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Kinniku Mantarou

Prince Kinniku Mantarou AKA Kinnikuman II (Kid Muscle in US)

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Voiced by: Masaya Onosaka, Marc Thompson (English dub)

Anti-Hero: In the beginning of the series, he fits both the classical cowardly and unlucky model and the modern "Jerkass who does the right things for the wrong reasons" definition. He grows out of this with time, however.
Berserk Button: More than a few things can cause him to fight without his usual cowardice dragging him down.
- Don't wreck the meal his mother gave him like Bone Killer
- Don't hit spectators, be it a child or your own mentor, like Checkmate. (Though this seems to be a common button among all choujin, good or evil.)
- Do not savagely beat his best friend Seiuchin, like Maxman and Clioneman
- Don't take a hostage in the middle of a match, like Dead Signal.
Betty and Veronica: Rinko (Roxanne) and Jacqueline, but only in the anime. In the manga he only had feelings for Rinko.
Book Dumb: Getting scores in the low-to-mid 20's (still a failing grade) was an improvement. In the dub, he even lists words with more than three syllables among his fears.
Chivalrous Pervert: He's girl-crazy and reads lewd magazines, but his heart is in the right place overall. In a more traditional example of this trope, he accidentally sets up a compensated date and is appalled when he learns what it is.
Cloudcuckoolander: The dub's theme song says Mantaro's "kinda nuts", and it's kinda right. His food-inspired Happy Dances and the crazy costumes he sometimes dons are just the tip of the iceberg. His silly behavior often earns him a pummeling from Meat.
Contrasting Sequel Main Character: In comparison with his father, Suguru who was more Idiot Hero and a braggart, Mantaro is an even worse coward than he was, but is more battle savvy. When Mantaro and Suguru interact with eachother via a gag in Ultimate Tag, Suguru says Mantaro is different from Suguru because Suguru took the time to make the gag more elaborate with actual props. Even more from Ultimate Tag, Suguru has at least two women who still care about him a great deal, romantically and not. Mantaro does not have that that much during this arc, with Rinko and Chaos getting their own romance.
Cowardly Lion: Oh yes. Normally he'll scream, run, and hide at the sight of a tough enemy, but push his buttons and he'll come out swinging.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Sort of. Mantarou isn't so much hiding his badass nature so much as he's not fully aware of it. His moronoic attitude isn't really an act, either. As time goes on, he still stays as a moron but is more aware of his badass-ness. Especially when he has to be the leader of his own Muscle Brothers tag team.
Defeating the Undefeatable: Beat Kinnikuman in a match to graduate from the Hercules Factory. Granted his father was well past his prime.
- He and Chaos beat Kinnikuman and Terryman in the Ultimate Choujin Tag Tournament.
- Kevin Mask in the anime. Prior to that, Kevin only lost once because his Big Bang Edge didn't land on the ring in time for the countdown to be stopped. (He was fighting his opponent outside of the ring)
Dented Iron: Before learning how to truly control his Burning Inner Strength, Mantarou wouldn't heal completely from his matches. At one point we see all his accumulated cuts and bruises and it is horrific!
Determinator: Having the Burning Inner Strength pretty much guarantees this trope. He did once admit he was terrified and seemed like giving up when fighting Asuraman, but he stayed strong. Later, when fighting The Five Disasters he asked his grandfather to throw in the towel, but Kevin convinced him to keep going.
Facial Markings: Like his father, he has the kanji 肉 (niku) on his forehead, but it only appears when he's using his Burning Inner Strength.
Finishing Move: Kinniku Buster, Kinniku Driver, Turn-Over Kinniku Buster, Muscle Millennium, and Muscle Gravity.
Five Moves of Doom: The Iroha Hell Tour (Alphabet Soup-de-Loop in US), three holds chained together.
Four-Man Band: The Casanova Wannabe.
Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Sanguine. A lazy, if personable, goofball with a strange sense of humor who'd rather be doing anything but fighting.
The Friend Nobody Likes: To say no one likes Mantarou at all would be taking it a bit far. Still, you get the feeling that some of the other Justice Choujin merely accept Mantarou as one of them rather than actually like him. Seiuchin, and maybe Terry the Kid after a while, are about the only exceptions who seem to genuinely like Mantarou for who he is.
- Heavily deconstructed in Ultimate Tag when it comes time for him to form a tag team. He originally just assumes he'll be with Terry then gets confused when Terry wants to do his own thing. When almost everyone else is done pairing up, he gets even more upset. Almost no one wants to team up with him, with even Checkmate begging Seiuchin to be his tag partner. When by some miracle, the 21st Century Neptuneman reveals himself, Mantaro's first thought is to want Neptuneman as a tag partner. Mantaro's motives are selfish, wanting Neptuneman to do most of the work. When Neptuneman reveals he wants Sei, Mantaro goes on a rant about how much of a failure and loser Sei is in his eyes, even saying they call him part of the good guys because he does chores well. Mantaro continues to disrespect Sei, upsetting Sei so much that he doesn't even call Mantaro "Aniki" anymore. While The Five Disasters reveal they may have tampered with the New Generation's Friendship Power, Mantaro's choices and actions created arguably an even bigger crack. Mantaro has to work hard to restore everyone's friendship with him, with Sei being his most difficult person to sway back.
Gameplay and Story Segregation: Most, if not all, of the video games he appears in give him both the Kinniku Buster and the Muscle Millennium as super moves, despite the fact that he completely gave up using the former after inventing the latter.
Heroic BSoD: Losing to Kevin Mask hit Mantarou hard.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Seiuchin, especially in the anime.
Idiot Hero: Arguably dumber than his father no thanks in part to his sheltered upbringing. Getting a quarter questions right at the start of the main Nisei series was considered a major improvement, for example.
Kid Hero: He's 14 at the beginning and is younger than his father when he started wrestling
Lazy Bum: Self-admitted in the dub. He even faked getting sick to get out of regular training after the dMp were destroyed. Almost every Nisei arc's first fight for Mantaro has the opponent comment that he spent the time between arcs goofing off rather than training, which lets the opponent knock Mantaro around a bit. He stops this mostly after the Olympics and his loss to Kevin Mask, before he goes back to relaxing at the start of U. Tag.
Lovable Coward: He'll try his hardest to duck out of a match and constantly run crying and screaming when he's in one.
Momma's Boy: Violently so. He first achieved Burning Inner Strength when his mother's cooking was dishonored. (In the anime, at least.)
Porn Stash: He's able to keep his dad and grandpa off his case with it.
Punny Name: Suguru came up with the name due to Ultraman (whom he is a fan of) having a brother named Ultraman Taro. He then took the name Kinnikuman Tarou and made it Kinniku Mantarou.
Spoiled Brat: Suguru wanted Mantarou to have a normal childhood unlike himself and Ataru. Unfortunately, this resulted in him being cowardly, lazy, perverted, and utterly uninterested in becoming a wrestler.
Toilet Humor: He farts like it's a language, frequently wets himself, and even uses his own shit to defeat MAXman... Mantarou has zero shame about this kind of stuff. When he was fighting Wash Ass/Hollywood Bowl, Meat mentions Mantaro really abuses toilets. Not to mention, in the anime's ending, he lets out a fart so powerful it grosses out everyone physically at attendance for his Choujin Olympics match.
Took a Level in Badass: He takes several throughout the series. However, his first notable leap was for the fight with MAX Man. It's the first time we see him train for a fight and he arrives looking as muscular as his father. After actually training during the gap between the Olympics and Demon Seed arcs, Mantaro reaches new levels and start to form a new move in the Muscle Gravity as well as a new fighting style. He takes even more levels in badass in Ultimate Tag, helped by his training. From doing his own Bear Claw on the fly to learning brand new moves like the Muscle Spark.
Trademark Favorite Food: Cow and Rice.
Villainous Legacy: Mantarou's opponents, especially early on, tend to be children or grandchildren of the villains Kinnikuman defeated. Lampshaded by Mantarou at one point.
Mantarou: Why do I keep inheriting enemies?
Younger Than They Look: He's 14 years old, yet his height and build looks more akin to a young adult.

