Gouketsu

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

Appearance
Gouketsu is a large monster who has a spiky body covered by a black ripped shirt. Gouketsu also has four eyes, sharp teeth and pointy ears. He also has black marking on his forehead and a X-mark on his chin.

Before becoming a monster, Gouketsu's human form holds similarity to his monster appearance. His face and hairstyle was similar with the difference being he had two big 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 arrogance is so great that he was willing to challenge Orochi to a one-on-one fight, only to end up losing to him and getting captured.

As a monster, his cockiness is amplified greatly to the point that he 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 to the point that, for him, giving them Monster Cells just makes make them become decent fighters, rather than as strong as him.

As demonstrated in his fight against Suiryu, he 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.

He also lusts for power since he was willing to trade his humanity to gain tremendous power as a monster when his mind broke down under torture. 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.

Abilities and Powers
The full extent of Gouketsu's strength and fighting prowess is currently unknown; however, he was strong enough to win the first Super Fight as a human and 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 he is threat level Dragon, he is very powerful. He is able to effortlessly demonstrate his overwhelming strength over Bakuzan, another Dragon level threat. It is implied that due to the fact that he effortlessly defeated Bakuzan, who was another dragon level mysterious being who just ate several monster cells, that as a human, he was more powerful than Bakuzan's human form as well.

Physical Abilities
Immense Strength: Gouketsu is physically strong as he appears in stature. He was easily able to crush Genos into the pavement. He also defeated Lightning Max and Sneck with a single kick. He was able to heavily injure Suiryu with a punch. Gouketsu also broke Suiryu's left arm with one strike and was able to block Suiryu's Void Shivering Tiger Fist and according to Suiryu, he went all out with that attack. Later he was able to casually block attacks from the transformed Bakuzan who became a Dragon level monster as well with only an arm. Gouketsu's casual punch can create a shockwave powerful enough to make a large hole in the stadium.

Immense Durability: Gouketsu has incredible defense as his stature demonstrates. He was able to effortlessly withstand Suiryu's Void Sky Dragon Fist. Also Gouketsu withstood every single attack by Suiryu without feeling or showing any signs of pain. Suiryu noted that Gouketsu did not even bat an eyelid at any of his attacks. 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 catch Genos by surprise and attack him before he could act. He also kicked Lighting Max and Sneck before either of the Heroes could react, despite his large body. Gouketsu is also able to keep up with Suiryu and Choze's immense speed during their fight whilst most martial artists cannot. Gouketsu was also able to appear behind Suiryu in an instant. In his fight with Bakuzan he efforrtlessly blocked his attack with one arm, despite Bakuzan using all of his four arms for the attack.

Fighting Style
While his fighting style has yet to be revealed, it seems to revolve around Gouketsu toying with his opponents and delivering powerful strikes. He was able to repel several of the transformed monster Bakuzan's attacks effortlessly and was merely toying with him, despite Bakuzan being a Dragon Level threat.

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.

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