History Manga / FistOfTheBlueSky

* ClockPunk - The technology through which arrogant 1930's crime bosses can be given arms, legs, jaws, spines and ''hair'' blown off by Hokuto Shinken.

* {{Expy}}: Liu Fei-Yan is a dead-ringer for Rei from the original series, and the bandage-bound Ye is based on Film/{{Darkman}} played by Creator/LiamNeeson.

* [[GenericCuteness Generic Handsomeness/Beauty]] - Tetsuo Hara here is essentially judging people's appearances by their characters: Kenshiro and his friends, ex-villains who [[TheAtoner renounced their evil ways]], and even [[PunchClockVillain punch clock villains]] with [[FromACertainPointOfView reasonably honorable]] intentions are all portrayed as handsome or beautiful whereas fundamentally-dishonorable personalities are disturbingly intimidating at best and comically ugly at worst; Zhāng Tài-Yán is perhaps the best example. There is no mistaking Zhāng for anyone else at any point of the manga, but he still managed to look significantly different before and after he became Kenshiro's ''Peng-You''.

* IdenticalGrandson - Or rather, Nephew. Kenshiro Kasumi is basically what happens if you give his nephew a chain smoking habit and a jolly sense of humor.

* {{Reincarnation}} - Towards the end of the series, Kenshiro starts getting VisionsOfAnotherSelf after encountering a mystical statue. In one past life he brought Hokuto Shinken to Japan with his two older brothers (a pair of Toki and Raoh lookalikes) and Kukai. In another he honorably executes UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga (who coincidentally got his own manga by Tetsuo Hara after the end of ''Blue Sky''). This concept brings up the obvious question of whether Kasumi is the past-life incarnation of ''Hokuto no Ken'''s Kenshiro.

* {{Retcon}} - One of the series' attractions for old fans of ''Hokuto no Ken'' is its promise of how it will finally justify the continuity travesty that is "The Land of Shura." Yet in the first ten pages Hara has already dug himself a new hole to jump into by making the Kenshiro we have known to love be a baby ''born in Japan again.'' Which is he? Chinese or Japanese?

* {{Tearjerker}}:
** When Mang Kuang-Yun aka ''Ling Wang'' spares [[spoiler: the life of Yu Ling, his fiance, who has fallen in love with Kenshiro, upon seeing her tender kindness towards a dying baby girl. Instead, he wipes her memories to give her a new start at life, free of persecution from the Hong Hua Hui.]]
** [[spoiler: Fei-Yan's final moment.]]

** Liu Zong-Wu performs Creator/SteveMcQueen's famous motorcycle jump in ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' '''onto''' the fleeing Bence Mercedes of his father's murderer. A nice ironic touch considering that whereas [=McQueen=] was fleeing ''from'' Nazis in his jump, Zong-Wu '''is''' a Nazi.

* XMeetsY - Creator/{{John Woo}}'s ''A Better Tomorrow'' meets ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''

* {{Retcon}} - One of the series' attractions for old fans of ''[[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Hokuto no Ken]]'' is its promise of how it will finally justify the continuity travesty that is "The Land of Shura." Yet in the first ten pages Hara has already dug himself a new hole to jump into by making the Kenshiro we have known to love be a baby ''born in Japan again.'' Which is he? Chinese or Japanese?

* YouAreAlreadyDead: Yup, just like [[FistOfTheNorthStar the original.]]

* {{Reincarnation}} - Towards the end of the series, Kenshiro starts getting VisionsOfAnotherSelf after encountering a mystical statue. In one past life he brought Hokuto Shinken to Japan with his two older brothers (a pair of Toki and Raoh lookalikes) and Kukai. In another he honorably executes OdaNobunaga (who coincidentally got his own manga by Tetsuo Hara after the end of ''Blue Sky''). This concept brings up the obvious question of whether Kasumi is the past-life incarnation of ''Hokuto no Ken'''s Kenshiro.