Terry The Kid

Terry The Kid (Terry "The Grand" Kenyon in US)

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Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa, Greg Abbey (English Dub)

Aesop Amnesia: Terry eventually learns to accept his heritage and fight like his father. Unfortunately he has to learn this during nearly every match of his. Ultimate Tag is where it seems to stick, with a younger Terryman and Robin Mask being the ones to convince him to just try to be his own guy.
Berserk Button: Comparing him to his father.
But Not Too Foreign: Is half-Japanese on his mother's side.
Dramatic Irony: Terry mostly wanted to not be like his father for more superficial reasons like wanting the glory and finding his dad to be boring as a fighter. Kevin Mask wanted to not be like his father as rebellion for his father’s abuse in trying to make Kevin a perfect fighter. Terry goes on to learn from Robin and arguably polishes the Terry family moves to be his own strong personal versions.
Facial Markings: Has a K on his forehead. It's notable as being one of the few of these marks not removed for the Ultimate Muscle dub.
Finishing Move: Texas Clover Hold, Spinning Toe Hold, Calf Branding
Four-Man Band: The Smart Guy.
Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Choleric. Your basic Texan with a big personality, fighting to get out of Terryman's shadow.
Generation Xerox: A perception he desperately wants to overcome.
Hot-Blooded: And how!
The Lancer: He's usually treated as being just below Mantarou in terms of in-ring skill.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to his father's blue.
Shout-Out: His name is clearly a reference to Billy the Kid. His American flag singlet later in the manga might be a reference to Kurt Angle, who wore similar singlets.
Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Later in the manga he has a singlet with the American flag on it.

Gazelleman

Gazelleman (Dik Dik Van Dik in US)

Voiced by: Eric Stuart (English Dub)

Adaptational Badass: He's shown to be far more competent in the Kinnikuman Nisei All Out Choujin Attack spinoff, as he actually wins more than one match on screen.
Break the Haughty: Was an extremely arrogant jerk when he first appeared, but constant losses took care of it.
Butt-Monkey: Especially in the anime.
Fake Ultimate Hero: He's handsome, suave, and is stated to have gotten the highest score among all the Hercules Factory students on graduation, but has never canonically won a match.
Finishing Move: Savannah Heat, a move seen only in the anime and games.
Four-Man Band: The Butt-Monkey.
Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Melancholic. He's a lovable loser type who resents it; he also likes to scold and give lectures.
High-Pressure Blood: After becoming the victim of Jade's Red Rain of Berlin, we learn just how the attack got its name.
Informed Ability: He got the highest score on the graduation, but his skills don't show it in the ring.
Not So Above It All: Despite his initial attitude of being so superior to even his fellow Hercules graduates, Gazelleman eventually starts goofing off and goes out partying with Mantarou, Terry, and Seiuchin. Before he was like that, he worked a booth for Mantaro trying to sell Mantaro merch as Mantaro was fighting Checkmate. He even tried to convince a boy to buy a Mantaro toy.
Throw the Dog a Bone: He actually manages to get a win in the Poison Six Pack filler arc, and this is lampshaded by his friends collectively crying Tears of Joy at his victory out of pride, much to his embarassment.
The Worf Effect: The only time he won, was during the anime and that was a major Throw the Dog a Bone from the animation staff.
- It gets so bad that he's Demoted to Extra so that Jade can get this treatment

Seiuchin

Seiuchin (Wally Tusket in US)

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Voiced by: Takumi Yamazaki, Maddie Blaustein (English Dub)

Aerith and Bob: His parents are named Robert and Suzy and his sister is named Dorothy. Wally suddenly seems a lot more fitting.
Ax-Crazy: Made this by Neptuneman's Training from Hell.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: At first glance, you'd think he's just a goofball, and you'd be right. He's still got the second highest score in the Hercules Factory after Gazelleman. Neptuneman takes advantage of this, and during the qualifiers for the new tag tourney Sei surprised everyone by showing how bad ass he can truly be.
Face–Heel Turn: In the Ultimate Choujin Tag Arc thanks to Neptuneman's training to make him a Perfect Choujin.
Finishing Move: Ice Rock Driver.
Four-Man Band: The Only Sane Man.
Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Phlegmatic. He's a lovable loser type... who's actually content with that.
Heel Realization: Thankfully as he saw his parents in the past timeline in the audience and decides to fight as a Seigi Choujin but unfortunately later on, Neptuneman and Mammothman immediately ripped his face off after his loss to Warsman.
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: What causes him to team up with Neptuneman in the first place. While he was appreciative of Neptuneman's praise, it was Mantaro's blatant disrespect towards Sei that made Sei go off to team up with Neptuneman. When Mantaro came back, he got his muddy shoes all over the laundry Sei had just finished, irking Sei a bit. Then, when Neptuneman emphasized it was Sei that he wanted as his tag partner, Mantaro went on a long rant about how much he thinks Sei is a screw up and doesn't even deserve to be called New Generation if not for doing chores for everyone (mainly Mantaro). This really upset Sei, and after Neptuneman left, Mantaro asked Sei to prepare him a meal and wash his underwear. Sei, fed up, throws the underwear back in Mantaro's face. When Mantaro tries to get on his case about it, Sei glares at him and says "Goodbye, Mantaro". Not the normal "Aniki", just "Mantaro". Even Mantaro is left stunned.
Nice Guy: Although it costs him in the ring, since he tends to go easy on opponents if they show signs of fatigue.
Not Even Bothering with the Accent: In the dub. Lampshaded when Mac Metaphor and Doc Nakano express surprise at learning he's Irish.
Small Steps Hero: Like the rest of Team AHO, he skipped out on training, but unlike the rest of them, he did it so he could patrol the city and keep kids out of trouble. Clioneman mocks him for not looking at the bigger picture.
Throw the Dog a Bone: See Gazelleman's entry.
Trademark Favorite Food: Salmon and other fish.
The Worf Effect: Interestingly, he is actually aware of this, and is actually proud of being defeated because that let's his friends learn the villains abilities firsthand.
You Have Failed Me: Courtesy of Neptuneman and Mammothman in the Ultimate Choujin Tag Arc.

Kevin Mask

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Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu, Ted Lewis (English dub)

