Editing Fist of the North Star (section)

=== Good guys who aren't Kenshiro ===

==== Rei ====
[[Image:Rei.jpg|left|thumb|Anyone else getting a [[Meme|Goofy Time]] vibe from this?]]
Not to be confused with TEH REI, Rei is a pretty boy martial artist who uses Nanto Suicho Ken, a style that lets him wave his arms in FABULOUS ways while yowling like a dying cat, and as a result, slices his enemies to bits. His first appearance in every version of the series has him [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSdUQ6zSz2k&feature=related pose as a woman with a cloak, using his Nanto Suicho Ken to cause air currents to maintain the disguise, which he then uses to rob (and murder) a group of bandits for their food and supplies]. 

Hilariously, he winds up being fucking manly in his own right. 

He becomes friends with Ken after Ken helps him save his sister. Later on he pulls a noble move and tries to kill Raoh so Kenshiro doesn't need to fight him, and nearly succeeds (he would have if Raoh's aura and what he had learned from Amiba hadn't given him insight onto what Rei was about to do), but Raoh nails him in a pressure point that will cause him to die in agony within three days. Knowing he's doomed, Rei shows balls worthy of an Imperial Guardsman, using his remaining time to hunt down and fuck up Juda's shit for the sake of Mamiya; who Rei fell in love with; while his body is being slowly torn the fuck apart by what Raoh caused. Juda, being a fucking pussy, flees repeatedly, hoping to pull a [[Tankred]] vs. [[Donovan]] and win by default, but Rei buys himself one more day with help from Toki, [[Grimdark|at the cost of such sheer pain that the agony turns his hair white]]; and catches Juda off-guard, turning him into HNK's equivalent of Abaddon by chopping his arms off. Rei dies soon after like a man, sealing himself away in an abandoned house so that his companions need not see him die, at peace with himself and with the world.

====Mamiya====
[[Image:Mamiya.jpg|right|thumb|All she's missing is a movie poster to pose on.]]
A former slave of Juda's who had the unenviable pleasure of watching the psychotic Ronald McDonald look-alike murder both of her parents and then abduct her for his harem and rape her repeatedly for good measure. After she escaped, Mamiya returned to her parent's village to lead it.  Instead of sobbing over what happened to her all the time, Mamiya decided that she wasn't going to take that shit from anyone ever again, and learned how to fight, proudly entering the fray on behalf of her village in order to kick some ass, in spite of her [[-4 Str]].  She never did learn any crazy flesh-melting kung-fu superpowers, but she compensated via using her feminine wiles to catch opponents off guard and the ancient Chinese art of bringing grenades to a fistfight.

She gets a bit sweet on Kenshiro when the two meet (and who could blame her?), but is largely oblivious to Rei, who actually gives a damn about her. Naturally Kenshiro is kind of hung up on Yuria (and Ken tries to ignore her as she greatly resembles pre-war Yuria), so Mamiya keeps her distance. She gets captured by Juda later on, who wants to welcome her back with a spree of delicious rape, but Rei turns Juda into hamburger and encourages Mamiya to live her life and seek happiness. So she does and GB2Kitchen, fulfilling Rei's last request in understanding his love for her. It's a touching moment that kind of adds a touch of D'aaaaw to a world filled-to-the-brim with [[grimdark]].  She spends the rest of the series peacefully running her village with Rei's sister, and whenever Ken needs to drop off an innocent child somewhere safe they go to her.

Mamiya's played up for uselessness in the anime compared to her manga appearance, which had her killing people fairly brutally with a [[Sisters of Battle|flamethrower]], blade-festooned yo-yos, a crossbow, grenades, and sharpened metal stakes. Canonically, she has killed ''hundreds'', and in the video game adaptation her ranged powers make her the second most powerful character, after the crazy hurricane of energy blasts that is Raoh. Conversely, her appearance in the anime is studded with her being captured repeatedly and generally being about as useful as a [[Ork|grot]].  In the manga and animu she manages to wear sensible fight gear, but due to Koei Techmo's somewhat obsessive need to turn every female character in their game into fanservice, in Ken's Rage, she doesn't really so much as don armor and more of tear her armor apart and use that to traipse around.

