Riki-Oh: Difference between revisions

* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Despite its horrendously low budget, ''[[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.}}

* [[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}}.

* [[Cliché Storm]]/[[Troperiffic]]: Its got a nearly boring invincible hero with a catch phrase, massive hordes of mooks, complete monster villains, stockpiles of improbable weapons, bizarre deathtraps, none-stop gloating bad guys, various freaks of nature, yep its a Japanese comic book!

* [[Crapsack World]]: In a world where Tokyo cannot be repaired from earthquakes, heavy depressions all over the place, wild gangs, drugs are everywhere, chemical and nuclear waste is unchecked, and worse - there's a powerful hidden group of upper class that is TRYING to destroy the world. Believe it or not, ''there is still hope''.

* [[Deceptive Disciple]]: {{spoiler|The warden.}}

* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Eisaku may look like a gorilla, but he's a real mama's boy.

** 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''.

* [[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]]

* [[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...

* [[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.