All Your Powers Combined: It turns out that his trainer, Chloe, was actually Warsman, so he not only possesses all of Robin Mask's moves due to being trained by him, but he also has his own versions of Warsman's moves, like his Mach Pulverizer, a clawless equivalent of Warsman's screw driver, and he also preforms Warsman's Storm Elbows in his fight with Mantaro. This goes even further in Ultimate Tag when he is trained by Terryman, Suguru, and Robin prior to the final match with the Five Disasters which he enters as Kinnikuman Great IV.
Anti-Villain: Back when he was in the dMp, he objected to his teammates's use of dirty tricks like Tel-Tel Boy's Trauma Voice Dial or Maxman's desire to beat up a still-injured Mantaro.
Charlie Brown from Outta Town: Kinnikuman Great IV in the Finals of the Ultimate Choujin Tag Arc. Interestingly, he is the only Kin Great who was not trained by Kamehame or Kamehame himself, although he did get some training from Suguru who based his style at the time around Kamehame's techniques.
Defeat Means Friendship: Inverted in the manga. When Kevin defeated Mantarou to win the Revived Choujin Olympics, he said he had every intention of throwing his title belt on the the ground and spitting on it. However, truly earning that belt through Training from Hell and getting by three very difficult opponents caused his to realize the value of fair competition. It was probably the biggest seed planted that lead to his final Heel–Face Turn.
Defeating the Undefeatable: Manga only. The ONLY person to successfully defeat Kinniku Mantarou.
Determinator: Once he gains Maelstrom Power.
11th-Hour Superpower: Maelstrom Power which is like the Burning Inner Strength!
Finishing Move: Big Ben Edge/Bash and OLAP. An interesting note about these holds is his father, Robin Mask, developed the theories behind them, but could never execute them himself.
Hazy-Feel Turn: Initially, he left the dMp, but continued to oppose Mantaro and the rest of the Muscle League until he finally joined up with them in the Demon Seed Arc.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Like Father, Like Son, but it took a lot longer for him.
I Work Alone: After becoming disillusioned with the dMp, Kevin decided to be a "free agent." Subverted at the end of the Demon Seed arc.
Invincible Hero: The guy never lost in the manga. To be fair, he did have earn his win against Mantarou.
Lightning Bruiser: Despite being 7'0" tall and having a distinctly muscular build, Kevin is a very quick and agile fighter, utilizing quick strikes and nimble throws rather than brute strength. His usual victory pose is even a jumping splits.
Manly Tears: After Mars is killed in the Demon Seed arc.
Mr. Fanservice: He's gotten the most fans in and out-verse for this trait.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: His name, hairstyle, towering height and ties to an nWo parody evoke Kevin Nash.
Ret-Gone: The primary goal of the Time Travel/Ultimate Tag Team arc was to kill Robin Mask in the past to prevent Kevin Mask from being born.
The Rival: To Mantaro
Training from Hell: Tends to go through this a lot. Be it from his mentors or self-imposed. He even trains on a cruise ship while traveling to the Olympics.

Jade

Jade (Jaeger in US)

Voiced by: Wayne Grayson (English dub)

Adaptational Badass: While he has a worse record in V-Jump (since he really only had one match on screen and it was a loss), he has a lot more moves and variety than his main Nisei counterpart.
The Ahnold: In the dub.
Finishing Move: Red Rain Of Berlin and Beefcake Hammer.
- Replaces the Red Rain of Berlin with Brocken's Repatriation in the Ultimate Tag arc thanks to Timey-Wimey Ball.
Related in the Adaptation: He's Brocken Jr.'s son in the dub.
Tag Team: Super Trinities (with Scarface) and Beauty Blondes (with Terry the Kid, anime only)
Token Good Teammate: Out of all of the Generation Ex, he's the least antagonistic of the group especially since Scarface was The Mole for Dmp
What Were You Thinking?: Jade lives and breathes this trope. Most of the turnarounds in his matches that cause his loss are due to what can only be classified as acting dumb. Especially a variant of not thinking things through and being rash. One of the biggest examples is acting shocked when Mars reveals he has evil ambitions during Ultimate Tag. This example is the biggest because he brings up them training together at Hercules Factory when previously in the series he informed others that Mars slept through the teachings! Not only that, but as Jade questions Mars' motives before their first match in the tournament proper, small flashback drawings of Mars brutalizing Jade are shown around his head!
The Worf Effect: He only won once against Dik Van Dik , and was to his worf effect. A notable example occurs in U. Tag during the qualifying round to narrow the competing teams down by having a battle royale. While most of the good choujin are getting smacked around by notable villains for the series, Jade and Mars get smacked around by random no names. Random no names who are easily eliminated in the same chapter by someone else!

Dead Signal

Dead Signal (Road Rage in US)

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Voiced by: Sam Riegel and Sebastian Arcellus (English Dub)

Butt-Monkey: Downplayed. He had a watermelon smashed on his head and was peed on by a dog, but he isn't nearly as unlucky as, say, Mantarou or Gazelleman.
Didn't Think This Through: After already getting the crowd on his side he uses a dog as bait to hit Mantaro with his illusionary train. When Mantaro saves the dog and smacks the train away, he tries to shame him for damaging public property. The crowd calls him out for putting the dog in danger to begin with, to his shock.
Improbable Weapon User: This guy makes traffic a viable power.
Knight Templar
Loophole Abuse: Oddly for a Chojin as obsessed with rules as he is, he'll gladly use winds to bring a foreign object, like a billboard, into the ring to smack the opponent, which is against all Chojin codes of honor. Harabote justifies this by saying it would be illegal if he left the ring and physically grabbed the objects, but he uses his superpowers to do so, so it's fair game.
Master of Illusion: Not to the extent of other Chojin with illusory abilities in the series as a whole, but Dead Signal's deserves mention for manipulating the surrounding environment to create the illusion of the foe being hit with cars, trains and other kinds of vehicles.
The Other Darrin: Went from being voiced by Sam Riegel to Sebastian Arcellus starting in episode 21.
Use Your Head: Your head being a rotatable Yield sign means you have a saw for a head.

Clioneman

Clioneman (Hydrozoa in US)

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Voiced by: Dan Green (English Dub)

Balloon Belly: Has the ability to absorb his opponents into his body to drown or crush them with his rib cage, bloating himself up in the process. He also inflates himself sucking in air to freeze the water surrounding the ring.
Finishing Move: Ice Sword, Jelly Body Trap, XYZ Crash, and Slither Slide Squeeze
Good Counterpart: He's a cyan-skinned guy voiced by Dan Green in the English dub who savagely beat up Seiuchin, like Maxman, only he's part of the Muscle League.
Good Is Not Nice: One of the Choujin intended to replace the current Muscle League; Hydrozoa treats his fights with Wally and Mantarou as if he were fighting any legitimately evil foe. Not to mention he seems creepily excited when he decide to absorb Mantarou.
An Ice Person: He can freeze his arms to create swords and shields, and it's also hinted to be the source of his ability to turn his body into a huge lens.
Making a Splash: He's made of water and can make ice shields and ice swords, turn into sea creatures, and absorb people into his body.
Rubber Man: Is able to stretch his limbs to pull Mantaro back into the ring.
Superpower Lottery: Has just about every water themed power you can think of. He's made from water, can shapeshift into sea creatures, create weapons out of ice, stretch his body parts, bend like jelly to escape any hold, float in the air, shoot beams of heat by turning into a lens, absorb people into his body, and even his spine can kill you.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: Into various sea creatures.

Check Mate

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The second of Sunshine's students and the first truly challenging opponent for Mantaro. After being defeated, he changes his ways.

