Speed-o'-Sound Sonic

“	Whenever I face you, I cannot picture myself winning for some reason. Unless I defeat you and wipe out this thought, I cannot move on.	„
	~ Sonic to Saitama

“	I have a dream for the future. I'm going to climb to the top of management and take over the village. I'm going to destroy the organizational structure... and raise orphans who had the same circumstances as us in a more free and open environment. Assassination techniques are useless for anything but killing people. What I think has true value... is the power to live life as you please. We don't have that right now.	„
	~ Sonic to Flashy Flash

“	No matter how much I train... ...I can't imagine defeating Saitama. But I hunger to beat him... ...And would do anything to win. Tempest Wind... ...And Hellfire Flame... if I monsterized, I would even surpass them! If I eat this, I will gain monstrous powers! I'll stop being human, but... ...I basically died when Saitama defeated me... ...So I have nothing left to lose. Saitama... ...I'm going to become a monster.	„
	~ Sonic deciding to become a monster

Background

Speed-o'-Sound Sonic, more commonly called Sonic, is a recurring villain and occasional anti-hero. He first appeared as a bodyguard hired by Zeniru. He is a former member of the 44th Graduation Class of the Ninja Village. Sonic is also a self-declared eternal rival of Saitama.

Personality

• Excitement at a Strong Opponent: When Sonic first met Saitama he expressed an excied face to finally be able to fight someone he can test his skills on.

• Large Ego: Sonic possesses an immense ego, where he will refuse to give up on something until he succeeds and will not tolerate someone who is superior to him. This made him nearly willing to monsterize and turn into a monster just to surpass Saitama.

• Worldview: Sonic noted as a kid that he has a dream for the future where he will climb to the top of management and take over the village, tearing down the system the organization has and raise the orphans that had the same circumstances to him and Flashy Flash in a more free and open environment. Believing that what has true value is the power to live life as one pleases.

General Information

Name: Unknown

Nicknames: Speed-O'-Sound Sonic

Other Names: Joints-O'-Pain Panic (By Saitama)

Origin: One-Punch Man

First Appearance: One-Punch Man Paradise Group 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: Yūki Kaji
• English Voice Actor: Erik Scott Kimerer

Sex: Male

Sexuality: Likely Bi-Sexual (Likely depends on Flashy Flash like Flashy Flash depends on Sonic)

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: 25 (Listed as such in the newspaper)

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Unknown

Story Role: False Rival, Antagonizing Rival

Classification: Ninja

Species: Human

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Potentially God

Occupation: Mercenary

Affiliations: Flashy Flash

Enemies: Saitama (Views him as a rival he must surpass), Genos, Hero Association, Monster Association, Deep Sea King, Paradisers, Ninja Village

Height: 174 cm

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: Chaotic Neutral (Sonic noted as a kid that he has a dream for the future where he will climb to the top of management and take over the village, tearing down the system the organization has and raise the orphans that had the same circumstances to him and Flashy Flash in a more free and open environment. Believing that what has true value is the power to live life as one pleases. Sonic is willing to do jobs for hire, including killing people, took out Tank Top Tiger because he was simply in his way. Willing to attack an entire group of innocent people in order to make Saitama fight him)

Threat Level: Metropolitan Threat (His attack just to make Saitama fight him was causing destruction across an entire city)

Codex Statistics

Key: Pre-The Blizzard Group Arc | Post-The Blizzard Group Arc | Post-Monster Association Arc

Key Information

• Pre-The Blizzard Group Arc: This covers everything before the Blizzard Group Arc.
• Post-The Blizzard Group Arc: This covers everything after the Blizzard Group Arc.
• Post-Monster Association Arc: This covers everything after the Monster Association Arc.

