Gums

Overview

Gums (ハグキ, Haguki) is a Dragon-level Mysterious Being and an executive member of the Monster Association.

Appearance[edit | edit source]

Gums is a large, gluttonous and rotund creature with two arms and two legs. Its head contains no features other than an incredibly large mouth that lacks any lips. Despite having no ears, its presence at the meeting with the other cadres of the Monster Association implies that Gyoro Gyoro can communicate with Gums through unknown means. In the webcomic, it has a more humanoid body shape. When in need of a more powerful bite force, Gums will increase the muscles of its mouth and get a more muscular appearance, including visible veins.

Its size seems to change constantly, from being slightly taller than Homeless Emperor, a human being of presumably average height, to easily fitting the extremely large and tall hero Pig God in his mouth.

Personality[edit | edit source]

Gums appears to be incapable of speech. As it is called into a meeting, it seems to be intelligent enough to understand speech. However, it is incredibly gluttonous and driven by the desire to consume. Gums also shows incredible anger if its meals are interrupted or delayed by others, as seen when Pig God saved Tanktop Master from its jaws,^[1] or when Fuhrer Ugly's punch was redirected into its face by Bang, causing it to spit out Genos, it then flew into a rage and even tried to digest the fat monster despite being his ally in the battle.^[2]

Plot[edit | edit source]

Human Monster Saga[edit | edit source]

Monster Association Arc[edit | edit source]

Gums eats some monsters before the battle against the Hero Association.^[3] It and several other executive members are called by Gyoro Gyoro for a meeting.^[4]

During the heroes' raid of the Monster Association Headquarters, Gums sneaks up behind Pig God and swallows him whole, only to have the fat hero fight his way back out of its mouth, and the two then engage in hand-to-hand combat.^[5] As Gums appears to be gaining the upper hand against Pig God and overpowering him during their clash, Tatsumaki briefly frees the hero from its jaws by shielding him with a psychic barrier but Gums manages to bite through her barrier, preventing the hero from escaping and the battle between the two of them resumes.^[6] As their battle continues, Pig God somehow manages to escape Gums after Tatsumaki began lifting the entire Monster Association base out of the ground.^[7]

After Orochi and Psykos were defeated in their battle against the heroes, Gums and several executive members rise up from the rubble and it attempts to devour Pig God and Tanktop Master, though they narrowly avoid its jaws. Gums then targets Tanktop Master, who is able to momentarily keep the monster's jaws pried open, though Pig God tackles it and allows his fellow hero to break free. Gums quickly becomes enraged and grabs Tanktop Master with its teeth again after the latter was distracted by Fuhrer Ugly. As its body enlarges and its veins throb in anger, it nearly manages to crush Tanktop Master, who is once again narrowly saved by Pig God tackling the monster. After Fuhrer Ugly severely beats Tanktop Master to a near-death state, Gums swallows the hero whole.

However, Bang suddenly arrives and rips a hole through Gums to save Tanktop Master, while Genos proceeds to incinerate its insides to the monsters shock. Despite the burns and loss of blood, Gums heals itself quickly and bites down on the cyborg to chew him. Bang, however, puts a stop to this by redirecting one of Fuhrer Ugly's attacks onto it, damaging Gums and also releasing Genos who then escapes from the gluttony monster. Becoming furious as its prey has managed to flee due to the attack from Fuhrer Ugly redirected into it, Gums then retaliates and devours Fuhrer Ugly believing that the latter hit it on purpose. Despite Gums swallowing him whole, Fuhrer Ugly manages to escape its stomach by ripping it in half from inside.

Abilities & Powers[edit | edit source]

As a high-ranked member and a Dragon-level Mysterious Being of the Monster Association, Gums is an extremely powerful being. Its abilities are very similar to Pig God's, mostly revolving around brute physical strength and eating and digesting opponents.

