Ninja Brat
A kid who aspires to be a Ninja, but he or she has a long way to go and a lot to experience before he or she becomes into a real ninja. Of course, some of them can already be Ninja and kick ass.
Compare Kid Samurai and The Gunfighter Wannabe. Contrast Child Soldiers.
Examples of Ninja Brat include:
Anime
- Naruto started out as this.
- Also, Konohamaru.
- Nintama Rantarou.
- The Narutaki Twins from Mahou Sensei Negima could be this trope.
- Black*Star from Soul Eater may qualify as this.
- Shinobu from Ninja Nonsense.
- Ninja Hattori-kun.
Comic Books
- The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, anyone? Well, to be fair, Michelangelo seems to fit this trope better in the later incarnations..
Film
- All of the new students attending at Ninja Academy.
- Spritle in the film version of Speed Racer, but he doesn't pull it off very well.
- The three protagonists from the Three Ninjas film series.
- The Filipino film, Ninja Kids.
Live-Action TV
Video Games
- Yuffie from Final Fantasy VII.
- The ninja kids from the 3rd-gen and 4th-gen Pokémon games.
- Yomiko in Exit Fate, possibly.
- Jajamaru, from the Jajamaru-kun video game series.
- Izuna, from Izuna Legend of the Unemployed Ninja.
- Kid Niki, in Kid Niki, Radical Ninja.
- Kat and Ana from the Wario Ware series.
- Kay Faraday of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth. As Edgeworth muses repeatedly, while she claims to be a Phantom Thief in training, she seems to actually want to be a ninja.
- Mini Ninjas - all of the playable characters are kids (preteens at the oldest)
- Hokutomaru from Garou: Mark Of The Wolves.
Web Comics
- In Marilith, Yulia's granddaughter Monika wants to be a ninja when she grows up.
- Robin's brother in The Wotch, due to being a Naruto fan.
Western Animation
- Garu and Tobe from Pucca.