Tier: At least 9-B, 7-C with Weapons | At least 9-B, 7-C with Weapons | At least 7-B, Higher with Weapons

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: At least Wall level (Potency) (Speed-O'-Sound Sonic was noted he could too easily escape a normal prison, with them needing to put him into "The Stink Slammer" for inmates with monstrous strength able to pry open iron bars with their bare hands), Town level (Potency) with Weapons (Noted with equipment he would defeat Deep Sea King, with ONE confirming that Sonic with weapons could've defeated Deep Sea King pre-rain form) | At least Wall level (Potency), Town level (Potency) with Weapons | At least City level (Potency) (Fought and dueled against Flashy Flash, matching him and forcing him to use ultimate techniques to where Flashy Flash noted that Sonic has gotten stronger and that he had to use one of his ultimate techniques against him. Flashy Flash could fight against Post-Darkshine Fight Garou and Platinum Sperm, where Garou is 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 Elder Centipede where it demolished Elder Centipede's hard exoskeleton, where Elder Centipede's body can reach across an entire forest), Higher with Weapons

Durability: At least Wall level | At least Wall level | At least City level (Fought and dueled against Flashy Flash, defending against Flashy Flash's flash fist)

Striking Strength: At least Wall Class (Potency) | At least Wall Class (Potency) | At least City Class (Potency)

Lifting Strength: Superhuman (Considered too strong for a regular prison, being put into "The Stink Slammer" for inmates with monstrous strength able to pry open iron bars with their bare hands) | At least Superhuman | At least Superhuman

Travel Speed: Supersonic (Directly noted to have supersonic speed. In his fight with Deep Sea King, he was moving so fast that the rain drops moved slow, with raindrops falling at 10 m/s, reaching these levels of speed) | Supersonic, Higher with Four Shadows Funeral (Moves so fast in this state that Genos was not able to keep up with him), Far Higher with Ultimate Secret Techique: Ten Shadows Funeral (This technique is noted that it's "super-supersonic movements" far surpass those of the "Four Shadows Funeral", increasing the number of afterimages to a maximum of ten) | Faster Than Light (Kept up with Flashy Flash during their fight, who can move faster than light, traveling around so fast that he, Garou, and Platinum Sperm left behind geometric formations of light)

Attack Speed: High Hypersonic (Killed dozens of Paradise members slicing them apart to where they couldn't tell why everyone was suddenly falling. Moved so fast he dislocated a person's shoulder before they could even notice it when they purposefully bumped into him) | Massively Hypersonic (Could fight equally with Post-King Arc 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 Four Shadows Funeral (Moves so fast in this state that Genos was not able to keep up with him), Far Higher with Ultimate Secret Techique: Ten Shadows Funeral | Faster Than Light

Reaction Speed: High Hypersonic (Still far faster then a Hydrated Deep Sea King, who 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. Moved so fast that despite it looking like Destroyer John got a clean hit on him, he actually hit the iron ball) | Massively Hypersonic, Higher with Four Shadows Funeral, Far Higher with Ultimate Secret Techique: Ten Shadows Funeral | Faster Than Light (Kept up with Flashy Flash during their fight, defending against the Flashy Fist which is one of Flashy Flash's ultimate techniques)

Stamina: Superhuman (Able to fight Genos for a long time at full strength, using his full speed, without tiring)

Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with Blade, Tens of Kilometers with Exploding Shuriken (His exploding shurikens were causing destruction across the entire city)

Intelligence: Genius Intelligence (After only training for a couple of months, developed a technique that allowed him to move so fast not even S-Class Heroes like Post-King Arc Genos could keep up)

Knowledge: Grandmaster level (Noted that his combat skills are S Class by Fubuki. Sonic is the one who trained Flashy Flash as a kid to use the sword and various techniques with it)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Acrobatics (Shown in his fight against the Paradisers, Sonic is able to parkour around at fast speeds and leap at superhuman levels being capable of standing upside down a tree), Stealth Mastery (Able to hide from a group of people, with only Hammerhead being able to notice him), Martial Arts (Easily put a Kenpo user into an arm submission), Weapon Mastery (Kunai Mastery; Able to throw kunais and hit vital spots. Can easily cut apart dozens of enemies with his blade at fast speeds), Unrestricted Movement (Can stand upside down a tree), Enhanced Senses (Sonic can sense people hiding, with it being due to his instincts), Penetration Damage & Explosion Manipulation (Sonic is equipped with exploding shurikens, that act as both a slashing attack and bombing attack at the same time), Supernatural Throwing (Able to curve his exploding shurikens at impossible angles, this technique is directly noted he alters the trajectory of the explosive shurikens)

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent, Afterimage Creation (His Four Shadows Funeral has him use his supersonic speed to create four afterimage clones that surround the enemy and slay them from all directions, the Ten Shadow Funerals has him use his super-supersonic speed to far surpass the four shadows funeral, increasing the number of afterimages to a maximum of ten)

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent.

