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Ronin Warriors, known in Japan as Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (鎧伝サムライトルーパー, Yoroiden Samurai Torūpā; "Legendary Armored Samurai Troopers"), is a Japanese media franchise created by Hajime Yatate and animated by Sunrise. The television series, co-produced by Nagoya TV, aired across Japan on the All-Nippon News Network from April 30, 1988, to March 4, 1989, for a total of 39 episodes. A manga adaptation was serialized on Kodansha’s Comic BomBom from November 17, 1988, to April 5, 1990, and the chapters collected into 2 tankōbon volumes. The franchise focuses on a group of five teenage boys, most prominently Ryo Sanada, Sage Date, Cyrus Mouri, Kento Rei Fang, and Rowen Hashiba. Ronin Warriors also features many recurring characters. The series will become infamous for the supernatural martial arts that satirizes a large range of subject matter.

Ronin Warriors/Yoroiden Samurai Troopers contains examples of the following tropes:[]

  • A Minor Kidroduction:
  • A True Hero:
  • A Twinkle in the Sky:
  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: Most warriors have razor sharp blades, except for Cyrus and Rowen.
  • Absurdly Sharp Claws: Ten warriors have razor sharp claws, basically Ronin Warriors are actually the superhumans.
  • Abuse Discretion Shot:
  • Accidental Murder:
  • Adaptational Diversity: New characters were added in the mid-90s.
  • Adaptational Skill: All ten warriors have supernatural abilities, including martial arts, elemental powers, natural weapons, movements, and fixed forms.
  • Adults Are Useless:
  • Agonizing Stomach Wound:
  • Agony of the Feet:
  • Aim for the Horn:
  • Alien Blood: All the evil dynasties and other demons have blue, green, or purple blood when they’re damaged or killed by the Ronin Warriors.
  • Alien Episode: "Attack of the Martians"
  • All Asians Know Martial Arts: All five boys know martial arts, after they trained with Dr. Koji.
  • All Your Powers Combined: The Ronin Warriors form the Inferno Armor by lending Ryo the energy of their elemental armors. This usually causes them to transform back to the less powerful "under armor" forms—less powerful because each of the warriors has shown some kind of superhuman ability while in that state.
  • Alternative Foreign Theme Song:
  • Alternate Universe:
  • Ambiguously Absent Parent:
    • Ryo's parents are never referred to. His mother passed away of illness when Ryo was little and his father was never seen in the series because he got mauled by a wild animal when Ryo was ten.
    • The original anime goes into less detail about the family situations of the Ronin Warriors. Their parents are never seen in anime except for Rowen’s.
  • Amnesia Episode:
  • Amusement Park:
  • Amusement Park of Doom: In the episode “Bad Day on the Midway”
  • An Arm and a Leg: Main heroes do this by ripping or cutting off the opponent’s arms or legs.
  • Literal Disarming:
  • And Show It To You: Many warriors do this ripping out the opponent’s heart by using their hands.
  • Ankle Drag:
  • Apocalypse How / Wow: "Hiroshima: 50 Years of Atomic Attack"
  • Armor Is Useless: Five boys break the dynasty soldiers’ armors and kill them.
  • Art Shift: The second one features even more shifts, mostly with CGI animation and the 60s retro style.
  • Arts and Crafts Episode:
  • As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The transformation sequences use a stock phrase, "Armor of X! TAO Y!!" where X is the name of the character's armor and Y is their virtue. That "Tao Y" part was invented for the dub, and it's odd in a few ways:
    • The "Tao" part is actually Chinese. The Japanese equivalent of Tao, pronounced Do, is seen in the word Kendo. This could be plain ol' carelessness, but considering that the staff went to the effort to give Tao the revised "dao" pronunciation, it seems unlikely.
    • The "Y" part uses the character's original Japanese virtues even though the dub switches their English equivalents around.
    • There are two exceptions to this: Rowen says "Tao Chi" and Sage says "Tao Rei"—"Wisdom" and "Courtesy", respectively.
  • Ass Shove: This is how five heroes shove the opponent into the ass with the stick or other objects.
  • Astronomic Zoom:
  • Attack Backfire:
  • Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Ronin Warriors and Dark Warlords grow a 50-foot tall Gigantax Form.
  • Attack on the Heart: Rowen does this by shooting the villains with a bow and arrow.
  • Attack the Mouth: Most of these characters do this by throwing at the opponent in the throat to choke, shooting it, burning it, or sticking their hands into it.
  • Attack the Tail: Most of these characters do this by slicing or chopping off the opponent’s tail, grabbing it, squeezing it, burning it, or biting it.
  • Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!:
  • Babysitting Episode:
  • Babysitter from Hell:
  • Backstab:
  • Bad Moon Rising: In this episode "Halloween Curse Part 2: Bad Moon Rising", a full moon is bright yellow where ghosts, zombies, skeletons, youkai, and others appear from the graveyard during Halloween night.
    • In this episode "Curse of the Werewolf" and its sequel, the full moon is blood red rising where Ryo brutally turns into a werewolf.
    • In this episode "Monster Mash", The moon is normally white, but it turns different colors, which initiates the Full Moon where the boys have to lock themselves inside all night because anyone who looks at it will cause them into hideous monsters.
  • Band Episode:
  • Baseball Episode: Rowan joins the Hashin Baseball Team.
  • Bat Scare: The creatures stare at those five boys with their eyes glowing red in the surrounding cave. It was the swarm of bats that scared them.
  • Bloodsucking Bats: In the Halloween Special, Rowen sees a whole bunch of vampire bats on the ceiling of a haunted house, then they fly right at him and suck his blood.
  • Battle Amongst the Flames:
  • Battle Aura: The ten armors tend to give their wearers this in tense situations.
  • Battle Cry: “To Arms!”
  • Battle Discretion Shot: Happens when the heroes beat down a villain offscreen while the camera never seems too violent.
  • Battle in the Rain: During the battle, a thunderstorm has come on a rainy day.
  • Beach Episode:
  • Beam-O-War: Occurs several times.
  • Beam of Enlightenment:
  • Beam Spam: At the several times when Ronin Warriors release the beams of elements from their hands, eyes, mouths, chests, or horns.
  • Beast Man: Some humanoids are beasts.
  • Becoming the Costume:
  • Bedsheet Ghost:
  • Behemoth Battle:
  • Berserk Button: All five of the boys, especially Ryo Sanada, are being called young men, messing with their friends, or being treated. And to a lesser extent, make them miss sleep and they will get pissed off.
  • Big, Thin, Short Trio:
  • Big Blackout: In this short "After Dark", the city of Tokyo shuts down, blacking out for three hours after a bird flies straight into an electrical transformer.
  • Big Eater: Kento's appetite isn't spoiled by the fact that demons have invaded and Tokyo is in ruin.
  • Big Red Button:
  • Big Storm Episode:
  • Birds of the Feather: Non-Romance Example:
  • Birthday Beginning: In the first episode of the first season, the main protagonist, Ryo Sanada, is celebrating his 16th birthday.
  • Birthday Episode: It’s Ryo’s 16th Birthday in the first episode.
  • Blade Reflection:
  • Blank White Eyes: Non-comedy example: Happens a lot. Confusing your opponent into submission is a valid form of martial art.
  • Blood from the Mouth: Most of the time when they’re killed or defeated.
  • Blood-Splattered Innocents:
  • Blood-Splattered Warrior:
  • Bloodier and Gorier: The 1993 and 2016 revivals are a lot darker and violent than its original 1988 series.
  • Bloody Hilarious:
  • Body Wipe: Many Examples in the 1993 and 2016 revival: every character walks or runs into or through a camera, walks or runs away from it, falls or flies into or through it, or others like they punch it, grab it, kick it, stomp it, or the camera zooms into or out of their eyes.
