Editing Fist of the North Star (section)

===Evil bastards you might actually care about===

====Raoh====
[[Image:Raoh.jpg|right|thumb|When a man's arms are as thick as cannon barrels, it's safe to assume [[Power Fist|his punches hurt like hell]].]]
Otherwise known as the Psyker Kung-Fu Antichrist, Raoh is Ken's adopted brother and generally looks like a mix between Genghis Khan and a Chaos Champion after he becomes a warlord. He is also the proud owner of Kokuoh, the most awesome horse ever (more on him later). He's so bad-ass that he declares himself Ken-Oh, which quite literally means "King of Fists."

Raoh is a huge, overly-muscled bastard who also knows Hokuto Shin Ken, though he's so huge he can overwhelm his foes through sheer muscle. Like Souther, he wants to rule the world, and has an army of countless men to help him. Sometimes he seems like Commissar for frequent execution on his servants shitting their pants, and if he is tired of taking care of those faggots, his big-ass '''horse''' executes his men instead. Or he gets his bad-ass second-in command, Ryuga to do it if he feels like enjoying a show.  Other times, he shows a great deal of mercy, like accepting Falco's leg after he ''cut it off''.

Somehow, his Army contains a lot of sick bastards like a brute disguised as '''a giant granny''' to kill Kenshiro, or some sick fucks(probably an Ork and a Dark Eldar) having fun with human-throwing tournament. but with some reason, all sick fuckers turn into nice family-oriented guys right after Raoh's death. Or at least pretend to. Before [[grimdark|someone kills them,]] because nobody likes [[Grot|a smartass]].

Raoh is a villain with a sense of honor and fair play that belies his status; he is an ''old school'' Warhammer Fantasy-style Khornate. He will mercilessly murder anyone who stands in the path of his ambition, but will respect any worthy fighter who is willing to face him in battle.

"Worthy" and "fair" are relative terms. Given Raoh's status as a villainous warlord with immense power and fighting skill, the assessment above is not inaccurate. Raoh opportunistically uses unorthodox tactics to gain the advantage in a fight. Unlike Jagi, he is more effective, and can mostly rely on his hand-to-hand fighting ability to challenge masters of martial arts.

Some examples: Raoh respects Rei's martial art mastery, but fair play went out the window when he foresaw a disastrous result of his fight against Rei. The 1986 Hokuto no Ken movie adaptation omits the trick Raoh uses. Raoh used it in the animated series and manga. Raoh fought against Toki more than once, but there was a specific fight where he craftily limited one of the major advantages of Toki's fighting style. However, while he will result in pragmatism if he has to, he still has a sense of honor, shedding tears when he beat Toki because Toki only lost because he was sick, so even Raoh knew his win was BS, and when facing off against one opponent, he orders his men to kill him if he is forced back even a step over a line - and gets pissed as shit when they disobey him.

Raoh kills numerous good guys no one cares about, but ultimately gets his ass handed to him by Kenshiro, but an-heroes by simply raising his fist in the air and screaming really loud. Because Raoh and/or Kenshiro killed just about every other antagonist in the fucking series, This results in everyone left alive (and that's a ''fucking'' short list) living happily ever after, albeit more than a bit physically and emotionally scarred by everything that happened. In Japan, Raoh has a huge fan base, so much that he has his own spinoff anime and manga, and even had an IRL funeral. Also notable is that after Toki's death, the manga is arguably more so about Raoh than Kenshiro.

It should also be noted that he has a son, who turns out just as badass as he is, not that anyone would know, as only the manga (and the most recent video game) even show his feats of badass.

He obviously worships Khorne, as indicated by his screams of painting his way through history with blood. How else do you possibly describe a man like this?

====Kaioh====
[[Image:Kaioh.jpg|left|thumb|If that's not a [[rape|rapeface]], I shudder to think of what is.]]
Kaioh may be from the largely-disliked second series, but is without a doubt, the single most despicable - and powerful - villain in the entire series. If Raoh is a [[Araghast the Pillager|Chaos Lord]], then Kaioh is an [[Doombreed|Ascendant Daemon Prince]]. Kaioh differs from many other villains in Fist of the North Star in that he has ''no'' humanizing element; whereas many villains have some mitigating factor in a dark element that turned them to evil - Shin's love of Yuria, Jagi's jealousy of Kenshiro, Amiba's rage at Toki, or Thouzer's denial of what otherwise made him human - Kaioh is unequivocally, irredeemably ''evil''; he is a monster in human form. He had a horrifyingly sad past, but quickly decided that Evil was the only constant in the world, and as such, he intended to embrace it.

