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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Despite its horrendously low budget, ''[[Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky]]'' remains surprisingly faithful to its source material. Whether this is a good or bad thing is debatable.
* [[Adolf Hitler]]: {{spoiler|He's possibly Riki-Oh's grandfather.}}
* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]: The ultimate [[Big Bad]], {{spoiler|Ricky's father}}, and his high-ranking henchmen, are essentially just Nazis who use martial arts. And Riki's own brother, "Nachi" is a deliberate pun n the word "Nazi". He even has a swastika tattoo on his hand.
* [[And Now for Something Completely Different]]: There are roughly five story arcs in the manga: the Tokyo State Prison arc (chapters 1-13), the Cape arc (14-30), the Return to Tokyo arc (31-41), the Palace of Eternal Youth arc (42-62) and the Antarctica arc (63-75). The Prison Arc has some weird stuff but it's mostly weird martial artists. Then the Cape has some of the weirdest stuff, from elephants to "power readings", to android workers, to cyborgs, to an underground fighting arena, with the big bad being a super psychic. The third arc tones it down and has a more noir feeling with villains more like super-powered freaks than martial artists. The final two arcs are when things truly get insane. Each arc different? Yes. Each Arc awesome? Yes.
* [[Arc Words]]: Chris{{spoiler|tos}}.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: In Japanese, Riki-Oh means "Strength King". Doubles as a [[Meaningful Name]].
* [[Badass]]: Riki-Oh. He punches lions and kicks the heads of giants, how is that not bad ass?
* [[Big Bad]]: Each arc has one. Prison - The Warden; The Cape - {{spoiler|Nachi}}, and so on.
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Riki-Oh is part Jewish, which is a key point in the story.
* [[Cannibal Clan]]: The Disciples of the Wolf Commandments. Granted, [[Our Werewolves Are Different|they see themselves as wolves, but are basically completely human]].
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** Umibozu, a fat [[Giant Mook]] who appears at the of Vol. 3, is the manga's version of Mr. Heart from ''Fist of the North Star'' (only taller), right down to his ability to absorb Riki's punches with his fatness. Riki-oh is even forced to defeat Umibozu the same way Kenshiro defeated Mr. Heart; by using a technique which slices through flesh.
** The Disciples of the Wolf Commandment are a gang that patterned themselves after a pack of wolves, just like the Fang Clan also from ''North Star''.
** there is a [[Giant Mook]] that is Conan the Barbarian, the mech from [[RoboCop]] with Deadlock from the ABC Warriors rideing it
* [[Full-Frontal Assault]]: Mukai in his first confrontation with Riki. This would be the "unconcerned with human expectations" variety, not the "raging primordial beast" variety.
* [[Gorn]]
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* [[Red Right Hand]]: Nachi's swastika birthmark. Also Riki-Oh's Star of David birthmark, though to a lesser degree.
* [[Say My Name]]: Riki-Oh does this to his brother throughout the second story arc. Villains do it to Riki-Oh ''constantly.''
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Err, by [[Kick the Dog|kicking the dog.]] In half.
* [[Super Strength]]: Riki-Oh grows exponentially stronger when he's pissed off. Since he can already punch holes in people without trying, this is saying something...
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Two of the four head prison guards were still alive at the end of the Prison Arc. {{spoiler|One of them ''with a pitchfork stuck to the back of his head and mouth''.}}
* [[Wife Husbandry]]: [[Complete Monster|Mizuguchi]] attempts this with Iwato's daughter, more for rape and [[I'm a Humanitarian|other reasons]] than for marriage.
* [[You Fail Biology Forever]]: Many, many examples. Notable ones are a mook still talking, and trying to kill Riki-Oh after having [[Your Head Asplode|his brain punched away]], and another one being completely operative after his heart was torn from his chest, with seemingly no ill effect, only to die immediately when Riki-Oh finally crushes the heart, still in his hand. It should be noted that this is not even handwaved as magic or superpower. It just... kinda happens.
* [[You Fail Religious Studies Forever]]: Apparently the swastika is a symbol for atheism and the six-pointed star is a symbol of theism. Oh, and they also represent the universe collapsing and exploding into existence respectfully (destruction and creation). Oh, and God gave the world 6000 the years, and if the Earth isn't destroyed year 2000, it means "his plan" didn't succeed according to the Holy Bible. There are just so many egregious examples of the manga not doing the research on Christianity that it's almost hilarious. It doesn't even get the message of the "sacrificing of Isaac" story right.
* [[Your Head Asplode]]: One of the more common ways to die in Riki-Oh's world.
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