Aku (Canon)/QuasarSpirit

*"Fool! Nothing of this world can harm me. For I am Aku, the Shogun of Sorrow, the Deliverer of Darkness, your new master. And you will bow to me.*

## Summary

The pantheons of old gods battled a great darkness to protect the universe and proved victorious but a small piece of it fell to Earthand developed into a creature known as Aku. Aku was sealed once by the emperor of Japan using divine weapons given by the gods, but Aku escaped and wreacked havoc across Japan. The emperor's son tried to take vengeance on Aku but was sent into the future where Aku has gained control of Earth and a massive multi-galactic empire. Aku serves as the primary antagonist of *Samurai Jack*.

## Powers and Stats

**Tier:** At least **Low 4-C** to **4-C**, possibly **Low 2-C**

**Name:** Aku, The Shogun of Sorrow, The Deliverer of Darkness, The Master of Masters, Ikra, The Hermit

**Origin:** Samurai Jack

**Gender:** Male

**Age:** At least millions of years old (Was the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs)

**Classification:** Demonic God-King

**Powers and Abilities:** Superhuman Physical Capacities, Potentially Abstract Existence (Likely Type 2 or 3, Has been stated to be the embodiment of evil), Elemental Intangibility (Aku's body is a non-solid that conventional weapons do not permenatly affect, has also taken the form of smoke before), Regeneration (Mid-High. Has regenerated from being turned to dust before), Self-Sustenance (Types 1 and 2), Immortality (Types 1 and 3), Body Control, Shapeshifting, and Size Manipulation (Can freely shift his body's mass around for disguises, taking various forms for combat, and altering size. Aku actually CAN take forms that have a different color scheme despite popular conception), Energy Projection (Can shoot beams of energy from his eyes), Flight, Fire Projection (Can breath and throw fire), Electricity Projection (Can mix fire and energy attacks to make lightning), Sound Manipulation (Creates an ultrasonic attack), Explosion Manipulation (Made Scaramouche's head explode with a glare), Enhanced sense of smell (Can smell blood and his own essence), can also sense presences, Absorption/Attack Reflection (can absorb and reflect projectiles), Magic/Curses (knows various dark magical abilities and curses), Clairvoyance (can view distant events), Necromancy, Minor Illusion Creation (Made a miniture Samurai Jack illusion in his hand), Limited Precognition (can see the future in his dreams), Telekinesis (can telekinetically move objects), Corruption (Created hypnotic rave music that turned the listeners evil, a small piece of him ingested orally can corrupt a person into becoming another Aku), Transmutation (turned 3 mountain sheep into monsters), Emotional Manipulation (can manifest one's inner hatred as a seperate evil entity), Duplication (his touch can turn enemies into smaller versions of himself), Weather Manipulation (has numerous weather manipulation feats), Crystal Manipulation/Sealing (caused it to rain treasure, trapped an enemy in an unbreakable crystal prison), Healing/Cloth Manipulation (Restored Scaramouche and his clothes), Resurrection (revived the titan Chronos), Summoning (can summon his minions to aid him), Teleportation (can teleport out of thin air), Time Manipulation/BFR (Sends Jack thousands of years into the future with a scream, can bfr opponents to the "pit of hate" with his eyebeams, and can open a cursed vortex where he is reality and which can travel through time), Sleep Manipulation (Can induce sleep), Creation (has created objects out of nothing such as treasure for the Ikamandi), Text Manipulation/Law Manipulation/Potential limited Conceptual Manipulation (attemped to literally strangle and restrain Jack and Scotsman with the laws)

**Attack Potency:** At least **Small Star level** to **Star level** (Aku was the leader of the "League of Extraordinary Villains" which treated Mojo Jojo as their weakest member, who scales to HIM. HIM extremely casually moved the Earth at relativistic speeds and to the powerpuff girls who defeated numerous super friends villains. These would scale to the super friends who survived within a black hole in the episode "The World's Deadliest Game" though the canonicity of this is unknown. Aku also considers the Eds powerless compared to him despite Eddy's ability to grab the sun and eat a chunk of it though the events of that episode may not have actually occured), possibly **Universe level+** (enslaved the Olympian pantheon including Zeus. Zeus was prior established to have beaten Cronos who controls all space and time. Considers the Eds powerless compared to him despite them breaking spacetime and reality, though again the events of the episode may not have actually occured.)

**Speed:** At least **MFTL+** (can travel interstellar distances in seconds and battled Vilgax numerous times who has flown between Vilgaxia and Earth), likely **Immeasurable** (Aku scales to the PPG and above the Eds. Both the PPG and the Eds have traveled through time via sheer speed alone. Snatched Jack out of a time portal after he was already traveling through time. Fought Jack as the two were inside of a time vortex traveling through time. **Omnipresent** within the cursed vortex (is all of reality inside the cursed vortex.)

**Lifting Strength:** **Varies** depending on form.

**Striking Strength:** At least **Small Star level** to **Star Level**, possibly **Universe level+** (Aku regularly hurts Jack with physical blows, who is his equal)

**Durability:** At least **Small Star level** to **Star level**, possibly **Universe Level+** to kill him(Claimed nothing of this world could harm him and required divine weaponry to harm him, consistent with regularly battling his equals). Much weaker weapons have gone through his form but this is more a function of his elemental intangibility rather then a weakness of his durability. Regen makes him difficult to kill.

**Stamina:** Unknown but likely very high

**Range:** At least **Planetary** (wiped the Earth of most life as the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Stole the water of the water planet of the Vadaquas by an unknown mean), possibly **Intergalactic** (The Vadaquas live in another galaxy)

**Standard Equipment:** Nothing notable

**Intelligence:** At least **Gifted.** Skilled mage and fighter. Good manipulator, having decieved Jack on numerous occasions and disguising himself to get close to Jack as well as exploiting Jack's character flaws and moments of weakness. Runs an intergalactic empire and is aware of the tropes of the series he's in.

**Weaknesses:** Divine weapons and powers, his reflection will show his true self

**Notable Attacks/Techniques:**

* **Shapeshifting:** Aku is the "shapeshifting master of darkness" and for both espionage and combat is very prone to rapidly switching between many forms varying between a rat, a dragon, humans both of sexes, a giant, a large scorpion, a ram, an amorphous mass and many more.
* **Magic:** Most of Aku's abilities are derived either from his natural biology like his shapeshifting and regeneration or by his knowledge of dark magic.