We were so into ninjas growing up

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hyjnx@reddit

i was doing martial arts in the early to late 90s. All i wanted was to be a ninja.....still kinda do.

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firegecko5@reddit

My stepmom's sensei was Tadashi Yamashita, or "Black Star Ninja" from American Ninja. My playground clout was through the roof from that pedagogical lineage.

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FoolishProphet_2336@reddit

By “American Ninja 2” it was already over. We loved our fads.

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Stuffleapugus@reddit

I feel like kids these days lack the imagination to be into Ninjas. They're all into YouTube.

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ArtDecoModerne@reddit

This was like “Shot Caller” for 11 year olds.

I will not elaborate further

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Fluffy-Flamingo3983@reddit

You HAD to have ninja moves to escape the quicksand that we all expected to inevitably come across at some point

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Your_Perspicacity@reddit

My name is Robert and I can't stop thinking about ninjas.

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big_z_0725@reddit

I love ninjas with every part of my body (including my pee pee).

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Hilsam_Adent@reddit

The purpose of a ninja is to flip out and kill people.

... priceless

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Purple_Holiday2102@reddit

Dang it's been a long time since I've seen this haha. Crazy that it's still up.

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koei19@reddit

Oh my God, what a throwback. I used to have his book, I don't know what happened to it

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Gr00mpa@reddit

It’s so amazing that that site is still up in its original form. And still hilarious.

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Digweedfan@reddit

This takes me back. I loved this back in the day.

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tmotytmoty@reddit

Ninja 3: Domination is the ultimate ninja movie for tme

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Seraphtacosnak@reddit

No retreat no surrender! Was a staple with my older brother and I tried watching it recently and it was horrible.

I love the rifftraxx version only now.

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AmputeeHandModel@reddit

Oh man, those movies were so cheesy. I remember there being lots of multi colored ninjas and I called them the Crayola Ninjas.

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BuyInHigh@reddit

I’m still into ninjas. In fact, I became one.

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blahdre@reddit

light up the eyes boys! light up the eyes!

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carryon4threedays@reddit

I watched that as an adult and it didn’t hold up. I was sad.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

Bruce's three American surf ninja pet turtles

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flamingknifepenis@reddit

Rock-y loves, Em-il-y! Rock-y loves, Em-il-y!

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deathbyjohnson@reddit

American ninja 2 was excellent when I was 10.

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Minute-Yogurt-2021@reddit

The astonishing fact is that this was on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

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leesharon1985@reddit

Fucking Ninja Turtles, Three Ninjas, Double Dragon, Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee. Shit, it’s was everywhere as a kid. Remember Side Kick? Classic cheese.

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Buttermilkman@reddit

Wow yeah, now I think about it it's crazy how Karate/Kung Fu was so prolific in media in the 90's. Van Damme, Wesley Snipes, Mark Dacascos, Jackie Chan, Karate Kid. I wonder what kicked it off?

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Martial Arts was very trendy in the early 90s in my area, we were all taking Karate of some sort at one of several dojos in my small town. Now, after the BJJ MMA fad died out 10 years ago, I don't think even one dojo is around anymore.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

Bruce Lee kicked it off in the late 60s/early 70s.

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leesharon1985@reddit

I was such a fucking sucker for Van Damme movies as kid.

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Buttermilkman@reddit

Hell yeah! Hard Target is my personal fave Van Damme movie.

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UponTheTangledShore@reddit

So good! Bloodsport and Kickboxer are my faves.

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Horse_Dad@reddit

How dare you leave out Beverly Hills Ninja.

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leesharon1985@reddit

Oof! 😫 Fuuck. I love Chris Farley, just a great movie.

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smoot99@reddit

Still into ninjas

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TheREALBaldRider@reddit

I blame the turtles.

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Edgarmustavas@reddit

I prefer Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung-Fu Kangaroos.

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Hilsam_Adent@reddit

You jest, but co-Turtle creator Kevin Eastman started a graphic novel in the early '00s called Radically Rearranged Ronin Reptiles, cribbed from a long-dead comic called Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls.

Eastman's version was four female samurai lizards, Ragdolls was three cats, two male, one female. Eastman eventually acquired the rights to the feline version and published a short run using the original writers, himself and a couple of guest artists, ca. 2019.

The lizard version, as best as I can tell, never became anything more than a pet project of his, because of obvious copyright issues.

Source: worked on the other side of a failed development deal for several animation projects with Eastman in '03 - '04.