    • In the second episode of Ronin Warriors Extreme, Kento charges towards the criminals, running into a camera twice in the process.
    • Happened twice in the film "Ronin Warriors: The Burning of Atlanta". The first one, a group of five boys begin walking toward a skywalk at Peachtree Center in Downtown Atlanta, Georgia, Ryo walks into the camera and then away from it. And the second one, Rowen charges towards a villain, running into a camera in the process.
  • Boom, Headshot!:
  • Borrowed Biometric Bypass:
  • Bowled Over:
  • The Boxing Episode:
  • Brain Freeze:
  • Brainwashed and Crazy:
  • Bring My Brown Pants:
  • Bring My Red Jacket:
  • Broken Record:
  • Brought Down to Normal:
  • Brown Note: In this episode “The Dream of Wildfire”, Cyrus and his members sing an ancient Bavarian daydream howl in order to defeat Cale.
    • The Brown Note itself appears in the episode "World Wide Recorder Concert", here referred to as "the brown noise" and said to be "92 cents below the lowest octave of C major", but shown as a low C major on the treble clef in written music. Unusually, the note is heard: it's a low tuba note, which can be somehow produced with a simple recorder. By accident, the 4 million people at the titular concert end up playing the note, which makes everyone in the world pee their pants.
  • Bullying a Dragon:
  • By the Hair:
  • By The Lights of Their Eyes: Sage accidentally turns off the lights, their eyes can be seen in the dark by blacking out.
    • When Ryo goes into the attic, it’s very dark inside with him blinking before shifting to Hollywood Darkness and he turns on a flashlight when he sees all skeletons and creepy crawlers around here, starting to scream and runs out of an attic.
  • By The Power Of Greyskull!: The series makes extensive use of Stock Footage for transformations and signature attacks.
  • Camera Abuse: Kento does this hitting the camera hard, Head-first.
    • Ryo breathes out intense flames at the camera, burns it.
  • Camping Episode: In this episode “The Camping”, five boys go camping all together.
  • Car Cushion:
  • Casino Episode:
  • Cast of Snowflakes:
  • Catch and Return:
  • Cave Mouth:
  • Chain of People:
  • Chaotic Car Ride:
  • Cherry Blossoms: Seen during the armoring up sequences.
  • Childhood Friends:
  • Choke Holds: Ronin Warriors and Dark Warlords do this by strangling the opponent with their hands or elbows.
  • Christmas Episode: “Christmas Spirit”
  • Chunky Updraft:
  • Circus Episode: “The King of the Circus”
  • Circus of Fear: In this episode “The King of the Circus”, It is a total nightmare, where demons are made and used to perform.
  • City of Adventure:
  • Clifftop Caterwauling: Ryo does this after he kills a villain. In fact, he roars loudly when he raises his voice.
    • Ryo performs the wolf skill as he climbs up the cliff and howls at a full moon.
  • Clip Its Wings:
  • Clothing Damage:
  • Cloudcuckoolander:
  • Cock-a-Doodle Dawn:
  • Code Name:
    • The five Warlords have these. You didn’t think those were their real names, did you?
    • The Ronins could also be considered to have these as sometimes they are simply referred to as their armor name.
  • Color Failure:
  • Color-Coded Elements: Red = fire, cyan = water, green = light, blue = air, and orange = earth. If we count the evil armors as well, then there are also dark red = power, green = poison, dark gray = darkness, and bright pink = illusion.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The five ronin armors are all bright, primary colors. The Warlord’s armors tend towards darker colors.
  • Combination Attack: Ryo uses Hyper Beam combined by his members.
  • Combined Energy Attack: The heroes combine their powers to form the White Inferno armor.
  • Comedic Spanking:
  • Comet of Doom:
  • Comical Angry Face: Make several of them in this area, complete with slit pupils and sharp teeth.
  • Compromising Call:
  • Concert Episode: In this episode “Five-Hero Wild Band”, They perform in the concert to play instruments and sing.
    • In this episode, it is for the “World Wide Recorder Concert”.
  • Continuity Reboot:
  • Conveyor Belt o' Doom:
  • Cooked to Death:
  • Corporal Punishment:
  • Cosplay:
  • Cosplay Café:
  • Costume Porn: This show loves showing off the completely kickass armors of the heroes. Specifically, it shows photos of them posing. Cue the Fangirl Squees.
  • Courtroom Episode:
  • Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears:
  • Cowboy Episode:
  • Crash Course Landing:
  • Creator Cameo: Hajime Yatate in one of the episodes of Ronin Warriors tv series.
  • Creepy Circus Music: In the episode “The King of the Circus”
  • Cross Counter:
  • Crossover: Ronin Warriors meet Sailors Moon (Sailor Scouts), and then Saint Seiya (Bronze Saints). They meet Mobile Suit Gundam, too.
    • In this film, Ronin Warriors vs. Godzilla
  • Cruel And Unusual Death:
  • Cruise Episode:
  • Crushing Handshake:
  • Cryptid Episode:
  • Cuckoo Clock Gag:
  • Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Curse Cut Short: In one episode, Sage does this to himself before it cuts to the next scene.
    • In The Stinger of the film, Ronin Warriors: The New Motion Picture (2018), The four bad guys find out while watching breaking news where a man said the Dark Warlords were trying to attack the Ronin Warriors, Ryo on TV said these guys are the Dark Warlords. Kale ends up shouting “SON OF A…” before the screen cuts into black.
  • Cut Short: This happens where the victim gets almost killed by the warriors before the next scene.
  • Cut the Safety Rope: Averted: In one episode, Ryo and Rowen fall down a cliff, then Ryo hangs on a branch with a chain and Rowen holds on to him from falling, but the branch is starting to break apart due to the stress on it from Ryo and Rowen’s weight. Rowen doesn’t want him to let go. Luckily, Ryo has a plan: they can swing back and forth and then let go up back on a cliff, they save themselves.
  • The Day the Dinosaurs Died:
  • Daydream Surprise:
  • Deadly Dodging:
  • Deadly Rotary Fan:
  • Deal with the Devil:
  • Death by Falling Over:
  • Death by Gluttony:
  • Death by Irony:
  • Death by Looking Up:
  • Death Glare: Most of these characters do this every single time by staring at each other.
  • Death Trap:
  • Decade Dissonance: In the 1993 revival, it is set in the mid 1990s, but the clothing, hairstyles, music and general mood come straight from the late 1980s.
  • Decapitated Army: Rowen kills the second leader of Nether Realm with an arrow first and then, it's Ryo's turn to kill these goons.
  • Decapitation Presentation:
  • Deadly Prank:
  • Defeat Equals Explosion: Many dynasty soldiers exploded after the Ronin Warriors defeated them every single time.
  • Delayed Reaction:
  • Demon King Nobunaga: Emperor Oda
  • Dentist Episode: The story is very similar in that both Ryo and Rowen get cavities (with Ryo being afraid of the dentist, and Rowen not even knowing what cavities are because he didn’t get them in his time period.) and go to a seemingly-nice dental office, only to find out that the dentist is actually an enemy, after Yuli goes to the dentist with Mia one day.
  • Description Cut:
  • Destination Defenestration:
  • Devoured by the Horde: Non-Zombie Example. The fate of the Evil Dynasty, being torn apart and eaten by Ronin Warriors in their berserk states after they kill a demon soldier.
  • Diagonal Cut:
    • In this episode “Ryo’s Diet System”, Ryo gets really fat after eating lots of fast food in one week and gets called "tubby" by Kento. Then he puts himself on a diet to exercise and successfully lose weight. Luckily, his muscles burn all the calories due to his fire power which helps him get slim. In the end, he notices that Rowen gained too much weight.
