Basic Trope: Ninjas are added for Rule of Cool.
- Straight: An episode of "The Adventures of Alice and Bob" has a scene with ninjas that is randomly added.
- Exaggerated: Everyone is a ninja, for some reason.
- Downplayed: It's randomly brought up that ninjas are cool (which has some plot relevance), but it's still a little gratuitous.
- Justified: Alice and Bob really like ninjas.
- Inverted: The show is usually about ninjas, but a scene without any is added for whatever reason.
- Subverted: It seems like the ninjas are added just for Rule of Cool, but they do have plot relevance by helping save Alice and Bob from danger.
- Double Subverted: Still, the deed could've easily just been done by a spy or someone else.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- There are no ninjas.
- Ninjas have complete plot relevance.
- Enforced: Rule of Cool
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "No, we're not adding ninjas to this story!"
- Discussed: "This story was written during The '80s, right? Must have been, because that is when the whole 'random ninja attack' thing had its golden age."
- Conversed: "What was that scene with all the ninjas about?"
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