====Toki====
[[Image:Toki.jpg|left|thumb|<strike>Jesus Christ</strike> Toki in all his winsome glory.]]
'''''ALL PRAISE BE TO [[Awesome|POST-APOCALYPTIC]] [[Monk|KUNG]] [[Exalted|FU]] [[Empra|JESUS]]!'''''

Raoh's biological younger brother and the guy who would have been the successor to Hokuto Shin Ken if he hadn't contracted radiation poisoning after sacrificing himself during the setting's nuclear fallout to seal the blast doors of a bunker full of women and children after they malfunctioned. He looks exactly like Jesus and is a pacifist, even opting to teach Hokuto Shin Ken as a medicinal practice instead of purely being a killing art. However, he can bring the thunder and uses a form of Hokuto Shin Ken which he modified so [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF3dUsE2R6k&feature=related it causes you to [[Slaanesh|orgasm to death]] whilst you explode, ergo ensuring you feel no pain as you die]. He gets permanently incapacitated by his radiation poisoning after attempting to stop Raoh, and meets his end some time later after being fatally-wounded by Ryuga. Not to be confused with the debatably-superior Toki Wartooth from Metalocalypse, a show approximately as manly as HNK (if not more so). 

Ultimately failed to stop Raoh - but came closer than perhaps anyone else in the series had to that point, and did so with powerful humanity, trying valiantly to save his mad brother from [[Khorne]], and many manly tears were shed when it came out that he had used a dangerous technique that drained away his already-weakened life force to do it. Even that crazy warlord weeps for his brother during their final fight, admitting that the only reason he won was because Jesus had [[Nurgle|radiation-poisoning-induced cancer]].

==== Shuu ====
[[Image:Shew.jpg|right|thumb|Oh, he needs to use a cane to walk around, but he'll still kick the shit out of you. ''Seriously, who needs eyes when mullet is avalaible?'']]
A blind practitioner of the Nanto Sei Ken style Hakuroken. Unlike most Nanto users (who as a rule focus on agility), he is actually quite manly - focusing on raw mullet power - and is the sworn protector of a small village. He kicks so hard he can split people in half, and [[meme|eh fucks with Souther and doesn't afraid of anything]]. Sadly, Souther is the reigning king of assholes and captures Shuu, forcing Shuu to prove his manliness by carrying the pyramid capping stone block that probably weighed at least 100 tons on his shoulders up the stairs of a huge pyramid, and makes it to the top despite having enough blood spurting out of him to start a bar for vampires, courtesy of Souther wounding his legs. Shuu takes the moralfag route, carrying this huge-ass rock for the sake of some kids, but earns points for being harder to kill than even Juza. Souther's men turn him into a human pincushion, [[Awesome|but Shuu is able to remain standing with the stone, Souther then impales him with a spear thrown at mach 2 from the ground level of the pyramid, but even that doesn't immediately kill him.]] He is able to see Kenshiro with his own eyes and give him the encouragement needed to defeat Souther. Only then did die as the stone he was carrying crushed him underneath.

Shuu's a bit more developed with some of the manga's spinoffs; he lost his eyesight when Kenshiro was a still a child in training, being put up to challenge a gauntlet of Nanto fighters by [[Dick|Raoh hoping for him to perish when he inevitably lost against opponents decades more experienced than him.]] Ken managed to make it to the final round however. Shuu was the last one he fought, sensing a particularly unique trait in Ken - and Kenshiro got his ass kicked. By demands of his fellow masters, Shuu was told to finish him off, but chose instead to [[grimdark|claw his own eyes out and force the others to shut the fuck up through a display of balls-out self-sacrifice]].

====Juza====
[[Image:Juza.jpg|left|thumb|His theme may as well be the ''"Trololo"'' song.]]
Juza is the king of trolls. A self-taught master of his own martial arts style, Juza serves Yuria and is Raoh's ultimate foil, providing lulz and [[Awesome|win]] whilst Raoh offers naught but SRS. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EfpC133B4c&feature=related His exploits include hitting Raoh with Eggs, stealing his lunch, telling Raoh to kiss his ass in front of his entire army, stealing Raoh's horse, calling Raoh a dickhead in front of everyone, and when being tortured by Raoh, giving the colossal Khornate superman ''the finger'']. Raoh murders him brutally (natch), but Juza proves so balls-out difficult that Raoh (and even the fucking horse that Juza stole) is actually moved by his attempt to stop him and orders his men to give Juza a respectful burial.

