Doppo Orochi

ℹ️️**Notice**This is a crossover character and is therefore not canon to Glad you Came

**Doppo Orochi** (愚地 独歩, *Orochi Doppo*) is a 10th dan karate grandmaster and head of the Shinshinkai Karate School, husband of Natsue Orochi and adoptive father of Katsumi Orochi. Practicing martial arts for 50 years, he is one of the strongest characters in the series. He is also the sensei of Kiyosumi Katou and Atsushi Suedou.

He is known by many titles, such as the "God of War" (武神, *Bushin*), "Man Eater Orochi" (人食いオロチ, *Hitogui Orochi*), "Tiger Slayer" (虎殺し, *Tora Koroshi*), "Fist Saint" (拳聖, *Ken-sei*), and former champion of the underground tournament hosted by Mitsunari Tokugawa.

## Personality

Doppo is shown as a strong, proud, wise and caring man. He takes his role as the Director and founder of Shinshinkai Karate very seriously. He goes as far as to close the dojo forever due to a promise he made to his students and himself saying he would never lose to anyone ever again. In his match in the Maximum Tournament against Gouki Shibukawa, he even went as far as to ask the old man to kill him in a honorable warrior's death, only to be spared by Shibukawa, who tells him to live and keep on training.

Doppo's devotion to the martial arts has led him to question and pursue the life long self-journey by finding the perfect fist no matter how many people praise and look up to him he still remains and tries to stay humble. In a flashback of him what seems to be a few days before the Maximum Tournament he is seen questioning his fist and tries to sleep for the night being annoyed by a nearby fly bothering him he quickly reacts and punches the air soon opening his eyes he sees the blood from the dead fly and looks at his fist seeing his hand posture imitating that of the Enlightened One the Buddha known as the Buddhist sampa hand reflecting.

He has a brave "no step down" characteristic about him when it comes to fighting going as far as to fight a siberian tiger in his younger days and even admits that was a bit foolish of him, but earning him one of his many nicknames the "Tiger Killer". He also believes in his karate style that there is no such thing as a step back or running away shown when he fights Yuujirou Hanma or a siberian tiger.

Despite his fearsome role as a "Tiger Killer", "Man Eater" and "God Hand" he has shown to have a caring side to him seen when his wife Natsue worries about her husbands fight with the "King of Beast" Yuujirou or in the ultimate underground tournament he in turns comforts his wife saying he won't ever lose to anyone ever again and that he would turn the golden champion belt into jewelry for her when he wins. Another example is shown when he faces off with Dorian when he stops his son from fighting the convict saying "it's my duty as founder of the Shinshinkai Karate dojo to fight him" when in truth it is possible that he was just concerned for the safety of his son. He even lets Kiyosumi Katou leave a hospital just to give Dorian the final hit for closure. When Katsumi goes against the prehistoric man Pickle, Doppo is seen waiting near the entrance of the arena in a wide horse stance position waiting for Katsumi and gives him advice only for Katsumi to understand the meaning that his father was proud and worries about him.

He has shown to have a rather ruthless but comedic sense of himself such as during his short fight with Katou to use his words against him and say "so its suppose to be warm, eh?" and sticks his fingers in Katou's eye sockets only to show him that Katou has not trained nearly enough. During the monthly training session with his top students and a visiting Baki Hanma, he threatens Baki that he wouldn't be able to leave his Dojo alive if they got into a fight only for a student to tell Baki that the director was merely joking.

Doppo Orochi is a tactical genius when it comes to one-on-one fighting. Before the fight even starts, Doppo already has numerous "tricks" up his sleeve that he is ready to use. And before engaging in the fight itself, he will carefully inspect his opponent, their stance, fighting style, techniques, etc. Even if he was caught off guard, he'd be able to decipher the secrets of others' frightful abilities relatively quickly. To put it briefly, Doppo Orochi, much like Kaiou Kaku, is a true combat genius. While a martial arts expert, Doppo relies too much on his karate and is more often than not too deluded to the point he sees karate as the "purest and most supreme form of fighting there is". Like Kaiou Kaku, he can be caught off guard by an opponent that is much more vicious or aggressive, leaving him vulnerable, just like during Doppo's battle against Dorian when the American convict cutted off Doppo's hand by using a trick.