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In Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Hamato Ninpō is the greatest traditional art of the Hamato Clan.

Overview[]

Hamato Ninpō is an ancient mystic power derived from a very powerful source of unknown origins that makes the art exclusive to the Hamato Clan called the Hamato essence, a type of life force that is passed down through generations of the clan. Hamato Ninpō gives its users access to the collective power of past Hamato Clan members, bestowing its users a large amount of mystic energy that grants them various superhuman abilities. Hamato commonly possess an additional ability (e.g., technology generation) as well as the base superhuman powers given by Hamato Ninpō, but many users don't possesses a unique ability exclusive to oneself because the large number of Hamato Clan members makes shared unique abilities inevitable and there are a limited amount of possible unique Hamato Ninpō abilities.[1]

The technique is unlocked by wholly connecting and trusting in one's family. This is shown when Raphael trusts April O'Neil and his brothers to save him after he jumps off a waterfall in "Finale Part 3: Anatawa Hitorijanai", which they succeed in doing. Contact with mystic powers helps users to initially access it[2] and the more exposure users have to mystic powers in general, the stronger their Hamato Ninpō passively grows[3], but said expansion is delimited. When executing a powerful action (e.g., time gateway-opening), Hamato Ninpō demands a significant amount of energy from its users. This consequence can be seen impacting Hamato Karai and Michelangelo from the original timeline with premature aging afflicting Mikey, who physically is in his seventies (roughly) but is only in his thirties chronologically. Tapping into Hamato Ninpō may have also caused Mikey to become shorter after reaching his adult height.[4][5][6]

As a mystic power, Hamato Ninpō can be suppressed if affected by a mystic power negating ability as shown in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie, forcefully restricting its users' access to it.

Accessible abilities[]

The Hamato Ninpō technique allows the clan to access many different forms of mystic powers. The following are the known accessible abilities unlocked by the characters in the show:

  • Family empowerment: Hamato Ninpō hinges on its users' connection to their family members and its strength is derived from the power of past Hamato generations themselves as well as its users' personal power.
    • Supernatural agility: Hamato Ninpō grants its users immense agility, allowing them to easily maneuver in a manner that would be extremely difficult to accomplish otherwise, displayed when April was able to land safely after being abruptly thrown off her bicycle.
    • Supernatural speed: Hamato Ninpō allows its users to become impossibly swift, becoming as fast as the Shredder, and dodge his strikes with ease.
    • Supernatural strength: Hamato Ninpō allows its users to harness superhuman strength, as shown when Karai carried Raph, who was twice her size, away from the Shredder and to safety and when Donatello was able to easily maneuver a drill many times his size.
    • Supernatural leap: Hamato Ninpō has been shown to give its users the ability to leap to extraordinary heights effortlessly.
    • Supernatural durability: Hamato Ninpō amplifies its users' physical resilience shown when the Mad Dogs fought the Shredder while sustaining multiple critical hits from him including being struck by giant blades erected from the ground and struck by an enormous blast of flame.
    • Weapon transformation: Hamato Ninpō allows its users to supernaturally shape a weapon from seemingly any object. This is seen when Karai turned a bust sculpture of Donnie into a blade of energy and transformed rubble fragments into energetic spears, as well as when the Turtles wielded gardening tools forged by Todd Capybara and were able to transform them into formal ninja weapons. All were powerful enough to penetrate and wound the Shredder temporarily and eventually end his existence when all of the clan gathered to defeat him with their combined Hamato Ninpō. The weapons also happen to grant its users special abilities: teleportation from Leonardo's twin katana, duplication from Raph's twin sai, technological constructs created from Donnie's , and fire generation from Michelangelo's pair of nunchaku, though it is unknown if these were from the weapons or not. Karai's advanced version of weapon transformation allows her to turn her body in its entirety into a sword, however, it is currently unknown if other Hamato Ninpō users are capable of this ability or if it is exclusive to Karai.
    • Ancestral evocation: Hamato Ninpō grants its users the ability to summon or commune with deceased Hamato Clan members shown when Karai summoned several spirits of Hamato Clan members ("Shreddy or Not") and when April touched Raph so he could meet with Karai's spirit ("Anatawa Hitorijanai").
    • Outfit alteration: Hamato Ninpō is capable of bestowing a new outfit (including hairstyle) upon its users by altering the colors of their current outfit and/or giving them an entirely new one, notably Splinter and the Mad Dogs.
    • Soul transferal: Karai was able to allow her soul to inhabit April's body in "Anatawa Hitorijanai". The power allows a Hamato Clan member's soul to passively magnify their host's abilities by residing within them instead of possessing their host and dictating their actions. It also creates a mental link between the spirit and its host, allowing them to communicate. April referred to it as "a Hamato glowy light thing", however, it is currently unclear if this ability is exclusive to Karai or whether it is only possible while dying/having died.
    • Technology generation: Donnie can create or link with variations of his inventions using Hamato Ninpō, even improving them.
    • Blade teleportation: Using his sword as a point of focus, Leo can teleport himself or anyone holding one of his swords to the location of the other. This teleportation ability is restricted to relatively short distances, especially as compared to Mikey's Hamato Ninpō time gateway creation ability which is powerful enough to span through all of time and space.[7]
    • Self-replication: Raph can manifest duplicates of himself at an undefined limit with Hamato Ninpō. Each clone shows no decrease in strength or speed. However, these clones are frail, and if damaged enough, will disappear, briefly leaving behind a red silhouette of where they first disappeared at before completely dissipating.
    • Levitation: In the original timeline, Mikey's body was able to hover in the air and he could easily choose to plant his feet on the ground as well.
    • Time gateway creation: Mikey's Hamato Ninpō had grown in the original timeline to allow him to travel through time and space, creating a portal to decades in the past. However, the ability proved to be lethal as Mikey just barely managed to execute time gateway creation before the mystic energy overwhelmed his body and ended his life.
    • Gateway creation: Mikey is able to create portals into different dimensions like the Krang prison dimension with Hamato Ninpō, however, the physical toll of the mystic energy output must be distributed among at least two others in order to perform the ability without injury.