He is also a fucking [[Creed|genius]]; he spreads the rumor of Raoh's inevitable return to Shura whilst disguising his true nature, knowing full well that he resembled Raoh, so that when the time was right, Kaioh could arise claiming to be him and assume control of not only Ashura by popular demand - but of Raoh's disparate forces on the mainland as well. He proudly calls himself a [[Daemon|demon]]. He rides a demonic-looking horse, roughly Kokuoh's size, named Hayabusamaru, in a pretty open attempt to channel [[Archaon]].

Kaioh is so formidable that he is able to see past Kenshiro's use of ''Musou Tensei'' - Hokuto Shin Ken's ultimate technique - and utterly crush the otherwise-skilled master of Hokuto, who by this point has faced down foes that would freeze lesser men's blood. Were it not for Kaioh's gloating buying [[This Guy|Shachi]] the time to grab Kenshiro and run, [[That Guy|Kaioh would have obliterated Kenshiro then and there]]. He later fights Ken to the death in a [[Nurgle|polluted sulfur bog]], ignoring the harmful vapors as Kenshiro struggles to even breathe.

He's the strongest user of Hokuto Ryu Ken, a variant of Hokuto Shin Ken reknown for [[Chaos|corrupting its users with its raw power]]. [[Khorne]] smiles on this man and bestows upon him great favor. Kaioh grew up in Ashura, a continent which rivals a [[Death World]] in brutality; to say he's the king of a land full of psychopaths is an understatement; Kaioh is so powerful and vicious that even Thouzer seems temperate in contrast. Whilst not as fleshed-out as other HNK villains, Kaioh is actually better for the ''lack'' of characterization; he's that much more imposing specifically because the utter lack of a moral center he has makes him absolutely ''terrifying'' to see on the battlefield. It later turns out that Kaioh dedicated himself to evil entirely of his own volition; though he had a staggeringly tragic backstory, this alone does not explain his descent into madness; it took his own inner evil to warp him into something wholly inhuman, and it was a trip he made without hesitation nor remorse. In the end, he shows his only shreds of decency as he muses that he could have changed his course had he met Kenshiro sooner, but that [[Just as Planned|he still would have lost]], and dies alongside his only actual friend (and Ken's biological brother), Hyou.

====Souther====
[[Image:Souther.jpg|right|thumb|Look at that smug-ass look. You know he just sipped a [[Martini]].]]
Also known as Thouzer depending on your localization (it's pronounced the same either way). One of the only characters in the series Raoh genuinely fears, he claims to have a special armor that protects him from fucking exploding.  The truth is somewhat more mundane: born with dextrocardia, a condition in which his heart is on the opposite side, all of Souther's pressure points are reversed, ergo meaning that he is virtually invulnerable to the Hokuto style of pressure-point-striking-make-body-fucking-explode punches unless his opponent knows that.  And he isn't about to tell them. 

A master of Nanto Ho-oh Ken, the strongest of the Nanto styles, Souther's power is virtually unmatched and he reigns over a huge stretch of territory without an ounce of pity, empathy, or mercy. Basically, he's what [[Abaddon|Failbaddon]] could do if the fucker actually applied himself. The self-proclaimed Holy Emperor, Souther rules Commissar-style, openly executing anyone who pisses him off and using child slave labor to construct a massive pyramid as a declaration of his power. His army clashed with Raoh's countless times, and though Raoh's superior troops usually ensure victory, the fact that Souther is damned-near-invulnerable to most has done a bang-up job of keeping Raoh in check.  He's also a ''dick''.  In the games, his soldiers ''can't betray him fast enough'', because he kills them in fits of dickery like normal men take a piss.  In the manga, there's a scene where he rounds up countless starving orphans, makes them watch as he has a twelve-course banquet set in front of him, and takes ''not even one bite'' of it before ordering the rest thrown away.  ''Just to watch orphans cry.''

