History Characters / BakiTheGrappler

--> '''Yujiro:''' ''"If I am defeated here, [[PyrrhicVictory NOOOOONE of our previous three victories will have meant a thing!]]"''

* MasterOfAll: Imagine everything about Retsu, only cranked up to '''a million!!!!'''

--> '''Yujiro:''' ''"You sly old fox, I knew something was up..."''

* ImmuneToBullets: Oliva [[NoSell no sells]] a shotgun blast to his stomach. The shotgun pellets fail to penetrate his abs and he squeezes the pellets out of his body by flexing.

--> '''Retsu Kaioh:''' ''"Even in such a pressing moment, I thought to myself; Just how many gold medals would this man have?"''

--> '''Hanayama:''' ''"Don't you worry, old man. He's one of us."''

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: See also AlwaysABiggerFish. His raw strength and endurance are shown to be on par with [[WorldsStrongestMan Yujiro]] [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals and Pickle's.]] And his [[StrongAndSkilled skill and mastery with a sword]] far exceed the fighting skills of nearly all the other characters shown. And the kicker is, he's a legendary warrior from the ancient times who knows [[CombatPragmatist many other unorthodox ways of fighting]] [[IAmNotLeftHanded besides just cutting people.]] Also because he's a warrior from those times, he lacks the other characters ''[[ThouShaltNotKill NO KILLING]]'' [[OhCrap policy.]]

* CoolSword: His renowned Unsigned Kaneshige is recovered by Tokugawa and refitted with a modern handle by the halfway point of the story before his battle with Pickle. [[EmpathicWeapon It unties it's own strings under his gaze]] and is sharp enough to cut a ''goza'' post[[note]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tameshigiri Tameshigiri]] are made to be roughly as durable as the human spine, not counting the fact that a sword gains purchase easier in such a post than a human body full of wet and fleshy tissue.[[/note]] by just nudging it with the blade.

--> '''Gaia:''' ''"Your status as a man of war is far too tall. So tall I can no longer see the summit..."''

--> ''"The depth of the metal's color... It's glinting lustre... Yes, this is indeed the work of the swordsmiths of Seki. I should not be able to entirely bifurcate it in one strike. Yet, I would have no difficulty in making a life-ending bifurcation."''

* EarAche: [[spoiler:Orochi tears off both of his cleanly off.]]

* RapidFireFisticuffs: With his ''kicks''.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His height and physique is entirely based off Wrestling/AndreTheGiant.
* TheHermit: Lives in a cottage by himself within the woods.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He is this to Sikorsky in terms of [[StealthExpert stealth]] and [[CombatPragmatist pragmatism combat]].

* [[AllegoricalCharacter Allegorical Characters]]: The whole of them represent street fighters and [[CombatPragmatist Combat Pragmatists]] as a whole, given that the difference between them and the main cast is that, with the exception of Yanagi [[spoiler:and Dorian]], none of them are martial artists and simply attack with pure violence and their natural abilities, as well as using anything that they can get their hands on, such as rocks, guns, flashbangs, and even custom tools they carry on their person as weapons, and a lot of attention is drawn to this.

* ArchEnemy: Primarily serves as one to Doppo and Katsumi, and to a lesser extent, Retsu, but his actions as a whole earn him the ire of Shinshinkai in its entirety. As he's personally the one who [[AnArmAndALeg cut off Doppo's hand,]] and horrifically beat Katou [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown with in an inch of his life.]]

* EdibleThemeNaming: Speck has the same name of a particular type of Italian smoked ham... and also that of mass murderer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck Richard Speck.]]

* FluffyTheTerrible: The most psychotic and dangerous of the five death row convicts... and he's named Speck. (But see Edible Theme Naming above.)

* SlasherSmile: His default expression, ranging from a devious grin to a nightmare-inducing rictus.
* TheRival: Considers himself this to Hanayama.

* BullyingADragon: Seems to be a frequent fan of this even towards Baki. See SmugSnake right down below.

* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Is sent flying out of a building this way by Oliva.

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:He seems to have lost his mind in the unspecified time gap in between his defeat and the Tokyo Revenge shorts, as he has become a LOT more outwardly violent and makes an extremely gory mess of the security team assigned to transport him to a mental facility after he successfully convinced the prison staff that he was a vegetable, not to mention that he makes a [[NightmareFace disturbing]] [[SlasherSmile wide-eyed smile]] before he attacks them all.]]
* WeakButSkilled: Among the convicts, he is the least imposing at about 159cm even as he's quite muscular. But he masters a martial art style that allows him to snuff the appropriate amount of oxygen that his opponent breathes with his palm and also a [[MasterPoisoner Master Poisoner]]. By human standards, however, he is StrongAndSkilled as a dentist points out in an interview that his weight lifting training is so extreme it completely wore down his molars.

