| “ | For eons I have terrorized this land. Every miserable creature trembled at the mere mention of my name. The pitiful people fright before my awesome power. But now, I am openly mocked by these measly urchins. Tales of the Samurai's heroics have spread through the world like a virus, but I will cure the world of this plague of hope. I will unleash such evil that even the most innocent soul will be consumed by terror! | „ |
| ~ Aku |
| “ | Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time, and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now the fool seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Aku! | „ |
| ~ Aku in the Opening |
Background
Aku is the main antagonist of Samurai Jack.
Aku is a demon that originated from a fragment coming from The Nameless Evil, where he after collided with Earth as the form of a asteroid, causing the extincion of the Dinosaurs. Now on Earth, Aku later returned to cause chaos around the Earth, only to be sealed into a sword. A decade later, Aku broke out of the sword, where the Son of the Daimyo that sealed would take the job of his father to fight Aku.
Powers and Stats
Tier: High 6-B, likely High 6-A
Name: Aku
Origin: Samurai Jack
Gender: Male
Age: Eons
Classification: Demon
Dimensionality: 3-D
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Regeneration (Low-High: Regenerated after being cut into pieces by Jack), Magic, Teleportation, Crystal Manipulation and Sealing (As shown here, he first creates the crystal and then seals his adversary in it), Duplication (As seen here), Corruption (Type 1: Corrupted a army to look like him and then fight for him), Enhanced Senses (Aku is able to feel his enemy's presence close to him), Immortality (Types 1 and 3), Sound Manipulation and Shockwave Creation (Capable of creating large sound waves to create a shockwave to send his enemy back off), Portal Creation and BFR (Created a Portal to the future which he then sent Jack back there and can teleport people against their own will), Danmaku and Size Manipulation (Aku can grow himself to cover a part of the sky, which he can then attack the opponent with multiple attacks), Weather Manipulation (Aku with his powers can create storms), Electricity Manipulation (With his abilities, he can shoot out electric blastes from his eyes), Precognition (Through Dreams), Explosion Manipulation (Just by looking), Clairvoyance (As seen here), Afterimage Creation, Energy Manipulation, Energy Projection, Self-Sustenance (Types 1 and 2), Time Manipulation, Attack Reflection (Can send back attacks that come at him like bows or flames), Summoning (Can summon Jewels to fall from the sky), Shapeshifting (Aku can change his body in different ways such as when e turned into a female), Elasticity, Curse Manipulation (Implied to have stroke down a curse), Fire Manipulation (As seen here), Minor Reality Warping, Large Size (Type 1), Intangibility (Aku is normally intagible to normal attacks), Resurrection (Resurrected Chronos), Transmutation (Transformed a bunch of Mountain Sheeps into ferocious monsters), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 4. Can manifest his essence in various ways), Empathic Manipulation, Biological Manipulation, Time Travel, Matter Manipulation, Necromancy, Heat Vision, Resistance to Extreme Cold and Cosmic Radiations
Attack Potency: Large Country level, likely Multi-Continent level (He was the asteroid that decimated the Non-Avian Dinosaurs over 66 million years ago, such event wielded over billions of atomic bombs with results of around 310 Teratons to over 13.8 Petatons of energy equivalent and quickly acidified all of Earth's oceans. Aku is also stated to have taken out all the Water from a outside planet to torture their civilization)
Speed: Relativistic+ (Constantly shown to be able to keep up with Jack) with Massively FTL+ Travel Speed (Can fly over interstellar distances in a short time)
Lifting Strength: Class K (Can lift a giant)
Durability: Large Country level, likely Multi-Continent level, his immortality and regeneration makes him extremely difficult to kill
Stamina: Very High
Range: Tens of meters normally, up to kilometers with beams
Standard Equipment: None notable
Intelligence: He is a extremely evil demon yet a powerful and skilled combatant and has been shown to trick over people incluiding Jack himself such as the time he transformed into a supposed ally for Jack, although it was a trap.
Weaknesses:
- Color Scheme: Aku's shape-shifting was limited to his color scheme and remained red, black, and usually green (though not always) no matter what form he took. While not particularly problematic with regard to combat, that could make disguising Aku somewhat difficult (though he still fooled Jack numerous times with his disguises, as Jack tended not to notice Aku's color scheme issues and, when he did see through Aku's disguises, it was because of Aku's personality rather than his colors).
- Reflection: Aku's own reflection revealed his normal form no matter what he shape-shifted to look like.
- Divine Power: Though Aku could not be harmed and killed by normal weapons and attacks, even the high-tech ones, those with divine power such as Jack's Sword, Odin's Gungnir, Rama's Sharanga, and Ra's Crook were able to do so. The Goddess of Water and her fellow elementals were able to harm or defeat Aku. According to Rama, Aku could also be vanquished by "The strength of the human spirit and the virtue of human righteousness" since he was the incarnation of evil. Because Jack's Sword was the only physical weapon on Earth that was able to destroy him, Aku was reluctant to confront Jack head-on.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Shapeshifting: Aku calls himself the "Master of Shapeshifters", this is one of his well known abilities and one of he most uses such as transforming into dragons, warriors, animals and even a whole new body
- Dark Magic: Aku's most powerful power. due to him being a demon linked to dark forces, he has naturally evil-related powers which can grant him abilities to manipulate objects, the weather, summon stuff and far more capabilities
Note: For extra information about Aku's shapeshifting, here's all the forms he has transformed into
Others
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