Ironically, Souther actually has a fairly impressive background despite being a complete monster of the most despicable sort. Nanto Ho-oh Ken successorship demands that the student kill their teacher, and Souther killing off his master (the only person he ever gave a shit about) left him [[grimdark|a bitter fuck of a man who abandoned all humanity for the sake of ambition]]. Ironically, when Kenshiro finishes Souther off, he unwittingly ensures that nothing lies between Raoh and total domination of the world. Way to break it, hero.

Souther's troops are, like Souther himself, assholes, often to a hilarious degree. Several of his men are seen in the manga and animated series alike killing "undesirables" in the wasteland with flamethrowers. The [[Sisters of Battle]] approve of both this and their screams of "cleansing the filth." Sadly, a Flamer does not stop Hokuto Shin Ken from making you fucking explode.

====Juda====
[[Image:Juda.jpg|left|thumb|Fig 1.1: A Faggot.]]
A [[Slaanesh|Slaaneshi]] glam metal champion in the Hokuto No Ken universe, Juda feels he's the most beautiful thing in the fucking universe and is a colossal dick. Notorious for resembling a steroid-using androgynous Ronald McDonald, Juda is a colossal dick who makes hundreds of people suffer for the sake of his own ego, mostly because he was jealous of how graceful Rei's style was. He keeps a harem of girls to worship his perfection (and kills any that resist or does not satisfy his aesthetic value), and is a notorious backstabber, making a lot of the minor villains in the series seem pleasant by comparison. A double-agent and traitor to his own school, Juda is a Nanto master working for Raoh, though he puts forth a facade that he's working for Souther. 

In truth, he's playing both sides. What a [[Matt Ward|dick]].

Juda's dickery and being a colossal faggot gets him what he deserves when Rei hunts his ass down, forcing Juda to flee repeatedly and use every despicable tactic in his arsenal to [[Tarpit]] Rei, throwing dozens of his own men to their deaths to slow Rei down for a few seconds. Seeing a chance to stop Rei, Juda detonates the dam providing the water supply to his own city, miring both Rei and himself in water and ergo hindering Rei's footwork by ensuring that Rei's superior mobility is hindered, and he has his men prepare to dump low-level radioactive contaminants into the water to not only potentially poison Rei (knowing his constitution is weakened from the ongoing effects of Raoh's pressure-point stab) but to render the village uninhabitable. Kenshiro stops Juda's men, and Rei drives his arms through Juda's shoulders, ending his reign of douchebaggery.

Juda is the single biggest source of gay jokes in HNK, and considering the sheer volume of muscle-bound half-naked men in the series, that's a hell of an accomplishment. This is in spite of the fact that the manga openly reinforced that he was a rapist and kept a harem of women (including Mamiya, canonically) to satisfy his needs, which is pretty hilarious. Between his makeup (reminiscent of a courtesan's) and obsession with beauty, he comes across as kind of a queen - but the most hilariously awesome example is in the show itself; when Rei finally turns Juda into [[Abaddon]] by slashing his shoulders, Juda spits up blood - which due to the excessive lensflaring to get it past the censors, was ''white''. He then dies in Rei's arms, which Rei clearly is fighting not to facepalm over.

Oh, the unfortunate implications.

It's worth noting that on some level or another, Juda is responsible for almost ''every bit of misfortune that happens to most of the cast throughout the entire first season of Fist of the North Star''. It's Juda who causes Souther to overreach and ultimately split the Nanto Sei Ken alliance up. It's Juda who successfully nurses Jagi's grudge against Kenshiro, Juda who initially scars Mamiya, and Juda who initially kidnaps Rei's sister, only to give her to Jagi later. It's Juda who's also selling out the Nanto to Raoh, and Juda as well who sells out Shuu's location to Souther's troops. Juda is responsible for so much, in fact, in Fist of the North Star, that it's not an understatement to say that in terms of pure dickery, he's the single biggest villain in the entire series.

====Ryuga====
The so-called [[Space Wolf|Lone Wolf]], Ryuga is Raoh's closest lieutenant, and Yuria's brother. Maintaining a force as disorganized as Raoh's takes discipline, and Ryuga is Raoh's [[Commissar]] in this regard. He mostly keeps the giant dicks in Raoh's army in line, by scooping giant chunks of bloody meat out of their bodies if they piss Raoh off, which Raoh purportedly finds hilariously satisfying - after all, you don't need to *BLAM* people if you can scoop bloody chunks out of their bodies with your bare fucking hands.