Adaptational Nationality: The dub made him British. He's originally from Monaco.
Big Damn Heroes: When he saved Dik Dik from Monsieur Cheeks and Mr. French's two-on-one assault.
Cultured Badass: He acts refined and gentlemanly unlike his partner Rex King. However, once he begins fighting, Check Mate is much more brutal and ruthless.
Elemental Shape Shifter: His Rook and Grand Slam forms transform his body into solid stone.
Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Back when he was in the dMp, as explicitly noted by both Terry the Kid and Sunshine, looking not as explicitly evil or hideous like his colleagues, but still a cruel sadist underneath his façade. Averted post-Heel–Face Turn, as he's now exactly as heroic as he looks.
Feels No Pain: At first. He overestimates this and forgets that he only doesn't feel pain, but his body still feels the damage and strain from the attacks like any other person, and this comes back to bite him HARD against Mantaro, and is the ultimate reason for his defeat.
Flowery Elizabethan English: Talks like this in the dub.
Heel–Face Turn: Started out as a villain, but turned to the light side after his defeat. Possibly one of the most blatant examples in the franchise as he can not even fight the Demon Seed because he is no longer “bad” enough to get past the barrier. But other villains who did not hit children can get through just fine. Arguably the biggest in the new generation, considering he was the only one of the Choujin who went back in time who seemed to have kept his Friendship Power even after the Five Disasters admitted they tampered with it.
Knight of Cerebus: His big match is the longest in the series up to that point, and gives Mantaro his worst clobbering yet. More to the point, he eventually and brutally turns on Sunshine, proving a far more complex opponent than the rest of the villains so far.
Lack of Empathy: His inability to feel pain drove him to label those who do as "weak."
Multiform Balance: Knight form is for speed, Rook form is for defense, Human form is more adaptable.
One-Winged Angel: His Knight, Rook, and Grand Slam
Our Centaurs Are Different: His Knight and Grad Slam forms turn him into a centaur.
Redemption Demotion: His Heel–Face Turn was driven by a desire to understand human nature after first witnessing it in his fight with Mantarou. An unforunate side effect appears to be the loss of his inability to feel pain.
Training from Hell: Sunshine put him through the most agonizing regiment ever, resulting in Check Mate finally blocking out all feelings of pain.
Villain with Good Publicity: Initially he's praised for his seemingly genuine polite nature, elegant appearance, and talent in spite of working for the DMP. This gets averted as his true nature begins to show, especially he hits a child, causing the crowd to turn against him.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: Can "chess piece change" from King to Knight to Rook, or to the "Grand Slam", a combination of all three.
Wake-Up Call Boss: While the previous enemies of the sequel, were mildly difficult, they had one gimmick that could be overcome and often lost due to humiliating weaknesses being exploited for Mantaro to defeat them with ease. Check Mate proved to be the first enemy to be genuinely skilled with a variety of techniques and dominated him for the majority of the fight, forcing Mantaro to go all out to defeat him. Enemies following him would be increasingly difficult to defeat.
Would Harm a Child: He elbows a boy who calls him out on his brutal tactics.

Scarface

Scarface (Eskara in US anime and games) AKA Mars

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Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better: As stated in Awesomeness by Analysis, one of his specialties is to copy the moves of his opponents and modify them into his own improved variations, the most infamous being his Ultimate Scar Buster.
Awesomeness by Analysis: Studies trademark moves and reversals of other choujin and improves on them.
Book Dumb: Subverted. He gives off this impression initially, and Jade even describes him as sleeping through classes, but he still can make improved versions of other peoples' moves.^note
Boring, but Practical: His improvement on the Spinning Toe Hold? He simply attacks both legs with the move instead of one.
Ditto Fighter: Played With. He DOES copy his opponents moves, but, his versions are modified to be more deadly or more effective, like the Ultimate Scar Buster, his version of the Kinniku Buster, has him apply a leg lock to make it more inescapable.
Disney Owns This Trope: His Dub Name Change for the US anime and games is probably to avoid copyright issues with the movie of the same name.
Evil Counterpart: To Mantarou. He wears red instead of blue, has a Kinniku Buster-inspired move for his Finishing Move, both never paid any attention in classes at the Hercules Factory, (Mantarou because he was eating, Scarface because he was sleeping), and both are voiced by Marc Thompson.invoked
Finishing Move: Ultimate Scar Buster, Spinning Double Toe Hold, Buffalo Branding, and Man's German.
Genius Bruiser: A skilled wrestler who also improved upon the Kinniku Buster.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Started to revert to his evil ways in the latest arc, but quickly got over it. Of course, being beaten around by a mutating Sei probably helped him make that choice.
Hoist by His Own Petard: After his Ultimate Scar Buster failed against Ashuraman, the latter picked on Mars' trick to use his legs in a triangle leg lock to make the Kinniku Buster irreversible and unbreakable to perfect his Ashura Buster, which he then proceeds to use on Mars.
The Mole: The Scarface persona was a disguise so he could enter the Hercules Factory and get revenge for the destruction of the dMp.
Redemption Demotion: Played with. He no longer copies his opponents moves and improves upon them as a Justice Choujin, and also stops using the his improved version of other Choujin's moves entirely aside from his Ultimate Scar Buster. He still uses these improvements when donning his “Mask of Madness” against Sei and Neptuneman, but he never tries to enhance any of their moves. To his credit, his more brutal and enhanced moves do quite well against Sei and Neptuneman at first, and the fight really only starts to go against him when Sei starts mutating. Further to his credit, Neptuneman says he needed a powerful and evil fighter like Scar to awaken Sei's potential more, so it's not so much a demotion as other bigger fish are around now.
Tag Team: Blood-Evoltions (With Kevin Mask), and Super Trinities (with Jade)
Trademark Favorite Food: Pineapples.
Variant Power Copying: His signature. His Spinning Double Toe Hold and Buffalo Branding are modified versions of Terry the Kid's Spinning Toe Hold and Calf Branding, and his Ultimate Scar Buster is a modified Kinniku Buster.
Vocal Dissonance: Zig Zagged. He has a stereotypical rough & gravelly "Mafia Thug" voice in the dub, which is fitting for his overbody of a Gangster-themed Choujin. But it's something of a mismatch with his true appearance, which is a well muscled hunk.

Iliokhine

Ilioukhine (Comrade Turbinski in US)

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Morality Pet/Morality Chain: Meat. He admits that he used to be absolutely brutal in his fights prior to meeting Meat, and that when Meat stops him from crashing after Kevin Mask throws him off a high-altitude ring, Ilioukhine lets go of his brutality.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can change into any kind of plane to attack his enemies

Barrierfreeman

Barrierfreeman: Nils (Young Body) & Jijioman (Georgioman in US) (Old Body)

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Boring, but Practical: While the way Jijioman achieves the moves is anything but boring, they are based on practical moves like using the palm to hit someone. Being boring but practical did not help Nils get money he wanted when wrestling to make things better for the elderly, which is why he looked for and fused with Jijioman.
Dirty Old Man: Jijioman
Fusion Dance: Nils and Jijioman
Out of Focus: Most likely due to Rule of Funny, Nils would appear less and less frequently, making Jijioman the dominant personality. Some fans took note that during U. Tag when Jijioman had his face ripped off, it was treated as if Barrierfreeman (both parts) had died. But the only one to suffer was Jijioman. This is especially odd because when Tattooman killed Barrierfreeman he murdered both entities that make up Barrierfreeman.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Because Jijioman was a massive pervert in the past, he was sealed within a tree for 200 years until Nils found him.

Akugyou/Evil Choujin/Demon-Making Plant (dMp)

General

No Celebrities Were Harmed: An evil pro wrestling faction wearing black and white t-shirts, spearheaded by a tall guy named Kevin. Sounds like the New World Order.
Villain Team-Up: The dMp was formed when the remanants of the Brutal, Devil, and Perfect Choujin decided to work together to create the next generation of evil choujin.

Tel-Tel Boy

Tel-Tel Boy (Dialbolic in US)

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Call-Back/Recurring Boss Template: His fight with Mantarou has many similar elemants as Kinnikuman's fight against Stecase King.
Combat Pragmatist: He's not strong enough to outwrestle Mantarou, so he resorts to mind games and weapons.
Combat Tentacles: His Antenna Slice/Handtenna Zap Slap. In the anime, he has even more.
Did Not Think This Through: His technique of calling people and using his foe’s trauma surrounding said people is perfectly sound by all accounts. The only thing he did not account for is Mantaro, while he loves his dad, has no respect for him whatsoever. Tel-Tel’s attempt at using the great Kinnikuman to end his own legacy backfires because Mantaro takes Suguru’s ranting as the hypocrisy it was and slaps Suguru (Tel-Tel) around a little while he’s doing it.
Killed Off for Real: By his own teammate, no less.
Lorre Lookalike: In the dub, Eric Stuart channels Peter Lorre for his voice.
Man Bites Man: Does this to Mantarou while imitating a Doberman Pinscher the latter was traumatized by in childhood.
Master of Illusion: With his Trauma Voice Dial technique, he can read his opponents' memories and appear as their worst fears. Only the opponent sees it, though—everybody else sees him normally.
No Peripheral Vision: Since his body is a phone, he can't turn his head. Mantarou gleefully attacks his blind spots.
Shock and Awe: In the anime adaption, his Antenna Slice is changed into an electric move.
Supernatural Phone: Since his body is a phone, he can make calls with himself and uses this to trigger his illusion powers. Note that the calls are not for show; at one point he dials the wrong number and has to try again. This, too, ties into his defeat - Mantarou uses him to dial the time-and-temperature line, because he knows when it's supposed to rain.
Weaksauce Weakness: Since his body is a phone, getting wet causes him to short circuit. Mantarou takes advantage of this too.

