Garou

Garou showcases his confidence. Garou is introduced as an antagonist with a confident, vindictive demeanor driven by a deep hatred for heroes. He hates being insulted and will attack anyone who offends him. Holding himself in high regard, he uses that self-assurance to threaten high-ranking individuals, including heroes and Sitch. He also targets low-ranked heroes and Hero Association staff members when he comes across them. Garou despises those who are popular, believing that the popular ones always end up winning. This belief stems from his childhood, during which he had no friends and was constantly bullied by popular kids, especially a boy named Tacchan. They forced him to play Heroes, with Tacchan ("Justice Man") beating up Garou ("The Monster"). Garou noticed how everyone adored Tacchan but hated him. Watching his life mirror the Justice Man TV show again and again, he developed a strong dislike for heroes, convinced that society would always want "the monster" dead. However, this mindset also gives him a degree of sympathy for victims, including his enemies. This is evident during his fight with Superalloy Darkshine, where he begins attacking the hero's ears but stops after recalling how he and Tareo were bullied in similar ways. Though Garou is labeled a villain and seen as evil by many, he operates with his own sense of morality. He fights heroes without killing them, though he does not object to others doing so. He shows compassion toward children, as seen when he talks with Tareo at the park or stops fighting Metal Bat after Zenko intervenes. When Tareo calls him "Uncle" after being told not to, Garou does not get angry. Later, he protects the boy from the Monster Association, even putting his own life on the line to save him. In several ways, Garou serves as a foil to Saitama. Both possess strong personal codes of honor and justice, although they express them differently. While Saitama wanted to be like a hero from his childhood who fought villains, Garou seeks to become a monster who defeats heroes. Garou is a genius fighter and a martial arts prodigy, whereas Saitama fights with raw strength and improvisation, relying on minimal technique. Garou can appreciate the experience of losing, using it as fuel to grow stronger, while Saitama yearns for a worthy opponent to rekindle the thrill he once felt during his training. Garou's cocky attitude. In battle, Garou is very arrogant, often mocking his opponents and calling them "amateurs". He ridicules Death Gatling and the group of A and B-Class heroes assembled against him, calling them pathetically weak. Although he acknowledges their strategy of ganging up on him, he still considers them insignificant compared to S-Class heroes. Despite his arrogance, he does give credit when it is deserved, as shown when he praises Glasses' endurance during their fight. He is very observant during and before combat. He often prepares in advance and enters fights after gathering intel. One example of this is when Death Gatling's group of A and B-Class heroes arrives to capture him for the Hero Association. Upon seeing them, he asks Tareo if he can look through his Hero Association book, which contains data on each hero's powers, weapons, ranks, and abilities. Using this information, he avoids potentially devastating attacks, such as Shooter's poisonous arrows. Garou is also shown to have a massive appetite, especially during his gradual transformation into a monster. He appears to particularly enjoy Coke, shown by his craving for it while enduring Overgrown Rover's energy blasts and by official Murata artwork where he is holding a bottle of Coke. Garou seeks to change the world through "Absolute Evil". He views justice as biased and unjust, seeing it as people doing harmful things to those they label as "evil" while being celebrated for it. In contrast, he sees absolute evil as impartial and fair, affecting everyone equally. Garou wants to become the kind of monster from fairy tales that everyone fears, so humanity will be forced to unite against him in order to survive. Through this fear, he aspires to eliminate conflict and bring about world peace. After being influenced by "God", Garou revels in the cosmic energy flowing through his body. He becomes even more determined to defeat Saitama and prove himself as the "Symbol of Fear" that will reshape the world. Although he claims to have kept his free will and avoided falling completely under "God's" control, both Bang and Blast observe a change in him. His mind has clearly been affected, and his behavior becomes more cruel and sadistic. When Blast warns that Garou's radiation could exterminate all life on Earth, Garou is unfazed. He is instead pleased that his presence alone can cause death and looks forward to how humanity might evolve under his rule of absolute evil. While he previously never killed any humans during his hero hunt, he chooses to kill Genos in order to en...

Garou is a young man of average height with yellow eyes and slicked gray hair that spikes upward in two large prongs, giving a feeling of a young wolf. He has a lean, muscular physique. He wears a tight, black, long-sleeved shirt, loose-fitting white martial arts pants, a yellow sash around his waist, and tai chi slippers on his feet. As Garou fights further in the Human Monster Saga, his appearance becomes more monster-like over time. After being kicked by Saitama, he removes his shirt and wraps his upper body in bandages as he recovers. While fighting Genos, his right eye turns red and bloodshot, and his hair becomes a dark pinkish-red after he rubs his own blood into it. Next, he is given a long-sleeved black shirt and tight black pants by the Monster Association. He retains a large diagonal scar across his face after being brutalized by Royal Ripper, and his right eye remains severely bloodshot. His clothes are torn and two strands of fabric flow behind him like scarves due to his encounter with Overgrown Rover, and after being defeated by Orochi his entire body is black with soot. The soot is blown off when Garou blocks Superalloy Darkshine's Superalloy Bazooka, and the force of the attack also shreds his remaining clothing into a spiral pattern around the hole Orochi put in his torso. After his fight with Darkshine and the subsequent destruction of the Monster Association base, Garou begins to undergo a transformation, developing claws, fangs, and hardened skin. After resurfacing, he has armor-like skin and hair, razor-sharp claws, and glowing veins running along his body. His back also develops several glowing holes, and his torn clothing is fashioned into a makeshift cape around his shoulders and waist. Following his fight against Bang, Garou's left eye armor shatters due to his master's final blow, revealing the eye beneath. As his monsterization continues through various battles, his glowing veins become increasingly bright and pronounced. Later, when overpowered by Saitama during their fight, Garou's body mutates in response to his rage, greatly increasing his size and stature. His jawline sharpens, his mouth becomes more pronounced with razor-sharp teeth, and the spikes on his body lengthen and multiply, giving him a much more monstrous and intimidating appearance. Soon after, while trying to catch up to Saitama, Garou transforms into an even more demonic form, increasing in size and sprouting wings from his back along with longhorns on his head, flames flickering along the back of his neck and the sides of his thighs. Shortly thereafter, he grows two additional arms in this form, bringing his total to four arms. After becoming influenced by "God", Garou reverts into a physique more similar to that of his original monsterization form, but with featureless void filled with stars, galaxies and nebulas over his body as it is surrounded by a dark bluish aura. Once Garou has returned back into a human after cracking out of the monster-like armor skin, he returns back to his original design with silver spiked up hair and outfit. However, the large diagonal scar across his face stays permanently. In the original webcomic, when Garou emerges from underground, the sides of his hair have transformed into horns and his clothes have seemingly fused with his body. After the beginning of his fight with Golden Sperm, his face hardens and transforms to match the rest of his body. Midway through his fight with Saitama, Garou transforms again, becoming larger and bulkier with spikes growing out of his back. His new form then mutates, growing even larger and gaining a pair of wings. After Saitama breaks apart his monster form, Garou emerges from the shell with his former appearance, but with shorter hair. While working for Beaver Movers, Garou wears a cap and work clothes.