History Characters / KenganAshuraKenganAssociationFightersLeftBlock

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The audience ''loves'' Sekibayashi, and their hype for him is even more pronounced than the other fighters. The crowd nearly starts a stampede cheering for his match with Kiozan, with Kazuo shown roaring in excitement. [[spoiler:Even his defeat by Muteba doesn't halt their cheers, and they hope for his recovery as he makes his exit.]]

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Gozo is basically a national hero in Japan due to his exploits in athletics, and is a [[NiceGuy swell dude]] to pretty much everyone he meets, [[spoiler: including endorsing Akoya after the man beat him into a coma]]. Even the other fighters like him.

* PrehensileHair: Supposedly it's just special hair products and muscle techniques, but it sure looks like this. The hair he's ''not'' using is still floating in the air for starters...

* {{Determinator}}:

* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Averted hard. By all accounts, he was a regular guy before he started wrestling, and only his TrainingFromHell turned him into the juggernaut he is today. Tellingly, he is also remarkably good as passing this on to his students, massively improving Koga's strength and stamina through sheer hard work alone.

* GoodOldFisticuffs: He doesn't have proper martial art training but he has made a living fighting unarmed in war zones. If he can't get a good hit at someone's vital he'll just beat them into a pulp as shown when he keeps wailing Meguro after dislocating the Judoka's arm.

* BloodKnight: Self-admittedly lives for the hunt and finds the tension of fighting irresistible, even against a guy who can brutalize him in a single clean hit he's still having the time of his life. Also somewhat subverted as unlike most examples, he has limits and he’s willing to go through extreme lengths for the sheer thrill of fighting. At the end of the day he isn’t a fighter but a mercenary who fights to get paid not get brutalized. If the pay suddenly isn’t worth the effort and the fight could seriously threaten his future career prospects (like taking crippling injuries he’s unlikely to recover from) he will forfeit without a second thought.

* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:Raian finishes him off this way at the end fo their fight with the intent to kill. Though thanks to Hanafusa he's able to survive after a lengthy period of being in a coma]].

* WhipItGood: The Inaba hair style technique allows his hair to function as a whip.
* WorthyOpponent: Fights hard enough to force Ohma to use his Advance.

* MasterOfYourDomain: [[spoiler:He developped complete control over his muscles, to the point he can flex any fiber individually.]]

* SanityHasAdvantages: When he first snapped at age 13, his defense was so good that his father, who was a world-reknowned judoka and bigger than him at the time, couldn't throw him. Nowadays, after running amok for over twenty years, his sanity has degraded so much that he barely bothers with defense at all (partially because he 'likes' the pain). Once Muteba realizes this, the mercenary turns the fight around immediately and [[BodyHorror systematically dismantles Meguro's body]].It is later revealed that Hayami has been trying to enhance his killing instinct only to make Meguro's condition worse.

* BadassBaritone: Has a very deep voice in the Japanese version, on top of being a powerful martial artist and having one of the highest win rates in the Kengan Association seen thus far.

* NoNonsenseNemesis: What makes him so effective despite having little formal martial art training is that he won't hesitate to kill or maim his opponent. Of the three fights he only shows mercy to Sekibayashi because the wrestler didn't permanently deafen him when he had the chance and was already out. Meguro was murdered the moment Muteba realized he won't stay down otherwise, and he was planning to murder Wakatsuki not out of sadism but because he is horribly outmatched in a straight-up fistfight and getting in a lethal attack was his only chance to win.

* AnimalMotifs: Cosmo is strongly associated with snakes, especially pythons.

* WeakButSkilled: An interesting example as Muteba, unlike many of the other fighters who got as far into the tournament as he did, isn’t formally trained in any particular martial art (but shows off a handful of assassination techniques) yet is still very formidable fighter who can actually take on pretty much anyone who he comes across. He mostly lacks the pure brute strength (but is still insanely strong by any normal metric) that most of his opponents had, but his mastery over his senses granted him an extreme level of heightened awareness which allows him to scale the environment to his advantage by being very quick to react, adapt and make use of his brutal pragmatism in order to win a fight.

* InstantExpert: Muteba is used to battlefield combat, not a fistfight, but is able to adapt to the Kengan matches in short order. Among others things, he decides to start using footwork against Sekibayashi in the second round for a hit-and-run strategy, and instantly masters it. He also copies Sekibayashi's trick of feigning helplessness after he's temporarily deafened, allowing him to set up a combo of lethal attacks in a position where his opponent can't avoid them.

* TheGiant: A fairly unusual example because Wakatsuki is, at 193cm, well above the average height but not anything close to unusual by itself, but his Superman Syndrome means that he will never stop developing muscle mass and there's barely any degradation in the fibers with age, resulting in him being quite literally two-to-three times as wide as an average grown man at the age of 42 and implied to only grow bigger with age.

