History Monster / FistOfTheNorthStar

->''"Well how sweet. His name is the last word out of your mouth before it fills with your dying blood. You had a throne your highness, but now You're flat on your back like a good little bitch for me! Now on, til I let you die, that's all there is. I can hurt you for as long as I want. All the while Kenshiro upstairs, and you can't even say goodbye. Does that hurt? Think about that!"''

* ''Anime/{{The Legends of the True Savior}}'''s ''Legend of Raoh: Chapter of Death in Love'': [[AGodAmI Emperor Souther/Thouzer]], the self-proclaimed [[LightIsNotGood Holy Emperor]], has all of the evil deeds of his manga counterpart, but [[AdaptationalVillainy none of the redeeming qualities]]. Souther runs a brutal empire that enslaves thousands of innocent children and works them to death. He [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisons supplies]] he knows the rebellion will steal (while knowing they'll [[WouldHurtAChild give the food to their children first]]) and throws himself huge banquets, eats a small plate, and destroys the rest, all for the sick glee of watching the starving slaves suffer; he has them beaten if they try to eat any of the excess. Souther forces his old friend Shu, the rebellion's leader, to make his way up—with cut tendons—an enormous pyramid holding the enormous stone cap piece meant to finish it. If he drops it, every single slave will die, while if anyone helps him Souther tells them their families will be executed. Once Shu finally does make it to the top of that pyramid Souther orders his archers to put arrows into Shu before finishing him off with a thrown spear.

-->-- '''Jackal''', [[Film/FistOfTheNorthStar 1995 live-action film]]

''Franchise/FistOfTheNorthStar'' is filled to the brim with villains who prey upon the innocent, from evil warlords to power-mad martial artists. When these bad guys and their minions inflict suffering upon others, it is little wonder that the arrival of [[Characters/FistOfTheNorthStarKenshiro Kenshiro]] is often considered the arrival of a savior -- and why it is so satisfying to see him deliver unto these villains what they very much deserve. But even among this bad lot, there are those who qualify as being the very [[CompleteMonster worst of the worst]].

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* "Golan" arc:

