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* ''[[Disgaea]]'' has all four: Ninjas (especially Yukimaru, [[Verbal Tic|zam]]), Pirates (in the Item Worlds of ''D2'', which can include both Zombie Pirates and Ninja Pirates), Zombies (including one with a "horse's wiener"...what?) and Robots (THURSDAY!, the [[Robot Buddy]] of '''Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!''')
** The [[Made of Explodium|explosive]], adorable but demonic, patchwork, peg legged, [[Chew Toy]] (or [[Butt Monkey]])[[Everything Is Better With Penguins|Prinnies]] also count too, [[Verbal Tic|Dood!]]
* ''[[EarthboundEarthBound]]''. [[Psychic Powers]], [[Killer Yoyo|Killer Yoyos]], dangerous hippies, malevolent aliens, sentient vomit...and so forth...and a little boy from [[Eagle Land]] is at the center of it all.
** However, ''[[Mother 3]]'' takes this trope and deconstructs it. In the second half of the game, most of the enemies are [[Mix-and-Match Critters]] or mechanized animals created by the Pigmasks. It really makes you want to kill their leader that much more.
* Chainsaw bayonets from ''[[Gears of War]]''.
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** The sequel ''[[Musashi: Samurai Legend]]'' gives us the Ninjaroid enemies; ninja androids.
** In fact, both games involve using a [[Dual-Wielding|duel wielding]] [[Miyamoto Musashi|samurai]] to [[Save the Princess|save a princess.]]
* Oh, ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]''. As of ''Brawl'', the roster includes two [[Super Mario Bros.|fire-throwing plumbers]], [[EarthboundEarthBound|two]] [[Mother 3|psychic]] children, a [[Yoshi's Island|dinosaur that can turn into a dragon]], a [[Super Mario Bros.|turtle-dragon]], [[Donkey Kong Country|two monkeys]] (well, all right, a monkey with a jetpack who shoots his enemies with peanuts and a bongo-playing ''ape'' wearing a tie), a [[Kirby|penguin with a sledgehammer]], a robot with laser eyes, a [[Kid Icarus|warrior angel]] with [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] and a [[Dual-Wielding]] [[Swiss Army Weapon]], some [[Star Fox (series)|furry space mercenaries who drive tanks]], a [[Samus Is a Girl|female]] [[Metroid|space mercenary in a battlesuit]], [[F-Zero|a race car driver/bounty hunter]], a [[Super Mario Bros.|princess who fights with an umbrella]], a [[The Legend of Zelda|magic princess/ninja]] (who, in her own series, has a magic princess pirate counterpart), an [[Pikmin|astronaut leading flower aliens]], a [[The Legend of Zelda|badass elf-looking chap with loads of weapons, an evil wizard/kickboxer, a smaller cartoon version of said badass elf]], a [[Lethal Joke Character|2-D stick figure guy]], an [[Extreme Omnivore]] [[Kirby|pink puffball]], a [[Kirby|blue ninja/Batman/Vader puffball]], a [[Pokémon|singing, self-deflating puffball with hypnosis powers]], an [[Pokémon|electric mouse]], a [[Pokémon|canine]] [[Bruce Lee Clone]] with aura powers, a [[Pokémon|dinosaur plant]], a [[Pokémon|turtle with ninja moves]] (teenage status unconfirmed), a [[Pokémon|flying, fire-breathing, dragon-like lizard]], a [[Pokémon|trainer of the above three]], [[Ice Climber|a pair of mallet-wielding eskimo children]], a [[Fire Emblem|blue-haired Japanese speaking swordsman prince, a blue-haired mercenary with a huge sword]], an [[Wario Ware|obese, flatulent Italian man]] with an infinite supply of edible motorcycles and a superhero alter-ego, a [[Sonic the Hedgehog|blue speedy hedgehog]] and a [[Painting the Fourth Wall|fourth-wall-painting]] [[Metal Gear Solid|spy assassin clone]]. And the [[Big Bad]] is a [[Power Glows|glowing]] Space Angel, controlling a giant sentient [[White Gloves|glove]] that happens to be ''[[Our Gods Are Different|God]]''. And that's not even getting into the assistant characters.
** That's not counting the drops from previous rosters, including a baby version of the [[Pokémon|lightning shooting mouse]], the [[Pokémon|psychic cat-kangaroo-rat]] [[Glass Cannon]], and so on.
* Not too long ago, there was a low-budget game that would have been completely forgettable if it hadn't been titled ''Ninjabread Man''.
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* ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]]''. A worm in a super-suit fights a cat that rules [[Ironic Hell]], an insane crow, a fire-breathing steak named Flamin' Yawn, and the [[Meaningful Name|aptly named]] Professor [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|Monkey-For-A-Head]].
** There's also [[Overly Long Name|Evil Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-Filled, Malformed Slug-For-A-Butt]].
* The Protoss Dark Templar from ''[[StarcraftStarCraft]]'' are psionic alien ninja. [[Recycled in Space|With spaceships]]. And cyborgs. Who fight giant bugs.
** Also when they die their [[Applied Phlebotinum|souls can be put into machines]] to creat Dragoons or Stalkers. Yeah.
* Some of Haseo's weapons in [[.hack|.hack//GU]] falls under this: [[BFS|giant swords with]] [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw teeth]], Big Scythes with [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw teeth]], with the blade flipping out to make it a chainsaw-glaive combo at times! It's a Scythe-Glaive-Chainsaw, woohoo!
