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Fictional ninja

Cassandra CainCassandra Cain is a DC Comics superheroine who first appeared in Batman #567, published in July 1999. Writer Kelley Puckett and penciler Damion Scott are generally credited with inventing her. They gave her a trait that is rare among comic…
DeathstrokeDeathstroke wears a mask split between black and orange, and it covers a right eye that is missing. He is Slade Joseph Wilson, a mercenary and former U.S. Army soldier. Within the DC Universe he is regarded as the greatest and deadliest…
Daredevil (Marvel Comics character)Daredevil is a Marvel Comics hero who first appeared in an issue with an April 1964 cover date. He is a blind lawyer by day and a costumed fighter by night, dressed in a devil-like outfit. His series sold modestly for years, and it came…
Black Widow (Natasha Romanova)Black Widow, whose full name is Natalia Alianovna Romanova, first appeared in 1964 as a Soviet spy sent to seduce Tony Stark. Editor Stan Lee, scripter Don Rico and artist Don Heck created her for Tales of Suspense #52. On that first page…
Hawkeye (Clint Barton)Hawkeye, the Marvel Comics archer whose civilian name is Clint Barton, carries a bow so stiff that a man could not pull back its string. The man worked for Cross Technological Enterprises, and he tried to draw the hero's 250 lb-f bow and…
Damian WayneDamian Wayne, a hero published by DC Comics, reached Batman's world through a lie. His mother, Talia, was engaged to Bruce Wayne. When she became pregnant, she broke off the engagement and told Bruce she had miscarried. He did not learn…
Vega (Street Fighter)Street Fighter II's Vega never removes his mask, and a Shakespeare character helped explain why.
April O'NeilApril O'Neil first appeared in 1984 as a computer programmer on the run. She fled robots she had helped program.
Black NoirBlack Noir is the name shared by three characters in The Boys, a story created in comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Eric Kripke later developed it for television. In both versions, Noir belongs to the Seven, a hedonistic and…
DeadpoolDeadpool, the masked mercenary of Marvel Comics, once ended a storyline by breaking out of his own book and into the real world. There he confronted the writers and artists who were making the comic, and he turned to the reader with a…
Ra's al GhulRa's al Ghul, the DC Comics supervillain best known as Batman's immortal rival, once admitted that he could not keep track of his own age. In Azrael #6, from July 1995 and written by Dennis O'Neil, he tells the young hero Jean-Paul Valley:…
Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesIn November 1983, in Dover, New Hampshire, the artist Kevin Eastman drew a masked turtle standing on its hind legs and gripping nunchucks. He drew it to make his fellow artist Peter Laird laugh. Laird answered by adding two words above it:…
The Hand (comics)The Hand is a ninja order from Marvel Comics, and it first appeared in Daredevil issue 174, dated September 1981. The writer and artist Frank Miller created it. Decades later, a hero named Daredevil refused an offer to lead the group, and…