Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot/Anime

• As of Paint it White England is officialy a secret agent/wizard/pirate/ninja
• Ghost in the Shell brings us the Major: a ninja cyborg bisexual police-officer assassin hacker VR porn star.
• The Demonic Tournament in Yu Yu Hakusho includes, amongst other things, humans with spirit/psychic powers, demons reincarnated as humans, an ancient-turned-young midget martial arts master, demon shapeshifters, demon ninjas, human zombie cyborgs, a demonic artist that can kill you by painting you and a demon drunken master.
• Macross 7 is a series about a rock and roll band that fights evil space vampires with their Transforming Mecha... and The Power of Rock and roll. No, really.
  • For extra super bonus points, the Macross 7 OVA Dynamite 7 has the rock band with guitar-controlled Transforming Mecha fight interstellar poachers to Save The Space Whales.
• Macross Frontier has a character that's an Afro'd Hot-Blooded Ho Yay Male Bridge Bunny, the Token Mini-Moe Blue-Haired Genki Girl who can become the Big Sister Hot Amazon (just add water) and the Bifauxnen Jerk with a Heart of Gold just to name a few; it's like the series tried to put together all of the most incompatible tropes just to see how it would turn out.
  • It turned out Awe-some
• Mazinger Z: The Iron Masks and the Iron Crosses are corpses the Big Bad reconstructed using cybernetic parts and reanimated, programming them to serve him faithfully. Hence, the are cyborg zombies. Besides, the Iron Masks wear uniforms resemble the armor of an ancient Greek soldier, and the Iron Cross's uniforms remind of Nazi soldiers. It is fitting since his leader IS an ex-Nazi officer turned cyborg by the Big Bad.
• My-HiME. It revolves around High School-aged Magical Girls (one of whom has blue hair and rides a motorcycle) who can summon monsters and generate weapons out of thin air for battling Demonic Invaders, infiltrating and destroying a Kill Sat, and eventually fighting each other to the "death". May also contain Robot Girls, crossdressing Ninjas, Ancient Conspiracies, and a constant full moon that's visible even in full sunlight.
• What can we say about Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann that hasn't already been said elsewhere on this very wiki?
• Episode 4 of Welcome to The NHK does this with Moe Moe, to produce the 'perfect' Eroge heroine: a wheelchair-bound blind glasses-wearing alien robot ghost maid with a split personality, Alzheimers and a terminal illness who is a childhood friend and classmate of the protagonist, and who was his lover in a previous life. The result is more disturbing than hoped, though.
• Volfogg in GaoGaiGar. Come on, he's a giant Robot Ninja spy that transforms into a Police car. And can combine with a transforming Motorcycle and Helicopter on top of THAT.
  • Compare his Zonderian rival for the first parts of the anime, Pinchernone (or Penchinon, if you prefer it), who compromises the Pirate Zombie Robot of the trope title. In human form, he takes the form of a sailor, and he is always seen sitting and with a huge grin on his face. Late in the series, back as Tomoro-117, he actually befriends Volfogg, with Volfogg commenting on him as an "interesting friend".
  • Before Volfogg, there was Dagshadow from Brave Command Dagwon who can transform into a robot, dragon, and jet.
  • And before Dagshadow, there was Shadowmaru from Brave Police J-Decker who can transform into six different forms!
  • In GaoGaiGar FINAL, they certainly showed just how badass Volfogg is. While getting his ass kicked, he managed to get away, set up a holographic projector, hide, and backstab Polturn... WITHOUT POLTURN NOTICING! Must be because of his Seiyuu, The Great Kamina.
• The pirate Perry from the manga Burning Hell. He is a pirate who uses a high speed fighting style based on Voldo-like claws. On chains. Also, he is dead and keeps on moving thanks to his captain's dark magic. He doesn't have any robotic parts but making this trope 3/4 literal still deserves some credit.
• The whole point of Kujibiki Unbalance was to make a show with every possible anime trope to give the characters in Genshiken something to talk about. Witches, aliens, ninjas, whatever, for a mere three episodes.
  • This was also the point of Suzumiya Haruhi's student film, which was about a time-travelling Magical Girl Battle Waitress and strove to fit every Japanese Media Trope they could manage into 21.5 minutes.
• The first episode of Mnemosyne has the protagonist, an immortal private investigator, use SHOTGUN GLOVES on a bunch of zombies.
