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{{nihongo|'''Liú Zōngwǔ'''|劉 宗武|Ryū Sōbu}}<br />

{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}}→{{flagicon|Republic of China}}

The 1930's successor to the [[Hokuto Ryū Ken|Hokuto Ryūka Ken]] style. His first encounter with the previous master, [[Liú Xuán-Xìn]], was at the [[Taiseiden|Tài Shèng Yuàn]] Temple in [[wikipedia:Ningbo|Ningbo]]. He met [[Xià Wén-Lì]] there, too.

Driven to revenge by the death of his family at the hands of [[Dù Tiān-Fēng]], Zōngwǔ turned evil and began to train in the Hokuto Ryūka Ken arts. Pro-war, he believes that it is a good opportunity to cleanse evil from the world. Later he joined the [[wikipedia:Nazism|Nazis]] as a [[wikipedia:Untersturmführer|Lieutenant]] in the [[wikipedia:Waffen-SS|Waffen-SS]] even though he was Chinese. He had the chance to kill [[wikipedia:Adolf Hitler|Adolf Hitler]] but didn't because he felt Hitler was too pitiful. [[Edmund Heckler]] brings him to Shanghai during the [[wikipedia:Battle of Shanghai|Battle of Shanghai]]. Zōngwǔ survives an attempt on his life after [[Dù Tiān-Fēng]] asks for [[Edmund Heckler]] to organize the hit.

Zōngwǔ desired to kill [[Kenshirō Kasumi]] in order to prove that Hokuto Ryūka Ken was superior than [[Hokuto Shinken]]. After killing Dù Tiãn-Fēng and finally avenging his parents' deaths he renounced his evil ways and became a monk. It can be assumed that he passed his fighting style to [[Jukei]].

Semi-historically, one of the unlikely, but possiblle reasons that Liú Zōngwǔ could have become a German Nazi officer despite being Chinese was that during the early 20th Century, [[wikipedia:Sino-German cooperation|China was in a pre-war semi-alliance with Germany]] which ended prior to the war, where both countries relied heavily on each other for exchanging raw materials from China while Germany provided advisors and technology. The use of [[wikipedia:Mauser C96|C96]] guns and the [[wikipedia:Model 24 grenade|Potato Masher]] hand grenades can be seen throughout ''Souten no Ken''. In reality, the war put an end to all Sino-German cooperartion, and the possibility of a Chinese ranking Nazi officer would be a near impossibility, as Germany allied with Japan, and Japan attacked America and joined the war on Germany's side.  [[wikipedia:Chiang Kai-Shek|Chiang Kai-Shek's]] son, [[wikipedia:Chiang Wei-Kuo|Chiang Wei-Kuo]], was also officially a graduate of the German [[wikipedia:Wermacht|Wermacht]].