Garou

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Okay, sure, fine! The great prophecy is spot-on! The great seer sure does rock! She foresaw an unprecedented catastrophe of threat level god!!! Like the old dude said, it's a waste. All of you here couldn't kill me! I'm Garo! I admire baddies, so I've trained hard and destroyed many a dojo! And I see a lot of prey here... ...For drawing out my strength!

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Ooh yeah, I'm stoked! Bring it on! We're all here, so let's see who's toughest! That's why I came! Nonsense? I don't like your inhospitable attitude... ...Today for justice. So let's have a party... ...Where I punish cowards... ...Commit evil... ...And kill everyone!

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The popular will win, the hated will lose. It's such a tragedy. Then I won't lose to anyone. I will become the strongest monster ever and change this scenario.

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“	Sure, you're strong... ...But when human beings wield violence without qualms, they can win any fight. However, you've abandoned kindness. Your hypocrisy... ...Is making me nauseous. Are you trying to tell me... ...That goodness will make me stronger? You said I'm playing monster... ...But the real fakes are you heroes. You heroes are worthless. And yet the people insist on loving you. That's why I do this. So I can kick justice's butt! And you can't stop me!	„
	~ Garou to Superalloy Darkshine

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Yes... I just realized... ...The kind of evil I want to commit. But what's happening to me? The more I get beaten down, the stronger I get! Maybe it's just due to the human meatball's punches, but my head feels clearer! Now I'm confident... ...That I can reach Threat Level God!

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“	I'll take on anyone who wants a fight. Absolute Evil is unbiased, you know. Heroes, monsters, I will slaughter every last one of them and rise to become the ultimate symbol of fear... Disaster level "God". Come get some.	„
	~ Garou to Flashy Flash and Platinum Sperm

“	Is that what you're doing too...? There's no way a person with that kind of power can keep in their right mind.	„
	~ Garou in response to Saitama

Background

Garou is a martial arts prodigy, the self-proclaimed "Hero Hunter," and a major adversary of the Hero Association and Monster Association. He is a disciple of Bang and was once expelled from his dojo because he went on a rampage. Because of his fascination with monsters, he is commonly called the "Human Monster." Sitch of the Hero Association views him as a grave threat to the organization despite being only a human. After the Monster Association incident, Garou is currently being rehabilitated under Bang, who has retired from being a hero and plans for Garou to take over his role.

Personality

• Worldview: As a kid, Garou cheeered for the villains believing it's not fair for the bad guys to lose when they have hopes viewing villains as cooler. This ideology as a kid applies to his current self, where he decided to change the story and become the strongest villain that won't lose to anyone, Garou also does not consider himself on the same side as thugs and thieves noting they're on the side of humans while he's on the side of the monsters.

• Love for Monsters: Garou being an extreme fan of monsters doesn't only apply to his kid self, even his current self is excited when seeing the monsters section in the Hero Encylopedia and hopes he'll one day be in it.

• Hatred for Fake Heroes: Garou does not like heroes that abuse their position, wanting to fight a true hero. This hatred spawned from the old days where his bully would play heroes and monsters with him, where he sensed a great injustice that allowed someone popular who everyone liked to whale away on a weakling who everyone hates.

• Secretly Kind: Despite Garou wanting to be the ultimate villain and monster, he is actually a kind person. He protected an unconscious Metal Bat and his little sister from being attacked by monsters, the same beings he claims he's on the same side as. Despite being able to easily jump out of the way of Death Gatling's attacks, he made sure not a single bullet would hit the shed behind him as Tareo was in there. This is revealed further during his fight with Saitama with Saitama seeing through him and realizing he's actually a nice guy pretending to be a monster, repeatedly saving people during his fight with Saitama.

General Information

Name: Garou, Garo

Nicknames:

Origin:

First Appearance: One-Punch Man Alien Conquerors Arc (Mentioned by name), One-Punch Man Garou Introduction Arc (Officially introduced here)

Company: Shueisha, Tonari no Young Jump, Madhouse (Season 1 anime studio), J.C. Staff (Season 2 anime studio)

Creator: One, Yusuke Murata (The illustrator), Shingo Natsume (Season 1 anime director), Chikara Sakurai (Season 2 Anime Director)

Actor

• Japanese Voice Actor
  • Adult: Hikaru Midorikawa
  • Child: Ayumi Mano
• English Voice Actor
  • Adult: Greg Chun
  • Child: Kimlinh Tran

Sex: Male

Sexuality: Heteorsexual (Had a discussion with Bang on what girls he likes)