Maxman

MAXman (Pumpinator in US)

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Dirty Coward
Gorgeous George: As a side effect of turning into a sneaker, he's obsessed with keeping his shoe body in perfect condition.
Like Father, Unlike Son: Sneagator and his son were lizard men, but MAXman just looks like a guy with blue skin. Even the Justice Choujin had no idea they were connected.
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Years of turning into a sneaker have made him a little loopy—he sleeps in a giant shoebox, and he constantly worries about keeping clean and not dented. Mantaro used this to his advantage by essentially pooping on MA Xman. Because nothing spells death for shoes more than poop. Even if you clean it, everyone will just remember them as the poop shoes.
Sissy Villain: Zig-Zagged. On the one hand, he's a neat freak who constantly frets about his body being clean and buffed and freaks out epically when faced with either poo or a stinkbug, but on the other, he's pretty brutal in the ring.
Training from Hell: His father, Sneagator Jr. (Croc Bottom) put him through a hellacious regimen to unlock his weird powers. MAXman decides to take out his frustration over this on Mantaro...
Villainous Legacy: The grandson of Sneagator.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: Though unlike his grandfather, he can only turn into a shoe.

Rex King

Rex King (Tyrannoclaw in US)

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The Brute: Compared to other dMp members like Check Mate, Mars and Tel-Tel Boy, Rex King's fighting style is more straightforward and involves a lot of crushing and tearing.
Department of Redundancy Department: "Rex" is Latin for "king," so his name translates to "King King."
Killed Off for Real: Both of his heads are completely smashed by Terry the Kid.
Power Pincers: His trademark is that he can morph his right hand into a T-Rex head; he likes to crush opponents in the jaws.
Shown Their Work: Why is Rex King billed from America? Because that's where T-rex fossils were found.
Weaksauce Weakness: He can't handle anything cold, be it actual cold temperatures or bad jokes (insults in the dub).

The Rigani

The Rigani (Cranky Doodle Claw Daddy in US)

Curb-Stomp Battle: While he does prove a challenge, he's much easier to deal with than Checkmate and Mars.
Wearing a Flag on Your Head: He has the American flag on his tights.

Ricardo

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Ambiguously Evil: At first he cares neither about being good or evil, but after Mantao beats him, he becomes evil for real.
Face–Heel Turn: Of the "Then Let Me Be Evil" variety after realizing he was an evil choujin.
The Mole

Bone Killer

Bone Killer (Addversarious in US)

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Beard of Evil
Kick the Dog: He stomps on Mantaurou's bowl of rice and cow and proceeds to mock him.
Mad Mathematician: The dub reinterprets his cross motif as plus signs, but he's still just as much of a brutal psycho.
Starter Villain: He serves as Mantaurou's first opponent in the anime, only to get taken out by him.

No Respect/The Gruesome Threesome

Fork The Giant

Fork The Giant (Forkolossus in US)

The Big Guy: No matter the dub, he lives up to his name. His weight almost crushes Mantaro when they try to perform a suplex early into the match.
Break Them by Talking: Almost convinces Mantaro that he was wrong to clobber all of his opponents.
Foreshadowing: Probably unintentional, but the first Choujin he meets when he lands in Japan is Seiuchin. He then tells Seiuchin how great killing was and he started around his age. Sei would become evil at least a year and some change in-universe after this encounter.

Hanzo

Blade Below the Shoulder: Sticking his arm in the scabbard on his back turned his arm into a blade.
Heel–Face Turn: He helps the heroes fight the Demon Seed to atone for his sins.
Hero Killer: He kills The Ninja.
Mask of Power
Tear Off Your Face: Hanzo's main gimmick. He cuts the faces off his opponents and uses them as part of his Tatami Puppet attack. In the anime this has been censored to ripping them off seemingly by magic.

Bone Cold

Bone Cold (Lone Bone Cold in US Manga)

The last member of the No Respect, he's a mercenary that kills for both wealth and sadism. He is also the son of Kinkotsuman.

Big Bad: The major Arc Villain of the No Respect arc by the proxy of being the last foe, though it's implied he was the ring leader of the group before hand.
Berserk Button: Any mention of his father makes him even more angry, for being both abusive to him during his Training from Hell in his youth and for being a rather weak enemy compared to Suguru's later foes.
Blade Below the Shoulder: Unlike Hanzo, Bone Cold's arm blade is more of a projectile.
Eye Patch Of Power: One that also serves as a scanner for weak pints.
From Nobody to Nightmare: He's the son of Kinkotsuman, a very eccentric evil doer who's really bad at succeeding, but he's a certified Hero Killer who kills Meat's father, the only villain to drive Meat completely into the Despair Event Horizon and is much of more of sadistic than even members of the dMp.
Hero Killer: He kills Lord Minch.
- He initially seems to downplay it as he kills far less than his compatriots, but it's played straight as these few people were highly skilled warriors specifically targeted for assassination- preferring quality over quantity.
Kick the Dog: He paints Meat's father, Lord Minch forced disowning of his son as a means for his father to get rich with no care for the son, when in actuality it was a necessary sacrifice to provide Suguru with a future mentor to train under in spite of feeling bitter about it- just to unnerve him. He follows it up by killing Lord Minch in front of Meat when the former admitted being the father to the latter and laughing about it.
Spared, but Not Forgiven: After Bone Cold loses to Mantaro, Kinkotsuman tries to make amends by paying the mercenary to kill him. Bone turns him down, deciding that while it's too late for apologies, it's time to move on from his past.

Poison Six Pack

In General

Canon Foreigner: They're anime-exclusive, originating in the two Non Serial Movies and being brought over to the anime proper in a Filler Arc. Baron Maximilian, El Kaerun, Dazzle, and Protector in particular originated as fan-submitted wrestlers for the Nintendo GameCube game, Legends vs. New Generation
Noodle Incident: They have a grudge against Kinniku Suguru for reasons unstated.
Sins of the Father: ....and target Mantarou for this very reason. They even say the trope name explicitly in the dub.

Baron Maximilian

Adaptational Badass: He doesn't need the Muscle Carrot to transform into his final form, unlike the movie he first appeared in.
Big Bad: Of the Poison Six Pack arc.
Bishōnen Line: Zig zagged. His initial form is a bony looking man who Mantaro regards as being unattractive in the dub, while his second form has him turn into a stylish armored warrior with dreadlocks. But his final form has him become grotesquely muscular and savage looking.
Misplaced Retribution: In the dub, he claims Suguru called him a phony in '82. Suguru claims it was actually Buffaloman.
Noodle People: His default form is quite skinny. His two transformations, however...
One-Winged Angel: He has two extra forms: Maximum Maximilian and Maximilian Overdrive.
Sharp-Dressed Man: In his default form.
Weak, but Skilled: His first form is humorously thin but quick enough to Flash Step.

The Cyborg

The Cyborg (Jagg-Ed in US)

The Dragon: To Baron Maximillian in the Poison Six Pack Arc.
Lost in Translation: His name is a pun on the Japanese word for Rhinoceros ("Sai") sounding identical to the "Cy-" in Cyborg. The dub circumnavigates this by just calling him "Jagg-Ed".
No Celebrities Were Harmed: Eric Stuart imitates Sylvester Stallone in the dub. He even yells "Gonna fly now!" while throwing Kevin Mask.
Rhino Rampage: He wears a rhino-like mask.

