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* BadPowersGoodPeople: Making people's heads or bodies go all BodyHorror and [[LudicrousGibs explode]] is no good power. ''Hokuto Shinken'' is explicitly an assassin's art, and is considered shadowy and sinister. Yet Kenshiro is [[IdealHero unambiguously a good guy]].
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* BadPowersGoodPeople: Making people's heads or bodies go all BodyHorror and [[LudicrousGibs explode]] is no good power. ''Hokuto Shinken'' is explicitly an assassin's art, and is considered shadowy and sinister. Yet Kenshiro is [[IdealHero unambiguously a good guy]].guy as he uses his skills to beat genuine bad guys to protect innocents in the wasteland]].
* OneTrueLove: Yuria. The manga begins with him searching for her after she's been kidnapped and ends with him marching off proudly into the desert, swearing to die fighting while also hardening his heart as he can never love another woman despite Yuria's encouragement to move on.
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* CombatPragmatist: He has no problems ambushing mooks, throwing objects and attacking somebody while they're talking.
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* GeniusBruiser: Aside from martial arts, Kenshiro is also broadly familiar with religion and mythology from around Asia and the world.
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* GeniusBruiser: Aside from martial arts, Kenshiro is also broadly familiar with religion and mythology from around Asia and the world. He is also familiar with Hokuto Shinken's medicinal uses, curing Rin's muteness with one of his techniques when he first meets her.
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* HopeBringer: "The Savior of the Century's End"; he EARNED that title. Everywhere he goes, those who would use their strength to dominate and hurt the weak fear him. The innocent and the just fighters of the world, however, love him.
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* HopeBringer: "The Savior of the Century's End"; he EARNED that title. Everywhere he goes, those who would use their strength to dominate and hurt the weak fear him. The innocent and the just fighters of the world, however, love him.him as he uses his martial arts to protect people.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Uses one against Mad Sarge in the anime. He allowed himself to get knocked out by Sarge's wrecking ball in the hope that he would be taken straight to the headquarters of God's Army without getting himself killed. Kenshiro merely gets strung up like a punching bag for the recruits, but he easily escapes and then kills Sarge, Buckham (an anime-exclusive character) and then the Colonel.
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!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Mie Suzuki (Child)[=/=]Creator/KeiichiNanba (Adult) (TV anime, JP), Creator/AyumiTsunematsu (''Twin Blue Stars of Judgment''), Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (''Legends of the True Savior'' and ''Legends [=ReVIVE=]''), Umeka Shōji (Child)[=/=]Creator/DaisukeKishio (Adult) (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Shunzo Miyasaka (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/JunyaEnoki (''[[VideoGame/FitnessBoxingSwitch Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star]]'')
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!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Mie Suzuki Teiyu Ichiryusai (Child)[=/=]Creator/KeiichiNanba (Adult) (TV anime, JP), Creator/AyumiTsunematsu (''Twin Blue Stars of Judgment''), Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (''Legends of the True Savior'' and ''Legends [=ReVIVE=]''), Umeka Shōji (Child)[=/=]Creator/DaisukeKishio (Adult) (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Shunzo Miyasaka (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/JunyaEnoki (''[[VideoGame/FitnessBoxingSwitch Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star]]'')
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!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Mie Suzuki (Child)[=/=]Creator/KeiichiNanba (Adult) (TV anime, JP), Creator/AyumiTsunematsu (''Twin Blue Stars of Judgment''), Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (''Legends of the True Savior'' and ''Legends [=ReVIVE=]''), Umeka Shōji (Child)[=/=]Creator/DaisukeKishio (Adult) (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Shunzo Miyasaka (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/JunyaEnoki (''[[VideoGame/FitnessBoxingSwitch Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star]]'')
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Gary Dubin (TV anime), Caleb Pearson (TV anime, recut dub), Creator/TonyOliver (The Movie), Creator/DebiDerryberry (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Bryan Beacock (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/MikeHaimoto (''Legend of the True Savior'')
!!!'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish)''': Orlando Arenas (TV series)
!!!'''Stats''': Level: D, Power: 2, Speed: 3, Skills: 2, Looks: 4, Charisma: 4
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A young boy who decides to leave his home village to fend for himself, Bat was imprisoned in Rin's village for attempting to steal food. While locked in the same cell, he comes across the 64th successor of ''Hokuto Shinken'' Kenshiro, who breaks out to fight Zeed. After witnessing his skills, Bat follows Kenshiro as his self-appointed sidekick, hoping to use Kenshiro as a tool for his own self-benefit, but after the death of his adoptive mother Toyo back in his village, Bat slowly matures, upon witnessing the hardships of Kenshiro and his new friends and rivals. Following the TimeSkip, Bat has grown OlderAndWiser and is co-leader of the new "Hokuto Army" with Rin, a resistance group aimed at bringing down the tyrannical reign of the Celestial Emperor. Although Bat is not a true martial artist, he has rudimentary skills, alongside a limited knowledge of ''Hokuto Shinken'' from his travels with Kenshiro.
In the final arc of the series, Bat forgoes his love for Rin so she can be with Kenshiro. To that end, he presses Rin's pressure points to induce IdentityAmnesia, including reuniting her with a similarly amnesiac Kenshiro. Fate would force him to pose as the ''Hokuto Shinken'' successor in order to fight Bolge, a blind thug with a dangerous vendetta for Kenshiro. Unfortunately, Bat is captured, tortured and multilated by Bolge, doing his best to leave an impersonation of Kenshiro, hoping that if he dies, Bolge will stay away from his friend for good. However, the amnesiac Kenshiro arrives to save him, until Bat's screams trigger the martial artist's memories, who is so moved by his sacrifice for him that Kenshiro defeats Bolge easily. Unfortunately, Bat is mortally wounded, yet urges Rin, who too has regained her memories from Bat's heroics, to stay with Kenshiro. Rin decides to stay behind and guard Bat's tomb, only to discover that Kenshiro managed to save Bat's life by manipulating his pressure points. The story of ''Fist of the North Star'' ends with Rin tearfully embracing a rejuvenated, yet still unconscious Bat.
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[[folder:Bat]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Mie Suzuki (Child)[=/=]Creator/KeiichiNanba (Adult) (TV anime, JP), Creator/AyumiTsunematsu (''Twin Blue Stars of Judgment''), Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (''Legends of the True Savior'' and ''Legends [=ReVIVE=]''), Umeka Shōji (Child)[=/=]Creator/DaisukeKishio (Adult) (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Shunzo Miyasaka (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/JunyaEnoki (''[[VideoGame/FitnessBoxingSwitch Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star]]'')
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Gary Dubin (TV anime), Caleb Pearson (TV anime, recut dub), Creator/TonyOliver (The Movie), Creator/DebiDerryberry (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Bryan Beacock (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/MikeHaimoto (''Legend of the True Savior'')
!!!'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish)''': Orlando Arenas (TV series)
!!!'''Stats''': Level: D, Power: 2, Speed: 3, Skills: 2, Looks: 4, Charisma: 4
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A young boy who decides to leave his home village to fend for himself, Bat was imprisoned in Rin's village for attempting to steal food. While locked in the same cell, he comes across the 64th successor of ''Hokuto Shinken'' Kenshiro, who breaks out to fight Zeed. After witnessing his skills, Bat follows Kenshiro as his self-appointed sidekick, hoping to use Kenshiro as a tool for his own self-benefit, but after the death of his adoptive mother Toyo back in his village, Bat slowly matures, upon witnessing the hardships of Kenshiro and his new friends and rivals. Following the TimeSkip, Bat has grown OlderAndWiser and is co-leader of the new "Hokuto Army" with Rin, a resistance group aimed at bringing down the tyrannical reign of the Celestial Emperor. Although Bat is not a true martial artist, he has rudimentary skills, alongside a limited knowledge of ''Hokuto Shinken'' from his travels with Kenshiro.
In the final arc of the series, Bat forgoes his love for Rin so she can be with Kenshiro. To that end, he presses Rin's pressure points to induce IdentityAmnesia, including reuniting her with a similarly amnesiac Kenshiro. Fate would force him to pose as the ''Hokuto Shinken'' successor in order to fight Bolge, a blind thug with a dangerous vendetta for Kenshiro. Unfortunately, Bat is captured, tortured and multilated by Bolge, doing his best to leave an impersonation of Kenshiro, hoping that if he dies, Bolge will stay away from his friend for good. However, the amnesiac Kenshiro arrives to save him, until Bat's screams trigger the martial artist's memories, who is so moved by his sacrifice for him that Kenshiro defeats Bolge easily. Unfortunately, Bat is mortally wounded, yet urges Rin, who too has regained her memories from Bat's heroics, to stay with Kenshiro. Rin decides to stay behind and guard Bat's tomb, only to discover that Kenshiro managed to save Bat's life by manipulating his pressure points. The story of ''Fist of the North Star'' ends with Rin tearfully embracing a rejuvenated, yet still unconscious Bat.
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!!!'''Voiced by (English)''': Creator/LexLang (TV anime, as Alexis Lang), William Winckler (TV anime, recut dub), John Vickery (The Movie), Robert Kraft (New Fist of the North Star), Creator/KaijiTang (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''),
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Gary Dubin (TV anime), Caleb Pearson (TV anime, recut dub), Creator/TonyOliver (The Movie), Creator/DebiDerryberry (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Bryan Beacock (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/MikeHaimoto (''Legend
!!!'''Voiced by (French)''': Philippe Ogouz (TV anime and movie)
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Although it is severely understated and no style is named, Kenshiro evidently does know basic ''Nanto Seiken'' like Jagi. He performs the hand motion to cut through Amiba's face and, in the anime, cleaves a whole man [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe in half.]]
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In the manga, after Shin had revealed what happened on Ken's way to Southern Cross, he quickly moves on after burying Shin's body. The anime has every major events taking place before his rematch fight with Shin, and the episode taking place after has him being completely silent after feeling his entire journey was AllForNothing.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the manga, Ken is very emotive where he'll crack a smile on occasion (whether it's a genuine warm smile or he's messing with Bat), to full-on furious when he saw Shin's Bloody Cross symbol, he crushed the binoculars he was holding, as well as showing genuine happiness to see Yuria alive only to turn into ManlyTears when Shin tells him she forgot about him (though it's revealed to be a doll). The Toei anime made him a stoic no-nonsense badass who smiles in rare occasions and heavy on being a DeadpanSnarker, but still shows anger when sufficently pissed off enough. He retains his tendency to shed tears in special occasions.
* AllLovingHero: Downplayed. While he is very kind and compassionate and shows even the most heinous villains sympathy because of their {{Freudian Excuse}}s, [[GoodIsNotSoft he is still capable of feeling hatred]], and he is not above [[PayEvilUntoEvil brutally killing most of his enemies]], especially if they're BeyondRedemption.
* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: During the AnimatedAdaptation of the Raoh arc, ExecutiveMeddling and {{Moral Guardian}}s forced Toei Animation to put Kenshiro into contrived situations where he spares the lives of children who are JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, and deliver [[{{Anvilicious}} heavy-handed life lessons]] ("You may steal to stay alive, but keep doing it and you'll grow to like it, and become ''real'' villains"; in other words, "Then I will REALLY kill you") with the subtlety of a brick. Thankfully, this is not done to the detriment of the plot and the story's thematic soul, [[EndingFatigue unlike the post-Land of Shura arc of the manga, left un-animated]].
* AndTheAdventureContinues: Every major part ends with Kenshiro wandering into the wasteland to whatever fate awaits him. With Raoh's defeat, he and Yuria ride off on Koku-Oh to live out the rest of her remaining years with him; post-Land of Shura, he journeys with Ryu to properly teach him the ways and philosophy of ''Hokuto Shinken''; in the grand finale, he continues alone on his mission to protect the innocent wherever he can.
--> "I don't need a name on my grave! If I die, it will be on the desert of battle!"
* ArmorPiercingResponse: When Fudo asks why Ken hasn't gone to the main capital to see the Nanto General, his reply while removing arrows on his arms, which moves Fudo to tears:
-->'''Ken''': The pain of these wounds is nothing. But the pain by your death would last a lifetime.
* ArtEvolution:
** In the manga, Ken retains most of his features from the one-shot story. Later arcs give him a Mad Max-like hairstyle based on Creator/MelGibson's portrayal. Eventually, he is given a more angular face, a large thick neck, and recognizable iconic hairstyle often adapted in other media such as video games.
** In the original anime, Ken has a similar hairstyle similar to Creator/BruceLee, and it carried all until the end with his fight and funeral of Ryuga. The final part of first series gives him a long mullet-like hairstyle, a more narrow eyes, a slightly large neck, and an angular face. The second series gives him more lines on his face, and a Creator/SylvesterStallone-esque features.
* BadassInDistress: Several times after he lost a battle with a major antagonist, he had to be rescued because the physical beating put him into unconsciousness for several days. Tragically, people die as a result during the process including Shu's son.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Making people's heads or bodies go all BodyHorror and [[LudicrousGibs explode]] is no good power. ''Hokuto Shinken'' is explicitly an assassin's art, and is considered shadowy and sinister. Yet Kenshiro is [[IdealHero unambiguously a good guy]].
* BareFistedMonk: He can fight well with nunchucks if he has to, but prefers his bare hands during battles.
* BashBrothers: With Rei. After he and Rei patch things up about Ken not being the one who kidnapped Rei's sister, the two of them make a magnificent team.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: In ''Ken's Rage 2'', when he's about to recover his memory, Kenshiro is forced to fight his inner self who doesn't want to remember the sadness he accumulated for all those years. His inner self has access to every ''Hokuto Shinken'' technique, while the current Kenshiro is rendered with AmnesiacDissonance, and must defeat him in order to regain his memories and defeat Bolge.
* BattleStrip: Kenshiro's shirt and jacket practically ''explodes and disintegrates'' off of him if he gets enraged enough. When he gets like this, expect the body count to pile up.
* BerserkButton: He's a stoic, kind-hearted MellowFellow who happens to be trained in one of the most brutal and sadistic martial arts in history, and it takes serious provocation to get him to use it on you. Hurting innocents (and especially children) is his usual casus belli, but he has enough professional pride in Hokuto Shinken that insulting its effectiveness is also a good way to get yourself a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Very kind, heroic and totally selfless...unless you're a villain, in which case, you're already dead.
* BigBrotherWorship: He has always admired Raoh before his AmbitionIsEvil took effect. He even admits this to him in their final bout.
* BigGood: One of the most foremost examples. Any heroic organization in the series eventually has him front and center, inspiring and dishing out the biggest doses of beat-downs.
* BigOlEyebrows: It's like two caterpillars crawled onto his face and started munching his hair, and he was too nice to complain about it.