Resistance to Illusions (Standard Illusions; Touched the cube of God which takes advantage of the emotional dependences in one's heart to tempt one without being affected)

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

• Ninja Weaponry: As a ninja, Sonic possesses a large variety of different ninja weapons he utilizes in combat.
  • Ninjato: Sonic's primary weapon, being his sword. It has a straight blade and a hilt and is sheathed in a black scabbard, being so sharp it can cut through bone.
• Kunai: Standard ninja throwing weapons that he uses for fast throws.
• Mizugumo: Literally translated to "Water Spider", wooden sandals used to walk on water.
• Exploding Shuriken: A long-distance weapon with built-in explosives he was handed down at the ninja village. It can deliver a slashing attack and a bombing attack at the same time.

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Notable Techniques

• Secret Technique: Four Shadows Funeral: With supersonic speed, he creates four afterimage clones and surrounds the enemy, slaying him from all directions at the same time.
  • Ultimate Secret Technique: TeN Shadows Funeral: Its super-supersonic movements far surpass those of the "Four Shadows Funeral" increasing the number of afterimages to a maximum of ten.
• Wind Blade Kick: He flies around the enemy at ultra-high speed and then delivers a sharp foward-spinning kick from the blind spot he creates.
• 'Hail of Carnage: Altering the trajectory of explosive shurikens to blast the area. It is a technique used in the event of indiscrimnate attacks, such as destroying buildings.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Sonic uses his fast speed along with his different weapons to attack an opponent.

Weaknesses: Sonic is extremely cocky of his speed, to the point where if one moves faster then him it will greatly anger him. Sonic mainly relies on his speed and weapons for combat, being physically weaker then a lot of the characters he's ranked up against.

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.
• Despite Sonic being a huge threat, it is mainly his speed and weapons and not his physical strength for why he's such a threat. He could not physically harm or overpower Hammerhead and instead used weapons against him. His fight with Deep Sea King he was overall faster then him but couldn't harm him, with Sonic even noting that Deep Sea King has the power advantage but he's too slow, with Sonic even admitting he can't kill him without a weapon. His attacks did no damage to Genos with him direclty noting that Genos hasn't even been able to hit him.

Miscellaneous Feats

• Moved so fast that no one noticed him move in the room.
• Could easily blitz a cutter whip breaking the sound barrier while also making a sonic-boom with how fast he moved.

Trivia

• Sonic was one of the few primary characters actually willing to eat the monsterization food to become a monster, but due to cooking it, the food no longer worked and instead he got diarrhea.

Battle Records

4 - 3 - 4

• The Paradisers - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Forest outside of F-City

• Tank Top Tiger - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: City

• Stink Slammer Prisoners - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: The Stink Slammer, Prison

• Heavenly Ninja Party - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Ninja Village

• Saitama - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Forest outside of F-City

• Saitama - Fight
  • Conditions: Fight was a rematch.
  • Location: In a City

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

• Deep Sea King - Fight
  • Conditions: It was raining and Speed O' Sound Sonic did not have his equipment.
  • Location: J-City
  • Note: Sonic was overall faster then Deep Sea King, though his main issue was that he couldn't hurt him, ending with him escaping to get his weapons to continue the fight.

• Genos - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: City Z
  • Note: Saitama knocked down Genos as to avoid explosions in front of his house and to not have Genos using his new parts for a street scuffle, thus it's unknown who would've actually won between the two.

• Hellfire Flame & Gale Wind - Fight
  • Conditions: Both Hellfire Flame and Gale Wind were teaming on Sonic.
  • Location: Unkown Forest
  • Note: Hellfire Flame and Gale Wind were just roughhousing with Sonic, thus their fight cut short.

• Flashy Flash - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Ninja Village
  • Note: The fight was cut short from the Ruthless 42 intervening to kill Flashy Flash. Though from the way the fight went, it is unknown who would actually win with no interfence.