History Anime / KinnikumanNisei

*** Hmmm.... the dMp faction reminds me of a certain other faction... {{NewWorldOrder but I DON'T KNOW WHO....}}

* CleanDubName: Subverted! Gazelleman was renamed 'Dik Dik Van Dik' for the english dub, a change that went over so well that after American TV show XPlay reviewed the (actually good) Ultimate Muscle Gamecube game Adam Sessler started wearing a Dik Dik T-Shirt, constantly referenced Dik Diks and even put (radioactive) Dik Diks into the XPlay online videogame!

* TooGoodToLast: The manga was cancelled in 2011 after the Ultimate Tag arc in favor of a revived ''{{Kinnikuman}}'' series.

* AbusiveParents - Quite the opposite in the case of Mantarou - Kinnikuman was extremely happy to have a son to continue the bloodline of the Kinniku clan that he pampered Mantarou to the point where he became a SpoiledBrat. [[FridgeBrilliance It makes sense]] when you read the original series and see that Kinnikuman's father Mayumi, while not a bad person, [[TheSpartanWay completely]] [[ParentalAbandonment failed]] at being a good father to both of his sons and Kinnikuman probably didn't want history to repeat himself.

* AllAmericanFace - Terry the Kid. LikeFatherLikeSon, after all.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis - Scarface uses this to determine the weakness of an opponent's move and determine how to improve them accordingly. Which he then ''[[MegaManning uses]]'' on the opponent.
* BadassNormal - Played around with. Chaos was simply unaware of his status as a Choujin and thought he was an ordinary human.
* BalloonBelly - Some of Mantarou's eating binges result in this.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor - Kinkotsuman was nothing more than a BigBadWannabe in the original series, who tried desperately to defeat Kinnikuman but was thwarted every time. In hope of finally beating Kinnikuman, he put his rather milquetoast son, Bone Cold, through hellish training. The result? Bone Cold became a certified BadAss, but part of his motivation of becoming one was because he hated his old man's guts (who at this point, had an epiphany and tried to make amends) and wanted to distance himself from how lame Kinkotsuman was.
* BigEater
* BloodKnight - Thirty years later, Neptuneman is still seeking a WorthyOpponent.
* BookDumb - Played with in the dub.
* BoringInvincibleHero - For some, Kevin Mask amounts to this. Has yet to lose a match in the manga. The single arguable counterarguement was when he and Scarface fought the last two Akuma Choujin in the Demon Seed arc, Voltman and [[spoiler: Ashuraman]]. But it was a match where losing one teammate amounted to a loss, so Scarface was the one that was defeated instead.

** He does lose in the semi-finals of the V-Jump manga--and not even to Mantarou!
* BringMyBrownPants - Much like his father, Mantarou's bladder/bowels tend to break down under fear. Also like his father, this has won him matches.
* BumblingDad - Kinnikuman has become this to the point that Mantarou doesn't fear or respect him at all.
* ButNotTooForeign - Terry the Kid is half-Japanese on his mother's side.
* CallBack - Terry the Kid throws a race at one point to save a drowning child (whom nobody had seen drowning because they were busy watching the race). According to him, he was motivated by a memory of his father throwing a contest to save a puppy from an oncoming train - an incident seen in the original ''Kinnikuman''.

* CallingYourAttacks
* CampGay - Pri-Clun, a photo booth Choujin in the second TournamentArc had this as a running gag.
* CanadaEh - Canadaman and Canadaboy (The Manitoban)
* TheCanKickedHim - Wash Ass (Hollywood Bowl)
* CasanovaWannabe - Along with inheriting his father's incredible physique and his EleventhHourSuperpower, ''Burning Inner Strength'' (which was called ''[[TitleDrop Ultimate Muscle]]'' in the English dub) it looks like Mantarou inherited his father's rather poor luck at wooing the ladies.

* CCGImportanceDissonance
* CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown - Kinnikuman Great appears once more in the Ultimate Choujin Tag Team arc, this time as a disguise for Choujin otaku Chaos Avenir. Due to a tear in the mask, his hair pokes out of the forehead of it, just like Mantarou. [[spoiler:In the Finals however due to Chaos' death, Kinnikuman Great arrived with his mask restitched and it was Kevin Mask.]]