* BlackComedy: Has a strange sense of humour, and some of the deaths he inflicts to his opponents are quite funny. Case in point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po77bJk1DdI this]] is not a {{Mook}} [[EpicFail failing in his attack]], but Kenshiro's doing. It's also possibly a form of TranquilFury, the people he kills are {{Sadist}}s who torment others in the same way for their own amusement. He's just giving them a [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine taste of their own medicine]].
* BossSubtitles: "The Savior of the Post-Apocalyptic World - '''Kenshiro'''"
* BruceLeeClone:
** The TropeCodifier (in anime, anyways), although his [[TouchOfDeath fighting]] [[YourHeadASplode style]] is ''very'' different from Lee's. However, his [[FunnyBruceLeeNoises high pitched shrieks]] are spot on. Those are an invention of the anime, and almost certainly a deliberate invocation of this trope. He also has a ''lot'' more "[[RapidFireFisticuffs ATATATATATATA!!]]" moments in the anime than the manga. He also looks a lot more like Lee in the original anime.
** Skill-wise, Ken has witness several key fights during his journey, and incorporates them in his skillset. This is best shown when he uses Shu's Nanto Hakurou Ken on Thouzer in their second fight. Combining this and ''Muso Tensei'' gives him access to their signature styles, and can use them accordingly.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Yuria doesn't love Kenshiro for his hyper-masculinity, but rather [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan for his gentle, sensitive nature and kind-heartedness]].
* BullyingADragon: Are [[{{Mooks}} bandits and thugs]] really that dumb to try to taunt and torment this guy? Most {{mooks}} are at least a head taller than him and are usually armed. Now, the ones who attack him AFTER seeing their pals explode are either [[TooDumbToLive not very smart to begin with]] or have [[BadBoss bosses who will kill them if they run]]; either way, the poor bastards don't have it easy.
* BullyHunter: And those he hunts ''never'' live to learn from their mistakes, though they usually aren't ''child'' bullies either.
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Jagi's Cain.
* CatchAndReturn: Kenshiro's Two Finger Air Snatch has him catch arrows and throw them right back at the shooters. Spade gets one in the eye from this.
* CharacterCatchphrase:
** "Omae wa mō shindeiru" (お前はもう死んでいる), which is literally translated as "You're already dead" in Japanese. There's also the "Omae wa sude ni shindeiru" variation, which means the same thing, but it's nowhere near as prevalent. [[AbandonedCatchphrase However, this catchphrase was only really around during the Southern Cross arc, and disappeared after Shin's death.]] It does get uttered again on rare occasions, but by then its catchphrase status had practically died out.
** The english dub of ''New Fist of the North Star'' and ''Lost Paradise'' also adds a sentence before that: "There's no use fighting now. You're already dead." (the "sude ni" variant) for the former, and "It's too late for you. You're already dead." (the original version) for the latter.
** "OWATTA" ("Finish!" or "It's finished"), which he adds at the end of his "ATATATATATATATATATATA". [[TheUnintelligible It is commonly misheard by people for something completely unintelligle]].
* CharacterDevelopment: While he is consistently portrayed as an heroic protector of the innocent throughout the entire series, he's much more reactionary in early parts of the manga. Destroying Shin's empire was an afterthought next to saving Yuria, he only took on the Golan Army to rescue Lin, and the Jackal and Fang Clan story arcs have the villains attacking a village he just happens to be visiting. Starting with the Jagi arc, he becomes much more proactive in his role as the End of Century Saviour, and starts actively looking for enemies to fight and regimes to topple.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: He had to train his entire life to become what he is. In contrast, Toki may have had more ''raw'' talent and was a prodigy, but his illness reduced him too much for him to be successor.
* ClothingDamage: Kenshiro lives in a world where you sometimes must ''literally'' give an arm and a leg for basic necessities like food and fresh water, and yet can still afford to shred his expensive jacket '''every''' single episode '''and''' get a good-as-new replacement the next episode. Episode 23 shows Ken repairing a shoe though, so perhaps Ken uses what limited resources he can find to repair his outfit. Though then again, most of the time they're seen not just ripping but outright disintegrating.
* CoolHorse: Gains Raoh's elephant-sized black stallion Koku-Oh after his death.
* CombatPragmatist: He has no problems ambushing mooks, throwing objects and attacking somebody while they're talking.
* CrazyPrepared: He has a move for ''everything''. Attacks with arrows? He has a CatchAndReturn move. Flying enemy on a horse? He has a flying kick that's more effective on horsemen in air than on horseman on the ground. [[KungFuProofMook Mr. Heart]], [[{{Kevlard}} who is so fat to be immune to any attack except Nanto ones]]? He has a move to ''push away the fat'' ([[DidntSeeThatComing this one surprised even Shin]], who had known him and his style for years and sent Mr. Heart specifically for him).
* DeadpanSnarker: Kenshiro may be a pretty serious guy, but he does get a few lines in when killing mooks. There's also this exchange with [[DirtyCoward Jackal]]:
-->'''Kenshiro:''' Even a rat shows its fangs when it's cornered. Quit running away all the time! Why don't you try fighting?\\
'''[[CombatPragmatist Jackal]]:''' Damn it! [[ImprovFu Nanto]] [[ThrowDownTheBomblet Bakusatsu Ken]]!\\
'''Kenshiro:''' ...[[FlatWhat you call throwing around dynamite a martial art]]?\\
'''Jackal:''' [[SureLetsGoWithThat Hey, as long as it works]].
* DeathGlare: If Ken gives you one of these, [[YourHeadASplode prepare to shout]] "HIDEBU!!!" or something similar at the top of your lungs.
* DesperationAttack: ''Tenha Kassatsu''; according to Kenshiro, this technique rescues the user from the brink of peril.
* {{Determinator}}: Ken will not stop until the right thing has been done, preferably with his own fists. ''Entire armies'' have learned this the hard way.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: He briefly becomes this during the Last Nanto General arc, which has a greater focus on Raoh.
* DidYouActuallyBelieve: If he says that he'll spare a villain who he's hit with a pressure point attack, that villain is dead as soon as he's of no further use to Kenshiro. It serves as a KarmicDeath as Kenshiro would call out said villain had pulled this numerous times on defenseless people for their own sick enjoyment, so it's only fair to give them a taste of their own medicine.
-->'''Kenshiro:''' Did you honestly think I'd let a scumbag like you live?
* DoesNotLikeGuns: Ken refuses to use a gun, since he would rather throw his punches to make his enemies explode. Part of his disdain towards Jagi is because he would use them, and when he held a child kidnapper dead-to-rights, he points a gun at him, but doesn't pull the trigger and instead throws it into the ground. The kidnapper ends up exploding anyway.
* TheDreaded: A rare benevolent example. He is known to most of his enemies as "the Man with the Seven Scars", and mentioning this nickname is sometimes enough to make the mooks run in terror. To put it into perspective, he is ''the'' badass -- with combination of GoodIsNotSoft, OneManArmy and HopeBringer rolled into one -- who delivers the [[YourHeadASplode bloody and cruel death]] to those who prey on the innocent [[WifeBasherBasher and women]] and that fear is very justified. Not only is he frighteningly competent in his skills, but he is also frighteningly determinated to accomplish the goal of protecting the innocent and killing evil-doers who ''really'' deserve it. Just watch his actions in the anime episode "I Am Death Itself! I'll Chase You to the Ends of Hell!" [[OneManArmy for]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge proof.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding:
** In ''Ken's Rage'', Yuria is SparedByTheAdaptation, since she never contracted radiation poisoning (in fact, it's not mentioned) and Raoh achieved ''Musou Tensei'' for other reasons, thus Kenshiro gets to live HappilyEverAfter with her. This change is strange since it happens in the primary "Legend Mode", while other characters who get their respective happy endings get pushed into "Dream Mode" territory, which makes Kenshiro's own dream scenario worthless, since he dreams of defeating Raoh and living together with Yuria once again. While the same happens in Legend Mode, in Dream Mode, it's for different circumstances.
** In ''Lost Paradise'', [[spoiler: Yuria goes to cure herself of her illness, but the cost is that after being fully cured, she would inadvertently set off the nuclear missiles once she wakes up. However, Nadai decides to save Ken and Yuria from the nukes by sacrificing himself so they would live. At the end of the game, they both ride into the wasteland with a cargo of apples Ken intends to deliver]].
* EasilyForgiven: Has the tendency to be on the forgiving end of this trope, as mocked [[http://www.baka-raptor.com/2009/02/14/love-conquers-all/ here]]. Note, though, that Ken does tend to forgive his enemies only after [[RedemptionEqualsDeath fatally wounding them first]], unlike a lot of other examples of this trope.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Occasionally played around with the likes of Mr. Heart.
* {{Expy}}: Aside from being an obvious BruceLeeClone, he is directly based on Max Rockatansky, particularly from ''Film/TheRoadWarrior''. Also directly based on Creator/YusakuMatsuda. After the Raoh arc, he also looks a bit like Creator/SylvesterStallone, with his sunglasses at the start of the Land of Shura arc explicitly recalling ''Film/{{Cobra}}''.
* EmotionalBruiser: "And so you see, boys and girls, it IS manly to be sensitive and kind."
* EyesNeverLie: Kenshiro knows about sadness better than anyone. And if he happens to see a palatable sadness in your eyes while you're trying to engage him in a fight, 9 times out of 10 he'll pull his punches in order to make an effort to understand your plight.
* FamilyOfChoice: The four Hokuto brothers: Raoh, Toki, Jagi, and Ken. Despite them all coming from different pasts and different backgrounds, the narartive makes it clear that each of the four considers the other three to be his brothers. This is even a big part of the final battle between Raoh and Ken; after losing, Raoh says "splendid, little brother".
* FashionableAsymmetry: His original outfit only has a single shoulder pad on his right side. In the manga he only wears this outfit for the first ten chapters before switching to dual shoulder pads after the Southern Cross arc, whereas in the anime TV series it's his standard outfit until the {{time skip}}.
* TheFettered: Kenshiro will never compromise his beliefs or his morals, no matter what he's offered or bribed with. It helps that most of the people offering such things are usually begging for their lives anyway.
* FingerpokeOfDoom: Not only does he have a literal example, he has ''variants''.
* {{Flanderization}}:
** ''New Fist of the North Star'' didn't try to make Kenshiro appear soft and gentle or a genuine protector of the innocent, but rather portrayed him as a cold-blooded assassin. However, while Kenshiro is a '''lot''' harsher and colder in the OVA, the characters were also a '''lot''' less sympathetic, and anyone he felt actual sympathy for forced him to kill them in one way or another. In fact, none of the villains are sympathetic; furthermore, the smaller cast of characters and the length of the OVA reduced his time spent not killing foes and showing his gentle nature outside of battle didn't help much.
** With UsedToBeASweetKid, EvenEvilHasStandards, and WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds going for him AND being overcome by remorse and DrivenToSuicide once he remembers what having humanity feels like, main antagonist Seiji is one of the most sympathetic in the entire franchise. His father, not nearly as much, but it's still made clear he genuinely loved his son and did what he did so Seiji would grow strong enough to one day kill him in battle and take the throne.
* FourIsDeath: Kenshiro's catchphrase is four words long, and his MeaningfulName includes the character for the number four.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: There are two kinds of villains in Ken's eyes: Those who deserve his sympathy and those who don't. Colonel is such military villain who Ken doesn't give his sympathy to, since despite Colonel's attempts to build an army to prevent the catastrophe of another nuclear war, Ken outright tells him "You have only exchanged one mistake for another" since he and his army has murdered innocents and have left children sorrowful and orphaned.
* FriendToAllChildren: Any child Kenshiro meets instantly warms up to him, and children are the ones who see Kenshiro at his most gentle and friendly. [[PapaWolf Hurting a child in front of him]] is suicide.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: While they don't always reciprocate, Kenshiro refuses to kill {{Attack Animal}}s when the villains use them against him, instead rendering them unconscious.
* GeniusBruiser: Aside from martial arts, Kenshiro is also broadly familiar with religion and mythology from around Asia and the world.
* GetOut: Hokuto Shinken may be a brutal martial art, but Kenshiro ''does'' believe in second chances. Provided you haven't been committing an atrocity, he might let you run off with a [[GameBreakingInjury hopefully not literal]] wound to lick depending on the mood you put him in.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: [[RedEyesTakeWarning Red]] and seriously evil-looking. So they naturally tend to trigger when someone really evil's pissed him off.
* GoodIsNotSoft: He may have a heart of gold, but hurt an innocent before his eyes, and he will make you suffer.
* GrowingMusclesSequence: ''All the time'' early on: Hokuto Shinken practitioners can use their full strength by activating the Tenryu Kokyu Ho (Art of the Dragon's Breathing) technique, that increases his muscle mass and rips his shirt. In a variation it's implied to be caused by his inexperience, as his older brothers have no need to bulk up to use their full strength and by the Last General of Nanto arc Kenshiro stays in his muscular form the entire time.
* HandicappedBadass: Injuries whether from weapons or martial arts techniques won't slow him down one bit. In fact, Ken even used his injured left arm on Yuda's right-hand man Dagarl to prove a point.
* HealingHands: Kenshiro is capable of using Hokuto Shinken to heal as well as harm, though this gets much less play than the harming part. And Ken's brother Toki is far better at healing than he is.
* HeroAntagonist: Raoh is the VillainProtagonist of the Last General of Nanto arc, making Kenshiro this by default.
* HeroProtagonist: He is the main protagonist and resolves to protect the innocent from harm and work for the bright future in humanity. He is also the most fearsome warrior and the HopeBringer to boot.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Jagi actually aims for such an outcome when he goes to a village and make himself look bad so that Ken would gain such a reputation. Ken puts a stop to it by defeating his mooks, and kill him for good.
** He also catches this in the Boss Fang arc.
* HeroicBSOD: Kenshiro does his best to better the world despite the despair and loneliness he goes through. And trying to inflict this trope on him often only makes him angrier and stronger. However, ''Last Piece'' reveals that [[DespairEventHorizon Yuria's death sent him into a great depression]], to the point he feels unworthy of helping Juza's son and wants to be left alone.
* HeroicBuild: In a genre where the main character is usually a pint-sized boy, Kenshiro stands out as one of the earliest Shonen heroes who are built like Conan the Barbarian.
* HeroicNeutral: Pre-CharacterDevelopment, while he'll help people against villainy, every instance is a glorified sidequest in his quest to find Yuria. Later on, however, he becomes more of a proactive savior.
* HitmanWithAHeart: While Kenshiro does not accept contracts to kill people, ''Hokuto Shinken'' is still an assassination art, but Kenshiro is one of its most kind-hearted practitioners, if utterly merciless toward his enemies.
* HonorBeforeReason: He might allow someone to go free if they spare an innocent, even if they were an unrepentant killer before. Of course, most of them just turn back around and [[ISurrenderSuckers try to kill him anyway...]] at which point all bets are off. Basically, don't make Ken regret showing you mercy, or you'll receive none.
