Alien vs. Ninja

Alien vs Ninja is a 2010 popcorn movie from director Seiji Chiba. When a "fireball" crashes near a ninja village a handful of Ninja are dispatched to investigate the issue.


 * Action Girl: Rin (Two Words: "Mighty Strength")
 * All of the Other Reindeer: Yamata gets a mild case of this from a group of the village laborers, since he wasn't born into the clan. The other warriors respect him, though.
 * Badass Normal: Ninjas
 * Badass Bookworm: Netsumi is a pretty good ninjas when he gets up the nerve to fight.
 * Badass Abnormal: Aliens
 * Batman Can Breathe in Space
 * Bottomless Magazines
 * Conservation of Ninjutsu: The opening battle shows a single ninja taking out an entire pack of ninjas. Yamata is apparently Genre Savvy enough to use it to his advantage.
 * Cool Versus Awesome: Read the title again.
 * Cluster F-Bomb: In the climax, the ninjas in thrall to the alien chant "Fuck you!" repeatedly in English.
 * Double Entendre: Numerous visual examples. The aliens in general, as well as all the fight scenes, are exploding with sexual imagery.
 * Homage: The aliens are clearly based on the xenomorphs from Ridley Scott's Alien movies.
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja
 * Interspecies Rape: One of the aliens attempts to rape Rin. It regrets it.
 * Mood Whiplash: Numerous examples but there are a few standouts
 * Ms. Fanservice: Rin.
 * Ninja: They have no super powers but can leap hundreds of feet
 * Our Zombies Are Different:
 * Rule of Cool: Lightning quick aliens land in Toyko to kill ninjas.
 * Rule of Funny: Much of the movie is cut with the antics of Netsumi, a chicken of a Ninja who is a Gadgeteer Genius and is the oldest/most experienced of the group.
 * Rule of Scary: Lightning quick aliens land in Toyko to kill ninjas.
 * Rule of Three:
 * Special Effects Failure: All over the place. It's a big part of the fun, though.
 * Versus Title