    • Diet Episode: In this episode "An Appetite for Battle", where after eating burgers and fries to his heart’s content without fear of gaining weight, Kento goes on a diet and exercise frenzy when he's gotten heavier. After becoming humanly obese, Kento discovers that his fast food has been tainted by the power of a ghost, and only returns to his normal self after the ghost is destroyed.
  • Dismembering the Body:
  • Disposing of a Body:
  • Dodgeball is Hell:
  • Dog Pile of Doom:
  • Domed Hometown:
  • Don't Touch It, You Idiot!:
  • The Door Slams You:
  • Dope Slap: Every single time they smack each other.
  • Double Take:
  • Dramatic Red Samurai Background:
  • Dramatic Spine Injury: One of the Ronin Warriors breaks the opponent’s spine badly.
  • Dramatic Thunder:
  • Dragged Off to Hell: No matter what happens when Anubis is defeated, Ryo  sends him to drag off to hell by hand after Anubis captures him.
  • Dream Episode: In this episode “The Dream of Wildfire”.
  • Dream Intro:
  • Dream Sequence:
  • Drives Like Crazy:
  • Driving Up a Wall:
  • Dutch Angle: Once Ronin Warriors have serious dramatic scenes. Which is the camera slants as they’re ready for battle.
  • Dynamic Entry:
  • Ear Ache:
  • Early-Bird Cameo: In “Ronin Warriors: Los Angeles”, Gai of Burning from the sequel of the original series.
  • Earthquakes Cause Fissures:
  • Eastern Zodiac: The Twelve Asian Beast Guardians
  • Eat the Camera: This happens a few times in "Ronin Warriors Extreme" when the camera zooms into a character’s mouth by screaming, laughing, roaring, or singing. Several times throughout the series, usually on Ryo.
    • The first time it happens in the episode is right after the Ronin Warriors were all screaming falling into the earth right after they are told about their task about defending the earth against a meteorite. After the two frames of the close up of Ryo's mouth, the screen turns black and the next moment after this shows him waking up realizing everything was a dream.
    • In episode 175 ends this way as Ryo pretends to be a samurai, and runs into the camera, yelling "Flare... Up... NOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWW!!!", with his mouth filling the screen, down his throat, and fades to black.
    • White Blaze does this when he attacks an enemy.
    • In Ronin Warriors: The Motion Picture, a transition starts with the camera zooming into Rowen's mouth and inverts out of Ryo's mouth as he's calling for help.
  • Eaten Alive:
  • Eating Contest:
  • Eating the Enemy: Kento is starting to eat a pork beast due to his power of appetite.
  • Eerie Anatomy Model:
  • Election Day Episode:
  • Elemental Powers: Ronin Warriors have the 5 core Troopers' armors based on some elemental powers. Ryo is fire, Cye is water, Kento is earth, Rowen is air / wind, and Sage is light / thunder.
  • Elemental Rivalry: Sage and Cale fight with light and darkness.
  • Elevator Failure:
  • Episode of the Dead: "Zombie Apocalypse"
  • Episode on a Plane:
  • "Everyone is Gone" Episode: "See Nobody", Ryo wakes up one morning to find out that everyone who lives at home is gone. No one can be heard at least when he has been left behind.
  • Evil Eyebrows: Emperor Oda does have thin and edgy eyebrows.
  • Evil Gloating: Emperor Oda really hates those five heroes.
  • Evil Laugh: Emperor Oda does this a lot and his dark warlords.
  • Evil Puppeteer:
  • Excellent Judge of Character:
  • Exit Pursued by a Bear:
  • Explosive Decompression / Space Is Cold: In one episode called “Space Warriors”, Rowen brutally kicks one of the criminals off the ship through vacuum without a suit and is harmed by the few seconds of exposure to vacuum, he is freezing in outer space and blowing up after being sucked into space.
  • Expository Theme Tune: Ronin Warriors opening with a theme song in English Dub.
  • Extra Eyes:
  • Extreme Close-Up:
  • Eye Am Watching You:
  • Eye Awaken:
  • Eye Catch: In the original Japanese version, different eye catches were used for different story arcs.
  • Eye Recall:
  • Eye Scream: Most of these characters do this by poking the opponent in the eyes, salting them, gouging them, spraying them, jabbing them, plucking them, or their eyes popping out.
  • Eye Poke:
  • Go for the Eye:
  • In Place of an Eye:
  • Eyeball-Plucking Birds:
  • Eyedscreen: Happens in one of the picture dramas. However, this being the picture dramas, it’s for action rather than drama.
  • Eyelid Pull Taunt: Most of these characters do this, especially main heroes.
  • Face Doodling:
  • Face Plant:
  • Face Revealing Turn:
  • Faceless Goons: The regular Dynasty goons are just disembodied spirits in armor. Averted with the Dark Warlords, who are human.
  • Facepalm:
  • Failure Montage: These bad guys are unable to escape from the prison all time.
  • Fairy Tale Episode:
  • Faint in Shock:
  • Falling Chandelier of Doom:
  • Family-Unfriendly Death:
  • Family-Unfriendly Violence: Early episodes of the 1993 revival are rather gory, such as when Ryo beats down an evil dynasty before slices them into pieces. Then his members are killing the enemies by amputating, beheading, dismembering, stabbing, or even ripping out their organs as well as torturing with bloody junks.
  • Fanfic: "Ronin Warriors: The Motion Picture", Written in the mid-90's, but published online in May 1996.
  • Fantastic Fireworks: In the episode "Independence day".
  • "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: “Ryo's Inside Story”, Ryo drinks a cup of water where the tiny demons are in it, getting swallowed.
  • Fat And Skinny: Red oni is thick and blue oni is thin.
  • The Fat Episode: Given Kento is a Big Eater, it was bound to happen. Not even him spared from gluttony.
    • In the episode “Sumo Tournament”.
    • In this episode “A Diet System”, Ryo gets really fat after eating lots of fast food in one week and gets called "tubby" by one of the members of Ronin Warriors.
    • In this episode of the 2016 revival "An Appetite for Battle'', where after eating burgers and fries to his heart’s content without fear of gaining weight, Kento goes on a diet and exercise frenzy when he's gotten heavier. After becoming humanly obese, Kento discovers that his fast food has been tainted by the power of a ghost, and only returns to his normal self after the ghost is destroyed.
  • Feathered Fiend: Bird Demons
    • Vile Vulture: Horus, the Vulture Demon (aka Horus of the Storm) is a new Dark Warlord. His good counterpart is Rowen of the Strata, a rival who fights with him.
    • Circling Vultures: Rowen sees the vultures circling around him, then they kill and devour him. Unfortunately, Rowen has a bad dream.
  • Festival Episode:
  • Feud Episode:
  • Finale Movie: Ronin Warriors: The Last Stand serves as this by ending on And the Adventure Continues.
  • Fingore:
    • Yubitsume:
  • Firefighting Episode: In one episode of “Ronin Warriors Extreme”, Ryo will be a firefighter in “Ryo and the Firefighters”.
  • Flapping Cheeks:
  • Flashing Discretion Shot:
  • Flaying Alive:
  • Flushing Toilet, Screaming Shower: Yulie does this to Kento in one episode in an attempt to make him tell where he tried to sneak off to last night.
  • Force Feeding:
  • Forced To Watch:
  • Forced Transformation: Five main boys are cursed by a mad scientist to turn into giant demons at night. They change back to human form during the day, but will resume their monster forms when the full moon rises.
