White Ninja is a webcomic by Scott Bevan and Kent Earle of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It stars the titular White Ninja, who is also the only consistent character. Everything else seems to change from one strip to the next. He has been married (with and without kids), single, divorced, in school, out of school, living with his parents, living with a roommate, living on his own, practicing medicine, on trial... the list goes on.
White Ninja himself varies in characterization, but is usually shown to be childish, impulsive and fairly unempathetic. The comic is based around placing him in various situations. Most of the humor comes from his silly, sociopathic or generally strange actions—such as spending all his grocery money on bananas (and a little mascara) or forbidding his son from dressing as a hot nurse for Halloween (because he was planning to dress as one himself).
This webcomic contains examples of:
- Character Title
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Most of the time, White Ninja himself is one. Breakfast in the tub
, eating a sleeping snake... - Highly-Visible Ninja: Though most of the time he's not trying to do anything ninja-like.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Well, occasionally. He tends to be scarily casual about it.
- Incurable Coughof Death: Averted with White Ninja's brush with H1N1.
- Manchild: Fairly often. Sometimes he tends toward the darker side of this trope...
- Poking Dead Things with a Stick: The comic prominently features an image of its title character, the White Ninja, looking sad and poking a dead fish out of water with a stick. This image has taken a life all its own as an Internet meme on social media platforms. The image is commonly captioned with the words "C'mon, do something" and often photoshopped to include other pictures, symbols, logos, etc. over the dead fish to imply that something is being "dead" or hopelessly idle and in need of being poked back into any sort of action with a stick.
- Self-Induced Allergic Reaction: Allergic to nuts. Doesn't care.
