History NightmareFuel / FistOfTheNorthStar

* The fighting style of ''Hokuto Shinken'' (can be translated as "North Star God Fist" or "Big Dipper Divine Fist") is this. It consists of the practitioner hitting the pressure points of a person. It can be used for healing, which both Kenshiro and Toki demonstrate during the series, but when it is used to kill, it often results in various horrifying effects such as [[Fingore hands blowing up]], [[YourHeadASplode heads exploding]], [[StuffBlowingUp the whole]] [[LudicrousGibs body exploding]], causing someone to uncontrollably walk backwards off a skyscraper, separating a person's skeleton from his skin, causing a person's body to feel like it's covered with bare nerves, and the list goes on. Oh, and the person on the receiving end will often be in agonizing pain as he dies from one of these effects. The story itself acknowledges that this is a terrible fighting style that must ''never'' be misused on people, or else it would destroy the world. As events in the story show, it wasn't kidding.

** In particular, all of Rei's [[Fingore fingernails burst out of his fingers, one by one]].

* The fighting style of ''Hokuto Shinken'' (can be translated as "North Star God Fist" or "Big Dipper Divine Fist") is this. It consists of the practitioner hitting the pressure points of a person. It can be used for healing, which both Kenshiro and Toki demonstrate during the series, but when it is used to kill, it often results in various horrifying effects such as hands blowing up, [[YourHeadASplode heads exploding]], the whole body exploding, causing someone to uncontrollably walk backwards off a skyscraper, separating a person's skeleton from his skin, causing a person's body to feel like it's covered with bare nerves, and the list goes on. Oh, and the person on the receiving end will often be in agonizing pain as he dies from one of these effects. The story itself acknowledges that this is a terrible fighting style that must ''never'' be misused on people, or else it would destroy the world. As events in the story show, it wasn't kidding.

This classic has its share of Nightmare Fuel. Interestingly enough, at the time it was first released, it was aimed at kids. Nowadays, people would say that this work is meant for an older audience.

* Kaiou. He happens to be very good at ''Hokuto Ryuuken'', and has become so demonic that he has to wear armor not for protection, but to keep his evil BattleAura contained. It goes without saying that if the armor ever comes off, horrible things will happen. At one point, he murders his own little sister Sayaka, just to manipulate her fiance Hyou. It makes you wonder what it must have been like for her to live with this guy. He also captures Rin and states straight out that she will bear him his son. He's at least seven feet tall and pretty wide, so how Rin would be able to bear him a child, willing or otherwise, is a nightmarish question to think about. The fact that she was on a bed and he was slowly and menacingly approaching her at one point certainly did not help matters.

* Devil's Rebirth, a monstrous criminal from the pre-war world who was sentenced to a century-long prison sentence for a murder spree that racked up hundreds of victims. Why didn't they execute him? ''They DID. IT DIDNT WORK''. Not only is Devil's Rebirth a literal giant standing several stories tall and has enormous strength, he is also a martial arts user, using a style that lets him control the wind. [[WhatAnIdiot Jackal releases him to take down Kenshiro]]. Thankfully, his size didn't make him immune to Kenshiro's attacks. Though he survived just long enough to turn on Jackal when he tried to lie one last time to Kenshiro and hold him fast so Kenshiro could kill him with his own dynamite.

* Devil's Rebirth, a monstrous criminal from the pre-war world who was sentenced to a century-long prison sentence for a murder spree that racked up hundreds of victims. Why didnt they execute him? ''They DID. IT DIDNT WORK''. Not only is Devil's Rebirth a literal giant standing several stories tall and has enormous strength, he is also a martial arts user, using a style that lets him control the wind. [[WhatAnIdiot Jackal releases him to take down Kenshiro]]. Thankfully, his size didnt make him immune to Kenshiro's attacks.

* Devil's Rebirth, a monstrous criminal from the pre-war world who was sentenced to a century-long prison sentence for a murder spree that racked up hundreds of victims. Why didnt they execute him? ''They DID. IT DIDNT WORK''. Not only is Devil's Rebirth a literal giant standing several stories tall and has enormous strength, he is also a martial arts user, using a style that lets him control the wind. [[WhatAnIdiot Jackal releases him to take down Kenshiro]]. THankfully, his size didnt make him immune to Kenshiro's attacks.

