History Characters / BakiTheGrapplerTheHanmaFamily

* BizarreHumanBiology: Even by ''Baki'''s [[ArtisticLicensePharmacology loose]] [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower standards]], the family has such peculiar physiology that at times they seem more like StarfishAliens than superhumans. Yujiro's skull looks like it belongs to a lion, Jack somehow survives chucking up a literal flood of body fluids and still gets right back up to fight, and Baki is somehow capable of flexing ''his brain'' into a specific shape.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Baki seems to be based off Japanese MMA fighter ''Taira Naoyuki'', who is known for cross-training in Pro-Wrestling and Kickboxing in the early era of MMA where fighters didn't mix styles and just stuck to one. Like Baki, he was a baby face with a mole above his lip. Naoyuki's ring name? ''The Grappler.'' Interestingly, Taira made a cameo I'm the first Baki OVA as voice actor for a referee.

--> '''Yujiro's thoughts:''' ''Five death row inmates from all over. They had a good look to them. What was it they said? 'I want to know defeat'? One of them was slaughtered by me. I know what it's like, I feel your pain. I'm not sure when it was that I realized where I was standing. At the top, a place where there is nothing to aim for, there's no path to take. But that doesn't mean I still can't walk. So I started to walk, seeking a path. You don't get it, do you? There was never anything that troubled me, I've never known tragedy. You don't get it, do you? Too much strength will rob you of your dreams. When you're too strong, your life will be deprived of light. Riches, status, fame, it's all within the grasp of this strong arm of mine.''

* HumanoidAbomination: The [[PersonOfMassDestruction level of strength]] they can reach is totally beyond anything else in the setting, and the story sometimes gives hints (such as the with the [[SuperMode Demon Back]]) that their power might be [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane demonic in nature]].

** HealingFactor: He has the ability to heal absurdly fast. The best example being when Baki was poisoned during the great Raitai Tournament and started to physically waste away. It should be noted that the poison was meant to kill most people ''immediately'', and he lasted more than a week before being cured. Then, after eating the equivalent of all the weight he lost from wasting away, his body began to create steam and he ''regenerated'' back to his original, healthy, muscular self as if nothing happened.

* BizarreHumanBiology: Even by ''Baki'''s [[ArtisticLicensePharmacology loose]] [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower standards]], the family has such peculiar physiology that at times they seem more like StarfishAliens then mutated humans. Yujiro's skull looks like it belongs to a lion, Jack somehow survives chucking up a literal flood of body fluids and still gets right back up to fight, and Baki is somehow capable of flexing ''his brain'' into a specific shape.

* ArtisticLicensePharmacology: To put it very, ''very'' mildly, Jack's freakishly huge dosages of steroids goes as far as him having ''sausage links full of the stuff'' tied to a string in his mouth so he can pop them right before he fights Shibukawa in the Maximum Tournament, should have either killed him by overdose or perpetually left him with a heart rate of above 300 BPM, crippling liver and kidney damage and many other consequences of juicing to such an extreme degree. This is seemingly explained away by him being a [[HumanoidAbomination Hanma]], but...

* BizarreHumanBiology: Even by ''Baki'''s [[ArtisticLicenseBiology loose]] [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower standards]], the family has such peculiar physiology that at times they seem more like StarfishAliens then mutated humans. Yujiro's skull looks like it belongs to a lion, Jack somehow survives chucking up a literal flood of body fluids and still gets right back up to fight, and Baki is somehow capable of flexing ''his brain'' into a specific shape.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: To put it very, ''very'' mildly, Jack's freakishly huge dosages of steroids goes as far as him having ''sausage links full of the stuff'' tied to a string in his mouth so he can pop them right before he fights Shibukawa in the Maximum Tournament, should have either killed him by overdose or perpetually left him with a heart rate of above 300 BPM, crippling liver and kidney damage and many other consequences of juicing to such an extreme degree. This is seemingly explained away by him being a [[HumanoidAbomination Hanma]], but...

