While a lone hero can face an entire army, he may have trouble with last few survivors due to the following theory:
Theory of Conservation of Ninjitsu: a cinematic theory proposed and more or less proven by empiricism. The theory states: "the more ninjas there are in a group, the less skilled the individual ninja is." If one ninja attacks you, you're probably fucked, but if a hundred ninjas attack you, you'll be fine. An army of ninjas is so laughably inept as to not be worth mentioning.
This is further enhanced by the Wilde-Mueller-Meyer Corollary: in any group of ninjas, there is apparently a finite and fluid amount of skill. As ninjas are whittled down from the main group, the survivors will grow more skilled as their numbers decrease. Assuming a roughly equal initial division of skill, the last five ninjas out of a group of a hundred are always the most dangerous of the lot, even if they were demonstrably fuckups at the beginning of the fight, and the lone surviving ninja is just as dangerous as if he'd been the only ninja to begin with, if not moreso, due to his rage and grief making him an unstoppable killing machine.
Now we know why Harrek walks alone!
Jeff
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