** The one technique that takes the grand prize out of Hokuto Shinken (And really, a lot of techniques we witness)? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ1BZ0w3_-o Hokuto Ujou Hagan Ken]], which is translated roughly to "North Star Humanist Face Breaking Fist." There's Toki, who's sitting there calmly while 2 of the prison guards were about to kill him, and then all of a sudden Toki raises his arms and a beam of energy is shot from each one of them towards the guards on both sides. At first, the guards are confused as to what just happened and on cue their bodies start to twist. Then Kenshiro explains that those who are on the receiving end of the technique will experience sheer heaven before they die. And lo, the guards' bodies start to twist and turn on every limb in a nightmarish way, but the worst part? ''The guards' faces are not contorted in pain, but rather in sheer pleasure and ecstasy while their bodies twist and turn further until their bodies are'' '''completely desintegrated'''. It's so ironic that the most illuminated, wise and gentle character in the series has mastered such a horrifying technique, which fans jokingly called it [[FanNickname "the Jesus Rainbow Beam"]].

* The nuclear war, as shown in the original movie. It's on par with ''BarefootGen'', with showing people being graphically vaporized by the nuclear bombs, loads of EyeScream, and people so burned that they resemble shambling zombies before they finally fall over and die.

* Alf of the Hourglass. You might think he's just an imitator of a bull-fighting matador...until you punch his poisoned cape. The good news is that the poison itself will not kill you and will wear off in a short time. The bad news is that the poison will cause you to experience at least double vision and disorient you, in which time, Alf will charge to stab you with his weapon. Here's a little tidbit: in RealLife, there are poisons out there that can go through your skin and into your bloodstream; the official name for them is contact poisons. So the idea of getting poisoned just because it ended up on your hands is not as far-fetched as you might think.

** The one technique that takes the grand prize out of Hokuto Shinken (And really, a lot of techniques we witness)? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ1BZ0w3_-o Hokuto Ujou Hagan Ken]], which is translated roughly to "North Star Humanist Face Breaking Fist." There's Toki, who's sitting there calmly while 2 of the prison guards were about to kill him, and then all of a sudden Toki raises his arms and a beam of energy is shot from each one of them towards the guards on both sides. At first, the guards are confused as to what just happened and on cue their bodies start to twist. Then Kenshiro explains that those who are on the receiving end of the technique will experience sheer heaven before they die. And lo, the guards' bodies start to twist and turn on every limb in a nightmarish way, but the worst part? ''The guards' faces are not contorted in pain, but rather in sheer pleasure and ecstasy while their bodies twist and turn further until their bodies are'' '''completely desintegrated'''. It's so ironic that the most illuminated, wise and gentle character in the series has mastered such a horrifying technique, and it's a good thing he's a good guy too.

** And the worst part? They're ''assassination techniques''. Meaning the practitioners are also incredibly skilled at sneaking up on people and do their job (as shown multiple times by Kenshiro and Rei casually walking up into enemy camps ''in broad daylight'' without being noticed until they decide to speak). Imagine, you're a {{Mook}} doing nothing but your job and talking with your fellow Mook about whatever you've been doing, and suddenly your compaion explodes, falls into pieces, or has a hand sticking out of the chest...

* The fighting style of ''Nanto Seiken'' (can be translated as "South Star Holy Fist" or "South Dipper Holy Fist") is this for a different reason. ''Hokuto Shinken'' destroys enemies by hitting pressure (in other words, from the inside out), while ''Nanto Seiken'' simply destroys enemies from the outside in. A practitioner of this style will have [[RazorSharpHand fingers as sharp as swords]], and can either stab you, as Shin graphically demonstrated on Kenshiro, or slash you to ribbons with air pressure, as Rei does to his enemies.

* A large majority of the villains embody this trope. They look as ugly as sin, and have the personality to match. Some of them seem to be as large as a house or 10-story-building, and that's bigger than Kenshiro, who is six feet tall. They go around robbing, raping and murdering people. They don't care if women and children are among the men they target. They will also not listen to reason at all. Indeed, one must wonder if they were good people before the nuclear war, or if they were always like this. In fact, with a lot of them being so big and ugly, one must wonder how they got into bomb shelters to survive...and if anyone else in the bomb shelters survived with them. On the other hand, since they're so evil, heartless, and monstrous, you will be fine with Kenshiro using his scary ''Hokuto Shinken'' on them.

* A large majority of the villains embody this trope. They look as ugly as sin, and have the personality to match. Some of them seem to be as large as a house or 10-storey-building, and that's bigger than Kenshiro, who is six feet tall. They go around robbing, raping and murdering people. They don't care if women and children are among the men they target. They will also not listen to reason at all. Indeed, one must wonder if they were good people before the nuclear war, or if they were always like this. In fact, with a lot of them being so big and ugly, one must wonder how they got into bomb shelters to survive...and if anyone else in the bomb shelters survived with them. On the other hand, since they're so evil, heartless, and monstrous, you will be fine with Kenshiro using his scary ''Hokuto Shinken'' on them.