When it becomes apparent that the time for confrontation between Raoh and Kenshiro is approaching, Ryuga attempts to test Kenshiro to see which brother the future needs more - knowing that the only way to anger - and thus get Ken to fight him - is to kill innocents, but otherwise being a noble and honorable sort, Ryuga disembowels himself before going on a killing spree against the five Chariot Guardians. He loses to Kenshiro, but keeps him on the defensive for the bulk of the fight and is actually the one who strikes the wound that inevitably ends Toki's life. Realizing that Ken is the brother the future needs, Ryuga dies in peace, explaining his actions and why he believes Raoh must be stopped.

====Amiba====
[[Image:Amiba.jpg|right|thumb|''"Kenshiro! Violence is wonderful!"'']]
Amiba was a self-proclaimed genius who studied Nanto Suicho Ken with Rei, eventually becoming a candidate for succession alongside him. Amiba lost the successorship to Rei; unlike a lot of lost successors, Amiba wasn't an ass about it and let his comrade ascend proper without argument. Wanting to help people, he sought out Toki, because he wanted to learn Hokuto Shin Ken for its use as a healing art. Because at that time Toki had already surrendered his decision to go for the successorship of Hokuto Shin Ken because of his ilness, he refused to teach Amiba as this would go against the rules of Hokuto Shin Ken's succession, despite Amiba asking numerous times.  He wasn't even allowed to know who ''could'' teach him, since Toki wasn't even supposed to mention it.  Amiba tried to learn it on his own through study and practice later, but failed and nearly killed some people, causing Toki to make him look like an idiot in front of everyone (Not to mention that Toki offhandedly slapped him in the face, which Amiba has shitfits on) . 

Amiba harbored a serious grudge and with help from Jagi later, impersonated Toki and started experimnenting with Hokuto Shin Ken on people, learning new pressure points and techniques the old-fashioned way (trial and error). This absolutely scared the living shit out of Toki, who sought to stop him - despite lacking formal training, Amiba was nonetheless brilliant and actually managed to began unlocking Hokuto Shin Ken's secrets on his own, and even techniques that had not been considered - a service for which Raoh richly rewarded him.  Unfortunately, his trial-and-error tactics for learning them left behind a ''huge'' body count of innocent people who were either dead or '''wished they were'''.  And his constant testing never ceased to leave him hungry for more.

Raoh dealt with Toki before he could take Amiba down, so Amiba could continue his experiments, and provided Amiba with a slew of test-subjects in exchange for Amiba giving Raoh insights on what he found out; through this, Amiba taught Jagi a technique to bolster his physical strength, and Raoh a technique to render himself virtually impervious to pain. So basically, he became a post-apocalyptic Joseph Mengele. His techniques include a strike that causes the victim's heart to explode, after 30 seconds, with such force that the shrapnel can injure those nearby.

Kenshiro fights him and at first, thinking he's Toki, isn't really able to bring himself to kill him (and actually gets his ass kicked), but when Rei shows up and points out who he is, Kenshiro breaks free of his pressure-point induced paralysis (because Amiba didn't hit the point with the proper precision) and Amiba gets his ass kicked harder than a Guard player facing down three [[Heldrake]]s. Amiba tries to use the Mighty Arm Point (the move he taught Jagi) to hulk out and crush Kenshiro, but in his rage, doesn't notice that Ken struck a pressure point that made his hands explode.

Amiba was notably gayed-up in the Anime, replacing his kinda tragic backstory with him being a self-obsessed whiny bitch whose only motivation for going after Toki was that he bitch-slapped and reprimanded him after he fucked up a medical treatment on an old man. He remains, however, both hilariously fucked-up and an inspiration to [[Dark Eldar]] Haemonculii everywhere.

