Was in the middle of a wiki-crawl when I came across this:
According to a document, the Iranki, when Nobunaga was inspecting Iga province — which his army had devastated — a group of three ninja shot at him with large-caliber firearms. The shots flew wide of Nobunaga, however, and instead killed seven of his surrounding companions.
It was sourced to a published work, so I'm assuming that the research is accurate. In which case, I hope that the ninja were carrying multiple guns each, otherwise I'd have to wonder how they managed to kill seven people with three shots from 1570s-standard man-portable firearms. 
They weren't standard, they were actually closer to cannons. Needed to be to have a chance at taking out Nobunaga!
He was nearly as good as Rasputin at surviving assassination attempts.
Wait. Wait ONE FUCKING SECOND. Rasputin was a legendary, nigh-unkillable. Vladmir Putin is a legendary badass. Vladmir was the name of a legendary vampire. HOW DID WE MISS IT!?
Putin is the newest cover identity of the being formerly known as Vlad Țepeș and Rasputin.
I thought you guys all knew that! There's two of them, by the way - the other is Christopher Lee, formerly known as Merlin.
