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{{quote|''"Osamu Tezuka was educated as a doctor, so the stories are rich in medical knowledge and experience. [[Like Reality Unless Noted|Except, of course, when Tezuka decides that it would be more fun to just make crazy shit up.]] [[Serial Escalation|Which is pretty much constantly."]]''|'''[http://shaenon.livejournal.com/58712.html?thread=806488 Overlooked Manga Festival]''' on ''[[
A manga series about an unlicensed physician who charges immense fees to use his miraculous healing skills.
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This series now has a [[Character Sheet]] in desperate need of expansion.
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=== Tropes featured in ''[[
* [[Action Girl]]: Watou, who aside of being a [[Kendo Team Captain]] can defend herself well when unarmed.
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* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: From operating at lighting speed to operating on a dozen patients at once to fingerprint transplants. [[Like Reality Unless Otherwise Noted]] has runaway screaming.
** Black Jack built little Pinoko from a teratogenous cystoma living as a parasitic twin and a plastic exoskeleton to replace the body parts she'd never developed. While ''drunk''.
** That's nothing compared to one of the surgeries he's done on himself. In the middle of the Australian Outback. While ''fighting dingos''. ''[[Iron Man (
*** Pretty much every step Black Jack takes is [[Serial Escalation]].
* [[Bifauxnen]]: {{spoiler|Megumi (see below)}}
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* [[Butterfly of Death and Rebirth]]: At the end of the chapter where Doctor Kiriko is introduced, after Jack saves the patient he was set on euthanizing. At mild provocation from Jack, he illustrates that his philosophy hasn't changed one bit; picking up a wounded butterfly from the steps they were conversing on... and crushing it. He then starts to leave, insinuating Jack is a fool for spending time saving lives.
* [[Canon Dis Continuity]]: The "Sealed Chapters", which Tezuka chose to withdraw from the official collections for various reasons (too controversial, overreliance on shock images, plot recycled into a better story, just plain not very good.) Most of them have been reprinted in special collections, but at least one has never done so.
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Sharaku and Watou, who had appeared in other Tezuka works (originally in ''[[The Three
** Sharaku and Wato are frequent [[Canon Immigrant|Canon Immigrants]], so much that many don't seem to realize (or remember) that Sharaku was the villain ([[Jekyll and Hyde|and the hero]]) ''in his own series.''
* [[Car Fu]]: Black Jack seems fond of this.
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* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Frequently. There are also several corrupt doctors, as well.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Jo Carol to Pinoko in the first movie.
* [[Covered
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: When held at gunpoint and told to reach for the sky, Black Jack raises a pair of ''dummy arms'' concealed in his coat so his hands will be free to sling scalpels at the enemy. In fairness, it's not like he just ''wears'' those - he'd expected he would be attacked.
* [[Crimefighting
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Benitokage in ''Black Jack 21''.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: His face, wardrobe, car, and name pertain to blackness.
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* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Sharaku, in regards to Pinoko.
* [[Doomed Moral Victor]]: Many of Black Jack's [[La Résistance|politically involved]] patients.
* [[Dr. Jerk]]: Black Jack tends to the [[Jerk
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: A number of Black Jack's patients end up under his care out of suicidal tendencies. One of the sadder cases is {{spoiler|Yoshie Momota in "Yet False the Days".}}
* [[Eagle Land]]: The OVA series realistically portrayed the United States, but also created a fictional Eagleland country for an [[Author Tract]] episode.
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* [[The Faceless]]: Pinoko's sister, who wears a mask at all times when she appears. Apparently, she's quite famous and recognizable. Pinoko's face is no clue to hers, as that part of Pinoko was artificially created by Blackjack.
** {{spoiler|We do see her face in a later story, where we also find out that she is the daughter of a wealthy Buddhist family.}}
* [[The Family for
* [[Fashion Dissonance]]: Dear God, the [[Hotblooded Sideburns|SIDEBURNS!]]
* [[Fauxlosophic Narration]]
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* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: Black Jack is on the "good" side of this... usually.
* [[Morality Pet]]: Pinoko to Black Jack.
* [[The Movie]]: Two of 'em: ''[[Title: the Adaptation|Black Jack The Movie]]'' in 1992, and ''The Two Doctors of Darkness'' in 2005.
* [[Multicolored Hair]]: Black Jack.
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: An odd and very tragic case involving a friend of Black Jack's, the friend's wife... {{spoiler|and a super intelligent deer who tried to kill the poor woman when he learnt his only friend was married.}}
* [[My Greatest Failure]]: Dr. Hounma confesses to Black Jack on his death bed that {{spoiler|when first operating on him, he accidentally left a scalpel in his body, but adamantly refused to believe he could be so careless and therefore ignored it. When he discovered the calcium-sheathed tool in a follow-up operation, he was so disgusted with himself for putting a patient's life in jeopardy for the sake of pride that he immediately retired from practice.}}
* [[Not Good
* [[Not So Stoic]]: The mere ''sight'' of Dr. Kiriko will lead Black Jack to drop whatever he's doing just to bitch at him. Dr. Kiriko seems to find this amusing.
* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Dr. Joutarou Hounma, also the man that saved Black Jack's life and pretty much raised him.
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* [[Plucky Girl]]: Pinoko.
* [[Psychic Surgery]]
* [[Revenge
* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: "You, so-called God! You are cruel!"
* [[Reused Character Design]]: A signature style of Tezuka. Black Jack is special for his work in that Black Jack and Pinoko are only reused when he specifically is trying to cameo them in other works. Dr. Hounma, who's also a rather unique design, is used again in nearly every major Tezuka work, and prominently in ''[[Phoenix]]'', showing Hounma's continued [[Reincarnation|Reincarnations]] all end up as the [[Woobie]].
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** Black Jack actually had three shadows, though Kiriko was the only one who stuck. An acupuncturist who disdained traditional medicine appeared a few times, and an idealistic doctor who worked within the system appeared exactly once.
* [[Ship Tease]]: A lot of these with BJ and [[Girl of the Week|various one-shot female characters]], as well as {{spoiler|Kei/Megumi}} and, in the anime, Pinoko.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Episode 7 has a white lion that's very similar to [[Kimba the White Lion
* [[Sleazy Politician]]
* [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes]]: ''if'' you accept Black Jack as an [[Anti-Hero]], he slides back and forth the whole scale.
* [[Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality]]: The manga tends to stay between Levels 3 and 4, but the first movie and 3rd OAV are more like Level 5.
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Split Personality]]: The ninth [[OAV]] deals with a patient who suffers from this - the personalities border on [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] levels of competence. An early manga chapter has BJ dealing with a man who has a "face sore" - a swelling with its own personality, based on an old Japanese tale, which happens to be on his face. {{spoiler|The man's a serial killer, and tries to kill Black Jack once the operation's done... but the sore takes over, throws him off a cliff, and asks that they be allowed to die. BJ complies, wondering if the sore was actually the man's conscience.}}
* [[Steven Ulysses Perhero]]: Black Jack's real name is Kuroo Hazama. As he explains himself once, "Kuro" means "black" while the second "o" can be short for "otoko", meaning "man". Thus "Black Jack" is a loose English translation of his actual name.
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