** Chapter 15--"Deadly Boomerangs": The nameless [[InsaneAdmiral General]], while [[PosthumousCharacter only appearing in a brief flashback]], is one of the Colonel's old superiors, and [[SmallRoleBigImpact one of the men responsible]] for the [[AfterTheEnd present-day setting]]. An obese hedonist, the General mocks the Colonel, taunting him that he and his men, for all their training, are no match for the nukes, which the General [[NukeEm then launches]], leading to the death of billions.
* "Warriors" arc: [[DirtyCoward Jackal]] is a particularly brutal bandit leader. Having a [[WouldHurtAChild seven-year-old orphan]] killed for trying to collect water, Jackal and his men proceed to slowly murder the other children from the orphanage, mortally stabbing their caretaker to [[ForcedToWatch force her to watch]] as one kid is hanged. When Kenshiro interferes, Jackal straps dynamite to the remaining orphans' backs to keep the hero at bay. His own men [[BadBoss don't fare much better]], with Jackal cowardly sacrificing his own right-hand man to slow Kenshiro down, and soon after slaughtering the rest of his followers when they rebel due to his mistreatment. When cornered by Kenshiro, Jackal tricks the massive, dangerous murderer [[PsychopathicManchild Devil(s) Rebirth/Reverse]] into thinking Jackal is his long-lost brother, and when this fails to stop Kenshiro, turns on the giant to claim he had captured Jackal, encouraging Kenshiro to kill Devil Rebirth after having used him.
* "Jagi" arc: [[CombatPragmatist Jagi]], despite being a comparative wimp to most martial artists, makes up for it with his heartlessness and sadism. When he and his brother disciples were trained in the art of Hokuto Shinken, Jagi believed in winning however he could and [[CainAndAbel tried to kill Kenshiro]] when Kenshiro was announced as the successor. Escaping with hideous disfigurement, Jagi became the leader of a roving gang of brigands that murdered families while taking the women to rape and sell into slavery. Jagi manipulated Kenshiro's [[EvilFormerFriend good friend Shin]] into betraying Kenshiro, leaving him for dead and kidnapping Kenshiro's love Yuria as well. Among his many brutal murders, Jagi dedicated himself to ruining Kenshiro's good name by impersonating him, and thanks to a serious brother complex he had, when a little boy defended his elder brother, Jagi [[WouldHurtAChild took the younger brother into the desert]], chained him to a cinder block and left him there, solely because "no younger brother should surpass the elder!" He also had a tendency to kill at random if someone's facial features reminded him of Kenshiro and showed a habit of [[BadBoss slaughtering his men at the drop of a hat]].
* "Amiba" arc: [[GloryHound Amiba]] is a martial arts prodigy turned MadScientist who performed hideous experiments on innocent people. Having townspeople brought to him, Amiba would experiment by pushing their pressure points in ways that would inflict hideous agony or even bring lingering death, or just make their limbs or bodies explode; Amiba showed no hesitation [[WouldHurtAChild performing these experiments on children]] He impersonated Kenshiro's elder brother disciple Toki in these actions, in order to ruin Toki's name, knowing Toki was a kind man who dedicated his life and talents to helping others. His [[DisproportionateRetribution motivation]] was that he couldn't stand Toki receiving praise for his healing abilities and when Amiba carelessly injured an old man to show he was better, Toki accidentally struck Amiba out of the way to save his victim. Amiba is willing to kill countless people, inflicting emotional and physical trauma on everyone he encounters solely to satisfy [[ItsAllAboutMe his own ego]] as a "genius".
* "Cassandra" arc: [[WardensAreEvil Uighur]] is the sadistic warden of the prison-city Cassandra, dumping ground for the warlord Raoh's few living enemies. Cassandra is nicknamed the "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast City of Wailing Demons]]" due to the unimaginable hardships its inmates endure, hardships that Uighur is [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming so delighted by]] that he alters prisoner treatments to get just the right pitch and timbre of lamentation. He is extremely proud of his prison's reputation as TheAlcatraz, stating that "the legend of Cassandra is my legend as well", and maintains its zero-escape record by gruesomely killing any prisoners who try to escape, as well as anyone from outside who tries to break them out--along with a cell of randomly-selected prisoners, just to make a point. His [[BadBoss own staff fare little better]]. For example, his gate guards, Raiga and Fuuga, are kept in line by the threat that if they disobey him, their younger brother will be pecked to death by Uighur's pet eagle. The only people he tries to avoid killing are those willing to die, because that spoils half the fun, and he'd much prefer to instill the appropriate fear of death in them before murdering them ''really'' horribly.
* "Celestial Emperor" arc: [[LightIsNotGood Jakō]] is the EvilChancellor of the Celestial Empire and Falco's adoptive brother. After Raoh's death created an EvilPowerVacuum, Jakō moved to fill it, using the young Celestial Emperor Rui as a PuppetKing and manipulating Falco, her oath-sworn bodyguard, into doing his dirty work by using her as a hostage, keeping her in such unpleasant conditions that she eventually went blind. Making the Celestial Empire exceptionally repressive, rewarding the wealthy and brutalizing the poor, regularly executing people on the streets, Jakō eventually ordered the reluctant Falco to obliterate the nations formed under the Hokuto Shinken and Nanto Seiken martial art schools. As a result of his fear of the dark, which was created after his encounter with Raoh, Jakō worked [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil thousands of slaves]], old and young alike, to death in keeping the capital of the Celestial Empire brightly-lit.
* "Kōketsu" arc: [[FeudalOverlord Kōketsu]] is a former horse feeder from Raoh's army turned cruel tyrant. After Raoh's death, Kōketsu enslaves many of his generals by threatening to starve their [[WouldHurtAChild children]], [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil working countless men to death]] to expand his agriculture business. Casually killing those no longer needed and [[HumanResources using their corpses to further fertilize his land]], when his serfs revolt, Kōketsu spitefully plans to starve them all to death, along with their children. Confronted by Kenshiro, Kōketsu reveals his [[GiantMook ultimate soldier]]: a man pumped full of muscle-enhancing and mind-dulling drugs to the point he can do nothing but kill on Kōketsu's command.
* "Bolge" arc: [[FromNobodyToNightmare Bolge]] is the final enemy faced by Kenshiro. Once nothing more than a vicious thug leading a brutal group out to [[RapePillageAndBurn rape and pillage]] through the wasteland, Bolge was blinded and mutilated by Kenshiro but was one of the few to survive a Hokuto Shinken assault. Building a bigger army, Bolge carves out his own domain and is known for his [[TortureTechnician love of torture]]. Brutally crucifying, blinding, and torturing an entire army to death, Bolge is made to believe the adult Bat is Kenshiro and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures him]] with a [[ThisIsADrill power drill]], intending to kill Lin out of spite before he dies.

