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** Brought to extreme levels in the last arc, where he {{spoiler|manages to force the far more skilled Soshi to give up by ''sheer determination''.}}

* [[Diagonal Cut]]: His Kaminari Giri (Lightning Slice) attack, which leaves a lightning-shaped trail.

* [[Elemental Powers]]: He wielded many during the Ryujin arc, including: [[Making a Splash]], [[Kill It With Fire]], [[Dark Is Edgy]] and [[Kill It With Ice]]

* [[The Hero]]

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: After his defeat at the hand of Demon Onimaru. {{spoiler|And later after being almost killed by Gekko}}.

* [[Idiot Hero]]: He's quite a dumbass, but can come up with smart strategies.

* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]

* [[Noodle Incident]]: {{spoiler|In the epilogue he and his friends (Musashi, Kagetora and Shonosuke) ended up on Mars where they were attacked by a monstrous demon alien. Oh, and he acquired the Kusanagi sword from Okinawa too.}}

* [[Kid Samurai]]

* [[Made of Iron]]: Jeez, this boy is really something..

* [[Never Recycle Your Schemes|Never Recycle Your Techniques]]: Whenever his current attack/fighting style isn't good enough, he soon discard it. {{spoiler|However he uses his very first technique before dealing the final blow to Onimaru.}}

* [[No Social Skills]]: He is not good at handling everyday situations. He grew up in a jungle with only his father to learn from. He can however [[Speaks Fluent Animal|speak with animals]].

* [[Shock and Awe]]

* [[Stupid Good]]

Sayaka is the daughter of Raizo Mine, an expert kendoka and old rival of Yaiba's father, Kenjuro. At first she sees Yaiba as an annoying brat, but their relationship improves as the series proceed and she travels with the young samurai in his journey to defeat Onimaru. She also carries the [[Team Pet|Sea-Cucumberman]] with her. Later in the Kaguya arc, it's revealed that she's the descendant of Taro Urashima and Princess Oto, and thus the new "Dragon Maiden", the Priestess of Ryujin and the key to unleash Kaguya's true form. {{spoiler|In the last arc, she manage to wield the Water Demon Longsword and use its powers, and later, in order to stop Orochi's rampage, has Kaguya sealed into her body and manage to restrain her and slowly change her heart.}}

 

* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Granted, she doesn't get in many fights herself..

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Towards Emerald in the Pyramid Arc

* [[Distressed Damsel]]: Happens quite often, but only in the earlier arcs

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: At least Three times, {{spoiler|the first one in the fifth trial of Ryujin, the Rope of Fate, in order to show Yaiba the right one. The second time when she decided to go with Gekko in order to save Yaiba's life. Then, she accepted to have Kaguya's Ghost sealed into her body in order to force her to help Yaiba against Orochi and Onimaru}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Making a Splash]]}}: {{spoiler|When she use the Water Demon Longsword.}}

* [[Sailor Fuku]]: albeit with a long skirt.

* {{spoiler|[[She Is All Grown Up]]: After the three year timeskip in the epilogue.}}

* [[Horse of a Different Color]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Kagetora means "Tiger Shadow" and its also the name of the famous samurai and warlord Uesugi Kenshin.

 

=== Shonosuke ===

* [[Horse of a Different Color]]

* [[Made of Iron]]: Well, he can fly high while carrying all the group minus Yaiba...

 

 

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: In his youth he was just a [[Badass]]

* [[Big Eater]]: He can wolf down HUGE amounts of food in a few seconds, and was known for stealing vegetables from a near village. It was dropped later.

* [[Can't Catch Up]]: Mainly because of his age.

* [[Combat Commentator]]: <s>Often</s> ''Always''.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: When Yaiba turned into a crazy Oni for the first time, he knocked him down with a single strike. Wooden stick beats Lightning!

* [[Dirty Old Man]]

* [[Expy]]: He's part [[Ranma One Half|Happosai]], part [[Dragonball|Roshi]].

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: He's really wise and smart, expecially in the Ryujin's Trials.

* [[Miyamoto Musashi]]

* [[Old Master]]

* [[Wax On Wax Off]]: His typical method of training.

 

* [[The Comically Serious]]

* [[Counter Attack]]: His strongest technique, the "Infinite Stance" allows him to anticipate any incoming slash and strike back.

* [[Eye Scream]]: Lost his eye to his father/master Munenori. It appears to have been an accident though.

* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: And it's made from a Katana's Tsuba (hilt).

* [[Emotionless Girl]]

* {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]]}}: {{spoiler|Briefly, then after Jewel's death she's "good" again}}.

* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: While hugging Yaiba in order to heal him. He [[Lovable Sex Maniac|was pleased..]]

* [[Mr. Exposition|Miss Exposition]]: During their trip inside the Pyramid.