Some [[Tau|weeaboos]] have issues with how Kenshiro reacted to Amiba in the 1980s Fist of the North Star series, for (surprisingly) different reasons from those of fans of Amiba's original origin story, and that Ken pussed out through the whole deal, arguing that Ken behaved far more heartlessly than the complete monster that is Amiba in the episodes he showed up in, not being willing to take action at the right times whilst Amiba actually [[/tg/ gets shit done|got shit done]] in the episodes he showed up in. There is a reason for this: In the original Manga, Amiba killed the child brought to him, as well as his father (by making his heart explode) and mother (using her as a human shield against Kenshiro). Due to a bit of backlash against the media depicting child deaths, the Anime destroys the pacing by having Ken cure the child, and letting the mom survive. Fucking 1980s.

Now he's the star of his own ongoing spin-off manga that is an isekai...WE'RE NOT KIDDING.

====Jagi====
[[Image:Jagi.jpg|left|thumb|Hell of a first impression there.]]
Third of the Hokuto Brothers, Jagi was a bad student and skipped out on class occasionally to be a biker, and went into a deep melancholy after some dickheads killed his girlfriend. Needless to say he lost the successorship and was kind of pissed about this, confronting Kenshiro and challenging him. Ken kicked his ass, so Jagi brought a shotgun to a fistfight, and Kenshiro kicked his ass even harder, nearly causing his head to almost explode but Ken relented from delivering the killing blow to allow his head to explode in a shower of gore due to him being unable to kill his brother at the time. [[Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka|This did however, leave Jagi with a giant growth on his head where his brain was suppose to explode from, which he only managed to partially fix with some crude medical implements.]]

The strange thing about this is that, in a way, this was very avoidable.  There is a spinoff manga of questionable canon about Jagi which explained that he chose to practice Hokuto Shinken despite his master insisting that he'd probably die.  Even worse is that he had a love interest in the form of a girl named Ana who managed to actually care for the bastard, who then gets raped and killed, and (thanks to some utterly terrible timing on his behalf) decides to blame Kenshiro for it rather than let him explain it. 

The canon scenario, however, which explains his dislike of Kenshiro and his being one of the Hokuto Brothers, comes from a little known official work that was also used for his backstory scenarion in ''Ken's Rage 2''. Jagi was originally taken in by Ryuken specifically because he had so little; it was Ryuken's hope that, given Jagi's relatively gentle heart and being an underdog himself, he would develop the proper mind-set and become a truly great master of Hokuto Shin Ken. However, in his training, Jagi was ever the last placer - weaker than his brothers, less-able to use the techniques they could manage. He was incredibly clever, and was more willing to fight dirty or even use weapons than they were, but this was seen as weakness by Ryuken. 

He did fairly well in training against the Nanto, and Ryuken praised his skill therefor, but by this point Jagi's heart had grown cold and he had learned to resent his brothers. Realizing that Ken was ''going'' to be the successor, and unwilling to have his fists sealed, and likewise unwilling to have his memories erased, Jagi tried to rally Toki and Raoh over this, but failed to move them with his pleas, leaving him to do the only thing he knew how to do when Kenshiro was named successor - he threatened him at gunpoint. This had predictable results and Jagi left the Hokuto Renkitōza - their training ground - and left to nurse his resentment, now having to wear a mask to hide his hideous visage. He would have been content to live as a bandit at the edge of civilization, but he was spurred into taking his revenge upon Kenshiro by Juda, who convinced Jagi to impersonate him. Jagi did so, disguising himself by scarring himself in a fashion similar to how Shin scarred Kenshiro, and then went around and committing rape, murder, and arson. Suffice to say, Kenshiro tracks him down and fucks his shit up. 

He does, however, have a badass intro and one of the most iconic lines of the entire anime: 

''"SAY MY NAME!!(Ore-no Na-o itte miro!!)"''

It's worth noting that whilst Jagi is a monstrous dick in all works he shows in, he was essentially manipulated into much of it by Juda, and a constant undercurrent of regret seems to underpin his actions in many of the HNK works. A rather interesting scenario is explored in his Dream Mode scenario in ''Ken's Rage,'' wherein he, along with friend and associate Amiba, set out initially to ruin Ken and Toki's names, respectively, only to inadvertently come to the aid of a village under siege and being hailed as heroes in their own right, beloved by a world for their accomplishments. He even manages to defeat Souther, of all people. At first, he's about to run for his life when the Holy Emperor enters the battlefield, but is driven into a rage when Souther asks him who the hell he is. This feat impresses Toki and even Kenshiro, and they acknowledge that he might still have what it takes to be a master of Hokuto Shin Ken. Jagi, uniquely, is only one of two characters to alter his behavior based on this prophecy, preparing to leave town and lay low to lose Kenshiro in order to make the seer's prophecy a reality - [[Grimdark|only to receive, to his horror, the news that Kenshiro has already arrived at his tower, and that his fate is sealed]].

