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** Then there's the Protector Spectre and its description, which [[Exact Words|is the ghost of a mummy of an ancient high priest, which is pretty scary, but not as scary as the ghost of a mummy of an ancient werewolf high priest would be. Man, that'd be terrifying. And if he'd been a vampire before he caught lycanthropy? Wow. ...But I digress]]. The Protector Spectre, that is. [[Running Gag|Not]] [[Ambiguous Syntax|its description]].
* ''[[Killer 7]]''. An old senile hitman, who spends the duration of the story getting raped by his maid, with seven split personalities which can manifest into the real world fighting suicide bomber zombie things who are really happy all the time. The split personalities are comprised of a black guy with resurrection powers, a badass anime stereotype with a revolver that can shoot energy balls, Mexican Tommy Vercetti with super jumping powers and the ability to fire a weapon upside down without breaking his elbow, a blind Chinese gangsta kid who can run really freaking fast and dual-wields submachineguns, a sniper chick who really ''really'' likes blood, a mute albino knife freak who can turn invisible, and a macho libre wrestler.
* Time Gentlemen, Please! is a game about a pair of time-travelers fighting Robot Nazi [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Dinosaurs|Dinosaurs]].
* ''[[Turok (Video Game)|Turok]]'' has you playing as a ''Dimension hopping Native American who kills [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Dinosaurs|Dinosaurs]], Cyborgs, Zombies and Aliens with [[More Dakka|increasingly]] over compensatory, bizarre and incredibly [[No Kill Like Overkill|over-powered]] [[BFG|guns]].''
* For the combination of mundane and awesome, you can't beat ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''. Disney and [[Square Enix]] sounds like an unlikely combination, until you sit down and play it. Which of the 2 companies is mundane and which is awesome is up to you.
* ''[[Rayman|Rayman 2: the Great Escape]]'' contains actual Ninja Pirate Robots, although regrettably they aren't zombies.
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* ''[[Gungrave]]'' is built around this. If ''Gungrave: Overdose'' didn't feature Rocketbilly Redcadillac - a rockabilly ghost possessing an electricity-shooting guitar - I wouldn't have bought it. Did I mention it's all designed by the creator of ''[[Trigun]]''?
** Beyond the Grave, the hero of the series: techno-zombie cowboy, check. [[Guns Akimbo|Dual-wields]] a pair of pistols the [[Hand Cannon|size of toaster ovens]], check. Carries a giant [[Impossibly Cool Weapon|coffin]] on his back loaded with a [[Gatling Good|vulcan cannon]] and [[Macross Missile Massacre|bazooka/missile launcher]], oh my goodness, check!
** Juji Kabane, from ''Overdose'', is a blind undead swordsman who [[Dual -Wielding|dual-wields]] [[Cool Guns|gun]]-[[Katanas Are Just Better|katanas]] in [[Reverse Grip|reverse grip]] and tends to [[Kill It With Fire|kill things with]] [[Incendiary Exponent|FIRE]]. And he also owns the above possessed guitar. YEAH!
* The mod for the ''[[Half-Life]]'' series named Pirates, Vikings and Knights. [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Guess what it involves.]]
** Another mod for Half-Life, ''[[Afraid of Monsters]]'', has this too. Not as blatant as the above mod, but one enemy in it is a ''giant flickering ghost alien [[Nightmare Face]] that shoot homing bees with a childish laughter''. But it's all okay, because it is only one of many hallucinations in the mod.
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* Certain types of enemies in ''[[Brave Fencer Musashi (Video Game)|Brave Fencer Musashi]]'' are called Vambees; part vampire, part zombie.
** The sequel ''[[Musashi Samurai Legend (Video Game)|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]], [[Earthbound|two]] [[Mother 3 (Video Game)|psychic]] children, a [[Yoshis Island (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|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 (Franchise)|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 (Franchise)|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 (Video Game)|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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** Similarly, you have Phazon. [[Power Glows|Glowing]] [[Always Chaotic Evil|evil]] [[Applied Phlebotinum|sentient goop capable of]] [[The Corruption|corrupting]], [[Psycho Serum|mutating]] and [[Hive Mind|taking over]] creatures of all kinds, staple of some [[Mook Maker|alternate biochemistry, capable of spawning enemies]], being an enemy if liquid, [[Insurmountable Waist High Fence|nigh-indestructible]] (without proper weaponry), and also [[Powered By a Forsaken Child|your suit and body run on it]]. Run, Samus. Very fast.
