Skull Man: Difference between revisions

* [[Action Girl]]: Skull Maria.

* [[Alternate Character Reading]]: Kogetsu Chisato is an extreme target to this. In the English translated version of The Skull Man manga of the 1998 he gets a "Toratsuki Chisato" instead of Kogetsu. This is the fault of the translation as both Kogetsu and Toratsuki are written in the same kanjis "虎月 ".

** Scaled back to Type III in the 1998 manga.

* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Kazuhiko Shimamoto is an avid fan of Shotaro Ishinomori who made him revive the work.

** Not to mention that at the end of the 2007 anime, the main character, who has done all he can to do the right thing, {{spoiler|saves the world from being annihilated, dies...and is brought back as ''BLACK GHOST''. As in, the world dominating, cyborg creating, terrorist Black Ghost of ''[[Cyborg 009]]''. How's that for a shocker?}}

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: A considerable number of The Syndicate's minions.

* [[Large Ham]]: Skullman definitely qualifes and let's throw in Detective Hioka too.

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: The 1998 manga is this for recasting Skull Man as a more conventional hero rather than a dark avenger of the night.

* [[Monster Allies]]: Garo originally then the wasp armies and even the detective who became a Reconstructed Human but was given an upgrade by Tatsuo/Ryuusei.

** In the anime, only two, namely Tetsuro and Rena Shingyouji.

* [[Prequel]]: It isn't obvious until near the end, but the 2007 anime is actually a prequel to [[Cyborg 009]]. {{spoiler|Hayato becomes the Skull, leader of the Black Ghost organization, and Kiriko gives birth to Joe Shimamura in the epilogue.}}

** The ending serves more as a reference to the series than an actual prequel, however.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Tatsuo's entire goal in the original manga.

* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]: [[Cyborg 009|Joe Shimamura]] in the 36th Chapter and [[Kamen Rider|Detective Tsuyoshi Hioka]] in the last chapters of the 1998 manga.

** {{spoiler|It's also reminiscent of the Acceleration Ability featured in ''[[Cyborg 009]]''}}

* [[The Thing That Goes Doink]]: In Mr. Kuroshio's garden.

* [[The Atoner]]: Tatsuo Kagura who later on became Ryusei Chisato in the 1998 manga regarding about his action from his *see the Villain Protagonist and Heroic Sociopath below* to a real deal hero.

** Same goes to his sister Maya Chisato.

* [[Transformation Trinket]]: Worn by {{spoiler|members of the White Bell Cult}}. Combined with [[Body Horror]] and [[Nightmare Fuel]].

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: The Skull Man's entire goal is to just kill anyone he thinks is a bad person. (Most of them aren't.)