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* ''[[Anime/TheLegendsOfTheTrueSavior The Legends of the True Savior]]'''s ''Legend of Raoh: Chapter of Death in Love'': [[AGodAmI Emperor Souther/Thouzer]], the self-proclaimed [[LightIsNotGood Holy Emperor]], has all of the evil deeds of his manga counterpart, but [[AdaptationalVillainy none of the redeeming qualities]]. Souther runs a brutal empire that enslaves thousands of innocent children and works them to death. He [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisons supplies]] he knows the rebellion will steal (while knowing they'll [[WouldHurtAChild give the food to their children first]]) and throws himself huge banquets, eats a small plate, and destroys the rest, all for the sick glee of watching the starving slaves suffer; he has them beaten if they try to eat any of the excess. Souther forces his old friend Shu, the rebellion's leader, to make his way up--with cut tendons--an enormous pyramid holding the enormous stone cap piece meant to finish it. If he drops it, every single slave will die, while if anyone helps him Souther tells them their families will be executed. Once Shu finally does make it to the top of that pyramid Souther orders his archers to put arrows into Shu before finishing him off with a thrown spear.

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* ''Bloody Wolf's Darkness Blue: Fist of the North Star Rei Side Story'' prequel: Zan, one of [[BigBadWannabe Lord Yuda]]'s top-ranked servants, is a [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic]] warrior out to tear the powerful city of Asgathul down in order to easily allow Yuda to take it over. Leader of the Westside gang who kills as he pleases, Zan also runs a club where men can drink and force themselves onto drugged-up women. Taking advantage of the chaos surrounding Queen Eva's death by sending his own men out to [[RapePillageAndBurn murder and rape]] as they please, Zan has Eva's Valkyries imprisoned to be hanged the next day, but not before allowing his men to beat and rape them before their proper execution. After suffering an embarrassing defeat at the hands of Rei, Zan promises to [[BadBoss kill all of his men]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution laughing at him]], before joining Yuda in his attempt to take over the city. Holding a petty grudge against Rei, Zan has a woman pose as Rei's long-lost sister Airi, threatening to kill her should Rei not give himself up.

* 1986 film's English dub (Creator/StreamlinePictures): [[DrivenByEnvy Jagi is Kenshiro's older brother]], who [[CainAndAbel hated his younger brother for surpassing him in everything]]. [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulating Shin]] into torturing Kenshiro and taking Kenshiro's bride, Julia, away from him, Jagi managed to convince his older brother Raoh to become the Fist of the North Star, which led to Raoh killing their father and embarking on a quest to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]]. Becoming the leader of a gang that raided villages, torturing and killing many innocent people, Jagi at one point invaded Rei's village, killing everyone there and turning Rei's sister, Airi, into his personal slave, whom he blinded, abused, and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]]. Traumatizing Airi to the point that she refused to open her eyes when her vision was returned to her, Jagi tried to force Rei to kill Kenshiro by threatening to kill Airi. Jagi's hateful nature was so strong that even while dying, he decided to taunt Kenshiro about how he managed to ruin his life.
* ''The Legends of the True Savior'''s ''Legend of Raoh: Chapter of Death in Love'' [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVA]]: [[AGodAmI Emperor Souther/Thouzer]], the self-proclaimed [[LightIsNotGood Holy Emperor]], has all of the evil deeds of his manga counterpart, but [[AdaptationalVillainy none of the redeeming qualities]]. Souther runs a brutal empire that enslaves thousands of innocent children and works them to death. He [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisons supplies]] he knows the rebellion will steal (while knowing they'll [[WouldHurtAChild give the food to their children first]]) and throws himself huge banquets, eats a small plate, and destroys the rest, all for the sick glee of watching the starving slaves suffer; he has them beaten if they try to eat any of the excess. Souther forces his old friend Shu, the rebellion's leader, to make his way up--with cut tendons--an enormous pyramid holding the enormous stone cap piece meant to finish it. If he drops it, every single slave will die, while if anyone helps him Souther tells them their families will be executed. Once Shu finally does make it to the top of that pyramid Souther orders his archers to put arrows into Shu before finishing him off with a thrown spear.