• The villain of the Mahora Festival arc in the manga version of Mahou Sensei Negima is a magical Chinese-Martian Kung-Fu Mad Scientist from the future who's descended from the main character in Powered Armor, who uses a robot army and demon-mecha that shoot stripper rays.
  • Don't forget that the team that defeated her included a winged, half-tengu albino demon, (BF)Sword-wielding Samurai demon-slayer (think about that) Onmyouji, lesbian with a Bodyguard Crush in cat ears and maid clothes who can shoot swords.
  • SHARKS THAT KNOW KENPO. OK, it's not really a shark, but whatever.
  • The Elegant Gothic Lolita who is in fact a Really Seven Hundred Years Old Vampire Kung Fu Wizard Razor Floss-wielding Marionette Master is another of the main character's students when she's not being his Cynical Mentor in her slowed-time pocket-reality mansion.
• Hellsing and its Nazi vampires. Synthetic Nazi vampires, people!
  • And a Nazi teleporting catboy.
    • Schrödinger was a boy?
      • Until someone opens Schrödinger's pants, Schrödinger is simultaneously in a state of both being a boy, and not being a boy.
  • Vampire Nazis eating babies fighting Ku Klux Krusaders both intent on destroying London.
  • Don't forget two-gun sharpshooter shapeshifting unknowable horror/little girl Dracula.
  • To sum it all up. Dracula fights Vampiric Robot Nazis, with guns.
  • Well... Dracula fights Vampiric Robot Nazis, Nazi Werewolves, and Catboys, all created by Nazi Mad Scientist and led by a cyborg while an Organization strikes back while a rival Organization that's actually the Catholic Church attack both of them all in all Destroying London.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's really tries. The show is still about playing Card Games - however, the card games are played on motorbikes with transformer sidekicks!
  • Card Games on Motorcycles?
• Come on down to Cromartie High School, and you'll get to meet the likes of delinquents, robots, aliens, monkeys, and some dude who looks like Freddie Mercury from Queen. Those are all students, by the way.
  • Robots? What robots? I haven't noticed any robots around Cromartie. I hope you're not considering Mechazawa to be a robot, just because he has very shiny, pale skin! He's just as normal as the rest of us!
• Soul Eater has a blue zombie ninja teaching in the school sponsored by the Grim Reaper. His weapon partner is a brown-skinned mummy nurse!
  • Is it a blue zombie ninja, or is it a blue zombie with ranger/sf/random-elite-military training. Or is it a blue zombie ninja with ranger training?
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure loves this. First, it's vampires who are fought with Hokuto Shin Ken. Then it's better vampires who eat vampires fighting a Brit, an Italian, and a cyborg Nazi who looks like Guile. Then a vampire who can stop time and his buddies with wacky Psychic Powers fighting two Japanese high school students (also with said Psychic Powers), the aformentioned Brit (now a Cool Old Guy who looks like Sean Connery), a Muslim fortune teller who can control fire, a Frenchman with ridiculous hair seeking to avenge his sister, and a supersmart dog who can control sand. Those are just the first three parts.
  • Here is a comic that basically gives a quick summary on each part.
  • DINOSAURS RIDING DINOSAURS! ^{[dead link]}
• Strike Witches. Repeat with me: Mecha Fighter pilot Magical Catgirl Lolis in Powered Armor. None of them wears skirts or pants. One of the leads also has a weakspot-revealing eyepatch and wields a katana. You just can't get any more awesome than that!
• G Gundam starts off with sorta-post-apocalyptic kung-fu battling in Super Robots using every ridiculous Martial Arts and Crafts move and evil foreigner stereotype they could think of, and it escalates from there. The Humongous Mecha design itself pretty much runs on this (Windmills, man. Windmills.) And I haven't even mentioned Schwarz Bruder and his German Ninjitsu yet.
  • We forgot to mention that the Big Bad's army is made up of cyborg zombies. Cyborg zombies with giant robots.
    • Cyborg zombies with giant robot zombies which come from another Giant Robot that can merge with a Space Colony and zombify other giant robots.
  • The Gundam Maxter is a boxing surfing cowboy football player. Oh, yes.
• The original Mobile Suit Gundam has some instances of this also, most obviously in episode 37 (or 36 for English-speakers), "The Duel at Texas." Samurai vs. Knight in the Wild West IN SPACE!!
