In the manga, Shin's WTF face when Kenshiro deals with Mr. Heart's Kevlard by literally pushing away the fat.
Episode 2: In the english dub, when Bat gets the rice seeds back, he breaks the fourth wall to talk the audience for a little bit. When he decides to eat one of the rice seeds, he does it in such a way that he looks like he's advertising for a commercial.
Bart:(camera zooms in) The wholesome flavor of brown rice!
When Kenshiro catches Bat trying to eat the entire rice, the latter gets a rather hilarious Bitch Slap for his greed.
Episode 30 begins with Kenshiro encountering Gaira, who claims to have learned Hokuto Shinken techniques from Jagi and attempts to use them on Kenshiro. Kenshiro, being Kenshiro, isn't affected at all. Gaira, on the other hand...
For added hilarity, he drops into a badass baritone when claiming Kenshiro is already dead and instantly goes high pitched when he realizes the technique backfired.
Previously, Kenshiro has elbowed Gaira in the face, denting his mask, suggesting that Kenshiro elbowed a Pressure Point that set up a delayed reaction. On the other hand, after Gaira's head blows up, Kenshiro remarks that the Fist of the North Star has a history of over 2000 years, and that it would not be so easily mastered, meaning that Gaira did not fully master the Fist of the North Star, and that lack of mastery came back to bite him.
His manga counterpart was on the OTHER end of the Zankai-Ken. Kenshiro then puts the poor sap in the hole with only his thumbs.
From the same episode, Ken burying the saw (which he'd just been given and ordered to cut a guy's head off with) into the Mook's head.
-"This saw?"
-"Yes... But not on me..."
When Rei does this in the 1986 film, the mook experimentally taps the saw now buried in his head. Giggle fuel!
Mook: Wait a minute... I was talkin' about the other guy.
Rei: Silly me, what a foolish mistake.
Mook: I got a splitting headache...
Rei: Oh? *Moves the saw a bit, killing the poor guy.* Better now?
The Humiliation Conga that Jyuza dealt to Raoh and his army. Outsmarting Raoh with a fighting style he literally just made up, stealing Raoh's horse and just to rub salt in the wounds, Jyuza slaps his own ass telling Raoh that he can "kiss his ass".
The final trolling Jyuza delivers to Raoh in their final battle. It has to be seen to be believed.
Kenshiro shoved one poor miniboss into a cannon, then shot it through a hot air balloon, then exploded when he landed (the scene is 9:10 minutes into the video). Speaking of that, Nanto Human Cannon technique does not look like it is a serious technique, but just some ridiculous child's trick playing the name of Nanto already.
Also, as mentioned in Crowning Moment of Awesome, Kenshiro blowing up the tank!
The death of Patra, a female villain from a filler episode, which manages to be so absurdly gruesome and violent that it loops around to beingdarkly hilarious. First, she gets two of her pearls she uses for her Combination Attack with her husband, Dragon, embedded into her eyes, causing her to scream in agony. Then, a stream of fire from her husband, Dragon, accidentally hits her, causing her to be engulfed in flames, and then she winds up falling off a ledge in the castle she and Dragon operate out of, while still on fire, still screaming all the way as she falls from a great height into the surrounding lake, where she presumably dies on impact.
Any time one sees Rei cutting, slicing, cubing or julienning a mook, it is to giggle madly. Especially since this is usually accompanied by a helpful TV split-screen effect that we see is not an effect at all.
Sometimes, he ends up swiping them so fast that the momentum actually causes the pieces to swap to the next guy over. In sequence.
While first taking on the Fang Clan, Kenshiro finds the selfish Rei about to battle a pack of mooks at the bottom of the cliff. As Rei and the bandits exchange boasts, the scene cuts to Kenshiro slouching over a corpse right next to one of them. Kenshiro then stands up and asks Rei what the heck he's doing there. The two men connect over their shared hatred of people who bring harm to women, completely ignoring the dozens of warriors surrounding them. A Mook Horror Show comes afterwards, featuring Rei slashing and dicing while Kenshiro explodes people by kicking, poking and grabbing their faces. The last bandit standing then receives not a Hundred, but a Thousand-fist barrage. To cap it off, we get this exchange:
Kenshiro: You'll be dead in 5 seconds!
Mook: No... No way! 5 seconds is too... *Gets chopped*
Rei: Then die now!
