Hero (Shin Megami Tensei)

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==Summary==
The Hero, also given the name of Kazuya or Futsuo in supplementary materials, is the main protagonist of Shin Megami Tensei I, and, like the others before and after him, is a silent character, whose personality within the game is determined strictly by the actions and decisions of the player themselves. Having started out as seemingly an ordinary high schooler living alone with his mother and dog, with no previous contact with the supernatural, his idyllic life was soon shattered after a meeting with a demon in a shopping mall, and a series of strange dreams and meetings, all of which prophesized that he would one day attain a power beyond his wildest imagination, and shape the entire world through his actions, causing him to discover about the ongoing infestation of demons occurring in Tokyo, and a chain of events that ultimately culminated in the destruction of the city by a barrage of nuclear missiles.
Unlike most of the series' main characters, however, the Hero is distinguished by the fact that he took a canonical stance within the conflict between Law and Chaos at the end of the game, ultimately choosing to reject both the order of God and the visceral freedom of Lucifer and carving his own path, in which both extremes would side in harmony, and humanity at large would hopefully live safe from the meddling of either side.
==Powers and Stats==
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Key: Early-Game | Mid-Game | Late-Game | Messiahs in the Diamond Realm
Name: "Hero," Kazuya, Futsuo, Sho
Origin: Megami Tensei
Gender: Male.
Age: Unknown, though presumably in his late teens
Classification: Devil Summoner, Messiah, Reincarnation of Adam
Powers and Abilities:
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Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Martial Arts and Weapon Mastery, Cognition (Type 2), Summoning, Non-Physical Interaction (Can damage and interact with spirits and ghosts, as well as strike down the informational forms of Demons and entities devoid of time and space, and should likely scale to Flynn, who can strike down formless, nonexistent entities such as The White), as well as Healing, Regeneration (High-Mid), Invulnerability, Immortality (Types 2, 3 and 7), and Durability Negation (As a Messiah, Hero's attacks likely hold the same property as that of his Demons' in that they function on both the physical and spiritual/mental/conceptual/informational levels, with wounds he inflicts being unable to be healed without spiritual power and capable of harming physically invulnerable foes, as well as killing undead beings and regenerative entities, such as Nagas and Blobs), Supernatural Willpower, Accelerated Development, Reactive Evolution and Reactive Power Level (Should have the same nature as other Messiahs, such as Flynn), Statistics Amplification
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Fusionism, Absorption, Possession and Existence Erasure (Should be similar to Flynn and Aleph), Conceptual Manipulation / Information Manipulation / Mind Manipulation / Soul Manipulation (Frequently does battle against Demons, who affect their targets on all of the above levels with every attack, often withstanding numerous strikes from them and emerging victorious through brute force alone), Fate Manipulation and Curse Manipulation (Like the other protagonists, he is likely able to fight and defeat White Rider, the abstract embodiment of victory and conquest whose crown assures his success in all battles and wars. Unbothered by interactions with Pisacas, which fate humans to die in the span of nine months), Disease Manipulation, Probability Manipulation, Madness Manipulation and Chaos Manipulation (Unaffected by the act of looking into Girimehkala's eye, which inflicts incurable sickness and misfortune into individuals, and by the gaze of Yakkha, which is said to inflict disease and madness), Petrification and Poison Manipulation (Can easily do battle against Basilisk and Cockatrice, both of whom turn normal people into stone simply by being touched or looked at, and have a gaze and breath so poisonous that any mortal being near them instantly dies, turning their surroundings into a desert), Life and Death Manipulation (Can fight Liches, whose presence drains the life of those who see them, and is not affected by Balor's gaze, which instantly kills enemies, and Chatterskull's laughter, which dooms whoever hears it to death, immediately stopping their heart)
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Attack Potency: Country level (Superior to Elemental Spirits such as Aeros and Erthys, who are the respective personifications of all of the world's winds and earth, being the cause of all phenomena related to their element as dictated by human understanding, and thus should both be capable of reproducing effects of this scale) | Low Complex Multiverse level (Can defeat both Gotou and Thor, as well as the Four Heavenly Kings, and eventually grew powerful enough to defeat Nebiros and Echidna) | Outerverse level (Defeated Beelzebub, causing him to "drown in a sea of his own blood," and was able to dispatch both Vishnu and Ravana during his skirmish at the Cathedral. Can summon and control Brahma, who is equal to other members of the Trimurti, and Vairocana, as well as wield Masakado's sword and armor. Lucifer himself was said to be worried about his increasing strength, and took all preparations to get him into his side, and, later, to eliminate him in the Law and Neutral Routes) | Outerverse level (Implied to have drawn out his full potential after his physical form was restored through Nanashi's Observation, which had itself caused The Great Will to fear and preemptively eliminate him from the Cycle of Reincarnation due to the threat he posed. Fought against a fully-powered Stephen alongside the other Messiahs and managed to defeat him after a long battle, although the former was more amused and satisfied by their performance than seriously threatened in the aftermath of the fight)
Speed: Speed of Light Reactions and Combat Speed (Should be comparable to Plasma, a notably weak demon who can attack using electromagnetic waves) | Immeasurable Reactions and Combat Speed | Immeasurable Reactions and Combat Speed | Immeasurable Reactions and Combat Speed
Lifting Strength: Superhuman (Can utilize weapons wielded by mythical gods and demons that vastly tower over the average person)
Striking Strength: Country level | Low Complex Multiverse level | Outerverse level | Outerverse level
Durability: Country level | Low Complex Multiverse level | Outerverse level | Outerverse level (Endured an extended battle against Stephen, who was fighting at full power by his own admission)
Stamina: Superhuman
Range: Extended Melee Range, likely Tens of Meters with firearms; up to Country-wide with Demons | Same as before; up to Low Complex Multiversal with Demons | Same as before; up to Outerversal with Demons
Standard Equipment: His COMP, as well as a variety of weapons, armory and support items.
Intelligence: In spite of his ordinary background and lack of prior experience in combat, the Hero eventually grew to become an extremely powerful warrior, more than making up for his inability to use magic with his mastery of swordsmanship and firearms which allowed him to engage in even combat against various gods and demons of myth, including the likes of Vishnu, Ravana and the Four Cardinal Archangels that act as the leaders of the armies of Heaven. Like the other protagonists of the Shin Megami Tensei series, he also seems to be a competent leader, being able to easily lead groups of demons and direct their actions in battle while locked in combat himself, and having eventually assisted in the reconstruction of civilization after the Great Flood that wiped out most of mankind.
Weaknesses: Observation is a phenomenon that happens entirely on the unconscious level and is intimately tied to his own beliefs, thoughts and subjective experiences, and thus its full applications, although vast, are not something that are able to be freely utilized in battle.
==Notable Matchups==
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