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: 18

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Bang's Dojo, City Z

Story Role: Tragic Villain, Monster, Supervillain, Redeemed Character

Classification: Martial Artist

Species: Human, Monster (During his monsterization), Unknown (When influenced by God)

State of Being: Regular, Transcendent as Awakened Garou (Received the power of God and due to his ability to absorb and copy all manners of martial arts and also use that flow he awakened to the flow of cosmic forces and their dispensation of power)

Physiology: Human Physiology, Monster Physiology during Monsterization, Transcendent Physiology as Awakened Garou

In-Universe Creator: Potentially God

Occupation: Professional Hero, Bang's pupil

Disaster level: Dragon

Ranking: Unknown Ranking (After Bang resigned he introduced Garou to the hero association, though his official ranking has not been given yet)

Affiliations: Bang, Bomb, Hero Association, Tareo, Saitama

Enemies: Bang (formerly), Bomb (formerly), Hero Association (formerly), Saitama (formerly), Monster Association, Monsters

Height: 177 cm

Weight: Unknown

Status: Deceased before time travel (God took his powers back from Garou making him fade into salt), Alive after time travel (Saitama traveling through time stopped Garou before he went to attack everyone in his Awakened Garou state, preventing the deaths of everyone from his cosmic radiation)

Date of Death: End of Monster Association Arc

Alignment

• Human/Half-Monster: Initially Neutral Evil in worldview (Garou wants to punish cowards, commit evil, and kill everyone, wanting to become the strongest villain and change the story of villains always losing, he does not side himself with thugs and thieves noting that they are on the side of humans while he's with the monsters, wanting to destroy heroes to become more monstorous in the process. He also expresses how he views heroes is a great injustice that allows someone poular who everyone likes to whale away on a weakling who everyone hates, not believing in the way society defines "justice" along with "evil". Garou also notes he doesn't kill heroes as that would make him a hero killer while he views being a monster about inspiring fear. Garou realizes later the kind of evil he wants to commit, being one where he will cast the human race into an abyss of fear, being the very incarnation of despair, existing as impartial evil), Chaotic Neutral in actions (Despite his worldview, Garou will not allow innocent kids or already defeated heroes to be harmed/killed, such as when he protected Metal Bat's sister from being attacked. Blocked all of Death Gatling's bullets due to a little kid being inside of the shed behind him. Stopped crazy cults that want to sacrifice humans to the Monster Association and drunk people trying to stab people. Stopped Tareo from being bullied by a bunch of kids. Saved Tareo from being tortured by King the Ripper. Stopped attacking Superalloy Darkshine as he felt like he was bullying him and that is not the kind of evil he wants to commit. Protected the heroes on a helicopter and Tareo from Centisennin and Evil Ocean Water), becomes Chaotic Good (Bang has become his essential parent-figure where Garou is no longer the hero hunter)
• Awakened Garou: Neutral Evil as Awakened Garou (Due to partly being controlled by God, Garou became a cosmic entity that wanted to display absolute evil to the world, killing everyone in the world in the process)

Threat Level: Initially Street Threat (Garou wants to destroy heroes to become more monstorous in the process), Global Threat after his fight with Bang (Garou realizes later the kind of evil he wants to commit, being one where he will cast the human race into an abyss of fear, being the very incarnation of despair, existing as impartial evil. Absorbed every style he's ever fought and created his own martial arts style, the "Killing God Fist of Monster Destruction", noting he shall reign absolute evil and throw humanity into an abyss of despair, destroying the unreliable crutch known as god), Cosmic Threat as Awakened Garou (Received the power of God and due to his ability to absorb and copy all manners of martial arts and also use that flow he awakened to the flow of cosmic forces and their dispensation of power allowing him to pull things like nuclear fission nuclear explosions and cause gamma ray bursts)

Codex Statistics

Grade: A (Garou is noted to possess a "super-learning ability", where he takes on the techniques of the strongest and can learn how to counteract them and also turn those techniques into his own. Along with this, he has a self-styled martial arts that freely evolves through mortal combat and has Bang's water stream rock smashing fist martial arts drilled into him. Noted by Mumen Rider & Tanktop Master that Garou's technique is massive, using advanced martial arts and that he has vicious skills)

Tier: 7-C, Higher with Adaptation

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Town level (Garou fought and defeated the entire Tank-Top group, including S Class Hero Tanktop Master, where he at first hid his true power to gauge the strength of Tanktop Master. Compared to Deep Sea King in strength. Noted after losing his powers that he was still confident in fighting and defeating Bang), Higher with Adaptation (Garou's pure talent allows him to grow in power and become far faster and stronger at a staggering rate, where he will be able to surpass his opponent over the course of a fight. It is noted that Gyoro Gyoro that Garou has immense potential, allowing him to survive attacks that should kill him and it instead pushes him to new heights)

