Rule #1: If a Ninja Wants You To Attack Him, Don’t Attack Him

Here is a situation in which geeks have a clear advantage. First of all, there’s the Discworld’s infamous Rule Number One: “Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men.” Secondly, there’s the Inverse Ninja Law, most memorably explored by Chris Hastings in Dr. McNinja, which states that a single ninja acting alone is almost always nigh-invincible, deadly, and will cost the hero dearly to defeat them. But when the hero fights a group of ninjas, they are always mere cannon fodder (Puddies, the Foot Clan, etc.), which leads to the conclusion that the power of a group of ninjas has an inverse relationship to its size.

What I am saying is, any way you slice it with that razor sharp wakizashi of yours, all these people willingly challenging a lone ninja are idiots, and should actually be relieved when all the other ninjas show up.

But watch out for that woman once she’s done with her coffee. It’s clearly the key to her superpowers.

(via BuzzFeed.)

Previously in Ninjas

• Portal with Ninjas
• Man Commits Robbery Dressed as Ninja Turtle; Doesn’t Steal Pizza
• Dan and Mitzi McNinja Make Our 10 Badass Couples List

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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