History Monster / FistOfTheNorthStar

* In the [[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.

* 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 die of thirst. But even after the orphans and Toyo are subdued, Jackal feels the need to {{sadist}}ically 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. It's not only his enemies who fear Jackal, either. He's 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, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder he thanks Kenshiro for rescuing him from the ”evil monster” who had ”captured” him]], and [[WoundedGazelleGambit encourages him to kill him quickly]].
* [[SayMyName Jagi]], despite being a comparative wimp to [[WorldOfBadass most martial artists]], makes up for it with his heartlessness and [[{{sadist}} sadism]]. When he and his brother disciples were trained in the art of Hokuto Shinken, Jagi [[CombatPragmatist 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 [[RapePillageAndBurn roving gang of brigands]] that murdered families while taking the women to rape and sell [[MadeASlave 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 [[SiblingRivalry 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 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 {{sadist}}ic warden of the prison-city Cassandra, dumping ground for the warlord Raoh's few living enemies. Cassandra is nicknamed the “City of Wailing Demons” due to the unimaginable hardships its inmates endure, hardships that Uighur is so delighted by that [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming 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 instil the appropriate fear of death in them before [[CruelAndUnusualDeath murdering them ''really'' horribly]].
* Jakō, the NonActionBigBad of the Celestial Emperor arc and the EvilChancellor of the Celestial Empire,was never a nice person, waxing gleefully enthusiastic about [[WouldHurtAChild infanticide]] when [[SuccessionCrisis the Empire turned out to have one heir too many]], but 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 brutalising the poor whilst punishing dissent with death so liberally that the concentration camps overflowed and malcontents were executed 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 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 {{sadist}}ic delight in Falco's disgust and horror at the latest atrocity he would force him to perform.
* The [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVA]] version of [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Emperor Souther/Thouzer]], the [[AGodAmI self-proclaimed]] [[LightIsNotGood Holy Emperor]], has all of the evil deeds of his manga counterpart, but none of the FreudianExcuse, {{graceful loser}}, or other redeeming qualities. Souther runs a brutal empire that enslaves thousands of innocent children and works them to death. He 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 [[ForTheEvulz 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 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 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 die of thirst. But even after the orphans and Toyo are subdued, Jackal feels the need to {{sadist}}ically 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. It's not only his enemies who fear Jackal, either. He's 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, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder he thanks Kenshiro for rescuing him from the ”evil monster” who had ”captured” him]], and [[WoundedGazelleGambit encourages him to kill him quickly]].

* In the [[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 [[WouldHurtAChild 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.

* 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 die of thirst. But even after the orphans and Toyo are subdued, Jackal feels the need to {{sadist}}ically 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. It's not only his enemies who fear Jackal, either. He's 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, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder he thanks Kenshiro for rescuing him from the ”evil monster” who had ”captured” him]], and [[WoundedGazelleGambit encourages him to kill him quickly]].

* In the [[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 [[ComplimentBackfire the slave tried to suck up to him and Jackal hates brown-nosers]]. When a little girl stands up to Jackal, he [[WouldHurtAChild orders her]] to be [[OffWithHisHead beheaded in a guillotine]]. Finally, when Shen gives Jackal the order to keep his wife hidden during the FinalBattle, Jackal hints that he will {{rape|IsASpecialKindOfEvil}} and/or [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] her instead, and tries to [[WouldHitAGirl beat her to death]] when she tries to escape him.

* [[SayMyName Jagi]], despite being a comparative wimp to [[WorldOfBadass most martial artists]], makes up for it with his heartlessness and [[{{sadist}} sadism]]. When he and his brother disciples were trained in the art of Hokuto Shinken, Jagi [[CombatPragmatist 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 [[RapePillageAndBurn roving gang of brigands]] that murdered families while taking the women to rape and sell [[MadeASlave 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 [[SiblingRivalry brother complex he had]], when a little boy defended his elder brother, Jagi 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.]]