• The Witchblade anime indeed features some ninja zombie robots... more precisely, saboteur/assassin zombie werecyborgs and combat robot zombies. Latter just because they were deemed more expendable than human soldiers with comparable equipment.
• Samurai Champloo combines samurai with hip-hop, and has ninjas, pirates, and zombies, but it really outdoes itself with episode 23, which centers around a game of ninja baseball.
  • What, the samurai graffiti artists didn't do it for you?
• Thorfinn has been described by more than one reader as an emo viking ninja. Now he's an emo viking ninja LUMBERJACK.
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha delights in taking the normal Magical Girl template and checking how many seemingly unrelated stuff they can combine it with. For example, one Magical Girl is a Really Seven Hundred Years Old Elegant Gothic Little Miss Badass sentient program that wields a mechanical hammer that can become rocket-powered, sport a drill, or grow to the size of a large building for Humongous Mecha smashing.
  • And since every series needs to have a variation of the trope title, StrikerS Sound Stage X featured the Mariages, best described as Shapeshifting Kamikaze Cyborg Zombie Stormtroopers.
  • Did we mention Vivio Takamachi the royal age-shifting alien lesbian mage/martial artist who was cloned from the focal point of a religion?
• Neon Genesis Evangelion brings us giant Artificial Humans inhabited by the souls of the dead, wearing armor as a Restraining Bolt, and turned into cyborgs so they can be controlled by human teenagers that hook their nervous system directly into them.
• A ridiculous amount of things in Getter Robo, particularly anything created by the Dinosaur Empire (since all their creations are by default "Dinosaur + 'x'". A T-Rex attached to a twin-barrelled giant tank being backed up by dinosaurs with guns riding on the backs of dinosaurs with missile pods attached while robot pterodactyls fly overhead? Happens all the time .
• The reason why the Jeremiah/Sayoko pairing in Code Geass is so popular. He's a cyborg and she's a Ninja Maid.
  • Well, that and massive amount of LOYALTY.
  • The Nightmare of Nunnally spinoff also features Zombie Knights piloting Zombie Mechas. Who fight by jumping out of they mechas onto enemies'.
• Eureka Seven, anyone? Sky Surfing Super Robots that transform into Le Mans-esque supercars, all while running on The Power of Love.
• Biomega, or to be more specific, Kozlov Grebnev. I mean, cyberpunk and zombies are cool, cyberpunk zombies are even cooler but a Russian talking bear with a sniper rifle is in a league of his own.
• Kisame from Naruto: he's a shark-man that uses a shark-tooth sword that he can ride like a surfboard, will come back to him if he drops it, and cuts into the hands of anyone else who uses it.
  • Let's not forget about Sasori, who is a ninja Brain In a Jar inside a puppet with built-in flamethrowers, water cannons, rotor blades attached to a pole on his back, and a poison-covered cable/tentacle in place of his stomache. And that puppet is inside another puppet with built-in poison Whip Sword.
  • Can't forget Zetsu. He's a cannibal venus fly trap man whose face halves argue with each other and can teleport from place to place by phasing into the environment. And he can split those halves apart.
  • One of Pain's bodies appears to be a some of kind of ninja cyborg. In fact all of Pain's bodies could be considered ninja zombies depending on how you look at it.
  • Kidomaru of the Sound Four is a ninja Spider-Man gamer who can use a giant bow and arrow.
  • Shippuuden's first filler arc has the Leaf Village under attack by zombie ninjas. They even drool.
• Ninja Senshi Tobikage, an obscure anime from the 80's, has animal themed tramsforming combining Ninja mecha. The titular Tobikage is a ninja robot. Heck, in some countries, its title was translated as Ninja Robots
• Black Butler's Campania plot arc: your basic titanic with zombies, demons and deathgods in Victorian England story.
• Rideback: Ballerina terrorist fighting totalitarian world order on a motorbike that can transform into a bipedal mech, while proclaiming to be pacifist. And wangsting.
• Ninin ga Shinobuden has a crocodile Ninja.
• From One Piece, we have Franky (a transforming cyborg pirate shipwright powered by cola) and Brook (a afro-wearing perverted skeleton pirate musician who can run across water), the two latest additions to the main cast. If anything, it will probably get more random from there.