  • Founding Day: "Independence Day"
  • Fountain of Youth:
  • The Four Gods: The Four Divine Kings:
    • Genbu, the Black Tortoise of the North
    • Seiryu, the Azure Dragon of the East
    • Suzaku, the Vermilion Bird of the South
    • Byakko, the White Tiger of the West
  • Freak Lab Accident: During his backstory in the first episode, Ryo got his powers from an ectoplasmic form of nuclear blast when he accidentally activated Dr. Koji's experimental Spirit Portal while standing inside it. The resulting blast altered his DNA, thus making him a superhuman.
  • The Freakshow:
  • "Freaky Friday" Flip: Between Ryo and Rowen’s voices switched in one episode, “Freaky Friday”.
  • Full Potential Upgrade: Ryo eventually gained new swords to go along with the Inferno Armor after his original swords shattered due to the power of the Inferno.
  • Fun With Blenders:
  • Funeral Cut:
  • Futile Hand Reach:
  • Garage Band:
  • Garage Sale:
  • Giant Eye of Doom:
  • Giant Wall of Watery Doom:
  • Gigantic Moon:
  • Giving Someone The Pointer Finger:
  • Glass Smack and Slide:
  • Glass-Shattering Sound:
  • Glowing Eyes of Doom: Ten warriors do this when they are pissed off.
    • Evil dynasty does this.
  • Go for the Eye:
  • Good Thing You Can Heal: Many warriors survive being sliced, torn, wounded, or their bones broken, they can heal from injuries.
  • Good Weapon, Evil Weapon: The ten armors themselves—the five Troopers' armors have bright colors, symbolizing their use as virtuous, while the four Warlord armors have more imposing designs and muted colors, the Armor of Illusion having perhaps the most unusual weapon of all. Despite them all coming from the same source, it's rather evident which ones are good and which ones are evil.
    • At one point, Arago creates a sword from the powers of the captured Troopers' armors, which has an extremely jagged edge, playing this trope straight.
  • Goomba Stomp: Kento Rei Fang pulls one off when he leaps off the roof of Tokyo Skytree and lands right on top of a poor demon. The results aren't pretty.
  • Gory Discretion Shot: This happens when the victim gets killed by the warriors offscreen.
  • Gosh Dang It To Heck!: This happens that they may use a Bowdlerisation of it, especially aired on YTV, such as “darn”, “heck”, “fudge”, “snot”, or even more.
  • Grand Finale: At the end of "The Final Showdown".
  • Groin Attack: This happens when these characters kick, punch, squeeze, bite, or even hit them in the groin with their weapons, especially on males.
  • Ground by Gears:
  • Gutted Like a Fish:
  • Hair-Trigger Explosive:
  • Half the Man He Used to be:
  • Halloween Episode: “Halloween Curse”
    • Then in the Sequel Episode of “Halloween Curse”, releasing another episode “Halloween Curse Part 2: Bad Moon Rising”.
    • The third one of it, releasing yet another episode three years later, “Monster Mash”.
  • Halloween Songs:
  • Halloween Special: "Ryo Sanada’s Howl-o-ween Special"
  • Halloween Trickery:
  • Hand Behind Head:
  • Hand Blast: Ten warriors do this to use the abilities from their hands.
  • Hand Stomp:
  • Hand-or-Object Underwear:
  • Handcar Pursuit:
  • Hanging Around:
  • Hanging by the Fingers:
  • Haunted Castle: On October 26th, releasing the episode “Monster Mash”.
  • Haunted Technology:
  • Head Desk:
  • Head Smashed Screen:
  • Head Turned Backwards:
  • Headless Horseman:
  • Healing Factor:
  • Heel–Face Turn: Anubis, Lady Kayura, and—after Talpa betrays them—the rest of the Warlords eventually turn to the good side.
  • Helium Speech:
  • Hell Is That Noise:
  • Hellish Horse: Talpa’s Horse Demon
  • Hellish Pupils: Ten warriors do this, resulting in some pretty disturbing faces.
  • "Here's Johnny!" Homage:
  • Heroic BSoD:
  • Hidden Eyes: Most of these characters did this, usually, this means some poor mook(s)' about to die…
  • Highly-Visible Ninja:
  • Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • Holiday Episode:
  • Horrible Judge of Character:
  • Horrifying the Horror: The Ronin Warriors have a record of scaring all demons and youkai. Being able to grow to tremendous size certainly helps.
    • When Ryo gets pissed off, he becomes more terrifying than the dynasties, only for his evil side to scare them off.
  • Hot Springs Episode: It is set in a boys’ dormitory that used to be a hot spring resort; the boys living there use the spring, and the entire show can be considered a single continuous Hot Springs Episode.
  • Human Cannonball:
  • Humans Are Warriors: Ronin Warriors (heroes) and Dark Warlords (villains)
  • I Ate What?!: Cyrus serves the boys some fish. They say it is excellent, then he says it is puffer fish. They freak out and end up bedridden from the poison except Ryo who can’t eat it.
  • "I Can't Look!" Gesture:
  • I Shall Taunt You:
  • I Want My Mommy!: Reference to Cowboy Bebop, Inspector Zentaro gets stabbed in the leg by Ryo with a kunai, it's quite painful.
    • Zentaro: (sobbing) Mommy! (sobbing) Mommy! (sobbing) MAMA!
  • Imagine Spot:
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice:
  • Impaled Palm:
  • Impromptu Tracheotomy: Happens that Ronin Warriors kill the opponent by strangling, stabbing, slitting, shooting them in the neck, or having their throats sore.
    • Slashed Throat: Cye slashes the opponent in the throat with the dagger after breaking their armor.
  • In a World…: Dramatic Example; In the beginning of the first film, the narrator says “In Tokyo, one boy and his four members will have a mission to save the world, joining with their friends.”
  • In the Blood:
  • Incredible Shrinking Man:
  • Inevitable Waterfall:
  • Inflating Body Gag: Rowen’s special ability to inflate himself and float up in the air before he blows wind in one breath.
    • Ryo gets trapped around the poison flowers, swelling up like a balloon.
  • Injured Limb Episode:
  • Instant Soprano:
  • Interim Villain:
  • Invocation: “TO ARMS!”
  • Irony:
  • It Always Rains at Funerals:
  • It's Going Down:
  • JawBreaker: One of the Ronin Warriors can break or tear off the enemies’ jaws with his own hand by punching or twisting.
  • K-I-S-S-I-N-G in a Tree: Yulie directs the rhyme at Mia in reaction to her increasingly-obvious crush on Sage.
    • In the episode "Boy meets Girl", Ryo meets his little sister, Anna. And his members discover that she has a Precocious Crush on him, which prompts his members to do this.
      • Ryo: Anna?
      • Anna: Ryo?
      • Boys: Ryo and Anna sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G! *all laugh*
      • Ryo: (angrily) Knock it off!
  • Kabuki Sounds:
  • Kaiju: Ronin Warriors and Dark Warlords in their Kaiju forms in this film “Ronin Warriors vs. Godzilla".
  • Kick Them While They Are Down:
  • Kill It Through Its Stomach: When Ryo is swallowed by a giant snake, he uses twin katanas to slice it in half before he gets out.
    • Again, Ryo is swallowed by a giant toad, then he blasts up with fire power inside, the giant toad explodes.
  • Killer Teddy Bear:
  • Knee Capping:
  • Lame Last Words:
  • Last Episode, New Character: In the last episode of first season, Akira Oda is a new character to introduce himself before in the second season.
  • Last Episode Theme Reprise:
  • Last Note Nightmare: In this episode “World Wide Recorder Concert”, the recorder song. Everyone in the world will remember the last note of the song… Like the rest of the world, everyone here has pissed their pants. Some pissed themselves to death. And still others... ruined perfectly good pairs of pants.
