Philosophical Question

I thought originally that I would make this deep but I cannot anymore, for I stumbled upon, perhaps, the greatest discrovery in the 21st century, and that is, what if rogue Ninjas started to hijack goods, pillage, and plunder? They become PIRATES that used to be NINJA. Also, the pirates do not have to be just Atlantic Pirates, what about the other Eastern pirates. Pirates, also, haveing no tradtion can adapt, as opposed to the Ninja, which must stay in their traditional boundaries. To summarize: Pirates would win, hands down.

But the problem is, is that those are no longer ninja. They are rogue agents that have split from the clan. After much consideration, and play of Ninja Gaiden, I have decided that Ninjas would have to win. It might take the entire clan to die except one to get over that inverse ninja rule, but it is inevitable.

Old Indiana Jones (George Hall) as seen in Young Indiana Jones Chronicles the TV series

Parrot: No, snakes kept eating them. That's why Indy really hated snakes, not this sissy fear stuff that those revisionists made up to make him more like themselves.

Burning tapers in his hair: No

Ship: Well it got boarded.

Flagon of grog: By the looks of him he was having a few.

Festooned with flintlock pistols: No, by that point technology had moved on.

Cutlass: Yes, but it was along with the Ark and other treasures taken away by the government.

Eyepatch: Yes

Peg leg: He needed a cane so he might have had an artifical leg.

Maverick archeologist-yes

Pirate-An archelolgoist by any other name

Pirates don't fight Ninja as both are too busy. However Pirates would win as you will see:

Ninja are too busy cutting off their legs to please thier master, it does cut down on their oppourtunity to have descendents.
Pirates are too busy mastering getting their leg over someone, it does however mean they have (quite a few) descendents.

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Ninja are too busy cutting off their legs to please thier master, it does cut down on their oppourtunity to have descendents.QUOTE]

What?~:confused:

Ninjas. Any other answer is just nonsense. Especially if the battle happened on land and on land in the night it would be a slaughter.

Any decent ninja could hold their own in a 1 on 1 fight against a samurai (half their gimmicky weapons were made to counter traditional weapons). Ninjas were bada$$ and were trained to fight as much as they were trained to assassinate. If the assassination attempt went sour they would still need to take care of the job and that would often mean a 1 on 1 show down because running away would mean a lost opportunity that may never become available again and a dishonor to the clan.

Pirates.

Guns, coolness, hats, grog, cool swords, etc.

Crazed Rabbit

Who would win?

Warrior Monks. No doubt about it. That, or a phalanx of Spartans.

Even pirates can shoot the Spartans to death :laugh4:

Ninjas did have guns and we trained to stand still 24 hours. Imagine that a park full of a ninja clan freezing looking like shubbery and bushes at dusk. Then in walking a band of pirates - it would be something like this: swiing, slize, zip zap, gung bong, ouch, yiikes, arrgh, swoosh, splat.

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Originally Posted by doc_bean

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Hence the exclamations. ~;)

Yes, they exist. It's like Yetis, and Bigfoots, you just have to know the Way to find them...

And don't go to anime-dedicated forums. Those are scary. Disturbingly scary.

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Originally Posted by Mithrandir

Define retardness...

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In my little context, not the medical/formal term, which is a trait, but the deragatory term, which is a behavior.

Not the ones unfortunate in birth but the self-made fools we all know and love. :balloon2:

And yes, ninjas have guns. They have everything. Pirates? Depends on what kind of people they are looting. I'm certain modern pirates (around the South China Sea...) have guns. A lot.

But they don't have guts, hah!

No pirates ever had the daring to hide themselves for two days in an archaic toilet to slay their targets, for example. ~;)

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Originally Posted by Papewaio

Ninja are too busy cutting off their legs to please thier master, it does cut down on their oppourtunity to have descendents.

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Originally Posted by Lehesu

What?~:confused:

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Reference to a ninja who had his leg caught in a trap, cut it off and then limped home to tell his master what he found out.

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Originally Posted by AntiochusIII

Hence the exclamations. ~;)

Yes, they exist. It's like Yetis, and Bigfoots, you just have to know the Way to find them...

And don't go to anime-dedicated forums. Those are scary. Disturbingly scary.

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The closest I've ever came to was a Final fantasy newsgroup, and that was bad enough. Allthough the guide I read on how to write yaoi was hilarious...