====Shin====
[[Image:Shin.jpg|right|thumb|He [[Kaldor Draigo|makes it happen]].]]
Ken's blonde sorta-brother and practitioner of Nanto Sei Ken, the opposing style to Hokuto Shin Ken. Amongst the various feudal lords that arose in the aftermath of the apocalypse, such as the Holy Imperial Army under Souther or the North Star Army under Raoh, Shin's fiefdom is arguably the third-largest in the series. Shin is a leader of men, and he knows it - his armies, predominantly made up of Raiders and former soldiers of Raoh and Souther's armies, are fanatically loyal, though his poaching officers from their forces did little to endear him to them. His troops remain a thorn in both their sides and Kenshiro's until he dismisses the lot of them, willing to face Kenshiro fist-to-fist, like a man.

Shin covets Yuria above all else, having loved her deeply for at least as long as Kenshiro - if not longer. Jealous that Ken won the right to bang Yuria, he beat the shit out of him, then stabs seven holes in his chest, giving Kenshiro his signature seven scars. After that, he steals Yuria away. Kenshiro ultimately comes back and beats the shit of him. But before he can die, Shin reveals that Yuria is already dead - having killed herself in despair for Shin's willingness to burn down the fucking world to create a better one from its ashes for her - and Shin [[meme|an heroes]] to avoid the humiliation resulting from dying via Ken's techniques. Kenshiro's desperation and sorrow resulting from this is ironically what sets him on the path to be able to defeat Raoh.

BUT THERE WAS MORE! In truth, Yuria wasn't dead at all - Shin said that and made the whole damned thing up because he knew that Raoh loved Yuria too, but unlike him, Raoh would simply kill Yuria if she rejected him. Consigned to the fact that Yuria would never love him as he loved her, Shin decided to keep her safe from Raoh whilst at the same time ensuring that Kenshiro could focus entirely on moving forward. In essence this means that he was [[troll|trolling]] both Kenshiro ''and'' Raoh the whole time. Suffice to say, there's little question that Shin served [[Tzeentch]], since he set everything up [[Just as planned]]. All in all, Shin's a hard character to not like; a classic example of how [[Love Can Bloom|love can make even the best of men fall from grace]], whilst at the same time finding a small shred of redemption for himself in the end.

To make Shin even more hilariously awesome, he was voiced by Steve MOTHERFUCKING Blum in the dubbed series, and Michael FUCKING McConnohie in the movie. Bad. Fucking. Ass. Michael needs to do a voice for Warhammer 40K.

====Heart====
[[Image:Heart.jpg|left|thumb|Not to be confused with [[Nurgle]].]]
The most badass fatass ever seen, and one of Shin's primary officers. Normally gentlemanly and polite - until he sees his own blood, which causes him to fly into a psychotic, [[Khorne]]-worthy rage and destroy everything in sight until he's taken enough abuse to beat him into a less-combative state. After he has his men kill numerous escaping slaves, Kenshiro gets filled with [[RAGE]] and kills all of Heart's men, then attacks him. At first, Ken's attacks are ineffective due to Heart being so fat (and thus Ken being wholly unable to strike his power points and make him explode), but after a creative use of ATATATATATATATATA, Ken makes Heart explode. Heart is absurdly, ridiculously popular among the Japanese fan crowd for some reason, having beaten out both Shuu, Amiba, and Juza in a popularity contest for who would be the DLC character in ''[[RAGE|Ken's Rage]]'', and also got a longer fight with Kenshiro in the anime adaption. Thankfully, by the second game, the people who actually matter won out, and now Shuu, Amiba, and Juza take priority over Heart. To be fair, he stands out for being the first character not to be one-shotted by Kenshiro, managing to withstand an attack from the hero and actually forcing him to get creative. And during his demise, Heart gifted the world with the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJeLAD61mHU immortal words of "Hidebu".]

