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  • Crowning Moment of Awesome: Any time you manage to pull of a "TATE" attack. Slaying Hiruko and absorbing his wicked soul once and for all .
    • When Joe Musashi watches the Neo ZEED ship's remains:
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 ...When history takes another turn, there will be a man running in the darkness. He will be a shadow. He will be a shinobi.

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  • Crowning Music of Awesome: The Play Station 2 Shinobi has "Call," one of the best final boss themes ever written.
    • Revenge has "Terrible Beat."
    • 3 has quite a few, especially Mandara and The Shadow Master's theme.
      • "Sakura" has to be mentioned; it practically makes the ending cutscene.
    • Any of the stage music in the PS2 Shinobi could qualify for this, especially "Transfiguration" and "Cool Shrine".
    • Let's just cap it off and say that since ...Mr. Yuzo Koshiro (Streets of Rage and Etrian Odyssey) was behind the music for most of the franchise... this trope is everywhere in this series.
      • Well, it's not just because of him of course, but that sounds like pretty good reasoning for Shinobi to have its own music page (I don't really see it being under 3rd gen & ealier or anywhere else). I'm sure we could get even more examples, if we want to list 'em.
    • The PAL version of Shinobi X/Legions has some pretty awesome new music composed by Richard Jacques, who also did the music for the Saturn port of Sonic 3D Flickies Island. This version is considered by many to be superior since it sticks truer to Koshiro's style. Compare the original version of stage 1 to Jacques' version.
  • Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: When Joe manages to rescue Naoko from the deathtrap cell in Revenge.
  • Ending Fatigue: Shinobi X seems to suffer from this... especially with the lift...
  • Game Breaker: The Art of Mijin. The explosion, while costing you a life, also restores your health meter and takes out nearby enemies.
  • Goddamn Bats: Many of the "minienemies" that appears in the Ps2 game have shades of this. Also, in earlier games, the ninja who were airborne had a rather nasty ability to wreck your jumps with very well placed shuriken.
  • Good Bad Bugs: In the Master System version of Shinobi, the Mongol at the beginning of level 3-1 on the second floor can be killed with your nun-chaku-- by striking the left side of the screen.
  • So Bad It's Good: The cutscenes in Shinobi X/Legions.
  • That One Boss: In the PS2 Shinobi, chances are it's Hiruko.
  • What an Idiot!: Ageha is quite a sore loser. Ok, her love interest Moritsune was killed by Hotsuma in a duel in order to keep Akujiki sealed, but then she suddenly decides to resurrect him... by freeing the archenemy of the Oboro clan who eventually proceed to kill everyone, turn Moritsune into a living puppet and eventually disposing of her.
  • The Woobie: The first two Oboro's revenant you meet are, respectively a chubby boy and a cute little girl. Who just after appearing they Pray Hotsuma to kill them. Poor Hotsuma...
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  Hotsuma: "Akagane... Shirogane... not you too!"

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