It’s time to sharpen your shurikens and polish up those nunchucks! Yes, Sunday, Dec. 5, is the International Day of the Ninja – a sort of silent-and-deadly counterpart to September’s bleary-sounding Talk Like a Pirate Day. Don’t know how to slow your heart rate? Not ready to punch through steel? Can’t find a high-quality katana? No problem. The first step in tapping your inner ninja is a simple one: You must find your ninja name.
YouTube-famous Ask a Ninja, the brainchild of Los Angeles-based improv comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, is here to help you determine your ninja name with tips in an exclusive instructional video made just for you Hero Complex readers.
According to Ask a Ninja, creating a ninja name has one rule: You must keep your initials. Other than that, it’s flexible — just like a ninja! You have to look for the ninja who is already hiding within your civilian name. Need some help getting started? Below is Ask a Ninja’s list of Awesome Ninja Words, approved by the International Order of Ninjas. Take a stab at it (ouch!), and then share your new ninja name in the comment section.
– Noiseless Cobra (formerly known as Noelene Clark)
A
Absolute, Annihilate
Ambush, Arrow, Art, Asp, Assassin
Attack, Awesome
B
Beautiful, Black
Blood, Blowdart, Bo
C
Cane,Cap Chop,Close
Cloud,Cool Covert, Creep, Cut
D
Dagger,Dead
Death, Die
Dispatch, Double, Dragon
E
End, Erase, Espionage
Evade, Eviscerate
Exterminate
Extreme, Eye
F
Fatal, Fast
Ferocious, Fighting
Finish,Fire, Fist, Flip
Flying, Foot
G
Glide. Gouge
Great, Grip
Gore
H
Hand, Hard
Head, Hide
Hit, Hiya, Hurt
Hush
I
Ideal, Iron
Immolate
Imposing, Impressive
Infiltration
J
Ja, Jab
Jump(y)
Just
K
Kick
Kill(y)
Knee, Knife
L
Lethal,
Light, Little
Lurk
M
Majestic, Master,
Mind-Blowing Move
N
Night, Nin, Ninja
Noiseless, Nunchuck
O
Octagon
Omni, Op
P
Peerless
Perfect, Power
Prowl, Punch, Pure
Q
Quick, Quiet
Quill
R
Raven
Real, Red
Rip, Rope
S
Shadow
Shhhh, Silent
Skill, Slay, Slice
Smack,Snake, Sneak
Spy, Stab
Supreme
T
Tear, Ten, Tuck
Twist, Triple
U
Unknown
V
Veil, Veracious
Very,Vicious
Vigor
Vim
W
Walking, Warrior
Water, Weapon Whack, Whip
Whist, Wonderful
Wooden
X
X-Out
Y
Ya, Yank,
Yauld
Ye, Young
Z
Zing
Zip, Zap
Zop
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My initials are GY. Y is a hard one to come up with. But I eventually came up with Gory Yogurt. Mmmmm
Cool, I choose Gore Fist for my Ninja name!
My initials are DACS
So my ninja name is Dagger Slice
haha O.O
A.W.
Assassin's Whist – love it!
S.M.
Shadow Master!
AssaultKanobo!!
these are awesome.
sincerely,
Power Assassin
ninjas!!!
I'm Knife Twist! yay!
Death Assassin Dragon
Fatal Eye Blowdart
Love it!!!,
Killy Assassin Dragon
Cutthroat Oddity! BOOM SHAKA WHAT!!!
I.F. …. Iron… foot?
I can either use my regular American name or my full official name including original Chinese name:
James Lee becomes Jugulate Lethal.
James Do Hung LEE becomes Jaculiferous Dasyure Haustellum Lar
Black Espionage Warrior.
Covert Lethal Warrior
Doom Cloud
thunder claw
XD
-Calm Murder
DS
MY NAME IS “dead shadow ”
Silent Kill
Twist Kick
Dragon Master