Kwai Chang Caine

==Summary==
Kwai Chang Caine is a Shaolin priest who travelled the American west in the 19th century. Though he is a man of peace, Caine frequently found himself in situations which he solved through wisdom first and contention last.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: 
Name: Kwai Chang Caine (虔官昌/Qián Guānchāng), Grasshopper, Long Drink of Silence (Native American name), Spirit Helper
Origin: Kung Fu (1972)
Gender: Male
Age: 30s
Classification: Human, Martial Artist
Powers and Abilities:
*Superhuman Physical Characteristics (Shaolin priests learn to make powerful the force of their bodies)
*Enhanced Senses (Heard Peter loading his repeater rifle, heard two men leading animals and knew they were not horses, taught Peter to heighten his senses, saw a hidden bounty hunter, taught a blind priest how to rely on his remaining senses, heard a horse arriving,Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 4, "An Eye for an Eye" defeated a wrestler even when temporarily blinded by mud, he said his eyes "look far and near" and he heard a little girl in an office while he was in a jail cell because even though she did not make any noise, he said "to a flea, even the sound of a grasshopper is like thunder", he gave accurate descriptions of four bandits after only briefly seeing them, he practiced archery in the dark and he distinguished the sound of a coyote prowling and a man outside,Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 11, "A Praying Mantis Kills" remembered a gunman's appearance even when his vision was blurred and it was very dark, knew a man was lying because of his perspiration and could tell a man was hiding a stolen altar plate under his shirt, heard a man loading his rifle on a rooftop,Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 15, "Ancient Warrior" fought two men even when his vision was blurred from poisoning, he was able to sense a ninja hidden in the trees and later sensed the same assassin approaching from behind, sensed a man throw an axe at him from behind, defeated three swordsmen while blindfolded,Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 8, "The Soldier" he kicked the gun from a man's hand behind him)
*Master of Kung Fu (Caine is a former disciple of the Shaolin Temple, he is able to defend himself against multiple attackers, and he can fight with his hands and feet restrained, a man exaggerated that he "fights like 10 tigers" and he defeated a Manchu agent, who had been training since he was six years old, took down a man who took four men to imprison him. he defeated a capoeirista who he described as a very skillful fighter, he fought off two men even while he was poisoned, he contended with a ninja assassin, a military captain said he was "a first-class fighting man", he overcame two men who were described as "fierce fighters," a tong leader referred him as "a magician" and a tong hatchet man said priests of the Shaolin order are possessed of great fighting skill, got the best of five armed men, he defeated several armed men even while he was healing from a gunshot wound to the head)
*Weapon Mastery (Trained to fight with a staff, a spear, knows how to use an axe and pickaxe, and he is a skilled archer. He can improvise weapons, such as sticks, logs, and a crowbar.)