** We also have Ridley, who is a dragon space pirate. Who then is turned into a cyborg. Who then becomes undead and mutated. Who is also technically an alien. And who can turn invisible in ''[[Super Metroid]]''. So, that's an Mutated Zombie Cyborg Alien Dragon Ninja Space Pirate. Or, in other words, a literal [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]].
* The various [[Expansion Pack|Expansion Packs]] of ''[[The Sims]] 2'' introduce a new paranormal creature each, which can frequently be combined. In order of release: [[Half -Human Hybrid|half-alien hybrids]], zombies, vampires, robots, werewolves, [[Plant Aliens|Plantsims]], Bigfoot, Genies ([[NPC|NPCs]], unfortunately) and witches.
** ''[[The Sims]] 3'' unfortunately contains none of that (yet), but does feature playable ghosts and mummies in the expansion. (Ghosts exist in ''every'' version of ''[[The Sims]]'', but not until ''The Sims 3'' are they playable.)
** There are [[The Princess Bride (Film)|Dread Pirate]] and [[Space Pirate]] jobs in ''Sims 2'', and you can learn teleport ninjutsu from a [[Ninja]] as well as don the outfit of one. So if it is possible for a Servo to die and be resurrected, you actually ''can'' have a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]].
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** There is even a user-made challenge for ''The Sims 2'' that revolves around making a half-alien sim into a zombie-vampire-werewolf-plantsim-witch/warlock.
** ''[[The Sims 3]]'' now has robots, vampires and imaginary friends as well. The most complex hybrid currently possible involves making a vampire and an imaginary friend have a baby with the qualities of both, and then making that offspring a ghost.
* ''[[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 [[EverythingsEverything'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 ''[[Starcraft]]'' are psionic alien ninja. [[Recycled in Space|With spaceships]]. And cyborgs. Who fight giant bugs.
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* 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!
* Captain Falcon of [[F-Zero]] fame is part racecar driver, part bounty hunter. It doesn't hurt that he actually IS [[Badass]].
** Then there's Bio Rex, a beer-drinking dinosaur racecar driver, and Billy, a money-obsessed [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Monkeys|chimpanzee]] racecar driver.
* ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'' has Faris, a pirate, who can become a Ninja via one of the Fire Crystal's shards; there also exists a status effect called Zombie, so it's easy enough to make Faris a Ninja Pirate Zombie.
* Zelda is, by default, a magic princess. Versions of her have also been a ninja (''[[The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]''), a pirate (''[[The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]''-''[[The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass]]''), and a ghost who can possess suits of armor (''[[The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks]]''). Also, she looked pretty zombie-like when she was possessed by [[Big Bad|Ganondorf]] (''[[The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'').
** The Parella tribe from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'' resemble a mix between a seahorse, a squid, a jellyfish, and coral.
*** The dungeon mini boss for the Sandship {{spoiler|and Sky Keep}} is a robot skeleton pirate.
* The FPS ''Darkwatch: Curse of the West'' puts you in the shoes of a vampire cowboy.
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** Perhaps the penultimate example was Blizzard's response to a number of beta-testers complaining that a zone in ''Cataclysm'' was not "epic" enough. Blizzard promptly inserted Epicus Maximus, a flying shark with a [[Austin Powers|laser on it's head]] being ridden by a T-rex being ridden by an undead shredding a guitar that was also an axe.
*** [http://www.wowwiki.com/Epicus_Maximus The result] [[Rule of Cool|is every bit]] [[Beyond the Impossible|as awesome]] [[Meaningful Name|as its name implies]].
* Long-time antagonist Cervantes de Leon from the ''[[Soul Series]]'' is a [[EverythingsEverything's Deader With Zombies|zombie]] [[Pirate]] [[Cutscene Power to The Max|who can]] [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|turn invisible (ninja),]] [[Our Ghosts Are Different|spawn ghosts]] [[Mind Over Matter|and levitate his weapons (telekinetic).]] [[Big Fancy Sword|He weilds part of the series' most important sword (BFS)]] [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|and]] [[Cool Gun|shoots superpowerful bullets]] [[Dual -Wielding|from his other sword,]] ([[Ironic Nickname|which is named 'Nirvana']], which probably belongs in this trope on its own.)
** There's also Ivy, his estranged white-haired daughter who is a busty scantily clad dominatrix alchemist countess who fights with a sword that turns into a whip.