  • Last of Her Kind: Lady Kayura is the last living member of the Clan of the Ancients.
  • The Last Straw:
  • Lemonade Stand Plot:
  • Let's Get Dangerous!:
  • Lethal Chef:
  • Licking the Blade:
  • Life-or-Limb Decision:
  • Little Bit Beastly: Almost every character is a little beastly.
  • Little Miss Badass: Lady Kayura is physically fourteen years old, but only a handful of the cast can fight her and not get stomped into the ground.
  • Living Crashpad:
  • Locked in a Freezer:
  • Look Behind You:
  • Look Both Ways:
  • Looking a Miffed Animal In The Mouth: After Kale has lost his power, he tries to crawl away, then White Blaze in front of him, roaring at him when he’s looking inside of White Blaze’s mouth.
  • Lost Voice Plot: In this episode “The Speechless”, Rowen loses his voice due to the bee sting inside his throat after drinking apple cider with a bee in it.
  • Loud of War:
  • Love Interests: Ryo and Anna are loving each other.
  • Made of Explodium:
  • Made of Plasticine: These goons are made of plasticine, and get ripped apart by the Ronin Warriors.
  • Magical Eye Streamers:
  • Major Injury Underreaction:
  • Make My Monster Grow:
  • Man Bites Man: This happens when the characters bite the opponent with their terrifyingly sharp teeth.
  • Man on Fire:
  • Martial Arts Staff: The Ancient One carries a khakkhara (monk staff), complete with its characteristic rings. But it was not always a staff: When Talpa first tried to conquer the world, the staff was a sword with the rings around the hilt.
  • Master of Illusion: Dais. He puts the nin in ninja.
  • Match Cut:
  • Mature Work, Child Protagonists: Five main characters are teenagers, around 16 or 17 years old, but due to its graphic violence, it's clear as to why it's rated TV-14 and it's definitely not appropriate for the usual demographic.
  • Mega Meal Challenge:
  • Melancholy Moon:
  • Microwave Misuse:
  • Militaries Are Useless: There are a few short scenes in the early episodes of the JSDF trying to retake Tokyo and getting summarily slaughtered by Dynasty mooks.
  • Millennium Bug:
  • Mind-Control Device:
  • Mind-Control Music: The weapon that sank the stadium is a piece of sheet music, which Dr. Koji used to control Ryo into going on a murderous rampage.
  • Minor Injury Overreaction:
  • Mirror Reveal:
  • Mistaken for an Imposter:
  • Monogender Monsters: Boysters Example: These monsters are exclusively male, especially Ronin Warriors and Dark Warlords.
  • Monster Clown: The demon clowns in the episode “The King of the Circus”.
  • Monster Mash: All monsters, especially these five main boys, wear costumes in the episodes “Halloween Curse” and “Monster Mash”. Dr. Koji introduces the Monster Commando.
    • Dr. Koji: Count Dracula, The Living Mummy, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Werewolf by the Curse, and Gill-Man from the Black Lagoon. Meet the Monster Commando.
  • Monster of the Week
  • Monstrous Germs:
  • Mook Horror Show: Ryo gets a scene when he claws his face and then angrily screams real loud, attacking the dynasty soldiers. This is so disturbing for the audience.
  • Mooning:
  • More Teeth than the Osmond Family:
  • Mouth Cam: It's prominent in the revival series. An all-too-common trope for New Ronin Warriors would use the trope. Happens when characters are gaping, roaring, eating, or brushing their teeth. Creator Hajime Yatate stated that New Ronin Warriors was the Trope Maker due to a scene from the pilot episode using this trope.
    • The camera shows the inside of Ryo’s mouth when he uses Fire Breath for the first time.
  • Mouth Screen: In nearly every episode, there is a point where we get a closeup of a characters’ mouth talking ominously like. Something making their debut or when they’re saying something important.
  • The Movie: "Ronin Warriors: The Motion Picture"
  • Mugging the Monster: When Mia's tutor, Shingo, insults Yulie, Ryo angrily throws him out of the window and chases him off.
  • Murder by Cremation: Ryo feeds a criminal into a crematorium oven and starts it to burn him.
  • Mushroom Samba:
  • Musical Episode: "Samurai Rhapsody"
  • Mystery Episode:
  • Nasal Trauma:
  • Nausea Fuel:
  • Neck Lift:
  • Neck Snap: One of the Ronin Warriors will snap the opponent’s neck by twisting their heads.
  • Near-Miss Groin Attack:
  • New Superpower:
  • New Year Has Come: After the episode “Christmas Spirit”, the new year day has come.
  • Next Tier Power-Up:
  • Night Parade of One Hundred Demons:
  • Nightmare Face: The Dark Warlords do this.
    • Ryo’s face becomes nightmarish and demonic when he gets triggered.
    • Ryo has a nightmare where his face is melting, and another one where Mia's face is melting too. And people say it is a lighthearted show.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
  • Nightmare Sequence: Ryo’s Nightmare
  • Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot:
  • No, I Am Behind You:
  • No Animals Were Harmed: It has the disclaimer, “No animals were harmed in the production of the series or film” in its closing credits.
  • Nobody Here but Us Statues:
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: Like this on up there, it has the disclaimer “No celebrities were harmed in the production of the series or film” in its closing credits.
  • No Communities Were Harmed: Just like those, “No communities were harmed in the production of the series or film”.
  • Nonchalant Dodge:
  • Non-Human Sidekick: White Blaze and Black Blaze, natch.
  • Noose Catch:
  • Nose Shove:
  • Off with His Head!: This happens when the characters decapitate the opponent by chomping off their heads, ripping them off, or biting them off.
  • Oh, Crap!:
    • "Oh, Crap!" Smile:
    • Delayed “Oh, Crap!”:
    • Explain, Explain.. Oh, Crap!:
    • Mass “Oh, Crap!”:
    • Oh, No… Not Again!:
  • The Olympics: "Summer Olympics: Atlanta '96" and "Winter Olympics: Nagano '98"
  • On the Next: The English dub of the series did not have these. They were left intact for the DVD release of the OVAs, though.
  • One-Eyed Shot:
  • One-Hit Kill: This is full of One-Hit Kill techniques.
  • One-Hit Polykill: This is how the first battle ends, with Sage firing his Zap Cannon through both Cale and Ryo, killing both.
  • Orifice Invasion:
  • Orifice Evacuation:
  • Origin Episode: In the first episode of the first season, “We Are Ronin Warriors, Hear Us Roar!”.
  • The Other Darrin:
    • When the tv series becomes revived, Ronin Warriors will dub later in the future. All characters have new voice actors, but all four of them reprised those roles; Matt Hill as Ryo Sanada, Andrew Francis as Kento Rei Fang,  Paul Dobson as Anubis, and David Kaye as the Ancient One. All new voice actors will be replaced:
      • Sage: Michael Donovan -> Kirby Morrow
      • Cyrus: Michael Donovan -> Samuel Vincent
      • Rowen: Ward Perry -> Mark Hildreth
      • Sekhmet: Ward Perry -> Brian Drummond
      • Cale: Richard Newman -> Scott McNeil
      • Dais: Matt Smith -> Michael Adamthwaite
      • Kayura: Jane Perry -> Nicole Oliver
      • Mia: Lalainia Lindbjerg -> Kelly Sheridan
      • Yuli: Christopher Turner -> Cathy Weseluck
      • Talpa: Mina E. Mina -> Richard Newman
  • Our Monsters Are Different: Youkai are Japanese mythical creatures and others.
    • Our Demons Are Different: All soldiers are demons.
