Gouketsu

Gouketsu (ゴウケツ, Gouketsu) was a Mysterious Being and an executive member of the Monster Association.

Appearance
Gouketsu was a large monster with a spiky body wearing a ripped black shirt. Gouketsu had four vertical eyes, sharp teeth, and pointy ears. He also had a black marking on his forehead and an X-shaped mark on his chin.

Gouketsu's human form holds similarity to his monster appearance. His face and hairstyle were similar with the major difference of his two sharp eyes.

Personality
Similar to martial artists such as Bakuzan and Choze, Gouketsu is extremely cruel and arrogant, to the point that he often looks down on every opponent he sees (his personality as a human is unknown; however, he is shown to be confident enough to challenge the intimidating Orochi to a one-on-one fight, only to end up losing to him and getting captured).

Gouketsu treats all the martial artists who are turned into monsters as nothing more than expendable soldiers of the Monster Association. Before that, he looks down on all martial artists, stating that their consumption of Monster Cells would only make them become decent fighters rather than comparable to himself.

As demonstrated in his fight against Suiryu, Gouketsu is confident in his abilities and has a habit of giving capable opponents a chance to retaliate by either giving them a bit of time to respond, maximum three seconds, or not using his full strength.

Gouketsu lusts for power, as evidenced in his pride in his monster transformation (the influence that his torture had in Gouketsu's human form is unknown). At the same time, he displays a dark sense of humor when he kicks both Max and Sneck into the air while wondering if they both died since he just simply poked them.

As a monster, he strongly follows the philosophy of the Social Darwinist world where the strong will rule the world and prey upon the weak through blood and violence.

Despite his arrogance, he is not without appreciation for individuals who impress him with their strength in which he offers Suiryu an executive membership equal to him in the Monster Association after witnessing him defeat all the newly transformed martial artists. Furthermore, he is also perceptive enough to realize that no matter how strong a monster, they will be eventually hunted down and kill as well as the fact he and the Monster Association cannot take a full might of the Hero Association at once. As the result, despite his cockiness, he has some sense of cautiousness.

In battle, he likes to toy with his opponent by letting them hit him as hard as possible like their life depends on it only to strike them with tremendous force and knocking them out. However, he is quite impatient when he beats down his opponent to the ground and often gives them 3 seconds to get up and continue fighting or else he will kill his opponent.

History
At one point in the past, Gouketsu was once a Martial Arts fighter and the winner of the first Super Fight. He was later defeated and captured by the Monster Association. He was offered to become a monster if he ate the Monster Cells handed to him by Orochi and Gyoro Gyoro. This resulted him in becoming the monster he is today.

At one point, The Three Crows were his disciples and lost their ego's when they became monsters.

Super Fight Arc
Gouketsu managed to take out Genos while on his way to the C-City Super Stadium, although this was after Genos had lost an arm and was already weakened from his battle. Gouketsu arrives at the Super Stadium and catches Benpatsu, as he was trying to leave. He then orders every Martial Artist to become a Mysterious Being.

Max and Sneck attempt to fight him but were again easily defeated in one kick. He then offered the lower class martial artists a chance to eat the Monster Cells to become monsters or they die. Those who joined him were Rosie (who was quickly killed), Choze, Benpatsu, Volten, and Hamukichi and he was satisfied with the results of the transformation.

After Suiryu refuses Gouketsu's offer, he orders the newly transformed martial artists to kill him. He silently watches the fight between Suiryu and Choze, with Suiryu being victorious. Gouketsu offers Suiryu a second chance and even offered him an executive positon in the Monster Association. Suiryu refuses and tries to defeat Gouketsu, but Gouketsu struck Suiryu with a downward punch.

He then plays with Suiryu, showing the gaps in their strength. After easily beating Suiryu, he lets The Three Crows attempt to finish him off. As Bakuzan takes in the remaining monster cells, Gouketsu notes that he was being greedy and that his body could not withstand the cells. He is initially proven correct when Bakuzan collapses instead of initiating his transformation.

Bakuzan's transformation would eventually initiate and Gouketsu was able to effortlessly keep up with him when Bakuzan tried to attack. After finishing intimidating Bakuzan, he gives Bakuzan a firm warning about taking on the whole Hero Association alone and heads to Z-City, the meeting point of the Monster Association.