* HopeBringer: "The Savior of the Century's End"; he EARNED that title. Everywhere he goes, those who would use their strength to dominate and hurt the weak fear him. The innocent and the just fighters of the world, however, love him.
* {{Hunk}}: One of the most famous examples in manga.
* IHaveManyNames: Feared far and wide as "The Man With Seven Scars" and revered far and wide as "The Savior of the Century's End."
* IdealHero: Provides the trope image. A FriendToAllChildren who will NeverHurtAnInnocent, and will [[TheFettered never compromise his beliefs in the future of humanity for any reason]]. There's a good reason he's called the "Savior of Century's End."
-->"I refuse to build my own future on the blood and tears of others!"
* IdenticalGrandson: To his uncle Professor Kenshiro Kasumi, the 62nd Successor of ''Hokuto Shinken'' and dean of literature at Tokyo's University for Proper Young Ladies in 1935. The final story arcs of ''Manga/FistOfTheBlueSky'' leaves the possibility open that Kenshiro is actually a reincarnation of his uncle.
* ILied: Kenshiro's not above promising to spare a villain or a {{mook}} in exchange for information, then killing them when they're of no further use.
* ImplacableMan: Don't even bother running. Kenshiro relentlessly, inexorably pursues all forms of evil and oppression, as the Zeed Gang, Fang Clan, Jackal's gang, and many others have found out to their detriment. [[http://youtu.be/L4oihATrFfQ?t=4m51s Even a falling skyscraper]] is neither excuse nor reason to slow his pursuit of evildoers for an instant.
* ImportantHaircut: In the animated film, Kenshiro sports a thick Creator/ChuckNorris-esque beard for a few scenes before giving himself a clean shave.
* InSeriesNickname: His friends just call him "Ken."
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Not only will Kenshiro never back down from doing the right thing, offering him rewards for doing so is [[CurbStompBattle to get on the wrong side of a one-sided ass-beating]].
* InvincibleHero: Practically everyone who goes up against Kenshiro ends up turned into LudicrousGibs. This is doubly so in the anime, with all the {{filler}} episodes where Kenshiro has to deal with [[MonsterOfTheWeek Punks Of The Week]] instead of enemies who have to be able to pretend to stand a chance. In fact, only a total of three characters have the distinction of actually defeating Kenshiro in combat: Shin, a practitioner of ''Nanto Seiken'' and Kenshiro's RivalTurnedEvil, whose beatdown of Kenshiro triggered the latter's character development into becoming the InvincibleHero he is in the main storyline; Thouzer, a practitioner of ''Nanto Seiken'' (the rival style to Hokuto Shinken) who appeared to be [[NoSell completely invulnerable]] to ''Hokuto Shinken''[='s=] pressure point-based attacks (at least until Kenshiro figured out why and exploits it); and Kaioh, Raoh's older brother and practitioner of ''Hokuto Ryuuken'', whose BattleAura rendered useless even the strongest techniques of ''Hokuto Shinken''. Also, Kenshiro's first fight with Raoh - his older brother who was originally intended to be the successor to ''Hokuto Shinken'' - ended in a tie, as the two were evenly matched. Even then, all of them were defeated once Kenshiro eventually gained the means to defeat them.
* ItNeverGetsAnyEasier: Despite the countless corpses in his path, he is careful not to become desensitized to killing, and bears the sadness of battle as a burden.
* JackOfAllStats: In ''Twin Blue Stars Of Judgment'' he is neither the fastest in the cast or the strongest physically, mostly serving as the Ryu of the game, and this is considered mid-tier. He's capable of infinites but in a game like that, so is everyone else.
* KamehameHadoken:
** ''Tenha Kassatsu''; in the manga against Baran, a ''Hokuto Shinken'' "imitator" who'd been strongly influenced by Raoh, Kenshiro showcases how to perform a proper ''Hokuto Gosho Ha''. He also uses Raoh's ''Tensho Honretsu'' against Han in the Land of Shura arc.
** ''Hokuto Tenkai Senretsu Sho'' in ''Ken's Rage'' has him blasting tons of fireballs around the place with each hand alternating. The result is quite impressive.
* KeepTheReward: Tends to hand back rewards whenever he can, to Bat's annoyance. However, he never seems to have a problem getting enough to eat, drink, fuel his car and [[ClothingDamage repair his clothes]], so it's implied that he does sometimes accept resupply from villages that can afford it.
* KiManipulation: Kenshiro can use ''touki'' to attack an opponent's pressure points at a distance, yet the only time he's ever done this was using ''Tenha Kassatsu'' against Thouzer, ''Tensho Honretsu'' against Han and ''Hokuto Gosho Ha'' against Baran.
* KungFuJesus:
** The prequel film ''Legend of Kenshiro'' makes explicit allusions to him being this trope, right down to his resurrection from getting literally crucified by a tyrant, and multiple references to God (''Kami-sama'') instead of Heaven (''Ten'').
** His title is the "Savior of the Century's End" for a reason.
** At one point, when he rescues a child who's about to fall off a broken highway and gives him a drink of water, then walks off without giving his name, the kid comes to the conclusion that Kenshiro is God Himself.
* LightningBruiser: While he may not be the most agile fighter in the show, he's far from slow, and very damned strong to boot. Also applicable to his ''Ken's Rage'' incarnation: while ''Nanto Seiken'' fighters tend to be faster, Kenshiro's the fastest of the ''Hokuto'' brothers and relies on this via dodge/jump cancelling for invincibility frames. This is before mentioning his access to ''Musou Tensei'', which in-game gives him fifteen seconds of NighInvulnerability.
* LovedByAll: All across the wasteland, he is widely praised as "the savior of the post-apocalyptic world" without even ''trying'' to gain people's respect.
* ManlyMan: Not only he is designed to be a big badass all around, he ditches all of the emotional turmoil of some other characters and has only the wish to protect the innocent from evil-doers. There’s also his [[{{Hunk}} muscular physique]] and the way he kills the most vile of villains. Manliness, thy name is Kenshiro!
* ManlyTears: All the time; notable in that at ''no'' point does he attempt to hide his tears. Even provides the trope image.
* MadeOfIron: This is a guy who took seven stab wounds to the chest and lived to tell about it. Even now, hitting him with things like pipes, baseball bats and even iron crowbars will just annoy him. Hell, Kenshiro even took a ''huge stone pillar'' to the head, and he acted like nothing happened.
* MartialMedic: As shown with Rin and Airi, he can use his Hokuto pressure point knowledge to cure certain ailments like muteness and blindness.
* MeaningfulName: In the ''Fist of the North Star'' pilot illustrated by Tetsuo Hara before working with Buronson, Kenshiro's name was written in kanji characters that literally meant the "[[FourIsDeath Fourth Son of the Fist]]"(拳四郎).
* MidSeasonUpgrade:
** Musou Tensei, which allows him to become intangible and commune with the spirits of his fallen rivals. He gains this ability about halfway through the manga.
** Acquires a small one when he inherits Ein's weighted gloves after the Celestial Emperor arc, making his punches hit slightly harder.
* TheMourningAfter: Once he’s reunited with Yuria, they could only live a few peaceful years together because of her radiation poisoning. Yuria’s final words are not only to thank him for giving her a great life, but to move on with Rin. Kenshiro could never fulfill her promise due to the pain and heartbreak over losing his only love, even as Bat and Mamiya try to implore him to move on, but Kenshiro refuses to change his mind. Even when he loses his memories, he rejects Rin and successfully encourages her to go to Bat’s side. Kenshiro looks up to Yuria’s spirit and believes this is the right choice.
* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: "Hokuto Shinken is invincible!" No kidding, since whenever someone dumb enough thinks their own martial arts technique is strong enough to beat him, he backs up this claim by deliberately taking hits from said martial art, and show them ''why'' [[NoSell they are wrong]].
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: It goes against his very being to do this even at his expense. Amiba claims this is his greatest "weakness" and exploits it by using a woman as a HumanShield, daring Kenshiro to attack. He doesn't and Amiba subsequently lands a critical blow.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Kenshiro has a Hokuto Shinken technique for everything. ''Everything''. This is justified as he learned Hokuto Shinken at a young age, so knowing 710 pressure points and using Hokuto Shinken techniques is a requirement to know what ''exactly'' which pressure point to hit and use its effects.
* NiceGuy: He is one of the most benevolent, affable and gentle Hokuto Shinken practitioners in history... but if he catches bandits or other thugs terrorising the innocent, he will ''brutally kill them.''
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Failing to put Jagi out of his misery when he had the chance not only ruined his own life, as well as Yuria, Shin, Rei and Airi, but threw away the lives of countless innocents in the process. Thankfully, Ken learned his lesson and did not show Jagi mercy in their second fight.
* NoSell: Kenshiro often lets enemies take pot-shots at him and for him it's not even worth the energy to bother noticing it, including taking a two-handed smash from a 40' giant inside an abandoned prison or getting pin-cushioned with throwing darts from neo-fascist soldier wannabes.
* OneManArmy: Kenshiro is a hugely powerful fighting force on his own and has easily taken down entire squadrons sent to kill him. Look no further than a good example [[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9_kgxSbt3eQ in this clip.]]
* PapaWolf: If you harm children, YouAreAlreadyDead. If you harm children that Ken is especially close to, You Are Already Dead Even Faster.
* TheParalyzer: Although he mostly uses his Hokuto Shinken to make his enemies explode messily when he touches them, he can also use it to create less messy effects, including paralysis and even healing of blindness. Unfortunately for his enemies, 'less messy' is often only temporary - he'll happily use an opponent's paralysis to set up much more painful and destructive pressure point strikes if he's sufficiently annoyed with them (or simply if [[CombatPragmatist they were moving too fast for him to get a decent shot in]]).
* PayEvilUntoEvil: While he himself is the titular 'Savior of the Century's End', he ''does'' kill most of his opponents in painful and [[{{Gorn}} gory]] ways, mostly because of KarmicDeath, and every {{Mook}} seems to be a complete scumbag and incapable of doing right.
* PositiveFriendInfluence: For Lin and Bat but especially for the latter. If he, Lin and Bat had never met each other and Ken taught him about compassion, Bat would eventually grow up to be an irredeemable asshole whom Kenshiro will not hesitate to kill should they meet just like the others, unlike our adult Bat who's grown into a better and altruistic man post TimeSkip.
* PowerCopying: The ''Hokuto Shinken'' technique ''Suieishin'' allows Kenshiro to learn an opponent's techniques just from fighting or observing them. Two notable examples is during Kenshiro's fight with Shew by using ''Nanto Seiken'' techniques and when Kenshiro confronts Raoh in his rush to find the Last General of Nanto, where he uses Toki's stance and one of Rei's techniques. Rihaku (and in the anime, Raoh) see the spirits of the fighters that Kenshiro has fought and learned from. More explicitly evoked by a blinded Kenshiro in the anime when several of Raoh's biker troops tried to stop him from reaching the General: the troops deliberately revved their engines in hopes that it would drown out the sound of their attack, thus Kenshiro drew upon his experience with Shew to defeat them.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: He delivers this frequently to {{Mooks}} who end up pissing him off. Probably the biggest goes to Thouzer after he has Shew killed:
-->'''Ken:''' THOUZER! When I am done with you, there won't be anything left of you in this world!
* PreMortemOneLiner: His signature "You are already dead", which may or may not double as a BondOneLiner, since he says it after "killing" his opponent, but before they actually die...
* ProneToTears: He is an emotional guy, and so he will shed tears for others. However, he sheds these tears for the sufferings of his opponents who lost their way or lost someone they loved that turned them to villainy. It's actually ''how'' he's able to attain Muso Tensei.
* {{Protectorate}}:
** Never abuse a child in front of Kenshiro or let him find out you killed them. Just don't; Zeed, Spade, Diamond, the Golan Organization, Jackal, the Fang Clan, Jagi, Amiiba, Thouzer, etc. all learned this the hard and painful way.
** It's also a VERY bad idea to abuse women in front of Kenshiro. [[WifeBasherBasher He'll make you fully regret your actions just before he kills you]].
* RapidFireFisticuffs: ''Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken'', delivered with his trademark "[[{{Kiai}} ATATATATATATATATATATATATATA]]!"
* RedBaron: He's referred to in-universe as "The Man With Seven Scars" due to the distinct [[ScarsAreForever scars]] on his chest. He's also called "The Savior of Century's End", though much less frequently.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His eyes occasionally glow red when his rage peaks. This only serves to show one of the most dangerous men on the face of the planet is about to become ''even more dangerous''. One prominent example is when he's about to make the [[EvilGenius self-professed "Genius"]], [[MadScientist Amiba]], [[DisneyVillainDeath walk himself off a building to his death]]. The first instance of this is witnessing Shin kill Yuria in front of him (which turned out to be a doll) and he makes sure to make Shin suffer the consequences.
* RightMakesMight: This might as well be tattooed on Kenshiro's knuckles so it's the last thing a mook sees before his fist goes right through his face. Kenshiro's fighting prowess comes from Hokuto Shinken. Kenshiro's STRENGTH comes from the [[IncorruptiblePurePureness righteousness of his cause]] and [[{{Determinator}} his unwillingness to ever give up]]. Whle he doesn't muscle through his enemies like tissue paper like Raoh does or the SocialDarwinist mindset of other villains, he has time and again demonstrates his might by showcasing his feats of strength such as stopping tractors with his bare hands, splitting large pillars in half, and even filler, ''stopping a tank in its tracks'', and he is very humble. Toki tells him he can't defeat Raoh as they both use the same style, and that his defensive style can effectively defeat his hard fist style.
* {{Sadist}}: He may be a noble protector of the innocent, but the ways he kills the people he chooses to kill are so often unnecessarily creative, gruesome, and darkly comic that it's hard to describe him as anything other than this. Even the ones he spares often end up with CruelMercy.
* ShipperOnDeck: Believes Rin should love Bat, not him, and he gets them together at the end of the manga.
* ShowyInvincibleHero: Aside from a few {{Out Of Character Moment}}s, Ken is typically portrayed as utterly invincible. What makes him interesting, typically, isn't ''if'' he can defeat a particular character, but how he's going to do it, and how cool/gruesome it's going to be.
* SingleTargetSexuality: The very final moments of the Manga is spent on love relationships, in this case trying to tie them, since Bat tries to have an amnesiac Kenshiro and Rin together. It doesn’t work because Kenshiro has Bat accept his feelings and make Rin happy himself. It gets to the point where Ken has a flashback of Yuria herself telling him to move on and find another love (Rin she specified), the manga shows Mamiya is still readily available even, but Ken refuses. He has steeled his heart to the point where he will never love another woman, Yuria was the only woman in Ken’s life and then reasoning that he should die alone in the desert, fighting for someone in need.