* CharacterDevelopment - by the time the Choujin Olympics comes to an end, you will see a completely different Mantarou during his matches, he is more than capable to act without Meat giving him advice every minute, when the Ultimate Choujin Tag Team arc kicks in Mantarou can be considered an independent fighter already, he no longer acts cowardly ''during'' the matches and is now the one to pass some advice to his partner Chaos.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass - Mantarou. His later tag-team partner Chaos is also an example.

* DarkerAndEdgier - Unlike the original Kinnikuman, which was classified as Shounen, this series is classified as a Seinen manga, resulting in the series being much more violent than its predecessor.
* DeathsHourglass - [[spoiler: Suguru was given this by Satan in a form of a spider with the help of the evil alliance of the Lightning, Thunder, Neptuneman, and Mammothman before the semi-finals of the Ultimate Choujin Tag Tournament. It does three options to try to halt the process: PowerOfLove by a hug from his mother, Bibinba, or Mari (he didn't with the third since he's being faithful to Bibinba); turning upside-down to turn the sand back, and using Iron Sweat, which is caused by breaking friendship as a Seigi Choujin, as a magnet to prevent the sand from ever flowing. With the help of Terryman berating him, the third option got rid of it once and for all.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship - Continues in the vein of the original series.
* DentedIron - The majority of the first generation. Especially Kinnikuman himself.

* DirtyOldMan - Jijioman, who makes up the more active half of Barrierfreeman.
* DiscardAndDraw - [[spoiler:When Brocken Jr.'s arm has been cut off by Lightning and Thunder, Jade no longer knows how to do the Red Rain of Berlin because memories of learning the move in the past from Brocken was altered. Fortunately, it is replaced with a new technique from Brocken back then who had a hook arm due to the altered past called "Brocken's Repatriation " which turns Jade's left leg into a sickle!]]

* DoNotCallMePaul - Mantarou originally hated his name because he found out [[Series/UltramanTaro why]] he was named as such. Subverted in the fact that he either got over or stopped caring about how he was named.
* EnjoKosai - One shot villain The Rigany manages to force this on a minor female character in the manga.
* {{Expy}} - Kevin Mask is an Expy of RealLife professional wrestler Kevin Nash. Not only is this evident in Mask's name, but also in that Mask's body build and "screw tradition" philosophy are extremely similar to Nash's.
** Also, much like Nash, he doesn't lose.

* FaceHeelTurn - While almost totally absent from the original Kinnikuman series, there are several instances of it happening here, including Neptuneman, Sunshine, and Ashuraman (Three villains from the previous series who had been "[[DefeatMeansFriendship befriended]]", Brazilian fighter Ricardo, and most recently, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Seiuchin]].

* TheFaceless - Mantarou and Suguru ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and some other major Kinniku fighters]]), both son and father's real faces are unknown, truth to be told most of the Kinniku race would qualify if their masks weren't so blatantly modeled exactly like their real faces that one couldn't tell they were wearing one if not for their Series/{{Ultraman}}-shapped heads. The few instances Mantarou and Suguru shows a glimpse of what their real faces might look like it proves that they are nowhere as {{Gonk}} looking as their masks imply, it must be divine as in the Ultimate Choujin Tag Tournament arc when both take off their masks, their faces are so impossibly cool that it blinds the crowd thus preventing their faces to be known, also the silhouettes are more detailed this time around to at least confirm they are ''not'' ugly, it could be above average even.
* FakeBrit - In the classical sense of non-British actors portraying British characters, but also in the sense that in the dub, Geronimo (who was originally a member of the Cherokee tribe who was from Oklahoma) was rechristened "Beetlebomb" and voiced like Ringo Starr. This did not go over well with fans, but 4kids was probably forced to do so due to the fact that America has gotten rather wary about using Native Americans in fiction.

* FanDisservice - The non-sexual kind. Warsman and Mammothman teaming up in the most current arc was, in spite of being foreshadowed heavily earlier in the arc, nice to watch since both have always been fan favorites in spite of the latter being an OmnicidalManiac. [[spoiler: Then Mammothman suffers from ChronicBackstabbingDisorder...]]
* FantasticRacism - One of the main reasons why the Demon Seeds made a FaceHeelTurn by siding with Satan/General Terror was due to their dissatisfaction with their treatment by normal humans. The humans' treatment of the Devil Choujin is somewhat justified because, well, the Devil Choujin did try to take over the world...''multiple times''.
* FreudianExcuse - Kevin Mask ''really'' hates his father, Robin Mask due to the [[TheSpartanWay Spartan-like training]] he forced him to endure. Bone Cold, son of HarmlessVillain Kinkotsuman, became incredibly cruel thanks to his old man abusing him and his mother.

