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"Newsflash: he's a ninja. By definition, he's a spy, a saboteur, and an assassin." Teammates just stare at him. "What? Look it up." That feeling when you've done the research on a subject you are interested in and no one shares your passion.

The Yakuza in the Snake Eyes movie: "WHY are we always using weapons from Japan's Edo period?!" "HEY! The Edo period was badass, and you know it!" "....dammit, you're right..."

I think Snake Eyes is, at the end of the day, a good ninja. Some bad adaptations do not undo all the depictions of him being insanely accurate.

Snake Eyes is more of a ninja than the walking all white flashbang that is Storm Shadow.

Snake eyes was and largly still is one of the best ninja to come out of not only the 1980s but also the USA

Larry Hama is a Class A Tier comicbook author, the type who understands that anyone can write a story about anything as long as they research with proper Due diligence. Snake eyes and Storm shadow were even Army Long Range Reconnaissance team members before their Ninja training, meaning they both had solid foundations before hand. Again, STORY CONCEPT BASED ON GOOD RESEARCH!

And while Snake Eyes is Caucasian, he was still raised in Japan and took up the lessons to heart. Plus there was a Black Samurai, why not a white Ninja? Plus in most origins, he is raised in the same clan as Storm Shadow, but it seems double S is waaaaay too old fashioned than Snake Eyes, who’s got no trouble adapting to the times with his techniques

I love listening to Gaijin's enthusiasm. Nothing gets me in a better mood than someone else's excitement, and Gaijin brings his across very well in Which Ninja videos about a subject he likes.

5:55 Wait minute! That’s the trick used by Iroh to send Zuko a secret message!

Recent anime that just came out that I want to see Gaijin's take on is Fena: Pirate Princess. The main cast are literally PIRATE NINJAS. I want to see how true to form they are.

Now That’s What I Call Ninja.

Basically what I think is, if any franchise goes on long enough, there will be amazing moments, and there will be absolute stinkers, and that's essentially how portraying a real ninja long enough would be, too, especially when it comes to there being multiple writers who might not know about the stories, portrayals, or overall lore that other writers set up or prefer using, or might not know a single thing of what ninjas actually were. It's always a bit of a thing when one hand doesn't know what the other's doing.

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I think part of the reason that Snake Eyes is a decent ninja is because Larry Hama genuinely tried to do his research, at least as far as military stuff went and tell a more grounded story. Not that his G.I. Joe comics didn't have the occasional over-the-top moments... But all in all, he wanted things realistic.

It’s kind of funny how the anime version of Snake Eyes is the least accurate ninja.

Snake Eyes' downs don't hold him back if you ask me. If they did, then that would also invalidate several other Ninja this show has looked at, like the TMNT, Shredder and others. Sure, the bad is there, but there's so much good to the character as well. For a pop-culture character to remain so overwhelmingly consistent in his depictions, well, that's a rare thing. Rarer still is being a good depiction of the type of character he is. Honestly, Snake Eyes should, along with Batman, go into the intro of the show on the side with the good Ninja should you ever update the intro. Plus, he allowed you to get into some topics of Ninja that you haven't had a chance to address, bonus points right there if you ask me, and good for research for those who want to make good Ninja themselves. This has, so far, been my favorite set of Which Ninja episodes so far, right there with the TMNT, Batman, Spider-Man and others. I'm looking forward to seeing what you've got in store next.

I recently came across some content involving the history of The Phantom, and after going back and watching the 1996 movie starring Billy Zane in the title role, and started wondering just how true to form as a shinobi he is. And yes, I am asking about a masked man that runs around in the jungle, and other environments, in a purple bodysuit, wearing a skull-shaped ring, and how true to form as a ninja he is. A quick note, The Phantom's publication history actually predates Batman by a considerable margin, and quite a few aspects about The Phantom, like the mask of the hero having white eyes, were transmigrated over to following superheroes, like Batman, and the Phantom is just a normal guy, a normal guy that has trained in various arts and taken himself to around the peak of what the human body is capable of. Also, the Phantom has another thing on his side, he is called "the ghost who walks" because the physical similarities of each Phantom from one generation to the next has given the illusion that after being killed the same person has come right on back from the dead and uses this to his advantage, which sounds like the kind of continued superstition you know any good shinobi would be more than willing to take advantage of. There are quite a few other things, like the fact the Phantom did actually wear blue for some time in his publishing past before the purple suit was codified as the official outfit, but I think that's enough to at least get a few people interested in finding out just how true to form as a ninja the Phantom is.

Second time I've seen FGO Shuten Douji on Gaijin's poll and now I really want to see a video on the subject

"How did he use a blow gun without taking off his mask?" "Ninja tricks." "Wha?! Did you see that?! He just ate that bagel WITHOUT TAKING OFF HIS MASK! How-" "NINJA TRICKS!!"

