Thread:The S/@comment-995426-20190328234010

I'm thinking of creating Category:Assassins, but with a caveat: The characters involved must either be hired as assassins, carry out assassinations, or attempt to. My reasoning is that ninja associated with warring clans were traditionally trained to be assassins, but it's obvious that there are ninja characters in TMNT who are not assassins at all, so I'd distinguish characters who are trained and practiced assassins from characters who merely theoretically possess the skills but neither the intent nor task to carry out assassinations.

Of ninja who I would categorize as assassins, I would include:
 * Foot Assassin specialists like Jennika, of course.
 * Hamato Yoshi (IDW), as assassinations were once part of his Foot Clan duties.
 * Shadow Jones (Future) (Mirage).
 * Oroku Karai (IDW).
 * Oroku Saki (IDW).
 * Oroku Saki (Mirage), who assassinated Yoshi and Shen.
 * Splinter (IDW), who personally attempted to assassinate Zom.
 * Turtles (Mirage), as they were tasked with assassination missions both by Splinter in the first issue and by Karai in City at War.
 * Yumi (character), who was tasked with assassinating her father but abandoned her task.

Ninja whom I would very much not consider assassins, including but not necessarily limited to:
 * Michelangelo (IDW), who has never had an appetite for death.
 * Turtles (1987 TV series), because...come on, now.
 * You. Unless you're secretly a hitman. :) 