Puripuriman

Puripuriman (Monsieur Cheeks in US)

Adaptational Ugliness: He has a much more sinister looking appearance in this series rather than his usual cartoony look, as he has realistic looking almond eyes rather than his big round cartoony ones, and his arms are growing out of his... a-hem. "Cheeks", instead of having shoulders, making him look like something out of the movie Society.
Bizarre Alien Biology: According to El Kaerun he has two brains, one for each buttcheek, also has the ability to turns his arms into a pair of extra legs.
Breaking Speech: Delivers one to Gazelleman and Seiuchin poking fun at their less than glorious record it works wonders with Gazelleman but Seiuchin is unfazed by it.
Comedic Spanking: The mere threat of a spanking causes him to recoil—after Gazelleman gives him what for, he's forced to tag out.
Fartillery: He shoots nasty clouds of gas at his opponents. What can be more expected from a guy with a butt for head?
Finishing Move: Butt Driver
French Jerk: He’s given an exaggerated french accent and is an obnoxious sort.

El Kaerun

El Kaerun (Mr. French in US)

Adaptational Nationality: He was originally from Mexico, but is portrayed as a frenchman in the English Dub.
Frog Ninja: He's an anthromorphic frog man who dresses similar to a ninja, due to his red scarf and Japanese style armor.
Multipurpose Tongue: He uses his tongue like a whip to attack.
Would Hit a Girl/Would Hurt a Child: He throws Seiuchin's mother and little sister on a contaminated lake, almost killing them.

Protector

The Giant: He's one of the largest members of the Poison Six Pack and favors a brute force fighting style.
Heavily Armored Mook: He wears an incredibly heavy looking suit of armor, that not only protects him, but makes his attacks more damaging.

Dazzle

Dazzle (Dazz-Ling in US)

Dreadlock Rasta: In the dub.
Related in the Adaptation: In the dub, he's the first cousin to Bananaman/Mr. Peel, a minor Chojin who Mantaro beat in Beach Flags during the Chojin Olympics preliminaries.

Demon Seed

General

Call-Back: Their gibbing of Meat's body, requiring our heroes to defeat them to get them back so they can put Meat back together, plus the last battle with them being a tag-team match with a time limit that later becomes a one-on-one-match between Mantaro and their leader is very similar to the Seven Devil Chojin Arc.
Deal with the Devil: They were given the General Stones by General Terror to become newly powered Devil Chojin.
Fantastic Racism: The Constellation and Gepparland were victims of it by Chojin-hating humans before they became empowered by the General Stones.
From Nobody to Nightmare: They went from weak Chojin who didn't live their lives well to becoming super powerful Devil Chojin via the General Stones and Ashuraman goes back to his prime from it.

Reborn Ashuraman

The Constellation

A constellation themed Choujin who is the very first of them to be fought, and fights against Mantaro in his room inside of the General Palast, known as the General Lacryma. He holds Meat's Torso and his specialty is to transform using the constellations he projects into the ceiling of his room, meaning he can grow a Scorpion's Tail through the use of the Scorpio Constellation, create a duplicate of himself with the Gemini constellation, or grow horns with the Taurus constellation and so on.

Attack Its Weak Point: Does to Mantaro when he invokes the power of the Microscopium Constellation, turning himself into a giant microscope and proding the scars Mantaro's gained from his past fights.
Bears Are Bad News: He grows fur, increases in mass, and gains claws when he invokes the Ursus Major constellation.
Beware My Stinger Tail: He gains a scorpion's tail when he invokes the Scorpio constellation.
Combat Pragmatist: Tries to attack Mantaro with an arrow before he even enters the ring with the use of the Sagittarius
Composite Character: Of Stecase King and Black Hole. He possesses a gimmicky fighting style involving changing into different modes, is the first of his group to be fought like Stecase King, but is a 4D Choujin like Black Hole, and even looks heavily similar to him.
Evil Genius: He takes care to actively try and get rid of Mantaro's Burning Inner Strength and succeeds, and is also able to defeat his Muscle Millenium finisher by simply chopping the ropes, which are part of the basis of said move, rendering it harmless.
Expy: Of Pentagon and Black Hole since he is a 4D Choujin himself. He can also be seen as an Expy towards Stecase King, due to his gimmicky fighting style involving him changing to different modes, except he didn't replicate other pre-existing wrestler's moves, as well as facing off with the main protagonist himself.
Finishing Move: New Boa Suplex, Starry Night Shooter, and Purple Cairo Rose.
The Gimmick: Almost all of the attacks he uses rely on his constellation shapeshifting ability. with the exception of his Starry Night Shooter.
Horned Humanoid: He can grow horns by invoking the power of the Taurus Constellation.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Mantaro invokes the power of the Serpentarius Constellation with a combination of deliberately receiving injuries from his Purple Rose of Cairo technique and the use of the Face Flash move, causing The Constellation to be unable to become super flexible as he does when he invokes the Serpens Technique
Humanoid Abomination: Due to his nature as a constellation being, he can split himself into two bodies, grow horns, a scorpion tail, wings, and transform himself into a bear, or a crab-man.
Level Drain: He can absorb other Choujin's Power by invoking the Aquarius constellation.
Wake-Up Call Boss: He's Mantaro's 1st opponent since his loss against Kevin Mask.
Winged Humanoid: He grows a pair of wings when he invokes the Aquila Constellation.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: He turns into various different forms by invoking the powers of constellations.

Gepparland

A Fish-themed Choujin who is the first of the Demon Seeds members to go up against the Army of Idols, consisting of former opponents of Mantaro who have joined him to help defeat the Demon Seeds. His opponent is Hanzo, and he guards the left arm of Meat, and is fought at the General Face, which is located in the Napoleon Rock of Shimokoshiki-jima.

Arm Cannon: Possesses one that fires pressurized water as well as blood.
Expy: Of Atlantis
French Jerk: He comes from the French city of Marseille, and shows utmost cruelty and viciousness towards Hanzo in their fight, down to deliberately exposing the scarred side of Hanzo's face just to offend him and bring up his trauma over it.
Finishing Move: Rolling Water and Fisherman's Suplex.
Making a Splash: He's able to weaponize water itself with the Arm Cannon he possesses.
Mister Seahorse: He can create eggs that give birth to Micro-Geppars that swarm onto their foes as a school in form of a shark.

Meltdown

A Motorcycle Robo Choujin who is the second of the Demon Seed members to go up against the Army of Idols, with his opponent being his fellow Robo Choujin Ilioukhine, and the part of Meat under his guard being his right arm. His arena is the General Foot, which is located in the Izumo region of the Shimane prefecture.

Amazing Technicolor Population: He is shown to have bright red skin on one of the back covers.
Beard of Evil: He possesses a spiky "Amish" type beard
Cool Bike: He IS his cool bike.
- Cool Sidecar: He can also sprout a sidecar, which he launches for his Die Version Sidecar move.
Evil Counterpart: Ends up being one to Illioukhine, as he is limited to one other form, which is a land-based vehicle in the form of a Motorcycle with a Sidecar, while Illioukhine can turn into many different types of airplanes, and even a helicopter. This is lampshaded in universe, with their match being called "A Choujin battle between Land and Air".
Expy: Of Bikeman, down to attacking his opponent while still in bike form and having the ability to create a road to ride on.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: That horn of his isn't just for show, he can extend it for the basis of his Demolition Horn technique.
Mundane Utility: Played With. His Choujin Navigation System's primary purpose is to track down other Choujin's as well as locating their weak spots, but it is also able to connect to the internet and make cellphone calls, as well as having the feature of giving out a shortest route, a scenic route, and an alternate route to other Choujin, implying that it can be used as a regular navigation system.
Power Copying: He uses Warsman's Palo Special technique on Illioukhine during their fight.
Sensor Character: In Bike Mode, he has the Choujin Navigation System that works like a GPS that contains data of past and present Choujin of their info including weaknesses. The CNS helps create invisible roads whether he wants to take the shortest route or scenic route to go after his enemy, even if is Ilioukhine using Stealth Genetic thanks to the Devil Choujin satellite utilizing it.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can turn into a motorbike with the addition of a side-car he can launch against his opponent.