Physical Abilities[edit | edit source]

Inhuman Digestive System: Similarly to Pig God, Gums has an extremely high digestive speed that allows it to consume anything very quickly. According to Pig God, Gums is able to instantly digest debris while it keeps eating, unnerving the hero and noting that his digestive system barely compares to it.^[8] Gums' stomach acid was also able to partially digest the highly-durable Fuhrer Ugly and melt through metal such as Atomic Samurai's katana and even Darkshine's extremely durable skin, causing the latter to suffer great pain.^[9] Its lingering turned Fuhrer Ugly into a corrosive monstrosity.^[9]

Immense Strength: As a Dragon-level threat, Gums boasts great strength. It was able to use its huge mouth to chomp through things like metal and debris with ease and swallow Pig God, a hero known for eating monsters, to defeat them.^[10] It also appeared to be gaining the upper hand over Pig God in its fight with him.^[11] According to Drive Knight, Gums has a bite force capable of crushing heavy machinery.^[12] However, it wasn't strong enough to fully bite through Pig God's immense layers of fat.^[13] After exerting itself, Gums managed to bite through Tatsumaki's psychic barrier which she created to shield Pig God from the destruction of the Monster Association HQ.^[14] Furthermore, its bite force is so powerful that even Tanktop Master, an S-Class hero with immense physical strength, was struggling to escape its jaw.^[15]

Immense Durability: Gums was shown to have sustained no visible injury from its tussle with Pig God, a powerful S-Class hero.^[16] It was also unharmed after being tackled by the hero several times during his attempts to save Tanktop Master.^[17]

Enhanced Stealth: Despite its bulky and pudgy appearance, Gums was able to sneak up on and take Pig God, an S-Class hero, by surprise.^[18]

Elasticity: Gums can stretch open its mouth to inhumanly wide proportions in order to consume large masses such as swallowing the immense Pig God in a single bite.^[19] It is also shown to become huge in size after consuming a large amount of rubble, only to digest it immediately and return to its original size in mere moments.^[20]

Regenerative Healing Factor: Gums possesses impressive regenerative abilities, capable of regenerating itself from extreme injuries very quickly. This was shown when Gums was able to regenerate from having its body pierced through by Bang as well as having its insides incinerated by Genos, with the damage having healed almost completely shortly after.^[21]

Major Battles[edit | edit source]

Participants	Chapter(s)	Episode(s)	Result
Gums vs. Pig God	114, 122, 123, 130	None	Interrupted by Tatsumaki
Monster Association Executives vs. Heroes	139, 143, 144	None	Ongoing

Trivia[edit | edit source]

The design and personality of Gums might be based on Taberu from Makai no Ossan. Both share the same appearance and seem to be unable to speak, the only difference being that Taberu is occasionally seen in a schoolgirl outfit, whereas Gums has nothing to wear.

References[edit | edit source]

↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 143, page 23-24
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 144, page 19-22
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 89, page 66
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 94, page 151
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 114
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 130, page 10
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 134, page 22
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 141, page 29
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 147 (Online)
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 111
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 123
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 122, page 10
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 123, page 2
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 130, page 10
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 143, page 23
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 123, page 2
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 143, page 23 & 28
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 114, page 4 - 5
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 114, page 5 - 7
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 141, page 29
↑ One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 144, page 9-10 & 23

Navigation[edit | edit source]

v • eMonster Association
Leaders	Orochi • Psykos
Executives	Black Sperm • Evil Natural Water • Homeless Emperor • Fuhrer Ugly • Gums • Overgrown Rover • Nyan ^‡ • Elder Centipede ^† • Gouketsu ^†
Dragon	Gale Wind ^‡ • Hellfire Flame ^‡ • Phoenix Man
Demon	Awakened Cockroach ^† • Baquma ^† • Bug God ^† • Building Booper ^† • Devil Long Hair ^† • Do-S ^† • G5 ^† • Hundred-Eyes Octopus ^† • Vampire (Pureblood) ^† • Rafflesidon ^† • Royal Ripper ^† • Senior Centipede ^† • Face Ripper ^† • Fist Fight Djinn ^† • Free Hugger ^† • Rhino Wrestler ^† • The Three Crows ^† • Showerhead ^† • Super Mouse ^† • Unihorn ^† • The Great Food Tub ^†
Tiger	Destrochloridium ^† • Electric Catfish Man • Mad Doctor Fish ^† • Maiko Plasma • Marshall Gorilla ^† • Sludge Jellyfish ^†
Unknown	Eyesight ^† • Gyoffrey ^† • Goddess Glasses ^≠ • Venus Mantrap ^† • Junior Centipede ^† • Haragiri ^† • Rosie ^† • Choze ^† • Benpatsu ^† • Hamukichi ^† • Volten ^† • Evil Eye ^† • Gale ^≠ • Hellfire ^≠ • Evil Eggs ^† • Sword Devil Executioner ^† • Raptora ^† • Reptera