* SleevesAreForWimps: Kenshiro's wardrobe consists almost entirely of sleeveless vests and and undershirts. In fact, the first time we see Kenshiro wearing a jacket with sleeves was in the flashback when he suffered his first major defeat at the hands of Shin, playing this trope literally straight. And while Ken does occasionally wear jacket with sleeves at later story arcs in the manga (most notably when he sails to Shura), he mostly sticks to a standardized design in the anime adaptations.
* StarCrossedLovers: He suffers this trope badly with his fiancée Yuria, since this whole nuclear apocalypse doomed their romance from the get-go. Yuria is kidnapped twice by other men deadlock on winning her love, the first was Kenshiro’s EvilFormerFriend Shin and Yuria’s last suitor, Raoh, was willing to kill her if faced with rejection. Kenshiro goes through hell and high water searching for her, but once they’re finally reunited, Yuria turns out to terminally ill from radiation poisoning. They could only enjoy a few years together until Yuria’s eventual passing, and Kenshiro [[TheMourningAfter could never find it in himself to move on with another woman.]]
* StockShonenHero: Downplayed, especially since he predates many of the more well-known examples of this trope (including [[Franchise/DragonBall Son Goku]], the TropeCodifier). While Kenshiro is a [[{{Determinator}} determined]] AllLovingHero, he's also older, quieter, more brutal, and more intelligent than most other protagonists of shonen series, although he does give a good Bruce Lee impersonation that's loud and shouty whenever he uses his signature [[RapidFireFisticuffs Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken]]. He's also quite strong from the beginning and doesn't need to go through any more training to improve himself, unlike most modern examples of the trope.
* StrongAndSkilled: He's a highly athletic mountain of muscle who has mastered the finer techniques of Hokuto Shinken for killing and healing. He's tough enough to kick an axe on a chain back at his opponent without any problems then he taps someone on the side of his head to kill him.
* SmugSuper: Downplayed very much. Kenshiro never gloats about how powerful he is. But he does often brag about the 2000 years long tradition of Hokuto Shin Ken, and he only ever does so while he's already winning.
* TheStoic: ''Some'' of the time. Other times he is either a raging avenger... or a bit of a snarker as Jackal can attest to.
* SuperStrength: Some of his feats include bending open prison bars, wielding a steel I-beam like a broomstick, stopping the charge of a 500 kg man with ''six fingers'', and plugging a burst dam by carrying a huge chunk of a mountain to it. "100% of the body's potential" indeed.
* TakingTheBullet: Ken would normally deflect an arrow aimed at his face towards a mook or someone dumb enough to try kill him, but he's taken shots by arrows in order to save someone's life or to make a point. In the 1986 movie, he takes an arrow shot by a mook, but doesn't flinch.
* TenderTears: Being a merciless death machine on two legs notwithstanding, Kenshiro is still one of the most sensitive and kind-hearted men in [=1980s=] manga. He may actually cry these ''more'' than ManlyTears, if you can believe it.
* ThinkNothingOfIt: Helping innocent people to him is not a duty, but the ''right'' thing for a man to do. To that end, he'll often refuse food, water, or any other sort of reward for his good deeds (unless he absolutely needs it).
* TookALevelInBadass: Practically what the first story arc in the franchise was about. He lost to Shin within seconds and spends a year constantly battling and improving skills for a rematch. Especially true for the anime who devotes an entire season of filler showing him battling a variety of different superhuman opponents and martial artists and portraying his progress in improvements before he finally confronts Shin.
* TouchOfDeath: In increasingly elaborate forms. Most of them make YourHeadAsplode, but he's been known to use pressure points to make people do all sorts of things, including walking backwards against their will off of a cliff. However, Ken reserves those only for people who he thinks ''really'' deserve a CruelAndUnusualDeath.
* TragicKeepsake: After Ein's death, he permanently wears his gloves, which has the added benefit of making Kenshiro's punches slightly stronger.
* TragicHero: Anyone tied to him via the bonds of family and friendship are doomed to a violent, tragic death, hence his refusal to ever settle down after Yuria's death. When he left Rin's town in the first chapter of the manga, the village elder explained to Rin that this trope was the reason: where the successor of ''Hokuto Shinken'' treads, death follows.
* TrashTalk: Probably should have its own page. One gem:
-->'''Ken''': (To Shin) "[[DeadpanSnarker I didn't think you'd get into the pig breeding business.]]"
-->'''Mr. Heart''': "Ho-ho. You dare call ''me'' a ''pig''??"
-->'''Ken''': "That's right. Pigs belong in the slaughter house."
* TraumaCongaLine: His girlfriend gets kidnapped, he gets scarred by his rival Shin, and is left wandering a post-apocalyptic wasteland till he can defeat all the other practitioners of his deadly martial art. Lesser men would have been completely broken by the things Kenshiro goes through. Sometimes, [[ManlyTears his emotions do get the better of him]], but [[{{Determinator}} that just means he'll rip the villains a new one more fiercely]].
* {{Troll}}: A heroic version. He likes to mess with people (''especially'' mooks and small-time {{Arc Villain}}s) and in the manga, the bartender to safeguard Toyo's children by telling him he'll die in a month, and he was only kidding.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: Kenshiro upset the odds when he became the 64th successor, since Toki was in the running lead, until his deteriorating health forced Ryuken to reconsider.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: No matter how many times it explodes when he gets enraged, Ken will always have an exact replica of his shirt and jacket by the next episode. One episode shows him repairing a shirt so it's likely he receives supplies from grateful villagers for this purpose.
* UnstoppableRage:
** Not that Ken isn't already one of the best warriors on the planet, but making him mad is a good way to get him to show how strong he really is.
** When Shin made Ken think Yuria was dead, Ken ignored the pain of Shin stabbing through Ken's hand to deliver a fatal blow.
** When Jagi revealed that he was the one who persuaded Shin to go after Yuria in the first place, Ken split the entire roof of a skyscraper with one hit.
* VillainKiller: This guy is anime's reigning champion of bad-guy slaughtering.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Once he rips his shirt off with his BattleAura, that is. Which is admittedly quite often.
* WhenHeSmiles: Kenshiro unsurprisingly doesn't smile much, but whenever he does, it's the warmest, most loving sight imaginable. [[FriendToAllChildren Children]] are the most common reason he'll crack a smile (indeed, the first smile he gives in the series is to Rin).
* WideEyedIdealist: He is noble, compassionate and kind-hearted to the core in a CrapsackWorld where only the only law is the survival of the fittest. When they met and Bat saw that he would not lift one finger to break out of the jail, deliberately staying to protect a little girl, Bat wondered how he had survived so long. Shortly afterwards Bat learned exactly ''why'' Ken can afford to be nice.
* WifeBasherBasher: You think Ken's usual techniques are cruel? You haven't see what he does to those who dare to hit women... [[PayEvilUntoEvil ooh, boy]]...
* WorldsBestWarrior: Goes hand-in-hand with being TheAce. The only people to have decisively beaten him were Shin, Thouzer and Kaioh, and lightning did not strike twice for them.
* WouldHurtAChild: Albeit far less brutally than he would hit an enemy, Kenshiro has beaten Bat at least once (Episode 2). And not just a DopeSlap at that. To be fair, this was shortly after the two had met, where Bat was still a bratty little punk and hadn't started to mature.
* WouldHitAGirl: ZigzaggedTrope. In one hand, a villainess actually trying to kill him with murderous intent became an exception. Bella was an exception despite trying to challenge him because her mother was taken prisoner, and [[ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter he knows exactly why she's after him]], but doesn't press the fight further because she admits defeat.
* WouldntHitAGirl: He refuses to make any moves against Bella when they fight, to the point that she concedes defeat after he shields a girl from a [[SomethingAboutARose rose]] intended for him.
* YouAreAlreadyDead: The TropeNamer, and his catchphrase; "Omae wa mou shinderu", translated to "You're already dead". ''Hokuto Shinken'' techniques have this general effect. The phrase is delivered just before the gruesome results.
* YouFightLikeACow: His frequent insults revolve around getting under a villain's skin when they often boasts how strong they are, their former (often illegal) profession, and how many people they killed. And he's not even impressed one bit.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A ''heroic'' version. If Ken feels a mook or a mob boss outlived their usefulness, he makes absolutely sure their death is karmic. He is even prepared to kill a mook when they try to attack while his back is turned.
* YourHeadASplode: One of the more common occurrences when Kenshiro uses a ''Hokuto Shinken'' technique, although he gets ''far'' more creative later on than simply internally, exploding heads.
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[[folder:Bat]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Mie Suzuki (Child)[=/=]Creator/KeiichiNanba (Adult) (TV anime, JP), Creator/AyumiTsunematsu (''Twin Blue Stars of Judgment''), Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (''Legends of the True Savior'' and ''Legends [=ReVIVE=]''), Umeka Shōji (Child)[=/=]Creator/DaisukeKishio (Adult) (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Shunzo Miyasaka (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/JunyaEnoki (''[[VideoGame/FitnessBoxingSwitch Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star]]'')
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Gary Dubin (TV anime), Caleb Pearson (TV anime, recut dub), Creator/TonyOliver (The Movie), Creator/DebiDerryberry (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Bryan Beacock (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/MikeHaimoto (''Legend of the True Savior'')
!!!'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish)''': Orlando Arenas (TV series)
!!!'''Stats''': Level: D, Power: 2, Speed: 3, Skills: 2, Looks: 4, Charisma: 4
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A young boy who decides to leave his home village to fend for himself, Bat was imprisoned in Rin's village for attempting to steal food. While locked in the same cell, he comes across the 64th successor of ''Hokuto Shinken'' Kenshiro, who breaks out to fight Zeed. After witnessing his skills, Bat follows Kenshiro as his self-appointed sidekick, hoping to use Kenshiro as a tool for his own self-benefit, but after the death of his adoptive mother Toyo back in his village, Bat slowly matures, upon witnessing the hardships of Kenshiro and his new friends and rivals. Following the TimeSkip, Bat has grown OlderAndWiser and is co-leader of the new "Hokuto Army" with Rin, a resistance group aimed at bringing down the tyrannical reign of the Celestial Emperor. Although Bat is not a true martial artist, he has rudimentary skills, alongside a limited knowledge of ''Hokuto Shinken'' from his travels with Kenshiro.
In the final arc of the series, Bat forgoes his love for Rin so she can be with Kenshiro. To that end, he presses Rin's pressure points to induce IdentityAmnesia, including reuniting her with a similarly amnesiac Kenshiro. Fate would force him to pose as the ''Hokuto Shinken'' successor in order to fight Bolge, a blind thug with a dangerous vendetta for Kenshiro. Unfortunately, Bat is captured, tortured and multilated by Bolge, doing his best to leave an impersonation of Kenshiro, hoping that if he dies, Bolge will stay away from his friend for good. However, the amnesiac Kenshiro arrives to save him, until Bat's screams trigger the martial artist's memories, who is so moved by his sacrifice for him that Kenshiro defeats Bolge easily. Unfortunately, Bat is mortally wounded, yet urges Rin, who too has regained her memories from Bat's heroics, to stay with Kenshiro. Rin decides to stay behind and guard Bat's tomb, only to discover that Kenshiro managed to save Bat's life by manipulating his pressure points. The story of ''Fist of the North Star'' ends with Rin tearfully embracing a rejuvenated, yet still unconscious Bat.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In the manga, after Shin had revealed what happened on Ken's way to Southern Cross, he quickly moves on after burying Shin's body. The anime has every major events taking place before his rematch fight with Shin, and the episode taking place after has him being completely silent after feeling his entire journey was AllForNothing.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the manga, Ken is very emotive where he'll crack a smile on occasion (whether it's a genuine warm smile or he's messing with Bat), to full-on furious when he saw Shin's Bloody Cross symbol, he crushed the binoculars he was holding, as well as showing genuine happiness to see Yuria alive only to turn into ManlyTears when Shin tells him she forgot about him (though it's revealed to be a doll). The Toei anime made him a stoic no-nonsense badass who smiles in rare occasions and heavy on being a DeadpanSnarker, but still shows anger when sufficently pissed off enough. He retains his tendency to shed tears in special occasions.
* AllLovingHero: Downplayed. While he is very kind and compassionate and shows even the most heinous villains sympathy because of their {{Freudian Excuse}}s, [[GoodIsNotSoft he is still capable of feeling hatred]], and he is not above [[PayEvilUntoEvil brutally killing most of his enemies]], especially if they're BeyondRedemption.
* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: During the AnimatedAdaptation of the Raoh arc, ExecutiveMeddling and {{Moral Guardian}}s forced Toei Animation to put Kenshiro into contrived situations where he spares the lives of children who are JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, and deliver [[{{Anvilicious}} heavy-handed life lessons]] ("You may steal to stay alive, but keep doing it and you'll grow to like it, and become ''real'' villains"; in other words, "Then I will REALLY kill you") with the subtlety of a brick. Thankfully, this is not done to the detriment of the plot and the story's thematic soul, [[EndingFatigue unlike the post-Land of Shura arc of the manga, left un-animated]].
* AndTheAdventureContinues: Every major part ends with Kenshiro wandering into the wasteland to whatever fate awaits him. With Raoh's defeat, he and Yuria ride off on Koku-Oh to live out the rest of her remaining years with him; post-Land of Shura, he journeys with Ryu to properly teach him the ways and philosophy of ''Hokuto Shinken''; in the grand finale, he continues alone on his mission to protect the innocent wherever he can.
--> "I don't need a name on my grave! If I die, it will be on the desert of battle!"
* ArmorPiercingResponse: When Fudo asks why Ken hasn't gone to the main capital to see the Nanto General, his reply while removing arrows on his arms, which moves Fudo to tears:
-->'''Ken''': The pain of these wounds is nothing. But the pain by your death would last a lifetime.
* ArtEvolution:
** In the manga, Ken retains most of his features from the one-shot story. Later arcs give him a Mad Max-like hairstyle based on Creator/MelGibson's portrayal. Eventually, he is given a more angular face, a large thick neck, and recognizable iconic hairstyle often adapted in other media such as video games.
** In the original anime, Ken has a similar hairstyle similar to Creator/BruceLee, and it carried all until the end with his fight and funeral of Ryuga. The final part of first series gives him a long mullet-like hairstyle, a more narrow eyes, a slightly large neck, and an angular face. The second series gives him more lines on his face, and a Creator/SylvesterStallone-esque features.
* BadassInDistress: Several times after he lost a battle with a major antagonist, he had to be rescued because the physical beating put him into unconsciousness for several days. Tragically, people die as a result during the process including Shu's son.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Making people's heads or bodies go all BodyHorror and [[LudicrousGibs explode]] is no good power. ''Hokuto Shinken'' is explicitly an assassin's art, and is considered shadowy and sinister. Yet Kenshiro is [[IdealHero unambiguously a good guy]].