* "Warriors" arc: [[DirtyCoward Jackal]] leads a bandit gang harassing a village for its water. Jackal's men [[WouldHurtAChild murder 7-year-old orphan Taki]] for trying to collect the water, even though without the water, the rest of the orphans and their caretaker Toyo will [[LackOfEmpathy die of thirst]]. Even after the orphans and Toyo are subdued, Jackal feels the need to sadistically kill them, purposefully giving Toyo a mortal stab wound, just so she could live long enough to watch one of the orphans hanged by his men. Jackal then tries to kill the kids by strapping dynamite to their backs in order to keep Kenshiro from going after him. Jackal's also a ludicrously {{bad boss}}, killing his own men for the slightest provocation and sacrificing his trusted lieutenant just to slow the vengeful Kenshiro down, and eventually slaughters his whole gang when they rebel against his mistreatment. When Kenshiro tracks him down at Villainy Prison, Jackal manipulates a giant PsychopathicManchild convict by the name of the Devil's Rebirth to become his pawn to fight Kenshiro by pretending to be his long-lost brother. When the Devil's Rebirth fails, Jackal [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder thanks Kenshiro]] for rescuing him from the "evil monster" who had "captured" him, and [[WoundedGazelleGambit encourages him to kill him quickly]].

** "King's Disciples" arc's "Count to Three! - You're the One Who'll Die! / Try Counting to Three! You're the One To Die!!": [[BadHabits Zaria]] is a {{mind control}}ling martial artist who demands [[SerialRapist women to rape]] and food as tribute while starving his people. Assigned to kill Kenshiro, Zaria hypnotically turns his citizens into rabid attackers and takes Ken's young companion Lin captive, turning his own dead men into [[AndIMustScream tortured zombies]], and attempts to murder Lin himself when cornered.

* 1986 film's English dub (Creator/StreamlinePictures): [[DrivenByEnvy Jagi is Ken's older brother]], who [[CainAndAbel hated his younger brother for surpassing him in everything]]. [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulating Shin]] into torturing Ken and taking Ken's bride, Julia, away from him, Jagi managed to convince his older brother Raoh to become the Fist of the North Star, which led to Raoh killing their father and embarking on a quest to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]]. Becoming the leader of a gang that raided villages, torturing and killing many innocent people, Jagi at one point invaded Rei's village, killing everyone there and turning Rei's sister, Airi, into his personal slave, whom he blinded, abused, and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]]. Traumatizing Airi to the point that she refused to open her eyes when her vision was returned to her, Jagi tried to force Rei to kill Kenshiro by threatening to kill Airi. Jagi's hateful nature was so strong that even while dying, he decided to taunt Ken about how he managed to ruin his life.

* [[Film/FistOfTheNorthStar 1995 live-action film]]: [[CompositeCharacter Jackal]] is [[BigBad Shin]]'s scarred and far more sadistic [[TheDragon right-hand man]]. Ordered by Shin to capture the villagers of Paradise Valley as slaves, Jackal takes the opportunity to slaughter and torture many before taking the others back to Shin's city, casually killing one in a moment of irritation for trying to suck up to him. When the little girl Lynn mouths off to him, [[WouldHurtAChild Jackal]] attempts to have her executed by guillotine, only relenting when Lynn reveals she knows the whereabouts of hero Kenshiro. When Shin orders Jackal to guard his wife while he faces down against Ken, Jackal takes the opportunity to [[AttemptedRape try to rape]] and kill her, revealing he neither knows nor cares if either Shin or Ken dies as long as he gets to have his way with her.
* ''[[VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise Lost Paradise]]'': [[BigBad Targa]] is the second-in-command of the Army of Ruin. Using his position to slaughter the innocent, even killing helpless hostages, Targa tricks several high-ranking memebrs of Eden into helping him get revenge, only to betray and attempt to murder them. Eluding [[Characters/FistOfTheNorthStarKenshiro Kenshiro]] to reach Sphere City, Targa intends to [[NukeEm set off the nukes]] therein to raze the world in purifying hellfire to [[AGodAmI reign over the rest like a god]] and to keep Yuria to forcibly bear him a child to preserve his legacy.