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* Many people forget that the subtitle for the old Arcade and [[SNES]] game ''Joe & Mac'' is "Caveman Ninja".
* The appropriately-titled ''Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman'' for the [[PS 1]] featured a [[Samurai Cowboy]], who fights ninjas and [[Humongous Mecha]].
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', aside from having featured every other [[Super Robot]] that may or may not have been mentioned on this page, adds many more in its own [[Original Generation]]. Take RyuKoOh and KoRyuOh, the Ancient Chinese [[Transforming Mecha|Transforming]] [[Our Dragons Are Different|Dragon-Tiger]] [[Super Robot|Super Robots]]. And then there's Wodan Ymir, the [[Evil Twin|Evil]] [[Alternate Universe]] [[Back Fromfrom the Dead|Undead]] [[Hollywood Cyborg|Robot]] [[Cloning Blues|Clone]] of a [[McNinja|German Samurai]] in a [[Humongous Mecha|Giant Robot]].
* The hero of ''[[Rocket Knight Adventures]]'' is an opossum who wears a jetpack and a suit of armor, and wields a sword that can shoot [[Razor Wind|beams of energy]]. His [[Evil Counterpart]], Axle Gear, has all of that plus a possum-shaped [[Humongous Mecha|mecha]].
* When ''[[Gaia Online]]'' was still developing its MMO, ''zOMG!'', this was mentioned as a selling point of the ring system: players can mix and match different abilities. Equipping a specific set of four rings on one hand results in a Ring Set that provides a status buff. The sets have labels such as Athlete, Chef, Demon... and yes, even Ninja and Pirate. And yes, you '''can''' have two ring sets active at once.
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*** Speaking of aliens in the Mega Man series, the Robot Masters of Mega Man V for the Gameboy are all confirmed alien in origin, this gives us such combinations as Venus the Alien Anthropomorphic Crab Robot, and Pluto the Alien [[Were Cat|Werecat]] Robot.
* ''[[Ninja Baseball Bat Man]]'' features a group of 4 robot ninjas dressed in baseball gear, and fighting with baseball bats. Not only that, but most of the enemies are baseball related. From fighting baseballs, baseballl gloves, pumpkins wielding bats, baseball bats wielding bats, playing cards, & dogs carrying Tommy guns. And that's not the tip of the whackiness in this game.
* ''[[RunescapeRuneScape]]'' has a lot of these. Among other things, a Zombie Pirate Surgeon, Ninja Monkeys, etc.
* ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: Covenant'''s Joachim Valentine is a [[Hard Gay]] [[Large Ham]] [[Our Vampires Are Different|Vampire]] wrestler who thinks he's a superhero and an [[Improbable Weapon User]]. He's also one of the party members.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' has a [[Drunken Master|drunk,]] Black Scottish Cyclops that's fond of [[Mad Bomber|explosives]].
* Hakumen from ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' is a robot ghost samurai who may qualify for {{spoiler|zombie because of his near-death as Jin}}.
* ''OMG Pirates!'' is a popular game for the iPhone, where you play a ninja taking revenge on the pirates who destroyed his [[Doomed Hometown|village]]. The pirates use various forms of anachronistic (and [[Rule of Cool|awesome]]) piratey tech such as a rum-powered [[Jet Pack|jetpack]]/[[Kill It with Fire|flamethrower]].
* ''[[Alien Soldier]]'' has its fair share of these, but the one that stands out most is "[[Word Salad Title|Wolfgunblood]] [http://www.bogleech.com/aliensoldier/as-horseman.gif Garopa]". It's a cyborg cowboy wolf with a [[Gatling Good|machine-gun]] [[Arm Cannon]], riding a [[Mechanical Horse]].
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* Gruntilda Winkybunion of the [[Banjo-Kazooie]] series seems to fall deeper into this trope with each subsequent game. In ''Banjo-Tooie'' she turns into a Zombie Witch, in ''Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge'' she appears as a Robot Ghost Witch, and in ''Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts'', not only is Gruntilda now a zombie head in a robot body, but during the final battle attacks the heroes on a pirate ship, thus making her a Pirate Zombie Robot Witch.
** Grunty has a number of more mundane titles she can add to her name as well, including Captain (Rusty Bucket Bay), CEO (Grunty Industries), Aviator (Banjo Pilot), and Mechanic (Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts).
* The [[Alone in Thethe Dark]] series seems to love this trope. The 1st game has a pirate zombie as a boss. The 2nd game has mobster pirate zombies as your enemies, and a ninja mobster pirate zombie as a boss. The 3rd game has cowboy zombies as your enemies, and a ninja cowboy zombie as a boss.
* ''[[Golden Sun]]'' makes this possible with class and equipment combinations, including a Ninja class tree and Ninja Gear armor.
** In ''Dark Dawn'', one of your player characters is the Fire Adept pirate prince Eoleo. He can access the Ninja class and/or equip Ninja Gear. If you go the Ninja Gear route and leave him in his default class, he can also use his powers to shoot [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]. Who needs plot or [[Character Development]] when you can have a psychic ninja pirate prince who shoots laser beams?
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