Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[Transformers]]'' has, in fact, had [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cannonball pirate robots], [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Nightbird_(G1) ninja robots], and [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Zombie zombie robots]. We lied a little on the main page: [[Mechanical Lifeforms]] ''can'' in fact become undead enough to qualify as zombies. Almost all of them are aliens, they're all robots, and all of them are [[Transforming Mecha]]. This trope is [[Merchandise-Driven|almost]] Transformers' ''raison d'etre''. It's filled with [[Humongous Mecha|Humongous]] [[Transforming Mecha]], and each one of them has its own specialties, including:

** The ''Dinobots'' - [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|Fire-breathing]] [[Transforming Mecha]] robot dinosaurs. You'd think they'd have been the first thing on the page.

** Not only do we have robot zombies, we also have G1 Starscream, who was temporarily a robot ''ghost''.

*** You got the touch. You got the POWER! YEAH!!!

*** To better describe Unicron: [[Eldritch Abomination]] [[Planet Eater]] robot.

*** His [[Mirror Universe]] counterpart, however, is a ''cowboy tank''.

*** A design for an ''Animated'' incarnation of the character (intended for the unproduced 4th season) made him a ''pirate'' robot tank with an undead motif.

*** Jazz - another Robot-Ninja who is a [[Soul Brotha]] [[Jive Turkey|beatnik]] with [[Dual-Wielding]] ''nunchucks''. He can [[Spin to Deflect Stuff|deflect lasers]].

*** Soundwave starts a robot uprising and wields a guitar and a keytar that double as sonic weaponry and mind control devices, all while wearing [[Cool Shades]]. And his sonic weapons can transform into robots as well. Robot ''animals'', no less.

* ''[[Megas XLR]]'' features ''another'' example of zombie robots in the episode "Junk in the Trunk." Guess no combination is truly ''[[Beyond the Impossible|impossible.]]''

* ''[[Dino Riders]]'': Two races of aliens fighting with high-tech weapons while riding dinosaurs!

* ''The Bots Master'' had cookbots, sports bots, and yes, a ninja bot.

** And in one of the video games, ''robot monkey ninjas.''

*** One episode went out of its way to invoke this with "Monkey Ninjas [[In Space]]". (The best thing about it was the title.) In a later episode, a director independently tries to use it as a movie idea, only to be shut down with a "been there, done that" reaction.

** ''Kim Possible''; Sumo Ninja.

* More scary than cool, but ''[[The Batman vs. Dracula]]'' has {{spoiler|[http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/3923/batmanthevampirejoker1dg5.png Vampire Joker]}}, which is ''[[Nightmare Fuel|at least as disturbing as you would think]]''. The fact that the character in question is voiced by [[Scary Black Man|Kevin Michael Richardson]] adds some awesome, however.

'''Homer''': Or what? You'll release the dogs? Or the bees? [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|Or the dogs with bees in their mouths]], and when they bark they shoot bees at you? }}

** In a deleted scene, Burns goes on to sic a ''robotic Richard Simmons'' on Homer.

** Also: the future has several [[Forbidden Zone|Forbidden Zones]]. One has, flying, man-eating [[Mix-and-Match Critters|uni-clams]].

** Poochie from Itchy and Scratchy is intended to be this, as he introduces himself as being "half Joe Camel and a third Fonzarelli, I'm a kung-fu hippie, from gangsta city, I'm a rappin' surfer." However, he's actually a very unpopular character because of this, and annoys the viewers, the former [[Trope Namer]] for The Poochie (now [[Shoo Out the New Guy]]).

*** You forgot [[Mr. T]]. ("You the fool I pity.")

* Most of the combat in ''[[Storm Hawks]]'' is swordfighting done on flying motorcycle-biplane hybrids.

** In the episode "Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny", the Monarch narrates one of his early attacks on the Venture compound, attributing his failure to Venture's "army of ex-navy seal cyborg ninja witches". The simultaneous flashback shows, however, that he was defeated by Venture's lone bodyguard Myra. Helper helped too...

** Fakeout: "Hey, it's that ghost pirate! Who's not a ghost. Or even a pirate, really."

** Then there's the time Brock had to fight those Vatican karate gorillas...

** The show also has a scene where Batman teams up with Vampire Batman, Cowboy Batman, Psychic Batman, Robot Batman, Gorilla Batman, and Space Batman. Words cannot describe how awesome it was.

** REAL HOLOGRAPHIC SIMULATED EVIL LINCOLN IS BAAAAAAAAAAACCKKK!!!!!

** And then there's also General Major Webelo Zapp Brannigan.

** In one of the episode commentaries, an idea for an episode was mentioned involving a zombie werpechaun, or a leprechaun that was bit by a vampire and a werewolf who then died and came back as a zombie.

** One news report was given by a midget in a bikini. (I mean, come on: Midgets are cool. Bikinis are cool. Put them together and you've got, [[Like Is, Like, a Comma|like]], a nuclear explosion of coolness.) Another was given by a Japanese man who looked kind of like Ricardo Montalban.

** Manbearpig. Half man. Half bear.... Half pig.

* [[Adult Swim]] once spent a week talking about a hypothetical battle between a flying shark and a flying crocodile.

* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', among Heloise's inventions are giant robot clowns and a cyborg [[Giant Spider]].

* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''

* Played with in the ''[[Hot Wheels Battle Force 5]]'' episode, "Battleship 5", prior to some butt-kicking:

** And also parodied in a [[The Simpsons (Comic Book)|''Simpsons'']] comic book as "Mutant Nunchuk Sewer Frogs".

* ''[[Jonny Quest]]'': Zartan's henchman, Scorpio, in "The Monolith Man", who was a fat [[Cyborg]] [[Mummy]].

* The ''[[Dinosaur Train]]''

 

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