A slang term for crying while observing somethingtearjerking, such as a sad film scene. This refers to both a ninja's alleged stealth abilities, and the irritation of the eyes by the fluids in an onion.
Guy 1: Did you see that arnie film last night? He was fighting 10,000 ninja midgets riding velociraptors that have tommy guns for arms... on a space volcano that's about to erupt... using only a SHARK CANNON.
A popular fight between two entirely different groups. Based on two different internet subcultures, Pirates and Ninjas, as two very different stereotypes battling out to death. May sometimes have robots, cowbows, or ghosts added to it. The phrase is also used as Ninjas vs Pirates.
They sneak up you when you're watching a movie and a real touching scene comes along and all of a sudden tears are streaming down your cheeks. Hallmark movies are infested with onion ninjas.
We were watching the movie Crash when that little girl ran outside to give her daddy the "invisible cloak" just as the angry Persian guy shot at him, and we all thought he had shot Michael Pena's daughter--only to discover the Persian guy's daughter had earlier put blanks in his gun...oh boy, did the onion ninjas sneak up on everyone when we learned the little girl was OK.