* "Celestial Emperor" arc: [[LightIsNotGood Jakō]] is the EvilChancellor of the Celestial Empire and Falco's adoptive brother. After Raoh's death created an EvilPowerVacuum, Jakō moved to fill it, using the young Celestial Emperor Rui as a PuppetKing and manipulating Falco, her oath-sworn bodyguard, into doing his dirty work by using her as a hostage, keeping her in such unpleasant conditions that she eventually went blind. Making the Celestial Empire exceptionally repressive, rewarding the wealthy and brutalizing the poor, regularly executing people on the streets, Jakō eventually ordered the reluctant Falco to obliterate the nations formed under the Hokuto Shinken and Nanto Seiken martial art schools. As a result of his fear of the dark, which was created after his encounter with Raoh, Jakō worked thousands of slaves, old and young alike, to death in keeping the capital of the Celestial Empire brightly-lit.

* [[Film/FistOfTheNorthStar 1995 live-action film]]: Jackal [[note]]closer to a Jagi {{expy}}, with a little bit of Spade [[CompositeCharacter thrown in]], than to the character of the same name[[/note]] is TheDragon to [[BigBad Lord Shen]], whom he surpasses in evil. When Shen orders Jackal to capture the inhabitants of a village so he can use them as slaves, Jackal and his gang kill many of the villagers before beginning to capture any. On the way over to the work camps, Jackal orders one of the slaves to be killed because the slave tried to suck up to him and Jackal hates brown-nosers. When a little girl stands up to Jackal, he orders her to be beheaded in a guillotine. Finally, when Shen gives Jackal the order to keep his wife hidden during the climax, Jackal hints that he will rape and/or torture her instead, and tries to beat her to death when she tries to escape him.

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* ''Bloody Wolf's Darkness Blue: Fist of the North Star Rei Side Story'' prequel manga: Zan, one of [[BigBadWannabe Lord Yuda]]'s top-ranked servants, is a [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic]] warrior out to tear the powerful city of Asgathul down in order to easily allow Yuda to take it over. Leader of the Westside gang who kills as he pleases, Zan also runs a club where men can drink and force themselves onto drugged-up women. Taking advantage of the chaos surrounding Queen Eva's death by sending his own men out to [[RapePillageAndBurn murder and rape]] as they please, Zan has Eva's Valkyries imprisoned to be hanged the next day, but not before allowing his men to beat and rape them before their proper execution. After suffering an embarrassing defeat at the hands of Rei, Zan promises to [[BadBoss kill all of his men]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution laughing at him]], before joining Yuda in his attempt to take over the city. Holding a petty grudge against Rei, Zan has a woman pose as Rei's long-lost sister Airi, threatening to kill her should Rei not give himself up.

''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' is filled to the brim with villains who prey upon the innocent, from evil warlords to power-mad martial artists. When these bad guys and their minions inflict suffering upon others, it is little wonder that the arrival of [[Characters/FistOfTheNorthStarKenshiro Kenshiro]] is often considered the arrival of a savior -- and why it is so satisfying to see him deliver unto these villains what they very much deserve. But even among this bad lot, there are those who qualify as being the very [[CompleteMonster worst of the worst]].

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* "Cassandra" arc: [[WardensAreEvil Uighur]] is the sadistic warden of the prison-city Cassandra, dumping ground for the warlord Raoh's few living enemies. Cassandra is nicknamed the "[[NamesToRunAwayFrom City of Wailing Demons]]" due to the unimaginable hardships its inmates endure, hardships that Uighur is [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming so delighted by]] that he alters prisoner treatments to get just the right pitch and timbre of lamentation. He is extremely proud of his prison's reputation as TheAlcatraz, stating that "the legend of Cassandra is my legend as well", and maintains its zero-escape record by gruesomely killing any prisoners who try to escape, as well as anyone from outside who tries to break them out--along with a cell of randomly-selected prisoners, just to make a point. His [[BadBoss own staff fare little better]]. For example, his gate guards, Raiga and Fuuga, are kept in line by the threat that if they disobey him, their younger brother will be pecked to death by Uighur's pet eagle. The only people he tries to avoid killing are those willing to die, because that spoils half the fun, and he'd much prefer to instill the appropriate fear of death in them before murdering them ''really'' horribly.