The Tattooman

An Edo Period themed Akuma Choujin who is the third of the Demon Seed members to go up against the Army of Idols. His opponent is Barrierfreeman, and his arena is the General Finger, which landed in Goryokaku. The part of Meat that he guards over is his right leg.

Carry a Big Stick: He has a HUGE jitte coming out his elbow
Combat Pragmatist: He uses his puppets to assist himself in a fight, which can bite his opponents with their strong jaws and sharp teeth, blow them away with huge gusts from a fan, and his final trick even has one that uses a bow and arrow, which goes far beyond what usual Choujin's do to cheat.
Finishing Move: Edo Village Drop.
Knows the Ropes: The basis behind his Tears of Blood: Arching Shrimp Persecution technique, which has him tie up his opponents in a shrimp-tie fashion, and then get him upside down and in a painful submission hold where he pulls on their legs while holding them in place with his own.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He accidentally ends up revitalizing Jiijoman with his Bow and Arrow doll, as Jiijoman deliberately lets the arrows strike him in various pressure points around his body, causing him to gain a lot of muscle mass and return to the strength he had in his prime. Subverted when he later plucks the arrows out of Jiijoman's back when he has him in his Narayama Backbreaker.
Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: He's a young Akuma Choujin in his prime who goes up against the very old Jijioman.
Perverse Puppet/Creepy Doll: He weaponizes Karakuri Ningyo dolls as part of his repertoire of techniques.
Wicked Cultured: He dresses somewhat formally with the Kimono he wears, and his entire gimmick is themed around the very highbrow concept of history, down to obscure tidbits like the Karakuri Ningyo dolls.
Would Harm a Senior: He shows Jiijoman no mercy whatsoever in his fight.

Voltman

The second-to-last member of the Demon Seed, and one of the strongest ones. He forms the Demolition tagteam with the Reborn Ashuraman, and they collectively guard Meat's left leg and his head. He and Ashuraman are first fought by Kevin Mask and Mars, who formed the tagteam Blood Evolution, at the General Rib, which is located in Ganryu Island, and he and Ashuraman are later fought again in a second and climatic tag team match against The Younger Masters, composed of Mantaro and Kevin Mask, at the Demon Womb, located in the Osore Mountain of the Shimokita Peninsula. He has the ability to weaponize electricity, as well as electric appliances.

Amazing Technicolor Population: He's shown to have chalk-white skin in his colored artwork.
Body Horror: He can produce an outlet made from his own body to plug in appliances, and some of the flesh of his arms is notably torn off, revealing a metal girder underneath, and his shoulders are replaced by one tesla orb each. He ends up getting a hole melted through him when Kevin Mask destroys the microwave he uses in his Fatal Square move with a Golddust plating, which also takes out the Plutonium Battery he uses as a power supply.
The Brute: He's the most muscular out of all the Demon Seed members, and his fighting style is the most basic, as he has only one move that doesn't involve the use of his electric powers or his ability to attack with, with that move being the Megahertz Tempest.
The Dragon: He's the longest lasting member of the Demon Seed aside from Ashuraman himself, and uniquely serves as a tag-team partner.
Dreadlock Warrior: His country of origin is Jamaica, which is reflected in his Dreads.
Fashionable Asymmetry: He wears a glove on one of his hands, but not the other.
Impossibly Graceful Giant: He is surprisingly agile despite looking like he'd be a Mighty Glacier, but he managed to hit Scar and Kevin with a double overhead kick that he did by backflipping from the ropes.
Light 'em Up: He can use one of his dreads to turn into a lightbulb, which shines so brightly it can actually induce pain in his enemies for his Hell Light Bulb move.
Light Is Not Good: He has pale white skin and has two Tesla orbs for his shoulders, plus as mentioned above in Light 'em Up, he can weaponize light itself, but he is an exceptionally violent Akuma Choujin.
Logical Weakness: His electric powers do jack against anything that is properly insulated with things like rubber, as shown with Mars creating a rubber coating from the ropes of the rings to protect himself against, and his Fatal Square move is downright harmful to himself if the opponent has metal around them, as shown with Kevin Mask and his steel armor. As well as the makeshift gold-plating Kevin later applies to himself using a broken off lightning rod from Voltman, steel fragments of his armor, gold-dust from Sunshine, and a pool of water in the Demon Womb, which winds up destroying the microwave he uses for his Fatal Square technique.
Lovecraftian Superpower: His aforementioned ability to produce an outlet made from his own flesh and muscle, which he uses to plug in various things, although mercifully the only one we are shown is a lightbulb.
Pet the Dog: A very, very, very, VERY minor example, but he seems to be genuinely sympathetic when he remarks that a mourning mother who continously shows up outside the Demon Womb to mourn her dead child, simply stating that "She must've really loved that child..." with a forlorn expression on his face.
Power Source: The source of his electric abilities comes from a Plutonium Battery in the center of his chest.
Spectacular Spinning: The basis behind the first half of his Megahertz Tempest technique, where he begins to rapidly spin around his opponent, then gets into a human bridge position, sending them flying up into the ceiling above, where he then leaps up (without spinning) to slam them back into the ground.
Top-Heavy Guy: He has something of a strawberry body shape, where his chest is wider than the rest of his body, and his shoulders being tesla orbs makes his upper body look even more imposing compared to his legs, which, while muscular, look smaller in comparison.
Tiny-Headed Behemoth: His pectorals are literally bigger than his entire head, plus, his dreadlocks and immense neck muscles make that noggin of his look even smaller by comparison.
Shock and Awe: He's able to straight up electrify his opponents because of the Tesla orbs and Lightning Rods that are a part of his body.

Ultimate Choujin Tag Arc characters

Time/Jikan Choujin

Bad Powers, Good People: There were good Time Choujin in their planet who don't use their time powers for evil and is actually neutral until the Evil Time Choujin, Lightning and Thunder, killed off every one of them but Chaos who escaped.
- Then it is revealed that Time Choujin were a variant of Brutal Choujin born with the Demonic Time Horn and this would be a case of Bad Powers, Bad People, if it weren't for the very Time Choujin named Horae Avenir with a sense of justice that founded the tribe of Justice Time Choujin and ban the use of Evil Time Horn to prevent abuse. He has his tribe travel to the farthest of spaces to the planet that would become Planet Avenir. Since then, the world by Justice Time Choujin were at peace for 250 years... until the Five Disasters came along.
Time Master: They can remove their Evil Time horns to travel in time only once, morph their body parts into clock parts, and use their Evolution Mouthpieces to forward time and heal themselves via the power of Exotic Matter which can do it all. As well as using the Exotic Matter to warp time and it is not limited to age Mt. Fuji by 276 years to cause a eruption!
Time Travel

Five Disasters

Big Bad Ensemble: Similar to the Dream Choujin Tag arc, they had an evil alliance with Neptuneman and Mammothman by the semifinals and all four even worked with Satan to take Kinnikuman out!
Big Guy, Little Guy: Lightning is average sized Choujin who's more technical while Thunder is large and more brutal in power moves.
Finishing Move: Death Watch Branding and World Destruction Finale
Hero Killer: They killed Robin Mask in the past which could have got Kevin Mask to not exist but Mantaro and others managed to stop it but Alisa was then the victim instead. They also cut off Brocken Jr.'s arm. They even defeated Neptuneman and Mammothman although the latter abandoned his own partner to be with Kinnikuman Super Phoenix.
Time Travel: As Time Choujin, they can do this after pulling off their Demonic Time Horns. With the Completion Bulbs, they would do this more than once to eliminate all Justice Choujin in history!
To Create a Playground for Evil: Their goal in getting the Completion Bulbs is to kill every last Justice Choujin through past history to create a dark and gloomy paradise for Evil Choujin through out the universe.