Just a quick thing, that form of walking is actually very similar to what is called roll stepping, which is employed by marching bands to keep their bodies stable while marching and playing

Thanks to these video’s, Snake Eyes is probably one of my favorite Ninja ever

I’d say he is certified ninja even with a few mistakes and problems. Also Renegade Snake is my favorite version.

Like any pop culture ninja with multiple incarnations, it depends on the incarnation. With Snake Eyes, his accurate depictions out way the bad ones by a mile as evidenced by the video. Overall, I'd say he easily is one of the greatest if not THE greatest pop culture ninja ever created.

I'm hoping some ninja movie has the following interaction between "Ninja Guy" and "friend": "Why are you taking guns, I thought you ninja types only used blades and throwing darts or whatever." "Because of two things: First of, because they work. And secondly, because they aid in the greatest ninja technique of all." "Oh, and what's this secret technique?" "Surprise." "What? Like, sneaking up behind them and stuff?" "No; imagine the surprise from expecting only knives and getting riddled with bullets?"

I’ve been Bingeing Renegades at I saw a lot of Ninja references when I watched. I love GI Joe

Of course he is. Snake Eyes is the definition of a super ninja, through and through, just like Joe Musashi, Hotsuma, Ryu Hayabusa and even his sword brother, Storm Shadow. Any ninja who doesn't speak and wields a sword in one hand and an Uzi on the other, is downright awesome. Snake Eyes, true ninja, full stop!

Snake Eyes is a great Ninja. Granted Sigma 6 is a bit over the top, but again as it's a pure fiction, it can get away with a few things like a power suit that ramps him up in combat prowess. Also, the sword reflecting powerful beams? Special coating on the swords. Why two actual Katanas on his back over the Kodachis near his waist? Fan fav gimmicks...

I just wanna say, your vids on Snake Eyes is what made me watch the 3 GI Joe live action movies featuring him before I finished your vids on him. You presented them so well I wanted to see them just so they wouldn't be spoiled. Thank you!

Great video, Gaijin. I'm glad you made a part 2 on Snake Eyes! 👍 Here's some other characters you could cover: Gray Fox (Metal Gear) Daredevil (Marvel) Vega (Street Fighter) Storm Shadow (GI Joe) Ra's Al Ghul and the League of Assassins/Shadows (DC) Corvo (Dishonored)

Sigma 6 might not be an accurate ninja but still really like him.

Hey Gaijin, I’ve never done a recommendation before, but seeing how your covering a more modern take on ninja in snake eyes, there’s a character that may interest you. The Shadow. While he may have that snazzy red scarf and rarely uses traditional ninja weaponry (kodachis, kunai and the like) he is probably by FAR the best example for a ninjas psychological AND resource building capabilities. As a small example, he has an entire network of informants spies and even DOCTORS who feed him information on the crime rings so he can go hunt down the bad guys. He also feeds super into the more “supernatural” stuff ninja supposedly could do, often times making himself seem larger than life. In one radio serial (yes he’s THAT old) he uses solely his voice to convince a maddened war veteran to not let go of a live grenade saving tons of people. Just thought you might like him.

Renegades was my first G.I Joe series I watched and for me that version of him is the definitive version for me it not only explains why he never speaks but also why he never reveals his face and uses yo-nin over all more recent portrayals have made him a realistic modern ninja skilled at infiltration and espionage but not invincible.

man this was just as good as the first part if not better I love when expectations are subverted cause I never would have guessed that so many iterations of snake eyes would actually make the cut when it comes to being ninja

I'm still hoping for a Mai Shiranui episode.

I never read this comic back when it was out, but you've really made me want to find it and give it a read! I'm so glad you did a part 2, as this is my childhood here. Honestly, they did really good with Ninjutsu in the 80's comic. Before the internet access to research material was surprisingly more difficult than it is today. The level of accuracy they got in the G.I. Joe comic was far more accurate than anything else out at the time and whoever wrote it was clearly into learning the lore. The times of Sigma 6 and Rise of Cobra were likely just a bad case of the late 90's/early 2000's zeitgeist. We were just coming off that "x-treme" crap my generation ate up like candy in our youths and they were likely still pandering to that. (Our bad!) Anywho, great video, as always! Snake Eyes always held a special place in my heart and you did him right!

Never forget: when it comes to Ninja, knowing is the whole battle.

I've puzzled over this for a long time: What is the source of kunai being used as a throwing weapon? I only ever seen them referred to as digging tools/ drill that can used as melee weapons if you desperate enough.

Honestly, the last time I actually LIKED Snake Eyes was during his early appearances. He was one of the few characters with an appeal to me, and the next time I saw him, it was Sigma 6. Huge turn-off for the entire franchise. I liked the idea of a modernized ninja, but it's rare to see people capitalize on it in a good way.

