Garou

Hero Hunter (ヒーロー狩り, Hīrō Gari) Human Monster (人間怪人, Ningen Kaijin) Wolfman (ウルフマン, Urufuman) Lord (おじさん, Ojisan) Absolute Evil (絶対悪, Zettai Aku) God's Fist (神の拳, Kami no Ken) Race: Human (kaijin) Age: 18 Height: 177 cm Previous Affiliation: Bang's Dojo Dragon level category.

Superhuman physical prowess Supernatural senses Adaptation Unbreakable will Regeneration Flowing Water Fist Crushing Rock Swirl Fist Cutting Steel Heart Burst Release Fist "It's a tragedy that the popular guys win and the outcasts lose. I won't lose to anyone. I will become the strongest monster and change history."

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Kanji Rōmaji ガロウ Garō Alias Hero Hunter (ヒーロー狩り, Hīrō Gari) Human Monster (人間怪人, Ningen Kaijin) Wolfman (ウルフマン, Urufuman) Lord (おじさん, Ojisan) Absolute Evil (絶対悪, Zettai Aku) God's Fist (神の拳, Kami no Ken) Personal information Race Human Kaijin (formerly) Gender Male Male Age 18[2] Height 177 cm[3] State Alive Family Unnamed father (mentioned)[7] Unnamed mother (mentioned)[8] Professional information Affiliation Bang Dojo Occupation Martial Artist Villain (formerly) Level Dragon[4][5] God (self-proclaimed)[6] Skills Superhuman physical prowess Supernatural senses Adaptation Unbreakable will Regeneration Flowing Water Fist Crushing Rock Swirl Fist Cutting Steel Heart Burst Release Fist Companions Bang (master) Debut Webcomic Manga Anime Chapter 45 Chapter 40 Episode 13 Voice Seiyū Hikaru Midorikawa Ayumi Mano (child) Latin Gabriel Ortiz Angel Rodriguez (child) Less It's a tragedy that the popular guys win and the rejected guys lose. I won't lose to anyone. I will become the strongest monster and change history. Garou[1]

Garou (ガロウ, Garō) is a former villain, a prodigy martial artist, the self-proclaimed "Hero Hunter" (ヒーロー狩り, Hīrō Gari) and a major adversary to both the Hero Association and the Monster Association. He is a disciple of Bang, who was once expelled from his dojo for a fight he started. Due to his fascination with monsters, he is often referred to as the "Human Monster" (人間怪人, Ningen Kaijin). He is one of the strongest characters in the series and plays a major role as the main villain of the Human Monster Saga.

After being defeated by Saitama, Garou undergoes rehabilitation under the tutelage of Bang, who has retired as a hero and intends for Garou to replace him.[9]

After being defeated by Saitama, Garou undergoes rehabilitation under the tutelage of Bang, who has retired as a hero and intends for Garou to replace him. Canonically, Garou has never hit a woman or children.

Garou is a young man of average height with sharp features and white hair that sticks up into two elongated spikes. Despite his apparent thinness, he is shown to possess a muscular ectomorphic body. He wears a tight-fitting black shirt and loose white pants, similar to his former teacher Bang, with a yellow belt wrapped around his waist. As Garou fights during the Monster Association Arc, his appearance gradually becomes more monstrous. After being kicked by Saitama, he removes his shirt and wraps his upper body in bandages while recovering. Later during the fight against Genos, his right eye becomes red and bloodshot, and his hair also turns red after rubbing his own blood into it. After recovering, he wears a tight-fitting black long-sleeved shirt and loose-fitting black pants issued by the Monster Association. Following his battle with the Royal Ripper, he retains a large diagonal scar across his face. His clothes are torn and two strands of cloth flow behind him like scarves due to his encounter with Overgrown Rover, and after being defeated by Orochi, his entire body is covered in soot. The soot is shattered when Garou blocks Superalloy Darkshine's Superalloy Bazooka, and the force of the attack also tears his remaining clothes in a spiral pattern around the hole Orochi left in his torso. After his monstrous form is completely destroyed by a punch from Saitama and the subsequent influence of God, Garou transforms once more, regaining the same form he first emerged with but with a dark and empty appearance without a face, his face and his entire body being replaced by a representation of space itself with stars, galaxies, and nebulas within. [13]

Following his fight with Darkshine and the subsequent destruction of the Monster Association base, Garou begins to transform, with his hands turning into claws, his teeth turning into fangs, and his skin hardening. When Garou finally emerges from the rubble, he takes on a monstrous appearance, with armor-hardened skin and hair, sharp claws and teeth, and prominent veins running through his body. Post-fight against Bang, Garou's left eye armor shatters as a result of his former master's finishing blow, exposing his left eye.[10] As Garou's monstrification progresses through several other fights, his prominent veins become more noticeable, while his muscle mass appears to slightly increase. Later, when Saitama beats him during their battle, Garou's body, in response to his anger, undergoes a transformation that greatly increases his size and stature. His jaw becomes sharper, his mouth more pronounced and filled with sharp teeth.[11] The spikes on his body lengthen and multiply, and his overall appearance becomes much more monstrous and intimidating than before. Shortly after, as he attempts to catch up to Saitama, Garou transforms into an even more demonic form that grows even larger in size, with a pair of wings on his back and long horns on his head. [12] Following the end of the confrontation with the Monster Association and his final defeat by Saitama, Garou briefly reverts to his original appearance, eventually changing his iconic spiky hairstyle to a much shorter one, though always retaining the scar inflicted by the Royal Ripper on his face.

