Monster King

**Name**: Monster King

**Species**: Unknown

**Homeworld**: Unknown

**Appearance**: Monster King is a large and ominous-looking monster who is mostly humanoid. He has several large spikes pointing upwards above his head, cracked skin, empty eyes, and multiple sets of pointy teeth inside his mouth. His shoulders, wrists, and fingers have the appearance of monstrous snakeheads with pointy teeth, with the latter ending in large claws. His knees have the appearance of snake skulls and his clothing consisted of a large cape connected to a circular, veiny joint in the center of his chest and a piece of cloth covering his lap. He also has a long, spiky tail. During his fight with Ben, it is revealed that his body is actually made up of a multitude of smaller, serpent-like dragons, similar to how muscles wrap around the human body. His horns also grew into a crazed head of "hair," more like tentacles. He unravels his body into a mass of writhing dragons, mouths, and claws, and back again, and in this form his cape transformed into a fiery veil around his torso. He appeared to have great control over his shape in that form, taking on a humanoid stance against Ben but climbing up to meet Saitama as a great mass of dragons and fire with no humanoid shape to speak of. Monster King's true form is exposed after taking off his mask. He has a dark face, and large and round eyes. His body appears like a long serpentine with several serpent-like dragons all over it, having multiple legs across his body that make him somewhat resemble a centipede. The Omnitrix is on his chest.

**Powers and Abilities**:

**Metamorphosis**: Monster King's main and most terrifying ability is to change the shape of his body at will. He can shift to and from his humanoid and more monstrous appearances, revealing his "released form" while unraveling his bipedal appearance into a nest of monstrous dragon-like protrusions all along his body. There are nested mouths in place of his face and head while his limbs transformed into dragon-headed coils with their own appendages and extremities. When he wants to fight with his full capabilities, Monster-King removes his mask and shifts into his true form. After his body is nearly destroyed by Ben, he is still able to manipulate and transform the bits of his flesh around the headquarters.

**Elasticity**: Monster-King is able to stretch and deform his physical shape like taffy whether in his concealed or natural forms. He can stretch his arms a good distance away, and snap it back like a rubber band afterward.

**Shapeshifting**: On top of transforming his limbs into dragon-like worms, Monster-King can make his coils sheathe and project tooth-like protrusions to act as his fingernails, indicating that he has some form of transformation capacity beyond just mode shifting. He has gotten larger from his initial monster form back when he first transformed, suggesting some control over his size.

**Tendril Generation**: Monster-King can unravel his body into a nest of dragon-headed tendrils with their own faces, claws, and fangs that they can use to bite and scratch. After learning an enemy's fighting style, he can also use their skills in conjunction with his serpentine limbs.

**Horn Manipulation**: Monster-King can extend his horns over long distances. They are incredibly heavy yet able to change and alternate their trajectory very quickly. Nightwing's drone was destroyed by a single strike from his horn.

**Monster Cell Generation**: While the process has never been shown, Monster-King is able to generate Monster Cells with his body. The Monster Cells are harvested from Monster-King and then nurtured using a large machine in an unknown base. Because he is the source of the cells, he can create as many Mysterious Beings as he wants.

**Fire Manipulation**: Monster-King can breathe fire from his mouth and from all of the dragons over his body. The intensity of his flames prompted Gwen to create a barrier to protect herself, and the flames are ejected from his dragons' mouths so quickly that they appear like beams of glowing energy. The fire is powerful enough to melt and explode the stone environment surrounding him. Had she not protected himself, the fire would have burned her to death. When he transformed during his fight with Ben, his dragons also changed shape and became completely enveloped in flames.

**Molecular Acceleration**: The heat emitted from the Monster King's is so intense that anything eviscerated by his dragon fire not only melts into slag, but violently combusts a few seconds after contact with a solid substance.

**Absorption**: Monster King's body can absorb other organisms that touch him as well as lash out with tentacles to grab at other creatures and pull them into his mass.

**Energy Absorption**: Monster King is also capable of pulling up energy directly from the Earth's core. He is seen using this by sticking his tail into the Earth. This ability is so powerful that it creates an earthquake throughout the entire planet and volcanoes all around the planet erupt as the energy from the Earth is being pulled. After gathering enough, he compresses the energy into his body and prepares an extremely powerful attack named Gaia Cannon.

**Regeneration**: Using the blood of absorbed creatures, he can regenerate his body from the brink of death. However, he is only shown to be able to regenerate starting from his heart.

**Fusion**: If Monster King absorbs an esper of sufficient power, the esper can suppress Monster King's control and take over their fused body, although Monster King still retains a degree of control due to his immense power. This then tremendously amplifies the esper's abilities.

**Energy Projection**: Monster-King has the ability to project large blasts of energy, usually via his dragons. His energy beams are also strong enough to slightly penetrate through Emma's defenses, slightly tearing and singeing her dress.

**Immense Strength**: While the depths of Monster-King's strength have not been shown, Monster-King demonstrated amazing physical strength, as evidenced when his horn pierced through one of Doctor Doom's robots while its arms were raised in defense, going through its entire body with apparent ease and tremendous speed. Given the eerie tone Doctor Doom spoke in when describing the events, this is no minor feat. He defeated Kevin in combat, and even after Kevin became absorbed all of the Aliens in the Omnitrix, he deemed Monster-King as his superior. During his fight with XLR8, Monster-King was able to casually restrain him within his hands, and force his way past his guard with pure strength, while still holding back.

**Immense Speed and Reflexes**: Monster-King is able to strike Doctor Doom's robot with his horn so quickly that its self destruction mechanism was broken before it could even activate. Spider-Man was also not able to react to Monster-King's attack despite having the sixth sense, although he had previously lost his legs. In his fight with XLR8, he was capable of easily following his high-speed movements while he was weakened.

**Immense Durability**: Monster-King is shown to receive no damage from his fights against Superman or Thor. After setting his own cloak on fire, Monster-King is able to wear the flaming garments for an extended period of time with no apparent difficulty. After his fight with Superboy, he is able to stay alive and remain conscious despite having the majority of his body blown to pieces by him.

**Endless Growth**: Monster-King's voracious appetite contributes to his progression cycle. By eating other Mysterious Beings the Monster King gains both in size and power according to Batman/Ironman.

**Weakness**: