History NinjaPirateZombieRobot / LiveActionTV

* The ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' can [[MegaManning transform into any previous sentai]]. This leads to pirates turning into ninjas and samurai among other things. Their Mecha Gokai-Oh is a more straight example, as it's a pirate robot that can turn into, among other things, a dragon pirate robot, a police pirate robot with [[GatlingGood Gatling guns]], a pirate robot centaur with a giant mechanical lion for its lower body, a samurai pirate robot and a ninja pirate robot.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has Odo, an {{starfish alien}} shapeshifter cop.

** "[[Recap/AngelS01E03InTheDark In the Dark]]" has Spike asking the titular character: "A [[VampireDetectiveSeries vampire detective?]] What's next? Vampire cowboy?[[note]]A pair of them actually appeared on ''Buffy''[[/note]] Vampire fireman? Vampire ballerina?"''

** Madame Vastra, a hot lesbian Victorian samurai lizard with a ninja Cockney maid wife. Also? ''TheyFightCrime''.

* ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'', who is an intergalactic policeman, looking like somewhere between a robot and a fish, that fights aliens and dinosaurs by using Greco-Roman wrestling, [[RingsOfDeath rings of death shaped like buzz saws]] and his hands being used as a water gun, among other things. He occasionally deals with the Baltans, a race of [[PsychicPowers psychic]] [[{{Ninja}} ninja]] alien [[FishPeople lobsters]].

* The 2009 German action series ''[[http://rtl-now.rtl.de/lasko-die-faust-gottes.php Lasko: die Faust Gottes]]'' ("Lasko: the Fist of God") features a BareFistedMonk (from [[AllMonksKnowKungFu a German monastery that emphasizes fighting skills]]) on [[SpyDrama secret missions]] for UsefulNotes/ThePope. Think of it as ''Series/KungFu'' meets ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace in Germany]]. Produced by Action Concept, the people who gave you ''Series/AlarmFuerCobra11''. Consequently, expect lots of {{Chase Scene}}s and StuffBlowingUp.

** The Gorch brothers, a pair of one-shot villains, are cowboy vampires.

* The 2009 German action series ''[[http://rtl-now.rtl.de/lasko-die-faust-gottes.php Lasko: die Faust Gottes]]'' ("Lasko: the Fist of God") features a BareFistedMonk (from [[AllMonksKnowKungFu a German monastery that emphasizes fighting skills]]) on [[SpyDrama secret missions]] for UsefulNotes/ThePope. Think of it as ''Series/KungFu'' meets ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' [[RecycledInSpace in Germany]]. Produced by Action Concept, the people who gave you ''Series/AlarmFuerCobra11''. Consequently, expect lots of {{Chase Scene}}s and StuffBlowingUp.

* In ''Series/TheMiddleman'', Wendy Watson and the Middleman have fought so far: an evil genius trying to take over the mob with [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys apes]], a mystical Terracotta warrior intent on bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, a secret organization of luchadores, a talk show host that hunts aliens in a [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Most Dangerous Game]], a potential ZombieApocalypse caused by flying fish, and five alien warlords ''disguised as a boy band''.

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* Director Phil Coulson from ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' was killed by Loki in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' only to be brought back to life days later using alien dna. Then in Season 2 he had his left hand cut off only to be replaced in the next season by a cybernetic one, making the much beloved character a very badass Undead Alien Cyborg Spy.

** Adam, the BigBad of season 4, is a zombie soldier-robot-demon cyborg megalomaniac.

* The ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' can [[MegaManning transform into any previous sentai]]. This leads to priates turning into ninjas and samurai among other things. Their Mecha Gokai-Oh is a more straight example, as it's a pirate robot that can turn into, among other things, a dragon pirate robot, a police pirate robot with [[GatlingGood gatling guns]], a pirate robot centaur with a giant mechanical lion for it's lower body, a samurai pirate robot and a ninja pirate robot.

* Played for laughs in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch which involved reporters covering a horrible accident but kept breaking into innapropriate laughter because every single thing at the accident site was hilarious.

* [[strike:The]] Another blatant ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' knock-off - ''Series/TattooedTeenageAlienFightersFromBeverlyHills''.

* In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', Klaus is the son of a witch and a werewolf who was turned into a vampire, making him a werewolf/vampire hybrid. He eventaully gains the ability turns other werewolves into hybrids like himself. Klaus's daughter Hope (born during the events of ''Series/TheOriginals'', later the star of ''Series/{{Legacies}}'') ends up inheriting her grandmother's witch powers and her father's werewolf gene, which makes her a Witch/Werewolf/Vampire hybrid.