A cover from one of the Ragdolls issues:

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Edgarmustavas@reddit

Kinda a joke, but also real. I had the first issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Marrs

"In 1986 Blackthorne Publishing published Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung Fu Kangaroos, a three-issue series created by Marrs which parodied the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book series, as well as the American Flagg! comics.[15]"

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Hilsam_Adent@reddit

That's outstanding! Thank you for the knowledge drop.

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fridder@reddit

The movie holds up too!

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mcjon77@reddit

I was into ninjas before the turtles. In fact when TMNT came out I thought it was an insult to the traditional warrior art of ninjutsu and the ninja. I actually believe that ninjas could do all that crazy stuff we saw in the movies and thought that TMNT was making a mockery of it.

Thankfully the ultimate Fighting championship disabused me of my notions of the Ninja fairly quickly.

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Hilsam_Adent@reddit

Bullshido tricked us all:

e.g.: "True masters of ancient Shaolin Kung-Fu could shoot lightning from their chests!"

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

Bruce Lee!

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Much_Usual_3855@reddit

I blame Vanilla Ice

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t_bone_stake@reddit

Word to your mother

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leesharon1985@reddit

Blame is such a harsh word. Maybe something like contribute.. not sure of the right word to use. 🥷🐢

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ExitUser@reddit

Turtle tainted probably isn't it either...

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avalonfaith@reddit

Turtle power, not turtle sour!

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mcg_090@reddit (OP)

We all wanted to party with Michelangelo

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webcrawler_1@reddit

Was….? I became a

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Somone-Who-Isnt-Me@reddit

Dude I loved American Ninja. That at Iron Eagle were influential in my later daze.

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Bitter_Specific2263@reddit

The amount of times I begged my mom to take me to rent American Ninja 2 was probably ridiculous.

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likesexonlycheaper@reddit

Are you guys not into ninjas still? ... guys?

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Excellent_Vehicle_45@reddit

Were???

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Mick_Limerick@reddit

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OskeyBug@reddit

This is the movie where the bad guy forces a cancer doctor to genetically engineer an army of perfect ninjas.

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onepostandbye@reddit

Ninja movies taught me that a ninja star sticking 1/4 inch into your forehead is an instant kill

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ragnarrolandson@reddit

I’m kinda pissed that now I’m in my 40’s, I have yet to get into a random ninja attack. My childhood expectations were built on Hollywood lies.

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No_Cow_4544@reddit

Yes , lots of tshirts made into ninja masks in our house

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bfume@reddit

Go ninja go ninja go ninja GO!

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Impossible_Memory_85@reddit

I remember they even had ninja magazines in the store.

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RetroMulder@reddit

I remember playing with shuriken (ninja stars) when I was young and parents were totally ok with it. Right of passage

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Key_Street1637@reddit

Ninja III - The Domination is the pinnacle of cinema.

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_1JackMove@reddit

Sho Kosugi is the ONLY ninja worth talking about. Sorry Dudikoff.

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ShazRockwell@reddit

I wore a ninja outfit to school in 7th grade 1984 with my friend Matt. It was a heavy cotton gi with tabi boots and mask and everything. We weren’t allowed to wear the mask during class. We then also realized how extremely hot these were sitting in class all day.

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seemartineasy@reddit

I had no idea Dennis Reynolds knew karate

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Abject-Local1306@reddit

What do you mean “were”?

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andrewsmd87@reddit

The best ninja ever is still Chris Farley

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Mudcreek47@reddit

Snake Eyes

Storm Shadow

Chuck Norris

TMNT

Daredevil comics

Rambo cartoons

Heck, I even had a Ninja coloring book

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LarryGoldwater@reddit

My brother loved the movie 3 Ninjas

I hated it. So much.

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Baroque1123@reddit

I was ninja obsessed.

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Glittering_Ocelot_67@reddit

Is this series a so bad that it’s good type?

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Digitallydust@reddit

Depends on what you’re looking for. The action and fight sequences hold up surprisingly well. Most American Ninja fans agree AN2 was the best. The acting and plot? Not A tier. But still better than a lot of small budget action films at the time. .

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lastcallhall@reddit

Just finished rewatching this about 30 minutes ago. Wild.

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Digitallydust@reddit

Bought the American Njnja 2 VHS at a gas station in 1991. Probably watched it at least 50 times. Particularly the scene where the Drug Lord is showing off his ninja army to his drug lord friends. An kills like 10 of them just for entertainment. It doesn’t really make sense. But that was never the point. Nostalgia rush.

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TiEmEnTi@reddit

Schooled on American Ninja, Ninja Turtles, Karate Kid and 3 Ninjas. Graduated to Van Damme and Jackie Chan.

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_kurt_propane_@reddit

You guys aren’t still into ninjas?