Durability: Town level, Higher with Adaptation

Striking Strength: Town Class, Higher with Adaptation

Lifting Strength: Class 100 (Even while heavily weakened, he was able to break out of Post-Superfight Genos' grip, who is noted to be as powerful as Tanktop Master, who can lift and throw a large portion of a destroyed building. Tore a tree in half to escape a blast from Genos), Higher with Adaptation

Travel Speed: At least Superhuman (Moved so fast that none of the heroes or criminals could see him), Higher with Adaptation (Garou during the course of a fight can get faster)

Attack Speed: Massively Hypersonic (Can fight against and tag Post-G4 Fight Genos, where Genos was able to move and attack so fast that Fubuki couldn't see him, who can protect Bang and Bomb from an attack from Overgrown Pocchi, where BangFought together with Atomic Samurai, Metal Bat, and Puri-Puri Prisoner, where Atomic Samura can draw his sword and do over a hundred slashes, to where a man who can draw his sword faster than the speed of sound couldn't perceive his movements, resulting in these speeds), Higher with Adaptation

Reaction Speed: Massively Hypersonic, Higher with Adaptation

Stamina: Superhuman+ (Fought against several heroes while weakened and poisoned in the middle of the fight and then went on to fight against Genos, Bang, & Bomb right after defeating the heroes)

Range: Standard Melee Range

Intelligence: Genius Intelligence (Garou is noted to possess a "super-learning ability", where he takes on the techniques of the strongest and can learn how to counteract them and also turn those techniques into his own. After fighting with Tanktop Master, Garou was on to Tanktop Master's fighting style and could easily counter him. Copied Watch Dog Man's fighting style after having it used on him. Garou's pure talent allowed him to learn the Fist of Biting Fangs, Killing Dragons, which usually requires more then one fighter, with it being noted that him overcoming fatal levels of martial arts challenges had him master much more than the two martial artist (Bang and Bomb)'s styles. Noted by Bang that Garou raided the safe containing the secret scrolls and a single read was more then enough for him to acquire and be able to mimic the fobidden art)

Knowledge: Champion level (Garou is noted to possess a "super-learning ability", where he takes on the techniques of the strongest and can learn how to counteract them and also turn those techniques into his own. Along with this, he has a self-styled martial arts that freely evolves through mortal combat and has Bang's water stream rock smashing fist martial arts drilled into him. Noted by Mumen Rider & Tanktop Master that Garou's technique is massive, using advanced martial arts and that he has vicious skills. Even in a dim alleyway, he is able to watch Golden Ball's hand to see where he's going to shoot his attack and figure out the trajectory to dodge. When hit with Golden Ball's Killer Move Golden Breakout he used minimal movement to avoid all of the balls richochetting, and then was able to easily parry the rest of the shots after his eyes adjusted to the dark. Took on 8 heroes at once, utilizing their various weaknesses and bluffs in order to defeat all of them while greatly injured and poisoned)

Grade: A | A | A

Key: Pre-Darkshine Fight | Post-Darkshine Fight | Post-Centisennin Fight

Key Information

• Pre-Darkshine Fight: This covers when Garou started the monsterization process during his fight with Bang. All before his fight with Darkshine. The name of this comes from Gyoro Gyoro's description of Garou where they note he's still only half a monster.
• Post-Darkshine Fight: This covers after his fight with Darkshine, where he eveolved even further into a full monster.
• Full Monster: This covers after his fight with Sage Centipede. Where Saitama hitting him again gave him his full monsterization.

Tier: At least 7-C, 7-B with Adaptation | 7-B, High 6-A with Adaptation | At least High 6-A, Higher with Adaptation

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: At least Town level (Grew so much in strength that he noted he could easily beat Royal Ripper and Bug God), City level with Adaptation (Capable of using the Fist of Biting Fangs, Killing Dragons due to his pure talent, a move that normally requires more then one fighter, where Bang and Bomb used it as a against Centichoro where it demolished Centichoro's hard exoskeleton, where Centichoro's body can reach across an entire forest. Killed King the Ripper in one blow. Easily defeated Puri-Puri Prisoner. Noted to have grown much stronger in such a brief time. Noted that Garou's monsterization is steadily progressing and that he is growing incredibly strong) | City level (Fought and defeated Bomb and right after fought and defeated Bang using Awakening Breath), Multi-Continent level with Adaptation (Fought against and was confident in defeating Centisennin and Evil Ocean Water, the latter of who is the very incarnation of the oceans itself which takes up 70% of the Earth, and the former of who possesses continental length) | Multi-Continent level (Caused the Earth's gravitational field and magnetism to go "out of whack" along with dislodging the oceanic crust from the Earth's crust), Higher with Adaptation