* [[BigBad Jakō]], EvilChancellor of the Celestial Empire, was never a nice person, waxing gleefully enthusiastic about [[WouldHurtAChild infanticide]] when [[SuccessionCrisis the Empire turned out to have one heir too many]], but 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 brutalising the poor whilst punishing dissent with death so liberally that the concentration camps overflowed and malcontents were executed 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 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 {{sadist}}ic delight in Falco's disgust and horror at the latest atrocity he would force him to perform.

* 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 die of thirst. But even after the orphans and Toyo are subdued, Jackal feels the need to {{sadist}}ically 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. It's not only his enemies who fear Jackal, either. He's 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, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder he thanks Kenshiro for rescuing him from the ”evil monster” who had ”captured” him]], and [[WoundedGazelleGambit encourages him to kill him quickly]].
* [[WardensAreEvil Uighur]] is the {{sadist}}ic warden of the prison-city Cassandra, dumping ground for the warlord Raoh's few living enemies. Cassandra is nicknamed the “City of Wailing Demons” due to the unimaginable hardships its inmates endure, hardships that Uighur is so delighted by that [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming 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 instil the appropriate fear of death in them before [[CruelAndUnusualDeath murdering them ''really'' horribly]].
* [[BigBad Jakoh]], EvilChancellor of the Celestial Empire, was never a nice person, waxing gleefully enthusiastic about [[WouldHurtAChild infanticide]] when [[SuccessionCrisis the Empire turned out to have one heir too many]], but 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 brutalising the poor whilst punishing dissent with death so liberally that the concentration camps overflowed and malcontents were executed 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 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 {{sadist}}ic delight in Falco's disgust and horror at the latest atrocity he would force him to perform.

''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 worst of the worst.

* Jagi, despite being a comparative wimp to [[WorldOfBadass 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 [[CombatPragmatist believed in winning however he could]] and even attempted to murder Kenshiro when Kenshiro was announced as the successor. Escaping with hideous disfigurement, Jagi became the leader of [[RapePillageAndBurn a roving gang of brigands]] that murdered families while taking the women to rape and sell [[MadeASlave 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 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.]] As Kenshiro said, hell is too good for him.
* Amiba, 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]] and impersonate Kenshiro's elder brother disciple Toki in these actions. Amiba did so in order to ruin Toki's name, knowing Toki was a kind man who dedicated his life and talents to helping others. The reason for his hatred? Amiba's ego 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']]
* The [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVA]] version of [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Emperor Souther/Thouzer]], the [[AGodAmI self-proclaimed]] [[LightIsNotGood Holy Emperor]], has all of the evil deeds of his manga counterpart, but none of the FreudianExcuse, {{graceful loser}}, or other redeeming qualities. Souther runs a brutal empire that enslaves thousands of innocent children and works them to death. He 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 [[ForTheEvulz 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, the bandit lord that Kenshiro takes on after the business with Shin, somehow manages to rival even the above three in depravity. Jackal and his men are harassing a village with an orphanage for its water. Jackal's men murder seven-year-old Taki for trying to collect the water they claim as "theirs", even if without the water, the rest of the orphans and their caretaker Toyo will 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. It's not only his enemies who should fear Jackal, either. He's a ludicrously BadBoss, 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... and when the Devil's Rebirth fails, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder he thanks Kenshiro for rescuing him from the 'evil monster' that had 'captured' him, and encourages him to kill him quickly]].
* Uighur is the [[WardensAreEvil sadistic warden]] of the prison-city Cassandra, dumping ground for the warlord Raoh's few living enemies. Cassandra is nicknamed the 'City of Wailing Demons' due to the unimaginable hardships its inmates endure, hardships that Uighur is so delighted by that [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming 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 (the latter along with a cell of randomly-selected prisoners, just to make a point). His 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 instil the appropriate fear of death in them before murdering them ''really'' horribly.
* Jakoh, EvilChancellor of the Celestial Empire, was never a nice person, waxing gleefully enthusiastic about infanticide when [[SuccessionCrisis the Empire turned out to have one heir too many]], but 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 brutalising the poor whilst punishing dissent with death so liberally that the concentration camps overflowed and malcontents were executed 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 he failed. His hatred of Hokuto was not the only legacy of his encounter with Raoh - Jakoh had 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.