''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' is filled to the brim with villains who prey upon the innocent, from evil warlords to power-mad martial artists. When these bad guys and their minions inflict suffering upon others, it is little wonder that the arrival of Kenshiro is often considered the arrival of a savior -- and why it is so satisfying to see him deliver unto these villains what they very much deserve. But even among this bad lot, there are those who qualify as being the very [[CompleteMonster worst of the worst]].

* ''[[VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise Lost Paradise]]'': [[BigBad Targa]] is the second-in-command of the Army of Ruin. Using his position to slaughter the innocent, even killing helpless hostages, Targa tricks several high-ranking memebrs of Eden into helping him get revenge, only to betray and attempt to murder them. Eluding [[PlayerCharacter Kenshiro]] to reach Sphere City, Targa intends to [[NukeEm set off the nukes]] therein to raze the world in purifying hellfire to [[AGodAmI reign over the rest like a god]] and to keep Yuria to forcibly bear him a child to preserve his legacy.

* "Warriors" arc: [[DirtyCoward Jackal]] is a bandit lord that Kenshiro takes on after the business with Shin. Jackal and his men are harassing a village with an orphanage for its water. Jackal's men [[WouldHurtAChild murder seven-year-old Taki]] for trying to collect the water they claim as "theirs", even though without the water, the rest of the orphans and their caretaker Toyo will [[LackOfEmpathy die of thirst]]. But even after the orphans and Toyo are subdued, Jackal feels the need to sadistically kill them. Jackal purposefully gives Toyo a mortal stab wound, just so she could live long enough to watch one of the orphans hanged by his men. To make matters worse, Jackal then tries to kill the kids by strapping dynamite to their backs in order to keep Kenshiro from going after him. Jackal's also a ludicrously {{bad boss}}, killing his own men for the slightest provocation and sacrificing his trusted lieutenant just to slow the vengeful Kenshiro down, and is eventually forced to slaughter his whole gang when they rebel against his mistreatment. When Kenshiro tracks him down at Villainy Prison, Jackal manipulates a giant PsychopathicManchild convict by the name of the Devil's Rebirth to become his pawn to fight Kenshiro by pretending to be his long-lost brother. When the Devil's Rebirth fails, Jackal [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder thanks Kenshiro]] for rescuing him from the "evil monster" who had "captured" him, and [[WoundedGazelleGambit encourages him to kill him quickly]].

* "Celestial Emperor" arc: [[LightIsNotGood Jakō]] is the EvilChancellor of the Celestial Empire. When Raoh came to their village, sensed his evil, and advised the man's adoptive brother Falco to kill him on the spot to avert future suffering, few knew how right he would be. After Raoh's death created an EvilPowerVacuum, Jakō moved to fill it, using the young Celestial Emperor Rui as a PuppetKing and manipulating Falco, her oath-sworn bodyguard, into doing his dirty work by using her as a hostage, keeping her in such unpleasant conditions that she eventually went blind. The Celestial Empire was exceptionally repressive, rewarding the wealthy and brutalizing the poor whilst punishing dissent with death so frequently that executions took place in the streets. Eventually, Jakō's paranoia led him to endorse outright genocide, ordering the reluctant Falco to obliterate the nations formed under the Hokuto Shinken and Nanto Seiken martial art schools and beating him when [[YouHaveFailedMe he failed]]. His hatred of Hokuto was not the only legacy of his encounter with Raoh, which also left Jakō with an intense fear of the dark. As a result of this, he would lapse into murderous tantrums when the lights dimmed too much, and worked thousands of slaves, old and young alike, to death in keeping the capital of the Celestial Empire brightly-lit. Throughout it all, he never showed any remorse or regret for his actions, instead taking sadistic delight in Falco's disgust and horror at the latest atrocity he would force him to perform.

