History WMG / FistOfTheNorthStar

* Both manga & animé are rather explicit about all the wasteland bein a result of a nuclear war.

* The animé is rather explicit about all the wasteland bein a result of a nuclear war.

In fact, it was a devastating war between the most powerful martial artists the world had to offer, flashing impossible powers and devastating abilities against one another on an epic, earth-shattering scale. The remainders of the nuclear war were either civilians or comparatively weaker martial artists. [[HolyShitQuotient This includes Kenshiro.]]

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[[WMG: Kenshiro (and/or Raoh, alternately) is one of the missing [[{{Warhammer40000}} primarchs]]]]

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* By extension, it's possible that [[FateExtra Fate/Extra]] takes place ''after'' the destruction of the 'modern' world (as demonstrated through both Twice Pieceman's flashbacks and what we see of the world during the ending scenes) but ''before'' it descended completely into MadMax-style pre-technological anarchy. This would indicate a timeline where the clashes between the rebels and the Harway-led plutocracy didn't stop with just germ warfare gone wrong but actually concluded with nuclear bombardment-- Possibly meaning that, across the radioactive sea, [[{{Fallout}} Vault-Tec]] and the former USA is compensating for a lack of Nanto Seiken practitioners with old-world tech and Pip-Boy-wielding Vault Dwellers/Chosen Ones/Lone Wanderers/Couriers. Who can, coincidentally, achieve similar results through use of [[BulletTime VATS]] and the [[LudicrousGibs Bloody Mess]] perk. One timeline gave birth to two separate universes, three if you think ''TheBookOfEli'' takes place within the ''Fallout'' world, given the Great War/destruction by nukes and the solo sojourner defending human kindness/morality through the [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption rampant, bloody murder]] of the [[ObviouslyEvil obvious villains]].
** The reason the ''Fallout''/''The Book of Eli'' examples contain fewer ManlyTears / TenderTears / RedemptionEqualsDeath? Shirou's idealism, demonstrated in how he's able to forgive 'villains' like Rider and Sakura because of their tragic pasts, carried on through the heroes who managed to exist even in the Grail's CrapsackWorld. Kenshiro is a hero in the Shirou mold, as opposed to Archer who pursued his ideals even if it meant innocents dying. On the other hand, ''Fallout''/''Eli'' is a case of AmericanKirbyIsHardcore. Obviously, the reason for the difference between the martial-arts-filled East and the guns-and-tech West is a matter of local deity: As seen through Eli hauling that Bible cross-country thanks to the 'voice in his head' and the number of Biblical references in ''Fallout'', notably the importance of a Biblical verse in ''Fallout3'' and Joshua Graham/the New Caananites in ''FalloutNewVegas'', the deity responsible for guiding/remaking the West - okay, or maybe just the US - isn't Buddha but {{God}}.

* Alternatively, Kenshiro uses [[{{Fallout}} VATS]] and has the Bloody Mess perk.

* By extension, it's possible that [[FateExtra Fate/Extra]] takes place ''after'' the destruction of the 'modern' world (as demonstrated through both Twice Peaceman's flashbacks and what we see of the world during the ending scenes) but ''before'' it descended completely into MadMax-style pre-technological anarchy. This would indicate a timeline where the clashes between the rebels and the Harway-led plutocracy didn't stop with just germ warfare gone wrong but actually concluded with nuclear bombardment-- Possibly meaning that, across the radioactive sea, [[{{Fallout}} Vault-Tec]] and the former USA is compensating for a lack of Nanto Seiken practitioners with old-world tech and Pip-Boy-wielding Vault Dwellers/Chosen Ones/Lone Wanderers/Couriers. Who can, coincidentally, achieve similar results through use of [[BulletTime VATS]] and the [[LudicrousGibs Bloody Mess]] perk. One timeline gave birth to two separate universes... Three if you think ''TheBookOfEli'' takes place within the ''Fallout'' world, given the Great War/destruction by nukes and the solo sojourner defending human kindness/morality through the [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption rampant, bloody murder]] of the [[ObviouslyEvil obvious villains]].

From [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTI8euNcOt4 this]] we know that not only HokutoNoKen is set in the same world of UruseiYatsura, but that Kenshiro frequented Tomobiki High in the same class as Ataru, Lum, Mendo and Shinobu (and that could explain Shinobu's super strenght: she probably saw Jagi or Raoh showing off and managed to copy the way Hokuto practitioners gets theirs). As the various aliens tended to leave around pieces of their technology, the various governments tried to get some of it, with the skirmishes progressively growing and degenerating in open war. Then the Oni moved in to recover Lum and her husband (and possibly some of their friend), the Americans mistook it for another invasion and fired a volley of nukes, China mistook it for the first strike and launched its nukes, and it went to full-blown nuclear war from there.

[[WMG: Someone DangerouslyGenreSavvy with a DeathNote is trying to track Kenshiro [[FollowTheChaos following the trail of bodies]] ]]

[[WMG: The nuclear war that made Kensiro's world the way it is is a direct result of Emiya Shirou's wish to be "The Greatest Hero Of All Time" in ''[[FateStayNight Fate: Unlimited Balde Works.]]]]''

[[WMG: Kenshiro is one of the missing [[{{Warhammer40000}} primarchs]]]]

[[WMG: Both Souther and Kaioh tole their MonsterSobStory to Kenshiro to ''deliberately'' get a merciful and painless death.]]

* Alternatively, Kenshiro uses [[{{Fallout}} VATS]].

[[WMG: The man who carried TheBookOfEli was to America AfterTheEnd as Kenshiro was to China, and was a practitioner of Nanto Seiken]]

Even saviors like Kenshiro and ''Raoh'' can be restricted by geography and oceans, so the [[{God} Gentleman Upstairs]] decides to give each area a savior of its own: and Eli has WAY more mastery in the art of slicing than a non-Nanto Seiken practitioner has any rights to.

Even Kenshiro and ''Raoh'' can be restricted by geography and oceans, and Eli has WAY more mastery in the art of slicing than a non-Nanto Seiken practitioner has any rights to.