* [[AxCrazy Jagi]]. Then he takes off his mask [[NightmareFace and]]... [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100917092255/hokuto/images/a/a8/Jagi_%28Jagi_Gaiden%29.jpg SWEET MERCY]]!

* The fighting style of ''Hokuto Shinken'' (can be translated as "North Star God Fist" or "Big Dipper Divine Fist") is this. It consists of the practitioner hitting the pressure points of a person. It can be used for healing, which both Kenshiro and Toki demonstrate during the series, but when it is used to kill, it often results in various effects such as hands blowing up, heads exploding, the whole body exploding, causing someone to uncontrollably walk backwards off a skyscraper, separating a person's skeleton from his skin, causing a person's body to feel like it's covered with bare nerves, and the list goes on. Oh, and the person on the receiving end will often be in agonizing pain as he dies from one of these effects. The story itself acknowledges that this is a terrible fighting style that must ''never'' be misused on people, or else it would destroy the world. As events in the story show, it wasn't kidding.

* The fighting style Hokuto Shinken (can be translated as "North Star God Fist" or "Big Dipper Divine Fist") is this. It consists of the practitioner hitting the pressure points of a person. It can be used for healing, but it often results in various effects such as hands blowing up, heads exploding, the whole body exploding, causing someone to uncontrollably walk backwards off a skyscraper, separating a person's skeleton from his skin, causing a person's body to feel like it's covered with bare nerves, and the list goes on. Oh, and the person on the receiving end will often be in agonizing pain as he dies from one of these effects. The story itself acknowledges that this is a terrible fighting style that must ''never'' be misused on people, or else it would destroy the world. As events in the story show, it wasn't kidding.
* The fighting style Nanto Seiken (can be translated as "South Star Holy Fist" or "South Dipper Holy Fist") is this for a different reason. Hokuto Shinken destroys enemies by hitting pressure (in other words, from the inside out), while Nanto Seiken simply destroys enemies from the outside in. A practitioner of this style will have [[RazorSharpHand fingers as sharp as swords]], and can either stab you, as Shin graphically demonstrated on Kenshiro, or slash you to ribbons with air pressure, as Rei does to his enemies.
* The fighting style Taizan Tenrouken (can be translated as "Mount Tai Sirius Fist") is a terrible fighting style. Ryuga is the only practitioner of this style, and that's a good thing. With this style, he scoops the chunks of his victims' flesh while leaving them with a feeling of bitter coldness. They feel cold, not necessarily because he's freezing them, but because he scooped out their nerve endings. Kenshiro himself said that this is a terrible style. When the guy who can make your head explode just by touching a pressure point actually says this, that really tells you something.
* The fighting style Hokuto Ryuuken (can be translated as "Big Dipper Shining Stone Fist") may sound like a cool style...until you see it in action. One teacher of the style, Jukei, used it...and paid a terrible price. Apparently, it put him in a state similar to being on drugs. While under the influence, he became demonic-looking, with bulging veins all over his body, his eyes being covered with veins, and emitting purple smoke breath. He also killed a lot of people and caused a lot of destruction while under the influence, and Ryuken had to hit him with pressure points on the neck to snap him out of it. Oh, and Jukei hadn't even surrendered himself completely to it by that point! Oh, and here's the kicker...Jukei didn't even remember what he did while he was on a rampage, and Ryuken had to tell him that during his rampage, he killed his own wife and child. This is the reason the plotline focused on killing off everyone who learned that style.

* A large majority of the villains embody this trope. They look as ugly as sin, and have the personality to match. Some of them seem to be as large as a house or 10-storey-building, and that's bigger than Kenshiro, who is six feet tall. They go around robbing, raping and murdering people. They don't care if women and children are among the men they target. They will also not listen to reason at all. Indeed, one must wonder if they were good people before the nuclear war, or if they were always like this. In fact, with a lot of them being so big and ugly, one must wonder how they got into bomb shelters to survive...and if anyone else in the bomb shelters survived with them. On the other hand, since they're so evil, heartless, and monstrous, you will be fine with Kenshiro using his scary Hokuto Shinken on them.