Known users[]

*Deceased members are in italics and marked with a dagger (†).

History[]

Hamato Ninpō was first utilized by the Hamato Clan's founder Karai 500 years ago to defeat her father Oroku Saki after he was possessed by the Kuroi Yōroi and became the Shredder. With her abilities augmented by Hamato Ninpō, Karai struck the Shredder with her sword and banished the both of them to the Twilight Realm.

Karai demonstrated and briefly explained Hamato Ninpō in "Finale Part 2: Shreddy or Not" to Splinter and the Turtles. She agreed to train the Turtles in accessing the power, but was interrupted by the Foot Clan's intrusion. Later, Karai attempted to use her Ninpō against the Shredder in Donnie's laboratory, but was unable to harness it for more than a few moments due to her weakened state. She managed to tap into a weakened version of her Ninpō to dismember the Shredder to save Raph and projected a surge powerful enough to split the Shredder's chest open.

Karai transferred her spirit into April's body in "Finale Part 3: Anatawa Hitorijanai" after dying from the wound she sustained from the Shredder, enhancing April's abilities with Hamato Ninpō. April found the Turtles at Cuddle Cakes Puppy Rescue and tried to educate them on unleashing their own Ninpō with Karai's instruction, but the Turtles struggled to learn. Once Raph snapped under his frustration, Karai's spirit privately met with him and it was then the Turtles unlocked their Ninpō to save Raph after he leaped from a waterfall in a show of trust.

The Mad Dogs used Hamato Ninpō in "Finale Part 4: Rise" to combat the Shredder at the Crying Titan and later Splinter managed to access his Ninpō after being rescued from the Hamato essence extraction ritual. The Mad Dogs unified their mystic powers to form a giant energetic spear and the aggregated Ninpō of the Hamato Clan and its ancestors was able to obliterate the Kuroi Yōroi in a single stab, ending the Shredder.

As of Rise of the TMNT: The Movie, the Turtles seemingly harness Hamato Ninpō regularly and have since advanced their capabilities. They each utilized it during their mission to disrupt Hypno-Potamus and Warren Stone's robbery, but ultimately lost what they had stolen. In an attempt to rectify the failed mission and take the Mystic Key from the Foot, the Turtles located the Foot at their hideout and unleashed Hamato Ninpō against the Krang, but their ability to harness it was arrested by Krang One's negation power. Despite their attempts, the Turtles remained unable to utilize Hamato Ninpō until their confrontation with Krang One inside the Technodrome, where Raph was the first to regain access to it due to Leo urging him from his Krang zombie state followed by Leo, Mikey, and Donnie. Empowered with their Ninpō again, a battle between the Turtles and Krang One in his Titan ensued, however, it became apparent that the Ninpō of only the four of them didn't provide the strength needed to overpower Krang One. Seeking to trap Krang One back in the Krang prison dimension instead of destroy him, Leo teleported him and himself into it with Hamato Ninpō, but was quickly disarmed.

Trivia[]

  • It is currently unclear whether the Hamato Ninpō is passed through Hamato Clan bloodline, as April could tap into the power despite not considering herself part of the clan. Yet Karai told her that she had always been one of them, and left April the family portrait Mikey had drawn earlier which included April. Ancestry or not, April is still considered family by members of the Hamato Clan, and the Ninpō draws its strength from the bonds shared by family. And later, in the combined clan's effort to finally destroy the Shredder, the power could at least momentarily be harnessed and given boost by the Turtles' non-Hamato father Baron Draxum and their non-Hamato new friend Cassandra Jones, and these two were present when Karai thanked the group of living people, addressing them all as her "young Hamatos".

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