* GenerationXerox - Played straight with Canadian Boy and Specialman Jr. Obviously subverted with Mantarou (who was a lot less heroic than Suguru at the start), Terry the Kid (who actively tries to not be like his father) and Kevin Mask (who also sought to be different from his father). The subversion of the trope is inverted with Maxman, who looks nothing like his grandfather, Sneagator (a Devil Choujin from the original series) but is just as intimidating as him.
* GeniusBruiser - Scarface's power and speed make him a force to be reckoned with, but his real strength is his mastery of wrestling techniques and his intelligence.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar - [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses You know;]] [[IncrediblyLamePun 4Kids!]]
* GiveHimANormalLife - Kinnikuman decided to try this with Mantarou and thus had his fight records annuled so that his son wouldn't know of his evil-fighting career. It kinda backfired in that Mantarou became incredibly lazy and cowardly.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor - Kevin Mask was going through this phase when the series began, but now seems to be on the Face side. Scarface is pretty much stuck in this trope for now.
* HeelFaceTurn - Well, this is the sequel of {{Kinnikuman}} after all.
* HenpeckedHusband - Kinnikuman. One must wonder how he managed to become one considering the fact that he married [[GenkiGirl Bibinba]], of all people.
* HuskyRusskie - Ilioukhine, a Choujin who can turn into nearly any kind of aircraft. He's not incredibly beefy, but is noticibly larger and more muscular than most main characters.
* HowMuchMoreCanHeTake - Taken to as great an extreme as you can imagine, then a bit more after that.
* IJustWantToBeNormal - The reason why Kevin Mask runs away from home.
* IWasQuiteALooker - Subverted. The flabby, aged Kinnikuman was simply better built in his younger days. It's unknown whether or not his facial features have deteriorated thanks to MaskPower.
* ImplacableMan - Check Mate was introduced as a villain who felt no pain. Mantarou turned this against him, pushing Check's body beyond its limits without him knowing. After his HeelFaceTurn, Check lost this aspect of his character.
* ImprobableAge - Mantarou and his pals begin their wrestling careers at age ''14''.
* InformedAbility - Gazelleman graduates the Hercules Factory as the # 1 overall wrestler. He never wins a single match (Save for one in an anime {{Filler}} arc).
** He also wins one in the V-Jump manga, which follows a different continuity.
** The same can be said for Jade. Despite being described as the best fighter of the new graduates, since his introduction he's only won two matches.
* InsistentTerminology - Doubled as a RunningGag in the anime. People would often stress the wrong part of Mantarou's full name (ie. Kinnikuman Taro instead of Kinniku Mantarou). Cue Mantarou correcting them with visual aid.
* JokeCharacter - Both this and its predecessor are full of such characters. For instance, two of the Chojins who make it to the wrestling part of the Chojin Crown are a Lego--err, ''building block'' man and a high-tech toilet man named "Wash Ass" in the Japanese version (his mentor was a character from the original series who was ''a urinal from the Inca Empire'').
** In the dubbed version, at least, the latter character is also a successful actor on the side (he's called the Hollywood Bowl).
* KickTheDog - Dial Bolic/Tel Tel Boy killing famous wrestlers ''just'' to get an audience's attention.
*** His fellow dMp member Maxman is no better; when Dial Bolic/Tel Tel Boy fails to beat Mantarou, Maxman ''kills'' him (yes, by ''kicking'' him).

** Just recently, Suguru and Terry are shooting dogs at an alarming rate in their match against Mantarou and Chaos. [[InternetBacklash Fans are not pleased.]]

* KidHero - Naturally, Mantarou "[[IncrediblyLamePun Kid Muscle]]" Kinniku.

* LikeFatherLikeSon - Terry the Kid is so much like his father Terryman that he's built up a nice little complex about it. Mantarou also shares a number of similarities with his father, but is also incredibly different in just as many ways.
* LoveInterest - Rinko (Roxanne) and Jacqueline are supposed to be this for Mantarou, but unlike his father's [[LoveInterest interests]] back in {{Kinnikuman}}, Mantarou's are obviously not as interested on him as his father's, whom had their eyes for him not long after their introduction. Actually in Mantarou's case is implied at best because later in the series both girls hang around with him just for hell of it; Suguru at least had a few chapters deticated to him and his interests developing some romance; poor Mantarou has none.

