Inverse Law of Ninja explained.

[Redneck Scientist]

Originally Posted by Hatake Kakashi

Actually.. I'd LOVE to forget Kill Bill. That movie sucked things even hardcore porn movie stars wouldn't touch.

You are a horrible, horrible person, and you are going to the lowest level of hell.

The Law goes like this:
The more ninja there are, the easier they are too defeat.

In other words: Armies of Ninja will fall to a single opponent, and one lone ninja will defeat armies of opponents.

[ArlanKels]

The Inverse Law of Ninja is this:
As the amount of ninjas on one side in an area increases the abilities and overall efficiency of each ninja decreases.


This is caused by numerous television shows, books, movies and so on and so forth wherein a solitary ninja can defeat hundreds of attacking ninjas.

[Arlia Janet]

There was a good SNL skit where it showed a bunch of ninjas in a Ninja Club talking about their last fight after they had been defeated by one man. It was one of the funnier skits I have seen, and it covers just about every cliche out there. I think John Goodman was the host.

I tried to find it, but was unlucky. If anyone knows what I am talking about and can find a clip, I'll be nice to you.

[Ex. 68471]

I believe this might be able to explain it. This was figured out by me, hence, no link.

I think that maybe, as more ninjas show up, each one that is already there thinks that he will be able to slack off a bit more, cause the new guy will pick up the slack.

What they fail to realize, though, is the other lone ninja will not fight all of them all at once. He will cut them all down, one by one. Because of this, they aren't going all-out, and hence, get their spleens handed to them on a platter.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Nah the reason is that ninja hide in photons of ambient radiation. They leap from photon to photon, sneaking up on thier target. But there are only so many photons around and thus as more ninja show up thier ability to harness photons decreases.
If I can find it I have an old graph relating total power of ninja squad vs number of ninja as well as a completely scientific mathematical relationship. The maxmimum power of ninja squad maxed out at 3 ninja though the optimum number of ninja was 4 as then the enemy gets a bit complacent but as soon as one ninja is killed the squad optimises and goes crazy.

[PyrosNine]

It's actually because each ninja is embedded with the ability to flip out from anywhere and kill someone, even fellow ninjas, so in order for them to form a cohesive group they have to be trained not to kill their teammates. And anytime Ninjas are trained not to ninja kill something there is a deep contradiction within their very beings.

So normally, when fighting a ninja, his mind is saying 'I'm going to run along the wall, hurl ninja stars at my opponents feet, and when his feet are stuck to the ground, I shall chop his head off. Alternatively, should his feet avoid getting stuck, I shall leap up to the ceiling and from there kick down to cut him in half with my falling dragon blade technique."

But when there are other Ninjas present......

"I'm going to run along the-wait, Soryu's doing that, well, I suppose I can still hurl the stars, wait, Ryin's hurling stars, and if I aided him we both might kill Amasu who is trying to sneak attack him from behind...oh, what the hell. I shall wait until the rest have finished attacking, and wait for an opening. Surely he shall not-SPLISH!"

This is why, true Ninja leaders send at most 3 or 4 ninjas in a team to attack anyone, each with wildly different abilities, and can orchestrate team attacks, as well as fight okay one on one with the enemy.

The bigger law against ninjas, is the "Man against the wall weakness" , which is a great mystery in which a ninja or a group of ninjas are assigned to kill someone, but the person they are to kill is incredibly desperate and has the odds stacked against him. Despite having skills and powers that their target cannot even fathom, he will somehow elude their attacks and kill them. In essence, the greater the odds against their enemy (dramatic or otherwise) the greater the odds that he will defeat them.

Examples: Gordon Freeman. A science nerd with a radiation shielded suit and alot of weaponry, yet not military trained nor expected to be a combat genius. Ninjas are sent by the government to kill him, he messes them up bad with a revolver.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Intern Nin

It goes more like one lone, brash warrior will always defeat a large horde of ninjas.

But - and this is the important part - one lone ninja is an unstoppable force of nature dealing out death and dismemberment indiscriminately and with aplomb.

Especially if you can see his face, know his name, and/or he's wearing any kind of distinctively colored clothing.

Just how many ninjas DID she kill in that one sequence?

But you notice, killing that very last ninja who had actually been given a name was hard as fuck. Hell, she pretty much only won cause her outfit happened to be yellow.

[Telephalsion]

Maybe a lame example, but in Naruto.

The more shadow clones, the more Naruto gets beaten.

I'd get example clips, but all youtube has to offer on naruto are AMVs, and I hate them for so many reasons.

As to why? Pyros and Fifth gave good examples.

Ninja Power would be related to uniqueness. So the more ninjas there are the less unique each individual ninja becomes. Should all of them be nameless and black-clad they'll be nothing more than regular soldiers. But if one of them wears.. say maroon, he'll be more powerfull than the others put together becuase of his uniqueness.

[Doc ock rokc]

ninja in the mithic language of "realitywrite" means alone killer. Thus there should never be crowd of ninjas. so 3 ninjas is realy pushing it. for if more than 3 ninjas the ninjas becomes a non-jas (realitywrite for noobs) so the more "ninjas" are around the more noobish thay become. unless thay have been trained otherwise (examples:tmnt, "narutos group", etc etc)

[Aerozord]

there is something I got to thinking about this. Wouldn't a horde of ninja still be unstoppable? Each time one dies that is one less ninja and eventually you will get to one. And since there is now only one left he is a mighty killing machine.