Durability: At least Town level, City level with Adaptation (Took several hits from Overgrown Pochi, who is a superior threat to Centichoro as it took Bang and Bomb's Fists of Biting Fangs, Killing Dragons!, which is noted by Murata that this technique is stronger then Whirling Wind! Flowing Water! Fist of Roaring Qi, Rending Air, which demolished Centichoro's hard exoskeleton, where centichoro's body can reach across an entire forest) | City level, Multi-Continent level with Adaptation | Multi-Continent level, Higher with Adaptation

Striking Strength: At least Town Class, City Class with Adaptation | City Class, Multi-Continent Class with Adaptation | Multi-Continent Class, Higher with Adaptation

Lifting Strength: At least Class 100, Higher with Adaptation | At least Class 100. At least Class P with Adaptation (Garou is able to split Centisennin's entire body in half, where his body is continental in length) | Class E (Caused the Earth's gravitational field and magnetism to go "out of whack" along with dislodging the oceanic crust from the Earth's crust), Higher with Adaptation

Travel Speed: Superhuman, Higher with Adaptation | Superhuman, Faster Than Light with Adaptation (Traveled around so fast that he, Flashy Flash, and Platinum Sperm left behind geometric formations of light, with Garou and Platinum Sperm in 13 milliseconds making denser clusters of light) | Faster Than Light, Higher with Adaptation

Attack Speed: Massively Hypersonic, Higher with Adaptation | Massively Hypersonic, Faster Than Light with Adaptation (Was able to attack all of the enemies within 50 milliseconds, making it look like to everyone else that King attacked them) | Faster Than Light, Higher with Adaptation

Reaction Speed: Massively Hypersonic, Higher with Adaptation | Massively Hypersonic, Faster Than Light with Adaptation (Reacted to Flashy Flash | Faster Than Light, Higher with Adaptation

Stamina: Superhuman+

Range

• Pre-Darkshine Fight: Standard Melee Range, Several Meters with Air Manipulation (Killed King the Ripper from a distance with his technique)
• Post-Darkshine Fight: Standard Melee Range, Several Meters with Air Manipulation, Thousands of Kilometers with Shockwaves (Garou is able to split Centisennin's entire body in half, where his body is continental in length)
• Full Monster: Standard Melee Range, Several Meters with Air Manipulation,Planetary with Shockwaves (Caused the Earth's gravitational field and magnetism to go "out of whack" along with dislodging the oceanic crust from the Earth's crust)

Intelligence: Genius Intelligence (Mastered Bang's awakening breath at a glance. Garou has absorbed every style that he's ever fought and turned it into his own martial art)

Knowledge: Champion level

Grade: S (Received the power of God and due to his ability to absorb and copy all manners of martial arts and also use that flow he awakened to the flow of cosmic forces and their dispensation of power. Garou can shift to different types of people such as when he went into "Mode: Saitama" and perfectly copied Saitama's strengths and abilities)

Tier: Varies on Cosmic Forces, Varies on Mode Changes. 2-C through going outside of the causality of the universe

Cardinality: Varies on Mode Changes, up to ℵ0

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Varies on Cosmic Forces (Received the power of God and due to his ability to absorb and copy all manners of martial arts and also use that flow he awakened to the flow of cosmic forces and their dispensation of power allowing him to pull things like nuclear fission nuclear explosions and cause gamma ray bursts which are this powerful), Varies on Mode Changes (Garou can shift to different types of people such as when he went into "Mode: Saitama" and perfectly copied Saitama's strengths and abilities). Universe level through going outside the causality of the universe (Empty Void through absorbing Awakened Garou's powers far before they grew during his fight with Saitama, was able to go outside of the causality of the universe and fold entire dimensions like bubbles to cut the universe from outside, essentially being far larger then the universe itself)

Durability: Varies on Mode Changes. Universe level through going outside the causality of the universe

Striking Strength: Varies on Mode Changes. Universe Class through going outside the causality of the universe

Lifting Strength: Varies on Mode Changes. Cosmic through going outside the causality of the universe (Empty Void through absorbing Awakened Garou's powers far before they grew during his fight with Saitama, was able to go outside of the causality of the universe and fold entire dimensions like bubbles to cut the universe from outside, essentially being far larger then the universe itself)

