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Anime Tenchou's burning spirit cannot be extinguished!
"Our burning blood will cut through fate!"
Sometimes a character just oozes passion.
Sometimes, they're more like a dam with the floodgates open.
Sometimes, just sometimes, the flood of awesome they unleash is such that you need to send out a dove to find land afterwards.
They are so burningly passionate about everything that they do that they seem larger than life. They give their all in absolutely everything they do, regardless of the task. They can say the cheesiest of lines with a straight face -- the best of them can say things that are so cheesy they use the So Bad Its Good principle to become awesome. These characters are Hot Blooded (the Japanese term is nekketsu).
Using the power of guts and determination, they throw themselves headfirst into the worst situations imaginable and come out on top through sheer force of will. Even non-hot blooded characters can occasionally have their own hot blooded incidents; this is frequently their Crowning Moment Of Awesome.
Primarily an anime trope. Especially common around Super Robots. A common trait of The Ace, and to a lesser degree The Toblerone. Compare with the Large Ham. If it's not pulled off just right, it results in Narm.
Examples:
Anime
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann literally runs on Hot Blood- the mecha in the series are fuelled by the pilot's "will to fight". Kamina in particular exemplifies the archetype.
- Gao Gai Gar's Guy Shishio - who, similar to the Gurren-Lagann cast, makes the most of it by piloting a Humongous Mecha powered by his own courage. You could make a case for half the GGG, actually, but Guy does most of the fighting.
- In fact, most people voiced by Hiyama Nobuyuki have tendencies to fall into this trope, which also includes Ikkaku Madarame from Bleach, Harunobu Madarame from Genshiken, Viral from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Akutare/Axel from Disgaea 2. Even Link in Ocarina of Time (who was voiced by Hiyama for that game) was particularly hotblooded in his screams when being knocked down or attacking.
- Even in GaoGaiGar, Guy's arguably just the crown prince of hot-blooded shouting. The real crown goes to Koutarou Taiga, GGG chief.
- Naruto and Might Guy from Naruto, In Shippuden, Guy actually uses a high-level technique to shoot fire from his fists.
- Don Kanonji of Bleach
- And Isshin Kurosaki. Or his public persona, at least.
- You could make an arguement for Ichigo as well. Its not as big a part of his personality as the other two, but when there is a fight his usual tactic is to jump straight in, kick some butt, and sort things out afterwards.
- Major Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist
- Sakigake!! Otokojuku parodies this sort of character.
- Kazuma from s-CRY-ed.
- Luffy from One Piece
- Every main hero in Digimon except for more mild-mannered-at-first Takato (who, like the rest of the third season, was a deliberate breaking of the mold.)
- Of particular notice is Daimon Masaru, from Digimon Savers, whose force of will grants him the ability to punch out everything from giant chickens to god itself.
- This was highly parodied in a one off comic from the manga V-Tamer, where The Hero, Taichi, faces off against Canon Immigrant Ryo, who had crossed over just for that special. A digimon sent by V-Tamer's resident Big Bad tries to stop them, but due to being an icy digimon, the literal hot bloodedness caused by Taichi and Ryo's meeting causes the monster to overheat.
- The earliest anime/manga example is Mazinger Z, the series that created the Super Robot genre. Kouji Kabuto, is generally the character that all other Hot Blooded character's come from.
- Go Nagai in fact loves Hot Blooded characters. Even his Magical Girl Cutey Honey is Hot Blooded. Go Nagai characters border on the line of Hot Blood Overdose, which may lead to such noticeable side effects as sketchy art style, crazy eyes, and lots of breaking of The Laws of Physics.
- G Gundam does this to the point where it's arguably a parody. All of the main pilots are Hot Blooded including George De Sand, and he's the stereotypical French gentleman outside his Super Robot. Whenever Rain Mikamura suits up she becomes a Hot Blooded pilot, and she's the technician! In fact this series is so Hot Blooded that Fuunsaiki, Master Asia's horse, is Hot Blooded. Just look at its suit up sequence.
- Graham Acre of Gundam00 does a lot of yelling and screaming for a Real Robot pilot, as well as some of the others in his squad. Some of his quotes include screaming fallen comrade's names and vowing revenge, and in one instance, he goes out, alone, to fight a Gundam attack, and yells something about surpassing Asura while slicing off the Gundam's arm; the first time a 'regular' mobile suit did harm to a Gundam in that series. Did we mention that he has no fear of having his body turned into pulp by G-Forces?
- And lets not forget "HOOOOWARD MAAAAASON"!
- Sagara Sanosuke, Sagara's father, and Yahiko from Rurouni Kenshin.
- Subaru of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, who's a massive Shout Out to Gao Gai Gar and Super Robots in general.
- Parodied by Meito Anisawa, AKA Anime Tenchou, from Lucky Star (pictured above): so Hot Blooded he sets fire to bystanders, and has to be put out by a fire hose. He's sort of a parody of Domon Kasshu, who was voiced by the same actor as Anisawa.