* The 2009 German action series ''[[http://rtl-now.rtl.de/lasko-die-faust-gottes.php Lasko: die Faust Gottes]]'' ("Lasko: the Fist of God") features a BareFistedMonk (from [[AllMonksKnowKungFu a German monastery that emphasizes fighting skills]]) on [[SpyDrama secret missions]] for UsefulNotes/ThePope. Think of it as ''Series/KungFu'' meets ''Series/TheAvengers'' [[RecycledInSpace in Germany]]. Produced by Action Concept, the people who gave you ''Series/AlarmFuerCobra11''. Consequently, expect lots of {{Chase Scene}}s and StuffBlowingUp.

** Amnesiac!Cordelia in "[[Recap/AngelS04E04SlouchingTowardsBethlehem Slouching Towards Bethlehem]]" refers to Wolfram & Hart as an "evil ninja law firm".

** One episode has Spike asking the titular character: "A [[VampireDetectiveSeries vampire detective?]] What's next? Vampire cowboy?[[note]]A pair of them actually appeared on ''Buffy''[[/note]] Vampire fireman? Vampire ballerina?"''

** Amnesiac!Cordelia in season 4 refers to Wolfram & Hart as an "evil ninja law firm".

** The comic continuation of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' featured a movie [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Very Loosely Based On Angel's Life]] that explained the dinosaurs had been killed by a vampiric ''Tyrannosaurus Rex''.
** Season 5 also had Cyborg Ninja Assassins. ''And'' one of them could also hide himself inside a glamour. There's also a passing reference to El Diablo Robotico.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' has Spike asking the titular character: ''"A [[VampireDetectiveSeries vampire detective?]] What's next? Vampire cowboy? Vampire fireman? Vampire ballerina?"''
** Which is pretty ironic, if you think that the Gorch ([=BtVS=], above) had already appeared by then.
*** The comic continuation of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' featured a movie [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Very Loosely Based On Angel's Life]] that explained the dinosaurs had been killed by a vampiric ''Tyrannosaurus Rex''.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has Adam, the BigBad of season 4, who was a zombie soldier-robot-demon cyborg megalomaniac.
** The Gorch brothers were cowboy vampires.

* The Reavers of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' are [[spoiler:infected]] space zombies, while the crew of Serenity are space-cowboy-pirates/space-pirate-priests/space-pirate-prostitutes. And River, who is a psychic (and psychotic) space-pirate-ninja.
** Reavers ain't much of zombies as they are [[spoiler: chemically-altered]] space xenophobic cannibal rapists.

* In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' (Major spoiler), [[spoiler: Klaus is a suppressed werewolf/vampire hybrid, whose goal is to unbind his werewolf half and create a new race of his own. Not to mention he's also one of the five original vampires (his werewolf side is because he was the product of an affair his mother had with a werewolf).]]
** Tyler is a [[spoiler: werewolf-vampire hybrid,]] and as of season 4 he's the only one left of his kind.

* The Reavers of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' are [[spoiler:infected]] space zombies, while the crew of Serenity are space-cowboy-pirates/space-pirate-priests/space-pirate-prostitutes. And River, who is a psychic (and psychotic) space-pirate-ninja.
** Reavers ain't much of zombies as they are [[spoiler: chemically-altered]] space xenophobic cannibal rapists.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Benjen Stark is this, or more precisely, he is a noble born Night's Watch First Ranger who is also essentially a zombie.
* The popularity of ''Franchise/{{Star Trek}}'''s Borg stems at least partially from the fact that they are zombie cyborgs. InSpace.
** In ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', the Borg were actually called "bionic zombies".
** 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.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has Odo, an {{starfish alien}} shapeshifter cop.