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TiEmEnTi@reddit

Started my life long love of kung fu movies

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CEEngineerThrowAway@reddit

Blue Eyed Samurai was my latest watch. Can confirm m, Ninjas and samurai are still a fun watch

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Pitiful_Ad2397@reddit

Right?

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DaveyJonesFannyPack@reddit

Were?

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collinwade@reddit

Surf ninjas and three ninjas were staples

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NonCorporealEntity@reddit

Were?

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ONE1-ZERO@reddit

Iykyk

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Sweet-Apricot8568@reddit

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RamblinShambler@reddit

Aww yiss Arashikage

Also, shout out to mah boys the Night Creepers

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ONE1-ZERO@reddit

And their leader

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Sweet-Apricot8568@reddit

Totally believed I was a ninja and would grow up to be one. I felt like I could be invisible whenever I wanted and sneak up on my victims deftly. It was a whole thing

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Excellent-Price-9388@reddit

I glad that ninjas are as big of a worry as I made them out to be when I was a kid!

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froops@reddit

Quicksand and acid rain too

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Dense_Surround3071@reddit

I had like a 6 year run as a Ninja for Halloween. 😎

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nocturnalfrolic@reddit

He could have been a good Expendables main villain.

Top ninja mafia with bunch of masked ninja henchmen.

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Roland-Of-Eld-19@reddit

Ninjas have captured the President we're gonna need some BAD DUDES to set President Ronnie Free!

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mcjon77@reddit

I was so into ninjas when I was a kid. I saw all of the Sho Kosugi movies (enter the ninja, revenge of the Ninja, Ninja III domination). I remember that old ninja TV show called The Master, where that old white guy claim to be a ninja but hardly ever did any ninja stuff in the show.

I even used to practice those hand movements that they showed in American Ninja, thinking it would give me magical powers. My mom bought me a authentic ninja outfit and grappling hook for Christmas one year, but wouldn't buy me a real ninja sword. That was probably for the best because I would have likely cut off my fingers on an accident.

The thing that knocked me out of Ninja Love affair was The ultimate Fighting championship. Specifically UFC 2. This was one where they had a ninja come in to fight.

The first problem was that the ninja didn't look like a ninja. You look like the guy who changed my mom's transmission the month before. The second problem was he absolutely got the crap beat out of him buy a kickboxer named Pat Smith.

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LineImpossible3958@reddit

I remember playing “Ninjas” with some neighbor kids. Run around, attempt karate, try to be badass

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Jairoglyphics1@reddit

Fuck yeah!!!!!! And Godzilla!!!

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S_A_R_K@reddit

Ninjas can kill anyone they want! Ninjas cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this ninja who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the ninja killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a ninja totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.

And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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BeneficialHamster567@reddit

When I read this post I could hear a ninja off in the distance, wailing on a guitar.

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B_Williams_4010@reddit

I hated the sneaky little bastards. Except for the Turtles.

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Ishvale@reddit

I still am. And dinosaurs. I'm 50

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Olelander@reddit

My friend legitimately sewed us (two dudes) ninja costumes complete with duck tape shoes in 7th grade.

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karaloveskate@reddit

The only ninjas I was into as a kid were the ninja turtles and the G. I. Joe ninjas.

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avoozl42@reddit

And slime!

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Wyden_long@reddit

Who knew that Tommy Jarvis also knew karate m?

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vikmaychib@reddit

You forgot the /s, unless you are really mixing up this person (Michael Dudikoff, from American Ninja and other 80s cheese) with Thom Mathews, the third Tommy in Friday the 13th VI, and also famous for the first two Return of the Living Dead movies.

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

Yes, Demi Moore was in this "movie."

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mstermind@reddit

And here I am playing the latest Assassin's Creed...

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ALT3NPFL3G3R@reddit

Ask a Ninja, old YouTube was different...

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MrsEsterhouse@reddit

"You got any of those American Ninja movies?"
"I... I think I just took my last one back, but....OH! Whats this one? It has no title... I wonder what it could be?"
"I dunno"
"Lets solve the mystery together!"
"Heeeeey lets serve her up"

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Embarrassed_Spell_28@reddit

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No-Cardiologist472@reddit

I found a huge box of 70s/80s martial arts magazines in the trash when I was a kid.

I used to look at the ads for hours thinking of all the sneaking I could do or situations I could get myself out of once I saved up enough to start ordering some of that sweet gear.

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jimkurth81@reddit

Yall were pretending to be ninjas while I was dancing like a Newsie. 😂 ok, I kid.

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Season 3 the sentai footage was based on ninjas. So Power Rangers changed to ninja powers.

Ninajs can replace dinosaurs. That's fine.