====Kokuoh====
[[Image:KokuRaoh.png|right|thumb|Any horse that can carry the [[Khorne|Khornate Superman]] that is Raoh is not to be fucked with.]]
Kokuoh is Raoh's horse, and the size of an Indian Elephant. [[Meme|This horse is amazing]]. Drawn from a species of warhorse that has survived the wastelands in the aftermath of the nuclear war, Kokuoh is a monster of a horse - big enough to carry Raoh's phenomenal ass - and happens to be the alpha male of the herd he came from . He is also extraordinarily intelligent. Leading his herd across the steppes, Kokuoh and his herd trampled to death anything that dared threaten them - until one day, when a Tiger ambushed his herd and killed 3 of the herd's foals. Raoh showed up and killed the Tiger with his bare hands, and then used his Hokuto Shinken to alleviate the foal's suffering so it would die painlessly, since it was too far gone to save. Touched by the display of kindness, Kokuoh elected to follow Raoh, quickly becoming his closest companion and bad-ass mount.

Kokuoh is one of the most lulzy ''things'' in the entire series. He not only gets a large kill count by the end, but also survives being punched by Kenshiro (no mean feat), and well, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6mR6QuoKpM he tramples charging motorcycles]. Greatest horse ever.

Kokuoh only allows the worthy to ride him; Raoh, Kenshiro, Juza, and Bat (as an adult) are the only ones who ever successfully ride this one horse of the apocalypse.

By the second season, Kokuoh lost an eye in a fight with a [[Bear Lore|Bear]], becoming a horse with an eyepatch. If you don't understand why this is [[Awesome|incredible]], you probably don't belong on [[1d4chan]]. He makes it all the way to the end of the second season before he is killed by a stray lightning bolt, proving that God himself is the only one who could stop this horse.

====Glenn====
A brief presence worth mentioning, this gigantic mass of muscle and cybernetics was present as a lumbering menace for only an episode, but managed to win the hearts of many through its sheer manliness and all-around crystalline heart. "Son" of Lord David, a functionary in the King of Hokuto's Army, Glenn was augmented with extensive cybernetics and covers the role of executioner for those unlucky sods that try to leave the King's army. And that is an apt role to cover for a guy that can grab 3 adult males with one hand and crush them to death. 

Glenn's aspect is clearly derived from the visage of Arnold Schwartznegger's portrayal of the terminator- he seems to be wearing a biker vest at times, but he prefers to fight without it, covered only by leather trousers, boots, some strenght limitators applied to his chest- arms area, and the iconic T-800 glasses. 

Even with this menacing aspect, Glenn has been bred to fight and only to fight- while he is a lethal opponent, cannot be exploded via normal means due to his extensive cybernetic anatomy, and even manages to constrict Kenshiro himself in a deadly embrace that threatens to crush the titular hero, the tragedy of this particular character is his ignorance of the concept of good and evil. 

The first time Glenn shows actual emotion is when Kenshiro, ripping his shirt as always and blocking Glenn's superficial pressure point, deprives the cyborg of his strength- he knows very well that he's nothing without his muscles, feels heartbroken and cries because he wants to live and he knows about his machine is broken. 
Our shirtless hero is moved, and asks if Glenn is crying and feeling disappointed because he knows his machine is broken and wants to be spared or if there's something else, and Glenn laments that his violent ways were the direct result of the fact that he only knew violence in his life, and didn't want to leave this world without having known happiness or love. 
Kenshiro then says that he will give Glenn back his strength, if he promises to live as a defender of people and to protect the weak. Glenn accepts in tears, happy to start again as a new man.

Sadly, '''[SPOILERS]''' Lord David offs Glenn with a volley of arrows from his other lackeys, which is not only a hint to Lord David's [[Eldrad|dickishness]], but also at the paradox of killing an invincible cyborg that resists Hokuto Shinken techniques by means of arrows.
After this, Kenshiro channels his inner [[Sanguinius]] and starts murdering everyone in a searing-hot [[RAGE]]. Lord David makes for an hasty escape, but gets sliced into bits by Rei immediately after. Fucking Lord David. Glenn was too pure for this world.