Editing Fist of the North Star (section)

===Kenshiro's trusty meat shields/general people who do shit===

====Bat====
[[Image:Bat.jpg|right|thumb|Many want to punch this kid. Lord knows, Kenshiro actually did a few times. He gets better, though.]]
Called ''Bart'' in the western release ''(free lesson: the Japanese language never uses the  /ɑɹt/ "art" sound; bart in japanese comes out as batto)''. A bratty thief who serves as Kenshiro's de-facto sidekick early on primarily because Kenshiro lacks wheels. He's a resourceful little son of a bitch though, and even manages a few kills (using grenades) within the first 8 episodes. When Ken can't ATATATATATATATA his way out of a situation, Bat's usually the one who saves his ass. Greedy and selfish, Bat initially follows Kenshiro because Ken's an easy way to secure food and water, but becomes a better person through proxy as Kenshiro rubs off on him (and bitch-slaps him for being a cunt in one of the earlier episodes), being willing to throw down by the end of the series, and even having learned some Hokuto Shinken from Ken by the time the second season comes around. 

Bat comes across as really fucking [[Flare|obnoxious and annoying]] early on, [[Eliphas the Inheritor|coming into his own]] as he stops being such a faggot and becomes more [[Manly Marines|manly]], and he throws a fairly humorous moment down later as he pulls a hilarious [[trolling]] move in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8vEyiOYGB8 copying Kenshiro when fighting Amiba's troops].

By the second season, he's in full-blown badass mode and generally is much closer to being [[This Guy]] than he is [[That Guy]], which is a hell of an improvement; he's a full-blown revolutionary, taking on the forces of the Celestial Empire and winning, leaving their forces panicking as the Hokuto Army, under Bat, continues its advance.

He also appears to have stolen his headwear from [[/v/|Dragon Quest 2]].

====Lynn====
[[Image:Lynn.jpg|left|thumb|Even ''she'' gets a kill-count of like 18 people by the end of the first season.]]
A little girl. Simultaneously the most touching and most annoying character in the entire series, and alternates between being [[Lofn|unspeakably cute]] and [[Derp|soul-scarringly annoying]]. Representing both innocence and the loss thereof, Lynn [[batman|witnesses the death of both her parents]] and becomes mute. She shows kindness to Kenshiro and Bat at the beginning of the series, and Kenshiro, saddened over Lynn's past, decides to help her restore her voice, a move which most of /tg/ considers an error in judgement, as her English VA is high-pitched and shrill. She becomes a traveling companion after an attempt to go find out what happened to Kenshiro leads her to be sold as a slave, and alternates for the rest of the series between being useful (her cuteness tends to get doors opened and she tends to be a good judge of character) and being more useless than [[Tau|Vespids]] in the current Tau Codex.

There's a lot of scenes with her that help flesh out the world of HNK, and being a little girl in a world gone [[Grimdark]] and giving Ken a constant reason to keep going and [[Abaddon|not be a whiny shit that dwells on his failings]] goes a long way towards making her a bit more likable. She's managed to kill about 10 people out of necessity by the time Raoh kicks the bucket. On the other hand, however, it's her feelings for Ken that cause Bat to go and have a sad later.

She marries Bat in the sequel, then is left by him and then marries him again, because [[-4 STR]]. To her credit, she is generally a fuckton more competent than Mamiya ever was portrayed as being in the first season. She still gets captured a bunch; she just gets less fucking obnoxious about it.

Oh also, [https://youtu.be/0FMWSBwluIo she can wave around a solid iron club almost as tall as her, and is immune to grenades.] Not as badass as Kenshiro, but not bad for a little girl.

====Yuria====
[[Image:Yuria.jpg|right|thumb|A rare shot of her when she was healthy.]]
Kenshiro's girlfriend, though pretty much everyone on Earth wants to fuck her because she's both that hot ''and'' that powerful - she's a super double secret Nanto master. She gets stolen away by Shin (to be discussed later), only to attempt to become an hero after being unable to handle the deaths of countless innocents that Shin caused for the lulz. She only reunites with Ken at the very end of the first series (yes, there are two, but the second one is nowhere near as good), and she ends up dying of radiation sickness anyway, but Raoh uses his pressure point magic to ensure she has enough time to enjoy at least a few more years with Ken first.