Crush

> Yaaaaaaaaaaaagh!
>
> - One of Crush's many battle cries

**Crush** is the Stand of Heavy Guy.

It is one of the very first stands that are introduced and the most frequently seen in the series.

## Appearance

Crush is a humanoid Stand that strives for battle, possessing a physique similar to a Heavy class mercenary. His eye color is turquoise instead of the usual blue.

Crush's appearance shares similarities to the warriors who were a part of the Aztec empire: his head is protected by an Aztec-inspired helmet, ornamented with feathers; the face has a nose-ring, and beard; the body is dressed accordingly to the theme and sandals are worn over his bare feet.

During a very specific situation where its stand user is going through a certain psychological threshold of pure rage, Crush's appearance becomes disturbing: his face is covered by what appears to be a demonic mask, akin to an Oni; and long red glowing hair now protrudes from his head.

## Personality

He is silent, except when fighting, during which he shouts battle cries, such as "*POW!*", "*BOOM!*" and "*YAGH!*" when punching, or screaming "*ZARARARA!*" loudly and repeatedly when using his barrage attack.

Crush's facial expressions are rather locked in a serious and stern look when in a neutral state. His face can change as evidenced by his attacks, sporting a much more aggressive look and shouting battle cries depending on the kind of attack. His face will also change when in certain emotional states such as pain, surprise and disappointment.

It has been observed on rare occasions that Crush can even express happiness, such as during his fights with the masked Spy and American Myth.

## Abilities

Crush is a close-range Stand with a short reach of approximately 3 meters from Heavy Guy's body, but compensates this by having remarkable prowess in terms of strength, speed, and precision. Like most stands with potential, Crush grows in strength and other attributes when Heavy Guy learns with experience.

* **Physical Prowess**

As the name implies, Crush's physical strength is his specialty as a close-range stand. His strength can be used in many ways, from simple but powerful and often lethal punches, to barrage attacks.

* **Punches**

Simple in design but effective in execution, Crush's punches are relatively quick but are not considered his quickest attack as they need a wind up. The punches are powerful enough to break the sound barrier, cause slight tremors to the surrounding environment and have enough force to physically affect it, such as extinguishing a flame akin to an air blast.

A single punch is enough to kill or at least severely wound a target, depending on the hit region.

* **Jab**

Punch jabs are Crush's fastest attack, nearly landing a hit in less than half a second, but with less power. The power of jabs depend on the range: in close-range they can still kill a target, such as in EP:04 where a Distorted Sniper rushed Heavy Guy.

* **Barrage**

The punching barrages are Crush's iconic attack, dealing dozens of lighting fast punches per second. The barrage is often used as more of a suppressing tool for bigger and heavier targets as it leaves Crush stood still. However, it is still effective at taking out targets, but is somewhat disregarded for ones that are alone when one single punch can be enough to take them out.

* **The Haymaker**

The Haymaker is Heavy Guy's trump card. By using Crush's strength, he can charge and channel it through his fists, allowing them to deal with the toughest enemies. The attack is a guaranteed critical hit. This combined with Crush's powerful attacks will allow Heavy Guy to deal devastating damage, enough for a Slam to explode.

* **Super Speed**

Crush boasts phenomenal speed. This trait is most often shown during Crush's jab attacks, where the target does not react in time before realizing they were hit, often when its too late.

Crush was able to intercept a Scorch Shot flare fired from close range and successfully maneuvered around American Myth’s bullets in Defense Stance.

* **Defense Stance**

Crush trades his great offense power for a more defensive approach: he concentrates intensely on the target with a stance similar to of a bear's attacking posture. During this state, Crush's reaction time shortens significantly, allowing him to dodge projectiles with ease.

This defense is almost impenetrable but requires intense concentration, leaving Crush and Heavy Guy vulnerable to surprise attacks.

* **Demonic Form**

When its stand user goes through a big psychological threshold of pure rage, Crush's appearance becomes more demonic, but is now only partially manifested. It is unknown if this is a different stand or a variation of Crush itself, or if it even changes abilities during this form.

* **Retaliation Orbs**

In Episode 6, Crush unlocked a new ability when Heavy Guy awoke his true potential, focused on defense and a way to deal with its main weakness of having a short range: retaliation orbs. These orbs are made of pure Australium, and thus they can never be fractured or destroyed by sources of damage.

The retaliation orbs absorb any source of trauma damage, such as bullets; blunt force; and sharp objects, and deflect it back towards the attacker with amplified damage. The deflected projectile can be lethal, but it is not always the case.

Crush can choose not to deflect the damage but merely absorb it instead, allowing him to channel the power of the orbs towards his next punch, amplifying the power of it to overwhelming degrees depending on the amount of charged orbs. The more orbs there are, the higher the damage.

The power of five absorbed orbs, along with the special Haymaker attack and embedded fire damage from Switcheroo’s ability allowed Crush to destroy a Bulwark in a single punch, albeit the latter was somewhat incapacitated from the previous fire embedded Punch Barrage.

## Gallery

Crush's IntrocardIn Heavy Guy's fight with the Masked SpyIn a teaser for EP4Crush as he is presented to KIA by Heavy Guy

## Trivia

* Crush is in some degree inspired by Star Platinum;
* Crush's demonic form shares resemblances to Yuujiro Hanma, from Baki the Grappler.
	+ The long red hair and the demonic face are some of Yuujiro's most recognized traits.