- Hot blood (or the use of Psycho Serum) powers the Lambda Driver in Full Metal Panic!. Pilots who can be relied upon to use it without fail -- mainly the villains -- often have this kind of attitude.
- Gai Daigouji of Martian Successor Nadesico. Poor bastard seemed to think he was in a Super Robot show...
- That show being Gekiganger 3, whose little-seen full title actually includes the term "nekketsu", as does the title of the Short Anime Movie, and a few of the special move names (Nekketsu-giri, the "Hot-blood Slash")... But surprisingly, it doesn't go nearly as far as some of the real examples.
- Ryouko Subaru from the same anime is a lot more savvy and competent, but loves performing the archetypal Hot Blooded battle cry "Ora ora ora ora!" when charging the enemy.
- Princess Amelia wil Tesla Seyrun of The Slayers - adrenalin-charged Warrioress of Justice! Who fought bandits and monsters and made vigorous proclamation speeches of the In the Name of the Moon style and was all fired up to Defeat Evil! Save the Helpless! and Speak In Capital Letters With Exclamation Points! And her father, Prince Phil of Seyrunn, was much the same. *shudder*
- Rosette Christopher from Chrono Crusade, particularly the manga. A hyper, hot-tempered, tomboyish nun who fights demons using bullets charged with holy power, and often gets so into her battles that she causes massive property damage.
- Ryohei Sasagawa from Katekyo Hitman Reborn runs on Hot Blood. Reborn and Tsuna were surprised when the "Dying Will Shot" did nothing to him except give him the cool "burning flame" on his forehead.
- For a mere school teacher Great Teacher Onizuka is quite Hot Blooded. Let's just say he always goes the extra mile; If you're got a problem, he'll tear your wall down with a sledgehammer. Guaranteed.
- Obviously, the Navis belonging to Hino Ken of Rockman.EXE, but Fireman takes the prize for the line, "There's nothing I can't burn... no, there's nothing we can't burn!" Dubbed by Sho Pro into an extremely generic teamwork speech, which is why the example isn't cited under Mega Man NT Warrior.
- Taishi from Comic Party. Did you know manga is Serious Business? If not, then you don't know Taishi, a grandiose drama king who treats everything as a matter of life or death.
- Not to mention Yuu Inagawa, who gives a rousing speech about "Burning Passion" and "Passionate Love", which culminates in a vast inferno starting up behind her. She was trying to motivate a friend to... be more passionate about doujinshi.
- And Subaru, who honestly seems to think her life is a shounen manga (and that she's the star).
- Shizuma Kusanagi from Real Bout High School, a pompous showboat with explosive moves and the only one who can hold a candle to The Hero, Ryoko Mitsurugi.
- It's astounding that this page has gotten so many examples without explicitly mentioning Getter Robo, which requires not one, not two, but three hotblooded pilots, and exposure to Getter Rays brings out the burning passion within oneself; even watching or reading Getter Robo can make someone Hot Blooded.
Live Action TV
- Common in Professional Wrestling; the two most famous examples are Hulk Hogan, and Stone Cold Steve Austin. The Ultimate Warrior was so hot blooded that he came off as insane.
- It should be noted that the real life wrestler Warrior once went to a UConn seminar, and basically screamed lines like "Queering doesn't make the work", and causing a near riot through his Hot Blooded insanity.
- Every Red Ranger in Super Sentai. (Dekaranger's Ban takes it up to eleven, to the point that you wonder how - or if - he even sleeps.) Power Rangers is different, preferring the Ordinary High School Student.
- Speaking of the Dekarangers, the whole team was so hot blooded that fire attacks had no effect on them. "Our hearts burn even hotter!"
- 24's Jack Bauer would like to remind you that he's A FEDERAL AGENT!
- And that he wants everything done... NOW!
- ...because he is RUNNING OUT OF TIME!!!
ComicBooks
Film
Literature
- Fëanor (Spirit of Fire) in The Silmarillion, whose body cremated itself when he died.
- A villainous example: Couladin from the Wheel Of Time, in the The Shadow Rising you only see him calm in only a few paragraphs and those are always followed by him raging against something.
- Don Quixote was pretty Hot Blooded too, he even gave speeches extolling giving it your all and never giving up, and doing this through force of arms, making this...
Western Animation
- The Teen Titans incarnation of Robin.
- If he counts, then Cyborg definitely qualifies. He's a bit on the bi-polar side, but when he's "revved up," he makes Robin look like a Blue Oni by comparison. BOO-YAH!!
- Quickstrike of Beast Wars fame. Even though he's a Scrappy of the highest caliber, no one can deny that he throws himself into everything he does. Of course, he could just enjoy it.
- Dinobot will not, and cannot lose. "What is a warrior without weapons?" "A warrior still!"