* BareFistedMonk: He can fight well with nunchucks if he has to, but prefers his bare hands during battles.
* BashBrothers: With Rei. After he and Rei patch things up about Ken not being the one who kidnapped Rei's sister, the two of them make a magnificent team.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: In ''Ken's Rage 2'', when he's about to recover his memory, Kenshiro is forced to fight his inner self who doesn't want to remember the sadness he accumulated for all those years. His inner self has access to every ''Hokuto Shinken'' technique, while the current Kenshiro is rendered with AmnesiacDissonance, and must defeat him in order to regain his memories and defeat Bolge.
* BattleStrip: Kenshiro's shirt and jacket practically ''explodes and disintegrates'' off of him if he gets enraged enough. When he gets like this, expect the body count to pile up.
* BerserkButton: He's a stoic, kind-hearted MellowFellow who happens to be trained in one of the most brutal and sadistic martial arts in history, and it takes serious provocation to get him to use it on you. Hurting innocents (and especially children) is his usual casus belli, but he has enough professional pride in Hokuto Shinken that insulting its effectiveness is also a good way to get yourself a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Very kind, heroic and totally selfless...unless you're a villain, in which case, you're already dead.
* BigBrotherWorship: He has always admired Raoh before his AmbitionIsEvil took effect. He even admits this to him in their final bout.
* BigGood: One of the most foremost examples. Any heroic organization in the series eventually has him front and center, inspiring and dishing out the biggest doses of beat-downs.
* BigOlEyebrows: It's like two caterpillars crawled onto his face and started munching his hair, and he was too nice to complain about it.
* BlackComedy: Has a strange sense of humour, and some of the deaths he inflicts to his opponents are quite funny. Case in point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po77bJk1DdI this]] is not a {{Mook}} [[EpicFail failing in his attack]], but Kenshiro's doing. It's also possibly a form of TranquilFury, the people he kills are {{Sadist}}s who torment others in the same way for their own amusement. He's just giving them a [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine taste of their own medicine]].
* BossSubtitles: "The Savior of the Post-Apocalyptic World - '''Kenshiro'''"
* BruceLeeClone:
** The TropeCodifier (in anime, anyways), although his [[TouchOfDeath fighting]] [[YourHeadASplode style]] is ''very'' different from Lee's. However, his [[FunnyBruceLeeNoises high pitched shrieks]] are spot on. Those are an invention of the anime, and almost certainly a deliberate invocation of this trope. He also has a ''lot'' more "[[RapidFireFisticuffs ATATATATATATA!!]]" moments in the anime than the manga. He also looks a lot more like Lee in the original anime.
** Skill-wise, Ken has witness several key fights during his journey, and incorporates them in his skillset. This is best shown when he uses Shu's Nanto Hakurou Ken on Thouzer in their second fight. Combining this and ''Muso Tensei'' gives him access to their signature styles, and can use them accordingly.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Yuria doesn't love Kenshiro for his hyper-masculinity, but rather [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan for his gentle, sensitive nature and kind-heartedness]].
* BullyingADragon: Are [[{{Mooks}} bandits and thugs]] really that dumb to try to taunt and torment this guy? Most {{mooks}} are at least a head taller than him and are usually armed. Now, the ones who attack him AFTER seeing their pals explode are either [[TooDumbToLive not very smart to begin with]] or have [[BadBoss bosses who will kill them if they run]]; either way, the poor bastards don't have it easy.
* BullyHunter: And those he hunts ''never'' live to learn from their mistakes, though they usually aren't ''child'' bullies either.
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Jagi's Cain.
* CatchAndReturn: Kenshiro's Two Finger Air Snatch has him catch arrows and throw them right back at the shooters. Spade gets one in the eye from this.
* CharacterCatchphrase:
** "Omae wa mō shindeiru" (お前はもう死んでいる), which is literally translated as "You're already dead" in Japanese. There's also the "Omae wa sude ni shindeiru" variation, which means the same thing, but it's nowhere near as prevalent. [[AbandonedCatchphrase However, this catchphrase was only really around during the Southern Cross arc, and disappeared after Shin's death.]] It does get uttered again on rare occasions, but by then its catchphrase status had practically died out.
** The english dub of ''New Fist of the North Star'' and ''Lost Paradise'' also adds a sentence before that: "There's no use fighting now. You're already dead." (the "sude ni" variant) for the former, and "It's too late for you. You're already dead." (the original version) for the latter.
** "OWATTA" ("Finish!" or "It's finished"), which he adds at the end of his "ATATATATATATATATATATA". [[TheUnintelligible It is commonly misheard by people for something completely unintelligle]].
* CharacterDevelopment: While he is consistently portrayed as an heroic protector of the innocent throughout the entire series, he's much more reactionary in early parts of the manga. Destroying Shin's empire was an afterthought next to saving Yuria, he only took on the Golan Army to rescue Lin, and the Jackal and Fang Clan story arcs have the villains attacking a village he just happens to be visiting. Starting with the Jagi arc, he becomes much more proactive in his role as the End of Century Saviour, and starts actively looking for enemies to fight and regimes to topple.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: He had to train his entire life to become what he is. In contrast, Toki may have had more ''raw'' talent and was a prodigy, but his illness reduced him too much for him to be successor.
* ClothingDamage: Kenshiro lives in a world where you sometimes must ''literally'' give an arm and a leg for basic necessities like food and fresh water, and yet can still afford to shred his expensive jacket '''every''' single episode '''and''' get a good-as-new replacement the next episode. Episode 23 shows Ken repairing a shoe though, so perhaps Ken uses what limited resources he can find to repair his outfit. Though then again, most of the time they're seen not just ripping but outright disintegrating.
* CoolHorse: Gains Raoh's elephant-sized black stallion Koku-Oh after his death.
* CombatPragmatist: He has no problems ambushing mooks, throwing objects and attacking somebody while they're talking.
* CrazyPrepared: He has a move for ''everything''. Attacks with arrows? He has a CatchAndReturn move. Flying enemy on a horse? He has a flying kick that's more effective on horsemen in air than on horseman on the ground. [[KungFuProofMook Mr. Heart]], [[{{Kevlard}} who is so fat to be immune to any attack except Nanto ones]]? He has a move to ''push away the fat'' ([[DidntSeeThatComing this one surprised even Shin]], who had known him and his style for years and sent Mr. Heart specifically for him).
* DeadpanSnarker: Kenshiro may be a pretty serious guy, but he does get a few lines in when killing mooks. There's also this exchange with [[DirtyCoward Jackal]]:
-->'''Kenshiro:''' Even a rat shows its fangs when it's cornered. Quit running away all the time! Why don't you try fighting?\\
'''[[CombatPragmatist Jackal]]:''' Damn it! [[ImprovFu Nanto]] [[ThrowDownTheBomblet Bakusatsu Ken]]!\\
'''Kenshiro:''' ...[[FlatWhat you call throwing around dynamite a martial art]]?\\
'''Jackal:''' [[SureLetsGoWithThat Hey, as long as it works]].
* DeathGlare: If Ken gives you one of these, [[YourHeadASplode prepare to shout]] "HIDEBU!!!" or something similar at the top of your lungs.
* DesperationAttack: ''Tenha Kassatsu''; according to Kenshiro, this technique rescues the user from the brink of peril.
* {{Determinator}}: Ken will not stop until the right thing has been done, preferably with his own fists. ''Entire armies'' have learned this the hard way.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: He briefly becomes this during the Last Nanto General arc, which has a greater focus on Raoh.
* DidYouActuallyBelieve: If he says that he'll spare a villain who he's hit with a pressure point attack, that villain is dead as soon as he's of no further use to Kenshiro. It serves as a KarmicDeath as Kenshiro would call out said villain had pulled this numerous times on defenseless people for their own sick enjoyment, so it's only fair to give them a taste of their own medicine.
-->'''Kenshiro:''' Did you honestly think I'd let a scumbag like you live?
* DoesNotLikeGuns: Ken refuses to use a gun, since he would rather throw his punches to make his enemies explode. Part of his disdain towards Jagi is because he would use them, and when he held a child kidnapper dead-to-rights, he points a gun at him, but doesn't pull the trigger and instead throws it into the ground. The kidnapper ends up exploding anyway.
* TheDreaded: A rare benevolent example. He is known to most of his enemies as "the Man with the Seven Scars", and mentioning this nickname is sometimes enough to make the mooks run in terror. To put it into perspective, he is ''the'' badass -- with combination of GoodIsNotSoft, OneManArmy and HopeBringer rolled into one -- who delivers the [[YourHeadASplode bloody and cruel death]] to those who prey on the innocent [[WifeBasherBasher and women]] and that fear is very justified. Not only is he frighteningly competent in his skills, but he is also frighteningly determinated to accomplish the goal of protecting the innocent and killing evil-doers who ''really'' deserve it. Just watch his actions in the anime episode "I Am Death Itself! I'll Chase You to the Ends of Hell!" [[OneManArmy for]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge proof.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding:
** In ''Ken's Rage'', Yuria is SparedByTheAdaptation, since she never contracted radiation poisoning (in fact, it's not mentioned) and Raoh achieved ''Musou Tensei'' for other reasons, thus Kenshiro gets to live HappilyEverAfter with her. This change is strange since it happens in the primary "Legend Mode", while other characters who get their respective happy endings get pushed into "Dream Mode" territory, which makes Kenshiro's own dream scenario worthless, since he dreams of defeating Raoh and living together with Yuria once again. While the same happens in Legend Mode, in Dream Mode, it's for different circumstances.
** In ''Lost Paradise'', [[spoiler: Yuria goes to cure herself of her illness, but the cost is that after being fully cured, she would inadvertently set off the nuclear missiles once she wakes up. However, Nadai decides to save Ken and Yuria from the nukes by sacrificing himself so they would live. At the end of the game, they both ride into the wasteland with a cargo of apples Ken intends to deliver]].
* EasilyForgiven: Has the tendency to be on the forgiving end of this trope, as mocked [[http://www.baka-raptor.com/2009/02/14/love-conquers-all/ here]]. Note, though, that Ken does tend to forgive his enemies only after [[RedemptionEqualsDeath fatally wounding them first]], unlike a lot of other examples of this trope.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Occasionally played around with the likes of Mr. Heart.
* {{Expy}}: Aside from being an obvious BruceLeeClone, he is directly based on Max Rockatansky, particularly from ''Film/TheRoadWarrior''. Also directly based on Creator/YusakuMatsuda. After the Raoh arc, he also looks a bit like Creator/SylvesterStallone, with his sunglasses at the start of the Land of Shura arc explicitly recalling ''Film/{{Cobra}}''.
* EmotionalBruiser: "And so you see, boys and girls, it IS manly to be sensitive and kind."
* EyesNeverLie: Kenshiro knows about sadness better than anyone. And if he happens to see a palatable sadness in your eyes while you're trying to engage him in a fight, 9 times out of 10 he'll pull his punches in order to make an effort to understand your plight.
* FamilyOfChoice: The four Hokuto brothers: Raoh, Toki, Jagi, and Ken. Despite them all coming from different pasts and different backgrounds, the narartive makes it clear that each of the four considers the other three to be his brothers. This is even a big part of the final battle between Raoh and Ken; after losing, Raoh says "splendid, little brother".
* FashionableAsymmetry: His original outfit only has a single shoulder pad on his right side. In the manga he only wears this outfit for the first ten chapters before switching to dual shoulder pads after the Southern Cross arc, whereas in the anime TV series it's his standard outfit until the {{time skip}}.
* TheFettered: Kenshiro will never compromise his beliefs or his morals, no matter what he's offered or bribed with. It helps that most of the people offering such things are usually begging for their lives anyway.
* FingerpokeOfDoom: Not only does he have a literal example, he has ''variants''.
* {{Flanderization}}:
** ''New Fist of the North Star'' didn't try to make Kenshiro appear soft and gentle or a genuine protector of the innocent, but rather portrayed him as a cold-blooded assassin. However, while Kenshiro is a '''lot''' harsher and colder in the OVA, the characters were also a '''lot''' less sympathetic, and anyone he felt actual sympathy for forced him to kill them in one way or another. In fact, none of the villains are sympathetic; furthermore, the smaller cast of characters and the length of the OVA reduced his time spent not killing foes and showing his gentle nature outside of battle didn't help much.
** With UsedToBeASweetKid, EvenEvilHasStandards, and WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds going for him AND being overcome by remorse and DrivenToSuicide once he remembers what having humanity feels like, main antagonist Seiji is one of the most sympathetic in the entire franchise. His father, not nearly as much, but it's still made clear he genuinely loved his son and did what he did so Seiji would grow strong enough to one day kill him in battle and take the throne.
* FourIsDeath: Kenshiro's catchphrase is four words long, and his MeaningfulName includes the character for the number four.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: There are two kinds of villains in Ken's eyes: Those who deserve his sympathy and those who don't. Colonel is such military villain who Ken doesn't give his sympathy to, since despite Colonel's attempts to build an army to prevent the catastrophe of another nuclear war, Ken outright tells him "You have only exchanged one mistake for another" since he and his army has murdered innocents and have left children sorrowful and orphaned.
* FriendToAllChildren: Any child Kenshiro meets instantly warms up to him, and children are the ones who see Kenshiro at his most gentle and friendly. [[PapaWolf Hurting a child in front of him]] is suicide.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: While they don't always reciprocate, Kenshiro refuses to kill {{Attack Animal}}s when the villains use them against him, instead rendering them unconscious.
* GeniusBruiser: Aside from martial arts, Kenshiro is also broadly familiar with religion and mythology from around Asia and the world.
* GetOut: Hokuto Shinken may be a brutal martial art, but Kenshiro ''does'' believe in second chances. Provided you haven't been committing an atrocity, he might let you run off with a [[GameBreakingInjury hopefully not literal]] wound to lick depending on the mood you put him in.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: [[RedEyesTakeWarning Red]] and seriously evil-looking. So they naturally tend to trigger when someone really evil's pissed him off.
* GoodIsNotSoft: He may have a heart of gold, but hurt an innocent before his eyes, and he will make you suffer.
* GrowingMusclesSequence: ''All the time'' early on: Hokuto Shinken practitioners can use their full strength by activating the Tenryu Kokyu Ho (Art of the Dragon's Breathing) technique, that increases his muscle mass and rips his shirt. In a variation it's implied to be caused by his inexperience, as his older brothers have no need to bulk up to use their full strength and by the Last General of Nanto arc Kenshiro stays in his muscular form the entire time.
* HandicappedBadass: Injuries whether from weapons or martial arts techniques won't slow him down one bit. In fact, Ken even used his injured left arm on Yuda's right-hand man Dagarl to prove a point.
