The ability to use Ninjutsu, the historic style of martial arts, tactics, strategy, and espionage of unconventional and guerrilla warfare. Its users are respectively called Ninja.
Also Called
- Ninja Training
- Martial Arts
- Nishu
Capabilities
Contrary to popular culture, real life ninja were mainly spies, saboteurs, and assassins that rarely appeared in the battlefield. Depending on the school and source ninjutsu focuses on different disciplines, the most common of which was the eighteen disciplines of the Bujinkan:
- Seishinteki kyōyō (spiritual refinement)
- Taijutsu (unarmed combat)
- Kenjutsu (sword techniques)
- Bōjutsu (stick and staff techniques)
- Sōjutsu (spear techniques)
- Naginatajutsu (naginata techniques)
- Kusarigamajutsu (kusarigama techniques)
- Shurikenjutsu (throwing weapons techniques)
- Kayakujutsu (pyrotechnics)
- Hensōjutsu (disguise and impersonation)
- Shinobi-iri (stealth and entering methods)
- Bajutsu (horsemanship)
- Sui-ren (water training)
- Bōryaku (tactics)
- Chōhō (espionage)
- Intonjutsu (escaping and concealment)
- Tenmon (meteorology)
- Chi-mon (geography)
Various types of weaponry are also associated with ninja.
Applications
- Adoptive Muscle Memory
- Body Language Analysis
- Combat Perception
- Disguise Mastery
- Enhanced Assassination
- Enhanced Combat
- Enhanced Condition
- Enhanced Climbing
- Enhanced Senses
- Escape Artistry
- Intuitive Aptitude
- Stealth Tactics
- Weapon Proficiency
- Wallrunning
Variations
Fictional ninjutsu puts more focus on traditional concepts such as Chakra and Chi, as well as the very elements to pull off the mystic techniques that were given to ninja in various stories. For more information see Category:Ninjutsu.
- Animal Mimicry
- Animal Manipulation
- Bionic Physiology
- Blade Retraction
- Claw Retraction
- Dermal Armor
- Elemental Manipulation
- Energy Manipulation
- Enhanced Agility
- Enhanced Durability
- Enhanced Reflexes
- Enhanced Regeneration
- Enhanced Senses
- Enhanced Speed
- Enhanced Strength
- Enhanced Stamina
- Flight
- Force-Field Generation
- Human Hive
- Hypercognition
- Illusion Manipulation
- Intangibility
- Invisibility
- Molecular Manipulation
- Possession
- Precognition
- Retrocognition
- Sense Manipulation/Sensory Deprivation
- Shapeshifting
- Summoning
- Supernatural Condition
- Telekinesis
- Telepathy
- Teleportation
- Wallcrawling
- Weapon Manipulation/Infusion
Associations
Known Users
- Ninjas (Naruto)
- Leonardo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Raphael (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Venus de Milo (Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation)
- Foot Clan (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Sub-Zero (Mortal Kombat)
- Scorpion (Mortal Kombat)
- Ermac (Mortal Kombat)
- Reptile (Mortal Kombat)
- Noob Saibot (Mortal Kombat)
- Smoke (Mortal Kombat)
- Gray Fox (Metal Gear)
- Raiden (Metal Gear)
- Koopa Bros. (Paper Mario)
- Princess Zelda/Sheik (The Legend of Zelda)
- Monkey Fist (Kim Possible)
- Ron Stoppable (Kim Possible)
- Uma Arachnis (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Espio the Chameleon (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Geki (Street Fighter)
- Vega (Street Fighter)
- Ibuki (Street Fighter)
- Snake Eyes (G.I. Joe)
- Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Ayane (Dead or Alive)
- Pakkun (Naruto)
- Kasumi (Dead or Alive)
- Ryu Hayabusa (Dead or Alive/Ninja Gaiden)
- Stealth Elf (Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure)
- Yuffie Kisaragi (Compilation of Final Fantasy VII)
- Shane Clarke (Power Rangers Ninja Storm)
- Tori Hanson (Power Rangers Ninja Storm)
- Dustin Brooks (Power Rangers Ninja Storm)
- Hunter (Power Rangers Ninja Storm)
- Blake (Power Rangers Ninja Storm)
- Forever Knight Ninja (Ben 10)
- Taki (Soulcalibur)
- Ninjas (Ninjago)
- Batman (DC Comics)
- Nicholas Linnear (Ninja Series)
- The League of Shadows (Batman Nolanverse)
Gallery
The Four Turtles (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) are trained in the ways of Ninjutsu.
The Dragon Sword (Ninja Gaiden) is Ryu Hayabusa's weapon of choice.
The katana is considered a ninja's signature weapon.
The projectile weapons of a ninja, shuriken stars.
The kunai is the ninja's secondary choice of close combat weponry...
...as well as nunchucks.