* MaskPower - As in {{Kinnikuman}}, Mantarou will be forced to commit suicide should his mask be removed, the Kinnikuman Great mask makes a return to create a Third CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown. Mars/Scarface takes this to an extreme with his "Madness Mask" that gives him a drastic power boost whenever he puts it on.
* MegaManning - Scarface's most oft-used ability is that of analysis, which he uses to create improved versions of several techniques that get used against him.

* NamesToKnowInAnime - Daisuke Gouri (voice of [[{{Dragonball}} Mr. Satan]] and [[{{Tekken}} Heihachi]]) as Robin Mask, NorioWakamoto as "Blood Killer", and in the original, Akira Kamiya, who played the main character in FistOfTheNorthStar as Kenshiro.
* NewWorldOrder - The dMp, which stands for "Demon Manufacturing Plant," though in the US dub, it is said to stand for "Destruction, Mayhem, and PAAAAIIIIINNN!"
* NoKoreansInJapan - Averted. Unlike the original Kinnikuman, there ''are'' several Korean Chojin including Namul, Jijimiman, Bossam, and Tteok.
* OldSuperhero - The heroes of the previous series are made painfully aware of their age in their initial (failed) attempt at combating the dMp.
* {{Otaku}} - Chaos is a Choujin Otaku.

* {{Patronymic}} - Played straight with Terry the Kid, who borrows from his father Terryman's name. Subverted with Kevin Mask, who is part of the ''Robin'' family that for generations adhered to this trope (His great grandfather was Robin Grande, grandfather was Robin Knight, and father Robin Mask).
* PsychoForHire - Bone Cold.
* PhenotypeStereotype - Terry the Kid, Kevin Mask, and Jade all fall under this.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath - [[spoiler: Seiuchin/Wally during the Ultimate Choujin Tag Team Arc. After being turned into a truly horrifying psychotic Perfect Choujin by Neptuneman, to the pont of killing Checkmate, Barrierfreeman, Comrade Turbinski/Iloukhine and Scarface, plus breaking Jade's neck, he is finally snapped out of it during the match against Warsman and Mammothman. He dies shortly there after, pushing Warsman out of the way of the new team of Neptuneman and Mammothman's Optical Fiber Cross Bomber--''which strips all the skin off of his face''.]]
* TheRemnant - Remnants of the dMp have a habit of showing up in most story arcs after their organization's collapse in the first.
** For that matter, Scarface sought to revive the dMp using the trophy for the Ultimate Tag Tournament.

* RunningGag - see InsistentTerminology
* ShoutOut / MeaningfulName - Mantarou's name, when rendered in classical Japanese format, is "Kinniku Mantarou", an obvious Shout Out to ''Series/UltramanTaro''. Bone Cold is named for "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. Kevin Mask is named for Kevin Nash.
** Hell, so many of the wrestlers are shout outs to Japanese toku heroes/villains or real wrestlers.

* ThongOfShielding - Lord Flash.
* TimeStandsStill - [[spoiler: As a Time Choujin, this is one of Lighting's abilities called Acceleration by inserting a mouthpiece which helps him go through a few seconds in time.]]
** [[spoiler: Chaos can also do this with the same type of mouthpiece Lightning has from his belt buckle to save Neptuneman.]]
* TimeTravel - The current TournamentArc in the manga is entirely based around this, with Mantarou and company facing off against heroes and villains of the past.
* TooGoodToLast: [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]], of course, but the manga was cancelled in 2011 after the Ultimate Tag arc in favor of a revived ''{{Kinnikuman}}'' series.
* TrainingFromHell - Both the Hercules Factory (for Faces) and the Demon Making Plant (for Heels) specialize in this.
* TroubledButCute - Kevin Mask is prime MrFanservice, especially since he recently had his mask removed for a few panels and was revealed to be ''incredibly'' good-looking.
* UnCancelled - The anime was cancelled in Japan after its first TournamentArc. Thanks to the effect of GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff, FourKidsEntertainment funded a second season, which was brought over to Japan as ''Kinnikuman Nisei: Ultimate Muscle''. It still wasn't very popular and had to be cancelled and UnCancelled ''again'' before the entirety of the 4Kids-produced season was shown.
* UrbanLegend - Thanks to the events described in the GiveHimANormalLife entry, Kinnikuman himself becomes one.
* VerbalTic - In the anime, Mantarou gained a penchant for replacing the polite sentence-ender "masu" with "[[StealthPun massuru/muscle]]".
* WeakButSkilled - [[{{Kinnikuman}} Suguru]] of all people. 28 years of downtime have wrecked havoc on his physique, but he can still pull off some killer submission techniques.
* TheWorfEffect - Originally Gazelleman's specialty, but because he's been less and less active as a fighter recently, it appears to have been passed on to German brawler Jade.
** It probably didn't help when Gazelleman began to be regarded as a joke in-universe as well.
*** The fact that even ''he'' admits he's a JokeCharacter now pretty much ends any chance of him being competitive again.

