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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Tenchu]]'' puts players in the shoes of a ninja with plenty of samurai [[Mooks]] to assassinate.▼
* The ''[[Lupin III]]'' episodes and movies that focus on [[Samurai|Goemon]], such as ''The Fuma Conspiracy'' and ''Dragon of Doom'', often have ninjas as enemies.▼
* ''[[Muramasa: The Demon Blade]]'' has both ninja and samurai as enemies and allies at various points. The protagonists are a ninja and a princess who's possessed by the spirit of a samurai.▼
* The Land of Iron, unlike the other lands in ''[[Naruto]]'', has samurai (who look like [[Star Wars|Stormtroopers]]) instead of Ninja. This makes the Land of Iron a useful neutral ground for the leaders of the ninja villages to hold a summit. The samurai are fairly competent, using Chakra to create energy blades and seems to posses the same superhuman feats as the Ninja (minus Elemental abilities) but the regular samurai suffer from wearing [[Faceless Goons|face-concealing masks]] and [[Nominal Importance|lacking names]] {{spoiler|as can be seen by the few Sasuke encountered and killed}}. Their leader Mifune, however, is able to hold his own against {{spoiler|Hanzo, who was one of the most powerful ninja in the world}}. Mifune's specialty is using [[Iaijutsu Practitioner|iaijutsu]] to disrupt ninja hand seals (required for the majority of their superhuman techniques), and is so fast on the draw that {{spoiler|Hanzo}} concedes that attempting those techniques against him would be pointless.▼
* In ''[[Nabari no Ou]]'', most of the main characters are ninja, but Raimei and Raiko identify themselves as samurai.
▲* The Land of Iron, unlike the other lands in ''[[Naruto]]'', has samurai (who look like [[Star Wars|Stormtroopers]]) instead of Ninja. This makes the Land of Iron a useful neutral ground for the leaders of the ninja villages to hold a summit. The samurai are fairly competent, using Chakra to create energy blades and seems to posses the same superhuman feats as the Ninja (minus Elemental abilities) but the regular samurai suffer from wearing [[Faceless Goons|face-concealing masks]] and [[Nominal Importance|lacking names]] {{spoiler|as can be seen by the few Sasuke encountered and killed}}. Their leader Mifune, however, is able to hold his own against {{spoiler|Hanzo, who was one of the most powerful ninja in the world}}. Mifune's specialty is using [[Iaijutsu Practitioner|iaijutsu]] to disrupt ninja hand seals (required for the majority of their superhuman techniques), and is so fast on the draw that {{spoiler|Hanzo}} concedes that attempting those techniques against him would be pointless.
* ''[[Musashi: Samurai Legend]]'' has Musashi, the heroic samurai, against endless [[Mooks]] of Ninjaroids, which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]; [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Ninja]] ''[[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Androids]].''▼
* The OAV ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'' has a [[Ronin]] named Kibegami Jubei fighting against multiple ninjas, from masters whose magical skills have turned them into monsters to [[Faceless Mooks]].▼
* In ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' one of the main characters is a [[Ronin]], a masterless samurai. Several ninja-like characters make appearances during the show and generally give the characters a fair run for their money, but the only person outright stated to be one is the baseball-loving, sunglass-wearing ninja in episode 21, who ends up shanghaing the main characters to play a game of baseball against a US invasion of Japan. [[Anachronism Stew|In the 17th century]].
* In ''[[Samurai 7]]'', a group of ninjas live under the city that the main characters visit, and threaten to destroy said city if not appeased with bribes.▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* The [[Sixth Ranger]] in ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]'' is the Green Samurai Ranger (his Sentai predecessor was a ninja like the rest of the team).
** The extra hero Ninjaman in ''[[Ninja Sentai Kakuranger]]'' had the ability to to transform into 'Samuraiman'.
▲* In ''[[Samurai 7]]'', a group of ninjas live under the city that the main characters visit, and threaten to destroy said city if not appeased with bribes.
== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* The OAV ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'' has a [[Ronin]] named Kibegami Jubei fighting against multiple ninjas, from masters whose magical skills have turned them into monsters to [[Faceless Mooks]].
▲* ''[[Muramasa: The Demon Blade]]'' has both ninja and samurai as enemies and allies at various points. The protagonists are a ninja and a princess who's possessed by the spirit of a samurai.
▲* The ''[[Lupin III]]'' episodes and movies that focus on [[Samurai|Goemon]], such as ''The Fuma Conspiracy'' and ''Dragon of Doom'', often have ninjas as enemies.
▲* ''[[Musashi: Samurai Legend]]'' has Musashi, the heroic samurai, against endless [[Mooks]] of Ninjaroids, which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]; [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Ninja]] ''[[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Androids]].''
* Many samurai in ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' have ninjas who serve them, so both types of character turn up as playable characters and enemies.
▲* ''[[Tenchu]]'' puts players in the shoes of a ninja with plenty of samurai [[Mooks]] to assassinate.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* This trope takes inspiration from [[Real Life]] (and not just Japanese history) as it makes sense for warrior leaders (samurai) to send assassins (ninja) against their rivals before or in lieu of facing them on the battlefield.
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