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: In the spinoff '''Baki Gaiden - Kenjin'''. Doppo calls him out for [[ThrowingTheFight throwing away his pride and dignity that just for a massive payoff]], even though he could've easily won the fight by blocking and dodging obvious attacks against the pro-wrestler Rikigouzan and struck back. Yuichiro was surprised at Doppo for recognizing his capability, then grabbed Doppo by the clothes. Doppo swiftly got out of the hold before leaping up, landing tiptoe on Yuichiro's wrist, and kicked him in the jaw, showcasing true strength. Doppo then left to set things right and win back Yuichiro Hanma's pride by mutilating and humiliating the pro-wrestler he purposely lost to, and prove that the so-called [[FixingTheGame "Fight Of the Century" was fake]].

* UnstoppableRage: Seriously you '''''"DO NOT"''''' want to make Baki angry. He won't kill you but he'll make you wish you were dead.

* SuperWeight: He's between level 3 and 4, being capable of stopping or causing an earthquake with a punch and being invulnerable to conventional martial arts moves and weaponry but he doesn't show any over the top powers beyond his great strength, speed and durability.

* RapeIsASpecialKindofEvil: He ruthlessly raped Diane Neil (Jack's mother) in his teens, then later sexually assaulted Joe William, an adventurer that he initially mistook for a woman. He has also expressed no remorse for his actions.

* CelibateHero: Yujiro is not celibate for obvious reasons, neither is he a hero, and he thinks very little of celibacy in general. On the other hand, he doesn't seem to be particular interested in sex either. His rape of Jack's mother was more a way to humiliate her than an expression of lust, and the main reason he seduced Baki's mother was to produce a child capable of challenging him. He even refuses sex to her out of frustration at Baki's lack of progress.

** SuperStrength: Holding a heavyweight fighter's skull so hard that the fighter claimed that Baki's grip felt like a vice and that it was impossible to even budge his hands. His aforementioned Cockroach Tackle allows him to tackle people through several walls. Even his normal punches can break through concrete walls without issue.

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: In the spinoff '''Baki Gaiden - Kenjin'''. Doppo calls him out for [[ThrowingTheFight throwing away his pride and dignity thatjust for a massive payoff]], even though he could've easily won the fight by blocking and dodging obvious attacks against the pro-wrestler Rikigouzan and struck back. Yuichiro was surprised at Doppo for recognizing his capability, then grabbed Doppo by the clothes. Doppo swiftly got out of the hold before leaping up, landingtiptoe on Yuichiro's wrist, and kicked him in the jaw, showcasing true strength. Doppo then left to set things right and win back Yuichiro Hanma's pride by mutilating and humiliating the pro-wrestler he purposely lost to, and prove that the so-called [[FixingTheGame "Fight Of the Century" was fake]].

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: In the spinoff '''Baki Gaiden - Kenjin'''. Doppo calls him out for [[ThrowingTheFight throwing away his pride and dignity that he can never win back just for a massive payoff]] even though he could've easily won the fight by blocking and dodging obvious attacks against the pro-wrestler Rikigouzan and struck back. Yuichiro was surprised at Doppo for recognizing his capability, then grabbed Doppo by the clothes which Doppo swiftly got out of before leaping up and landed tiptoe on Yuichiro's wrist showcasing true strength and kicked him in the jaw before leaving to set things right and win back Yuichiro Hanma's pride by mutilating and humiliating the pro-wrestler he purposely lost to and also prove that the so-called [[FixingTheGame "Fight Of the Century" was fake]].

** While at first glance Yujiro seems very shallow, arrogant, and vain, the truth is a bit more complicated. In his youth, he completely believed in survival of the fittest and might makes right. For most of his life he was obsessed with strength and being the strongest. When he did finally become the undisputed "strongest creature on earth", he quickly realized that [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction he had nothing to strive for]] and that ultimately his strength was meaningless, as [[LonelyAtTheTop it cut him off from everyone and everything]]. While he still does genuinely love fighting and brutalizing people, it's implied that a good portion of his attitude and viciousness now stems from his bitterness and isolation at being the strongest in the world.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KentaMiyake (JP, ONA), Christopher Swindle (EN, ONA)

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Baki seems to be based off Japanese MMA fighter ''Taira Naoyuki'', who is known for cross-training in Pro-Wrestling and Kickboxing in the early era of MMA where fighters didn't mix styles and just stuck to one. Like Baki, he was a baby face with a mole above his lip. Naoyuki's ring name? ''The Grappler.''

