Bang

“	I can see you are unsettled. You are too young to worry about failure. In a pinch, just muddle through. The outcome won't change, so that's best.	„
	~ Bang to Genos

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You do not need to know who the victor is in a battle using martial arts. That is the beauty of this art.

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“	I really need to do more full-body workouts.	„
	~ Hero Encyclopedia Quote

Background

Bang, also known by his hero alias Silver Fang, is a martial arts master, the creator and teacher of Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist, and formerly a professional hero. He was formerly the 3rd highest ranked S-Class hero of the Hero Association and was recognized as one of its most powerful heroes. He is currently settled in City Z. In his youth, he was nicknamed Wind of Blood.

Personality

• Heroism: Bang is a very heoric man, being noted when one thinks of "veteran" he is the first thing to pop into their heads.

• Playful Personality: Despite the wise old man persona he has, holding dignity and great ability, Bang's true personality is noted to be surprisngly playful.

• Kind Soul: Even when Bang looks to be mean, it is from a place of kindness. An example of this is when he beat Charanko and kicked him out of his dojo for being too weak, with Genos revealing the reason he did this is because Bang is going after Garou and Charanko would've been hurt in the process if he was still apart of his dojo.

General Information

Name: Bang

Nicknames: Silverfang

Origin: One-Punch Man

First Appearance: One-Punch Man Giant Meteor Arc

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: Kazuhiro Yamaji
• English Voice Actor: John DeMita

Sex: Male

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: 81

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Bang's Dojo, City Z

Story Role: Master, Sensei, Wise Elder, Teacher, Hero

Classification: Hero, Martial Artist

Species: Human

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Potentially God

Occupation: Dojo Leader, Professional Hero (Formerly)

Ranking

• S Class Hero: Rank 3: Giant Meteor Arc to Monster Association Arc.
• Retired: Monster Association Arc onward.

Affiliations: Saitama, Genos, Bomb, Fubuki, Garou, Charanko, Sour Face, Bang's Dojo Pupils, Hero Association

Enemies: Monsters, Monster Association, Garou (Formerly)

Height: 165 cm

Weight: 55 kg

Status: Deceased before time travel (Everyone died due to the cosmic radiations emitted by Awakened Garou), 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: Neutral Good (Bang is noted to be the paragon of a hero, viewing it as his duty to protect those who will bear the future. Noted that when one thinks of a great hero who represents the word "veteran", the first person to come to mind is Silver Fang. Noted to be a noble character that inspires awe even in his fellow hero and having a strong spirit that will face any challenge for the sake of the public.

Protection Level: Global Protector (S Class Heroes are considered important enough to where they're summoned to save the earth)

Codex Statistics

Key: Regular | Awakening Breath

Key Information

• Regular: This key covers regular Bang.
• Awakening Breath: This key covers Bang when he uses Awakening Breath, a state that draws out the body's maximum potential.

Grade: A (Bang's martial art skills rather then declining have kept getting sharper and sharper with age, and have transcended the realm of simply mastery, reaching legendary levels. Noted to be a master of martial arts) | A

Tier: 7-C, 7-B with Whirling Wind! Flowing Water! Fist of Roaring Qi, Rending Air, Higher with Fists of Biting Fangs, Killing Dragons! | 7-B

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Town level (Potency) (Aided in the defeat of Melzargard, who easily killed the Sky King, where it's noted by ONE that the Deep Sea, Sky, and Subterranean Kings are all around the same level. Deep Sea King fought equally with Post-Giant Meteor Arc Genos, where he caused a massive blast, resulting in a massive explosion with him being able to fire these blast out of a 500-meter radius, which gets these results and Genos completely vaporized the house of evolution with a blast so powerful it destroyed a part of several mountains, getting these results), City level (Potency) with Whirling Wind! Flowing Water! Fist of Roaring Qi, Rending Air (A combination attack that Bang does with Bomb that demolished Elder Centipede's hard exoskeleton, where it was noted that only four S Class Heroes can stand against Elder Centipede, those being Tatsumaki, Metal Knight, King, & Blast. Elder Centipede's body can reach across an entire forest), Higher with Fists of Biting Fangs, Killing Dragons! (Noted by Murata that this technique is stronger then Whirling Wind! Flowing Water! Fist of Roaring Qi, Rending Air) | City level (Potency) (Fought against Post-Darkshine Fight Garou, through using awakening breath that draws out the body's maximum potential)