* HealingHands: Kenshiro is capable of using Hokuto Shinken to heal as well as harm, though this gets much less play than the harming part. And Ken's brother Toki is far better at healing than he is.
* HeroAntagonist: Raoh is the VillainProtagonist of the Last General of Nanto arc, making Kenshiro this by default.
* HeroProtagonist: He is the main protagonist and resolves to protect the innocent from harm and work for the bright future in humanity. He is also the most fearsome warrior and the HopeBringer to boot.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Jagi actually aims for such an outcome when he goes to a village and make himself look bad so that Ken would gain such a reputation. Ken puts a stop to it by defeating his mooks, and kill him for good.
** He also catches this in the Boss Fang arc.
* HeroicBSOD: Kenshiro does his best to better the world despite the despair and loneliness he goes through. And trying to inflict this trope on him often only makes him angrier and stronger. However, ''Last Piece'' reveals that [[DespairEventHorizon Yuria's death sent him into a great depression]], to the point he feels unworthy of helping Juza's son and wants to be left alone.
* HeroicBuild: In a genre where the main character is usually a pint-sized boy, Kenshiro stands out as one of the earliest Shonen heroes who are built like Conan the Barbarian.
* HeroicNeutral: Pre-CharacterDevelopment, while he'll help people against villainy, every instance is a glorified sidequest in his quest to find Yuria. Later on, however, he becomes more of a proactive savior.
* HitmanWithAHeart: While Kenshiro does not accept contracts to kill people, ''Hokuto Shinken'' is still an assassination art, but Kenshiro is one of its most kind-hearted practitioners, if utterly merciless toward his enemies.
* HonorBeforeReason: He might allow someone to go free if they spare an innocent, even if they were an unrepentant killer before. Of course, most of them just turn back around and [[ISurrenderSuckers try to kill him anyway...]] at which point all bets are off. Basically, don't make Ken regret showing you mercy, or you'll receive none.
* HopeBringer: "The Savior of the Century's End"; he EARNED that title. Everywhere he goes, those who would use their strength to dominate and hurt the weak fear him. The innocent and the just fighters of the world, however, love him.
* {{Hunk}}: One of the most famous examples in manga.
* IHaveManyNames: Feared far and wide as "The Man With Seven Scars" and revered far and wide as "The Savior of the Century's End."
* IdealHero: Provides the trope image. A FriendToAllChildren who will NeverHurtAnInnocent, and will [[TheFettered never compromise his beliefs in the future of humanity for any reason]]. There's a good reason he's called the "Savior of Century's End."
-->"I refuse to build my own future on the blood and tears of others!"
* IdenticalGrandson: To his uncle Professor Kenshiro Kasumi, the 62nd Successor of ''Hokuto Shinken'' and dean of literature at Tokyo's University for Proper Young Ladies in 1935. The final story arcs of ''Manga/FistOfTheBlueSky'' leaves the possibility open that Kenshiro is actually a reincarnation of his uncle.
* ILied: Kenshiro's not above promising to spare a villain or a {{mook}} in exchange for information, then killing them when they're of no further use.
* ImplacableMan: Don't even bother running. Kenshiro relentlessly, inexorably pursues all forms of evil and oppression, as the Zeed Gang, Fang Clan, Jackal's gang, and many others have found out to their detriment. [[http://youtu.be/L4oihATrFfQ?t=4m51s Even a falling skyscraper]] is neither excuse nor reason to slow his pursuit of evildoers for an instant.
* ImportantHaircut: In the animated film, Kenshiro sports a thick Creator/ChuckNorris-esque beard for a few scenes before giving himself a clean shave.
* InSeriesNickname: His friends just call him "Ken."
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Not only will Kenshiro never back down from doing the right thing, offering him rewards for doing so is [[CurbStompBattle to get on the wrong side of a one-sided ass-beating]].
* InvincibleHero: Practically everyone who goes up against Kenshiro ends up turned into LudicrousGibs. This is doubly so in the anime, with all the {{filler}} episodes where Kenshiro has to deal with [[MonsterOfTheWeek Punks Of The Week]] instead of enemies who have to be able to pretend to stand a chance. In fact, only a total of three characters have the distinction of actually defeating Kenshiro in combat: Shin, a practitioner of ''Nanto Seiken'' and Kenshiro's RivalTurnedEvil, whose beatdown of Kenshiro triggered the latter's character development into becoming the InvincibleHero he is in the main storyline; Thouzer, a practitioner of ''Nanto Seiken'' (the rival style to Hokuto Shinken) who appeared to be [[NoSell completely invulnerable]] to ''Hokuto Shinken''[='s=] pressure point-based attacks (at least until Kenshiro figured out why and exploits it); and Kaioh, Raoh's older brother and practitioner of ''Hokuto Ryuuken'', whose BattleAura rendered useless even the strongest techniques of ''Hokuto Shinken''. Also, Kenshiro's first fight with Raoh - his older brother who was originally intended to be the successor to ''Hokuto Shinken'' - ended in a tie, as the two were evenly matched. Even then, all of them were defeated once Kenshiro eventually gained the means to defeat them.
* ItNeverGetsAnyEasier: Despite the countless corpses in his path, he is careful not to become desensitized to killing, and bears the sadness of battle as a burden.
* JackOfAllStats: In ''Twin Blue Stars Of Judgment'' he is neither the fastest in the cast or the strongest physically, mostly serving as the Ryu of the game, and this is considered mid-tier. He's capable of infinites but in a game like that, so is everyone else.
* KamehameHadoken:
** ''Tenha Kassatsu''; in the manga against Baran, a ''Hokuto Shinken'' "imitator" who'd been strongly influenced by Raoh, Kenshiro showcases how to perform a proper ''Hokuto Gosho Ha''. He also uses Raoh's ''Tensho Honretsu'' against Han in the Land of Shura arc.
** ''Hokuto Tenkai Senretsu Sho'' in ''Ken's Rage'' has him blasting tons of fireballs around the place with each hand alternating. The result is quite impressive.
* KeepTheReward: Tends to hand back rewards whenever he can, to Bat's annoyance. However, he never seems to have a problem getting enough to eat, drink, fuel his car and [[ClothingDamage repair his clothes]], so it's implied that he does sometimes accept resupply from villages that can afford it.
* KiManipulation: Kenshiro can use ''touki'' to attack an opponent's pressure points at a distance, yet the only time he's ever done this was using ''Tenha Kassatsu'' against Thouzer, ''Tensho Honretsu'' against Han and ''Hokuto Gosho Ha'' against Baran.
* KungFuJesus:
** The prequel film ''Legend of Kenshiro'' makes explicit allusions to him being this trope, right down to his resurrection from getting literally crucified by a tyrant, and multiple references to God (''Kami-sama'') instead of Heaven (''Ten'').
** His title is the "Savior of the Century's End" for a reason.
** At one point, when he rescues a child who's about to fall off a broken highway and gives him a drink of water, then walks off without giving his name, the kid comes to the conclusion that Kenshiro is God Himself.
* LightningBruiser: While he may not be the most agile fighter in the show, he's far from slow, and very damned strong to boot. Also applicable to his ''Ken's Rage'' incarnation: while ''Nanto Seiken'' fighters tend to be faster, Kenshiro's the fastest of the ''Hokuto'' brothers and relies on this via dodge/jump cancelling for invincibility frames. This is before mentioning his access to ''Musou Tensei'', which in-game gives him fifteen seconds of NighInvulnerability.
* LovedByAll: All across the wasteland, he is widely praised as "the savior of the post-apocalyptic world" without even ''trying'' to gain people's respect.
* ManlyMan: Not only he is designed to be a big badass all around, he ditches all of the emotional turmoil of some other characters and has only the wish to protect the innocent from evil-doers. There’s also his [[{{Hunk}} muscular physique]] and the way he kills the most vile of villains. Manliness, thy name is Kenshiro!
* ManlyTears: All the time; notable in that at ''no'' point does he attempt to hide his tears. Even provides the trope image.
* MadeOfIron: This is a guy who took seven stab wounds to the chest and lived to tell about it. Even now, hitting him with things like pipes, baseball bats and even iron crowbars will just annoy him. Hell, Kenshiro even took a ''huge stone pillar'' to the head, and he acted like nothing happened.
* MartialMedic: As shown with Rin and Airi, he can use his Hokuto pressure point knowledge to cure certain ailments like muteness and blindness.
* MeaningfulName: In the ''Fist of the North Star'' pilot illustrated by Tetsuo Hara before working with Buronson, Kenshiro's name was written in kanji characters that literally meant the "[[FourIsDeath Fourth Son of the Fist]]"(拳四郎).
* MidSeasonUpgrade:
** Musou Tensei, which allows him to become intangible and commune with the spirits of his fallen rivals. He gains this ability about halfway through the manga.
** Acquires a small one when he inherits Ein's weighted gloves after the Celestial Emperor arc, making his punches hit slightly harder.
* TheMourningAfter: Once he’s reunited with Yuria, they could only live a few peaceful years together because of her radiation poisoning. Yuria’s final words are not only to thank him for giving her a great life, but to move on with Rin. Kenshiro could never fulfill her promise due to the pain and heartbreak over losing his only love, even as Bat and Mamiya try to implore him to move on, but Kenshiro refuses to change his mind. Even when he loses his memories, he rejects Rin and successfully encourages her to go to Bat’s side. Kenshiro looks up to Yuria’s spirit and believes this is the right choice.
* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: "Hokuto Shinken is invincible!" No kidding, since whenever someone dumb enough thinks their own martial arts technique is strong enough to beat him, he backs up this claim by deliberately taking hits from said martial art, and show them ''why'' [[NoSell they are wrong]].
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: It goes against his very being to do this even at his expense. Amiba claims this is his greatest "weakness" and exploits it by using a woman as a HumanShield, daring Kenshiro to attack. He doesn't and Amiba subsequently lands a critical blow.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Kenshiro has a Hokuto Shinken technique for everything. ''Everything''. This is justified as he learned Hokuto Shinken at a young age, so knowing 710 pressure points and using Hokuto Shinken techniques is a requirement to know what ''exactly'' which pressure point to hit and use its effects.
* NiceGuy: He is one of the most benevolent, affable and gentle Hokuto Shinken practitioners in history... but if he catches bandits or other thugs terrorising the innocent, he will ''brutally kill them.''
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Failing to put Jagi out of his misery when he had the chance not only ruined his own life, as well as Yuria, Shin, Rei and Airi, but threw away the lives of countless innocents in the process. Thankfully, Ken learned his lesson and did not show Jagi mercy in their second fight.
* NoSell: Kenshiro often lets enemies take pot-shots at him and for him it's not even worth the energy to bother noticing it, including taking a two-handed smash from a 40' giant inside an abandoned prison or getting pin-cushioned with throwing darts from neo-fascist soldier wannabes.
* OneManArmy: Kenshiro is a hugely powerful fighting force on his own and has easily taken down entire squadrons sent to kill him. Look no further than a good example [[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9_kgxSbt3eQ in this clip.]]
* PapaWolf: If you harm children, YouAreAlreadyDead. If you harm children that Ken is especially close to, You Are Already Dead Even Faster.
* TheParalyzer: Although he mostly uses his Hokuto Shinken to make his enemies explode messily when he touches them, he can also use it to create less messy effects, including paralysis and even healing of blindness. Unfortunately for his enemies, 'less messy' is often only temporary - he'll happily use an opponent's paralysis to set up much more painful and destructive pressure point strikes if he's sufficiently annoyed with them (or simply if [[CombatPragmatist they were moving too fast for him to get a decent shot in]]).
* PayEvilUntoEvil: While he himself is the titular 'Savior of the Century's End', he ''does'' kill most of his opponents in painful and [[{{Gorn}} gory]] ways, mostly because of KarmicDeath, and every {{Mook}} seems to be a complete scumbag and incapable of doing right.
* PositiveFriendInfluence: For Lin and Bat but especially for the latter. If he, Lin and Bat had never met each other and Ken taught him about compassion, Bat would eventually grow up to be an irredeemable asshole whom Kenshiro will not hesitate to kill should they meet just like the others, unlike our adult Bat who's grown into a better and altruistic man post TimeSkip.
* PowerCopying: The ''Hokuto Shinken'' technique ''Suieishin'' allows Kenshiro to learn an opponent's techniques just from fighting or observing them. Two notable examples is during Kenshiro's fight with Shew by using ''Nanto Seiken'' techniques and when Kenshiro confronts Raoh in his rush to find the Last General of Nanto, where he uses Toki's stance and one of Rei's techniques. Rihaku (and in the anime, Raoh) see the spirits of the fighters that Kenshiro has fought and learned from. More explicitly evoked by a blinded Kenshiro in the anime when several of Raoh's biker troops tried to stop him from reaching the General: the troops deliberately revved their engines in hopes that it would drown out the sound of their attack, thus Kenshiro drew upon his experience with Shew to defeat them.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: He delivers this frequently to {{Mooks}} who end up pissing him off. Probably the biggest goes to Thouzer after he has Shew killed:
-->'''Ken:''' THOUZER! When I am done with you, there won't be anything left of you in this world!
* PreMortemOneLiner: His signature "You are already dead", which may or may not double as a BondOneLiner, since he says it after "killing" his opponent, but before they actually die...
* ProneToTears: He is an emotional guy, and so he will shed tears for others. However, he sheds these tears for the sufferings of his opponents who lost their way or lost someone they loved that turned them to villainy. It's actually ''how'' he's able to attain Muso Tensei.
* {{Protectorate}}:
** Never abuse a child in front of Kenshiro or let him find out you killed them. Just don't; Zeed, Spade, Diamond, the Golan Organization, Jackal, the Fang Clan, Jagi, Amiiba, Thouzer, etc. all learned this the hard and painful way.
** It's also a VERY bad idea to abuse women in front of Kenshiro. [[WifeBasherBasher He'll make you fully regret your actions just before he kills you]].
* RapidFireFisticuffs: ''Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken'', delivered with his trademark "[[{{Kiai}} ATATATATATATATATATATATATATA]]!"
* RedBaron: He's referred to in-universe as "The Man With Seven Scars" due to the distinct [[ScarsAreForever scars]] on his chest. He's also called "The Savior of Century's End", though much less frequently.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His eyes occasionally glow red when his rage peaks. This only serves to show one of the most dangerous men on the face of the planet is about to become ''even more dangerous''. One prominent example is when he's about to make the [[EvilGenius self-professed "Genius"]], [[MadScientist Amiba]], [[DisneyVillainDeath walk himself off a building to his death]]. The first instance of this is witnessing Shin kill Yuria in front of him (which turned out to be a doll) and he makes sure to make Shin suffer the consequences.