Travel Speed: Varies on Mode Changes. Faster Than Light normally

Attack Speed: Varies on Mode Changes. Faster Than Light normally

Reaction Speed: Varies on Mode Changes. Faster Than Light normally

Stamina: Varies on Mode Changes. Likely Limitless

Range: Standard Melee Range, Varies on Cosmic Forces, Varies on Mode Changes. Universal (Empty Void through absorbing Awakened Garou's powers far before they grew during his fight with Saitama, was able to go outside of the causality of the universe and fold entire dimensions like bubbles to cut the universe from outside, essentially being far larger then the universe itself), Multiversal+ while outside of causality (Empty Void through absorbing Awakened Garou's powers far before they grew during his fight with Saitama, can go outside of causality and view parallel worlds branch out and infinite different possibilities)

Intelligence: Cosmic Intelligence (Received the power of God and due to his ability to absorb and copy all manners of martial arts and also use that flow he awakened to the flow of cosmic forces and their dispensation of power allowing him to pull things like nuclear fission nuclear explosions and cause gamma ray bursts)

Knowledge: Cosmic level (Has knowledge of the flow of all cosmic forces and their dispensation of power)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Martial Arts (Garou not only possesses Bang's water stream rock smashing fist, but he also has a self-styled martial arts that evolves freely through mortal combat. Easily dodged, parried and blocked all of Tanktop Master's attacks), Acrobatics (After being hit by Tanktop Master's "Tanktop Tackle", he was able to spin and manuever himself in the air to land back on his feet. Dodged a barrage of bullets by twisting in midair), Pain Tolerance (Garou was able to have his entire hand be stabbed through Spring Mustachio's sword and still keep fighting without making any real reaction to the pain. Took on 8 heroes at once despite expierencing a great amount of injuries along with poison and blood loss), Intimidation (Garou has an intimdiating aura around him that Tanktop Master felt, that made him feel he should get rid of Garou immedieatly), Accelerated Development (Battle, Physical Stats & Abilities; Garou's pure talent allows him to grow in power and become far faster and stronger at a staggering rate, where he will be able to surpass his opponent over the course of a fight. When the challenge is greater, Garou will draw upon new potential and grow even further), Enhanced Senses (Garou could sense being watched by the monsters), Auto-Pilot (Noted that Garou's body moves on its own whenever he's in a pinch, such as when he instinctively used Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist when in danger. Initially fought against Superalloy Darkshine while unconscious), 'Pressure Points (Noted by Tanktop Master that Garou incapciatates physical functions with thrusts targetting joints and vital spots), Counter (Noted by Tanktop Master that Garou's counterattacks and throws anticipated his moves and his techniques returned his own strength two-fold. With his back to the wall and Metal Bat doing a large spin attack Garou was able to deflect every single one of his strikes and hit him out of it. Deflected dozens of Death Gatling's bullets), Adaptation (It is noted that Gyoro Gyoro that Garou has immense potential, allowing him to survive attacks that should kill him and it instead pushes him to new heights, along with this Garou can adapt to abilities to outright resist them. Noted by Superalloy Darkshine that no matter what he'd do, Garou would get back up stronger and fiercer then ever with Garou himself noting the more he gets beaten down, the stronger he gets), Precognition (Analytical Prediction; Noted by Tanktop Master that Garou's counterattacks and throws anticipated his moves. Garou can read one's line of sight, posture and center of gravity to predict their movements), Mimicry (Technique Mimicry; Garou is noted to possess a "super-learning ability", where he takes on the techniques of the strongest and can learn how to counteract them and also turn those techniques into his own. Copied Watch Dog Man's fighting style after having it used on him. Replicated Whirling Wind! Flowing Water! Fist of Roaring Qi, Rending Air without needing another person to do it with).

Resistance to Poison Manipulation (Could keep fighting despite being poisoned)

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent, Extrasensory Perception (Garou's heart will race and skin will tingle, being a "warning sign" to how strong an opponent may be), Regeneration (Low-Mid overtime; Recovered from the gashes and slashes King the Ripper did to him, with his clothes sticking to his wounds after having rest. Had a hole in his stomach, that his body eventually regenerated back), Consumption (Physical Consumption; Able to consume and eat any kind of raw flesh), Supernatural Resilience (Garou can keep fighting even with a hole in his body. Can keep fighting even after his rib cage cracks).

