Top 10 Anime Characters Who Fight Dirty

“Baki” (2018)
He may be getting on in years, but considering his immense size and the fact he’s regarded as one of the great practitioners of Chinese kenpo, you would expect a man like Dorian wouldn’t have to resort to underhanded means to win a fight. You’d be dead wrong. Seeking to find defeat, this death row in-mate has a bag of deadly tricks he loves to dish out in spite of his martial arts prowess. Throwing gasoline, chopping off limbs with minute razor wire, even using hypnosis, everything is on the cards with this geezer.

“Dr Stone” (2019)
Turns there will always be douchebags who think they’re top dog just because they bulked out a bit. Even thousands of years in the future. Determined to become the next village chief, Magma doesn’t care who he has to step on in order to gain status or how he does it. This includes plotting the downfall of the sickly beauty Ruri and striking down a superior opponent when his back his turned. Thankfully, all his bluster and bravado are nothing compared to the power of science!

“The Rising of the Shield Hero” (2019)
When the world casts you out, it’s time to bite back. Despite being summoned to a fantasy world as one of four legendary heroes, Naofumi’s life promptly falls apart, thanks to a conspiracy set by a certain princess in order to secure dominance. Thus, this fella goes from impressionable protagonist to embittered anti-hero, one who won’t hesitate to use any means to fight back against those that wronged him, whether it’s through his shield abilities, or by tossing sentient, biting balls into the groin of a certain Spear jerk.

“Black Clover” (2017-)
Turns out that even an order of magic knights has its bad boys. In this instance we’ve got the sharp-toothed, vulgar, trap user with no love for the nobility after it wronged his father. Sickened by the upper classes and their pompous attitudes, Zora retuned to the Clover Kingdom to raise some hell and put the new generation through their paces, even if it involved setting up his traps way before the tournament matches start. Underhanded, yet oh so effective. He fits right in with the Black Bulls.

“JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure” (2012-)
Oh that little troublemaker, always getting himself into some sort of mischief…like using Hamon to launch a coke cola cap to break a man’s nose, pulling a tommy gun out of his ass to get the drop on a vampire, sending a superbeing hurtling into space via an exploding volcano. Honestly, the list just keeps going and going, right into his twilight years in fact, though by far the dirtiest trick he pulled was the one where he had an affair with Josuke’s smoking mama. Poor form sir.

“Fist of the North Star” (1984-88)
It can’t be easy living in the shadow of the god that is Kenshiro. After getting his ass handed to him by his adopted younger brother and fleeing with his tail between his legs, Jagi adopted the path of the lethal trickster, choosing to instead focus on a far less honourable style of fighting. As opposed to poking raiders until they explode, this Shinken student prefers to settle this with tools like needles and a shotgun. Not quite what we’d call martial arts.

“One Piece” (1999-)
He’s the teller of tales with a killer aim, and who just happens to always carry around a supply of makeshift weapons made purely to deceive and terrify his foes into submission. Usopp is one in a million. He’s managed to scare the living crap out of Perona and her ghosts with nothing more than fake roaches and an inflatable hammer, he was even responsible for saving the transformed toys of Dressrosa by accidentally having his underhanded tool turned against him – and that’s just scratching the surface. All in all, when it comes to unconventional takedowns, the long-nosed pirate is your man.

“KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World” (2016-17)
Why adhere to the rules of a noble hearted hero when you can mess up everyone’s day as a selfish NEET who’s stuck in a parallel world with a useless party who continually make his life agony. Yeah, Kazuma is about as far from a shining knight as can get, one who doesn’t hesitate to take down his opponents with some rather tactless methods. Using magic in a sword duel against Darkness, stealing the sword and knocking out the actual hero of the tale before the fight had started, even magically snatching the panties of all his female opponents!

“Vinland Saga” (2019)
He’s the magnificent bastard you hate to love, a born survivor who’s committed the most heinous of deeds and yet somehow has a noble quality to his character, while also playing every side for fools. Askeladd is far from your traditional barbarian. While now serving as something of a twisted mentor figure to Thorfiin, we can’t forget that the only reason he was able to bring down Thors in their duel was because he used every underhanded tactic in the book, including having his men pelt him with arrows. Give this Dane an inch and he’ll find a way to take your life.

“Fate/Zero” (2011-12)
He wants to be a champion of justice that saves the world from conflict…and he’ll do whatever it takes in order to make it happen, even if it means abandoning any shred of decency to his name. In order to ensure he wins the Fourth Holy Grail War, the Master of Saber goes to extreme lengths to ensure every one of his foes meets their maker, even if it involves kidnaping their wives, forcing them to make their own Servant commit suicide, before telling your sidekick to riddle them with holes. The fact all this ends up being for naught just adds to the tragedy of his character.