History Awesome / FistOFTheNorthStar

*** One for Balcom: Shin initially didn't take him seriously, but then [[NoSell he shrugged off Shin's Nanto style attacks]] and [[{{Irony}} harmed him with an attack similar to Nanto techniques]]. He died soon after due [[ProperlyParanoid Shin having a pressure point technique just for such opponents]], but it actually looked like he could have won for a moment.

* Give Kaioh props, during his first fight with Kenshiro he [[NoSell NoSells]] the friggin [[LimitBreak Musou Tensei.]]

*** After Kenshiro got in the actual fortress and started killing Raoh's personal guards sent as reinforcements, Uighur suddenly came out of the grave, having ''survived the Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken'', to shout orders to keep Kenshiro away from Toki. ''Then'' he finally dies.

* Also from the dubbed movie, the totally kickass way that Kenshiro accepts Jagi's fight challenge-

-->'''Lin''': I will not be loyal to you, demons! Never! Not matter what you do to me! Ken once told me when you let yourself down in front of demons, you are no longer human...

''Fist of the North Star'', being a [[RatedMForManly manly-ass]] series from the 80s about buff manly men punching the soul out of each other, is absolutely chock full of these moments, so much so that it is guaranteed the viewer will grow a beard by the end.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[YouAreAlreadyDead It's too late for you. You're already dead.]]]]

* ''Zero Kenshiro Den'' has Kenshiro, in one hell of a HesBack moment, not only killing Gadess the Bear Slayer, but going up against Jugai's entire army. One would think that even a single martial artist, even one of Kenshiro's caliber, would not stand a chance against so many at once, but it is here that Kenshiro precisely [[GoodIsNotSoft proves just how powerful he has become]], as he not only [[CatchAndReturn returns every arrow loosed upon him with Nishi Shinku Ha]], but [[OneManArmy completely annihilates the entire army.]] [[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9_kgxSbt3eQ Watch it if you can't believe it]].

* The battle between Rei and Raoh is one for Raoh. The series so far had established Rei as a very strong fighter, capable of giving Ken at least a run for his money, and not only Raoh gives him a CurbStompBattle without even bothering to leave his horse or ''actually using his own hands'' (he ''punched Rei with his BattleAura''), but when Rei decides to [[HeroicSacrifice use a suicidal attack that will]] [[TakingYouWithMe kill Raoh at the price of his own life]], the two fighters appear to die... only for it to be an ImagineSpot - Raoh had predicted it all! Raoh ''[[NegatedMomentOfAwesome nullifies Rei's attack]]'' by ''throwing his BadassCape on his face'' and sentences him to three days of agony before death [[FingerPokeOfDoom with a single finger]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M40Tc4CSsk Watch it if you can't believe it]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:YouAreAlreadyDead]]

* One of the most impressive moments in the manga was starred not by Ken, Rei or Raoh... but by Lin. When the troops of Raoh raided the village where she and Rei's sister were -giving everybody the choice to swear allegiance to Raoh and be marked like cattle or be literally cooked-, she played bait to protect the older woman. When she got caught and ordered into swearing allegiance, [[http://mangafox.me/manga/fist_of_the_north_star/v08/c063/17.html she refused firmly]] and [[http://mangafox.me/manga/fist_of_the_north_star/v08/c063/18.html started to walk at the grill on her own]].

* In the second storyline Kenshiro taking a huge chunk of out of a hill to plug a breached dam that was blown up by three mooks of Yuda (as high of the dam) and bitch-slapping two mooks who blew up the dam with it (after causing the Elite Mook leader of the group to asplode a short while before) then plugging the breach with said chunk of hill. See the CrazyAwesome entry above for a 3rd example.

''Fist of the North Star'', being a manly-ass series from the 80s about buff manly men punching the soul out of each other, is absolutely chock full of these moments, so much so that it is guaranteed the viewer will grow a beard by the end.

* When Kenshiro, Rei, and Mamiya team up, Kenshiro takes a nap, while Mamiya questions his choice to nap at a time like this. Suddenly, Kenshiro snaps awake reaches out to the side and catches a flying arrow headed straight for Mamiya's head.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry You wouldn't like it when he's angry...]]]]

* When Raoh saw his soldiers abusing the villagers he regarded as his subjects in his absence, he was ''not'' happy with their shit. So he gave the biggest one, who was violently slaughtering women, a vicious slap that was enough to ''[[OffWithHisHead take off his head with one blow]]'' before riding Kokuoh over the rest.