* Kaiou. He happens to be very good at Hokuto Ryuuken, and has become so demonic that he has to wear armor not for protection, but to keep his evil BattleAura contained. It goes without saying that if the armor ever comes off, horrible things will happen. At one point, he murders his own little sister Sayaka, just to manipulate her fiance Hyou. It makes you wonder what it must have been like for her to live with this guy. He also captures Rin and states straight out that she will bear him his son. He's at least seven feet tall and pretty wide, so how Rin would be able to bear him a child, willing or otherwise, is a nightmarish question to think about. The fact that she was on a bed and he was slowly and menacingly approaching her at one point certainly did not help matters.

* The fighting style Nanto Seiken (can be translated as "South Star Holy Fist" or "South Dipper Holy Fist") is this for a different reason. Hokuto Shinken destroys enemies by hitting pressure (in other words, from the inside out), while Nanto Seiken simply destroys enemies from the outside in. A practitioner of this style will have [[RazorSharpHands fingers as sharp as swords]], and can either stab you, as Shin graphically demonstrated on Kenshirou, or slash you to ribbons with air pressure, as Rei does to his enemies.

* The fighting style Hokuto Shinken (can be translated as "North Star God Fist" or "Big Dipper Divine Fist") is this. It consists of the practitioner hitting the pressure points of a person. It can be used for healing, but it often results in various effects such as hands blowing up, heads exploding, the whole body exploding, causing someone to uncontrollably walk backwards off a skyscraper, separating a person's skeleton from his skin, causing a person's body to feel like it's covered with bare nerves, and the list goes on. Oh, and the person on the receiving end will often be in pain as he dies from one of these effects. The story itself acknowledges that this is a terrible fighting style that must ''never'' be misused on people, or else it would destroy the world. As events in the story show, it wasn't kidding.
* The fighting style Nanto Seiken (can be translated as "South Star Holy Fist" or "South Dipper Holy Fist") is this for a different reason. Hokuto Shinken destroys enemies by hitting pressure (in other words, from the inside out), while Nanto Seiken simply destroys enemies from the outside in. A practitioner of this style will have fingers as sharp as swords, and can stab you, as Shin graphically demonstrated on Kenshirou. Then you have Rei, who uses air pressure to slice enemies to pieces with his bare hands literally.
* The fighting style Taizan Tenrouken (can be translated as "Mount Tai Sirius Fist") is a terrible fighting style. Ryuga is the only practitioner of this style, and that's a good thing. With this style, he scoops the chunks of his victims' flesh while leaving them with a feeling of bitter coldness. They feel cold, not necessarily because he's freezing them, but because he scooped out their nerve endings. Kenshirou himself said that this is a terrible style. When the guy who can make your head explode just by touching a pressure point actually says this, that really tells you something.
* The fighting style Hokuto Ryuuken style (can be translated as "Big Dipper Shining Stone Fist") may sound like a cool style...until you see it in action. One teacher of the style, Jukei, used it...and paid a terrible price. Apparently, it put him in a state similar to being on drugs. While under the influence, he became demonic-looking, with bulging veins all over his body, his eyes being covered with veins, and emitting purple smoke breath. He also killed a lot of people and caused a lot of destruction while under the influence, and Ryuken had to hit him with pressure points on the neck to snap him out of it. Oh, and Jukei hadn't even surrendered himself completely to it by that point! Oh, and here's the kicker...Jukei didn't even remember what he did while he was on a rampage, and Ryuken had to tell him that during his rampage, he killed his own wife and child. This is the reason the plotline focused on killing off everyone who learned that style.

* A large majority of the villains embody this trope. They look as ugly as sin, and have the personality to match. Some of them seem to be as large as a house or 10-storey-building, and that's bigger than Kenshirou, who is six feet tall. They go around robbing, killing, and raping people. They don't care if women and children are among the men they target. They will also not listen to reason at all. Indeed, one must wonder if they were good people before the nuclear war, or if they were always like this. In fact, with a lot of them being so big and ugly, one must wonder how they got into bomb shelters to survive...and if anyone else in the bomb shelters survived with them. On the other hand, since they're so evil, heartless, and monstrous, you will be fine with Kenshirou using his scary Hokuto Shinken on them.

* Kaiou. He happens to be very good at Hokuto Ryuuken, and has become so demonic that he has to wear armour not for protection, but to keep his evil battle aura contained. It goes without saying that if the armour ever comes off, then horrible things will happen. At one point, he murders his own little sister Sayaka, just to manipulate her fiance Hyou. It makes you wonder what it must have been like for her to live with this guy. He also captures Rin and states straight out that she will bear him his son. He's at least seven feet tall and pretty wide, so how would Rin be able to bear him a child, willing or otherwise, is a nightmarish question to think about. The fact that she was on a bed and he was slowly and menacingly approaching her at one point certainly did not help matters.
* Alf of the Hourglass. You might think he's just an imitator of a bull-fighting matador...until you punch his poisoned cape. The good news is that the poison itself will not kill you and will wear off in a short time. The bad news is that the poison will cause you to experience at least double vision and disorient you, in which time, Alf will charge to stab you with his weapon. Here's a little tidbit: in RealLife, there are poisons out there that can go through your skin and into your bloodstream. So the idea of getting poisoned just because it ended up on your hands is not as far-fetched as you might think.