* BeenThereShapedHistory - Kasumi Kenshiro has ''literally'' slapped-up Film/TheLastEmperor of China, not to mention clashing with the ''Kuomintang'', then ruling party of Nanjing's republican government and China's nominal seat of power.
** Considering who said Last Emperor is... doesn't sound that hard.
** And Kuomintang, seeing it as a matter of Chinese honor (and prestiege of the National Revolutionary Army in such a time of turmoil [[spoiler:as Kenshiro killed one of their generals- even though every Kuomintang official agrees that the said general had it coming]]) and not really an act of war, have refrained from just employing army troops to gun him down and insisted on defeating him fair-and-square with the best Chinese martial artist they can find. Therefore Chiang Kai-Shek and company got their [[http://www.mangareader.net/1057-39954-8/fist-of-the-blue-sky/chapter-105.html Generic Handsomeness treatment]].

** It should also be noted that most of the villains he forgiven such as Zhang Tai-Yan and Liu Zong Wu are practitioners of Hokuto styles, with several destined to later impact the world and have a facedown with Hokuto Shinken. Some even became their own respective style's successors. So its justified Kasumi forcgive them and overlook their terrible crimes because of the destiny and burdens Hokuto Shinken puts on its successor and because the traditions of the Hokuto styles rules that eventually Hokuto Shinken would have to be tested every new generation against the other Hokuto offsprings. In fact Liu Zong Wu is the successor of what late becomes Hokuto Ryūken, the very style Hokuto Shinken was destined to clash with in ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'''s timeline.

** It should also be noted that most of the villains he forgiven such as Zhang Tai-Yanand and Liu Zong Wu are practitioners of Hokuto styles, with several destined to later impact the world and have a facedown with Hokuto Shinken. Some even became their own respective style's successors. So its justified Kasumi forcgive them and overlook their terrible crimes because of the destiny and burdens Hokuto Shinken puts on its successor and because the traditions of the Hokuto styles rules that eventually Hokuto Shinken would have to be tested every new generation against the other Hokuto offsprings. In fact Liu Zong Wu is the successor to Hokuto Ryuuken, the very style Hokuto Shinken was destined to clash with in ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'''s timeline.

* CutShort - The manga went down with the sinking ship of ''Comic Bunch''. And although it didn't exactly end on a cliffhanger, it didn't really dovetail nicely into ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' either; lots of questions were left unanswered. How did Ramon/Ryuken become successor? Did Yan Wang die (or become Koryu)? Who was the Old Taoist? The introduction of Jukei (the future Hokuto Ryuken successor) [[AbortedArc never led to anything interesting]] either.

* ZeerustCanon - The birth of the infant Kenshiro at the opening prologue is established to be sometime during the 1970s, keeping in line with ''Hokuto no Ken'''s "[=199X=]" setting.

* [[GenericCuteness Generic Handsomeness/Beauty]] - Kenshiro and his friends, ex-villains who renounced their evil ways, and even [[PunchClockVillain punch clock villains]] with [[FromACertainPointOfView reasonably good]] intentions are all portrayed as handsome or beautiful whereas fundamentally-dishonorable personalities are disturbingly intimidating at best and comically ugly at worst; but Tetsuo Hara is not for judging people's characters by their appearances- rather he is for judging people's appearances by their characters, with Zhāng Tài-Yán being perhaps the best example. The viewers know it's the same person with the same visual features, but Zhāng still managed to look significantly different before and after he made the transition into an [[TheAtoner Atoner]].

* CulturedBadass - Professor Kasumi can speak and read half a dozen languages, play the piano, dance, cook, grade your university thesis AND pop you head open with Hokuto Shinken. [[IndianaJones Henry Jones Junior]], eat your heart out.