** The Daleks are [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Nazi]] SuperSoldier {{Mutants}} with PoweredArmor. Their rivals the Cybermen, introduced a few years later, are cyborgs.
** "The Web of Fear" has probably the most extreme example in the ''Doctor Who'' Classic series: EldritchAbomination-controlled robotic Yeti that produce spiderwebs fighting the British army in the London Underground.
** "The Space Pirates" has cowboy pirate astronauts, as does the audio drama "Return of the Rocket Men".
** Madam Vastra, a hot lesbian Victorian samurai lizard with a ninja Cockney maid wife. Also? ''TheyFightCrime''.
** Another one: River Song [[spoiler: is an AdventurerArchaeologist ActionGirl HalfHumanHybrid that was trained to be a SuperSoldier]].
** The AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audios have a nearly literal example in recurring villain Nimrod, a vampire cyborg mad scientist in a suit of polycarbide PoweredArmor (basically the same thing the Daleks wear, only built for a human).
* ''{{Hiccups}}'' mentions a 'fantasy-romance' novel involving a robot and werewolf pirates.
* [[strike:The]] Another blatant ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' knock-off - ''Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills''.
* In ''Series/TheMiddleman'', Wendy Watson and the Middleman have fought so far: an evil genius trying to take over the mob with [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys apes]], a mystical Terracotta warrior intent on bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, a secret organization of luchedores, a talk show host that hunts aliens in a [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Most Dangerous Game]], a potentional ZombieApocalypse 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 MadScientist 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.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has Adam, the BigBad of season 4, who was a zombie soldier-robot-demon cyborg megalomaniac.
** The Gorch brothers were cowboy vampires.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' has Spike asking the titular character: ''"A [[VampireDetectiveSeries vampire detective?]] What's next? Vampire cowboy? Vampire fireman? Vampire ballerina?"''
** Which is pretty ironic, if you think that the Gorch ([=BtVS=], above) had already appeared by then.
*** The comic continuation of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' featured a movie [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Very Loosely Based On Angel's Life]] that explained the dinosaurs had been killed by a vampiric ''Tyrannosaurus Rex''.
** Season 5 also had Cyborg Ninja Assassins. ''And'' one of them could also hide himself inside a glamour. There's also a passing reference to El Diablo Robotico.
** Amnesiac!Cordelia in season 4 refers to Wolfram & Hart as an "evil ninja law firm".
* Series/{{Ultraman}}, who is an intergalactic policeman, looking like somewhere between a robot and a fish, that fights aliens and dinosaurs by using greco-roman wrestling, [[RingsOfDeath 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 [[PsychicPowers psychic]] [[{{Ninja}} ninja]] alien [[FishPeople lobsters]].
* 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 Series/RedDwarf 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 ''[[http://rtl-now.rtl.de/lasko-die-faust-gottes.php Lasko: die Faust Gottes]]'' ("Lasko: the Fist of God") features a BareFistedMonk (from [[AllMonksKnowKungFu a German monastery that emphasizes fighting skills]]) on [[SpyDrama secret missions]] for UsefulNotes/ThePope. Think of it as ''Series/KungFu'' meets ''Series/TheAvengers'' [[RecycledInSpace in Germany]]. Produced by Action Concept, the people who gave you ''Series/AlarmFuerCobra11''. Consequently, expect lots of [[ChaseScene Chase Scenes]] and StuffBlowingUp.
* The original ''Kolchak: The Night Stalker'' sometimes veered into this trope when it adapted old horror icons for its 1970s setting, as with their Headless Undead Avenging Biker.
* [[Series/TheLateLateShow Craig Ferguson's]] new sidekick is a gay robot skeleton named Geoff Peterson. And he's got a mohawk.
* A double-mundane example from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': "Knife-wreeeench! For kids."

* In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' (Major spoiler), [[spoiler: Klaus is a suppressed werewolf/vampire hybrid, whose goal is to unbind his werewolf half and create a new race of his own. Not to mention he's also one of the five original vampires (his werewolf side is because he was the product of an affair his mother had with a werewolf).]]
** Tyler is a [[spoiler: werewolf-vampire hybrid,]] and as of season 4 he's the only one left of his kind.
* The ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' can [[MegaManning transform into any previous sentai]]. This leads to priates turning into ninjas and samurai among other things. Their Mecha Gokai-Oh is a more straight example, as it's a pirate robot that can turn into, among other things, a dragon pirate robot, a police pirate robot with [[GatlingGood gatling guns]], a pirate robot centaur with a giant mechanical lion for it's lower body, a samurai pirate robot and a ninja pirate robot.

* Series/{{Danger 5}} is full of these, from mind-controlled Nazi dinosaur-men, to music-crazed electric-guitarist gunslinger prehistoric primates, to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eQwAilMWtE&feature=related a talking, weaponised robot dog]].
* Warlow from ''Series/TrueBlood'' is an inmortal vampire/fae hybrid who was turned by vampire goddess Lilith herself.
* A number of challenges on the makeup-F/X game show ''Face Off'' invoke this trope, using themes like "ZombieApocalypse In Wonderland".

* From ''The Mysteries of Laura:''
--> '''Laura Diamond:''' Well, if we're making up our own job titles now, I'm "Kick-ass Goddess Detective"!
* In the 1998 action TV show, Series/AirAmerica we have the two male leads Reo Arnett and Wiley Farrell who are navy fighter pilots cross trained as UsefulNotes/NavySEALs working as undercover spies.

* [[strike:The]] Another blatant ''PowerRangers'' knock-off - ''Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills''.

* The {{dhampyr}} ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'', which, thanks to having a "flight-style" form, was heavily theorized to be the ''Dragon'' Fangire. OurVampiresAreDifferent, indeed.
* A common fan joke about ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'' was that it centered around breakdancing teenaged fruit-themed samurai.

--> '''Laura Diamond:''' Well, if we're making up our own job titles now, I'm "Kick-ass Goddess Detective"!