Zangetsu (Final Fantasy)

==Summary==
Zangetsu is one of Edge's disciples and one of the protagonists of Final Fantasy IV: The after years. During a stealth mission to figure out what's going on in the world, he notices the Tower of Babil glowing. He goes to investigate it and helps his King, and learns that they're in a mmiddle of a massive war that would decide the fate of the entire planet.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: At least , likely 
Name: Zangetsu
Origin: Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Classification: Eblana Ninja
Powers and Abilities: 
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|-|Abilities=Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Regeneration Negation (Mid-Godly) and Immortality Negation (Types 3, 4, 6, 7, and 9; Is capable of killing undeads and beings who resurrect in Mount Ordeals. Additionally, destroyed Scarmiglione whose true power manifests by coming back as an undead after death. Is even capable of permanently killing the Leshy creature, which can live on via possessing another corpse.Final Fantasy IV Settings Guidebook Is also capable of killing beings who are blessed with the Crystals, who grant these immortalities and regeneration abilities), Stealth Mastery (is an Eblana Ninja, who excels at stealth), Magic (Ninjutsu is stated to be very similar to Magic to the point it operates on the same principlesFinal Fantasy IV Settings Guidebook), Subjective Reality (Magic,Final Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 1, page 29 in its basest form,Final Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 3, page 107 is projecting one's innerFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 2, page 109 mind onto realityFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years, and is powered by intelligence and mental strength), Non-Physical Interaction (Magic as a whole is shown to affect a wide variety of different beings, from intangible/immaterial beings to non corporeal beings, to abstract concepts like Chronodia, who's the flow of time itselfFinal Fantasy I, to Nonexistent beings like Exdeath and Cloud of Darkness), Law Manipulation (Magic is stated to rewrite the natural order of thingsFinal Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 5, page 198), Limited Durability Negation, Forcefield Negation, and Intangibility (Magic negates conventional physical durability, barriers, and armor, requiring specific defense against magic which is powered by the Mind and Spirit), Power Modification (Including Duplication, Fusionism, Statistics Amplification, Size Manipulation, Homing Attack, Danmaku, Aura, Breath Attack, and Energy Manipulation; Magic users across the games have consistently shown the ability to manipulate the shape and properties of their own magical abilities, with even higher tiers of spells simply being considered stronger versions of the same basic abilityFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 2 page 114), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 2), and Space-Time Manipulation (Magic is shown in the novels to remove concepts and warp space and time itself, like the Devil's road, which the concept of time was lost,Final Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 5, page 199 and time and space were twisted to the pointFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 1, page 67 the past, present and futureFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 1, page 73 existed as oneFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 3, page 147), Darkness Manipulation and Perception Manipulation (Can inflict Blind on his targets with Flash, which would render the target blindFinal Fantasy V GBA Manual), Status Effect Inducement (via Shadowbind), Electricity Manipulation and Pain Manipulation (Lightning abilities are capable of attacking the nervesFinal Fantasy IV Volume 2 Novel, chapter 7, page 54), Water Manipulation (can cast Flood with Triton's dagger), Fire Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, and Matter Manipulation (Sub-Atomic; Is capable of using Ice and Fire weapons, which is capable of affecting thetarget's electrons), Forcefield Creation (can use Murasame to cast Protect on himself), Gravity Manipulation (can cast Haste via Masamune, the Haste spell is stated to control gravity), Illusion Creation and Afterimage Creation (via Mutsunokami's Blink ability), Power Nullification (Can render one's powers null with Silence), Absorption and Blood Manipulation (via Blood lance), Holy Manipulation (via Holy Lance)
|-|Resistance=Resistant to the Following: Subjective Reality, Magic, Conceptual Manipulation (Type 2), and Space-Time Manipulation (Characters are capable of surviving and resisting magical abilities, Which isFinal Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 1, page 29 shown toFinal Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 3, page 107 project one's innerFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel chapter 3, page 109 mind onto realityFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years, and as shown with the creation of the Devil's roadFinal Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 5, page 198, remove entire conceptsFinal Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 5, page 199 and warp space and timeFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 1, page 67 to where the past, present, and futureFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 1, page 73 exists as oneFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 3, page 147), Law Manipulation (Resists magic, which can rewriteFinal Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 1, page 29 the natural order of thingsFinal Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 5, page 198), Gravity Manipulation (Unaffected by the gravitational pull of the True Moon, which even the Lunar Whale couldn't escape fromFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years), Disease Manipulation (Can remain in the Impact Crater for extended periods of time despite its presence rotting the landFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 