*Stealth Mastery (Caine snuck up on Peter, it is said that a Shaolin priest can "walk through walls," his training included walking softly across rice paper without tearing it, so his steps would not be heard, and he snuck up on a sleeping group of enemies with a watchman, hid from law enforcement even while suffering from a gunshot wound, snuck up on a soldier, disappeared from a man hunting him, ambushed bandits, hid from law enforcement even while he was poisoned, possibly his greatest feat of stealth is infiltrating a military fort and restraining four thieves and he hid from imperial police, a man said he did not hear a thing when Caine snuck up on him and he systematically took out three different gunmen, he infiltrated an enemy's camp to rescue a woman although he was caught, he evaded an Army patrol, escaped a jail cell)
*Acrobatics (Caine can perform jumping kicks,Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 5, "The Tide"Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 13, "The Stone" easily rolled off getting kicked onto his back and performed a diving roll, easily walked across a narrow beam, avoided a man swinging a chain at him, jumped and rolled off a falling ladder and acrobatically avoided a man swinging three 57-inch chains at him, swung from a chandelier to kick two men)
*Animal Manipulation (Caine was a skilled horseman as a child,Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 9, "The Salamander" he can handle a horse and easily tamed oneKung Fu Season 1 Episode 6, "The Soul is the Warrior" and he is able to calm two simultaneously after they were startled by gunfire, he can walk among wide-back Malapai rattlesnakes by being one with nature, he can tell when an animal is in pain by sound alone, and helped a horse stay still during labor,Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 7, "Nine Lives" tamed another horse, at one point he had a job at a livery stable)
*Healing (Caine said he has knowledge of healing,Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 10, "The Hoots" such as how to deliver a baby, he has knowledge of healing herbs,Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 9, "Chains" he can find food in the wilderness, he keeps a remedy for poison in his pouch, when a man's arm was at risk of being amputated, he recognized he was hit with a poison-tipped shuriken and used herbs from his pouch to save his arm, and he successfully treated a infant with a fever; villagers believed he was a witch for his healing powers, he can treat gunshot wounds, he keeps parethea in his medicine pouch for scab wounds, he stated that he often plays music to heal the wounds of loneliness, he put a poultice on a man's head wound to save his life)
*Purification (Caine meditates to cleanse his mind of impurities and disturbances and bring inner peace and his master Kan explicitly stated that their law of the fast seeks to strengthen the spirit by purifying the body)Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 13, "Empty Pages of a Dead Book"
*Supernatural Willpower (Caine does not fear death and a man said there is no fear in him, everyone in a village was afraid of a witch, except him, a tong leader said he is a man of courage)
*Resistance to Magic (Caine broke the power of a witch's spell by allowing no evil to pass through him)
Attack Potency: Wall level (Caine's wanted poster described him as dangerous and that his hands and feet must be considered deadly weapons, Shaolin priests make every finger a dagger, every arm a spear, and every open hand an axe or sword, a tong leader said he is a man of strength and said his power is great)
Speed: Athletic Human with Peak Human combat speed (Caine's training included dodging and blocking spears thrown at him, snatched a pebble from Master Kan's hand as a test, evaded gunfire from Peter with his repeater rifle, he is able to dodge, block and even catch arrows, avoided horses charging at him and blocked another spear thrown at him, dodged a knife thrown at him, can quickly seize a man's wrist before he could shoot him, defeated five men in five seconds, dove out of a collapsing mineshaft, kicked a man before he could pull the trigger on another man and kicked that same man before he could pull the trigger on him, repeatedly avoided a man swinging a scythe at him, quickly kicked a revolver from a man's hand and exited the room before a second man could train his sights on him, dodged shuriken thrown at him by a ninja and avoided slashes from his sword, stopped a man from firing a Gatling gun and avoided the same man swinging three 57-inch chains at him, caught a lasso attempted to be thrown at him and kicked a revolver from a man's hand, dodged a pitchfork thrust at him and a sickle swung at him, kicked a revolver from a man's hand before he could shoot another man,Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 5, "The Squaw Man" avoided a man swinging a knife at him, deflected an axe thrown at him from behind, dodged a pickaxe swung at him, dodged a knife thrown at him, dodged a chair swung at him, in front of a man to catch a knife thrown at him and a man said he had "the fastest hands")
