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* [[Alliterative Name]]

* {{spoiler|[[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: When the moment Kazuma declared himself the fourth Chairman of the Tojo Clan during it's darkest hour, it's quite honestly the most badass thing he has ever done. Of course, the actual ceremony was never held as Kazuma quickly resigns, making this a slight subversion}}

* [[Berserk Button]]: hurt a kid or a woman in front of Kazuma. Hope you didn't mean to use those teeth.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: By the time of the third game he's forty.

* [[Does Not Like Guns]]: To the point that he outright ''brawls'' with zombies in ''Dead Souls''. He manages to live with them, though.

* [[The Dragon]]: To Dojima before the events of the first game.

* [[Fallen Hero]]: In the first game, as the Tojo Clan used to hold him in high regard until {{spoiler|Dojima is killed}}, in which a majority of the clan holds a grudge against him upon his return. {{spoiler|Subverted as Kazuma never committed the murder and took the blame for Nishiki willingly, thus he had never earned this trope.}}

* [[Tattooed Crook]]: Has a tattoo of a either a deity or warrior of sorts, perhaps reflecting on his {{spoiler|abilities of being a natural leader.}}

* [[The Woobie]]: His father was murdered, the man he looked up to (Kazuma) went to jail for it, and he went through a brief stint in jail thanks to Ryuji Goda. It's no wonder he decided to back off from the Tojo Clan's affairs before Kazuma convinces him by [[Warrior Therapist]] methods.

 

== Nishiki Family ==

* {{spoiler|[[Laser-Guided Karma]]: His comeuppance comes quite as fast the moment he reveals his betrayal.}}

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

 

* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: He is simply too [[Ax Crazy|violent]], and [[Dumb Muscle|ignorant]] to be main villain material. {{spoiler|He ends up being turned in by the third game's actual [[Big Bad]], who had him as an [[Unwitting Pawn]] all along}}.

* Jerkass

* [[Fat Bastard]]

* [[No Indoor Voice]]

* [[Flat Character]]: Which can be lampshaded in the third game.

* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: His face is very scarred.

 

== Shimano Family ==

* [[Knife Nut]]: In SPADES. His signature weapon seems to be a tanto, which he handles with... rather disturbing fondness.

** Even more disturbingly, the fourth game reveals {{spoiler|it's the same weapon he lost his left eye to.}}

* [[Tattooed Crook]]: His tattoo is a very appropriate Oni figure.

 

* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]] of the third game}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Evil Counterpart]]: Yet another one to Kazuma, being an orphan like him. For further parallels, he has a golden dragon tattooed on his back, in contrast with Kazuma's silver dragon}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Love Makes You Evil]]: The whole game's plot more or less started because this guy had a mental breakdown over finally finding love and acceptance from Daigo. [[Yandere|And as a result he set out to destroy everything the guy had ever cared about. Read the line above.]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: This guy really [[There Are No Therapists|needs a therapist.]]}}

Big, ugly and nasty, he's an opportunistic thug who will do whatever it takes to succeed.

 

* [[The Unfought]]: Though he's a major bad guy in the third game, you never actually fight him. It's even more odd since - as stated above - he is a non-canon bonus fight in the arena, which shows that he's certainly got the skills.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: He vanishes off screen once his plans have been screwed up and his family destroyed. {{spoiler|He comes back right at the end, accuses Kazuma of ruining his life and (near fatally) stabs him in the gut.}}

 

 

=== Ryuji Goda ===

 

 

* [[Arm Cannon]]: One of the things he returned to the series with, and that is only the beginning of his awesome

* [[Berserk Button]]: ''Never'' refer to him as "The Dragon of Kansai". [[There Can Only Be One|There is only one True Dragon]], and he aims to be the one.

* [[Character Development]]: His arc in ''Of The End/Dead Souls'' is full of it. {{spoiler|Explaining how he lost his original right hand by performing a quitting ceremony, left his own Family and the entire Kansai Omi Alliance, came to realize how futile it was to seek the position of the Only Dragon, and then earning his stay as a takoyaki cooker's apprentice.... Let's just say he came a long way}}

* {{spoiler|[[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: Frankly, he kind of did have a reason for Kaoru as her mother's dying wish is to ensure Kaoru's safety}}

* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: He does have morals, but is generally so bitter about everything that it's easy to mistake them for something else.

* {{spoiler|[[Papa Wolf]]: Another reason for his [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]], as to clean up Kaoru's past and ties with the Jingweon, as by Suyeon's dying wish}}

* {{spoiler|[[Power of Love]]: He went a good lengths to help Suyeon, a woman who crossed a nasty [[Despair Event Horizon]] into giving her a new life, to the point the two eventually gained a daughter together and that daughter is Kaoru}}

* [[Fair Cop]]: Several characters remark on how pretty he is. A couple guys even capitalize on it to pick up some girls.

* [[The Gambling Addict]]

** Justified in that the police aren't supposed to use deadly force unless absolutely necessary. {{spoiler|And he does use the gun when chasing down Sugiuchi.}}

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: He gladly takes bribes and is a vicious gambler, but almost all of his dirty money goes on to support immigrant orphans.