Lightning

Big Bad: Of the Ultimate Choujin Tag Arc.
Blade Below the Shoulder: Has both in his true form for his signature attacks.
The Chessmaster: What makes him and Thunder dangerous is not their strength, but how EVIL his genius is.
Driven to Suicide: When Mantaro and Kevin decides to restore him and Thunder using small pieces of the Completion Bulbs which they were after to become more powerful, Thunder took it but Lightning did not because he didn't want to accept pity from the Seigi Choujin. He said while Thunder has his own mother to worry about, Lightning has no one that will miss him. So, he jumps into the volcanic Mt. Fuji and perishes into ashes.
Dying Alone: He decides this fate since he believes no one will miss him and that at least Thunder has his mother that does.
Eviler than Thou: Neptuneman does a "Judgment Lock-Up" with Lightning, which is how Neptuneman gauges a Choujin's abilities and even personality. Lightning plays around with this idea, making Neptuneman unable to get an accurate read on him. As the match goes on, Neptuneman says that The Five Disasters have eviler ambitions than him, and that they aren't trying to fight, just slaughter people. The Five Disasters go on to prove just that, by slaughtering Neptuneman AND ruining his tag team. Neptuneman, who spent most of the tournament as an evil force of nature, is left a battered old man with a completely destroyed arm, back, and heart when the match is over.
Healing Factor: He can reverse all the damage he suffered with Evolution mouthpiece upside down via a technique called Body Clock Back-Spin! However, doing this too many times will eventually cause his body to break down to irreversible damage.
Oh, Crap!: When Thunder tells him that he can't gather as much Exotic Matter as him to complete their even more powerful Death Watch Branding because he's not a pure Evil Time Choujin in middle of the match against Mantaro and Kevin, he is shocked and tries to complete the attack by himself before Mantaro and Kevin escape their finishing hold only to fail. This starts his Villainous Breakdown.
Shapeshifter: He can split his body to avoid attacks. He can even use his Acceleration to merge his body with Thunder's.
Shapeshifter Weapon: He can turn his legs into minute hands for the Death Watch Branding finishing move.
Spikes of Villainy: His true form has them.
Time Stands Still: His Acceleration with a special mouthpiece.
Villainous Breakdown: After Thunder confesses to Lighning that he's not a pure Evil Time Choujin which is crucial to enhancing their Finishing Move, he starts to lose his cool and tries to complete their finishing hold by himself only to fail. When Thunder got taken down by Mantaro and Kevin's NIKU->LAP costing them Round 2, he didn't take it very well and even kicks down his own partner for it!

Thunder

Absurdly Sharp Claws: His left shoulder possesses a large lion's claw which is used for his Lion Claw, Lion Finger, and Lion's Authority Signature Move.
Animal Motifs: Lion since is one part of it.
Bastard Bastard: How he had grown up to be this after finding out about his father kidnapping his mother which led to his birth and his mother left him because he looked like his father.
Child by Rape: He's the result of his father kidnapping his mother Sophia for 6 months before the former's death by the Justice Choujin squad who rescued her.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Unfortunately, she was scared of him because of the trauma due to his father and left him to his grandmother's care.
Half-Human Hybrid: He's the child of an Evil Time Choujin and a Justice Choujin of Planet Popyu. It's because of this, Thunder can't take as much of the Exotic Matter as Lightning which leads to their downfall against Mantaro and Kevin who escaped their enhanced Death Watch Branding due to not syncing their Exotic Matter well.
Healing Factor: Same as Lightning. Including the same flaws.
How Much More Can He Take?: A lot of Choujin fit this trope, but Thunder stood out. He was thrown into the swords but got back up normally thanks to the swords not hitting his vital organs, took a Cross Bomber and lived thanks to Mammothman backstabbing Neptuneman via power vector, accidentally fell victim to his and Lightning's own Death Watch Branding intended for Mantaro and Kevin, then took a NIKU->LAP to finally bring him down, and then somehow... he managed to get back up to stop Mantaro's Muscle Spark from finishing off Lightning! Let's see if Kevin's Big Ben Edge can finally bring him down.
- He is finally defeated along with Lightning but not with Big Ben Edge but the Muscle Kingdom!
Instrument of Murder: His Shapeshifter Weapon the Legendary Destruction Bell that mentally attack the Seigi Choujins which reminds of their past battles and pain.
Manly Tears: His reaction to Lightning's suicide.
Redemption Equals Death: Instead of finding his Missing Mom Sophia after losing, he uses all his Exotic Matter to recharge the Time Warp 8's Time Machine to get them back home... knowing he'll die from it.
Time Stands Still: Like Lightning.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: And how!
Zipperiffic: His first outfit and mask before it was shredded up to reveal his lion mask and his armor.

Chaos Avenir

Ascended Fanboy: He is a Choujin Otaku who ends up joining Mantaro in the Ultimate Choujin Tag Arc.
Badass Normal: Subverted since he believed he was a regular human during the tournament until he regained his memories and is able to perform 21st century Wrestling moves.
Charlie Brown from Outta Town: Kinnikuman Great III
Finishing Move: His King German Suplex which is his father's that can be combined with Mantaro's to form the Finishing Tag move by following up with the Japanese Leg Roll Clutch, Muscle Evolution.
Future Badass: He is said to be the one who stopped a wave of Evil Choujin during the time the Seigi Choujin were raising their own children... which is how he likely died in combat from exhausting his limited Exotic Matter.
Generation Xerox: He is similar to his father Minute Avenir right down to the very same Signature Move, the King German Suplex.
Heroic Sacrifice: It's implied that his heroic future would have been this considering his tombstone appeared in the present.
- He saved Neptuneman from falling into Mt. Fuji before restoring him back to life and then sending him back to the 21st Century using his time powers... knowing he would die from using all of his Exotic Matter due to taking out his Time Horn before age 15 and then getting blasted by another eruption from Mt. Fuji.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Chaos is a selfish jerk but at the same time he can be nice to people he admires.
Kid from the Future: He comes from the same timeline as Lightning and Thunder at the same year post-Demon Seed Arc before time traveling to a decade before the Dream Choujin Tag Tournament via pulling his Time Horn at Age 5.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: He doesn't remember his past but only his name and his memories are eventually restored by his Memory Key.
Took a Level in Jerkass: Chaos displays arguably even more jerkass traits than either Kinniku family protagonist. When he finally gets his head in the game, he treats almost everyone he idolizes like crap. This is mostly because their heelish behavior fails to meet his standards.
Verbal Tic Name: According to the matron of his orphanage, Chaos was found with no memories and would only ever say it word "Chaos". That is where he gets his name.
You Killed My Father: To the Five Disasters, who killed his family and his father Minute Avenir.

Other Teams

Hell Carpenters

Deiku Toryo

PlasMoMan

The Wailing Ghost Gang

Shikotei

The Gaon

Team Cosmos

Mother Russia Makes You Strong: They consider themselves the true representatives of USSR than their fluffy counterparts Hell's Bears who they call Misha. It didn't end well for them as their opponents are NOT as fluffy as they seem and it is NOT just because of this trope.

Characters / Ultimate Muscle

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