* Emperor Souther, the [[LightIsNotGood Holy Emperor,]] in the OVA has all of the evil deeds of his manga counterpart, but none of the FreudianExcuse. Souther runs a brutal empire that enslaves thousands of innocent children and works them to death. He poisons supplies he knows the rebellion will steal (and knows they'll give the food to [[WouldHurtAChild 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, while having them beaten if they try to eat any of the excess. His old friend Shu, the rebellion's leader? Souther forces him, with cut tendons, to make his way up an enormous pyramid holding the enormous stone cap piece meant to finish it...if he drops it, every single slave will die; and if anyone helps him, Souther tells them their families will be executed. And then, once Shu finally does make it to the top of that pyramid? The bastard orders his archers to put arrows into him, and then finishes him off with a thrown spear.

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* Jackal, the bandit lord that Kenshiro takes on after the business with Shin, somehow manages to rival even the above three in depravity. Jackal and his men are harassing a village with an orphanage for its water. Jackal's men murder seven-year-old Taki for trying to collect the water they claim as "theirs", even if without the water, the rest of the orphans and their caretaker Toyo will 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. It's not only his enemies who should fear Jackal, either. He's a ludicrously BadBoss, 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... and when the Devil's Rebirth fails, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder he thanks Kenshiro for rescuing him from the 'evil monster' that had 'captured' him, and encourages him to kill him quickly]]. His comeuppance is [[HoistByHisOwnPetard very, very satisfying]].

* Jagi, despite being a comparative wimp to [[WorldOfBadass 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 no Ken, Jagi [[CombatPragmatist believed in winning however he could]] and even attempted to murder Kenshiro when Kenshiro was announced as the successor. Escaping with hideous disfigurement, Jagi became the leader of [[RapePillageAndBurn a roving gang of brigands]] that murdered families while taking the women to rape and sell [[MadeASlave 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 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.]] As Kenshiro said, hell is too good for him.

* Jackal, the bandit lord that Kenshiro takes on after the business with Shin, somehow manages to rival even the above three in depravity. Jackal and his men are harassing a village with an orphanage for its water. Jackal's men murder seven-year-old Taki for trying to collect the water they claim as "theirs", even if without the water, the rest of the orphans and their caretaker Toyo will 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. It's not only his enemies who should fear Jackal, either. He's a ludicrously BadBoss, 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... and when the Devil's Rebirth fails, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder he thanks Kenshiro for rescuing him from the 'evil monster' that had 'captured' him, and encourages him to kill him quickly]].

* Jackal the bandit somehow manages to rival even the above three in depravity. Jackal and his men are harassing a village with an orphanage for its water. Jackal's men murder seven-year-old Taki for trying to collect the water they claim as "theirs", even if without the water, the rest of the orphans and their caretaker Toyo will 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. It's not only his enemies who should fear Jackal, either. He's a ludicrously BadBoss, 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... and when the Devil's Rebirth fails, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder he thanks Kenshiro for rescuing him from the 'evil monster' that had 'captured' him, and encourages him to kill him quickly]].

* Jakoh, EvilChancellor of the Celestial Empire, was never a nice person, waxing gleefully enthusiastic about infanticide when [[SuccessionCrisis the Empire turned out to have one heir too many]], but 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 a power vacuum, 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 brutalising the poor whilst punishing dissent with death so liberally that the concentration camps overflowed and malcontents were executed 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 he failed. His hatred of Hokuto was not the only legacy of his encounter with Raoh - Jakoh had 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.