"I feel no terror. He doesn't have what it takes to terrorize others. I, on the other hand, will allow you to experience... true terror. Come... Come and be terrorized!" Garou is presented as an evil character with a hatred for heroes and has a confident and vengeful characterization. He hates being insulted. He thinks highly of himself and uses that claim to threaten high-ranking personnel like heroes and Sitch. He will also attack low-ranking heroes and Hero Association staff if he encounters them. Garou hates popular, as he believes that the popular will always win in the end. This is because when he was a child, he had no friends and the popular kids at school enjoyed abusing him, both physically and verbally, particularly one boy named Tacchan. They forced him to play Heroes, where Tacchan ("Justice Man") would beat up Garou ("the monster"). Garou noticed how everyone liked Tacchan, but hated him. After watching his life repeat itself over and over again on the television show Justice Man, he developed a dislike for heroes in general and believed that in the end, most people would want him ("the monster") to die. Although Garou is a villain and is considered evil by most, he does possess a certain sense of morality as he fights heroes in a way that defeats them without killing them, though he doesn't seem to have a problem with other individuals murdering them. He has a soft spot for children, as shown when he converses with Tareo in the park, and when he stops fighting Metal Bat after Zenko appears, whom he is protecting from Sludge Jellyfish (in his attempt to kidnap her). When Tareo calls him "sir" after Garou tells him not to, he is not angry with the child. He later rescues and protects the boy from the Monster Association, even risking his own life to do so.

In some ways, Garou can be considered a counterpart to Saitama. They both have their own strong sense of honor and justice, though it manifests itself in different ways. While Saitama wanted to be like his childhood hero who fought villains, Garou wants to be a monster who defeats heroes. While Garou is a genius fighter and prodigious martial artist, Saitama is an ordinary person who uses simple fighting techniques. Furthermore, Garou can enjoy the feeling of losing to improve himself and thus become stronger, unlike Saitama who desires to find a worthy opponent to rekindle the thrill he once had when training. In battle, Garou is extremely arrogant, often mocking his opponents and calling them "rookies." He mocked Death Gatling and the group of A-Class and B-Class heroes, considering them all pathetically weak and, despite their clever idea of ​​​​grouping together, they were nothing compared to the S-Class. Despite this, he does give credit to his opponents, as seen when he commented on Glasses' stamina throughout their battle.

He is also very observant before and during battle, always preparing to combat his opponent and never fighting without prior knowledge. An example of this is when the group of Class A and B heroes arrive to take him to the Hero Association. When he sees them, he asks Tareo to lend him the Hero Association book with all the heroes listed along with their weapons, ranks, and abilities. Garou uses this to ensure he avoids attacks that would cause great damage, as was the case with Shooter's poison arrows. Garou considers true evil to be completely impartial and is unconcerned whether his opponent is a hero or a monster, always prepared to fight anyone who stands in his way and will use them as a means to become stronger than before.

Despite leaving his dojo, Garou still deeply cares for his former master Bang. This is illustrated by his dream after transforming into a monster, where he had a dream where he was fighting Bang and was able to awaken him from his sleep with the words he spoke. He also saw Bang save his life by killing an Ugly Fuhrer who tried to kill him.[10] Garou intends to change the world through "absolute evil". He views justice as biased and unfair, and sees it as people doing bad things to others they deem "evil" and receiving praise for it, whereas absolute evil is impartial and fair, affecting everyone equally. Garou aspires to become the Dream Monster that everyone fears so that they will be forced to unite against him to survive. In doing so, he aspires to end conflict and war and bring about world peace. After receiving the power of God, Garou revels in the divine energy that flows throughout his body. He becomes even more determined to use this newfound power to defeat Saitama and prove himself to be the "symbol of fear" that will change the world. Despite claiming that he managed to retain his own will and did not fall under God's complete control, both Bang and Blast have noticed that Garou's mind has undoubtedly been affected by the mysterious entity's influence, as he has become noticeably more cruel and sadistic than before. When Blast mentions that the effects of his radiation could wipe out all life on the planet, Garou shows not the slightest remorse, instead admitting to being pleased that his mere presence means death and eager to see how the human race would change under his absolute evil. [15] Furthermore, while he never killed any heroes during his hunt, he chose to assassinate Genos to anger Saitama and force him to fight at his full power. [16] When Saitama arrives, Garou even mocks his belated presence and throws the cyborg's core at him.

Since I was little I admired the villains on a television show. It never seemed fair to him that villains would prepare a complex plan, only for the hero to ruin their plans at the last minute. Garou is ranked 14th in the character popularity poll. Garou (餓狼, Garō) means "hungry wolf", in French loup-garou means "werewolf". Garou is also a pun on the Japanese pronunciation of "Growth". Garou is the second monster not to be killed by Saitama in combat (the first being Infinite Kombu), although Saitama does not view Garou as a monster. In the databook, Garou's Disaster Level was listed as ?.[19] In an interview with ONE, he was asked who would win between Garou and Boros, to which he replied that it would be one hell of a battle, although possibly the Human Monster can outmatch Boros in hand-to-hand combat.[20] Garou is the third monster to survive Saitama's deadly and swift blows (after Boros, Overgrown Rover and Evil Nature Water). Garou is the first character to block, dodge, and counterattack Saitama with quick arm movements and kicks. He has also escaped Saitama's grasp twice (once when Saitama tried to catch him so the S-Class could act). He struggles, and once again during the battle, Saitama grabbed his fist when he tried to punch him. Garou is so far the only character to have Saitama actively participate in battle. In his webcomic fight, he admits that, while fighting Saitama, he can't even follow the bald hero's movements with his eyes, but rather predicts them thanks to his natural talent for martial arts and fighting, referring to himself as a prodigy. Garou showers in public baths. Garou he is a real man. He has never hit a woman or a small child.