* UseYourHead: It's noted by Sayaka that he’s headbutting Nicolas in the most insane manner by having his face smash the crown of the other fighter repeatedly. In short he’s damaging himself more than he’s dealing damage.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's designed to essentially look the part of an ''incredibly'' buff [[Music/EmiNem Eminem]]. In his flashback detailing how he got brought to the tournament, he's also shown knocking out a former Kengan fighter and street fighter [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Abbott named Punk Abbott]].

* VictoryByEndurance: His win against Kiozan is this. He lets Kiozan pummel him with all sorts of techniques, tiring and damaging himself until he can hit him with a powerbomb.

* GeniusBruiser:

* EarAche: Does this to Meguro after the eye poke didn't work, ramming his finger into Meguro's ear and crushing his semicircular canal. He is also subjected to this in the second round to "blind" him.

* BlankWhiteEyes: While in some cases of ScaryBlackMen characters it's used as an indicator of an almost bestial nature, in Muteba's case it's an eaerly indicator that he's completely blind. ''No one'' knew besides his employer until he had his eyes gouged out and [[NoSell shrugged it off]].

* BlankWhiteEyes: An indicator that he's completely blind.

* ScaryBlackMan: With his tattoos, white eyes and SlasherSmile, he sure looks like one. Of course, his profession doesn't help.

* ThePornomancer: Has a way with the ladies that defies belief, leaving literal trails of satisfied women in his wake. According to his character notes, this trait was something Sandrovich gave him based on a rumor about UsefulNotes/IdiAmin.

* {{Expy}}: Author notes state his character and worldview were modelled after [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorscach]] and ComicBook/ThePunisher.

* SanityHasAdvantages: When he goes berserk he forgoes calculated attacks and his reaction time takes a dive. This is shown both in his fight with Cosmo where he wastes time torturing him and get blindsided by a kick he would have normally parried if he was in control of his sadism, and against Nicolas where his response to enact with impunity and anger at Nicolas' attacks causes Akoya to walk straight into heavy counter punches or PressurePoint strikes more than once. [[spoiler: The fight ultimately has to be called off because both Akoya and Nicolas were ready to tear each other's throats out even if the ref were to call it off, forcing Rolón, Rihito and Carlos to intervene, ending in it being declared No Contest.]]

* UseYourHead: It's noted by Sayaka that he’s headbutting Nicholas in the most insane manner by having his face smash the crown of the other fighter repeatedly. In short he’s damaging himself more than he’s dealing damage.

* FormerlyFit: He was formerly a massive wall of muscle, but due to his sponsor letting him eat whatever he wants and attending to his every need has made him massively overweight (but still a very dangerous fighter).

* BloodKnight: Downplayed if not Subverted. Initially, he ''thought'' he liked fighting [[spoiler: until his match with Akoya Seishu made him realize that fighting by itself is a terrifying experience with no room for enjoyment, while his true joy comes from winning.]]

* CombatPragmatist: During his fight with Akoya Cosmo tries to grab his testicles and bit him back after Akoya did the same. He seems to have learned from the experience as he tries moves that would be considered foul on Saw Paing from the get go.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Uses his enormous forearms as a riot shield and baton. So long as he's fighting smartly, he can parry and take punches from someone as superhumanly strong as Haruo with said forearms, with Gaolang likening his toughness to that of steel since he's still taking some damage blocking this way.

* FatalFlaw: His insanity has greatly hindered Masaki's ability to fight logically. He never attempts to block any damage which comes his way and ends up he exposes himself to more damage than required. [[spoiler:This leads to Muteba deciding he is too dangerous to let live, and ends up brutally killing him.]]

* TragicMonster: Called this [[WordOfGod verbatim by the mangaka]] in an after-special extra. He may be a sadomasochistic killer, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality but he has no malice or hatred in him]]. He still loves his father, who he killed with his own hands, and thanks him for his Judo lessons. Also, when he finally reveals his true nature to his father in the flashback detailing his past, he doesn't have a look of malice or sadistic bloodlust on his face at all, and rather has a look of both horror and despair as the TearsOfBlood he sheds are seemingly out of genuine sadness as he confesses to his father that he's unable to control himself anymore. [[spoiler:It's also revealed that Katsumasa Hayami fiddled with his brain, which drove him EVEN more insane than he already was by the time he joined him, and his clone, Hayami Masaki, reveals that he could've been fully capable of being a normal, functional member of society if he had just gotten help, as Hayami is just as crazy as Meguro Masaki is, but is in complete control of himself and genuinely benevolent and well-meaning too, meaning that Katsumasa took away any chance he had left at having anything close to a normal life by messing with his brain, and is partially responsible for killing Meguro because of this.]]

* WellDoneSonGuy: Through flashbacks, we discover that Masaki murdered his own father, yet in the present, we find he has nothing but admiration and gratitude for his father. While fighting Muteba, he delusionally starts calling the assassin ''Father'' with affection and warmth.