King

RACE Human GENDER Male Male AGE 29[3] STATUS Alive HEIGHT 187 cm (6'1½")[4] WEIGHT Undisclosed[3]

This article is about the character. For the chapter, see King (chapter). King (キング, Kingu) is the S-Class Rank 5 professional hero of the Hero Association. In public, King is known as "The Strongest Man on Earth" (地ち上じょう最さい強きょうの男おとこ, Chijō Saikyō no Otoko) and "The Heroes' Hero". In truth, however, he is just a normal civilian who unintentionally gained credit for the heroic acts performed by Saitama. King is also part of the Saitama Group. King is a tall, lean man with light tan skin, blue eyes, and shoulder-length, slicked-back blonde hair combed down to the nape of his neck. He has a long face with sunken cheeks and a well defined jawline. His most notable physical feature is the set of three vertical scars over his left eye, received from Octopus Claw Man. Unlike most heroes, he dresses casually without any hero suit or uniform. He is sometimes seen wearing a cap that has the kanji for 'King' on it. When in a threatening situation, King appears calm and displays an intimidating aura. Despite the intimidating personality he projects, King is usually a coward. He is well respected by the public and other heroes, even those in the upper echelon of the Hero Association.[5]

King also has a caring side, worrying about Saitama's well-being and offering insightful advice as well as inviting him to play video games. King even promises to play with only two fingers to handicap himself against Saitama.[6]

King also seems to have an interest in romance games. He would buy and play dating simulator games like Doki Doki Sisters, but when Saitama found out about it, he was greatly embarrassed about it and tried to hide his romance games.[2]

Since gaining the title as the world's strongest man, King has become very good at bluffing and tricking his opponents, both intentionally and unintentionally, causing them to hesitate or even downright surrender. When assassins attempted to take his life, King was able to use clever intimidation and wise explanations to make the assassins back down and leave him in peace even though he had no idea they were assassins.[7]

Despite not being the highest-ranked hero of the Hero Association, he is considered to be the most powerful man on Earth, and it is due to this strength that he receives praise and respect from fellow heroes.[12] His strength is so feared that criminals and mysterious beings will often surrender before having to fight him.[2]

King intimidating King intimidating Tongue Stretcher However, this is due to miscommunication and mistaken identity. King's intimidating presence while near the defeated Mysterious Beings gave the Hero Association the false impression that he was strong. King, in reality, has never brawled before in his life, meaning he is the weakest person in S-Class if not the entire Hero Association.[13] Walking up a single flight of stairs is enough to leave King winded.[14] His intimidating characteristics also have no effect on robotic opponents.[2]

His status has resulted in being targeted by assassins who are paid with huge sums of money by crime bosses. Fortunately, all assassins sent after him are just as delusional as normal people in terms of perceiving King's false power, so they often think they are targeting the formidable foe and willing to give up when King peacefully confronts them.[7]

It should be noted that his hero title does not fail to describe his video game accomplishments. He is an expert at video games and has conquered some video game tournaments in his youth. This talent later proves to be useful when King saves Saitama, who irresponsibly signed a contract without reading it to Fubuki. Fubuki forcibly wanted to have Saitama, Bang, Genos, and King join the Blizzard Group should they win the bet outlined in the contract. The bet was decided with video games and King defeats thirty gamers by himself.[15] He is also able to write scripts about video game content since he often works on creating an independent game during weekends.[7]