* RedBaron: The invincible beast.

--> '''Ron:''' "A level-headed mind... IS INVINCIBLE!"

--> '''Oliva:''' ''"Now I get it. [[ArrogantKungFuGuy I thought you were acting cocky]], [[SubvertedTrope but that's not the case at all]]. It's not that won't take your hands out of your pockets, it's that you'' '''can't.'''"

--> '''Oliva:''' ''"What a stylish guy..."''

* SiblingRivalry: With Kaioh Han.

* SiblingRivalry: With Kaioh Lee.

--> '''Retsu:''' ''What do you call this kind of mental strength?! Even if his flesh were to receive deep, lasting damage, it would not matter.''

--> '''Alai Sr:''' ''"Soon you will be enveloped by the smoke... And then without fail he will consume you. It'll be a blow that can challenge the world. The left hook of a champion!!"''

--> '''Genichi:''' ''"Did it feel like it'd be a good fight?"''
--> '''Retsu:''' ''"Supremely."''

* SumoWrestling: '''Duh.'''

--> '''TheNarrator:''' ''"[Chaos Iwanami] threw a full-strength backhand so hard, he felt like he was overdoing it a little. Yet with that satisfying moment of impact... His mind conjured the image of a'' '''[[NoSell huge]]''' ''boulder.''"

* GentleGiant: He is '''''GIGANTIC''''', but he has a kind and gentle personality, being worried for Shibukawa when he breaks his glass eye with a Tsuppari that sent him flying into the rafters, concerned that he might kill him, and he's also seen giving some kids his autograph later on in a post-fight interview.

* AtrociousAlias: He's nicknamed "The Thruster" due to his frequent use of palm thrusts. Tokugawa even remarks that this nickname is "rather Showa", with an awkward expression on his face, clearly thinking about it implying [[PelvicThrust pelvic thrusts]] instead of palm thrusts.

--> '''Baki:''' ''"Yeah okay, he outsped me but is this dude...'' '''really''' a small dude?"''

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Willingly challenged Yujiro to fight her, knowing full well that he '''''WILL''''' kill her, in order to save Baki's life.]]

* KickTheDog: ''Constantly'' with her own son. [[spoiler:Up until the end.]]

[[folder:Musashi]]
Baki's dog

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[[folder:Muhammad Ali Sr.]]

[[UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli The boxing champion]] who is the father of Muhammad Ali Jr.
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* MrExposition: As mentioned above, that's his entire job in the show.

* ImpossiblyGracefulGiant: He's as wide as he's tall and is built like a brick shithouse, yet moves as if all that toned fat and excess muscle on him didn't exist. One notable tic of his is his tendency to hop up and down before a match to get pumped up just to illustrate his speed and grace.

* HumanoidAbomination: By sheer single-minded training for a measure of time more easily measured in decades than years, Kaku has turned himself into one. Despite being frail enough that his chopsticks started feeling heavy decades before he enters the story, he has such adopt control of his body's relaxation that he can [[spoiler:fake his own death via heart attack ''at will, while able to resuscitate himself with the same ease''.]] By the present Kaku should be ash in a pot in realistic terms, but despite being possibly the oldest man alive, Kaku has turned himself into this trope by sheer [[WeakButskilled skill]].

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Not only does he have no idea who Yujiro is, the concept of someone being so strong the can walk up and slap political leaders around is absurd to him. Even though that happened often in Baki's universe and he even [[spoiler:defeated one of those individual, Oliva, in a fight.]]

* StealthExpert: As a master of the environment he can pull off some incredible camouflage technique. When all the fighters that infiltrated a military base to fight Pickle were spotted and told to go home Gaia reveals himself later that night and just leaves. He also beat up Sikorsky by using the sand on his skin to become invisible.

* SplitPersonality: He changes between being the shy and humble medic of his mercenary team and being a deadly master of the environment. He later personality appears to taken over completely.

* TheBigGuy: The biggest of the Baki's friends at 6'3 and 363lbs (191cm, 165 kilos), as well as the physically strongest. His physical strength is great enough that he's the first human that Pickle recognized as a FriendlyRival instead of food.

* TheBigGuy: The biggest of the Baki's friends at 6'3 and 363lbs (191cm, 165 kilos), as well as the physically strongest. His physical strength is great enough that he's the first human that Pickle recognized as a rival, instead of food.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His entire likeness is based on Che Guevara.