Resistance to Extreme Heats (Noted by Gyoro Gyoro that Garou can easily withstand high temperatures. Took boiling water without any real injuries), Telekinesis (Adapted to Gyoro Gyoro's telekinesis that was keeping him from moving), Mind Manipulation (Noted by Monster Princess Super S that Garou would not submit to her even after a full course of domination, where her whip can turn one into a slave)

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent, Martial Arts (Absorbed every style he's ever fought and created his own martial arts style, the "Killing God Fist of Monster Destruction"), Greater Accelerated Development (Battle, Physical Stats & Abilities; Garou's accelerated growth ramps further where he was able to become far faster then Plantinum Sperm over the course of them fighting for 13 milliseconds), Statistics Boost (With Fist of Exploding Heart, Liberation, Garou's heart beats with an explosive force that surpasses physical limitations in a single instant).

Resistance to Corrosion Manipulation & Acid Manipulation (Could punch throguh Fuhrer Ugly, where he has Gums acidic digestion across his body)

All previous powers and abilities, Transformation (Body Morphing; Garou's anger was causing him to transform further into a monster, having him grow larger, and even grow wings), Flight (Grew wings during his fight), Counter & Precognition (Analytical Prediction; Garou is able to redirect all of Saitama's attacks being able to calculate in advance and predict Saitama's every move), Shockwave Generation & Durability Negation (Garou's massive fajin causes a shockwave that passes through a target and ruptures their organs)

All previous powers and abilities, Freedom of Manifestation (Though Garou received the power of God, he is not fully taken by it and retains part of himself being able to have some control over himself), Mimicry (Phsyiology Mimicry; Garou can shift to different types of people such as when he went into "Mode: Saitama" and perfectly copied Saitama's strengths and abilities. Power Mimicry; Perfectly copied Blast's abilities after seeing him use them), Radiation Manipulation (Passive; Garou's body leaks out cosmic radiations that are slowly killing everyone on earth), Portal Manipulation & BFR (Application Based; Garou copied Blasts' abilities to make dimensional portals that send one to another dimension. He later utilizes this to create portals all around Saitama to deploy attacks in three dimensions one after another, making the attacks inescapable), Gravity Manipulation (Garou copied Blast's gravity knuckles which has him use gravity to augment the force of his punches),

Empty Void through absorbing Awakened Garou's powers far before they grew during his fight with Saitama received the following abilities: Cosmic Awareness (Can go outside of causality and view parallel worlds branch out and infinite different possibilities), Intangibility (Spatial; Attacks can go right through Empty Void as he hides within a higher dimension), Reality Separation (True Reality Separation) & Acausality (Causality Immunity; Empty Void can go outside the causality of the universe and attack enemies from outside), Transformation (Shapeshifting; Can take the forms of others to trick people, such as when he hid himself as Flashy Flash to trick Speed-o'-Sound Sonic), Dimension Manipulation (Noted by Blast that Empty Void can use an attack known as a dimension slash, which is an attack that comes from a higher dimension where God is located that ignores distance, energy, and size. Can fold entire dimensions like bubbles and intervene from the outside)

All beings in One-Punch Man have a Limiter which through trying to break it, starts granting them the following abilities: Indomitable Will (One that breaks their limiter need to have extreme will to continue), Mimicry (Physiology Mimicry; Limiter users should scale to Phoenix Man, who could gain abilities based off the inspiration of his costume), Supernatural Resilience (Characters like Garou were able to survive being ripped apart and a hole in his chest), Resurrection (To experience explosive growth, one must be on the brink of death and die than resurrect), Adaptation (Garou has shown to increase himself to blitzing and overpowering Darkshine, who previously managed to break his entire ribcage, by breaking his limiter)

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Equipment

Nothing notable.

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Notable Techniques

• Self-Styled Martial Arts: A hand-to-hand fighting style that evolves freely through mortal combat, founded on the Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist.
• Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist: A martial art that was drilled into him by his master Bang. Whenever he's in a pinch, his body will move on its own.
• Super-Learning Ability: By taking on the techniques of the strongest, he can learn how to counteract them and also turn those techniques into his own.

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Other

Standard Tactics

• Human: Garou will test his opponent to see what martial arts skills they have, if they have none he will immedieatly defeat them, though if they do he will attempt to copy and adapt to it.
• Half-Monster: Garou employs similar strategies, though his adaptation has ramped up, reaching to the point during his Saitama fight where he repeatedly kept transforming and gaining new things such as wings to fly.
• Awakened Garou: Garou during this keeps using the moves he copied from Blast of subspace portals and gravity abilities, along with nuclear fissions and gamma ray burst attacks. He will also copy his opponent if they are stronger then him so he can surpass them with his adaptation.

