Oda Nobunaga: Difference between revisions

* [[Badass Creed]]: ''Tenka Fubu'' -- "Take the country by military power."

* [[Badass Moustache]]: Just look at the page picture.

** He apparently also had a habit of making fun of his subordinates, such as mocking Akechi Mitsuhide's poetry (which was actually considered pretty good), and calling [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] "monkey" and "bald rat" (because of his shortness and peculiar face).

** And there's a story that says that Nobunaga executed a hostage whom Mitsuhide had promised safety. In turn, the hostage's enraged family accused Mitsuhide of betrayal, and as a revenge, murdered his mother. This, plus the aforementioned mocking and other insults by Nobunaga (who allegedly went as far as kicking him) make it easy to see why Mitsuhide wasn't Nobunaga's biggest fan.

*** He was known for not putting much faith in his lieutenants, but this was not entirely true. He didn't put much trust in the nobility that served him. The people he put his trust in were a ronin, peasant, and traitor. All people traditionally loathed in Japanese culture, but all of which proved extremely competent.

*** The situation with Mitsuhide is not actually well known. There is a gigantic gap in information between "Nobunaga and Mitsuhide are the best of pals" and "Nobunaga is publicly insulting Mitsuhide." Mitsuhide's mother being killed only provides a possible explanation for his actions, but not Nobunaga's.

** A disguise he might have been all too happy to keep up, had his original province of Owari not been in the path of an eastern warlord marching westward to Kyoto, forcing Nobunaga to make a stand or capitulate.

* [[Determinator]]

* Nobunaga is a major antagonist in ''[[Samurai Deeper Kyo]]''.

* In the ''[[Black Lion]]'' [[OVA]], Nobunaga is actually possessed by alien invaders who equip his armies with high-tech armaments so he can conquer Japan as a beachhead (probably; the backstory isn't covered much).

* Oda Nobunaga is the reason Recca's clan all but perished in ''[[Flame of Recca]]''; at the end of the series {{spoiler|Kurei returns to [[Jidai Geki]] Japan and takes his revenge by assassinating Nobunaga at Honnoji.}}

* A rowdy young man implied to be Nobunaga appears in the ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' strip "The World of War and the Fool of Owari," in which he tells the anthropomorphic personification of Japan "This is the face of your future ruler." The anthropomorphic personification of Owari is skeptical.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In the ''[[Onimusha]]'' game series Nobunaga is mortally wounded by an arrow during his great victory at Okehazama, but makes a deal with the [[The Devil|demon king]] to return to life as a demon and conquer Japan on behalf of the demons.

** If this Troper is not mistaken, Nobunaga did actually take an arrow to the neck during the battle, which is part of the origin for his unsavory reputation. Surviving a seemingly lethal wound is apparently unnerving to most people.

* Capcom loves Evil Nobunaga. So in ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'', he's once again a cruel, ruthless S.O.B with a sword, a shotgun and a [[Badass Cape|nasty cape]] that can attack enemies. He's also possibly the most [[Obviously Evil]] depiction of him, a [[Tin Tyrant]] decked out in [[Spikes of Villainy]] and often seen [[Slouch of Villainy|reclining]] on [[Nothing but Skulls|his throne of skulls]]. When you have [[Norio Wakamoto]] as the voice actor, of course [[Large Ham|ham]] is to be expected.

** And the third game ({{spoiler|and [[The Movie]] of the anime}}) does even better when Nobunaga returns [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]], having apparently taken over the sixth underworld and turned his epithet into a literal description. As a playable character, his story pretty much involves killing ''everyone'' else in Japan before returning to Hell again.

* In ''[[Kessen]] III'', Nobunaga does a rare turn as the protagonist, depicted in much more idealized fashion, making the traitor whose attack would kill him the antagonist, while using relatively conventional depictions of the rest of the cast. (Unlike ''Samurai Warriors'' however it actually deals with the shogunate at the time.) This game surprisingly contains a lot of [[Take That]] to treatments toward Nobunaga in general fiction...

* ''[[Samurai Warriors]]'' has Nobunaga as one of many playable characters. He has a reputation for brutality and is called "The Demon King"; however, perhaps uniquely to the ''Samurai Warriors'' (1st game) depiction, his wife wavers between wanting to kill for him and wanting to kill him (their marriage was a setup for his assassination, but she hasn't completely adhered to this nor turned away from that), and at the same time he has a relationship with his page Mori Ranmaru; as he was also noted in Japan for this relationship, this perhaps is one of the few instances if any of a male video game character being openly bisexual, even if not overtly.

** He also gets [[Ho Yay|paired up]] ironically in the second game with Akechi Mitsuhide, his future killer. However, in his ending he actually {{spoiler|survives, killing Mitsuhide instead and shows that he is in fact capable of feelings of remorse and regret}}.

** Koei also really, really likes to show off his evilness by having him [[Perpetual Molt|shed pitch black feathers]] all over the place despite having no visible wings.

*** In game, Oda is shown more in the context of "This guy (Orochi) is a complete bastard with a disregard to all things around him, and people hate him a so much that I just seem petty by comparison". It could be guessed from ingame events and text that because of Orochi's single minded and incredibly cruel attitude to EVERYBODY, possibly even going out of his way for it, so Oda then becomes just a bastard to make sure that everybody didn't die.

** One shouldn't take the Dynasty Warrior series as Koei's only game, or in fact, their trademark game. Most of the time, he is just a [[Magnificent Bastard]].