* Jackal the bandit somehow manages to rival even the above three in depravity. Jackal and his men are harassing a village with an orphanage for its water. Jackal's men murder seven-year-old Taki for trying to collect the water they claim as "theirs", even if without the water, the rest of the orphans and their caretaker Toyo will 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. It's not only his enemies who should fear Jackal, either. He's a ludicrously BadBoss, 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... and when the Devil's Rebirth fails, he thanks Kenshiro for rescuing him from the 'evil monster' that had 'captured' him, and encourages him to kill him quickly.

* Emperor Souther, the [[LightIsNotGood Holy Emperor,]] in the OVA has all of the evil deeds of his manga counterpart, but none of the inadequate FreudianExcuse. Souther runs a brutal empire that enslaves thousands of innocent children and works them to death. He poisons supplies he knows the rebellion will steal (and knows they'll give the food to [[WouldHurtAChild 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, while having them beaten if they try to eat any of the excess. His old friend Shu, the rebellion's leader? Souther forces him, with cut tendons, to make his way up an enormous pyramid holding the enormous stone cap piece meant to finish it...if he drops it, every single slave will die; and if anyone helps him, Souther tells them their families will be executed. And then, once Shu finally does make it to the top of that pyramid? The bastard orders his archers to put arrows into him, and then finishes him off with a thrown spear.

* Jackal the bandit somehow manages to rival even the above three in depravity. Jackal and his men are harassing a village with an orphanage for its water. Jackal's men murder seven-year-old Taki for trying to collect the water they claim as "theirs", even if without the water, the rest of the orphans and their caretaker Toyo will 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. When Kenshiro tracks him down at Villainy Prison, Jackal manipulates a giant convict by the name of Devil Rebirth to become his pawn to fight Kenshiro by pretending to be his long-lost brother.

* Jagi, despite being a comparative wimp to [[WorldOfBadass 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 no Ken, Jagi [[CombatPragmatist believed in winning however he could]] and even attempted to murder Kenshiro when Kenshiro was announced as the successor. Escaping with hideous disfigurement, Jagi became the leader of [[RapePillageAndBurn a roving gang of brigands]] that murdered families while taking the women to rape and sell [[MadeASlave 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 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.]] As Kenshiro said: Hell is too good for him.

* Jackal somehow manages to rival even the above three in depravity. Jackal and his men are harassing a village with an orphanage for its water. Jackal's men murder seven-year-old Taki for trying to collect the water they claim as "theirs", even if without the water, the rest of the orphans and their caretaker Toyo will 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. When Kenshiro tracks him down at Villainy Prison, Jackal manipulates a giant convict by the name of Devil Rebirth to become his pawn to fight Kenshiro by pretending to be his long-lost brother.

** Jagi, despite being a comparative wimp to [[WorldOfBadass 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 no Ken, Jagi [[CombatPragmatist believed in winning however he could]] and even attempted to murder Kenshiro when Kenshiro was announced as the successor. Escaping with hideous disfigurement, Jagi became the leader of [[RapePillageAndBurn a roving gang of brigands]] that murdered families while taking the women to rape and sell [[MadeASlave 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 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.]] As Kenshiro said: Hell is too good for him.
** Amiba, 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]] and impersonate Kenshiro's elder brother disciple Toki in these actions. Amiba did so in order to ruin Toki's name, knowing Toki was a kind man who dedicated his life and talents to helping others. The reason for his hatred? Amiba's ego 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']]
** Emperor Souther, the [[LightIsNotGood Holy Emperor,]] in the OVA has all of the evil deeds of his manga counterpart, but none of the inadequate FreudianExcuse. Souther runs a brutal empire that enslaves thousands of innocent children and works them to death. He poisons supplies he knows the rebellion will steal (and knows they'll give the food to [[WouldHurtAChild 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, while having them beaten if they try to eat any of the excess. His old friend Shu, the rebellion's leader? Souther forces him, with cut tendons, to make his way up an enormous pyramid holding the enormous stone cap piece meant to finish it...if he drops it, every single slave will die; and if anyone helps him, Souther tells them their families will be executed. And then, once Shu finally does make it to the top of that pyramid? The bastard orders his archers to put arrows into him, and then finishes him off with a thrown spear.
** Jackal somehow manages to rival even the above three in depravity. Jackal and his men are harassing a village with an orphanage for its water. Jackal's men murder seven-year-old Taki for trying to collect the water they claim as "theirs", even if without the water, the rest of the orphans and their caretaker Toyo will 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. When Kenshiro tracks him down at Villainy Prison, Jackal manipulates a giant convict by the name of Devil Rebirth to become his pawn to fight Kenshiro by pretending to be his long-lost brother.

