I found this timeline chart a few years ago and I was wondering how acturate it is?
Where does the information come from?
I never knew Night-Creepers were based in Israel?

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That's hard to say who made that. Black Dragons splitting into Shadowloo? That's pulling in some Street Fighter stuff.

The person may have listed the Night Creepers as Israelites is because the leader's name is Aleph (first letter of the Hebrew alphabet).

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Hey that's right. Streetfighter was part of the GIJOE line at one point too so maybe that's why.




That's interesting about the Hebrew alphabet.


I guess the Kakka Ninja probably means Red Ninja and Niato-Shinobi means Night-Creeper?

I found this chart the same place I got the Cobra rank chart in the other thread. I don't remember where though?

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Well, the Night Creeper thing isn't based on any kind of canonical information. They've never been depicted as related to the Arashikage (though I'll admit I have them linked in my 'verse) and the comic established that the Night Creepers are based in Switzerland. Also, the con set was pretty clear about the Black Dragons not being ninja, but I can't remember what they said in the Ninja Battles DVD. You could certainly use that timeline, but none of the info on it is official as far as I'm aware. I could be wrong though, as I didn't read a large chunk of the Devil's Due Joe comic, so maybe they established some of that there. The inclusion of Shadowloo makes me skeptical though.

Maybe it is just me but I have tried to separate all of these and keep the Clan in the hands of the agents of good. The Arshikaga Ninjas only make up half of the martial arts specialists in the CT Circles (Joes, Action Force, COPS, Extreme, Sgt Savage, Street Fighter).

Found this in my research http://www.myuselessknowledge.com/joe/characters/ninjas.html

Arishikaga ninja's in action:
Storm Shadow: studied under the Hard Master, known as the Young Master clan patriarch
Snake Eyes:studied under Hard Master, known as Silent Master
Nun chuck: studied under the Blind Master
T'j bang: the current steward of the family dojo, studied under Onihashi - Blade Master, known as Bright Master (currently training new generations)
Dojo: studied under Blind Master, assists T'J Bang.
Jinx: studied under Blind Master , cousin of Storm Shadow, in line to be the matriarch of the clan
T'gin Zu : studied under the Young Master
"Billy" Kessler: studied under the Young master, Currently MIA
Kamakura: studied under Silent Master
Tiger Paw: studied under Silent Master
Teiko: studied under the Young Master
Ophelia: studied under the Silent Master

Deceased:
Hard Master
Soft Master
Blind Master
Onihashi- "Blade Master" (sword smith)

The Red Ninjas are those ninjas who were sent to hunt down Storm Shadow after the death of the Hard Master. They currently keep themselves exiled from the clan after learning the truth of that situation. They currently are lead by their adoptive master Shadow Strike some believe he studied under Soft Master

Shadowloo, the Black Dragon syndicate, Night Creepers all share no affiliation to the Arishikaga Clan.

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Actually there are no more Red Ninja's. After Sei Tin was taken out, the last 6 Red Ninja's left alive after Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow and the others killed them, the 6 surviviors were now called the Arashikage Deciples who were going to bring back the Arashikage teachings. And Storm Shadow was now renamed the Phoenix Master of the Arashikage Clan.

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Didn't the Storm Shadow series show that the clan had been really taken over by the wife of the Hard Master?

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missed that, I'll have to get M&A and the SS series and rework...

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Not the ninja clan. I believe the idea Larry was putting forth is that the Arashikage name and "family business" had a far wider scope than the Hard Master and the ninja dojo.

Great list! There are a few more that cold be clarified though.


How about Slice, Dice and Slash? Then Ninja-Ku and the Cobra Ninja Vipers? Cobra Red Ninjas and such? I'm mainly talking about the various figures.