* Alf of the Hourglass. You might think he's just an imitator of a bull-fighting matador...until you punch his cape. The cape is poisoned. The good news is that the poison itself will not kill you and will wear off in a short time. The bad news is that the poison will cause you to experience at least double vision and disorient you, in which time, Alf will charge to stab you with his weapon. Here's a little tidbit: in RealLife, there are poisons out there that can go through your skin and into your bloodstream. So the idea of getting poisoned just because it ended up on your hands is not as far-fetched as you might think.

* Kaiou. He happens to be very good at Hokuto Ryuuken, and has become so demonic that he has to wear armour not for protection, but to keep his evil battle aura contained. It goes without saying that if the armour ever comes off, then horrible things will happen. At one point, he murders his own little sister, just to manipulate her fiance Hyou. It makes you wonder what it must have been like for her to live with this guy. He also captures Rin and states straight out that she will bear him his son. He's at least seven feet tall and pretty wide, so how would Rin be able to bear him a child, willing or otherwise, is a nightmarish question to think about. The fact that she was on a bed and was slowly approaching her at one point certainly did not help matters.

* A large majority of the villains are this trope incarnate. They look as ugly as sin, and have the personality to match. Some of them seem to be as large as a house or 10-storey-building, and that's bigger than Kenshirou, who is six feet tall. They go around robbing, killing, and raping people. They don't care if women and children are among the men they target. They will also not listen to reason at all. Indeed, one must wonder if they were good people before the nuclear war, or if they were always like this. In fact, with a lot of them being so big and ugly, one must wonder how they got into bomb shelters to survive...and if anyone else in the bomb shelters survived with them. On the other hand, since they're so evil, heartless, and monstrous, you will be fine with Kenshirou using his scary Hokuto Shinken on them.

* A large majority of the villains are this trope incarnate. They look as ugly as sin, and have the personality to match. Some of them seem to be as large as a house or 10-storey-building, and that's bigger than Kenshirou, who is six feet tall. They go around robbing, killing, and raping people. They don't care if women and children are among the men they target. They will also not listen to reason at all. Indeed, one must wonder if they were good people before the nuclear war, or if they were always like this. In fact, with a lot of them being so big and ugly, one must wonder how they got into bomb shelters to survive...and if anyone else in the bomb shelters survived with them. On the other hand, since they're so evil, heartless, and monstrous, you will be fine with Kenshirou using his scary Hokuto Shinken on them.

* The fighting style Nanto Seiken (can be translated as "South Star Holy Fist" or "South Dipper Holy Fist" is this for a different reason. Hokuto Shinken destroys enemies by hitting pressure (in other words, from the inside out), while Nanto Seiken simply destroys enemies from the outside in. A practitioner of this style will have fingers as sharp as swords, and can stab you, as Shin graphically demonstrated on Kenshirou. Then you have Rei, who uses air pressure to slice enemies to pieces with his bare hands literally.

* The nuclear war, as shown in the original movie. It's on par with ''Barefoot Gen'', with showing people being graphically vaporized by the nuclear bombs, loads of EyeScream, and people so burned that they resemble shambling zombies before they finally fall over and die.

* [[AxCrazy Jagi]]. Then he takes off his mask [[NightmareFace and]]... [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100917092255/hokuto/images/a/a8/Jagi_%28Jagi_Gaiden%29.jpg SWEET MERCY]]!

* The fighting style Hokuto Shinken (can be translated as "North Star God Fist" or "Big Dipper Divine Fist") is very much this. It consists of the practitioner hitting the pressure points of a person. It can be used for healing, but it often results in various effects such as hands blowing up, heads exploding, the whole body exploding, causing someone to uncontrollably walk backwards off a skyscraper, separating a person's skeleton from his skin, causing a person's body to feel like it's covered with bare nerves, and the list goes on. Oh, and the person on the receiving end will often be in pain as he dies from one of these effects. The story itself acknowledges that this is a terrible fighting style that must ''never'' be misused on people, or else it would destroy the world. As events in the story show, it wasn't kidding.