Weaknesses

• Adaptation Weaknesses: The damage done on his body will eventually take its toll making him unable to move.
• Human: Garou's techniques are not adept against fighting-styles that allow one to use all four limbs, as his tactics are designed for humans.

Note

• One-Punch Man has a weird two chapter numbering system, one based on those published in volumes and one based on the online chapters, along with the numbering being further messed with due to redrawn chapters and merges/splits, due to this it is not viable to do references to chapters, but rather through arcs.

Trivia

• Garou is ranked 14th in the character popularity poll.
• Garou (餓狼, Garō) means "Hungry Wolf." While participating in the Super Fight Tournament, he disguised himself with a wolf mask.
  • In French, loup-garou means "Werewolf."
  • Garou is also a pun on the Japanese pronunciation of "Growth".
• In one of his tweets, Murata revealed that working on Garou "felt like destiny", after working as a reed for a manga called "Garou".
• In the One-Punch Man: Hero Encyclopedia, Garou's threat level was ?.
• One-Punch Man manga illustrator Yusuke Murata references Bruce Lee's back when drawing Garou's back muscles.
• Murata stated Garou bathes in a public bathroom.
• Garou has mentioned that he likes an actress named Kiiro, who participates in a sentai series.
• Garou and Saitama shared similar unpleasant childhoods. Both were bullied as children and were outcasts in the classroom. However, unlike Garou, Saitama overcame all of this and became a hero, while Garou descended into the role of the villain (in name only).
• In an interview where ONE was questioned about who would win in a fight between Garou and Boros, he replied that it would be a "good match," and he is uncertain about the victor, although he does believe that Garou is stronger in close combat. However, this statement was made long before the introduction of Awakened Garou: Cosmic Fear Mode, along with this there have beena numerous amount of monsters in One-Punch Man that have become stronger then Boros himself, making this statement incredibly outdated and only really applies to the Webcomic.
• ONE originally made a mistake on the webcomic version of Chapter 85 that is 「善悪の立場を否定してやるたい！」 where やるたい normally would be やりたい. The mistake led to a Hakata dialect (Hakata-ben/Fukuoka/Kyushu dialect), a dialect of speakers from the Kyushu region that seems to give off a rural or rough impression. Some stereotypes about Kyushu guys include “macho, stubborn, and warm-hearted.” (Japanese people know these are only stereotypes, so this is just for fun.) ONE noted that the stereotype coincidentally fits Garou quite well.
• Sketch of Garou's design as his limiter begins to break, finally fully revealed in the manga almost two years later in Chapter 126.

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  Sketch of Garou's design as his limiter begins to break

• In the 2017 One-Punch Man Halloween cover, Garou was depicted with blonde hair and disguised as a werewolf, a reference to Garou pretending to be a monster.
• Despite not being directly stated to be a God-level threat, Garou has met the requirements to be classified as one, a threat that endangers humanity's existence on Earth, as per the standard of the Hero Association. Specifically, Garou, in his Cosmic Fear Mode would threaten all life forms on the planet, as stated by Blast.
• Garou is by far the opponent who has taken the most hits from Saitama so far. During their fight, especially after becoming influenced by "God", Garou was able to withstand Saitama's Serious Punch numerous times and keep fighting for a short period before ultimately being defeated.
  • In the original webcomic, he survived at least 7 of Saitama's normal punches a direct hit from Saitama's Consecutive Normal Punches, an exchange with Saitama's Two-Handed Consecutive Normal Punches, a fall from Saitama's Serious Table Flip, a counter from Saitama's Serious Headbutt, and a smash from Saitama's fist. The battle against Saitama in his final form is not shown, so the actual amount of attacks he survived is unknown.
• Awakened Garou is considered to be a "near-perfect monster" by ONE.

Battle Records

15 - 9 - 6

• Bad Roads School - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Unknown area

• A Class Heroes (Heavy Tank Loincloth, Magic Trick Man, & Blue Fire) and Thugs - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Hero Association Underground

• Tank-Top Vegetarian - Fight
  • Conditions: Garou stumbled across him by chance.
  • Location: Unknown City

• Tank-Top Group, Mumen Rider, & Charanko - Fight
  • Conditions: Most of the tank-top group fought him, including Tanktop Master, along with Mumen Rider and Charanko.
  • Location: Unknown City

• Red Nose, Studless, & Hyottoko - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Unknown City

• Golden Ball & Spring Mustachio - Fight
  • Conditions: Spring Mustachio came in a bit later into the fight while Garou was injured.
  • Location: Unknown City