* BiggusDickus: He's at least proportional for the rest of his prodigious size, making him this by any sane metric.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: He manages to drag around Biscuit Oliva, one of the strongest characters in the series, by his finger, although he doesn't defeat him. He also breaks the muscleman's arm after being flipped by him.

* TheUnfought: Despite the buildup he received, Retsu’s match with him is never depicted in the manga, and it would've been unclear if they even fought at all were it not for Retsu hosting a press-conferance of him retiring from Boxing after getting Wilbur's belt in ''Baki Dou''.

* BlasphemousBoast: Claims that his fists can destroy Gods.

* CharacterExaggeration: The duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Kojiro Sasaki was suppose to be one of the greatest challenges he's ever faced, but it wasn't legendary like it was supposed to be since in actuality Musashi, in his own words, tells Tokugawa that Kojiro wasn't "weak, but wasn't special either". [[ButForMeItWasTuesday He doesn't even remember Kojiro right away]], but on the other hand, simply being considered not weak by Musashi's monstrous standards probably meant Kojiro wasn't a pushover either.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Only subverted in that he somehow didn't die from it, but his encapsulation in a saline rock formation together with a T-Rex and perfect preservation for 190 million years implies that he was in the midst of hunting a T-Rex for ''dinner'', with a roar on his face, in the moment New Mexico was struck by a meteor.

* FullFrontalAssault: Pickle apparently predates the idea of ''clothing'' so he usually just waddles around with his stuff hanging out, though he does make enough of a (un)educated guess that clothes are the norm for humans in the modern day, and the scientists taking care of him were eventually kind enough to provide Pickle with a fundoshi while he was sleeping as in-universe for Itagaki not having to draw and then censor Pickle's junk every time he appears.

** Being a caveman, and not just that but one from 190 million years before the present day, he is ''EXTREMELY'' different from a modern Homo Sapiens in every aspect. Pickle is outright referred to as the peak of Homo ''Erectus''.

** It’s hinted that this evolutionary anomaly evolved from a quadrupedal creature.
* HumanPopsicle: Was perfectly preserved in a saline rock formation for millions of years.

* NoSocialSkills: Being a caveman hailing from millions of years ago mean that he has an absurd lack of social awareness, as he thought a frightened scientist pulling a gun on him and shooting him in self-defense wanted to play and rough-house with him, causing him to respond in what he thinks is kind by shaking him back and forth and leaving him (relatively) unharmed by throwing his bullets back at him like it was a friendly game of catch (hard enough for the bullet to leave what looks like a gun wound) and slapping him in the face hard enough to send him rolling and badly concuss him, though still conscious. To be fair, social skills for him back in prehistoric ages were likely killing, eating, sleeping, and procreate whenever possible to keep his species alive.
* NobleDemon: Despite living in a simple cycle of killing and eating, having no concept of language or manners, and being largely ruled by his instincts, he's still not ''inhuman'', and can communicate with people of the modern day (not without certain caveats, of course). When Katsumi offers him his ruined arm, he goes on his knees with his hands folded as if in prayer because he recognizes the great value of the "gift" presented to him as food.

* ReligiousBruiser: It's not really in question ''whether'' Pickle is capable of the concept of a 'higher being', merely whether his idea of {{God}} resembles ours in any way; his way of giving thanks to Katsumi for offering his shredded arm, after fighting for his own higher purpose of taking Karate to the next level, is identical to the way humans have recorded themselves doing since before antiquity; [[https://i.imgur.com/71AWQ47.png Going on his knees, bowing his head, and folding his hands.]]

* FatalFlaw: Wrath. Granted, [[TranquilFury it’s well hidden]] behind his stoic expression, but Ron is clearly enraged by Oliva’s cocky attitude and his mockery of Ron’s Hand Pocket stance. Twice during their match, Oliva baits him into attacking recklessly, and both times Oliva lands devastating counter attacks, which lost him the fight when Oliva finally managed to grab him.
* FragileSpeedster: Subverted. Ron blocks and dodges Oliva's punches with ease, but when Oliva baits him into dropping his guard and pounds him with a double fisted strike to the shoulders, he falls to the ground, seemingly unconscious... only for Ron to jump to his feet lightning quick, and rapidly hammer Oliva with a flurry of furious blows. Oliva finally has to grab him and deliver a series of headbutts, throwing his entire body into each one to knock eventually knock Ron out, who kept throwing punches with his broken hands until Oliva nearly caved in his face.

* TheAce: Shibukawa is regarded as an expert in aiki, with many noting that anyone else trying to use aiki like he can in a real fight, is basically impossible. Only [[WorldsStrongestMan Yujiro]] has ever successfully do the same.