    • Our Dragons Are Different
    • Our Ghosts Are Different
    • Our Werewolves Are Different:
  • Outrun the Fireball:
  • Over-the-Top Roller Coaster:
  • Overcrank
  • Overly Long Scream: Happens in the films.
    • In this film "Ronin Warriors III: The Next Level", Rowen's scream when he realizes how much mileage is on his father's Ferrari when he and Sage pick it up from the garage.
      • Sage: (to the viewers) Here’s where Rowen goes berserk.
    • Ryo in "Ronin Warriors IV: Judgement Day", when Dr. Takeshi charges into the Pit of Despair and cranks an electric machine to its maximum setting.
  • Painful Transformation: When Ryo assumes either of his armors, it looks like it causes him pain. The others show signs of this too, albeit to a lesser extent. Ryo is definitely in pain when he is forced to don the Inferno Armor by Kayura and the Nether Spirits, who corrupt the armor in the process.
  • Paper Cutting:
  • Parody Episode: Besides its usual plots, the show had several episodes like this, including a parody of Mortal Kombat, Fast & Furious, Pokemon, and Digimon.
    • Do this one where the five boys form a Boy Band, "Backstreet Warriors".
    • There's one episode devoted to poking fun at various superhero movies.
    • One episode is devoted to old horror monsters like the ones from Monster Mash, including Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932), The Wolf Man (1941), and Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).
  • Pass the Popcorn:
  • Pastel-Chalked Freeze Frame:
  • Phlegmings:
  • Picture Drama
  • “Pop!” Goes the Human: After the boys go to the fifth stage, Kento inflates himself by inhaling and finally commits suicide by jabbing himself hard, causing a Ludicrous Gibs explosion of flesh, Body Horror indeed. Then he comes back from his death.
  • Popular with Furries:
  • Portrait Painting Peephole:
  • Potty Emergency:
  • Potty Failure:
  • Powder Trail:
  • The Power of Friendship:
  • Prank Gone Too Far:
  • Pre Explosion Glow: In the last episode of the final season of the revival, Emperor Talpa is starting to burst after being defeated by the Ronin Warriors.
  • Precision F-Strike: During a revival of the same name especially aired on Adult Swim’s Toonami, Most Characters are depicted as very rude and foul-mouthed men. They do, however, say “hell”, “shit”, “fuck”, “son of a bitch”, etc. a few times, but, hey, you should take what they give...
  • Pretty Little Headshots:
  • Previously On…: Early episodes did this, summarizing their journey up until then.
  • Prison Episode: "A Mission to Save Ryo Sanada", not the good guys Ronin Warriors, but the bad guys Dark Warlords are being arrested for abusing Ryo and his friends on 24/7. They are led into American Prison by police officers.
  • Pro Wrestling Episode: In “Ronin Warriors Extreme” episode “Wrestler in All of Us”.
  • Profane Last Words:
  • Profanity Police:
  • Prophet Eyes:
  • Protection in Mouth:
  • “Psycho” Shower Murder Parody:
  • Psychosomatic Superpower Outage: Kento loses the ability to summon his armor after Talpa convinces him that the armor is inherently evil.
  • Public Bathhouse Scene: A common occurrence where the boys go to a bathhouse.
  • Punch a Wall:
  • Punched Across The Room:
  • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!:
  • R-Rated Opening: In the first episode of “Ronin Warriors”, starting with Ryo Sanada’s father being mauled by a wild animal as a kid stares in horror at the corpse.
  • RPG Episode: "Dungeon Master" has a MMORPG example involving Ryo and his members playing the "Dungeon Master" computer game. It only has five players they control; Ryo is a knight, Sage is a guardian, Cyrus is a magician, Kento is a berserker, and Rowen is a ranger.
  • Railroad Tracks of Doom: The boys race a train on foot, thanks to Cyrus being so slow to cross the tracks at first.
  • Reaction Shot:
  • Recycled Animation:
  • Recycled in Space: Ronin Warriors in Outer Space
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: The evil dynasties do this.
  • Red Filter of Doom:
  • Red Sky, Take Warning: In this episode "Halloween Curse Part 2: The Howling'', the sky turns red when the full moon rises before Ryo turns into a werewolf.
  • Reduced to Dust: Any time an evil dynasty is destroyed by Ryo or Sage.
  • Reflectionless Useless Eyes:
  • Reflective Eyes:
  • Relocating the Explosion:
  • Remaster:
  • Remember The New Guy?: Horus of Storm is the fifth of the five Dark Warlords in the series who is a vulture demon, and an evil counterpart of Rowen Hashiba.
  • Repeat Cut: Almost every episode features a single shot repeated three to five times.
  • Required Secondary Powers: The Inferno Armor's increased power eventually shatters the swords Ryo used with the Wildfire armor. He eventually acquires the more potent Soul Swords Of Fervor, which can handle the power of the Inferno.
    • The various Armors grant immunity to the element that strengthens them - The Wildfire Armor can be worn in an active volcano without being affected by the heat, the Tempest Armor allows the wearer to breathe underwater, and so on.
  • Resized Vocals:
  • Retractable Appendages:
  • The Reveal:
  • Right-Hand Attack Dog: In the same theme, Cale believes Fenrir is honestly a jackal, but shown to be quite evil at times.
  • Road Trip Plot:
  • Rōnin: Averted given the name difference. We have both Watson and Doylist explains for how it is averted:
    • Despite the group's name, nothing indicates that they are former vassals of a feudal lord. While ronin does typically refer to a samurai who lost their master, the meaning has become somewhat garbled, in that it could also refer to a samurai who never had a master in the first place. Ronin are also frequently portrayed as being either bodyguards or mercenaries. In one possible interpretation, the Ancient One could be their master, so the heroes did not become true ronin until the Ancient One sacrificed himself to provide passage to Talpa's castle. To justify why they were always called ronin, the Ancient One often did his work in secret, which gave our heroes the appearance of having no master. The heroes also lack a true leader, as they tend to make decisions as a group. They are samurai who act as if they have no master to guide them—hence, they are ronin.
    • The original show was called Yoroiden Samurai Troopers and had nothing to do with ronin. The dub title was most likely thought up as a catchy two-word title that could get the point of the series across, rather than being a title with any deeper meaning.
  • Rope Bridge:
  • Rump Roast:
  • Rustproof Blood:
  • Samurai:
  • Samurai Cowboy:
  • Samurai Shinobi:
  • Street Samurai:
  • Samurai in Ninja Town:
  • Sauna of Death:
  • Savage Wolves: In this episode “The Curse of the Werewolf”, a pack of wolves are savage against Ryo.
  • Scary Shiny Glasses:
  • Scatting:
  • Screen Shake:
  • Screens Are Cameras:
  • Second-Person Attack:
  • Security Cling: Two teens cling on each other, screaming and then run away when Sage punishes Shingo with a crowbar.
  • Seesaw Catapult:
  • Seize Them:
  • Sentai: Of the Ronin Warriors.
  • Sequel Goes Foreign: Three of the episodes. In episode 120, again, the first one is set in New York, USA in "Independence Day". In episode 153, the next one in Shanghai, China in "The Chinese Zodiac Guardians". And finally, in episode 175, the last one in Atlanta, Georgia in "Summer Olympics: Atlanta '96".
    • In two of these films, one is set in the same city just like episode 175 did where the boys went while Mia, Yulie, and White Blaze went to Miami, Florida, and another one in Los Angeles, California.
  • Seven Deadly Sins: The Seven Mortal Lords.
