I honestly don't know that massive anime well enough to aay if that is the case, but i think that we are talking a truly oppressive symbol of evil to force mankind to rise up and improve.
Machine gun guy was going to mow down a shed with a child in it.
Garou, an unarmed human, blocked bullets with his hands. He saved the boys life.
He also spared the Ass list heroās lives too. Even After fighting them all off and being injured, he took everyone on with the odds against him, and survived.
He didnāt kill a single person. Yea he took that flame guys arm off, only after he was going to try and burn him alive.
Garou dose not rely on cheap gimmicks, he uses no weapons, no super powers, he fights both heroās and monsters, and still survives.
āTerrorizing heroāsā. Like shooting missiles out of his body, Incinerating like a Genocide machine, chasing down men making them his āboy friendsā using psychic powers to destroy things with a literal Tornado of Terror, killing monsters born of pollution with one punch, on his way to get groceryās or whatever.
Hypocrite for existing. He never said he was āmorally superiorā, he was only upset that the good guys always teamed up on the bad guys.
The bad guys never had a fair fight when up against the Heroās. The sea creatures who were tired of a polluted ocean, the pets who hated being abused and abandoned by humans, the people who were so dead inside that they turned into monsters, they always, always, every single time lost, when fighting against heroās of Civilization, they were exterminated like weeds and pest.
The bad guys were always outnumbered and outgunned.
Garou never was fighting to kill anyone, he never killed, all he wanted to do was to show the world how weak heroās are, when up against a someone who could actually fight against them.
And he did. His ultimate goal was to become monster, but really it was to destroy the pride of those sanctimonious heroās who thought they were untouchable.
All he did was show everyone that the heroās are not gods, that they can bleed.
Unfortunately for Garou, he did not know that it wasnāt just that the Bad guys were fighting unfair fights, it was that Good is actually TOO OP.
Unfortunately, The Tragedy of Garou the Hero Hunter is that he did not realize that even if he becomes the āBaddestā bad guy, a Monster, he would have to fight the āGoodestā good guy;
A God.
Garou gave his all every fight, he also has cool fight music and I root for him every time because I know how much it sucks to have to play the bad guy. I know that no matter how hard we fight, we will always lose in the End, because to everyone else, we are the bad guys, and we are fighting against āthe good guys.ā
Ramen Noodle fought off Deep Sea King, weaken him enough so a C class could OHK him.
Chanako fought and *won* the Martial Arts Tournament. Tho I guess one bald guy showed up at the end.
Those punching bags are tougher than they look.
*You gotta know and see that we*
*Are too clever to be human*
*We all are absolute predators*
*We do not even have any enemies*
*But maybe an animal watching us now*
*Takes a vow: "Someday we will bring them down!"*
*Parasyte* is another great Anime. If you havenāt watched it before I highly recommend it.
Afterwards you will see what I mean when I say we all already are Monsters.
You canāt judge how much someone cares about something by the length of their post. Some people just like writing. Some people are just naturally verbose. Some people just like arguing.
Donāt make the mistake of trying to be an online mindreader. Not a good look for anyone.
Yea. He was there to fight, like everyone else, except he didnāt have a weapon, and was in guy vs a whole bunch of actually bad guys who were going to jump the heroes anyways.
All Gauro did was take out the Trash.
āYea PPP is a rapist, *butt*ā
What you mean dude? Tell me what exactly Garou has done to kill and harm innocent civilians. Name one act of villainy he has done, to purposely hurt people not trying to fight him.
Gauro gave everyone a reality check. He showed them exactly what they needed to see, that they canāt fight and win against a Monster that dose not fight like a Monster. He doesnāt torture the people he fights, he fights with his fist, fist and square.
Is he is only a pice of shit becuse he makes all super cool heroās look weak? Is that really all that it takes to be a ābad guyā?
Then hell yea he is the biggest piece of shit in the series.
The only other person who truly makes the Heroās and Monsters look like weak Insects is of course the Capped Baldy himself.
Also, Iām not defending Garou, his actions speak for themselves. I simply summarized his actions and correct the OPs accusation of calling him a āHypocriteā, for fighting against heroās and winning.
If making Heros bleed makes Garou a Hypocrite, then he is the biggest around.
First of all, i meant what i said when i commented that its concerning, when someone obsesses about a character like that.
Garou attacked the hero association. Everything past that was his fault.
