History ComicBook / GetJiro

* WeaponsOfTheirProfession: The International use weaponized kitchen utensils, while The Farm uses farming implements. Jiro uses sushi knives, including one large enough to be used as a sword.

---> '''Jerry''': Watch him! Watch him! He's fast!

* FauxAffablyEvil: Unlike the WickedCultured Bob, Rose and her husband Jerry are much rougher when it comes to their mafia-like practices, often instilling {{Cool and Unusual Punishment}}s for minor sleights, like killing one of their own chefs and feeding their bodies to their pigs for [[DisproportionateRetribution serving a tomato dish in January]]. It's even stated that they tend to change whatever "cause" they try to represent constantly, using positive brands (environmentalism, civil rights, etc.) purely to draw in business.

* AmbiguouslyTrained: While Jiro's backstory is explained in ''Get Jiro!: Blood and Sushi'', here his origins are left completely ambiguous. He is a masterful sushi chef who's ingredients and supplies are 100% authentic and genuine -- right down to having genuine hinoki wood for the sushi-bar's counters -- implying that he has connections to international supplies that he can afford by himself. He is an excellent sushi-chef, but he is more than capable of using his cutlery for violence, having severed a guy's arm (without even touching the bone) with a tuna knife faster than the eye could see it. When a prostitute he is seeing has him remove his shirt, his chest, back and shoulders reveal an intricate tattoo depicting a samurai fighting a dragon, [[TattooedCrook something he seems weirdly self-conscious about]].
* AngryChef: If you ask for california rolls or mix your wasabi with soy sauce, Jiro will not hesitate to kill you.
* AuthorAppeal: A world where chefs are the real power? Bourdain isn't even ''trying'' to be realistic, he's just wallowing in this.
* AuthorAvatar: Bob looks an awful lot like Bourdain, and shares his taste for classic European cuisine. Why is he a villain? [[SelfDeprecation Bourdain never fooled himself into believing that he was a good guy]].

* BerserkButton: Jiro takes sushi and sushi-etiquette ''very'' seriously. He regularly kills customers for their bad manners -- asking for california rolls being the nail in the coffin in these cases -- and when he sees International customers eating sushi, he can only gawk in horror.

* BookEnds: The story starts with a trio of customers with bad sushi-etiquette asking for california rolls prompting Jiro to slash off one of their heads. The final scene is set at Jiro’s new restaurant when someone asks for california rolls, and Jiro promptly takes his knife out.

* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The comic opens with a trio of foodies entering Jiro's sushi establishment. Their sushi-etiquette proves to be so poor (eating them with chopsticks, dipping them directly into the sauce, mixing soy sauce with wasabi and asking for california rolls), he snaps and lops one of their heads off with his knife. The cops sees the head roll out into the parking lot and, rather than arrest Jiro, remark that this has happened ''before'' and offer to get a CleanupCrew for Jiro. This clues us in that this hyper-violent, ''Film/JohnWick''/''ComicBook/SinCity''-esq world sees the food and restaurant industry as SeriousBusiness, as well as [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishing our protagonist Jiro]] as a ChefOfIron with a CodeOfHonor who is perfectly capable of killing if the need arose.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Unlike the WickedCultured Bob, Rose and her husband Jerry are much rougher when it comes to their mafia-esq practices, often instilling {{Cool and Unusual Punishment}}s for minor sleights, like killing one of their own chefs and feeding their bodies to their pigs for [[DisproportionateRetribution serving a tomato dish in January]]. It's even stated that they tend to change whatever "cause" they try to represent constantly, using positive brands (environmentalism, civil rights, etc.) purely to draw in business.

* RichesToRags: At the beginning of the story, Bob and Rose are two of the most powerful people in L.A., running bourgeois cooking empires with nothing on their minds but their hatred for each other. By the end, the both of them are forced to flee the city with nothing but each other for company, the only food available being street-vendor fish tacos.
* {{Ronin}}: While Jiro wasn't a {{Samurai}}, he has some of the hallmarks associated with the Ronin. He once implied to have fought for a "Master's" cause and vowed not to do it again. His skills are desired by both ruling mobs in the city, but instead he works on behalf of himself and the populace that suffers under their rule. He even wields a moguro bocho[[labelnote:*]]a 60-inch fish-cutting knife[[/labelnote]] as though it were a katana.

* WriterOnBoard: It's clear that both Bob and Rose are villains, and that our true sympathies should lie with the independents that they trample between them. It's also clear that between the two, Bourdain considers Bob to be [[ALighterShadeOfBlack the Lighter Shade of Black]].

* WeaponOfChoice: International uses weaponized cooking utensils, The Farm uses farm implements, and Jiro uses sushi-preparation knives. The [[GiantMook Giant Mooks]] use their bare hands, with a preference for throwing over punching.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Bob clearly considers sexually harassing his sous chef to be just another perk of his position. Small wonder she prefers to work at Claude's [[spoiler: and ultimately Jiro's]] restaurant, where she's treated as a true student and colleague.

* GiantMooks: Each major gang has one. International has Manny, while The Farm has a nameless red-bearded guy in coveralls.

---> '''Jean Claude''': In many ways [the Farm] are the more dangerous, I think. If history teaches us anything, Jiro-San, it is that one must be very careful of those who would make us happier on the farm, yes? I think sometimes Rose would kill us all to make us happier.