Mythology
- Hercules (or more accurately Heracles, since that's what the Greeks called him) was one of the very first examples, making this trope one of The Oldest Ones in the Book. He was known for his violent temper and his tendency to act first and ask questions later, starting with maiming some messengers from another city that had come to take tribute from his hometown, leading the king of that other city to declare war. Heracles responded by raising an army of his own and conquering the city, making them pay tribute instead. Heracles could also take a horrible vengeance on people who crossed him, although in many cases they had it coming, like the three separate kings who had all cheated or insulted him in different ways. On the positive side, this passionate nature did lead him to do some great deeds for his friends, like the time he was so grateful to a friend's hospitality he fought the Grim Reaper to bring his host's wife back to life, or the time he got so mad that a king he was friends with was deposed that he personally led an army to put his buddy back on the throne.
- Not to mention Gilgamesh and many a greek hero (Diomedes the Panic Maker comes to mind)
Video Games
- Perhaps the strongest force in the Super Robot Wars series, rivaled only by the Ideon Gun. In fact, one of the most useful special skills in the series is the "Valor" skill (Doubles the strength of your next attack), which in the original Japanese was called, you guessed it, "Nekketsu"(Hot Blood). In fact, damn near every character in the Original Generation games uses it, even the shy ones.
- Not just Original Generation; a good number of the licensed anime characters get Valor/Hot Blood, including the primary cast of Gundam Wing, which consists of two Stoics, one Broken Hero, an Arrogant Kung Fu Guy, and The Cutie, plus a White Prince.
- Actually, it gets worse. Original Generations, which adds voice acting to the games, shows that the Gespenst Mk II S turns everybody Hot-Blooded with it's signature Limit Break, the Gespenst Kick. Seriously. Not only does it have the shy girls screaming their lungs out
 , but the characters who are already Hot-Blooded turn that sucker up to twenty-two.
- Super Robot Wars also quantifies this in the form of the "Will" stat. It starts each battle at 100 and can rise to 150 based on the tides of battle. It affects combat ability a little, and certain weapons and effects can only be used over a certain Will value.
- Laharl, and Flonne from Disgaea, and Adell from Disagea 2. And then there's Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!, who is guaranteed to give it his exclamation-point abusing all no matter what it is. Including picnicking. No Really
- Disgaea 3 gives us Champloo-sensei, the most Badass, Hot Blooded Home Ec teacher you will ever find. Yeah, Disgaea's one of those kinds of games.
- Batsu Ichimonji from Rival Schools is described in the manual as the "Hot-Blooded Exchange Student". Furthermore, his Super Mode form in Project Justice is called "Burning Batsu" and all his special and super moves in that form set the opponent on fire!
- Kim Kaphwan and his son Kim Jae Hoon from The King Of Fighters series.
- There`s also Joe Higashi, who seems to have an exclamation point at the end of everything he says.
- Don't forget the bandana-wearing commando Ralf Jones, also of Ikari Warriors fame. When he gets in motion (which is practically all the time), people get beat down. Sometimes explosively.
- President Michael Wilson from Metal Wolf Chaos.
- Phoenix Wright (and Apollo Justice) are as close as you're ever going to see to hot-blooded lawyers, though they tend to be a bit calmer and quieter outside of the courtroom.
- Note that Apollo Justice takes VOICE TRAINING so he can be this hot-blooded.
- OBJECTION!
- If you're in trouble... if there's not enough hotbloodedness... maybe you need to call... OUENDAAAAAN!
- Or... e... b... a... e.. b.. a.. e. b. a. e.b.a. E.B.A. EBA! EBA! EBA! EBA! ARE YOU READY ? YEAH!
- Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun - He has "Hot Blooded" right there in his series title!
- Hell, his whole damn high school is named "Nekketsu". That's one bad-ass high school. Somehow, this troper feels his educational years have been horribly wasted by not attending that particular school.
- And Kunio/Alex himself is the hero of the entire freaking school, being summoned whenever a crisis emerges or a sports challenge comes up. Did I mention his girlfriend can kick ass when she feels like it? If that ain't awesome and totally bad-ass, this troper doesn't know what is. Kunio/Alex isn't as known and respected as he should be, in video games...
- Street Fighter's Dan Hibiki. DOUSHITA!?
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Many Nearly all of the fire bosses in the Mega Man Zero and ZX series are pretty Hot Blooded, including the fire master, Fefnir. Oddly, near the top of the Hot Blooded ranking for all six games is an ice boss, Fenri Lunedge from Zero 4. His attitude to Zero, and more importantly his voice clips, put him probably right under Fefnir himself.
- Tales. Stahn Aileron. That is all. The boy can be hot-blooded when commanding his allies to flee.
- Zell in Final Fantasy VIII, and he never sits still. Put him anywhere near Genki Girl Selphie and you'll be wishing for Ritalin.
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