Flying Vampire commandos, Viking Vampire hunting priests...
• Cyanide and Happiness gives us a Zombie Werewolf Vampire.
• Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures: Dan's clan leader is a Six-winged fifty foot ninja grandmother◊.
• Darths & Droids
  • The comic's premise is "What if Star Wars was a tabletop roleplaying campaign." At one point, though, the players refer to a fantasy campaign they played, where one NPC was a "pirate ninja". It's finally implied that this campaign approximated the story of The Princess Bride and the ninja pirate was the Man in Black.
  • Parodied in episode 493: "I heard he's half-machine, half-robot, half-cyborg."
  • Corey (Luke's player) wants his character to be "an expert crack-shot ninja karate master stunt driver with a suit of powered armour". The GM gently explains to him that this isn't very realistic for a farm boy from a desert planet, avoiding mentioning that Luke's mother is already occupying this role.
  • Jim, role-playing Han getting bored and frustrated with the slow progress of the Rebellion, yells "Maybe I'll go start my own Rebellion! With pirate ships! And vampires! On fire! Vampyrates!" The authors comment that "Apparently both vampirates and vampyrates are already things. We didn't realise this when we wrote this strip. Still, neither of those appear to be on fire. Or in space. Or on fire, in space. So Jim's version is still way cooler."
• Nicky from Demon's Mirror is a Cyborg witch.
• Dinosaur Comics tends to steer into this territory. In a recent strip [1], the characters end up discussing the ultimate battle: Dinosaur Vampires vs. Zombie Ghosts.
• Dominic Deegan, for one arc at least, gave us a Frankenstein's Monster Pirate Bassist.
• This Dork Tower takes a game revolving around this concept up to eleven, and comes up with "alien dinosaur zombie wizard ninja robot trickster pirates".
• Dumnestor's Heroes: Early in their adventure, the heroes comes across 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.
  • The Vampire Pirate Monkeys later turn out to be the Zombie Robot Ninjas themselves, due to the necromancer accidentally using monkey brains.
    • The author teamed up a band each of ninja, pirates, and samurai in a side-story in the print version of Get Medieval. They were last seen sailing into battle against "a forty storey firebreathing lizard ... heading for Edo!" "You goin' down, lizard!"
• In El Goonish Shive, Vlad/Vladia is a chimera created with DNA from several bats, owls, hawks, and even a leopard in addition to human and uryuom (shapeshifting alien) DNA.
• Erfworld. A flying rock battle between mafia vampires and K.I.S.S. midgets riding dragons. Really, can it get more awesome than that?
  • Dwagons actually. Seriously, who'd call them dragons, that's stupid.
  • One of the mafia vampires' allies is a bisexual barbarian princess who rides around on giant flying marshmallow peeps (called gwiffons).
• 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.
• Xeletor of The Fan is this trope taken to the letter.
• In Far Star Summer School, the unofficial main character Kzrikke, AKA Karrisa Karldson, is an undead alien witch & Headmistress in WWI-era Connecticut.
• 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.
• In the webcomic Genre Squad. The main characters are a ninja, pirate, zombie and robot. Makes you wonder if they know of this trope...
• A German webcomic features the concept for the ideal TV show: Nazi dinosaurs fighting cyborg-vampires with katanas
• Girl Genius: Takes a lot to kill Othar Tryggvassen. Specifically, ^note more than being tied to a lit keg of explosives and tossed into a pit of acid filled with mutant, acid-resistant flying piranhas armed with flame-throwers and battle axes while venomous, mechanical, missile-launching Morris dancers armed with liquid nitrogen harpoon guns are overhead; riding giant, rabid killer bees, with side-mounted death rays.
• Goats: The 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.
  • Goats hangs a lampshade on this exact trope when a character in the strip purchases a shirt with a Pirate Monkey Robot on it. The shirt is now an actual product.
• 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.
  • Another Tempts Fate strip contains Morpheus Bilbo Kenobi.
• One of the side heroes in Grrl Power is Dabbler who, in the words of the author is an alien mutant demon martial artist cyborg psionic tinkerer. That doesn't even cover the succubus and doppelganger issues.
• 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 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. And snark.
• In Holiday Wars, A zombie T. rex shows up in this in this strip. It then is regularly referred to as "an undead dino."
• Homestuck
  • The alchemy system allows players to combine their stuff into various badass (and not-so badass) items. For instance, John arms himself with the Wrinklefucker, made from a playground pogo ride, a claw hammer, and a clothes iron, and Dave has a Snoop Dogg Snow Cone Machete. Then Rose ends up dual-wielding occult knitting needle magic wands powered by the Horrorterrors.
  • Dave's bro is a RAPPING PUPPETEER NINJA. He seems to make a living by combining these talents... and also making puppet porn videos.
    • Dave himself is a time-travelling rapper half-swordsman, and Davesprite is the above back from the future and merged with an Exposition Fairy and a dead crow.
  • The prototypings. You see, whenever one of the main characters prototypes their kernelsprite with something, it causes all of the enemies they fight to take on some of the features of what was used to prototype. This leads to the characters fighting harlequin-cat-princess-squid-crow- dog hybrids.
    • Speaking of prototyping, the Troll Session's Black King has this trope in SPADES, thanks to the large number of players. He ends up as a Crab Beast-Giant Monster Spider-Sea Serpent Goat-Blind Dragon-Frog Statue-Fairy Bull-Two-Headed Cyclops-Feral Cat-Virgin Alien-Egg Laying Insect-Lactating Musclebeast-Seahorse-Gargantuan Tentacled Elder God-King.