Durability: Town level (Took a hit from Melzargard, who easily killed the Sky King, where it's noted by ONE that the Deep Sea, Sky, and Subterranean Kings are all around the same level. Deep Sea King fought equally with Post-Giant Meteor Arc Genos, where he caused a massive blast, resulting in a massive explosion with him being able to fire these blast out of a 500-meter radius, which gets these results and Genos completely vaporized the house of evolution with a blast so powerful it destroyed a part of several mountains, getting these results) | City level

Striking Strength: Town Class (Potency) | City Class (Potency)

Lifting Strength: At least Class 100 (Bang is much stronger then Tanktop Master, who can lift and throw a large portion of a destroyed building) | At least Class 100

Travel Speed: At least Superhuman (Moved so fast that Super S could barely even see him) | At least Superhuman

Attack Speed: Massively Hypersonic (Aided in the defeat of Melzargard, who easily killed the Sky King, where it's noted by ONE that the Deep Sea, Sky, and Subterranean Kings are all around the same level. Deep Sea King fought equally with Post-Giant Meteor Arc Genos, where his House of Evolution arc self, can tag Mosquito Girl, a monster noted for her unimaginable speeds, who should be faster then her mosquitoes, who can travel to her from a 50 kilometer radius, moving at these speeds) | At least Massively Hypersonic

Reaction Speed: Massively Hypersonic (Fought 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) | At least Massively Hypersonic

Stamina: Superhuman+ (Fought against Post-Darkshine Fight Garou, through using awakening breath that draws out the body's maximum potential. Fought against Melzegard for a long time with the other heroes without tiring)

Range: Standard Melee, Tens of Kilometers with Shockwaves (A combination attack that Bang does with Bomb that demolished Elder Centipede's hard exoskeleton, where Elder Centipede's body can reach across an entire forest)

Intelligence: Unknown Intelligence

Knowledge: Champion level (Bang's martial art skills rather then declining have kept getting sharper and sharper with age, and have transcended the realm of simply mastery, reaching legendary levels. Noted to be a master of martial arts. During his fight with Melzegard figured out how Melzegard hides his central organ and the exact area he hid it that keeps allowing him to regenerate. Easily fought and outskilled Garou, though he was heavily weakened)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Martial Arts (His martial arts skills are noted to have transcended the realm of simply mastery, reaching legendary levels), Intimidation (Noted to have a tremendous sense of intimidation emanating from his entire body), Aura (Noted that Bang's aura even makes the likes of Tatsumaki flinch, even though she outranks him), Counter (His Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist can redirect attacks by hitting specific points and push the enemy back. It is noted that the secret essence of this technique is to parry the enemy's attack like a stream of water and then drive a powerful blow into an unguarded spot. Water Steam Encampment is a defensive technique that repels and parries attacks in the extent of the arm's reach, nullfying attacks by staying on the defensive), Pressure Points & Superhuman Precision (With Piercing Fang, due to Bang's trained fingertips, he can pierce even the smallest of vital points with a single strike of unmatched accuracy, being smooth as water and can smash even rocks with its unparalleled destructive power. Instant Movement allows Bang to use special footwork to move swiftly and fluidly like a stream of water, by moving in a way unexpected by the opponent, he can accurately aim for vital points), Precognition (Analytical Prediction; By training his dynamic visual acuity and anticipating the enemy's movements, he is able to demonstrate the terrifying power of abandonment, being able to catch and run through even the quickest of enemies with precision)

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), Pain Tolerance (As they constantly need to put constant pressure on both their body and mind), Accelerated Development (Passive, Physical Stats & Abilities; Limiter Removal, allows for endless growth as there is no intrinsic limit placed on people), Adaptation (Garou has shown to increase himself to blitzing and overpowering Darkshine, who previously managed to break his entire ribcage, by breaking his limiter), 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).

