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* ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}}'': Rikkimaru is the antecedent for Wolf from ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice''. Yeah ol' Rikki makes use of his ninja equipment and combat skills but he functions as a highly esteemed officer to his lord and even gets samurai-like armour.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}}'': Rikkimaru Rikimaru is the antecedent for Wolf from ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice''. Yeah ol' Rikki Riki makes use of his ninja equipment and combat skills but he functions as a highly esteemed officer to his lord and even gets samurai-like armour.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}}'': Rikkimaru is the antecedent for Wolf from ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice''. Yeah ol' Rikki makes use of his ninja equipment and combat skills but he functions as a highly esteemed officer to his lord and even gets samurai-like armour.
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* ''VideoGame/XMenChildrenOfTheAtom'': Villain character Silver Samurai looks completely like a fully armored samurai but here he has a number of ninja tricks like throwing FuumaShuriken, teleporting and creating shadow clones of himself.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episodes "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE35NightOfTheNinja Night of the Ninja]]" and "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE44DayOfTheSamurai Day of the Samurai]]" spotlight the line that Batman walks between following in the footsteps of his samurai master, Yoru, and his [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil fellow pupil Kyodai Ken]], who embraces the path of ninjutsu. At one point, Kyodai attempts to persuade Batman to embrace the same path, as the Caped Crusader's methods are very ninja-like, only for Batman to reject it and identify himself as a samurai. When Kyodai is defeated and seemingly dies, Bruce Wayne and Yoru further discuss the differences.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episodes "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE35NightOfTheNinja Night of the Ninja]]" and "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE44DayOfTheSamurai Day of the Samurai]]" spotlight the line that Batman [[Characters/DCAUBatman Batman]] walks between following in the footsteps of his samurai master, Yoru, and his [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil fellow pupil Kyodai Ken]], who embraces the path of ninjutsu. At one point, Kyodai attempts to persuade Batman to embrace the same path, as the Caped Crusader's methods are very ninja-like, only for Batman to reject it and identify himself as a samurai. When Kyodai is defeated and seemingly dies, Bruce Wayne and Yoru further discuss the differences.
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** 2023's ''Dousuru Ieyasu'', fittingly, also portrays the work and challenges of UsefulNotes/TokugawaIeyasu's famous retainer UsefulNotes/HattoriHanzo. While he does tend to be the one that engages with much of the wetwork and sabotage needed to ensure Ieyasu's victory in many of his wars, he is also portrayed mostly as AFatherToHisMen who treats his own operatives humanely--and no less a samurai for it.
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* Interestingly, the "Taiga dramas" of the {{Creator/NHK}} since the 2000s have tended to use this trope a bit more when featuring storylines the SengokuPeriod--particularly when they try to highlight the brilliance/unorthodox tendencies of the protagonist's side. They also tend to involve [[BadassBookworm main characters who were themselves strategists]]--as they are usually expected to be [[HypercompetentSidekick more creative than their "illustrious" warlord patrons]]. Notable examples include:
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* Interestingly, the "Taiga dramas" of the {{Creator/NHK}} since the 2000s have tended to use this trope a bit more when featuring storylines in the SengokuPeriod--particularly UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod--particularly when they try to highlight the brilliance/unorthodox tendencies of the protagonist's side. They also tend to involve [[BadassBookworm main characters who were themselves strategists]]--as they are usually expected to be [[HypercompetentSidekick more creative than their "illustrious" warlord patrons]]. Notable examples include:
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* Interestingly, the "Taiga dramas" of the {{Creator/NHK}} since the 2000s have tended to use this trope a bit more when featuring storylines the SengokuPeriod--particularly when they try to highlight the brilliance/unorthodox tendencies of the protagonist's side. They also tend to involve [[BadassBookworm main characters who were themselves strategists]]--as they are usually expected to be [[HypercompetentSidekick more creative than their "illustrious" warlord patrons]]. Notable examples include:
** 2006's ''Furin Kazan'' usually shows its protagonist, Yamamoto Kansuke, as engaging with this before designing his strategems to ensure his master UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen's victory. He mostly does this since as someone who looks scary/shabby (having risen from the ranks) and with a disability, he could integrate among commoners and get ignored.