  • Troll Aradia Megido is probably the most guilty of this trope (to awesome effect!) as at one point she is (in order of occurrence) an Alien Troll Psychic Ghost Frog Gamesprite Time-Travelling Robot. That is, until she reaches her God-Tier... which actually reduces the number of things she is, being merely an Alien Troll Psychic Time-Traveling God Fairy. Lampshaded here:
    Kanaya: You Mean
    Kanaya: Being A Ghost And Then A Frog And Then A Robot And Then A Fairy
    Aradia: yes!
    Aradia: but it sure sounds silly when you list them all like that
    • And now she lives in the afterlife, but is alive.
    • Now has a song based on it.
  • Kanaya's not one to talk as by that time she's a chainsaw-wielding glowing Lesbian Vampire alien gardener/seamstress.
  • The Uber Bunny is the bunny from Con Air turned into a cyborg and equipped with four ultimate weapons from an alternate universe that didn't exist yet.
  • Lord English is an indestructible Egyptian demon pimp puppet Space Pirate Hulk Time Lord Crime Lord cherub with a cue stick for a peg leg.
  • Meenah is starting to rival Aradia in terms of ridiculousness - she's an alien punk rebellious fish-princess ghost living on the moon. Oh, and in another universe she is a psychic evil alien fish-empress, or Fish Hitler.
  • Jack Noir — a dog/bird/harlequin/cat/squid/psychopath/Physical God.
  • Porrim Maryam is an alien troll ghost vampire.
• 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.
• 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.
• I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space!!!!. Enough said.
• Keychain of Creation does it in a true Exalted fashion:
  • The two recurring Abyssal villains are a Mexican mummy/sorcerer wielding soul-encrusted chainsaw katars and a blind Musical Assassin rockstar. At one point they got backup in form of a couple ghosts (with necrotic energy gun keyboards) and a five-armed patchwork giant drummer.
  • Elegant Nova of Progression's henchmen include a pheromone-emitting hippy android and a cyborg bandito/raptor transformer, while she herself is a Magitek robot that transforms into a giant robot sphinx.
  • One of Marena's acquaintances is a shape-shifting cowboy martial artist.
• In Knights of Buena Vista, Mary's character goes patrolling the city right before the coronation of her character's sister. The queen's player then calls her "Princess Cop".
• Definition of uber cool: In this strip of Loserz.
• This poster from Luke Surl (see also Alt Text).
• Zom-Zom, the shrunken zombie kaiju from MegaTokyo.
• Men in Hats: "The monkey also has a jetpack."
• Every single character from the Ask a ZNP strips from the webcomic Monsterful falls into this category, you get from the main ZNP (zombie ninja pirate) to a VSV (Vampiric Spartan Viking), PGS (Perverted Ghost Samurai), PHC (Psychotic Homunculus cyborg) and the list goes on.
• Tiny candles boxing on a potato chip floating in coffee in Mountain Time.
• Mushroom Go's interpretation of the Big Bob-omb is a southern royal explosive robot.
• In the ''Nobody Scores with Awesome! strip of Nobody Scores! Jane Doe is overjoyed by witnessing Pirate. Laser. Rocket. Dwarves looting... Unicorns before getting her stomach pumped for the nth time.
  Jane: Whatever else I may do in this life, it will never be as awesome as what I am seeing RIGHT NOW.
• In one Nodwick strip, the heroes confront a crew of literal ninja-pirates who also ride into battle on a pirate ship strapped to the head of a T. Rex. In order to battle villains of such tremendous awesomeness our heroes strap a gnome submarine to the head of a titan and fill it with cannibal-vikings.
• The 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.
  • The OotS strips appearing in Dragon Magazine and Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tails feature a vampiric half-dragon half-troll lycanthropic fiendish snail with psionic powers. Tremble at its illogical glory!
• Andrius the Zompire in The Pocalypse, a vampire bitten by a zombie.
• In this strip of Real Life Comics, Greg gives an example of how a Frankenzombiewerevampire might come into existence.
• Scandinavia and the World has a Nazi vampire werewolf robot martian.
• Schlock Mercenary refs this very trope with a potential giant robot ninja-pirate terrorist.
• Sluggy Freelance:
  • Oasis, an immortal brainwashed ninja assassin robot/ghost/something gymnast.
  • "Call off the airstrike! The rabbit is not in the bus! It's full of orphan nun-scouts!"
• 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.
• Tales of the Great Pirate/Ninja War. Self-explanatory, really.
• Tweep suggests the atomic cherrywood gelato maker.
• Unsounded Sette's a Little Bit Beastly thief-child with supernatural sensitivity. Duane's an eloquent zombie sorcerer. Together they run into a lot of trouble.
• In Urban Underbrush, when one character reads the cover copy of a fantasy romance, it lists so much of this that he goes to throw it off the building.
• David Willis’s Walkyverse contains two notable examples. First, there’s Monkey Master. He’s a giant monkey robot that works for evil aliens. Then, there’s The Cheese. Despite it’s name, The Cheese is not really a cheese, but rather an ancient alien robot with a Badass Cape created thousands of years ago by an ancient alien civilization that also happens to be a Reality Warper. The reason why it’s called “The Cheese” is because it looks like a cheese.
• Dougie the Scottish cowboy in What the Fu.
• In this Wondermark strip, it's mentioned: "Communists", "Pirates", "Communist Pirates", "Ninjas" and "Ninjas in unicycles".
  • There's also "piranhamoose" as a Running Gag.
• From the webcomic xkcd comes this "fragment" of action adventure involving a damaged space station, a volcano, motorcycles and dinosaurs. Oh, and Janeane Garofalo.
  • This one isn't an example of the trope by itself, but some of the mental images you'll no doubt get in your head while reading it definitely are. Also counts as a Deconstruction
• Zebra Girl had "Southpaw", a vampire possessed by the ghost of a werewolf whose severed paw was attached to her arm.

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