Resistance to BFR (Forced Teleportation; Child Emperor due to his strong will, can break out of Pheonix Space), Mind Manipulation & Absorption (Psykos resisted Orochi absorbing them into them and taking over their mind through sheer will), Telekinesis (Garou with his sheer will couldn't have his movements negated by Gyro Gyro), Sleep Manipulation (Through sheer will and getting pumped up Metal Bat can resist the tranquilizing odor that made him nearly lose consciousness), Empathic Manipulation (Fubuki is able to resist Monster Princess' whip due to having a strong will where her whip can turn one into a slave), Power Nullification (Limits are meant to be intrinsic limits placed on people)

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Equipment

Nothing notable.

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Notable Techniques

• Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist: A killer move he created himself by developing the martial arts that he learned with Bomb. The secret essence of this technique is to parry the enemy's attack like a stream of water, and then drive a powerful blow into an unguarded spot. The scars all over his body and his spectacular skills testify to the harshness of his training and the intense battles he surmounted.
  • Instant Movement: Using special footwork, he moves swiftly and fluidly like a stream of water. By moving the opponent, he can accurately aim for the vital points.
  • Presence: Bang's aura even makes Tatsumaki flinch, even though she outranks him. Even among the S-Class, his presence is exceptional.
  • Piercing Fang: With his trained fingertips, he can pierce even the smallest of vital points with a single strike of unmatched accuracy. It is smooth as water and can smash even rocks with its unparalleled destructive power.
  • Abandonment: By training his dynamic visual acuity and anticipating the enemy's movements, he is able to demonstrate the terrifying power of abandonment. He can catch and run through even the quickest of enemies with precision.
  • Water Stream Encampment: A defensive technique that repels and parries attacks in the extent of the arm's reach. Nullfying attacks by staying on the defensive.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Bang utilizes his defensive martial arts style flawlessly, though if he's in a situation where it won't work, he will keep using his techniques, noting "You can't teach a dog new tricks".

Weaknesses: Bang is unmatched in martial arts, but it only works on opponent's of a certain size.

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

• Bang likes spiny lobsters, his dojo, promising youngsters, and his older brother.
• Bang dislikes dojo yaburi, napacabbage, and rookie crushers.
• Bang's hobbies include improving his skill, spiritual training, phyiscal training,a dn the board game Go.
• The origin of his hero name comes from "Silver" representing his old age and "Fang" to represent his sharp martial arts skills.
• Bang refused to be measured by Child Emperor's Okame device, noting he doesn't like such things.

Battle Records

7 - 2 - 1

• Melzargard - Fight
  • Conditions: Bang fought with Atomic Samurai, Metal Bat, and Puri Puri Prisoner.
  • Location: City A

• Jumping Spider - Fight
  • Conditions: Bang, Genos, & Saitama all worked together.
  • Location: City Y
  • Note: Bang, Genos, nor Saitama needed to team up to beat this enemy. They just wanted to do combo moves.

• Demonic Pugilist - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Unknown City

• Elder Centipede - Fight
  • Conditions: Initially Genos, Bang, & Bomb fought off against Elder Centipede and then King & Saitama came later.
  • Location: Unknown Forest
  • Note: Genos, Bang, & Bomb could not defeat Elder Centipede and King goaded Elder Centipede to come to him so Saitama could hit him. If Saitama was not there, none of them would have beaten Elder Centipede.

• Monster Princess Super S - Fight
  • Conditions: Match was a rematch for Supr S and Fubuki. Fubuki & Bang were together and Super S tried to use hostages.
  • Location: Monster Association Base

• Overgrown Pocchi - Fight
  • Conditions: Bang Bomb and Fubuki all teamed up. Overgrown Pocchi was wounded.
  • Location: Monster Association Base
  • Note: This fight required Fubuki to physically fortify Bang and Bomb for them to defeat Overgrown Pocchi with a team attack. They would have not won otherwise.

• Fuhrer Ugly & Gums - Fight
  • Conditions: Bang and Genos fought together.
  • Location: City Z

• Bomb - Fight
  • Conditions: The fight was a flashback to when Bang was young and corrupt.
  • Location: Unknown

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

• Garou - 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.