* [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVA]]: [[AGodAmI Emperor Souther/Thouzer]], the self-proclaimed [[LightIsNotGood Holy Emperor]], has all of the evil deeds of his manga counterpart, but [[AdaptationalVillainy none of the redeeming qualities]]. Souther runs a brutal empire that enslaves thousands of innocent children and works them to death. He [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisons supplies]] he knows the rebellion will steal (while knowing they'll [[WouldHurtAChild give the food to their children first]]) and throws himself huge banquets, eats a small plate, and destroys the rest, all for the sick glee of watching the starving slaves suffer; he has them beaten if they try to eat any of the excess. Souther forces his old friend Shu, the rebellion's leader, to make his way up--with cut tendons--an enormous pyramid holding the enormous stone cap piece meant to finish it. If he drops it, every single slave will die, while if anyone helps him Souther tells them their families will be executed. Once Shu finally does make it to the top of that pyramid Souther orders his archers to put arrows into Shu before finishing him off with a thrown spear.

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* [[DirtyCoward Jackal]] is a bandit lord that Kenshiro takes on after the business with Shin. Jackal and his men are harassing a village with an orphanage for its water. Jackal's men [[WouldHurtAChild murder seven-year-old Taki]] for trying to collect the water they claim as "theirs", even though without the water, the rest of the orphans and their caretaker Toyo will [[LackOfEmpathy die of thirst]]. But even after the orphans and Toyo are subdued, Jackal feels the need to sadistically kill them. Jackal purposefully gives Toyo a mortal stab wound, just so she could live long enough to watch one of the orphans hanged by his men. To make matters worse, Jackal then tries to kill the kids by strapping dynamite to their backs in order to keep Kenshiro from going after him. Jackal's also a ludicrously {{bad boss}}, killing his own men for the slightest provocation and sacrificing his trusted lieutenant just to slow the vengeful Kenshiro down, and is eventually forced to slaughter his whole gang when they rebel against his mistreatment. When Kenshiro tracks him down at Villainy Prison, Jackal manipulates a giant PsychopathicManchild convict by the name of the Devil's Rebirth to become his pawn to fight Kenshiro by pretending to be his long-lost brother. When the Devil's Rebirth fails, Jackal [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder thanks Kenshiro]] for rescuing him from the "evil monster" who had "captured" him, and [[WoundedGazelleGambit encourages him to kill him quickly]].
* [[CombatPragmatist Jagi]], despite being a comparative wimp to most martial artists, makes up for it with his heartlessness and sadism. When he and his brother disciples were trained in the art of Hokuto Shinken, Jagi believed in winning however he could and [[CainAndAbel tried to kill Kenshiro]] when Kenshiro was announced as the successor. Escaping with hideous disfigurement, Jagi became the leader of a roving gang of brigands that murdered families while taking the women to rape and sell into slavery. Jagi manipulated Kenshiro's [[EvilFormerFriend good friend Shin]] into betraying Kenshiro, leaving him for dead and kidnapping Kenshiro's love Yuria as well. Among his many brutal murders, Jagi dedicated himself to ruining Kenshiro's good name by impersonating him, and thanks to a serious brother complex he had, when a little boy defended his elder brother, Jagi [[WouldHurtAChild took the younger brother into the desert]], chained him to a cinder block and left him there, solely because "no younger brother should surpass the elder!" He also had a tendency to kill at random if someone's facial features reminded him of Kenshiro and showed a habit of [[BadBoss slaughtering his men at the drop of a hat]].
* [[GloryHound Amiba]] is a martial arts prodigy turned MadScientist who performed hideous experiments on innocent people. Having townspeople brought to him, Amiba would experiment by pushing their pressure points in ways that would inflict hideous agony or even bring lingering death, or just make their limbs or bodies explode; Amiba showed no hesitation [[WouldHurtAChild performing these experiments on children]] He impersonated Kenshiro's elder brother disciple Toki in these actions, in order to ruin Toki's name, knowing Toki was a kind man who dedicated his life and talents to helping others. His [[DisproportionateRetribution motivation]] was that he couldn't stand Toki receiving praise for his healing abilities and when Amiba carelessly injured an old man to show he was better, Toki accidentally struck Amiba out of the way to save his victim. Amiba is willing to kill countless people, inflicting emotional and physical trauma on everyone he encounters solely to satisfy [[ItsAllAboutMe his own ego]] as a "genius".