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Subverted. When he was younger he showed a lot of enthusiasm when fighting and often got himself into many situations that end up with him almost getting killed, but who could blame him when his dad is the WorldsStrongestMan. As he grew older, however, and saw just how far the well goes when it comes to martial arts and life-or-death fights, he ''considerably'' mellows out, to the point that he's completely unrecognizable to the punk of chapter one while somehow being even more of a battle maniac.

* BaritoneOfStrength: In the Japanese versions of both adaptations, Yujiro is cast with a deep, menacing voice that goes hand-in-hand with his status as a strong fighter in the series, and [[EvilSoundsDeep helps his image as a villain]].

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Baki seems to be based off Japanese MMA fighter ''Taira Naoyuki'', who is known for cross-training in Pro-Wrestling and Kickboxing in the early era of MMA where fighters didn't mix styles and just stuck to one. Naoyuki's ring name? ''The Grappler.''
* OutOfFocus: After Son of Ogre, Baki rarely has much of an involvement in the fourth and fifth series and it's just there to fight off the main titular characters.

* MadeOfIron: How the hell he's still alive or has any higher functions in his brain left after surviving Garland's suplexes that literally shakes the entire arena, having his throat bitten out by Yujiro, Pickle turning his jaw to dust ''twice'' in one day and suffered a haymaker to the face from the same caveman strong enough to literally cause him to spin around like a pinwheel, as well as a number of other horrible injuries is anyone's guess. He's on his ''fourth'' set of teeth in the story at the time of this writing.
* ManBitesMan: His signature fighting style, with jaws strong enough to bite clean through a coconut as if biting an apple. At one point he's seen casually biting through bones like they're ''cookies!'' [[spoiler:He decides to start a martial art, ''Goudou'', based around biting after his tenure in Taiwan. The martial arts part comes in from the fact that biting is something ''everyone'', even the weak like women and children can use to cause pain and defend themselves against violence with.]]

* SuperStrength: He has some incredible feats of strength when he was on the experimental steroids but it only grows even further when he weans himself off of it. Some of these include punching a Brazilian jiu-jutsu fighter hard enough to send him flying several dozen loops in the air, deadlifting a 400-kilo barbell with his ''jaw'', sending the massive Pickle airborne with an uppercut and hitting Sikorsky with an uppercut so powerful that it sends both of them, a civilian '''''and the phone booth that they are all standing in''''' flying upwards. And he does the latter a ''second'' time.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Make no mistake, he will beat the absolute daylights out of his opponents and give them potentially life-threatening injuries in the process, but he won't kill a man who is already down even if they goad him into doing so. Not even an egotistical criminal like Sikorsky or Ali Jr. who kept taunting Jack and sticking his halfway-severed tongue out at him while cratered in a wall. This is especially jarring because his fighting style is one of the most lethal in the series.
* TookALevelInBadass: When he comes back from perfecting ''Goudou'', his own school of martial art whose fundamentals involve biting, he is able to finally break his losing streak by defeating Nomi no Sukune II, a sumo wrestler that has a grip strength superior to even Yujiro and soundly handed ''Biscuit Oliva'' a straight loss, with only mild injuries at best.

* TrainingFromHell: Even when compared to the rest of the main cast, his training regime is grueling beyond reason. He isn't quite as blessed with the Hanma blood's genetic gifts, so his body wasted away from overtraining. To compensate he took experimental super steroids that were supposed to kill him. ''Supposed to.'' He sleeps while suspending his massive body from a tree by ''biting'' onto a towel wrapped around a branch, and his training includes clamping his jaws shut with a 400-kilo barbell trying to stop him and stretching out a high-strength rubber tire by stepping on it and pull upwards by hooking the handle onto his lower jaw.
* TheUnfettered: Jack will go through just about anything to become stronger or to attain victory, no matter how much it ruins his body or how disgusting the fight looks. He actually looks down on other fighters who don't go to the same lengths, seeing them as being negligent.

The older half-brother of Baki, a champion pitfighter hailing from Canada. His circumstances are not too dissimilar to Baki himself: Yujiro Hanma raped Jack’s mother Diane, a UN agent sent to assassinate Yujiro during the Vietnam War. However, Yujiro spared her life and Diane decided to keep the child. Like his half-brother, his only goal in life is to defeat Yujiro. Unfortunately, this goal was wholly unsuccessful no matter how hard he tried due to his obsessive quest for strength leading to him doing a number of [[TrainingFromHell extreme, borderline lethal training regimes]] that destroyed his body from overwork, which his doggedly determined mindset only made worse by trying to overcome it with willpower alone.