Unfortunately, Gouketsu is confronted and killed in a quick exchange by Saitama when Suiryu informs the latter on Gouketsu's strength. His head is ripped off by Saitama's punch and flies into the atmosphere to land in front of a shocked and weakened Suiryu.

Abilities and Powers
The full extent of Gouketsu's strength and fighting prowess is unknown; however, he was strong enough to win the first Super Fight as a human and effortlessly defeated Genos, an S-Class hero, two A-Class heroes (Sneck and Lightning Max), and Suiryu, a five time Super Fight champion, after his transformation into a Mysterious Being.

As Gouketsu is threat level Dragon, he is extremely powerful. Moreover, he is able to effortlessly demonstrate his overwhelming strength over Bakuzan, another Dragon level threat by his own observation. Genos even stated that Gouketsu's strength was in another dimension, exceeding all monsters he had encountered (including powerhouses like Carnage Kabuto and Pluton) and that even Saitama (which he had witnessed vaporizing mountain ranges with the shockwave of a punch and heard being kicked to the moon and jumping back) would be impressed by Gouketsu's strength. This was proven false, however, as Gouketsu was effortlessly defeated by Saitama in a single, nonchalant strike.

Physical Abilities
Immense Strength: Gouketsu is extremely strong, even more so than his stature demonstrates. A seemingly casual punch is able to send shockwaves that blows an enormous hole in the Super Fight stadium, and a punch that landed on Saitama splits the clouds above. Furthermore, Gouketsu was able to easily smash Genos into the pavement with a single punch, disabling him, creating a sizable crater, and causing Genos to remark that Gouketsu is far above himself and would take a coordinated attack of the S-Class and Saitama to take down. Gouketsu was also able to heavily injure Suiryu with a single punch and break Suiryu's left arm with another. He was also able to block Suiryu's Void Quaking Tiger Fist (an all-out attack) with a mere pinch. He was able to casually block attacks from the transformed Bakuzan (a Dragon level monster) with only one arm and effortlessly pinched Bakuzan's elbow strike.

Immense Durability: Gouketsu has incredible defense as his stature demonstrates. He was able to effortlessly withstand Suiryu's Void Sky Dragon Fist directed toward his eyes without showing batting an eyelid or showing any signs of pain. He was again shown to have great durability when he was able to easily block Monster Bakuzan's attacks.

Immense Speed: Gouketsu is fast enough to attack Genos before he could act, even when the latter sensed his approach and was fully prepared for battle. Gouketsu is able to follow Suiryu and Choze's immense speed during their fight whilst the other martial artists present could not. Gouketsu was also able to appear behind Suiryu in an instant, and Suiryu even remarked that Gouketsu was far faster than himself. In his fight with Bakuzan, Gouketsu effortlessly blocked his attack with one arm, despite Bakuzan using all of his four arms for the attack.

Fighting Style
Gouketsu seems to toy with his opponents and deliver powerful strikes, as was the case in his fights with Suiryu and Bakuzan. However, Gouketsu has also been shown to quickly finish fights when on a schedule, as he did not toy with Genos when he travelled toward the Super Fight arena.

Master Martial Artist: Gouketsu seems to have retained his martial arts prowess as a human, when he was able to win the first Super Fight tournament. This is evidenced in his fight against Bakuzan, when he casually deflected the latter's attacks with a single arm. Moreover, Suiryu remarked that Gouketsu was more skilled than himself.

Miscellaneous Abilities
Keen Perception:  He is able to identify the strength level of others. He was able to identify the transformed Bakuzan as a Dragon Level Threat and note that Suiryu could possibly be an executive member of the Monster Association if he consumed a monster cell.

Trivia

 * The name Gouketsu can also mean hero (豪傑).


 * Gouketsu was originally designed without the black marking on his forehead and chin. His teeth were larger and sharper, while the redrawn version looks more human.
 * "I guess the reason why Frieza's final form looked strong despite its simplicity was that in contrast to the forms to that point, it looked (intelligent/calculating/rational). Being able to feel the intelligence is scarier (than not)." - Murata