Ninja Gladiator

Ninja Gladiator is a video game from the Transformers Animated continuity family.

"Finish him! ...Friendship?!"

Ninja Gladiator is a fighting game enjoyed a little bit too much by Bumblebee. The game includes a four-armed insectoid and a ninja clad all in black. In the background of at least one stage is the face of the TORQ III computer.

Fiction

Animated cartoon

Bumblebee neglected monitor duty to play Ninja Gladiator, despite being admonished by Optimus Prime. This may have been a mistake, since his negligence allowed Wasp to get the drop on him. The rogue Autobot proceeded to switch places with Bumblebee in an attempt to exact vengeance. Bulkhead later proposed using the game to prove Bumblebee's identity, since his mega-cycles of practice made him virtually unbeatable. Wasp thought so too, and bolted rather than face the challenge. Where Is Thy Sting?

Notes

• The four-armed insect is modeled after Antron from the Micronauts.
• Derrick Wyatt confirmed the ninja as Snake-Eyes on his Twitter account. [1][2]
• Despite that, he has an oddly strong resemblence to Noob Saibot from the Mortal Kombat series.