2, page 83 and making it diseased), Spatial Manipulation, Deconstruction, and BFR (Can withstand the attacks of Atomos, who manipulates space, Dissidia Final Fantasy, ), Life Manipulation, Absorption (Can cross the Devil's Road without their life force being drainedFinal Fantasy IV), Extreme Heat (Can fight for extended periods in the lava-filled chasms of the underworld), Extreme Cold and Cosmic Radiations (Can fight and survive on the moon), Absolute Zero (Can survive Lunar Shiva's ice attacks, including Diamond Dust), Hellfire Manipulation (Can survive the heat and flames of Ifrit's hellfire), Age Manipulation (Can withstand the effects of the Lunar Mist Dragon's presence, which is capable of reverting Rydia to a child), Resistance Negation (Can resist the status ailments from the Lunar Summons, which can affect Zeromus despite him being resistant to these effects), Soul Manipulation (Is capable of resisting the ability of the Trap Door to being absorbed down to his very soul, on top of surviving the Devil's RoadFinal Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 4, page 195 which can rip apart one's soulFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 1, page 67, and can withstand Ifrit's Hellfire, which is stated to burn the soul awayFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 3, page 160), Possession and Necromancy (Is able to resist the effects of the Leshy's possession ability regardless if he's dead), Empathic Manipulation, and Madness Manipulation (Type 3; Resistant to the effects of the True Moon, which is capable of affecting the hearts and minds of all living beings on the planet), Curse Manipulation, Void Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Biological Manipulation, Time Stop, Statistics Reduction, and Corruption (Type 2; Is shown to withstand the effects of the Darkness from Final Fantasy III more than once, which is shown to have these abilities), Regeneration Negation (High-Godly) and Immortality Negation (Type 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8; Is capable of withstanding hits from numerous foes blessed by the crystals and is still capable of healing from his wounds and not lose his immortality), Darkness Manipulation and Perception Manipulation (Can resist the darkness status ailment via various equipment, which would render the target blindFinal Fantasy V GBA Manual), Power Nullification (Can resist the Silence status, which would render the target's ability to use magic null), Electricity Manipulation and Pain Manipulation (Is able to resist the Lightning spells, which is capable of attacking the nerves), Petrification (Can resist the petrification status effect), Death Manipulation and Blood Manipulation (Can resist the Death spell, which is even stated to solidify the victim's blood), Attack Reflection (The Piercing Magic Augment allows the user to bypass reflect spells as a whole), Madness Manipulation (Type 2) and Morality Manipulation (Can resist the Confuse status ailment, which can drive the target to attack anyone, even their allies), Sleep Manipulation (Can resist the Sleep status effect), Paralysis Inducement (Can resist the Paralyze status effect), Fire Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, and Matter Manipulation (Sub-Atomic; Is capable of resisting the Fire and Ice spell in particular being capable of affecting the target's electrons), Poison Manipulation and Corrosion Inducement (Can resist the Poison status effect, which is also stated to corrode the target), Transmutation (can resist the Toad and Pig spell), Size Manipulation (Is able to resist the Mini spell)
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Attack Potency: At least Multi-Solar System level (Is capable of taking on the Creator. The Creator merely duplicating himself was enough to destroy his entire moon vessel,Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, epilogue, page 292 which is shown to have numerous stars, nebulaes, and black holes), likely Low Multiverse level (Is superior to the Four creatures of darkness from FF3, which could each fight the endgame Warriors of Light in a 1v4. is able to take on Gilgamesh and win)
Speed: Massively FTL+ (Can keep up with Gilgamesh)
Lifting Strength: Multi-Stellar (Is comparable to the Creator, who's able to carry his entire moon on his own, which is shown to have numerous star clusters inside)
Striking Strength: Multi-Solar System level, likely Low Multiversal
Durability: At least Multi-Solar System level, likely Low Multiversal (Withstood the attacks of The Creator and Gilgamesh)
Stamina: Very high; can regularly fight through entire gauntlets of monsters without tiring and managed to get back up after being knocked unconscious by the Creator after hearing the prayers of her friends and family.
Range: Extended Melee Range with melee weapons; Tens of Meters with a boomerang. Multiversal+ with magic (Magic as a whole is shown to affect omnipresent beings such as Exdeath when he's become one with the Void itself, which spans across the entire Final Fantasy Multiverse)
Standard Equipment: A wide variety of Staves, Rods, Daggers, Whips, Bows and Arrows, with a wide variety of innate abilities; a vast array of different armors and equipment that grants enhanced resistances to elemental attacks and status ailments; and a wide collection of items that can boost the user, recover their abilities in a wide variety of ways, and inflict numerous status ailments on their targets. A Crystal
Intelligence: Gifted. Zangetsu is one of Edge's best disciples, being able to do covert operations with no one noticing him, nd is able to work in Unison with his team and his king to do complicated ninjutsu moves.
Weaknesses: None notable.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
*Shock/Blitz: Zangetsu casts a lightning Ninjutsu to attack his foes.
*Flash: Zangetsu renders his targets blind with a Ninjutsu spell.
*Shadowbind: Zangetsu freezes his target in place with their shadow.
==Notable Matchups==
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==References==
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