v • eMysterious Beings
Dragon (or higher)	Boros ^† • Orochi ^*
Dragon	Bakuzan ^† • Black Sperm • Carnage Kabuto ^† • Elder Centipede ^† • Energiser ^† • Evil Natural Water • Fuhrer Ugly • Gale Wind • Garou • Geryuganshoop ^† • Gouketsu ^† • Groribas ^† • Gums • Hellfire Flame • Homeless Emperor • Melzargard ^† • Nyan • Overgrown Rover • Pluton ^† • Psykos • Vaccine Man ^†
Demon	170,000-Year-Old Cicada Larva ^† • 170,000-Year-Old Cicada Adult ^† • Armored Gorilla • Awakened Cockroach ^† • Baquma ^† • Beast King ^† • Bug God ^† • Building Booper ^† • Deep Sea King ^† • Demonic Fan ^† • Devil Long Hair ^* • Do-S ^† • Face Ripper ^† • Fist Fight Djinn ^† • Free Hugger ^† • G4 ^† • G5 ^† • Game-Berus ^† • Giant Crow ^† • Grizzly Nyah ^† • Hundred-Eyes Octopus ^† • Jumping Spider ^† • Mosquito Girl ^† • Rafflesidon ^† • Rhino Wrestler ^† • Royal Ripper ^† • Scaledon ^† • Senior Centipede ^† • Showerhead ^† • Sky King ^† • Subterranean King ^† • Super Mouse ^† • The Great Food Tub ^† • The Three Crows ^† • Unihorn ^† • Vampire (Pureblood) ^†
Tiger	Black Roast ^† • Crablante ^† • Crazy Brown Bear ^† • Delorean ^† • Destrochloridium ^† • Electric Catfish Man • Fighting Bull-Frog ^† • Frog Man ^† • Ground Dragon ^† • Kamakyuri ^† • Kombu Infinity • Mad Doctor Fish ^† • Maiko Plasma • Marshall Gorilla ^* • Master Joe ^† • Octopus Claw Man ^† • Personification Of A Light Pull Cord ^† • Sludge Jellyfish ^† • Slugerous ^† • Three-Eyed Ghost ^† • Urn Eel ^† • Withered Sprout ^†
Wolf	Himawari ^† • Hotdog ^† • Messenger of the Seafolk ^† • Piggy Bancon ^† • Tongue Stretcher
Less than Wolf	Phoenix Man
Unknown	Alien Seer ^* • Ancient King ^† • Autumn Phantom Red Golden-ringed Dragonfly ^* • Benpatsu ^† • Choze ^† • Dark Matter Gunner ^† • Eagle ^† • Enamel ^† • Evil Eggs ^† • Evil Eye ^† • Eyesight ^† • Falcon ^† • Fish of Darkness • Gale ^≠ • Gigakigan ^† • Goddess Glasses ^≠ • Gyoffrey ^† • Hamukichi ^† • Haragiri ^† • Hawk ^† • Hellfire ^≠ • Junior Centipede ^† • Kite ^† • Rosie ^† • Raptora ^† • Reptera • Suppon ^† • Sword Devil Executioner ^† • Venus Mantrap ^† • Volten ^†

[1] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 143, page 23-24

[2] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 144, page 19-22

[3] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 89, page 66

[4] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 94, page 151

[5] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 114

[6] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 130, page 10

[7] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 134, page 22

[8] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 141, page 29

[ch147-9] 9.0 ^9.1 One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 147 (Online)

[10] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 111

[11] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 123

[12] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 122, page 10

[13] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 123, page 2

[14] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 130, page 10

[15] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 143, page 23

[16] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 123, page 2

[17] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 143, page 23 & 28

[18] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 114, page 4 - 5

[19] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 114, page 5 - 7

[20] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 141, page 29

[21] One-Punch Man Manga; Chapter 144, page 9-10 & 23

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