Following the aftermath of the Maximum Tournament, Jack learned from his mistakes and improved upon his flaws, trained even harder and after having recovering from his dependence on the experimental steroids, began surgically enhancing himself via bone-lengthening surgery to make himself even bigger than he already was and began weaponizing his teeth and honing his biting skills to ultimately make good on his bid to one day face Yujiro.

* DeathSeeker: At first he has a death wish to finally die during the Maximum Tournament, knowing that the experimental drug was slowly killing him so it was his last chance to face down Yujiro by besting Baki. Thankfully, he had managed to push his body to such an insane degree that he reached a level where his body was able to reject the lethal effects of the super steroids he had been taking.
* {{Determinator}}: Even amongst a cast full of this, Jack stands out: the man simply will not quit once he sets his mind on something unless you outright kill him. He trained his body so much that it actually ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtraining loses muscles instead of gaining due to never allowing himself to recuperate]]'', and if not for a mad scientist's steroid cocktails being part of his regimen, his overtraining would have been suicide. He's had his skeleton surgically restructured multiple times to get bigger. [[spoiler: Even when having half his face bitten off by Pickle, his jaw smashed to bits thanks to the same caveman and waking up in the hospital twice, the second time from a coma, he ''still'' gets up and goes right back to it, to the point that Baki has to stop him.]] Jack would even disgrace himself for victory in ways Yujiro wouldn't.

** In ''Baki-Dou (2018)'', Jack reveals that he has long since come to to terms with his lost in the fights against Baki and Motobe. He even attributes the creation of his new martial art of ''Goudou'' to the latter man after his fight against Sukune, saying that the only thing he landed clean on Motobe was a bite.

* SuperStrength: He has some incredible feats of strength when he was on the experimental steroids but it only grows even further when he weans himself off of it.

* TrainingFromHell: Even when compared to the rest of the main cast, his training is unreasonably grueling. He isn't quite as blessed with the Hanma blood's genetic gifts, so his body wasted away from overtraining. To compensate he took experimental super steroids that were supposed to kill him. ''Supposed to.'' He sleeps while suspending his massive body from a towel by ''biting'' onto it, and his training includes clamping his jaws shut with a 400-kilo barbell trying to stop him.

* UnskilledButStrong: Downplayed, as he is actually quite observant and is level-headed and analytical enough to realize his opponent's strengths and weaknesses, as well as copying and using Gouki's Aiki, but he falls to Baki and Yujiro in terms of technical prowess. [[spoiler:Considering that he lost to Motobe who would never win against a fight against Baki and Yujiro if they get serious.]]

* WorthyOpponent: He is this to Pickle, as he matched the dinosaur-killing caveman in terms of ferocity and savagery and even manages to overwhelm him for a bit, to the point where the latter comes to see him as a wasp, the only creature he fears.

* YourMindMakesItReal: One of Baki's most dangerous qualities is his ability to create mental scenarios to act out in his head. He's able to convince himself that these scenarios are ''so real'' that they can actually affect him in the real world, allowing him to train.

* TheUnfettered: Jack will do anything to become stronger or to attain victory, no matter how much it ruins his body or how disgusting the fight looks. He actually looks down on other fighters who don't go to the same lengths, seeing them as being negligent.

* WorthyOpponent: He is this to Pickle, as he managed to match the caveman in terms of ferocity and savagery to the point where the latter sees him as a wasp, the only creature he fears.

** Also, being worried about or protected. Not once in his life has he needed help because he is the strongest creature on earth, and he knows this; so this is the same as being insulted by someone lesser than him. When Ali Jr. arrogantly insinuates that he was glad Yujiro wasn't hurt, it was enough to turn him into a raging maniac tearing down door to door searching for Ali Jr., who luckily waltzed out of a hotel unscathed. In the ''Musashi Arc'', Motobe tells Yujiro he would protect him before throwing a [[SmokeOut smokebomb]] disappearing to escape Yujiro's wrath.