History YMMV / Kinnikuman

* UnfortunateImplications: The mask for the Kinnikuman Great costume. The fact that it's colored black wouldn't be much of a problem if it weren't for the fact that it has ''large, pink lips'' like Kinnikuman's mask.
** In the American Tour arc Kinnikuman disguises himself as Channelman...by essentially putting on black-face.

* FanDumb: It's kinda funny how fans criticize Terryman for having primarily submission moves...yet Warsman is a fan favorite and he ''also'' specializes in submission moves.

* AmericansHateTingle - Ironically, [[{{Eagleland}} Terryman]] is one of these to the ''American'' fanbase (or possibly a BaseBreaker rather than an outright Scrappy) while in Japan, he's a regular EnsembleDarkhorse. While he's the only {{Expy}} in the series to use the same moves as who he's based off of (Terry Funk), a lot of Western fans criticize him for being weak and boring because of this same fact because he's in a series where other people pull off some insanely awesome wrestling moves. Terryman's rather lackluster Win/Loss record does not really help his case with the Western fans either.
* AngstWhatAngst - Bibinba doesn't seem to mind the fact that falling in love with Kinnikuman means that she's falling in love with someone from the clan that killed her mother.

* EarWorm - A lot of the image songs are pretty catchy, the best examples being Brocken Jr. and Kendaman's.

* EnsembleDarkhorse - Ramenman. Initially introduced in order to give Kinnikuman a brutal heel wrestler to get him psyched up for his match against Robin Mask, he was so popular that he was elevated to secondary character status. After that, his popularity skyrocketed to the point where he even got his own SpinOff, ''Tatakae! Ramenman''.

* FanDumb - It's kinda funny how fans criticize Terryman for having primarily submission moves...yet Warsman is a fan favorite and he ''also'' specializes in submission moves.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment - All the jokes about the 1980 Moscow Olympics are somewhat less funny considering that Japan (along with a lot of other nations) decided to boycott the games.

* HilariousInHindsight - In the Monster Extermination chapters, the chief of police would mistake the attacking monsters as ''wrestlers''. Little did he know...

* JerkassWoobie - The series is filled with them, some examples overlapping with IronWoobie and other examples overlapping with WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds

* MemeticMutation - A common joke among the fans about the Throne Arc is that Kinnikuman Big Body's sacred throne move is stepping into the ring, [[EpicFail since that's all he did against Kinnikuman Super Phoenix before being hit at full force with the Muscle Revenger]].
* MoralEventHorizon - Planetman crosses it with perverse glee in his match against Kinnikuman. He first skirts the line when he imprints the entire Earth on Kinnikuman and starts stabbing all the countries on Kinnikuman's body which not only hurts Kinnikuman, but the ''Choujin'' that came from the continent stabbed, breaking their life-preserving bubbles. Then he uses his secret technique, Planet Face to imprint the faces of Kinnikuman's friends and loved ones (including ''Bibinba '''and''' his own mother '') on his planets so Kinnikuman can't attack him without hurting them, crossing the line and managing to anger Kinnikuman.

* {{Narm}} - [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/kinnikuman/v30/c004/13.html "This is divine punishment for wounding my breast."]] Not even context can make it better. Sure, it's only narmy due to ValuesDissonance, but...

* SignatureScene - The Kinniku Buster. If you read a lot of shonen manga, chances are that you've seen at least one ShoutOut to it.
* UnfortunateImplications - The mask for the Kinnikuman Great costume. The fact that it's colored black wouldn't be much of a problem if it weren't for the fact that it has ''large, pink lips'' like Kinnikuman's mask.

* ViewerGenderConfusion - Sure, it's common for female seiyuu to voice young male characters, but Meat's voice in the anime doesn't even give a slight indication that he's a boy.
* VillainSue - Dirty Baron in the last filler arc in the original anime. He can counter all of Kinnikuman's moves, he has variations of the other main characters' techniques, he's Buffaloman's blood brother, and he's only defeated by a DeusExMachina.
* WhatAnIdiot - Mayumi, the current king of Planet Kinniku, is usually known for making situations worse whenever he tries to fix them, but there was one point in the Throne Arc where he [[IncrediblyLamePun royally]] fucked up - [[spoiler: when the revelation that one of the possible successors to the throne is actually your eldest son that was banished from the family could cause a total disaster in the world of Choujin, the last thing that you should do is hold the one book that could prove it true in a place where it could be stolen]].
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids - See MoralGuardians.
* TheWoobie - Nachurigon. He was classified as a "loser monster", which lead to him being picked on by other monsters and even the ''humans'' that he's supposed to be attacking.
* {{Woolseyism}} - "Kinniku" translates to "muscle" in English, but there's already a character whose last name is "Muscle" - Chairman Harabote Muscle, who isn't related to the family. In the English translation of the manga, his name is changed to Vance [=McMadd=], which both avoids potential confusion and is a parody of WWE CEO Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, which fits with the series' tradition of using parodies of well-known wrestling personalities.