* Jagi is by far the most heartless of all of Kenshiro's villains. At first he was a stupid loudmouth punk who fought dirty and occasionally had to shoot a guy to make a point. Murdering an innocent child by chaining a cinderblock to his leg and leaving him in the middle of the desert to die was what pushed him over the MoralEventHorizon. He also murdered Rei's family, kidnapped Rei's sister Airi on her wedding day, and sold her into (implied) sex-slavery with the Fang Clan. He then manipulated Kenshiro's best friend, Shin, into kidnapping Yuria due to his jealousy and unrequited love, which led to the mind-scarring event of Kenshiro seeing Yuria taken away from him, being betrayed by his best friend, and getting his seven scars. Just like Kenshiro said, [[FateWorseThanDeath hell is too good for him]].
** He [[WellDoneSonGuy does]] [[TheLostLenore have]] [[DespairEventHorizon a]] FreudianExcuse for being the way he is, but it doesn't excuse his acts of evil at all.
* There's Amiba, a MadScientist with Hokuto Shinken who conducts horrible experiments (based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 Unit 731]]) on peoples' pressure points, often making them explode quite gorily. He doesn't even show remorse when conducting these experiments on children and impersonating a good man like Toki to destroy his name. Why? Because Toki slapped him once, and not even deliberately at that -- [[DisproportionateRetribution he rushed past Amiba, and his hand brushed Amiba's face without Toki noticing]].
* Emperor Souther is an example of a villain whose FreudianExcuse doesn't even BEGIN to overwrite his atrocities or explain anything. Souther runs a brutal empire that enslaves thousands of innocent children and works them to death. He poisons supplies he knows the rebellion will steal and throws himself huge banquets, eats a small plate, and destroys the rest, all for the sick glee of watching the starving slaves suffer. His old friend Shu, the rebellion's leader? Souther forces him, with cut tendons, to make his way up an enormous pyramid holding the enormous stone cap piece meant to finish it...if he drops it, every single slave will die; and if anyone helps him, Souther tells them their families will be executed. And then, once Shu finally does make it to the top of that pyramid? The bastard orders his archers to put arrows into him, and then finishes him off with a thrown spear. To say that Kenshiro was ''[[ThisIsUnforgivable utterly]] [[PrepareToDie pissed]]'' at this is quite the understatement. And the FreudianExcuse in question? Because he was forced to kill his beloved master to master the Nanto Ho'ou Ken. The amount of grief he experienced was so much that he swore to never love and became as much as a bastard as he can. Gee, you'd think he'd try to man up rather than just run off from challenges of the grief coming with love like that. Souther's master would probably cry tears of shame and sadness in his grave if he found out what his beloved disciple did for him.
* One of the big reasons why the world of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' is such a CrapsackWorld is that the monstrosity isn't limited to the major villains. It's extremely common for minor villains to be utterly selfish and craving power, bullying the weak, and the mooks have a tendency to treat the innocent good people as playthings to plunder, loot, and kill for sport. The fact that the world was torn asunder by nuclear war and only those with power can thrive is just no excuse for what these men do. It's no wonder that the arrival of Kenshiro is often considered as the arrival of a savior, as well as why it is so satisfying to see him deliver unto these scum what they very much deserve -- which also makes the series quite popular if you get past the gore, because CompleteMonster-dom seems to be made to be punched out like play-doh by Kenshiro rather than getting away with what they did.