• Death Gatling, Stinger, Smileman, Wildhorn, Chain Toad, Megane, Shooter & Blam-Blam - Fight
  • Conditions: Garou was still heavily injured and all of the heroes were teaming on him.
  • Location: Unknown Forest

• King the Ripper - Fight
  • Conditions: The match was a rematch.
  • Location: Monster Association Headquarters

• Showerhead, Super Mouse & Unihorn - Fight
  • Conditions: Overgrown Pochi intervened at the end.
  • Location: Monster Association Headquarters
  • Note: Overgrown Pochi intervened at the end of the fight and killed all of the 3 monsters, though Garou would have easily won without the intervention.

• Puri-Puri Prisoner - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Monster Association Headquarters

• Bomb - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: City Z

• Bang - Fight
  • Conditions: This match was their rematch.
  • Location: City Z

• Fuhrer Ugly - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: City Z

• Platinum Sperm & Flashy Flash - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: City Z

• Centisennin - Fight
  • Conditions: Centisennin intially had help from Evil Ocean Water and tried to use hostages to stop Garou from defeating him. Garou and Metal Bat teamed up along with several heroes on the plane helping in the fight.
  • Location: City Z
  • Note: Garou realistically would have defeated Centisennin and Evil Ocean Water by himself, which is why Centisennin attempted to use hostages.

• Saitama - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Unknown City

• Watch Dog Man - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Unknown City

• Saitama - Fight
  • Conditions: Garou was going to attack King and Saitama kicked him away. Match was essentially an unnoticed rematch for the two.
  • Location: City M

• Saitama - Fight
  • Conditions: This was their third unnocited rematch.
  • Location: Unknown City

• King the Ripper & Bug God - Fight
  • Conditions: Garou was still recovering from injuries and King the Ripper & Bug God teamed on him
  • Location: Unknown City
  • Note: Garou would have won the fight but Hedro Jellyfish took Tareo hostage distracting Garou, allowing King the Ripper to attack him from behind.

• Overgrown Pochi - Fight
  • Conditions: Garou was still recovering from injuries.
  • Location: Monster Association Headquarters

• Orochi - Fight
  • Conditions: Garou was still recovering from injuries.
  • Location: Monster Association Headquarters

• Saitama - Fight
  • Conditions: This was their fourth rematch.
  • Location: Around Japan

• Saitama - Fight
  • Conditions: This was their final rematch.
  • Location: Initially on Earth, then on Jupiter's moon and then throughout space.

• Metal Bat - Fight
  • Conditions: Metal Bat was already injured before the start of this fight.
  • Location: Unknown City
  • Note: The fight was cut short by Metal Bat's sister interfering and telling Metal Bat and Garou to stop fighting while she's around, without her interference Garou would've lost as Metal Bat was growing stronger during the course of the battle and was about to hit Garou with an off-guard hit that would've finished him off.

• Genos - Fight
  • Conditions: Garou was heavily injured, suffering from blood loss, and poisoned.
  • Location: Unknown Forest
  • Note: Genos was about to take out Garou but he was saved by monsters and then by Bang. Though due to Genos still having a difficult fight with Garou while he was this injured, it's heavily likely that Garou would've beaten Genos if he was in peak condition.

• Bang & Bomb - Fight
  • Conditions: Garou was heavily injured, suffering from blood loss, and poisoned, though midway through the fight he was getting stronger.
  • Location: Unknown Forest
  • Note: Garou was being overwhelemed by Bang and Bomb, being saved by Monster Association members, if the monster association members didn't come, Garou's second wind may have allowed him to continue fighting though it is unknown.

• Gyoro Gyoro - Fight
  • Conditions: Garou was recovering from his injuries.
  • Location: Monster Association Headquarters
  • Note: Gyoro Gyoro brought Orochi to Garou to cease their fight, if Orochi didn't interefere, Garou could've potentially beaten Gyoro Gyoro.

• Superalloy Darkshine - Fight
  • Conditions: Garou was still recovering from injuries.
  • Location: Monster Association Headquarters
  • Note: Garou was growing stronger and faster during the fight and eventually was overpowering Darkshine, however the fight was cut short as Tatsumaki used her powers to pull all of the S Class Heroes out of the Monster Association Base. Without interference, Garou would have one.

• Blast - Fight
  • Conditions: Saitama eventually interfered.
  • Location: City Z
  • Note: Blast was eventually being overpowered as Garou was able to perfectly copy his abilities, though due to Garou killing Genos, Saitama came in and Blast sent them both far away in space.