* [[WardensAreEvil Uighur]] is the sadistic warden of the prison-city Cassandra, dumping ground for the warlord Raoh's few living enemies. Cassandra is nicknamed the "[[NamesToRunAwayFrom City of Wailing Demons]]" due to the unimaginable hardships its inmates endure, hardships that Uighur is [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming so delighted by]] that he alters prisoner treatments to get just the right pitch and timbre of lamentation. He is extremely proud of his prison's reputation as TheAlcatraz, stating that "the legend of Cassandra is my legend as well", and maintains its zero-escape record by gruesomely killing any prisoners who try to escape, as well as anyone from outside who tries to break them out--along with a cell of randomly-selected prisoners, just to make a point. His [[BadBoss own staff fare little better]]. For example, his gate guards, Raiga and Fuuga, are kept in line by the threat that if they disobey him, their younger brother will be pecked to death by Uighur's pet eagle. The only people he tries to avoid killing are those willing to die, because that spoils half the fun, and he'd much prefer to instill the appropriate fear of death in them before murdering them ''really'' horribly.
* [[BigBad Jakoh]], from the Celestial Emperor arc, is the EvilChancellor of the Celestial Empire. When Raoh came to their village, sensed his evil, and advised the man's adoptive brother Falco to kill him on the spot to avert future suffering, few knew how right he would be. After Raoh's death created an EvilPowerVacuum, Jakoh moved to fill it, using the young Celestial Emperor Rui as a PuppetKing and manipulating Falco, her oath-sworn bodyguard, into doing his dirty work by using her as a hostage, keeping her in such unpleasant conditions that she eventually went blind. The Celestial Empire was exceptionally repressive, rewarding the wealthy and brutalizing the poor whilst punishing dissent with death so frequently that executions took place in the streets. Eventually, Jakoh's paranoia led him to endorse outright genocide, ordering the reluctant Falco to obliterate the nations formed under the Hokuto Shinken and Nanto Seiken martial art schools and beating him when [[YouHaveFailedMe he failed]]. His hatred of Hokuto was not the only legacy of his encounter with Raoh, which also left Jakoh with an intense fear of the dark. As a result of this, he would lapse into murderous tantrums when the lights dimmed too much, and worked thousands of slaves, old and young alike, to death in keeping the capital of the Celestial Empire brightly-lit. Throughout it all, he never showed any remorse or regret for his actions, instead taking sadistic delight in Falco's disgust and horror at the latest atrocity he would force him to perform.
* The [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVA]] version of [[AGodAmI Emperor Souther/Thouzer]], the self-proclaimed [[LightIsNotGood Holy Emperor]], has all of the evil deeds of his manga counterpart, but none of the redeeming qualities. Souther runs a brutal empire that enslaves thousands of innocent children and works them to death. He [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisons supplies]] he knows the rebellion will steal (while knowing they'll [[WouldHurtAChild give the food to their children first]]) and throws himself huge banquets, eats a small plate, and destroys the rest, all for the sick glee of watching the starving slaves suffer; he has them beaten if they try to eat any of the excess. Souther forces his old friend Shu, the rebellion's leader, to make his way up--with cut tendons--an enormous pyramid holding the enormous stone cap piece meant to finish it. If he drops it, every single slave will die, while if anyone helps him Souther tells them their families will be executed. Once Shu finally does make it to the top of that pyramid Souther orders his archers to put arrows into Shu before finishing him off with a thrown spear.

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* [[CombatPragmatist Jagi]], despite being a comparative wimp to most martial artists, makes up for it with his heartlessness and sadism. When he and his brother disciples were trained in the art of Hokuto Shinken, Jagi believed in winning however he could and [[CainAndAbel tried to kill Kenshiro]] when Kenshiro was announced as the successor. Escaping with hideous disfigurement, Jagi became the leader of a roving gang of brigands that murdered families while taking the women to rape and sell into slavery. Jagi manipulated Kenshiro's [[EvilFormerFriend good friend Shin]] into betraying Kenshiro, leaving him for dead and kidnapping Kenshiro's love Yuria as well. Among his many brutal murders, Jagi dedicated himself to ruining Kenshiro's good name by impersonating him, and thanks to a serious brother complex he had, when a little boy defended his elder brother, Jagi [[WouldHurtAChild took the younger brother into the desert]], chained him to a cinder block and left him there, solely because "no younger brother should surpass the elder!" He also had a tendency to kill at random if someone's facial features reminded him of Kenshiro and showed a habit of [[BadBoss slaughtering his men at the drop of a hat.]]