Talk:Loki (Warframe)/@comment-149.200.67.62-20140513122801/@comment-24380741-20140523053228

^ ♫ The more you know ♫. Honestly it is obvious that ninjas have be romanticized by popular culture, like many other things like pirates, demons, vampires (There is not hope for you if you think Twilight has vampires), etc... I understand that ninjas functioned something like spies and such. However, when you say that they rarely killed do you mean they did not perform many assassinations (any method, including poisoning) and really only killed when caught or where you only referencing when they were caught (if they were caught)?

One point I'll make is that even the romanticized versions of ninjas contain a glimmer of truth. After all the clichés had to start somewhere: the tall tales of men. These tales combined with the natural secrecy of ninjas would naturally lead to wild speculation of seemingly magically powers, especially in a society thick in Shinto and Buddhist supernaturalism... Every river begins somewhere.