* TooGoodToLast: YMMV, of course, but the manga was cancelled in 2011 after the Ultimate Tag arc in favor of a revived ''{{Kinnikuman}}'' series.

* TooGoodToLast: [[YourMilageMayVary YMMV]], of course, but the manga was cancelled in 2011 after the Ultimate Tag arc in favor of a revived ''{{Kinnikuman}}'' series.

* DoNotCallMePaul - Mantarou originally hated his name because he found out [[{{Ultraman}} why]] he was named as such. Subverted in the fact that he either got over or stopped caring about how he was named.

* TheFaceless - Mantarou and Suguru ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and some other major Kinniku fighters]]), both son and father's real faces are unknown, truth to be told most of the Kinniku race would qualify if their masks weren't so blatantly modeled exactly like their real faces that one couldn't tell they were wearing one if not for their {{Ultraman}} shapped heads. The few instances Mantarou and Suguru shows a glimpse of what their real faces might look like it proves that they are nowhere as {{Gonk}} looking as their masks imply, it must be divine as in the Ultimate Choujin Tag Tournament arc when both take off their masks, their faces are so impossibly cool that it blinds the crowd thus preventing their faces to be known, also the silhouettes are more detailed this time around to at least confirm they are ''not'' ugly, it could be above average even.

* ShoutOut / MeaningfulName - Mantarou's name, when rendered in classical Japanese format, is "Kinniku Mantarou", an obvious Shout Out to {{Ultraman}} Taro. Bone Cold is named for "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. Kevin Mask is named for Kevin Nash.

* CallBack - Terry the Kid throws a race at one point to save a falling child (whom nobody had seen falling because they were busy watching the race). According to him, he was motivated by a memory of his father throwing a contest to save a puppy from an oncoming train - an incident seen in the original ''Kinnikuman''.

* BoringInvincibleVillain - Thunder and Lightning. They've gone through almost the entire tag arc only being mildly inconvenienced by the heroes with the sole exception of ''Geronimo'' of all people destroying their bell. Even other, very strong ''villains'' are jobbing to them!
** [[spoiler:In the finals, this has been apparently subverted in the case of Thunder since we get a load of his FreudianExcuse to explain why he was evil due to him being the result of his father ''raping'' his mother.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar - [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses You know;]] [[IncrediblyLamePun 4Kids!]]

* TheShapeshifter - Dialbolic/Tel-Tel-Boy.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop - Ricardo's story and the Demon Seeds arc seem to have the message that you're either born good or born evil, and going against it is impossible.

* NoKoreansInJapan - Subverted. Unlike the original Kinnikuman, there ''are'' several Korean Chojin including Namul, Jijimiman, Bossam, and Tteok.

* Family Unfriendly Aesop - Ricardo's story and the Demon Seeds arc seem to have the message that you're either born good or born evil, and going against it is impossible.

* TroubledButCute - Kevin Mask is prime EstrogenBrigadeBait, especially since he recently had his mask removed for a few panels and was revealed to be ''incredibly'' good-looking.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong

* NewWorldOrder - The dMp (demon Monster planet), whose initials (in the US version) stand for "Destruction, Mayhem, and PAAAAIIIIINNN!"
** actually, the dMp was the "Demon Manufacturing Plant." Mac Metaphor, the ring announcer, only says it's "Destruction, Mayhem and Pain."