* TheWoobie - Nachurigon. He was classified as a "loser monster", which lead to him being picked on by other monsters and even the ''humans'' that he's supposed to be attacking.
* UnfortunateImplications - The mask for the Kinnikuman Great costume. The fact that it's coloured black wouldn't be much of a problem if it weren't for the fact that it has ''large, pink lips'' like Kinnikuman's mask.

* ValuesDissonance - The video for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5tthKwz2cY Megumi No Hito]], which at first appears offensive, until you learn who the video is a homage to [[hottip:*: Rats & Star, the ones who are singing the song. Keep in mind that Rats & Star did blackface in order pay tribute to the African-American do-wop bands from yesteryear that they had so much respect for.]].

* CompleteMonster - Akuma Shogun is quite the asshole.
** The Five Evil Choujin Gods really do live up to their name.

* {{Woosleyism}} - "Kinniku" translates to "muscle" in English, but there's already a character whose last name is "Muscle" - Chairman Harabote Muscle, who isn't related to the family. In the English translation of the manga, his name is changed to Vance [=McMadd=], which both avoids potential confusion and is a parody of WWE CEO Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, which fits with the series' tradition of using parodies of well-known wrestling personalities.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids - See MoralGuardians.

* GrowingTheBeard: The story was originally a light hearted MonsterOfTheWeek super hero parody, until the Olympics arc, in which it switches gears into the wrestling epic that it is known for today.

** Kinnikuman Zebra. He worked hard as a farmer to earn money to buy his way into the Choujin Society. His only friend during this period of his life was his pet zebra, Zebra Kid. After a really sad situation caused Zebra to kill his friend, his StartOfDarkness began, as he immediately discards any concept that was foreign to the concept of money, ultimately paying his teammates to fight for him in the throne battle. His match against Kinnikuman ended as one of the biggest
{{TearJerker}}s of the series.

** Kinnikuman Zebra. He worked hard as a farmer to earn money to buy his way into the Choujin Society. His only friend during this period of his life was his pet zebra, Zebra Kid. After a really sad situation caused Zebra to kill his friend, his StartOfDarkness began, as he immediately discards any concept that was foreign to the concept of money, ultimately paying his teammates to fight for him in the throne battle. His match against Kinnikuman ended as one of the biggest {{TearJerker}}s of the series.

** Neptuneman was an intimidating villain who not only gets his own movie, but also gets a FaceHeelTurn
** The Ninja, he not only does a FaceHeelTurn, but he also shows one of the best fights in KinnikumanNisei

** Brocken's got a pretty good fanbase.

** Not to mention that a pair of monsters challenge Kinnikuman and Terryman to a wrestling match in a chapter. When they win, Kinnikuman says, "[[TemptingFate Forget supeheroes, I wanna be a pro wrestler!]]"

** Kinnikuman. He may be a JerkAss, a letch and a coward, but it's hard to be nice to people when you're a laughingstock among superheroes and get no respect from anyone, even when you ''do'' actually help to save the day.

* SignatureScene - The Kinniku Buster.

* MemeticMutation - The already-stated notoriety of the Kinniku Buster.
** A common joke among the fans about the Throne Arc is that Kinnikuman Big Body's sacred throne move is stepping into the ring, [[EpicFail since that's all he did against Kinnikuman Super Phoenix before being hit at full force with the Muscle Revenger]].

** Put 'kinniku buster' in the search bar on Danbooru and just see how much pictures you get of anime characters doing the Kinniku Buster, ranging from characters from DevilMayCry to ''Miku Hatsune'' of {{Vocaloid}}. It's also quite common to see shoutouts to Muscle Docking.
** The series was an inspiration for the ''[[FanficRecs/{{Touhou}} Tag Dream]]'' comic. That's right, Kinnikuman gets multiple shoutouts from {{Touhou}} fandom, of all things.
*** The comic managed to cause another MemeticMutation: it's near impossible to watch the Longhorn Train without thinking ''CAVED''[[hottip:*: an already existing meme in Touhou]] in your mind if you've read the above comic.
** In ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV Super Street Fighter IV]]'', the Ultra Combos of the character El Fuerte are definitely Kinnikuman references. One of them, the Ultimo Spark, is a modified Incomplete Muscle Spark, and the Flying Giga buster resembles Big Body's Maple Leaf Clutch.

* UnfortunateImplications[=/=]ValuesDissonance - The video for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5tthKwz2cY Megumi No Hito]]. Sure, it's a homage to the group who sang the song (who ''actually'' perform liked this) and it was probably done in joke, but...yeah

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Now has [[CrowningMusic/{{Kinnikuman}} its own page]].

** In SuperStreetFighterIV, the Ultra Combos of the character El Fuerte are definitely Kinnikuman references. One of them, the Ultimo Spark, is a modified Incomplete Muscle Spark, and the Flying Giga buster resembles Big Body's Maple Leaf Clutch.

* WhatAnIdiot - Mayumi, the current king of Planet Kinniku, is usually known for making situations worse whenever he tries to fix them, but there was one point in the Throne Arc where he [[IncrediblyLamePun royally]] fucked up - [[spoiler: when the revelation that one of the possible successors to the throne is actually your eldest son that was banished from the family could cause a total disaster in the world of Choujin, the last thing that you should do is hold the one book that could prove it true in a place where it could be stolen]].