** Yoshimitsu is a [[Robin Hood]] type suicidal Ninja, who's arm is powered by [[Steampunk|"gears"]]. In the Tekken game series, his successor appears to be fully "Cyborg-Ninja" created by Dr. B (Yoshimitsu's origin as a human may or may not have been verified in canon of either game series).
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* Auron, from ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', is {{spoiler|a ghost-zombie/samurai. And if that's not enough, he is also either a magician or a demon, considering his power to kill things to death. Or [[Kill It With Fire|with fire]].}}
* Bloodrayne anyone? Half-vampire fighting (with a chain gun, elbow blades and metal stiletto spikes) insectazoid swamp monsters, zombies, deformed werewolfy vampires, many types of Nazis (aside from normal Nazis - Magic Nazi, Mad Scientist Nazi, Indentical Psysically-linked Twin Nazis, Cyborg Nazi, Nazi Priest with pulpit that has machine guns attached, Fire Breathing Nazi, Ninja Nazi, Demonically Possessed Nazis, Double Agent Half-Vampire Tibetan Nazi) and a giant skeletal mega-vampire. Rayne also has slow-mo and "aura-vision".
* ''[[Pokémon]]'''s Garchomp gets honorable mention. Why? Because it's a [[Everything Is Even Worse With Sharks|shark]] crossed with a [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Dinosaurs|dinosaur]], [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragon]], and a ''[[Cool Plane|jet]]'' (With torpedoes on its head!). Unsurprisingly, it's considered a [[Game Breaker]].
** The ''franchise'' is wrought with these. There's Blastoise, the water jet cannon tortoise, Scyther, the human-sized mantis ninja raptor with ''[[Sinister Scythe|scythes]] for arms'', Ho-oh, the rainbow-forming phoenix, Exploud, the organ boombox hippo, Gliscor, the scorpion bat crab, Golurk, the clay-sculpted ghost-possessed [[Giant Mecha]], Chandelure, the fire-spewing soul-sucking chandelier, Vanilluxe, the sentient Siamese ice cream cone, Genesect, the resurrected prehistoric bipedal insect with a cannon on its back that it can use as a [[Jet Pack]], Vespiquen, a combination of a [[EverythingsEverything's Worse With Bees|bee]] and a battleship with a touch of European royalty...
** Reuniclus is a psychic-powered homunculus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade tardigrade] amoeba shaped like a teddy bear surrounded by cytoplasm and organelle arms aligned to look like a meter for volume that it often uses to manipulate the speed of everything in its environment. Oh yeah, it's based on a fetus too.
** There's also Mewtwo. A genetically-altered humanoid cat with psychic powers that was created to be the ultimate Pokemon. [[Gone Horribly Right|It killed its creators shortly after it was born and lacks any compassion while in battle.]]
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** After you beat the final boss, you {{spoiler|fly to the Celestial Plain in a 200-year old bishounen's spaceship. The bishounen is from the moon.}}
*** Oh, you think that's crazy? Waka is a: French-speaking, Japanese, bishounen from the moon who dual wields a laser sword and a katana (or other similar type of sword), he's a prophet, and he owns a spaceship.
* Gaul in [[Spyro the Dragon|The Legend of Spyro]] is, in short, a [[Dual -Wielding]] spellcaster baboon with a [[Eye Beams|laser eye]]. And he steals all your mana before you fight him. No wonder he's the ape king. Love or hate the series, you have to admit that's just ''awesome''.
* ''[[Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar]]''.
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' can be described as "anything goes." There are demon-worshipping gangs, dark magic gangs, cyborg zombies, psychic robots, living blobs of algae, mutated homeless cultists with alien weaponry, genetically engineered facist werewolves and vampires, cybernetically enhanced anarchists, steampunk soldiers led by a 200 year old [[Magnificent Bastard]], and an [[Animal Wrongs Group]] made of living plants and rocks. And that's only some of the ''hero'' side.
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* The ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' videogame plays with this trope in the title: ''Zombie Ninja Pro-Am''. There don't appear to be any zombies or ninjas involved in the actual game (apart from one mummy), although robot turkeys, psychotic shifter wrenches, and machine-gun toting tulips do appear in various stages.
** Those are actually characters from the show. "Tulip Sniper" who uses a machine gun, Turkatron who is somehow related to the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future, and the giant wrenches who abducted Dusty Gazongas. Also, you left out the name "Aqua Teen Hunger Force", as they are in no way water-related, they're not teens, they don't fight hunger (anymore), and they've ceased to be a force of anything except hilarity/stupidity.
* The [[Shoot 'Em Up]] ''Revenge of the Mutant Camels''.
