Stinger

Stinger (スティンガー, Sutingā) is an A-Class, Rank 10, superhero for the Hero Association.

Appearance
Stinger is a tall and lean-built young man with dark hair that for the most part is spiked back, save for a few that fall forward over his face. He wears a tight black suit, which appears to be made of bandages. He carries a large spear with him that has a brown handle and a large spear-head at the end.

Personality
Stinger is a rather confident, charismatic individual who takes pride in both his association rank and popularity polls. Stinger seems to overestimate the threat level of monster, thinking he defeated a God level threat, only to be a Tiger level.

Sea Monster Arc
When the Seafolk show up in J-City they start attacking people. One citizen is in the grasp of one of the monsters when the monsters' arm gets cut off. Stinger then makes his entrance, challenging the Mysterious Beings to a fight.

Later he is shown on a news report to be fighting a desperate battle, having killed at least one, he has exhausted most of his stamina. After a tough battle he manages to defeat all of them. Just as he is celebrating he is attacked by the Sea King, who easily defeats him. He was later hospitalized alongside Lightning Max. While reading the newspaper, about the incident and the hero who took their credit, Puri-Puri-Prisoner appears, much to their horror, and is about to give them both his special medicine, but Lightning Max and Stinger manage to run away with fear. At some point after this he received a promotion to rank 10.

Alien Conquerors Arc
He is seen along with Lightning Max and Mumen Rider. He volunteers to go help save civilians who might be stuck under rubble during Lord Boros' raid. While helping an injured civilian

Lost Cat
Stinger, Lightning Genji, Genos, Peach Terry, and Heavy Kong were assigned to secretly take care of Grizzly Nyah. Lightning Genji and Stinger were able to take care of one of the children, but had to ultimately run away from the mother. Lightning Genji stunned the Grizzly Nyah, while Stinger sliced its arm off.

Numbers
He and other heroes tried to stop Jumping Spider together, but were easily blown away by the creature because of a misunderstanding of the monster's real capability.

Abilities and Powers
Stinger is a high ranked A-Class hero, and can be considered to be decently powerful. He is able to defeat ten Disaster Level Tiger monsters on his own (albeit receiving heavy injuries in the process), and, together with Lightning Genji, managed to heavily injure a child Grizzly Nyah, a Demon Level monster.

Physical Abilities
Enhanced Strength: Stinger's thrusts have enough power behind them to mutilate and kill members of the Seafolk as well as sever the arm of a child Grizzly Nyah.

Fighting Style
Expert Spearsman: Stinger is very adept with a spear and has been shown to be able to take down multiple Seafolk, a considerable feat considering their disaster level of tiger, although, he did this with some difficulty.


 * Gigantic Drill Stinger (ギガンテイシクドリルスティンガー, Gigantikku Doriru Sutingā): Stinger thrusts his spear forward. At this point the tip of his spear begins to spin and is capable of ripping completely through and enemy.


 * Quadruple Thrust (四連突き, Shirentsuki): After spinning his spear in a helicopter motion to launch himself in the air, Stinger makes four powerful strikes of his Gigantic Drill Stinger almost instantaneously.

Equipment
Bamboo Shoot: Stinger wields a large spear with a black handle and a spear head that (in it's initial appearance) has an overlapping pattern on it, similar to the abdomen of a bee, and is later shown to be less decorated and instead being rather wobbly, similar to a bamboo shoot.

Hero Rating
Stinger's rating determined by the Hero Association.

Webcomic and Manga Differences
In the webcomic Stinger's left eye was closed, it's the right eye in the manga

Anime and Manga Difference
Episode 9
 * After his defeat at the hands of Sea King, he is seen in the hospital with Lightning Max getting frustrated from reading the newspaper. He is then shocked and scared at seeing Puri-Puri-Prisoner coming to visit them, only to run off with Lightning Max when Puri-Puri-Prisoner offered to give them shots.

Episode 11
 * Stinger along with Lightning Max head to Hero Association HQ at A-City to help out with the rescuing operation with License-less Rider. Even asking to borrow a vehicle.

Major Battles
Stinger vs Seafolk

Stinger vs Sea King

Extra Battles
Stinger and Lightning Genji vs Grizzly Nyah

Stinger, Red Muffler, Great Philosopher, and Darkness Blade vs Jumping Spider

Trivia

 * Stinger was originally designed wearing a vest, sash, and a metal plate, but was redrawn by Murata wearing just the black suit, to resemble the original design in the webcomic.