  • There's also Bartholomew Kuma, who himself is a pirate turned terminator-esque cyborg who uses a sumo-based fighting style , and recent chapters imply he might not be a living person anymore - albeit that is open for debate and isn't confirmed yet. But he is the anime character that is most near to become a literal, full-fledged Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
  • Most of the One Piece cast, actually, except for the humans.
    • Even they qualify, sometimes. Like Crocodile, for instance.
• Gun X Sword is a Space Western about a Tuxedo Wearing auto-healing Badass who goes around in search for vengeance kicking ass, stopping bullets with his sword and piloting an empathic Humongous Mecha competing against a samurai.
• Date Masamune's horse is a motorbike. Your entries are invalid
• Nazis, human-animal hybrids, genderless shapeshifters, ninjas, a cute little pseudo-Chinese princess that can use magic and has a dwarf panda as a pet, mutated zombies, spy prostitutes and housewives that punch bears in the face: all these and more in Fullmetal Alchemist.
• Blassreiter presents nanobot-infested Shapeshifting Made of Iron Badass Biker cyborg saint swinging the blade he grows. While riding Shapeshifting jet Cool Bike with AI who talks via Fairy Sexy projected girl. There are other... interesting characters where these two came from. Even the Mooks are transformed by nanobots Brainwashed and Crazy Zombie Infectee, sometimes even corpses reanimated by nanomachines, making them cyborg zombies Made of Iron. And there's Mini-Mecha built by the Ancient Conspiracy. It Makes Sense in Context.
• CLAMP went overboard with Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. The main group of True Companions comprises a half-chinese Kid Hero that knows kung-fu and magic and has an evil clone, a (cursed) Ninja with a cybernetic arm, a (cursed) pretty vampire wizard with an eyepatch, a (cursed) magical princess and a cute cuddly mascot with immense magical powers. In case this wasn't enough, it also features witches, ridiculously convoluted magical conspiracies, loads of clones, dimension-travelling vampire twins, dimension-travelling bounty-hunter brothers, more clones, and the bad guy is so evil he actually wears a monocle.
  • And has an ass-chin. Let's not forget Big Bad's ass-chin. Fay's eyepatch is more Eye Scream than Eyepatch of Power, given that he lost said eye when said half-chinese Kid Hero's clone ripped it out and ate it.
• The 2010 Iron Man Anime Adaptation preview by Madhouse: Tony Stark flies around futuristic Tokyo to battle the White-Haired Pretty Boy villain's army of humanoid mecha fired from a missile launcher. The villain himself has Beehive Barrier and a Powered Armor that looks like medieval armour.
• Quite possibly the most disturbing example of this trope: cyborg zombie fish.
• Kogarashi of Kamen no Maid Guy: A super-muscled male Meido with a mask, 37 senses, X ray vision, Prehensile Hair, the ability to freeze people with his voice, and Nigh Invulnerability, who used to teach at MIT.
• Seto no Hanayome has Mermaid Yakuza, one of whom is also The Terminator.
• Kujako-Oh the Peacock King. Buddhist ki-and-bead shooting monks ala Donovan vs nazi-summoning demons, demon-summoning nazis, demonic nazis, cybernetic demonic nazis with Gatling arms, and a bishounen vampire nazi robot who isn't even aware he's a robot. And it's done in an incredibly serious and dramatic fashion. Yes, really. There's absolutely no comedic value behind any of it as opposed to some of the lunacy in Fullmetal Alchemist. And at one point the nazis went to war with one of the demon lords. And won! Also, FMA appears to have a shoutout to one of the movies, King Bradley looks a heck of a lot like the demonic nazi gaufuhrer, who plays a similar role to the anime's Dante. (He's the BVNR's subordinate, until the BVNR's robot form is revealed when he's supposedly killed, at which point he reveals his eyepatch hides not the mark of the homonculi, but is home to the Final Boss of the demon army!) HSQ drinking games with this series will leave one a soused and broken wreck.
• Mist Gun from Fairy Tail is a Quintuple Staff Weilding ninja Alternate Universe prince mage.
• Hazuki from Moon Phase is, to quote Professor Otaku, a lolicon vampire catgirl ballet surfer. How cool is that?
• Outlaw Star has Magic Ninja Space Pirate Ship Robots.
• Bleach is about magic ghost samurai. With an added bonus of magic ghost samurai ninjas in the Second Division, the Eleventh is the Magic Ghost Samurai Hot-Blooded Hooligan Division, and the magic ghost samurai Mad Scientists in the Twelfth.