[The pieces of the mook fall to the ground and thenexplode as Kenshiro and Rei walk into the night]
In a non combat sequence in the anime, Ken, Rei and Mamiya are making their way to the Fang Clan's hideout. Mamiya has some difficulty climbing up the mountains, prompting Rei to offer his hand, remarking that this is why he wanted Mamiya to stay behind. This remark makes Mamiya pull out a combat needle, jab in the general direction of Rei's hand and pierce it into the rock to use as climbing leverage. As Mamiya brushes off and goes to the front of the line, Rei and Ken both look at her, and then at each other, cracking a smile. Possibly admiring Mamiya's pluck.
Kenshiro at one point kicks a guy in the nuts so hard he flew so high to become A Twinkle in the Sky. OUCH. Apparently, Kenshiro was sending people blasting off again before Team Rocket made it cool...
"Oh, another new record!" One of Abida's Goons before his head gets squashed like a tin can, most likely inventing the "derp" face in the process.
In his rematch against Jagi in the TV series, Jagi goes for his shotgun after Kenshiro pops him one. Hilarity ensues as Jagi finds himself staring down the barrels of his shotgun.
Kenshiro's climactic battle with Boss Fang, who is using the Hua Steel Armor technique to make his skin like steel, comes to an abrupt halt as Kenshiro strikes a pressure point that returns Boss Fang's skin to normal, then bashing him with a rusty I-beam. The first two blows are positively brutal, but the comedy comes from the resulting image of a giant, muscular, fur-clad barbarian king cowering and shrieking as Kenshiro beats him repeatedly with an iron girder that otherwise seems to have all the impact of a foam pool noodle. The capper is when Boss Fang proves to be a Dirty Coward and throws one of his many sons at Kenshiro to try and hold him off. Kenshiro responds by holding up the steel beam so that the Fang Clan mook runs facefirst into it, then casually drops the beam onto the mook after he falls off it. It's an oddly cartoonish moment in an otherwise serious fight.
An earlier match with the fang clan is also pretty funny. Right from the moment Kenshiro hits their leader in the eyes with a pair of food cans.
The French Dub is a source of many funny moments. For context, the voice actors hated anime in general, and the series' violent nature especially, so they decided not to work until they were given free reign to dub the characters however they felt like, leading to an absolutely ridiculous and hilarious Gag Dub, complete with over-the-top line delivery and all sorts of ridiculous puns. Highlights of the dub include:
This one kinda falls under both Black Comedy and Crosses the Line Twice: instead of committing suicide, Yuria apparently falls of Shin's palace by accident, because he didn't install the railings yet. Shin then responds, "Bring me the architect; it's his fault she died!"
A member of the Fang Clan claims another member's telescope is broken, when it works just fine.
Two more then get into a protracted argument over who looks more strange - one of them, Kenshiro or Rei.
There's also this exchange between Shin and another Mook during the failed uprising in Episode 21:
Mook: "I will slice your head just like Salami! What's happening?"
Shin: "You wanted to show me your secret technique, imbecile, and now you're talking about Salami?! Bring it on! You're gonna know another one! Look! The best against toothaches."
A character describes Ryuga's techniques as making blood 'come out like ice cream'.
One of the moments in Episode 19's second half turns Kenshiro into a total savage:
Civilian: The Man with the Seven Scars...
Kenshiro: Yes, it's me and are you the man with Seven Knives?
Some of the more memorable puns are featured in this compilation. "Hokuto de cuisine" and "nanto de vison", anyone? And then there's this line:
Kenshiro: Times are decidedly hard, and so are boiled eggs.
Ken defeats Warden Uighur's whip attack, sending the warden's whips back into his face... tied up in a bow.
Raoh's lieutenant Galf uses his loyal dog Seki to decide the fate of his victims. However, when struck by Kenshiro, Galf tries to get Seki to stand by him as he's about to die. Seki sensing that things are about to get messy, flat out pisses on Galf and abandons him.
Shin is very rarely shown fighting anyone. When he starts slicing people with his Nanto Seiken techniques, his deep voice becomes replaced with a high pitched battle cry akin to the squawking of a bird.
In Ten no Haoh, when Raoh and his entourage make their way into the king's palace so that Raoh can kill him and take over, they're masquerading as entertainers with Raoh as the koto player. When asked to play the koto, he responds while not having a facial expression: "I will play the koto!" *smashes the koto on a pillar* "I cannot play the koto!"