* {{spoiler|[[Final Boss]]: After being trained by Yaiba's father himself.}}

* [[Four Is Death]]: His Four Evil Kings (Shitenno) during the third arc. {{spoiler|Later his Four elemental Demons}}.

* [[Jet Pack]]: Has one in his Armor.

* [[Laser Blade]]: {{spoiler|Eventually his Devil King Sword turns into one after going all out.}}

* [[Put On a Bus]]: For a while after the Kaguya arc. {{spoiler|[[The Bus Came Back]] just in time for the Grand Finale in the Oda Nobunaga Tournament arc.}}

* [[Razor Wind]]: His signature attack.

* [[Rival Turned Evil]]

* [[Scary Impractical Armor]]: It looks cool, and doesn't put him in any disadvantage whatsoever.

* [[Achilles Heel]]: Can't stand loud noises.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Come on, you can't hate this guy for being evil!

* [[Butt Monkey]]: A Huge one.

* [[Giant Spider]]

* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]

* [[Knife Nut]]: His [[Weapon of Choice]]. When not using [[Improbable Weapon User|other stuff]].

* [[Humongous Mecha|Mega Mecha]]: He's actually the fourth Shitenno, Tortoise Europa, which is a giant Turtle Robot. Which can turn into a [[Giant Spider]] too.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]

 

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Indeed, but also very loyal to Onimaru

* [[Made of Iron]]: He somehow survived the destruction of Onimaru's Fortress by Kaguya.

 

== Onimaru's Minions ==

* [[Covert Pervert]]: The Starfishman, Mantisman and Seacucumberman all fall for Sayaka.

* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Snakeman true name is Julius Zuppopotamus Third.

* [[Gratuitous English]]: '''Bat Guy'''!

* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: The Seacucumberman is the most prominent.

* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: Expecially the Snakeman and Batman

* [[MacGuffin Guardian]]: Guarding places and rooms rather then a specific item.

* [[Made of Iron]]: Dry Dry again, who had a wall tossed on him and survived.

* [[Overly Long Tongue]]: Chamaleon Bonaparte

* [[Tessho Genda]]: Dry Dry's Seiyuu

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Kotaro, Shiro, Goemon and Basho are really fast on their feet.

* [[Ninja]]: Kotaro Fuuma, who actually uses Ninpo, and Goemon Ishikawa

* [[Petting Zoo People]]: See above

* [[Razor Wind]]: Kotaro's Kamaitachi jutsu.

* [[Dark Is Edgy]]: Dark has total control of the Darkness and can use it in many ways.

* [[Elemental Powers]]: Each of them, namely Water, Fire, Darkness and {{spoiler|Light}}.

** Furthermore, Yaiba manage to escape Dark's ''Dark Zone'' by shattering it with the light of his sword. {{spoiler|And also Plasma, whose illusions are stopped as Yaiba use the Supreme King Sword to cover the sky with dark clouds}}.

* [[Fashion Victim Villain]]: Rain's clothes are really weird.

* [[Kill It With Fire]]: Guess who?

* [[Kill It With Water]]: Rain, whose powers allow her to create [[This Is a Drill|huge water drills]], [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice|spears]] and [[Death of a Thousand Cuts|needles]] made of [[An Ice Person|ice]] or simply blast huge water bullets from her sword.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Dark is quite fast, {{spoiler|and Plasma is simply a champion at it... well, being the Light Demon and all...}}

* [[Making a Splash]]: Rain and her Sword.

* [[Malevolent Masked Man]]: Dark wears a creepy mask and his face is always concealed.

* [[Master of Illusion]]: {{spoiler|Plasma can turn himself into anyone and cast powerful illusions manipulating the light in the enviroment.}}

* [[Meaningful Name]]: All of them.

* [[Noble Demon]]: Burner is not as ruthless as his collegues. Still this diesn't stop him from demolishing Sayaka's mansion with his [[Fireball]] attacks

* [[Playing With Fire]]: Burner and his Falchion.

* [[Shock and Awe]]: {{spoiler|Plasma can use any "light" source to recharge himself and attack, including Lightnings, which later toss at Yaiba}}.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Dark to a defeated Burner

* [[Big Bad]]: Of her Arc

* [[Breath Weapon]]: True form only. And it's [[Wave Motion Gun]] sized.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Her true form.

* {{spoiler|[[Enemy Mine]]}}: {{spoiler|With Yaiba in order to stop Orochi from destroying the world.}}

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: She's really reluctant to allow Gekko to use the Devil King Sword.

* [[Evil Is Sexy]]

* [[Evil Overlord]]

* [[Fan Disservice]]: Her "old" form.

* [[Fusion Dance]]: The Gatai power, like all the Moon People

* {{spoiler|[[Genius Loci]]}}: {{spoiler|After using said Gatai with the Planet Earth!!}}

* [[Grand Theft Me]]: She's possessing a Ryujin's Priestess body.