It baffles me how most of our notions and application of the concepts of sabotage, espionage, and assassination remain consistent among so many cultures! And how the ninja, despite their primitiveness in technology (they used farm tools for Christ's sake) could still do so much, especially the whole discipline of using the exact same tools for different purposes, is fascinating! Also, this is just a suggestion but maybe you could cover The Shadow? He's often considered the first superhero in history, with plenty of reference material from pulps, radio shows, film serials, comics, and more! Thank you so much for this wonderful video! Take care.

The good definitely outways the bad, and thank you so so so much patrons!❤❤

I do like Snake Eyes as a character due to his quiet nature and that he shows attributes of what it takes to be a real ninja. I should have realized what the '80s had shown is inaccurate, but I didn't get into GI Joe until Renegades. I did watch one episode of Sigma 6, but that was enough for me. 😩

I’d say, after 40 years of existence, having more ups than downs is a point to a good representation of a ninja in pop culture.

Keep it up on your work and this channel

snake eyes is honestly an amizing ninja for a charecter written by americans... still, to many katanas in the movie :/

“He’s a Ninja! By definition, that makes him a spy, a saboteur, and an assassin.” And a courier.

It's honestly really cool to see all the work the writers put into making the character a good representation of what a ninja would be like in the modern world.

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thank you to the patrons for voting on this video and Thank you Goombah for putting it together. Snake eyes has been one of my favourite Ninja's in media since I was a child and its great to see how well he holds up.

There are actually two parts that I feel are also quite important that you skipped over, one from renegades and another from resolute hour special. When fighting against StormShadow and on the brink of his loss, he brings out the last technique his master taught him which was meant as a killing blow, he could’ve just done that and be done with it all, but it was clear that this was a last resort. The other was from a clip I found on Hasbro’s channel right here on KZfaq, where after the team realized Scarlet was poisoned, he took a bamboo reed from his pocket fir battlefield tracheostomy. While a bit stereotypical and ending up as unnecessary, this shows he was prepared for these kind of situations for both self and team survival.

I’m sad valor vs venom was skipped, but it’s understandable. This was still an amazing prospective

So glad you made the second vid.

I love Renegades! And I’m so happy they got ninjas right.

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Snake eyes is cool and I want to see a Which Ninja collab Like Linkara

While wearing blue wasn’t mentioned in this, it makes more sense for Snake Eyes to wear black. While skies were blue in times before modern electric lighting, the orange color of electric lights in modern times makes dark areas of the night black, so even though it’s a blue black, Snake Eyes is just wearing proper camouflage for the area and era he lives in. And as has always been pointed out in these, ninja are adaptable.

Renegades snake eyes solidified his ninjadom for me in the one scene where he’s dueling storm shadow in his homeland and when Storm shadow asks “what have you learned from your Joe friends?” And Snake eyes pulls out a flash bang grenade. He innovates and adapts.

Thank you for the video.

I always liked the Renegades version the best. He just seemed so cool and mysterious, but like you said, he isn't a one man army, and that made him feel more grounded and human. Plus, I just found the plot and characters of Renegade the best, so I enjoyed that part of my childhood. ^^ I was hoping though that you'd mention about when he tried to save his master/ Scarlett from suffocating after being poisoned with his little... uh... the bamboo thing? I'm not quite sure what it's called. ^^; But I was hoping you'd talk about if that's like an actual Shinobi technique, or just something unrelated to Shinobi practice. Because I know that's a medical technique that's kinda been used in unrelated media, and so I was wondering if it was just another manifestation of that trope.

10:49 That's what I love about Renegades depiction of Snake Eyes. He gets knocked down by a Bio-Viper, Major Bludd and the Dreadnoks.

15:43, in Assassin's Creed Origins and Odyssey I do some of these tricks to infiltrate camps and forts. I throw torches onto flammable objects or shoot jars of oil that are near fires to set a fire, I shoot the doors of cages to release tigers, lions, wolves, boars etc to cause a panic.

Not related to anything but the sentence 'the art of reversing the bag' makes me smile.

First like of three views. Always love your work make sure that you keep yourself healthy there.

So much more ninja than I expected honestly.

Thank you Patrons for making this happen! I absolutely forgot about those cartoons, but I do remember liking Sigma 6 and Renegades, though I I dont think I got to watch most of them.

Here's an episode idea I cannot believe you haven't already done: How "Ninja" are Rikimaru and Ayane in Tenchu?

I liked Larry Hama's outlook on the original cartoon. He didn't like seeing a depiction of war that didn't also depict its consequences.