** Raoh's men were people whose true nature was that of "demons that eat people," and Raoh, an unrepentant, power-hungry dictator who imprisoned whoever might oppose him (even if that person was a baby), [[IControlMyMinionsThrough kept these men in line through fear of his power]]. After his first battle with Kenshiro, Raoh lay low for a while, During that time, one of Raoh's subordinates had his soldiers commit various atrocities, killing innocent women and kids for sport, and the people Raoh had been crushing under his boot complained that Raoh never allowed the atrocities this guy was indulging in. And indeed, when Raoh found out what the subordinate and his men were doing in his absence, he was ''less than pleased with their shit'' and decided to punish them by trampling them to death under the hooves of [[CoolHorse Kokuoh-Go]].
** Abida, one of Raoh's former subordinates, had his soldiers play cruel games on the villagers (since Raoh was gone) who he would hand-pick between big gulps of alcohol. Namely, him and his child-like underling Gonzu would chain giant rings on the villagers' waists and swing them as far as they could to see who could throw them the farthest.
** Hiruka, a minion of Raoh. His crimes include: Having his men whip captured orphans, throwing his own two biological sons into an agonizing death in quicksand just to get [[GentleGiant Fudoh]]. It's made clear he enjoys all of this.
** Targel, an underling of Uighur, is distinctive in that despite being a filler character and therefore only showing up for one episode, manages to cruelly murder three innocent people during his brief screentime. Specifically, a martial artist (in front of his wife no less), and a Cassandra prisoner known as Bella (along with her elderly mother).
** Jackal, a biker and sadistic crimelord based off Toecutter from "Film/MadMax". Jackal and his men are harassing a village with an orphanage for its water. Jackal's men murder seven-year-old Taki for trying to collect the water they claim as "theirs", even if without the water, the rest of the orphans and their caretaker Toyo will 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, and to make matters worse, the bastard then tries to kill the kids by strapping dynamite to their backs in order to keep Kenshiro from going after him. When Kenshiro tracks him down at Villainy Prison, Jackal manipulates a giant convict by the name of Devil Rebirth to become his pawn to fight Kenshiro by pretending to be his long-lost brother, which ultimately proves to be Jackal's undoing.
** Jemoni, another of one of Raoh's heartless mercenaries. His ultimate goal in life is to kill as many people as possible to demonstrate how powerful he is. Just before fighting Kenshiro, he has murdered 9999 people and is proud of it. He aimed to make Kenshiro is 10,000th victim, only to end up becoming his own milestone kill when Kenshiro struck a power point that forced him to behead himself.
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** He [[WellDoneSonGuy does]] [[TheLostLenore have]] [[DespairEventHorizon a]] FreudianExcuse for his actions, but it doesn't excuse him from actions.

* Emperor Souther is an example of a villain whose FreudianExcuse doesn't even BEGIN to overwrite his atrocities or explain anything. Souther runs a brutal empire that enslaves thousands of innocent children and works them to death. He poisons supplies he knows the rebellion will steal and throws himself huge banquets, eats a small plate, and destroys the rest, all for the sick glee of watching the starving slaves suffer. His old friend Shu, the rebellion's leader? Souther forces him, with cut tendons, to make his way up an enormous pyramid holding the enormous stone cap piece meant to finish it...if he drops it, every single slave will die; and if anyone helps him, Souther tells them their families will be executed. And then, once Shu finally does make it to the top of that pyramid? The bastard orders his archers to put arrows into him, and then finishes him off with a thrown spear. To say that Kenshiro was ''[[ThisIsUnforgivable utterly]] [[PrepareToDie pissed]]'' at this is quite the understatement. And the FreudianExcuse in question? Because he was forced to kill his beloved master to master the Nanto Ho'ou Ken. The amount of grief he experienced was so much that he swore to never love and became as much as a bastard as he can. Gee, you'd think he'd try to man up rather than just run off from challenges of the grief coming with love like that. Souther's master would probably cries tears of shame and sadness in his grave if he found out what his beloved disciple did for him.