Fox

Fox
	; Fox, as he appears in the manga.
Name in Kanji	フォックス
Name in Romaji	Fokkusu
Alternate spelling(s)	none
Fighting Style	Chōtō Chihai Ken
Allegiance(s)	Jackal, Jagi (1986 movie)
Family	none known
Position(s)	Jackal's right-hand man
Appearances	Manga (ch. 20-23), Anime (ep. 11-12), 1986 movie
Voice actor(s)	Kōji Totani (TV); Takeshi Aono (Movie); Yohei Azakami (Hokuto Musou); Jack Hammer (anime dub); Carl Macek (movie dub)

Fox (フォックス, Fokkusu): Jackal's 'right-hand' man. He fights using a technique known as Chōtō Chihai Ken, in which he pretends to be dead and then launches a surprise attack, decapitating his victims in mid-air with hidden sickles mounted on his wrists.

Appearance

He is a thuggish looking man with a muscular build and a cleft chin that has dark hair styled in a topknot, a row of vertical scars on his forehead, and also has no eyebrows. He wears a pair of suspenders and pants that have two tassets, a pair of spiked shoulderpads (that are plain in the anime) that are furred, making them slightly resemble epaulets in a way, and a pair of long gloves with spiked bracelets that hide his sickles.

Personality

He is rather prideful, as he ruthlessly killed a bunch of villagers for calling him ugly and monstrous, and also has the inappropriate habit of urinating after he kills other people. He holds no respect for the dead as he casually urinated on the corpse of a man he had recently killed. When confronted with some one far more powerful than himself, he immediately loses his cruel and irreverent attitude and behaves cowardly, but he is more than willing to try and trick them into letting their guard down so he can attack them.

Abilities

Fox possesses high agility and speed, as he was able to kill multiple men in rapid succession faster than they can react, and possesses enough physical strength to launch himself into the air from a supine (face-up, lying down) position, with this ability of his being the basis of his Chōtō Chihai Ken style.

His weapons of choice are a pair of bracelets that have hidden sickles in them, and are sharp enough to easily decapitate the average man.

Manga & TV Series

He takes part in the attack on Toyo's village, then when Kenshiro is going to kill Jackal and Fox reveals he's taken two orphans as hostages. On Jackal's suggestion, Fox then plants dynamite on two of the orphans in order to create a diversion for Kenshiro so Jackal escape.

Later Fox is looking for food in a nearby village, unknowing that Kenshiro was out for revenge and Jackal kept this information from Fox to use him as a sacrifice to delay Ken. Kenshiro tracks down Fox, Fox pretends to cooperate and give Jackal's location whilst actually preparing his trick, but Kenshiro sees through his technique. When Fox refuses to tell Jackal's location, Kenshiro strikes the Shin-ichi (新一) vital point to forcibly extract the location of Jackal's whereabouts from him. After which, Kenshiro kicks Fox to his death and delivers his corpse as a warning to Jackal and the rest of his gang.

1986 movie

In the theatrical movie, Fox one of Jagi's underlings who terrorizes a village in Kenshiro's name. Kenshiro & Rei both happen to arrive on the scene and Kenshiro kills Fox with a single punch.

Video Games

Fox appears as a miniboss during Devil's stage in Fist Of the North Star for Master System.

In the Hokuto no Ken game for playstation Fox appears as a boss. There is an additional cutscene in the game depicting Fox whistling for Jackal's help, only to get no response.

Fox's techique is given to Outlaw in Hokuto Musō. Outlaw himself draws inspiration from Fox.

Fox himself appears in Shin Hokuto Muso as a boss in Legend mode. Fox uses the same moveset as Outlaw and wields a flail when not using Choto Chihai Ken.

Character Rating

From Hokuto no Ken: Kyūkyoku Kaisetsusho: Seikimatsu Haō Retsuden.

Level: D
Power: 1
Speed: 2
Skills: 2
Looks: 1
Charisma: 1

Notes

In the Manga, Fox notes he gets the urge to urinate after killing. This is cut out of the anime.

Gallery

Fox in Hokuto no Ken: Legends ReVIVE