#MarauderMonday: 69 Ways Ninjas Can Kill You
It’s Marauder Monday, which means there be pirates, ninjas and other naughty fellows on the loose! Be wary and keep your wits about you, as there are raiders, plunderers, pillagers, looters, robbers, highwaymen, freebooters, bandits, banditos, rustlers, brigands, buccaneers and corsairs lurking around every corner.
To start with, let’s take the mighty ninja.
Ninjas can kill people in a remarkable number of ways, some of which involve weaponry, and others that involve hand to hand combat. This is just a brief list of some of the many ways in which you might die at the hands of these mysterious warriors.
- Decapitation by shinobigatana
- Decapitation by kusarigama
- Decapitation and explosion by bakuhatsugama
- Decapitation by jutte
- Decapitation by kama (scythe)
- Decapitation by naginata
- Decapitation by ninjato
- Decapitation by oh-gama
- Decapitation by Ronin knife
- Decapitation by wakizashi
- Decapitation by X-claw triple blade dagger
- Decapitation by yari
- Blood loss due to being kicked with ashiko
- Choked by bakuhatsugama
- Explosive damage from bakuhatsugama
- Flailed and strangled with chigiriki
- Blown up by bombs
- Blown up by grenades
- Poisoned by poison gas bombs
- Blinded by flashbombs, then decapitated
- Blown up by explosives packed with shrapnel
- Blown up by land mines
- Burned to death by incendiaries
- Poisoned by fukiya (blow gun)
- Grappling hook to the head
- Sneak hitsuke (fire) attack, following by decapitation
- Butted with jukendo rifle, then run through with bayonet
- Run through with jutte (ten-hand weapon)
- Poisoned by kakute (iron rings with spikes)
- Strangled with kusari-fundo (hand-held weighted chain)
- Smothered between the thighs of a kunoichi (female ninja)
- Blinded by metsubushi (sight remover), then decapitated
- Beaten to death with nunchaku
- Smothered slowly in quicksand
- Blood loss or poisoned by shuriken (throwing star) attack
- Beaten to death in taijutsu (unarmed combat)
- Wrestled down and beaten to death in jujutsu combat
- Thrown against something sharp or solid enough to crush one’s spine in aikido combat
- Grappled to submission and then thrown against something sharp or solid enough to crush one’s spine in judo combat
- Betrayal and destruction at Ninja University
- Speared through the heart by yumi and ya (bow and arrow)
- Bitten by zombie ninja (technically this results in undeath, after a brief period of death)
- Thrown off roof
- Thrown down well
- Thrown into threshing machine
- Thrown off precipice
- Thrown onto spikes
- Thrown out window of tall building
- Thrown off of airplane without parachute
- Thrown into pit of venomous vipers
- Thrown off dam onto rocks below
- Thrown into lion’s den
- Thrown into volcano
- Thrown into acid bath
- Thrown into fiery furnace
- Stabbed with arrowhead
- Stabbed with daggers
- Stabbed with shards of glass
- Stabbed with wakizashi
- Stabbed with yari (spear)
- Stabbed with combat X-claws
- Stabbed with oh-gama
- Stabbed with kusarigama
- Stabbed with bakuhatsugama
- Stabbed with katana
- Stabbed with kakute
- Stabbed with kama
- Destroyed in mortal combat (or Mortal Kombat)
- Seppuku (ritual disembowelment, self-inflicted)
For still more ways in which you may meet your fate of Death By Ninja, be sure to check out my list of ninja weapons from A to Z, as well as my novella Ninjas of the 512.
Check back next week for more tales of murder and mayhem, featuring more marauders on the loose!