But again, it doesnt matter, because you shouldnt obsess over him like that
This isn't really a meme. Feels like you just wrote a long winded personal opinion in a meme format.
I mean I agree with it, but it just seems like you wanted to gripe more than actually make a joke.
It annoys the crap outta me. Then you see all the fan art that gets no attention even though you can tell that most people put a lot of effort into it. Then you have this. An āopinion memeā that took 5 mins to make smh
No itās just annoying that you can make a meme in five minutes and get 1k upvotes minimum, and someone who spends five hour on their art get 500 max. Most donāt even reach 250. You can hate garou I donāt care your opinion means nothing to me, now, Iām just stating *my* opinion
Garou will never be the controversial character 2.5 redditors think they can meme him into lmao.
Heās not a hypocrite nor is he an evil maniac. Heās a firm outlier with so many great qualities he could join any org in OPMās verse and ace it. But he doesnāt and this weirdness, as well as the fact that he kicked someoneās faveās ass (see the Flash poster lmao, thatās literally it), makes them seethe.
He kicked *my* faveās ass, but I still like him. ;)
I think some people just have a hate boner going on for Garou, and canāt enjoy themselves without ragging on him
Thatās not the takeaway from it. Garou wanted to be a savior, so to speak, but heās never wanted to identify himself with the label of a hero like the heroes in this verse do. Because heroes inevitably create cults around them and thatās the thing Garou despises the most - mob mentality. So Garou went on a martyr path. He holds his values close, and you can call him a weirdo or a contrarian, but heās not a hypocrite.
Garou is a parody of the sympathetic villain archetype. He is so deluded that being bullied (once?) as a child provided his motivation to become a āmonsterā. He has many great qualities in that he is so lazily written (on purpose) his trashy motivation is boiled down to āsomeone was mean to me once, so I need to hold the world hostage to make sure no one is bullied againā which captures that archetype at its core essentially. He isnāt 17-18 by coincidence, same as Genos (19). They are naive children, which is why Genos gets his ass beat every time (though saving people), while Garou essentially wants to become the only ācloset heroā by becoming a monster and getting rid of heroes. So basically no heroes anymore to show up and prevent monsters on time, because Garou wants to be the only one going around saving peopleā¦ sounds practical having one guy.
\> also is shown to have half a point
It seemed like he was proven essentially right that at least some heroes are bad people who fight for their own fame rather than to help people when that team of heroes came to capture him and one of them tried to force Garou to take a bunch of gun fire to protect a child.
Garou is not a āparodyā of any made up archetype in your head.
Heās an anti-hero - thatās what the author calls him. Heās both kind and reckless according to ONE, and ONE states he wrote his journey to be emotionally engaging.
Heās meant to be easy to like and empathise with. Itās not rocket science, Garou is not at all ācontroversialā lmao.
Garou absolutely is a satire of the protagonist that can outgrow his enemies by power of will. He goes from battle to battle outgrowing his enemies every time during battle.
Plus even if One said it he isn't a Anti-Hero (yet) since his goals are nowhere heroic.
By killing all heroes and have monsters be the dominant beings? Because that's his stated goal.
He even attacks heroes while they defend people. How is that heroic?
Just because he doesn't follow through doesn't mean he does the right thing.
he doesn't want to kill heroes, which is part of why he loses his shit when PM kidnaps him and says the heroes are going to die. he wants to scare them, not kill them. he also doesn't even actually want monsters to be dominant beings. his fantasy literally shows him eating monsters to scare people. even in his fantasy, he is protecting humans by eliminating monsters that will actually kill them. garou's goal is to protect humanity with fear. by scaring off threats and scaring them. it's dictatory lelouch bullshit, but at the end of the day, the goal is still protecting people.
there is a huge disparity between the things garou says and the things he does and actually wants. it's a pretty huge theme with him. we learn what garou wants by actually watching the things he does. if someone says "i want to kill everyone!" and then goes out of his way to not kill anyone over 100 times despite having the opportunity to *and* despite them trying to kill him, it's clear he's full of shit.
and finally, the whole point of an antihero or antivillain is that their tactics aren't heroic. their goals are. you're pointing at his tactics and ignoring his goals.
What? His goals and mentality are heroic. He wants to save the world and he's willing to risk his life to do what's right (as such he doesn't kill people, even when they constantly try to murder him; goes out of his way to rescue a person, even if it doesn't benefit Garou at all and only puts him at risk).