Oh, and pretty much every woman that isn't Yuria is willing to have sex with him. All at once. On ''both'' sides of the fourth wall.  It's pretty much how he got his own spinoff manga despite being an ultimately minor character.

====Ein====
High-point of the second season protagonist #1. One of the higher points of the second season, Ein is the only ''American'' (Fuck Yeah) in Fist of the North Star, and a bounty hunter who drives a bulldozer... [[Awesome|With a reclining seat and nitrous oxide injectors]]. He is hilariously awesome and is every single positive American stereotype rolled into one character, as a giant love-letter to the action heroes of the 1980s. He has an adopted daughter named Asuka who he fights to provide for, but eventually leaves her in the care of Mamiya and Airi and joins the resistance against the Celestial Emperor. In the end, he survives an attempt to kill him with [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]], and ultimately sacrifices his life to breach the floor with all of his strength, unleashing a torrent of water that saves Rin, Bat, Myu, and the Celestial Empress, bringing an end to the conflict, and forevermore being remembered as a hero - exactly as he intended. Asuka gives Kenshiro her father's studded gloves as a keepsake thereafter, which Kenshiro accepts.

====Falco====
High-point protagonist of the second season #2. On the surface, a [[Lawful Stupid]] hatchet-man for the Celestial Empire; but in truth Falco is an unwilling pawn in a greater scheme by a [[Tzeentch|Joker-style schemer]] who is holding the Celestial Empress hostage and thus controlling the throne of the Empire. He fights Kenshiro, though unwillingly, using a style whose aura can reduce a man to blood and sand through the power of [[Weeaboo Fightan Magic|fucking kung fu lazor beams.]] Ken wins, but refuses to kill Falco, citing that he has no reason to, and when Ein saves the Celestial Empress, Falco has no reason to kneel to the usurper anymore, choosing instead to rip his fucking face off. He then goes with Kenshiro to Ashura, and is ambushed by Shuras, getting terminally-wounded by [[Eversor|a rankless, faceless murderer]]. Kenshiro hits a pressure point to revitalize Falco, and Falco uses the last of his strength to obliterate his attacker and die with honor, wishing Kenshiro luck as Ken hunts for Rin in the land of [[Murder]]. As he collapses, dying, his sole regret is that there is no successor for his fighting style, Gento Token, but a Carrier Pigeon arrives as he's bleeding out, revealing that Falco's wife is pregnant with a son. Smiling, he dies without regrets.

====Shachi====
High-point of the second season protagonist #3. Shachi is the son of a [[Red Corsairs|pirate]], who was part of a doomed expedition to Ashura, the land of the damned, and was forcibly left behind due to his father's raiding party being utterly annihilated. Despite growing up in Ashura, a land akin to being in a continental version of [[Dwarf Fortress]], and learning to use Hokuto Ryuken, a style of martial arts [[Psyker|infamous for corrupting its users]], Shachi is an honorable and noble man who [[Konrad Curze|preys on the Shuras as an entity called the Rakshasa]], leaving their mangled corpses as grim reminders of his passage. 

He eventually sides with and saves the life of Kenshiro, [[Ollanius Pius|even fighting Kaioh, an individual who could swat him like a gnat]], and [[Imperial Guard|holds the fucking line]]. He [[Grimdark|rips out his own eye to defend Kenshiro from Ken's biological brother]], Hyou, and adopts [[Huron Blackheart|his father's eyepatch]]. He is brutally killed by Kaioh later, but his sacrifice causes Kenshiro to go into [[Black Rage]] Mode and kill Kaioh with righteous fury. As was the case of Rei, he dies for the sake of his fiance, pushing himself onwards and not stopping until his body's collapsed.

He also has feathery "whitesnake" hair and is quite possibly the only one in HNK who can rock that 'do and actually look manly doing it. He then adds an eyepatch, which of course makes him even more manly because [[Spelljammer|everything's better with pirates]].