Recruited from the highest ranks of the COBRA NEO-VIPER corps, the COBRA NINJA TROOPER forces are skilled ninjas trained in the martial arts by STORM SHADOW, master of the elite and mysterious ARASHIKAGE ninja clan. Sinister, cunning, and ruthless, the COBRA NINJA TROOPER warriors are all tenth level black belts in karate, jujitsu, and kung fu, and are trained in several other martial art forms as well. They are extremely obedient and always carry out their orders to the letter. They function as covert subversives who can "persuade" any foe to do their bidding by entrapping the individual in powerful and devastating martial arts maneuvers.