* The ''[[House of the Dead]]'' series features midget zombie ninjas, ninja monkey zombies, midget cyborg ninjas, ninja zombies with stealth camouflage etc. And the Magician is a Cyborg Dragon Zombie.
* [[Monkey Island]] gives us LeChuck, who's been a Ghost, Zombie, Demon, and giant statue, did I mention he's a pirate? And in the latest game, he's been turned into a ''human''.
** The 4th game (before he was a giant statue) had him shifting between his previous three incarnations uncontrollably. He was actually referred to as "the Demon Zombie Ghost Pirate LeChuck".
** In the climactic battle of the game ''[[Escape From Monkey Island]]'', {{spoiler|you control a Talking [[I Know Karate|Kung-Fu]] [[Pirate]] [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Monkeys|Monkey]] [[Humongous Mecha]]. And you fight a statue possessed by a [[Night of the Living Mooks|Demon Zombie Ghost Pirate]] From Heck.}}
* ''[[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Darkstalkers]]''. A fighting game in 1994 by Capcom? Check. [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|Cast consists of monsters]]? Check. One of the characters is a [[Catgirl]] who fights [[Stripperiffic|entirely nude]]? Check. Another character is an Australian zombie that plays heavy metal and blows up dinosaurs with the power of rock-and-roll named Lord Raptor? Check.
** A [[Catgirl]] ''nun'' who fights entirely nude...
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** It's worth discussing in some detail how you go about starting Zombjas: Your village can have, for the purposes of maintaining headcount and collecting resources, Biological Robot versions of Ninjas, call Nonjas. The Village Leader can choose to inject a Nonja, with unleashes a Zombja horde, which the village then fights off. In other words, the minigame is started when '''a Robot Ninja becomes a Zombie Ninja'''. You heard that right: '''a Robot Ninja becomes a Zombie Ninja''' in order for this minigame to happen. All that's missing is a Pirate element, and you'd have the quadfecta[?].
** High-end PCs are [[Naruto|Ninjas]], [[Bleach|Soul Reapers]], [[Death Note (Manga)|Kiras]], [[Kaiju]], Desert Scavengers, Interdimentional Police Officers, Robot War Reenactors, Pizza Delivery Boys, ''and'' [[Osu Tatakae Ouendan|Cheer Brigade Leaders]].
* ''[[Trauma Center|Trauma Team]]'' has in its main cast a [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|ninja]] [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Princesses|princess]] -- well, technically just the heir to a ninja clan, rather than a "true" princess, but it works out to the same thing -- endoscopic surgeon.
* One of the Halloween event mice appearing in ''[[Mousehunt]]'', a collecting game on Facebook, is a "zombot unipire", apparently created purely to invoke this trope. Also, to give their artist the rare opportunity to draw a fanged corpse-faced cyborg mouse with a spiral horn on its forehead.
* Guess who are the main stars in the Zombie mode of [[Call of Duty]]: Black Ops? John F Kennedy, Robert Mcnamara, Richard Nixon and Fidel Castro? You heard that right, JFK, Mcnamara, Nixon and Castro fighting zombies!
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* The [[Alone in The 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?
*** To say nothing of Sveta, who is a ''kung-fu Wind Adept werewolf princess'' by storyline alone, and has an exclusive Gladiator class tree. That's right, a pit-fighting kung-fu psychic werewolf princess with electric powers. And she's [[Moe]], too.
* The player character of ''[[Blood]]'', Caleb, is an ageless zombie cowboy. His partners in the second game include a zombie former frat girl, a zombie former circus freak and another zombie cowboy-''[[Gender Bender|turned-woman]] in medieval armor with a cajun accent''.
* Combine this trope with [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Princesses]] and you get [[media:venn_3705.jpg|this helpful illustration]].
* [[Nin 2 Jump]] takes this trope to the extreme: all of the enemies are ninjas crossed with a number of other things.
* ''[[Bug! (Video Game)|Bug]]!'' has the first boss, a snail. Or should I say, helicopter-bomber-cowboy snail- it flies with a rotor and drops bombs from its shell. And if Bug is too far away while it's on the ground, it takes out a cowboy hat and two guns, and starts firing at Bug! (ironically, that move makes it a sitting duck)
* As the recurring lab assistant enemies are revealed to be robots in ''[[Crash Bandicoot 3 Warped]]'', you realize you are playing a game with robot knights, robot wizards, robot pirates, robot greasers etc. in it.
* The ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series is extremely prone to this.
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