King (One-Punch Man)

Background

King is the S-Class Rank 5 professional hero of the Hero Association. In public, King is known as "The Strongest Man on Earth" and "The Heroes' Hero". In truth, however, he is just a normal civilian who unintentionally gained credit for the heroic acts performed by Saitama.

Personality

• Facade: King fakes the facade of being an immensely powerful being, where even robots believe he is the "strongest hero" where in reality he's a 29 year old unemployed, antisocial otaku loser.

• Helpful Friend: Despite his facade, the real King is actually a helpful friend. When Saitama was feeling down, King talked to him, giving him genuine advice and showing him his emotions still existed.

• Otaku/Nerd: King is a huge nerd in reality, loving a bunch of hero shows for kids, anime/manga, and video games. King even writes his own video game scripts for fun.

General Information

Name: Unknown

Nicknames: King

Origin: One-Punch Man

First Appearance: One-Punch Man Paradise Group Arc (Made a cameo in the "Speed" Chapter)

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: Hiroki Yasumoto
• English Voice Actor: Rich Brown

Sex: Male

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: 29

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: King's Apartment, City M

Story Role: False Strong Guy, Hero

Classification: "The Strongest on Earth"

Species: Human

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Potentially God

Occupation: Professional Hero

Ranking: Class S Hero: Rank 7

Affiliations: Saitama, Genos, Bang, Bomb, Fubuki, Tatsumaki, Metal Bat, Puri-Puri Prisoner, Superalloy Darkshine, Tanktop Master, Child Emperor, Atomic Samurai

Enemies: Monsters, Monster Association

Height: 187 cm (Noted to be undisclosed by the Hero Encyclopedia, though ONE notes in an interview his height)

Weight: Undisclosed

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 (Despite King selfishly taking all the credit of Saitama's kills, he is still at the end of the day a hero himself, going as far as to even comment on the true meaning of a hero. When King believed he was being approached by a fan and asked for an autograph, he asked them to leave as he wants some peace and quiet, but feeling bad as he felt he was too harsh he went back to apologize to them)

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

Codex Statistics

Grade: B (Despite being extremely weak, his intimidation due to his title and his extreme luck allow him to come out of situations safe)

Tier: Low 10-B

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Below Average Human level (The Okame device made by Child Emperor can analyze muscle mass, neural development and weight distribution for an overall physical strength score, where an average person is around 22, King is unmeasurble which is a rating for people too weak to be heroes)

Durability: Below Average Human level

Striking Strength: Below Average Human Class

Lifting Strength: Below Average Human Class (Struggled to draw a sword out of its sheathe)

Travel Speed: Average Human Speeds

Attack Speed: Average Human Speeds

Reaction Speed: Average Human Speeds

Stamina: Below Average (Became very tired just from walking up stairs)

Range: Standard Melee

Intelligence: Average Intelligence

Knowledge: Journeyman level normally, Grandmaster level for video games (King is incredibly good at games, noting himself that he has won a lot of action-game tournaments in the past. Easily defeated over 30 of Fubuki's men in a fighting game competition, where she enlisted several pro-gamers)

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Powers and Techniques

Human Achievements (King is incredibly good at games, noting himself that he has won a lot of action-game tournaments in the past. Easily defeated over 30 of Fubuki's men in a fighting game competition, where she enlisted several pro-gamers. Can pull off a 999-hit combo with just two fingers and pummel Saitama in a fighting game for five minutes straight), Poker Face (Supernatural Poker Face; King is able to maintain his composure and not show a hint of fear to a robot trying to kill him, despite realistically being scared for his life when he's finally alone. Able to stay calm and serious while calling out Elder Centipede to come attack him only losing face when Saitama doesn't attack him immedieatly), Social Influencing (Social Status; His "tremendous strength" alone attracts people, whenver he visits the streets, there are always crowds of people), Intimidation (King is noted to give off the intimidating air of a ruler, sometimes knocking an opponent out before the fight even starts. His "King Engine" is noted to be a thumping that is so loud it puts fear into enemies, where monsters even fainted from coming face-to-face with King. A monster just seeing him noted he had an intense vibe and viewed him as standing far above him, passing out afterwards. A monster pretending to be the hostage got so scared from King's King Engine that he started hyper-ventilating whcih ruined his transformation and caused him to accidentally stab a vital part of his body during the de-transformation), Supernatural Luck (King has displayed immense luck, he has happened to run into threat level demon or dragon monsters where someone beat themw hile his eyes were closed, with it happening by chance five times. Happened to say the exact right words to a group of assassins to make them hesitate and eventually ive up on killing him, when he wasn't even aware they were there to kill him. A monster pretending to be the hostage ran up to King but from hearing the King's engine and from King trying to tell him to stay away from him, got tricked into thinking that King saw through his disguise and died in the process. King called out another child afterwards believing it to also be a monster but through his call out he had a monster that was invisible reveal itself. Had the luck of facing against 3 Dragon level threat Monster Association members that kept overthinking all of his actions, along with Garou appearing at the end of the fight and defeating the enemies for him)

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

• King Engine: A thumping that shakes the ground, a sign that King is ready for battle. "His blood must be gasoline." The thunderous sound is so loud that it has become the origin of many whispered urban legends. In reality, it is merely King's heart beating from how sacred he is. Though due to beings not knowing that, the sheer pressure from the engine puts fear in his enemies, and can even cause them to faint.

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Other

Standard Tactics: King will never try to attack, trying to use his intimidating appearance along with threatening talks. His extreme luck also seems to help him out in situations. If an enemy is not affected by his intimidation he'll opt to make excuses to "hold off the fight".

Weaknesses: His name will not intimidate robots. His name will also not scare people who have absolute faith in their strength, though his extreme luck will cause them to do things like overthink every action he does.

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

• King likes silence and peace.
• King dislikes crowds and noises.
• King's hobbies are training in the mountains (likely not true and moeso a lie he came up with).

Battle Records

4 - 0 - 0

• Tongue Stretcher - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: City M

• Blizzard Bunch - Fight
  • Conditions: It was a fighting game comepetiton where King easily beat over 30 of Fubuki's men.
  • Location: Blizzard Group Headquarters

• 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.

• Golden Sperm & Homeless Emperor - Fight
  • Conditions: King did not throw a single attack, instead sitting on top of a cliff and hoping for a miracle.
  • Location: City Z
  • Note: King's luck came into play here, with Garou coming near the end and coming so fast it looked like King did everything.

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