* If you've got a problem with Kenshiro's CatchPhrase... tell it to him! *asskicking ensues*

** It should also be noted that most of the villains he forgiven such as Zhang Tai-Yanand and Liu Zong Wu are practitioners of Hokuto styles, with several destined to later impact the world and have a facedown with Hokuto Shinken. Some even became their own respective style's successors. So its justified Kasumi forcgive them and overlook their terrible crimes because of the destiny and burdens Hokuto Shinken puts on its successor and because the traditions of the Hokuto styles rules that eventually Hokuto Shinken would have to be tested every new generation against the other Hokuto offsprings. In fact Liu Zong Wu is the successor to Hokuto Ryuuken, the very style Hokuto Shinken was destined to clash with in HokutoNoKen's timeline.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: More cynical compared to the sequel, HokutoNoKen, in spite of being set in a shiny city of Shanghai. TheHero is helping his best friend - a drug lord, to take over the entire city by eliminating a gang that is even worse than theirs. There are also much fewer villains who receive redemption than in HokutoNoKen.

Character page recently created and accessed through this [[Characters/FistOfTheBlueSky link]].

* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler - This being a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII {{Manga}}, the dictator makes a cameo and is given a typical historical cliquish portrayal.

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[[caption-width:239:If you got a problem with Hokuto, tell it to me.]]

* BeenThereShapedHistory - Kasumi Kenshiro has ''literally'' slapped-up TheLastEmperor of China, not to mention clashing with the ''Kuomintang'', then ruling party of Nanjing's republican government and China's nominal seat of power.

Character page recently created and accessed through this link.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/FistOfTheBlueSky

* MightyWhitey - French Colonel Charles [=DeGuise=], who somehow manages to be a Master of the "Hokuto Sun Family Fist" after under a decade of study.
** His Hokuto techniques aren't very good, though, and [[spoiler:he eventually gets killed by Fei-Yan.]]

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass - For all his boisterous and jolly disposition, one has to remember that Kenshiro is '''still''' a master of the head-popping martial art Hokuto Shinken.

** It should also be noted that most of the villains he forgiven such as Zhang Tai-Yanand and Liu Zong Wu are practitioners of Hokuto styles, with several destined to later impact the world and have a facedown with Hokuto Shinken. Some even became their own respective style's successors. So its justified Kasumi fogive them and overlook their terrible crimes because of the destiny and burdens Hokuto Shinken puts on its successor and because the traditions of the Hokuto styles rules that eventually Hokuto Shinken would have to be tested every new generation against the other Hokuto offsprings. In fact Liu Zong Wu is the successor to Hokuto Ryuuken, the very style Hokuto Shinken was destined to clash with in HokutoNoKen's timeline.

* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler - This being a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII {{Manga}}, the dictator makes a cameo; and is portrayed frankly as the pathetic loser he really is.

** In Zhang Tai-Yan's case, it is '''after''' he murdered the little sister of another one of Professor Kasumi's ''Peng-You''. Granted, he ended up becoming remorseful about it[[spoiler:, just not when he did it]].

* PaperCutting - Huang Xi-Fei and later Ling Wang manage to cut Kenshiro's cheek.

* PaperCutting - Huang Xi-Fei actually manages to cut Kenshiro's cheek.

* PaperCutting - Huang Xi-Fei actually manages to cut Kenshiro's cheek.

* MyCountryRightOrWrong - Averted- Kenshiro enlisted the help of a small group of Japanese marines (and their tank) to overcome a Chinese sharpshooter position during Battle of Shanghai not because he much cares for Japan's invasion of China but simply because that sharpshooter is an obstacle between him and his ''Peng-You''. He left those Japanese soldiers to their fate as soon as he has no more use of them (right at the moment of a Chinese counterattack, spearheaded by a tank destroyer).

* {{Tearjerker}} - When Mang Kuang-Yun aka ''Ling Wang'' spares [[spoiler: the life of Yu Ling, his fiance, who has fallen in love with Kenshiro, upon seeing her tender kindness towards a dying baby girl. Instead, he wipes her memories to give her a new start at life, free of persecution from the Hong Hua Hui.]]