* RightMakesMight: This might as well be tattooed on Kenshiro's knuckles so it's the last thing a mook sees before his fist goes right through his face. Kenshiro's fighting prowess comes from Hokuto Shinken. Kenshiro's STRENGTH comes from the [[IncorruptiblePurePureness righteousness of his cause]] and [[{{Determinator}} his unwillingness to ever give up]]. Whle he doesn't muscle through his enemies like tissue paper like Raoh does or the SocialDarwinist mindset of other villains, he has time and again demonstrates his might by showcasing his feats of strength such as stopping tractors with his bare hands, splitting large pillars in half, and even filler, ''stopping a tank in its tracks'', and he is very humble. Toki tells him he can't defeat Raoh as they both use the same style, and that his defensive style can effectively defeat his hard fist style.
* {{Sadist}}: He may be a noble protector of the innocent, but the ways he kills the people he chooses to kill are so often unnecessarily creative, gruesome, and darkly comic that it's hard to describe him as anything other than this. Even the ones he spares often end up with CruelMercy.
* ShipperOnDeck: Believes Rin should love Bat, not him, and he gets them together at the end of the manga.
* ShowyInvincibleHero: Aside from a few {{Out Of Character Moment}}s, Ken is typically portrayed as utterly invincible. What makes him interesting, typically, isn't ''if'' he can defeat a particular character, but how he's going to do it, and how cool/gruesome it's going to be.
* SingleTargetSexuality: The very final moments of the Manga is spent on love relationships, in this case trying to tie them, since Bat tries to have an amnesiac Kenshiro and Rin together. It doesn’t work because Kenshiro has Bat accept his feelings and make Rin happy himself. It gets to the point where Ken has a flashback of Yuria herself telling him to move on and find another love (Rin she specified), the manga shows Mamiya is still readily available even, but Ken refuses. He has steeled his heart to the point where he will never love another woman, Yuria was the only woman in Ken’s life and then reasoning that he should die alone in the desert, fighting for someone in need.
* SleevesAreForWimps: Kenshiro's wardrobe consists almost entirely of sleeveless vests and and undershirts. In fact, the first time we see Kenshiro wearing a jacket with sleeves was in the flashback when he suffered his first major defeat at the hands of Shin, playing this trope literally straight. And while Ken does occasionally wear jacket with sleeves at later story arcs in the manga (most notably when he sails to Shura), he mostly sticks to a standardized design in the anime adaptations.
* StarCrossedLovers: He suffers this trope badly with his fiancée Yuria, since this whole nuclear apocalypse doomed their romance from the get-go. Yuria is kidnapped twice by other men deadlock on winning her love, the first was Kenshiro’s EvilFormerFriend Shin and Yuria’s last suitor, Raoh, was willing to kill her if faced with rejection. Kenshiro goes through hell and high water searching for her, but once they’re finally reunited, Yuria turns out to terminally ill from radiation poisoning. They could only enjoy a few years together until Yuria’s eventual passing, and Kenshiro [[TheMourningAfter could never find it in himself to move on with another woman.]]
* StockShonenHero: Downplayed, especially since he predates many of the more well-known examples of this trope (including [[Franchise/DragonBall Son Goku]], the TropeCodifier). While Kenshiro is a [[{{Determinator}} determined]] AllLovingHero, he's also older, quieter, more brutal, and more intelligent than most other protagonists of shonen series, although he does give a good Bruce Lee impersonation that's loud and shouty whenever he uses his signature [[RapidFireFisticuffs Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken]]. He's also quite strong from the beginning and doesn't need to go through any more training to improve himself, unlike most modern examples of the trope.
* StrongAndSkilled: He's a highly athletic mountain of muscle who has mastered the finer techniques of Hokuto Shinken for killing and healing. He's tough enough to kick an axe on a chain back at his opponent without any problems then he taps someone on the side of his head to kill him.
* SmugSuper: Downplayed very much. Kenshiro never gloats about how powerful he is. But he does often brag about the 2000 years long tradition of Hokuto Shin Ken, and he only ever does so while he's already winning.
* TheStoic: ''Some'' of the time. Other times he is either a raging avenger... or a bit of a snarker as Jackal can attest to.
* SuperStrength: Some of his feats include bending open prison bars, wielding a steel I-beam like a broomstick, stopping the charge of a 500 kg man with ''six fingers'', and plugging a burst dam by carrying a huge chunk of a mountain to it. "100% of the body's potential" indeed.
* TakingTheBullet: Ken would normally deflect an arrow aimed at his face towards a mook or someone dumb enough to try kill him, but he's taken shots by arrows in order to save someone's life or to make a point. In the 1986 movie, he takes an arrow shot by a mook, but doesn't flinch.
* TenderTears: Being a merciless death machine on two legs notwithstanding, Kenshiro is still one of the most sensitive and kind-hearted men in [=1980s=] manga. He may actually cry these ''more'' than ManlyTears, if you can believe it.
* ThinkNothingOfIt: Helping innocent people to him is not a duty, but the ''right'' thing for a man to do. To that end, he'll often refuse food, water, or any other sort of reward for his good deeds (unless he absolutely needs it).
* TookALevelInBadass: Practically what the first story arc in the franchise was about. He lost to Shin within seconds and spends a year constantly battling and improving skills for a rematch. Especially true for the anime who devotes an entire season of filler showing him battling a variety of different superhuman opponents and martial artists and portraying his progress in improvements before he finally confronts Shin.
* TouchOfDeath: In increasingly elaborate forms. Most of them make YourHeadAsplode, but he's been known to use pressure points to make people do all sorts of things, including walking backwards against their will off of a cliff. However, Ken reserves those only for people who he thinks ''really'' deserve a CruelAndUnusualDeath.
* TragicKeepsake: After Ein's death, he permanently wears his gloves, which has the added benefit of making Kenshiro's punches slightly stronger.
* TragicHero: Anyone tied to him via the bonds of family and friendship are doomed to a violent, tragic death, hence his refusal to ever settle down after Yuria's death. When he left Rin's town in the first chapter of the manga, the village elder explained to Rin that this trope was the reason: where the successor of ''Hokuto Shinken'' treads, death follows.
* TrashTalk: Probably should have its own page. One gem:
-->'''Ken''': (To Shin) "[[DeadpanSnarker I didn't think you'd get into the pig breeding business.]]"
-->'''Mr. Heart''': "Ho-ho. You dare call ''me'' a ''pig''??"
-->'''Ken''': "That's right. Pigs belong in the slaughter house."
* TraumaCongaLine: His girlfriend gets kidnapped, he gets scarred by his rival Shin, and is left wandering a post-apocalyptic wasteland till he can defeat all the other practitioners of his deadly martial art. Lesser men would have been completely broken by the things Kenshiro goes through. Sometimes, [[ManlyTears his emotions do get the better of him]], but [[{{Determinator}} that just means he'll rip the villains a new one more fiercely]].
* {{Troll}}: A heroic version. He likes to mess with people (''especially'' mooks and small-time {{Arc Villain}}s) and in the manga, the bartender to safeguard Toyo's children by telling him he'll die in a month, and he was only kidding.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: Kenshiro upset the odds when he became the 64th successor, since Toki was in the running lead, until his deteriorating health forced Ryuken to reconsider.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: No matter how many times it explodes when he gets enraged, Ken will always have an exact replica of his shirt and jacket by the next episode. One episode shows him repairing a shirt so it's likely he receives supplies from grateful villagers for this purpose.
* UnstoppableRage:
** Not that Ken isn't already one of the best warriors on the planet, but making him mad is a good way to get him to show how strong he really is.
** When Shin made Ken think Yuria was dead, Ken ignored the pain of Shin stabbing through Ken's hand to deliver a fatal blow.
** When Jagi revealed that he was the one who persuaded Shin to go after Yuria in the first place, Ken split the entire roof of a skyscraper with one hit.
* VillainKiller: This guy is anime's reigning champion of bad-guy slaughtering.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Once he rips his shirt off with his BattleAura, that is. Which is admittedly quite often.
* WhenHeSmiles: Kenshiro unsurprisingly doesn't smile much, but whenever he does, it's the warmest, most loving sight imaginable. [[FriendToAllChildren Children]] are the most common reason he'll crack a smile (indeed, the first smile he gives in the series is to Rin).
* WideEyedIdealist: He is noble, compassionate and kind-hearted to the core in a CrapsackWorld where only the only law is the survival of the fittest. When they met and Bat saw that he would not lift one finger to break out of the jail, deliberately staying to protect a little girl, Bat wondered how he had survived so long. Shortly afterwards Bat learned exactly ''why'' Ken can afford to be nice.
* WifeBasherBasher: You think Ken's usual techniques are cruel? You haven't see what he does to those who dare to hit women... [[PayEvilUntoEvil ooh, boy]]...
* WorldsBestWarrior: Goes hand-in-hand with being TheAce. The only people to have decisively beaten him were Shin, Thouzer and Kaioh, and lightning did not strike twice for them.
* WouldHurtAChild: Albeit far less brutally than he would hit an enemy, Kenshiro has beaten Bat at least once (Episode 2). And not just a DopeSlap at that. To be fair, this was shortly after the two had met, where Bat was still a bratty little punk and hadn't started to mature.
* WouldHitAGirl: ZigzaggedTrope. In one hand, a villainess actually trying to kill him with murderous intent became an exception. Bella was an exception despite trying to challenge him because her mother was taken prisoner, and [[ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter he knows exactly why she's after him]], but doesn't press the fight further because she admits defeat.
* WouldntHitAGirl: He refuses to make any moves against Bella when they fight, to the point that she concedes defeat after he shields a girl from a [[SomethingAboutARose rose]] intended for him.
* YouAreAlreadyDead: The TropeNamer, and his catchphrase; "Omae wa mou shinderu", translated to "You're already dead". ''Hokuto Shinken'' techniques have this general effect. The phrase is delivered just before the gruesome results.
* YouFightLikeACow: His frequent insults revolve around getting under a villain's skin when they often boasts how strong they are, their former (often illegal) profession, and how many people they killed. And he's not even impressed one bit.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A ''heroic'' version. If Ken feels a mook or a mob boss outlived their usefulness, he makes absolutely sure their death is karmic. He is even prepared to kill a mook when they try to attack while his back is turned.
* YourHeadASplode: One of the more common occurrences when Kenshiro uses a ''Hokuto Shinken'' technique, although he gets ''far'' more creative later on than simply internally, exploding heads.
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!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Mie Suzuki (Child)[=/=]Creator/KeiichiNanba (Adult) (TV anime, JP), Creator/AyumiTsunematsu (''Twin Blue Stars of Judgment''), Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (''Legends of the True Savior'' and ''Legends [=ReVIVE=]''), Umeka Shōji (Child)[=/=]Creator/DaisukeKishio (Adult) (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Shunzo Miyasaka (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/JunyaEnoki (''[[VideoGame/FitnessBoxingSwitch Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star]]'')
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Gary Dubin (TV anime), Caleb Pearson (TV anime, recut dub), Creator/TonyOliver (The Movie), Creator/DebiDerryberry (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Bryan Beacock (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/MikeHaimoto (''Legend of the True Savior'')
!!!'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish)''': Orlando Arenas (TV series)
!!!'''Stats''': Level: D, Power: 2, Speed: 3, Skills: 2, Looks: 4, Charisma: 4
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A young boy who decides to leave his home village to fend for himself, Bat was imprisoned in Rin's village for attempting to steal food. While locked in the same cell, he comes across the 64th successor of ''Hokuto Shinken'' Kenshiro, who breaks out to fight Zeed. After witnessing his skills, Bat follows Kenshiro as his self-appointed sidekick, hoping to use Kenshiro as a tool for his own self-benefit, but after the death of his adoptive mother Toyo back in his village, Bat slowly matures, upon witnessing the hardships of Kenshiro and his new friends and rivals. Following the TimeSkip, Bat has grown OlderAndWiser and is co-leader of the new "Hokuto Army" with Rin, a resistance group aimed at bringing down the tyrannical reign of the Celestial Emperor. Although Bat is not a true martial artist, he has rudimentary skills, alongside a limited knowledge of ''Hokuto Shinken'' from his travels with Kenshiro.
In the final arc of the series, Bat forgoes his love for Rin so she can be with Kenshiro. To that end, he presses Rin's pressure points to induce IdentityAmnesia, including reuniting her with a similarly amnesiac Kenshiro. Fate would force him to pose as the ''Hokuto Shinken'' successor in order to fight Bolge, a blind thug with a dangerous vendetta for Kenshiro. Unfortunately, Bat is captured, tortured and multilated by Bolge, doing his best to leave an impersonation of Kenshiro, hoping that if he dies, Bolge will stay away from his friend for good. However, the amnesiac Kenshiro arrives to save him, until Bat's screams trigger the martial artist's memories, who is so moved by his sacrifice for him that Kenshiro defeats Bolge easily. Unfortunately, Bat is mortally wounded, yet urges Rin, who too has regained her memories from Bat's heroics, to stay with Kenshiro. Rin decides to stay behind and guard Bat's tomb, only to discover that Kenshiro managed to save Bat's life by manipulating his pressure points. The story of ''Fist of the North Star'' ends with Rin tearfully embracing a rejuvenated, yet still unconscious Bat.
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!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Tomiko Suzuki (Child)[=/=]Creator/MinaTominaga (Adult) (TV anime), Miwa Kouzuki (''Twin Blue Stars of Judgment''), Creator/MaayaSakamoto (''Legend of the True Savior'', ''Legends [=ReVIVE=]''), Creator/KanaeIto (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Creator/RieKugimiya (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/MaekawaRyoko (Adult, '''[[VideoGame/FitnessBoxingSwitch Maekawa Ryoko (''[[VideoGame/FitnessBoxingSwitch Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star]]''')Star]]'')
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!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Mie Suzuki (Child)[=/=]Creator/KeiichiNanba (Adult) (TV anime, JP), Creator/AyumiTsunematsu (''Twin Blue Stars of Judgment''), Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (''Legends of the True Savior'' and ''Legends [=ReVIVE=]''), Umeka Shōji (Child)[=/=]Creator/DaisukeKishio (Adult) (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Shunzo Miyasaka (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise'')(''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/JunyaEnoki (''[[VideoGame/FitnessBoxingSwitch Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star]]'')
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!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Tomiko Suzuki (Child)[=/=]Creator/MinaTominaga (Adult) (TV anime), Miwa Kouzuki (''Twin Blue Stars of Judgment''), Creator/MaayaSakamoto (''Legend of the True Savior'', ''Legends [=ReVIVE=]''), Creator/KanaeIto (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Creator/RieKugimiya (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/SaoriHayami Creator/MaekawaRyoko (Adult, ''Fit Boxing: '''[[VideoGame/FitnessBoxingSwitch Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star'')Star]]''')
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!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/ToshikoFujita (TV anime, ''Twin Blue Stars Of Judgment''), Creator/NaomiShindo (''Ken's Rage''), Hitomi Natabame (''Legends [=ReVIVE=]'')
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!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/ToshikoFujita (TV anime, ''Twin Blue Stars Of Judgment''), Creator/NaomiShindo (''Ken's Rage''), Hitomi Natabame (''Legends [=ReVIVE=]'')[=ReVIVE=]''), Karin Nanami (''[[VideoGame/FitnessBoxingSwitch Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star]]'')
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Rin is actually the younger twin sister of Lui, the Celestial Empress. After they were born, Falco of ''Gento Kōken'' was ordered by Viceroy Jakoh to get rid of one of the twins, as two successors to the throne was unallowed. However, Falco could not bring himself to kill a baby, thus left her in secret care by his aunt and uncle. After Lui was rescued by Kenshiro and his companions from Jakoh, his son Jask kidnaps Rin and takes her to the Land of Shura to exact revenge, only for Rin to be tossed around by the warrior Shachi to goad Kenshiro into fighting Kaioh and his ''Hokuto Ryūken'' brothers. Before the final battle between Kaioh and Kenshiro, Kaioh presses Rin's pressure point that blinds her and erases her memories: the moment she opens her eyes, she will fall in love with the first person she sees. Bat, who has arrived in the Land of Shura to help, insists that Rin be the one to see Kenshiro, but the successor of ''Hokuto Shinken'' believes Rin is destined to be with Bat. However, Bat would force Rin back into amnesia so she can reunite with Kenshiro. The final arc in the series is resolved when Rin regains her memories and chooses to be with Bat.