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}: {{spoiler|Courtesy of Sayaka}}

* [[Ki Attacks]]: Several of them.

* [[Kiss of Death]]: Her kiss can drain away Youth from a woman. {{spoiler|Thankfully after she's defeated the essence returns to the women}}.

* [[Modesty Bedsheet]]: Sleps in the nude.

* [[Moon Rabbit]]: She's their Queen.

* [[Opera Gloves]]

* [[Playboy Bunny]]: The main reason so many people knows her.

* [[Prehensile Hair]]: Can use them as a trump card

* [[Purple Is the New Black]]

* [[Shoulders of Doom]]

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: She must feed every 24 hours, or she'll die

* [[The Dragon]]

* [[Evil Genius]]: He's really smart

* [[Ship Tease]]: With Kaguya.

* [[Taking the Bullet]]: He uses his body as a shield to protect Kaguya from Yaiba's [[Fireball]]

* [[The Starscream]]: Plans to take Tsukikage's place.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]:

 

=== Mikazuki ===

* [[Everything Is Even Worse With Sharks]]

* [[Gonk]]

* [[Lean and Mean]]

 

 

* [[Combat Tentacles]]: In his squid form.

* [[Evil Old Folks]]

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: He and Mikazuki seems to be this

* [[Evil Old Folks]]

* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Does this by using Gatai on Jubei.

* [[Oh Crap]]: When he sees Gekko

* [[The Unfought]]

* [[Eye Scream]]: In the past, Ryujin took away his eye with a sword strike. It grows back when he seize the Maoken.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: He had a weddlesome past.

* [[Killer Rabbit]]: More like [[Omnicidal Maniac]] Rabbit, but it fits.

* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: The first person to actually curb-stomp Yaiba, even with the Ryujin Sword.

* [[Shoulders of Doom]]

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: After his defeat.

 

== The Pyramid Guardians ==

* [[Losing Your Head]]: First played for laughs and later Weaponized by the Snowman Soldier

* [[Made of Diamond]]: All of them.

* [[Poisoned Weapons]]: The Sugi Pollen Soldier attack with the eponymous pollen and poisonous steel leaves.

* [[Slasher Smile]]: All of them, sooner or later.

* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]: Budou

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Budou,'s ''Muscat Kick'' and ''Kyohou Blast'' attacks, which both features [[Punny Name]]

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Happens to those who eat the mushrooms in the Mushroom Soldier's Room. It can be reveserd.

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: The Grapefruit Soldier falls off the Pyramid when Yaiba hit his arm, making him fire his Kyohou Blast right next to him.

* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Expecially Ruby and Sapphire

** [[The Dark Chick]]: Diamond {{spoiler|and Emerald}}.

* [[Doppelganger]]: Sapphire can replicate any attack and weapon she sees, and Jewel as well.

* [[Energy Weapons]]: Including a [[An Axe to Grind|large battleaxe]] for Ruby, a [[Cool Sword|copy of the Raijin Sword]] for Sapphire, a [[Sinister Scythe|Scythe]] and several [[Knife Nut|daggers of various size]] for Diamond. Jewel uses weird Javelin-like Orb and a [[BFS|Greatsword]].

* [[Evil Genius]]: Diamond fits this trope to a T.

* [[Gender Bender]]: Apparently, Jewel is male, but the Soldiers that merge to create him are female.

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Sapphire.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: "Bip". Said by Diamond during her fight with Yaiba and right after Jewel's death.

* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]: Jewel.

 

== The Denizens of Underworld ==

=== Boss ===

 

 

* [[Big Bad]]

* [[Mr. Exposition]]

* [[Orcus On His Throne]]

 

=== Gold&Silver ===

* [[Exotic Weapon Supremacy]]: He uses a "Sabre", with an extremly flexible blade which can be waved to distract his enemies.

* [[Funny Foreigner]]: He's surely from Europe, but his name is German and those who bet on him are from France....

* [[Royal Rapier]]: His Sabre is more like a Rapier.

 

* [[Expy]]: He looks like his counterpart in [[Samurai Shodown]].

* [[Fan Service]]: Not the sexual one, but considering that so many other "famous warriors" have appeared, his cameo can count as this for the nippophilies.

* [[Ninja]]

* [[Playing With Fire]]: He's shown spewing fire at his opponent

 

* [[The Alcoholic]]: He drinks quite a lot.

* [[Covert Pervert]]: Never miss a chance to grope Sayaka's butt. [[Unfortunate Implication|Wait a minute...]]

* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: {{spoiler|When he and his wife finally met.}}

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: In the anime, which not only ends earlier, but also shows him only in the very first episode.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Sort of: he pops out the Orb just in time to prevent Yaiba's fall into the Darkness.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Heck, when even the Spiderman can beat the crap out of you....

* [[Kappa]]