  • By the most recent arc, you have five species; Human, Soul Reaper, Vizard, Arrancar, and Fullbringer. Ichigo's been four of those, and is usually a Human/Reaper.
• Between the beginning and end of any series connected to Bubblegum Crisis, the Boomers will evolve from standard cyborgs into magical floating fusing ghost zombie cyborgs.
• The villains of Dino Zaurs are dragon dinosaur vampiric skeletal alien Transformers (okay, those are aliens too, but these aren't made of metal) with glowing eyes. The heroes are the same, except for the fact that they're not dragons, not vampiric and not alien, and thus considerably less awesome.
• There's a character in the second season of Darker than Black who's a sociopathic Psycho Lesbian ninja with a wooden laser katana.
  • And the main character had a fully-earned Fan Nickname of Chinese Electric Batman.
• Ranma ½ has Pantyhose Taro, who has a cursed form made up of a Yeti, bull, eel, and chicken, with an octopus later added to the mix, and was named by an evil perverted old man.
• Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? is about an ordinary high school boy who gets murdered and becomes a cross-dressing magical zombie. With a pink chainsaw.
  • There are also Vampire Ninjas.
  • Apparently, the new villain is an ordinary high school girl who is actually a Magical Girl Zombie Ninja Vampire... Serial Killer.
• In Sailor Moon all the Sailor Scouts are not only magical warriors, but also alien princesses (from their respective planets). Rei, a.k.a. Sailor Mars, is also an Alien Princess Magical Warrior Temple Priestess, and Hotaru, a.k.a. Sailor Saturn, is a Psychic Alien Princess Magical Warrior.
  • At the end of the first season, almost all of the Sailor Scouts are killed off, only to come back as apparitions for the final battle, making them Alien Princess Magical Warrior Ghosts.
  • A more fitting represenative for this trope, one of the Negaverse monsters from the first season sent to spy on the Sailor Scouts is an Alien Ninja Paparazzi.
• Thanks to The Reveals in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, we now have Magical Girl Lich Witches!
  • And seeing as how Witches are basically Eldritch Abominations, this results in Magical Girl Lich Witch Abominations! And one of them is a time-stopping Time Traveler with a Hyperspace Arsenal big enough to wage a one-girl war, and another (the title character) eventually takes the Witch and Abomination out of the equation and becomes a Magical Girl Lich Goddess and the Personification of Hope for her universe!
• Brigadoon Marin and Melan has the Gun-swordsmen: three robots who sport swords on one arm and guns on the other. In addition to having Healing Factor, they can also fly.
• The protagonist of Vassalord is a devoutly Christian cyborg vampire who works for the Vatican. And he wears glasses.
• Claymore is apparently all about a BFS wielding silver eyed albino warrioress with at least two Badass Transplant and a switchable Super-Powered Evil Side seeking revenge against an all powerful One-Winged Angel able to shapeshift into a Cute Mute.
• Robot-legged zombie fish! Made with neither screws nor solder! By ghosts!
• Samuel Leroy Jackson voices a guy with a huge afro that uses a katana to fight Ron Perlman and his Guns Akimbo and "does the nasty", with Kelly Hu, to a soundtrack by The RZA. Only on Afro Samurai.
  • You forgot his Dual-Wielding, cyborg former best friend who wears a giant teddybear head with a respirator in it.
    • And the Giant Monk with a rocket launcher in his backpack. Another monk is a cyborg that talks like a stereotypical black preacher with ho's and has a Red Right Hand.
• Ladies, gentlemen and critters, observe a screenshot from Full Metal Panic!, where you may see an elf with taser gun and a teddy bear running around in body armor.
• In Azumanga Daioh, the girls are having problems deciding which theme they should pick for the School Festival. Overused ideas like a café, or a Haunted House are quickly dismissed. Then they start talking about combining those (and with cute things as a third idea), then Osaka gives us this gem:

Osaka: Homerun!!
Yomi: What!?
Osaka: Let's mix them all!
Osaka: A haunted café with cute animal ghosts!
Yomi: I don't get it.
Chiyo: What does she mean with "Homerun"?
Osaka: Simplifying...
Yomi: Nobody asked.
Osaka: It's full of adorable dogs and cats in the café. (Beat) And they are all dead.

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