How to ninja has become one of my favorite series on KZfaq

I was wating for this

13:38 “I love our talks oddly silent masked fellow cobra guy.” Snake Eyes just is thinking *how is this WORKING?!* EDIT: also I’d say that the amount he gets RIGHT more than outweighs the times he got it wrong. In an age of Ninja Golf and Turtles, Snake Eyes stood out BECAUSE he got some thing right even during his genesis. He’s done some really stupid (but also crazy cool to watch, which is usually why they DO get things wrong tho that’s not me saying it’s okay to do so) but he more than evens out in terms of quality. And finally yes he was happy as a clam with those uzis and I was grinning like a school boy too xD

He's is one of my favorite character in comics I'm glad you did these videos

I'd like to see you do how ninja is Sam Fisher or Michael Westen in Burn Notice.

I wish you could do a video on the Ranger’s Apprentice series. It has a lot of ninja like qualities in it. Just putting it in the poll would be great. But I understand if you don’t.

the fact that only two versions of snake eyes weren't good ninjas is incredible character consistency

How Ninja is Ezio Auditore? Goomba: A jumping Italian triggering PTSD.

It’s nice to see that Snake Eyes is an actually good ninja, the majority of the time. Even in the latest movie, he was still good. While yeah, he can be cold, and while yes, he doesn’t show tons of vulnerability or emotion, he’s a ninja. He’s a spy, he’s a soldier, he is stone cold, and that’s what makes him good at what he does, even if it doesn’t make him the most dramatic character, or the character someone can relate to. I think a lot of times, people confuse a character that’s meant to be blank, with a character who’s poorly developed. The dude has a role, he has intentions, he even has motivations. Just because they’re more transactional, and not personal, doesn’t mean he’s a bad character, or poorly written, and just because he isn’t showing emotional conflict, or comes off as cold, doesn’t mean he’s a bad character either. He’s just literally what he’s meant to be; a ninja.

Another thing about his mp7's in Retaliation: their caliber is a 4.6x30 mm. round designed for piercing armor while maintaining rifle grade ballistics.

Best double-1s rolled on dice, ever.

Yesss part two

I miss Renegades. One of many shows that didn't get the second season it deserved...

Don't give up and never give in

Love yourself first and most

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YESSSSSSSS PART 2 GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Really interesting Video

8:23 I literally thought that's what Snake Eyes is thinking when Tunnel Rat got it right.

8:58 they even aligned the claws with the space in between the bricks

SnakeEyes took down a Decepticon in GIjoe vs Transformers

There's a video game ninja that you have yet to cover, and this is just criminal. That ninja is none other than Agent 47 from the Hitman games.

Fun fact: Storm Shadow and Snake-eyes both studied under the same master. Storm Shadow was the elder pupil so he would help Snake-Eyes with his studies when he had time to spare. So whenever Snake-Eyes fights Storm Shadow, it's painful for both of them because they both feel betrayed by an old friend.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the "ninja force". It was a way to capitalize on snake-eyes' popularity in the 90s. That was when I stopped reading G.I. Joe comics. There was also the massacre. They killed 8 Joes just to up the stakes.

You might want to consider the 'French Ninja Chef' series of comics from the webcomic Freefall. Some points in their favor, the patrons never see them, never realize how they delivered food, and even used a distraction to remain unseen.

13:24 I say it's an energon crystal.

Holy crap I love this show. You rock my world every time.

as anyone who's played MGS knows, it's way easier to use smoke to infiltrate than exfiltrate

The fact that they closed over snake eyes taking notes while spying in a tree.

Well after a while, spy also has techniques that closely resemble a ninja. It's a universal concept now a day XD. Just look at Jame bon, the best Yonin user, always flamboyant but still get the job done. He even uses the well known fact he is a spy to his advantage.

There was a mid 00s documentary about how the Green Berets and other commando groups have developed a modernized version of ninja techniques and philosophies that would be applicable to modern special forces, since many if not most principles are timeless given the green beret mission of supporting local guerrilla forces in counter insurgent or counter authoritarian military campaigns. And they said a real modern ninja would basically be dressed in a uniform of some blue collar skilled worker who wears navy coveralls or a navy polo shirt and dark brown, green, or grey cargo pants with a ball cap over their eyes. They did an exercise where they were able to perform a mock assassination on a protected target without the security detail even being aware that there was an infiltrator. I wish snake eyes was used to show some of that cool stuff.

For gaijin’s next which ninja, I think much like his videos on genji and hanzo he should take a proper look at snake eyes’ rival stormshadow. Or maybe to switch gears while still keeping within the realm of hasbro, I’d really like to see him tackle prowl from transformers animated or nightbird from g1. Mostly because I just love the sheer absurdity of him trying to analyze/apply proper historically accurate shinobi techniques to a giant alien robot.