Exceed

Exceed redirects here. For the 26th ending theme, see Exceed (Ending).
Exceed (エクシード Ekushīdo) are a race of cat-like beings that existed in Edolas as far back as 100 years prior to the main storyline.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 173, Page 9 Due to Mystogan's Reverse Anima, the entire race was transferred to Earth Land.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 197, Pages 11-12 It was later revealed that the Exceed race also exists in Elentear.
==Edolas==
===Importance===
The Exceed used to see themselves as divine rulers of the humans, guiding them according to the will of their queen, before they found out how weak they really were.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 176, Pages 11-13 The humans of Edolas generally hold them in high regard, as seen when Erza Knightwalker and a group of soldiers bowed to Happy and Carla upon their return home (not knowing at that time that the two were allied with the Earth Land Mages).Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 175, Pages 17-18 Presumably, this is due to the fact that they are the only beings in Edolas whose Magic is located inside of their bodies, just like the Mages of Earth Land.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 178, Page 2
Due to this reverence, the Exceed see themselves as angelic beings and above humans in general -- Their ruler, Queen Shagotte, is considered as the God of Edolas.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 178, Page 4 However, the only spell they can perform is Aera and, as Byro said, the limited Magic of the Exceed cannot compare with that of Earth Land's Mages. This created strife when they learned that Lucy Heartfilia was in Edolas and could still use Magic, thus threatening the Exceed's power. As a result, their queen gave direct orders for the young Mage to be executedFairy Tail Manga: Chapter 178, Pages 2-3 (orders which were revealed to have been fabricated by corrupt humans).Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 188, Page 15
However, it seems that the humans of Edolas do not truly wish to be led by the Exceed, as the king Faust's ultimate plan, Code ETD, shows.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 179, Pages 3-8 In sending the Lacrima containing Earth Land's Mages on a collision course with Extalia, Faust plans to unleash an unlimited amount of Magic Power to sustain his kingdom for all eternity—and by doing so, he has declared war on the Exceed race.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 180, Page 20
Apparently the Queen's God complex has even gone to her people's heads, as when Wendy Marvell and Carla try to warn them of their impending doom, they arrogantly disbelieve her and start throwing rocks at the "mere human" and "fallen angel".Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 186, Pages 2-7
However, everything, including the God Complex, the Queen's Magic Power, and governing the human race's death, were all just fabricated lies made up by the elders of Exceeds to protect their race. The Exceeds were a weak race that was often picked on by the humans. To protect their race, the Elders of the Exceed spread false information that the Exceed had many powers. This, in return, gave the Exceed more confidence to themselves while causing humans, even the skeptics, to fear the Exceed's godly power. The Exceed eventually added the Control of Human lives to their list of powers, but in truth they never had such power or wish to kill off any human. Shagotte was selected as the Queen because she had the ability to predict which human would die with perfect accuracy, and the Elders used that as evidence of the Exceed's power.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 188, Pages 14-15
After Team Natsu and company returned back to Earth Land, it was explained by the Elders and Shagotte that there was no mission to kill the Dragon Slayers. Carla has the same powers of prediction of the future as Shagotte due to being her daughter. The reason why the 100 Exceed eggs were sent to Earth Land was because Shagotte had a vision of Extalia crashing so she gathered 100 children from the Exceed and borrowed the human's Anima to transport them over. As not to start a widespread panic throughout the nation, the Elders said they sent them to Earth Land to assassinate the Dragon Slayers.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 198, Pages 6-8 After explaining this, the race of Exceed excluding Carla, Happy, and Panther Lily flew off to find the remaining children they sent over.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 198, Pages 14-16
===Mission===
One-hundred Exceed eggs, including Happy and Carla, were taken from their parents and sent to Earth Land on a mission to obliterate the Dragon Slayers. When Faust began using Anima to steal Magic Power from Earth Land, Queen Shagotte gave the Exceed in the field new orders: To capture the Dragon Slayers and bring them to Edolas. The Dragon Slayers would then be used to create a special type of Lacrima filled with Dragon Magic.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 176, Pages 14-17
Carla decides to abandon her mission to kill Wendy and brought her to Edolas without knowing that her mission had been changed to simply lure Wendy to Edolas. She becomes very distressed by the fact that she unknowingly betrayed Wendy and fulfilled her mission.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 176, Pages 18-19 Happy is unable to recall the details of his mission but refuses to be a puppet of the Exceed, making it clear that he and Carla are members of Fairy Tail first and Exceed second.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 176, Page 20 After this, they escape and are declared outlaws.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 177, Pages 2-4
This mission was later revealed to be a lie, due to the Queen's power she could see the events of the Edolas arc, and as such, she saw Extalia destroyed. So in order to keep the species alive, she sent 100 eggs to Earth Land to protect them, and lied about the mission to kill the Dragon Slayers to the other Exceed.
==Earth Land==
Some time after the destruction of Extalia and the Edolas Exceed's arrival on Earth Land, the Edolas Exceeds established a new homeFairy Tail Manga: Chapter 198, Page 13 somewhere in a forest within FioreFairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Manga: Chapter 49, Page 13 called the Exceed Village.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 363, Cover They also searched for the children that they sent in Earth Land 6 years priorFairy Tail Manga: Chapter 198, Page 11 and made a list of the names and keeping track of every Exceeds from Edolas.
==Elentear==
The Exceed race is one of the many native inhabitants within Elentear, as revealed by Touka.Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Manga: Chapter 67, Page 7
==Magic and Abilities==
Aera ( Ēra): All Exceeds inherently posses the Magic to sprout a pair of white feathered wings from their backs allowing them to fly and sore the skies even at great speeds. Exceeds appear to already be inept with this power the moment they're born.Fairy Tail Omake: Natsu and the Dragon Egg, Page 20
Battle Mode Shift (戦闘モードシフト Sentō Mōdo Shifuto): A special type of Transformation Magic only used by a small number of Exceeds, this grants the ability turn their bodies into a Human-sized, muscular version of themselves built for combat.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 201, Pages 10-11 This form can only stay active for a period of time while in Earth Land, making it difficult to manage.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 198, Page 18
Claws: Being a type of feline, Exceeds naturally possess retractable claws in their figures that can be used offensively.Fairy Tail Anime: Episode 136
==Known Exceeds==
Name 	Origin 	Status
Happy 	Born in Earth Land	Active
Carla 	Born in Earth Land	Active
Panther Lily	Extalia 	Active
Lector 	Extalia 	Active
Frosch 	Unknown 	Active
Nichiya 	Extalia 	Active
Nadi 	Extalia 	Active
Samuel 	Born in Earth Land	Active
Shagotte 	Extalia 	Active
Lucky 	Extalia 	Active
Marl 	Extalia 	Active
Belletokia 	Extalia 	Active
Clap 	Extalia 	Active
Gogotora 	Extalia 	Active
Kurubushi 	Extalia 	Active
Martam 	Extalia 	Active
Mejeer 	Extalia 	Active
Monmo 	Extalia 	Active
Muganto 	Extalia 	Active
Mysdroy 	Extalia 	Active
Salberay 	Extalia 	Active
Touka 	Elentear 	Active
==Trivia==
*It was said that Exceed perceive time differently compared to humans. According to Panther Lily, something as long as seven years would be considered insignificant by Exceeds.Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 256, Page 8
*In Hiro Mashima's succeeding series; Edens Zero, exits a cat-like alien race that resembles Exceeds which originate from a planet known as Excede.
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