Lifting Strength: Above Average Human, possibly Athletic Human (Caine lifted a cauldron with his forearms to signify his graduation from the Shaolin Temple, with it weighing hundreds of pounds. A man said he is "stronger than most." He threw a man through a wall and into a table, threw another man through a window and a fence,Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 3, "Blood Brother" snapped a saber in two with his bare hands, lifted a man on his shoulders and threw him, and threw another man by his wrists, overcame a large wrestler and lifted him by his leg with one hand; the wrestler was said to be able to wrestle anything from a grizzly bear to a redwood tree, and he pulled himself up out of a well even with another man wrapped around his neck, can carry a man on his shoulderKung Fu Season 1 Episode 14, "The Third Man" even while dragging another man with his free hand, he was able to string a large bow that no one else could and pull back the tension which bigger men could not, he lifted heavy rocks in a silver mine with ease, pulled a man and child out of quicksand, lifted another man on his shoulders and threw him, pulled a man off his feet with a crowbar, lifted a wagon wheel off a woman, pulled a man off his steed by his lasso and others with his bare hands,Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 4, "El Brujo" two men were unable to move him by his arms and a boy said he "threw them through the air like kites of paper", he restrained a man by pinching where his neck met his shoulder and pushed a wheelbarrow full of heavy rocks, snapped a rope with his bare hands, a larger man was unable to beat his grip strength and he threw him over his shoulders and he lifted a man off his feet by his legs)Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 11, "The Elixir"
Striking Strength: Wall level (Easily broke boards with his arms, his strikes can extinguish the flames of candles without touching them, broke a pitchfork with a kick, kicked a fully grown man several feet away, kicked a man off his feet and onto a table,Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 8, "Sun and Cloud Shadow" broke a chair with his forearms, chopped thick branches off trees with an open hand, broke a man's leg with a single kick, stopped a running man with a clothesline, knocked a man down with a single palm strike, broke a pickaxe handle with his forearm, broke a jail cell lock with a kick)
Durability: Wall level (Blocked a soldier striking him with a pot and was unfazed by another soldier breaking a chair over him, survived getting shot in his side at point-blank range by a sheriff with his revolver, he was unfazed by getting whipped, a man broke a wooden plank over his arms, unfazed by getting caught on fire, he is resistant to cold temperatures and extreme heat, survived getting shot by a man with a rifle, passing it off as only a scab wound,Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 6, "The Spirit-Helper" a tong hatchet man said his hands are made of iron and he temporarily walked off getting shot in the back with a silver arrow, he survived a bullet grazing his head)
Stamina: Peak Human, possibly Superhuman (Caine has a high tolerance for pain, which allowed him to brand his forearms by lifting a cauldron filled with hot coals to signify his graduation from the Shaolin Temple. He walks the earth with no horse. Amy Allender said he does not ever seem to get tired,Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 1, "King of the Mountain" he once went 10 days without food or water.Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 2, "Dark Angel" When he was 12, a magician taught him to hold his breath underwater for so long that people watching would believe that he could never surface alive. A man commended his labor in a silver mine and another man told him to slow down to not show any anybody up, spent four days in a box of iron with extreme heat during the day and extreme cold during the night, carried a man on his back for miles, kept walking even while he was poisoned and had the strength to fight off two men,Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 1, "The Well" he jogged alongside horses while restrained and endured a revolver's bullet grazing his neck, he was unfazed by a man slashing his palm with a broken bottle)
Range: Standard Melee Range, higher with weapons
Standard Equipment: None
Intelligence: Above Average (Caine was raised in the Shaolin Temple and became familiar with eastern philosophy. A tong leader said he is a man of great learning. He speaks fluent English and CantoneseKung Fu Season 2 Episode 7, "The Tong" and knows some Greek. Men sought his wise guidance, one man said he was smartKung Fu Season 1 Episode 12, "Superstition" and another man said he has a nice eye for detail. He can escape from restraints. He is well-read and was able to fix a mandolin without tools.Kung Fu Season 1 Episode 10, "Alethea" He can play an unidentified instrument, a bamboo fluteKung Fu Season 2 Episode 2, "The Assassin"Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 3, "The Chalice"Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 11, "The Gunman"Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 14, "A Dream Within a Dream" (and he made another from a willow tree) and the piano.)
Standard Tactics: None notable.
Weaknesses: Standard human weaknesses. Caine is afraid of failure, guns, and hatred.
Notable Attacks/Techniques: Crane Style Kung Fu, Snake Style Kung Fu, Mantis Style Kung Fu, Tiger Style Kung Fu, Dragon Style Kung Fu
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