Kyodai Ken
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Kyodai Ken (sometimes spelled Kyodai-Ken or more simply called "The Ninja") is a fictional villain of Batman who has appeared in two episodes of Batman: The Animated Series. He was voiced by Robert Ito.
He is a condisciple of Bruce Wayne when studies with he studies martial arts under Yoru Sensei in Japan, who gets obsessed trying to defeat him even after he becomes Batman.
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Kyodai Ken learns martial arts from Yoru Sensei in Japan along with young Bruce Wayne, with whom he would develope a rivalry situation. At those times Kyodai was a superior match to Bruce and used to moch him by calling him "pampered rich boy". After Bruce caughts Kyodai attempting to steal one of Yoru's swords, Yoru expells him from his dojo. Kyodai swore revenge on Bruce Wayne and develops an obsesion.
Years later, Kyodai goes to Gotham City in the episode Night of the Ninja to face his rival. At first he disguises himself as a generic ninja and commits several robberies on Bruce Wayne's properties. After briefly fighting Batman, he realises he is Bruce, and that in consecuence, he would try to hide his skills as such. In consecuence, Kyodai kidnaps Bruce along with reporter Summer Gleeson and uses her to lure Bruce Wayne into a fight, to settle once and for all who is superior, but Bruce is unable to fight until Robin comes along and finds out a way to prevent Summer to see the battle, in which Bruce finally defeats Kyodai, who escapes.
Although originally intended to be a one-time character[citation needed], Kyodai returns later the same season in Day of the Samurai, in which he goes back to Japan and kidnaps Yoru's star pupil, Kairi, and holds her hostage, forcing Yoru to reveal him the secret hiding place of some ancient scrolls containing details about a forbidden tecnique to kill people using martial arts. Yoru calls in Bruce Wayne to help battle Kyodai, who confirms that he knows about Bruce's secret identity as Batman. Kyodai eventually gains the scrolls and masters the Ohinemuri death touch, to use on Bruce.
Kyodai lures Batman to a final battle along the slope of an active volcano, once again with use of Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce's butler an father figure, as a new hostage. During this battle, Kyodai tries using the death touch, but it fails as Batman had discovered the area that needed to be touched and was able to shield it. The battle ends when Kyodai is stranded on a rock in the middle of a flow of lava. Batman tries to save Kyodai, but Kyodai refuses Batman's aid and disappears in the following explosion. He never returns.
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- One of Kyodai's notable physical characteristics is a large dragon tattoo on his back.
- His name is Japanese for "Giant Fist".
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[edit] External links
- The World's Finest, a site with a complete guide to the DC animated universe. It's the source of a great deal of the related images in Pop-Cult Guides.
- DCAUResource.com, a very well documented site when it comes to DC fictional biographies.
- The Animated Batman, an Unofficial Guide, a site with a complete guide to Bruce Timm's Batman. It's the source of a great deal of the related images in Pop-Cult Guides.