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Rin is actually the younger twin sister of Lui, the Celestial Empress. After they were born, Falco Falco, sucessor of ''Gento Kōken'' was ordered by Viceroy Jakoh to get rid of one of the twins, as two successors to the throne was unallowed.unallowed due to a prophecy that foretold the kingdom would fall into ruin with two heirs. However, Falco could not bring himself to kill a baby, thus left her in secret care by his aunt and uncle. After Lui was rescued by Kenshiro and his companions from Jakoh, his son Jask (changed to Taiga in the anime) kidnaps Rin and takes her to the Land of Shura to exact revenge, only for Rin to be tossed around by the warrior Shachi to goad Kenshiro into fighting Kaioh and his ''Hokuto Ryūken'' brothers. Before the final battle between Kaioh and Kenshiro, Kaioh presses Rin's pressure point that blinds knocks her unconscious and erases her memories: the moment she opens her eyes, she will fall in love with the first person she sees. Bat, who has arrived in the Land of Shura to help, insists that Rin be the one to see Kenshiro, but the successor of ''Hokuto Shinken'' believes Rin is destined to be with Bat. However, Bat would force Rin back into amnesia so she can reunite with Kenshiro. The final arc in the series is resolved when Rin regains her memories and chooses to be with Bat.Bat of her own free will.
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* LastMinuteHookup: Implied with Bat in the manga and ''Ken's Rage 2''.
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* LastMinuteHookup: Implied with With Bat in at the end of the manga and ''Ken's Rage 2''.
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* TenderTears
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* TenderTearsTenderTears: One of the franchise's biggest sources of them
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* JokeCharacter: Hilariously done when going up against one of Amiba's {{Mooks}} in the anime. He punches a soldier squaring in the face, tricking the goon into thinking he has fallen victim to a ''Hokuto Shinken'' technique. Bat deliberately invokes Kenshiro's CatchPhrase and mannerisms. It worked: the frightened soldier froze in fear, leaving Bat to run off and leave the humiliated man be.
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* JokeCharacter: Hilariously done when going up against one of Amiba's {{Mooks}} in the anime. He punches a soldier squaring in the face, tricking the goon into thinking he has fallen victim to a ''Hokuto Shinken'' technique. Bat deliberately invokes Kenshiro's CatchPhrase [[CharacterCatchphrase catchphrase]] and mannerisms. It worked: the frightened soldier froze in fear, leaving Bat to run off and leave the humiliated man be.
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* PeekABangs: For most of his pre-TimeSkip appearance, his right eye is covered by his hair unless he's wearing his goggles. It eventually gets cut off.
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She later reappears in the Celestial Emperor and Bolge arcs, making her the only one of Kenshiro's allies other than Bat and Lin to appear in all three major parts of the manga.
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She later reappears in the Celestial Emperor and Bolge arcs, making her the only one of Kenshiro's allies other than Bat and Lin Rin to appear in all three major parts of the manga.
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* TheBusCameBack: Mamiya reappears sporadically in post-Raoh arcs with Airi and in the final arc of the series, she encounters Kenshiro again to pay respects to Yuria, but also to inform him of Bat's actions regarding Lin.
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* TheBusCameBack: Mamiya reappears sporadically in post-Raoh arcs with Airi and in the final arc of the series, she encounters Kenshiro again to pay respects to Yuria, but also to inform him of Bat's actions regarding Lin.Rin.
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Rin is actually the younger twin sister of Lui, the Celestial Empress. After they were born, Falco of ''Gento Kōken'' was ordered by Viceroy Jakoh to get rid of one of the twins, as two successors to the throne was unallowed. However, Falco could not bring himself to kill a baby, thus left her in secret care by his aunt and uncle. After Lui was rescued by Kenshiro and his companions from Jakoh, his son Jask kidnaps Rin and takes her to the Land of Shura to exact revenge, only for Rin to be tossed around by the warrior Shachi to goad Kenshiro into fighting Kaioh and his ''Hokuto Ryūken'' brothers. Before the final battle between Kaioh and Kenshiro, Kaioh presses Lin's pressure point that blinds her and erases her memories: the moment she opens her eyes, she will fall in love with the first person she sees. Bat, who has arrived in the Land of Shura to help, insists that Rin be the one to see Kenshiro, but the successor of ''Hokuto Shinken'' believes Rin is destined to be with Bat. However, Bat would force Rin back into amnesia so she can reunite with Kenshiro. The final arc in the series is resolved when Rin regains her memories and chooses to be with Bat.
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Rin is actually the younger twin sister of Lui, the Celestial Empress. After they were born, Falco of ''Gento Kōken'' was ordered by Viceroy Jakoh to get rid of one of the twins, as two successors to the throne was unallowed. However, Falco could not bring himself to kill a baby, thus left her in secret care by his aunt and uncle. After Lui was rescued by Kenshiro and his companions from Jakoh, his son Jask kidnaps Rin and takes her to the Land of Shura to exact revenge, only for Rin to be tossed around by the warrior Shachi to goad Kenshiro into fighting Kaioh and his ''Hokuto Ryūken'' brothers. Before the final battle between Kaioh and Kenshiro, Kaioh presses Lin's Rin's pressure point that blinds her and erases her memories: the moment she opens her eyes, she will fall in love with the first person she sees. Bat, who has arrived in the Land of Shura to help, insists that Rin be the one to see Kenshiro, but the successor of ''Hokuto Shinken'' believes Rin is destined to be with Bat. However, Bat would force Rin back into amnesia so she can reunite with Kenshiro. The final arc in the series is resolved when Rin regains her memories and chooses to be with Bat.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: She is very prone to worrying about Ken and his allies in the anime. In the manga, she doesn't angst ''too much'', and when situation calls for it, she'll defend her friends if she has to without fear of dying.
* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Various media after the original anime and manga ended has her to be more cheerful despite living in a post-apocalyptic hell. This is prominent in video games where she is far more cheerful and happier than in the 1984 anime.
* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Various media after the original anime and manga ended has her to be more cheerful despite living in a post-apocalyptic hell. This is prominent in video games where she is far more cheerful and happier than in the 1984 anime.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the manga, he was a street punk who got caught trying to steal and would rather save his own skin before meeting Ken, and going with him develops his character. In the first Toei movie, he's making runs with Rin and has been protecting her up until meeting Ken.
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* WeaponOfChoice: Apart from her [[KillerYoyo bladed yoyos]], she also uses combat needles (''gabishi'') and a crossbow.
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!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Mie Suzuki (Child)[=/=]Creator/KeiichiNanba (Adult) (TV anime, JP), Creator/AyumiTsunematsu (''Twin Blue Stars of Judgment''), Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (''Legends of the True Savior'' and ''Legends [=ReVIVE=]''), Umeka Shōji (Child)[=/=]Creator/DaisukeKishio (Adult) (''Ken's Rage''), Shunzo Miyasaka (''Hokuto ga Gotoku'')
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Gary Dubin (TV anime), Caleb Pearson (TV anime, recut dub), Creator/TonyOliver (The Movie), Creator/DebiDerryberry (''Ken's Rage''), Bryan Beacock (''Lost Paradise''), Creator/MikeHaimoto (''Legend of the True Savior'')
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Gary Dubin (TV anime), Caleb Pearson (TV anime, recut dub), Creator/TonyOliver (The Movie), Creator/DebiDerryberry (''Ken's Rage''), Bryan Beacock (''Lost Paradise''), Creator/MikeHaimoto (''Legend of the True Savior'')
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!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Mie Suzuki (Child)[=/=]Creator/KeiichiNanba (Adult) (TV anime, JP), Creator/AyumiTsunematsu (''Twin Blue Stars of Judgment''), Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (''Legends of the True Savior'' and ''Legends [=ReVIVE=]''), Umeka Shōji (Child)[=/=]Creator/DaisukeKishio (Adult) (''Ken's Rage''), (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Shunzo Miyasaka (''Hokuto ga Gotoku'')
(''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise'')
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Gary Dubin (TV anime), Caleb Pearson (TV anime, recut dub), Creator/TonyOliver (The Movie), Creator/DebiDerryberry(''Ken's Rage''), (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Bryan Beacock (''Lost Paradise''), (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/MikeHaimoto (''Legend of the True Savior'')
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Gary Dubin (TV anime), Caleb Pearson (TV anime, recut dub), Creator/TonyOliver (The Movie), Creator/DebiDerryberry
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!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Sandy Fox (TV anime), Marieve Herrington (TV anime, recut dub), Holly Sidell (The Movie), Creator/StephanieSheh (''Ken's Rage''), Creator/XantheHuynh (''Lost Paradise''), Creator/BrynApprill (''Legend of the True Savior)
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Sandy Fox (TV anime), Marieve Herrington (TV anime, recut dub), Holly Sidell (The Movie), Creator/StephanieSheh (''Ken's Rage''), Creator/XantheHuynh (''Lost Paradise''), Creator/BrynApprill (''Legend of the True Savior)
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!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Tomiko Suzuki (Child)[=/=]Creator/MinaTominaga (Adult) (TV anime), Miwa Kouzuki (''Twin Blue Stars of Judgment''), Creator/MaayaSakamoto (''Legend of the True Savior'', ''Legends [=ReVIVE=]''), Creator/KanaeIto (''Ken's Rage''), (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Creator/RieKugimiya (''Hokuto ga Gotoku''), (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/SaoriHayami (Adult, ''Fit Boxing: Fist of the North Star'')
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Sandy Fox (TV anime), Marieve Herrington (TV anime, recut dub), Holly Sidell (The Movie), Creator/StephanieSheh(''Ken's Rage''), (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage''), Creator/XantheHuynh (''Lost Paradise''), (''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise''), Creator/BrynApprill (''Legend of the True Savior)
Savior'')
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Sandy Fox (TV anime), Marieve Herrington (TV anime, recut dub), Holly Sidell (The Movie), Creator/StephanieSheh
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!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn (TV anime), Chase Masterson (TV anime, recut dub), Creator/LauraBailey (''Ken's Rage'')
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!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn (TV anime), Chase Masterson (TV anime, recut dub), Creator/LauraBailey (''Ken's Rage'')
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!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Gary Dubin (TV anime), Caleb Pearson (TV anime, recut dub), Creator/TonyOliver (The Movie), Creator/DebiDerryberry (''Ken's Rage''), Bryan Beacock (''Lost Paradise'')Paradise''), Creator/MikeHaimoto (''Legend of the True Savior'')
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!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Sandy Fox (TV anime), Marieve Herrington (TV anime, recut dub), Holly Sidell (The Movie), Creator/StephanieSheh (''Ken's Rage''), Creator/XantheHuynh (''Lost Paradise'')
Paradise''), Creator/BrynApprill (''Legend of the True Savior)
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!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Tomiko Suzuki (Child)[=/=]Creator/MinaTominaga (Adult) (TV anime), Miwa Kouzuki (''Twin Blue Stars of Judgment''), Creator/MaayaSakamoto (''Legend of the True Savior'', ''Legends [=ReVIVE=]''), Creator/KanaeIto (''Ken's Rage''), Creator/RieKugimiya (''Hokuto ga Gotoku''), Creator/SaoriHayami (Adult, ''Fit Boxing: Fist of the North Star)
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!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Tomiko Suzuki (Child)[=/=]Creator/MinaTominaga (Adult) (TV anime), Miwa Kouzuki (''Twin Blue Stars of Judgment''), Creator/MaayaSakamoto (''Legend of the True Savior'', ''Legends [=ReVIVE=]''), Creator/KanaeIto (''Ken's Rage''), Creator/RieKugimiya (''Hokuto ga Gotoku''), Creator/SaoriHayami (Adult, ''Fit Boxing: Fist of the North Star)Star'')
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!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Tomiko Suzuki (Child)[=/=]Creator/MinaTominaga (Adult) (TV anime), Miwa Kouzuki (''Twin Blue Stars of Judgment''), Creator/MaayaSakamoto (''Legend of the True Savior'', ''Legends [=ReVIVE=]''), Creator/KanaeIto (''Ken's Rage''), Creator/RieKugimiya (''Hokuto ga Gotoku''),
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!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Tomiko Suzuki (Child)[=/=]Creator/MinaTominaga (Adult) (TV anime), Miwa Kouzuki (''Twin Blue Stars of Judgment''), Creator/MaayaSakamoto (''Legend of the True Savior'', ''Legends [=ReVIVE=]''), Creator/KanaeIto (''Ken's Rage''), Creator/RieKugimiya (''Hokuto ga Gotoku''), Creator/SaoriHayami (Adult, ''Fit Boxing: Fist of the North Star)
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Trope has been merged into Badass Biker, ZCE.
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* BikerBabe: Is often seen riding a motorcycle in all continuities
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* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: She's more prone to worrying about Ken and her friends, and it takes someone, like Ken, to talk her down and tell her that it's a personal conflict between Ken and Rei and whoever they need to face. In the original manga, she gets the message, and knows it's something Ken has no control over.
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* TheDriver: Served this role Pre-TimeSkip for most of his appearance due to being the only one of the trio with a (barely) working vehicle.
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* TheDriver: Served this role Pre-TimeSkip for most of his appearance due to being the only one of the trio with a (barely) working vehicle.vehicle and any amount of driving ability.
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* TheDriver: Served this role Pre-TimeSkip for most of his appearance due to being the only one of the trio with a (barely) working vehicle.