  • Shadow Discretion Shot:
  • Share the Male Pain:
  • Shifted to CGI:
  • Shirtless Scene:
  • Shout-Out: Ryo knows how to use “Fire Fist” when Terry Bogard’s attack move from Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters is used, and he uses “Fireball” and “Wildfire Uppercut” when Ryu’s attack moves from Street Fighter can be used saying “Hadouken!” and “Shoryuken!”. Also his first attack move is “Fire Blast” when Goku’s special attack move from Dragon Ball Z is used like “Kamehameha!”.
  • The Show Goes Hollywood: In the final episode of the last season, "The Final Showdown", the main characters go to Hollywood, celebrating their 10th anniversary. In this film "Ronin Warriors: Samurai in Los Angeles", they also go to the same place, celebrating 15th anniversary.
  • Show Within a Show: They have the widely popular anime Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Saint Seiya, Cowboy Bebop, and Code Geass.
  • Side Bet:
  • Signature Move:
  • Signs of Disrepair: In this episode “Bad Day on the Midway”, When Ronin Warriors visit the Laughter House, Ryo attempts to save a bull by taking him to the Laughter House, which the boys believe is a comedy club. They are horrified when that turns out not to be the case and a bull is slaughtered. Then a farmer puts an “S” in front of a word “Laughter”, which clears things up for the boys.
  • Sizeshifter: Ronin Warriors and Dark Warlords do this to grow into 50-foot Gigantax Forms.
  • Ski-Resort Episode: During Ronin Warriors Winter Special, the main characters go to a ski-resort.
  • Spooky Painting:
  • Smashing Watermelons:
  • Sleeves Are For Wimps: Five boys wear standard sleeveless male uniforms during Martial Art Academy.
  • Sliding Scale of Animal Cast: A TV series has mainly human casts, but also White Blaze, a large white tiger, is the only companion animal in the series.
  • Slippery Skid:
  • Slow-Motion Fall:
  • Smash to Black:
  • Snap to the Side:
  • So Much for Stealth: In "Police Samurai", the criminal attempts to sneak behind Ryo trying to kill with a knife while Ryo discovers to find his members until he steps on a soda can, crushing it so loudly. Ryo can hear something.
  • Space Episode: In one episode called “Space Warriors”.
  • Space Whale:
  • Sparkling Stream of Tears: Almost every episode of Extreme series is quite sparkly.
  • Speed Echoes:
  • Spike Balls of Doom:
  • Spin to Deflect Staff: Kento/Shu does this with his Blade on a Stick. Also happens with the Ancient's staff.
  • Split-Screen Reaction: Used a lot where the victim will yell commands or encouragement to the onscreen characters as they act.
  • Spooky Animal Sounds:
    • Halloween Curse Part 1 & 2: During Halloween night, the beginning scene takes place at night and an eerie wolf's howl can be heard, also features an owl hooting, a cat yowling, and a crow cawing can be heard.
    • The Curse of the Werewolf: Ryo finds himself gripped by terror at the idea of spending the night in the forest and spends both nights startling at a wolf howls, Ryo can hear it before a pack of wolves come out.
    • Monster Mash: This is also where the wolf's howl can be heard, an owl hooting, a cat yowling, and a crow cawing can be heard.
  • Squashed Flat:
  • Squeaky Eyes:
  • Squeamish About Slaughter: In this episode “Bad Day on the Midway”, When the boys see a bull named Toro, Ryo accidentally takes him to the slaughterhouse due to thinking it was a comedy club because the letter “S” was missing, so it read “Laughter House”.
  • Staredown Faceoff:
  • Staring Contest:
  • The Stinger:
  • Strike Episode: "A Mission to Save Ryo Sanada", a group of people in the world are shown feeling overworked, underpaid, underappreciated, or any combination thereof, decides to take action against their bosses and go on strike. “Dark Warlords are Criminals”.
  • Stock "Yuck!": While in the restaurant, Ryo dislikes wasabi sushi Rowen gives them to him, it tastes bitter.
    • Ryo: Wasabi on sushi? Gross! I hate it!
  • Stock Footage: The transformation sequences and their Super Move footage are all recycled and reused throughout the series. Many of the battle sequences are also reused constantly.
  • Stock Scream: In the English dub of “Ronin Warriors”, it can be heard when a soldier gets struck down by the five main heroes with Wilhelm, Insane Tantrum, or Howie Long Screams being used.
  • Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Sadako from the episode “The Ring”
  • Suck E. Cheese’s: As a child, Rowen went to Tama Neko’s Pizza Place with his parents for his 10th birthday.
  • Suck Out the Poison:
  • Suicide Dare: Ryo tells Kale to kill himself instantly.
    • Ryo: Die, Kale! Kill yourself!
    • Kale: (pulls out his sword) I’ll see you in hell, Ronin Dummies! (stabs himself)
  • Sumo Wrestling:
  • Super Mode: The Inferno Armor is this for Ryo.
  • Super Not-Drowning Skills: Justified in that the mystical armors allow their wearers to breathe underwater. However, only Torrent and Venom actually benefit from being underwater.
  • Super Strength: All of the heroes have great levels of superhuman strength thanks to the armors. Official canon sources say that Kento is physically the strongest of the heroes, though.
  • Superhero Episode:
  • Supervillain Lair: Emperor Oda’s Lair
  • Surprise Creepy:
  • Surprisingly Creepy Moment:
  • Unexpectedly Dark Episode: It is already often dark and disturbing for Toonami standards, but several episodes go farther.
  • Swallowed Whole: Those monsters will consume the victim a whole.
  • Sword Lines:
  • Take That!:
  • Team Spirit: It is very strongly emphasized that the warriors must work together, and this is taken to the next level with the White Inferno Armor which depends on the entire team joining forces to create it.
  • Tear Off Your Face:
  • Tears of Fear:
  • The Tooth Hurts:
  • Theme Tune Roll Call: Crunchyroll’s dub theme song is only accurate aired on Toonami.
    • Sage: “Halo!”
    • Cye: “Torrent!”
    • Kento: “Hardrock!”
    • Rowen: “Strata!”
    • Ryo: “Wildfire!”
  • This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!:
  • Thrown Out the Airlock:
  • Thundering Herd:
  • Thunder Shock:
  • Tickle Torture: The Monster of the Week of episode 12 inflicts this on Rowen after immobilising him with its Combat Tentacles.
    • Ryo gets tickled by a Centipede Demon in his first round of the Combat Tournament.
  • Time Travel Episode:
  • Timed Mission:
  • Title: The Adaptation: Ronin Warriors: The Motion Picture
  • Title Drop:
    • Ryo: We are the Ronin Warriors, and you guys are dead.
  • To Be Continued:
  • Tongue on the Flagpole: During snowy days, he and his members are debating on whether or not a tongue will get stuck to a frozen object. Ryo is given a triple dog dare to lick the flagpole, and Mia has to call 911 to release him.
  • Tongue Trauma:
  • The Tonsillitis Episode: "The Tonsillitis", Ryo is unable to breathe fire due to his suffering from tonsillitis in his throat after eating a spicy ramen. Mia checks inside his mouth, he needs to go surgery to get his tonsils removed.
  • Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Ryo gets eaten by a toad demon, and then what happened? His armor is too spicy for a toad demon.
    • When Ryo gets sucked by one of the vampires, Alucard is burning because of Ryo's blood, the taste of a garlic becoming too spicy for him.
  • The Tooth Hurts:
  • Torn Apart by the Mob:
  • Torture Chamber Episode: Anubis spends much of episode 8 being brutally whipped and beaten in a torture chamber in the Great Temple.
  • Totem Pole Trench: In one episode, as children, Ryo and Rowen end up disguising themselves as one person. Rowen was at the head of the disguise wearing a fake mustache and a hat.
  • Toy Transmutation: The Puppeteer Demon turns Ronin Warriors into dolls and makes all puppets, except Ryo.