In that same scene, Goram (the king who's castle Raoh is taking over), brags about the power of his martial arts style "Emei Demon Fist"... and makes an epicOh, Crap! face when he learns Raoh is a practitioner of the Divine Fist of The North Star. And when Raoh finally defeats him with the North Star Iron Palm Wave, rather than exploding into gore he's sent flying out of his castle like a member of Team Rocket.
When Kenshiro confronts Alf, Ken makes light of him by asking who he's supposed to fight against. The only other guy in the room is a 'useless mook' (Who is actually Shachi in disguise), so Alf is greatly offended.
The English dub of the 1986 anime movie has some hilarious dialogue, such as this Pre-Mortem One-Liner to Mr. Heart.
Ken: Say your goodbyes, lardass, because you're already dead!
And Mr Heart's reaction right after that when he thinks Kenshiro's attack was ineffective.
Mr. Heart: You see? What did I tell you? Still in one piece, good as new! HA HA HA-WHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! *explodes in a gory flash of light.*
Come success or terrible calamity, nothing will stop Amiba from proclaiming to the entire world that he is a genius of the highest calibre; why can't everyone just acknowledge the obvious?!
Once his identity is revealed, Amiba's battle in general is filled with funny moments, from his constant spouting of "I am a genius!", to the fact that he decided to impersonate Toki because the latter hit his face, to him trying to make himself stronger only to blow hisown hands up, but perhaps the best is at the very end. As he's being made to walk backwards off the skyscraper he's on courtesy of Kenshiro, Mamiya and Rei have this to say:
Mamiya: You're a genius, aren't you? Why don't you press your own points to stop it?
Amiba: *flails his now-stubs-at-the-wrists uselesssly*
Rei: You won't be hitting anything with THOSE 'hands'.
And to make his death even more humiliating... Amiba claimed that the strengthening technique that resulted in his own hands blowing up was the result of his research, yet later Toki uses it, successfully, to try and match Raoh's raw strength.
Ken, Mamiya, and Toki arrive to a tavern, which are filled with Raoh's mooks. Ken hears an assassin in the ceiling, and when he calls out the "old woman", said assassin tries to kill Ken, who grabs a nearby spear, and the poor bastard barely has time to process that he's about to die, and does. In the manga of the same scene, he just takes it while detecting there are assassins around. The would-be assassin gets himself impaled for his trouble while Ken just sits there.
From the Italian dub, a moment of Kenshiro's glorious return in the Gento arc: after a troop of Imperial soldiers enter a gallery to investigate what made another soldier explode and fail to do anything, a fat soldier that resembles Fantozzi, the most famous Chew Toy of Italian media, comes in to investigate, spots Kenshiro on Koku-Oh... And politely asks: "Excuse me, but who are you?", in the same tone and with the same words as Fantozzi, before being promptly flattened by Koku-Oh.
In General
The whole show in and of itself is admittedly filled to the brim with 80s camp, but it’s still an enjoyable and awesome show, even in a “So bad, it’s good” way.
A lot of (if not all) the villain deaths in the show are some of the most hilarious parts of the show, and definitely worth watching.
What makes it even funnier is that while being killed, their last words end up getting chopped up and shortened into one, causing them to scream what seems like nonsensical words.
And just as if the series couldn’t get any more ridiculous, there’s the next episode previews, with the loudest, hammiest, most scenery-chewing narration anyone could hear.
As a part of their reveal that they were licensing and dubbing the Legend of the True Savior series, Discotek Media showed off a blooper from the Chapter of Death in Love dub, wherein Christopher Sabat (voicing Souther) does a joke take to catch Robbie Daymond (reprising his role as Kenshiro from Lost Paradise) off guard:
Souther:[After impaling his own chest] Ohhhh... That was a mistake, I gotta be honest... [Robbie starts laughing] I- that was a bad choice... On my part! I should've just let you kill me without pain because jesus this hurts... Anyway... I guess I'll be goin' now, so- yep, that's- oh. [Kenshiro starts walking off] Yep. Just leave me, I'll... I'll be here. [Robbie laughs a bit more] Can someone bring me... A glass of- nevermind. I'm probably gonna die anyway. ...Big dipper outcast! ...Make sure to like and subscribe... [Robbie loses it]
, who claims to have learned Hokuto Shinken techniques from Jagi and attempts to use them on Kenshiro. Kenshiro, being Kenshiro, isn't affected at all. Gaira, on the other hand...Mook Gaira: (after attempting one of Kenshiro's attacks on him) "You're already dead."