** 2014's ''Gunshi Kanbei'' also did this with its protagonist, Kuroda Kanbei (himself UsefulNotes/ToyotomiHideyoshi's strategist)--although ''after'' an episode of this [[DistressedDude ended with him kidnapped]] and [[HandicappedBadass reduced to walking with a limp]], he wisely left this wetwork to his own retainers Kuriyama Zensuke, Mori Tahe, and Inoue Kuroemon. [[TookALevelInBadass They grew to be very good at it as well]]--even as [[FrontlineGeneral they also command at the frontlines]].
** 2016's ''Sanadamaru'', while portraying the clan that gave birth to the legend of the "Ten Braves", chose to be more realistic about it. The Sanada clan under the patriarch Masayuki employs as his NumberTwo a shadowy figure named Ideura Masasuke (who would later train UsefulNotes/SarutobiSasuke). Both men would serve generations of the Sanada (including the heirs Nobuyuki and [[UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura Nobushige]]), and both are treated as retainers no worse than any other samurai.
** 2006's ''Furin Kazan'' usually shows its protagonist, Yamamoto Kansuke, as engaging with this before designing his strategems to ensure his master UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen's victory. He mostly does this since as someone who looks scary/shabby (having risen from the ranks) and with a disability, he could integrate among commoners and get ignored.
** 2014's ''Gunshi Kanbei'' also did this with its protagonist, Kuroda Kanbei (himself UsefulNotes/ToyotomiHideyoshi's strategist)--although ''after'' an episode of this [[DistressedDude ended with him kidnapped]] and [[HandicappedBadass reduced to walking with a limp]], he wisely left this wetwork to his own retainers Kuriyama Zensuke, Mori Tahe, and Inoue Kuroemon. [[TookALevelInBadass They grew to be very good at it as well]]--even as [[FrontlineGeneral they also command at the frontlines]].
** 2016's ''Sanadamaru'', while portraying the clan that gave birth to the legend of the "Ten Braves", chose to be more realistic about it. The Sanada clan under the patriarch Masayuki employs as his NumberTwo a shadowy figure named Ideura Masasuke (who would later train UsefulNotes/SarutobiSasuke). Both men would serve generations of the Sanada (including the heirs Nobuyuki and [[UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura Nobushige]]), and both are treated as retainers no worse than any other samurai.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Season 4 reveals that there are eight other types of Shadowkhan in addition to the ninja variety that have served as EliteMooks in the previous seasons, but they're all referred to as ninjas. The variety under [[TheDragon Ikazuki]] wear samurai armor and wield shadow-katanas, but they're capable of [[ShadowWalker traveling through shadows]] and using smoke bombs to disappear just like the other Shadowkhan.
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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', where the portrayal of Agatea causes all the Japanese and Chinese tropes to bleed together promiscuously and randomly. If it is viewed in the West as a [[WidgetSeries Weird Japanese Thing]], it will turn up in Creator/TerryPratchett's Agatea. In ''Literature/InterestingTimes'', the almost-hero Rincewind spends a lot of time evading warriors, guards, and generally annoyed people who combine aspects of samurai, ninja, regular footsoldier, and even sumo wrestler.
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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', where the portrayal of Agatea causes all the Japanese and Chinese tropes to bleed together promiscuously and randomly. If it is viewed in the West as a [[WidgetSeries Weird Japanese Thing]], it will turn up in Creator/TerryPratchett's Agatea. In ''Literature/InterestingTimes'', the almost-hero Rincewind spends a lot of time evading warriors, guards, and generally annoyed people who combine aspects of samurai, ninja, regular footsoldier, and even sumo wrestler.