  • Train Problem:
  • Traintop Battle:
  • Training Montage:
  • Transformation Discretion Shot:
  • Transformation Horror: In the episodes “Halloween Curse Part 2: Bad Moon Rising” and “The Curse of the Werewolf”, Ryo becomes a black-furred, red-eyed werewolf. It’s a Painful Transformation that even resorts to only his shadow in the final takes.
    • Ronin Warriors do these transforming into the scariest monsters that phase for their lives.
  • Transformation Is a Free Action
    • The enemies wait to fight a fully-armored Ronin to get a better challenge out of the battle—that, or the actual armoring-up sequences only last mere seconds in the real world.
  • Transformation Sequence: The warriors putting on their full armor has a sequence of By The Power Of GreySkull, cherry blossoms, and pictures of them posing before the battle continues.
  • Transformation Trinket: Ronin Warriors used crystal marbles.
  • Trap Door:
  • Travel Cool:
  • True Companions: The Ronin Warriors are this to each other, as almost all of them come from various broken homes. By the time the invasion is over, they are practically brothers.
  • Twinkle in the Eye:
  • Urban Fantasy:
  • Unblockable Attack:
  • Unflinching Walk:
  • Underlighting
  • Unhand Them, Villain!:
  • Use Their Own Weapon Against Them:
  • Vacation Episode:
  • Valentine’s Day Episode:
  • Vampire Episode: "Night of the Vampire", after Rowen gets bitten in the neck by a vampire bat and sent to a hospital, he turns into a vampire.
  • Vampires Hate Garlic:
  • [Verb] This!:
  • Villains Want Mercy: All evil dynasties want mercy before the Ronin Warriors kill them.
  • Virtue/Vice Codification: Each of the armors has an accompanying virtue associated with the code of Bushido / Confucianism, interestingly four of them belong to villains.
    • Heroes
      • Armor of Wildfire: Righteousness/Benevolence (Rekka)
      • Armor of Halo: Grace/Courtesy (Kōrin)
      • Armor of Torrent: Trust (Suiko)
      • Armor of Hardrock: Justice (Kongō)
      • Armor of Strata: Wisdom (Tenkū)
    • Villains
      • Armor of Cruelty: Loyalty (Ogre/Riki)
      • Armor of Corruption: Piety (Jackal/Darkness/Shikoku)
      • Armor of Venom: Obedience (Snake/Yakushi)
      • Armor of Illusion: Endurance (Spider/Mugen)
      • Armor of Storm: Serenity (Vulture/Taifū)
  • Viva Las Vegas!: "Samurai in Las Vegas"
  • Voices in One Room:
  • Volumetric Mouth: It often has this happen whenever a character yells due to the art style.
  • Vomit Discretion Shot: This happens to Rowan in a second episode of the same name, after Ryo, who was going through severe dental health (don’t ask), kicks him in the stomach. Before he vomits, it cuts to the next scene.
  • Voodoo Doll:
  • Wall Slump:
  • Warrior Undead:
  • We Can Rule Together:
  • Weak to Fire: An ice dynasty soldier is weak to Ryo of the Wildfire.
  • A Weighty Aesop: In this episode "An Appetite for Battle '', where after eating burgers and fries to his heart’s content without fear of gaining weight, Kento goes on a diet and exercise frenzy when he's gotten heavier. After becoming humanly obese, Kento discovers that his fast food has been tainted by the power of a ghost, and only returns to his normal self after the ghost is destroyed.
    • In the episode “Sumo Tournament” of “Ronin Warriors”.
    • In this episode “A Diet System”, Ryo gets really fat after eating lots of fast food in one week and gets called "fatty" by the members of Ronin Warriors.
  • What Do You Mean, It’s for Kids?: The original anime and its manga adaptation; this tv series is extremely dark and violent, there is some gory in pretty much every episode, but obviously it’s for teenagers and it’s rated TV-14. It is a revival and reboot of the original 1988 anime series of the same name.
  • What Does This Button Do?:
  • Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: It happens to most characters, their irises shrunken when they’re shocked, terrified, or raged while resulting in some pretty disturbing faces.
  • Wink "Ding!":
  • Wintertime Episode: "Snowy Day in Tokyo"
  • Wolves Always Howl at the Moon: In this episode “The Curse of the Werewolf”, Ryo transforms into a werewolf and howls at the full moon. After that, Cale also transforms into a werewolf and howls at the full moon.
    • In a Halloween special, again, Ryo as a wolfman, howls at the full moon right after he transforms into a werewolf.
  • World-Healing Wave:
  • Wrecked Weapon: After gaining the Inferno Armor transformation, Ryo broke his original swords of Wildfire through the power of the armor. After reforging them, he had to quest into a volcano to find the new swords that went with the armor.
  • Yokai: All monsters appeared in every single episode.
    • Amanojaku
    • Aobozu
    • Bakeneko and Nekomata: Types of cat yokai.
    • Baku: Dream-eating tapir-like creature.
    • Futakuchi-onna and Hari-onna
    • Gashadokuro: A giant undead skeleton manifested from the souls of people who died from war, plague, or famine.
    • Hitodama Light: Wispy lights that hover around ghosts and possessed people.
    • Hyakki Yagyō: A night festival packed to the gills with Youkai.
    • Inugami and Okami: Dog and wolf spirits. Usually malevolent, and often found serving as familiars to witches.
    • Kamaitachi: A weasel-like creature with sickle-like claws that rides wind currents and cuts people.
    • Kappa: A "river goblin" resembling a cross between a monkey, a frog, and a turtle.
    • Karakasa: An old umbrella comes to life. A type of tsukumogami yokai.
    • Kitsune: Magical foxes with the ability to shapeshift into (usually female) human forms. Closely related to the Korean kumiho and Chinese huli-jing.
    • Namahage
    • Nue: A chimera/manticore-esque beast with the head of a monkey, a tiger's body, and a snake for a tail.
    • Nukekubi and Rokurokubi
    • Nurikabe: A living obstructive barrier.
    • Oni: Big, muscular horned humanoids that are similar to ogres.
    • Orochi: A giant, multi-headed dragon or serpent.
    • Raijū: The animalistic personification of lightning.
    • Sazae Oni
    • Shinigami: A spirit of death.
    • Tanuki: A real-world animal also known as the "raccoon dog", treated in Japanese mythology as a shapeshifting trickster.
      • Tanuki/Kitsune Contrast: When Kitsune and Tanuki appear in the same work, they tend to be paired together and treated as rivals, or otherwise compared and contrasted.
    • Tengu: Mountain-dwelling humanoids which either have long noses or resemble crows.
    • Tsuchigumo and Jorogumo: Shapeshifting spiders which usually take the form of beautiful women to seduce male prey.
    • Tsuchinoko: A stout little snake cryptid.
    • Ushi-oni
    • Yuki-onna: A pale, female snow spirit.
    • Yuki-usagi (snow rabbits)
    • Yurei: Ghosts who have returned from beyond the grave to get revenge on their enemies.
    • Onryo: A vengeful female spirit, usually with long, stringy black hair and pale skin.
    • Zashiki-warashi: A childlike spirit that should be cared for to keep one's house in good fortune.
  • "You!" Exclamation:
  • You Are Too Late:
  • You Bastard!:
  • You Fool:
  • You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Rowan (blue), Sekhmet (green), and Dais (white).
  • You Have Failed Me:
  • You Monster!:
  • You Are Already Dead:
  • You Can Run, but You Can't Hide:
  • Your Head A-Splode:
  • Your Mom: In the heat of battle against Cale, Ryo yells, "Your mom wears army boots!"
  • Zen Slap:
  • Zombie Apocalypse: "Night of the Dead"
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