Hamato Ninpō

**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. 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 "Anatawa Hitorijanai", which they succeed in doing.

## Accessible Powers

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 Hamato 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 blazing 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 bō, and weapon enhancement from Michelangelo's pair of nunchaku, though it is unknown if these were from the weapons or not.
	+ **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 and when April touched Raph so he could meet with Karai's spirit. This can also be achieved through writing shown when a mystic scroll was able to "guide" Splinter, but was ultimately rejected and shredded by him.
	+ **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.
	+ **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.

## Known Users

* Hamato Karai
* Other Hamato Clan ancestors
* Hamato Sho
* Hamato Atsuko
* Hamato Yoshi
* April O'Neil
* Donatello
* Leonardo
* Michelangelo
* Raphael
* Baron Draxum (in final combined effort with Hamato Clan)
* Cassandra Jones (in final combined effort with Hamato Clan)

## 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 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 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 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.