Real Ultimate Power |
The Official Ninja Webpage: REAL Ultimate Power!!! is a humorous website created by Robert Hamburger about ninja, whom he constantly describes with superlatives typically used by adolescent boys, such as totally sweet . The site has become very popular and has generated large amounts of attention including hate mail, as well as a number of parody. Hamburger describes ninja through three facts : # Ninja are mammals. # Ninja fight ALL the time. # The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.
The site contains a variety of dubious information on ninja, including a .
The sheer amount and some of the contents of the hate mail section (apparently including at least 1 self-proclaiming Ninja Soke (master), which might actually be [http://www.geocities.com/bufusite/ Soke David D Antonio Fujita ], and at least 2 people representing all martial artists or even having actually studied ninja ) suggest that some of the hate mail is actually fake (apart from the fictional lawsuit), or that the response of some people to the site s content was rather irrational and exaggerated. Although, if one were to view the hate mail entries as parody, they would note a distinctly different brand of humor than that which is present throughout the rest of the site, making the responses unlikely to be the creation of the site s author.
RealUltimatePower has also been referenced in the Battlefield 1942 mod, Killer Commando by its use of the Ninja vs Pirates theme in the gameplay. That theme is also present in the online fantasy MMORPG World of Warcraft, where characters who ingest Savory Deviate Delight are randomly transformed into either a ninja (tooltip description: Flip Out ) or a pirate.
Much of the humor associated with the Real Ultimate Power website is obscure, drawing on the common youthful obsession with ninja by elementary and junior high school-age children.
= Real Ultimate Power s secret =
Real Ultimate Power contains a [http://www.realultimatepower.net/ninja/hippo.htm self-referencing parody of itself] which replaces all Ninja references with Hippopotamus , by effectively showing how merely changing subject on a carefully planned but apparently nonsense page can actually be equally funny and more adequate for more than one subject. The fact that there are parodies of Real Ultimate Power about mostly everything including president George W. Bush or All Your Base Are Belong To Us, which change very little of the original text and pictures but still yield a powerful comic effect are further proof of the point.
=Book=
REAL Ultimate Power, The Official Ninja Book (ISBN 080652569X) was published on July 1, 2004. It was published by Citadel, and is 193 pages.
The book s humor is rather darker than that of the RealUltimatePower.net site, with footnotes including psychological evaluations of Robert Hamburger and interviews with his parents. It paints a somewhat tragic, perhaps autobiographical portrait of an isolated, roughly middle-school-aged young boy seeking refuge in his alternate reality of ninja versus pirates; Robert Hamburger is shown to have neglectful parents and severe but easily handled behavioral issues, with fantasies of kidnapping and defective relationships with almost everyone except the book s editor and his dog Francine.
The [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080652569X/qid=1119387555/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-6776726-6843334 product description] posted on Amazon.com reads: : Dear Stupid Idiots, : A lot of you have been saying that I don t know anything about REAL ninja. But that s a bunch of bull crap! You dummies don t know anything. And maybe YOU should get a life. I bet a lot of you have never even seen a girl naked! You idiots believe that ninja had some code of honor . Yeah right! If by code of honor , you mean code to flip out and go nuts for absolutely no reason at all even if it means that people might think you are totally insane or sweet , then you are right. But if you mean a code to be nice and speak nicely while sharing and not cutting off heads , then you re the biggest idiot ever!!!!!! So if you have any brains, you will shut up and get a life. So go shut up, you stupid idiot.
: No thank you,
: Robert Hamburger
=See also=
=External links=
*[http://realultimatepower.net Real Ultimate Power website] *[http://brianx.com/realultimatepower.html The Official Real Ultimate Power Parody Directory Webpage] *[http://snaxor.com/page/Ninja_jeopardy/ Ninja Jeopardy!] A Flash cartoon of Jeopardy!, inspired by Real Ultimate Power *[http://home.mountaincable.net/%7Erandomferret/HOLY%20SHIT!.swf Holy Shit Ninjas!] A music video inspired by Real Ultimate Power.|
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