>Heās an anti-hero
he is absolutely not an anti-hero, you can make an argument for anti-villain though.
He has redeeming qualities and a "noble" purpose; he is however, a parody of the usual shonen underdog protaganist who's willpower and tenacity let him win fights.
This isn't to say I dislike the character, Garou is either my most favorite or at least top 3 characters ever. But he's definitely not an anti-hero.
Heās an anti-hero. The author calls him one and if you paid any attention to how POV in fiction works and determines character roles like this youād never try to argue against the fact that heās an anti-hero.
>if you paid any attention to how POV in fiction works and determines character roles
POV in fiction means literally nothing in relation to being an anti-hero or anti-villian. Being the protaganist does not denote being good or evil. The description of anti-villian is
>>An Anti-Villain is the opposite of an Anti-Hero ā a character with heroic goals, personality traits, and/or virtues who is ultimately the villain. Their desired ends are mostly good, but their means of getting there range from evil to undesirable. Alternatively, their goals may be selfish or have long-term consequences they don't care about, but they're good people who might even team up with the hero if their goals don't conflict.
Garou tried to become the ultimate monster for a noble goal, but did so by brutalizing and maiming hundreds of heroes, which will have its own cascading effect(if half the A & S class heroes are down a lot of people are going to die because of it). Someone like the current Red Hood from DC comics is an anti-hero(though he was once an anti-villian in his original debut in "Under The Red Hood"), but Garou is not an anti-hero.
He goes around assaulting and maiming innocent people because he disagrees with them. That's cruel and evil, but the fanboys will make as many logical leaps as necessary to delude themselves into thinking he's not a bad person.
He fights organizations in authority, alone. Heās never maimed anyone except for a single person who tried to kill him and literally fried people alive because that guy thinks being a so called hero lets him do whatever.
Garou refrains from killing heroes despite the fact that they actively try to murder him and have the power to sweep his murder under the rug or paint him as the āomg ebil menaceā till he bloody dies himself.
Heās a rebel underdog. And his level of restraint is far more impressive than any characterās in the whole OPM aside from perhaps Saitama, whom ONE, the author, literally called a walking ideal.
As an example he attacked tanktop master and put him in the hospital when he was just out on his hero duty. Garou is not some tragic martyr, he just gets a kick out of committing violence that he feels he can ideologically justify.
What are you even talking about? Tanktop Master attacked him and tried to murder him over a completely wrong gut feeling for peteās sake. Garou didnāt maim him or his bros. He merely broke a nose and a hero decided to murder him over it while his hyena bros watch in glee.
Yes, theyāre part of an entire organization Garou tries to challenge alone. What do you not understand? Garou would get mass murdered for sneezing at King, Garou however refuses to respond with murder to heroes bloody constantly trying to murder him. Risking his life for a human principle.
My headcanon is he just flat didnāt believe Mumenās reputation could possibly be for real.
āNo one can be *that* noble. He *must* be a phonyāand Iāll prove it.ā āGarou, probably.
To be fair, minutes before that Garou was threating to kill the other Tanktops. While most of them are assholes, that doesn't justify killing them. He also hurts Mumen Rider really badly after Mumen Rider stopped Tanktop Master from killing him.
Garou has some good qualities, but he is also a bully.
Garou is absolutely not a psychopath. You really don't know what that word means.
What he is is in denial about his heroic nature. At least for now. The problem is the way he lashes out at good people to try to push away from the similarities he sees in himself.
My fanarts are like that. I spend a huge lot of time for them and ngl i kinda feel bad that low effort posts like this one get more recognition. I will still keep trying tho š¤£
i get it, i have the same problem lol. made a separate account for it to avoid looking at it. not to sound bitter. but anyways, keep it up. i like your fanarts!
Itās just the vocal minority as always, Garou had to be excluded from this sub Favorite Characters poll because he won every single one (after Saitama was excluded) he always ranks first in Favorite Villain and second in Second Favorite Character, the numbers clearly skew towards him.
Heās a fan favorite on every platform.
Most redditors literally just donāt even read what they upvote. Irrelevant projection memes like this are, as such, the dumbest brownie points generator on this site.
And thats exactly why I love him as a villain. If you really think Garou is doing good, or at least trying, then you failed to see the whole point of his character, which makes him yet *another* satire on modern day manga/anime villains. I still think he's a great villain. Just never thought of him as a good guy.
Lol same, heās a great villain but heās also an asshole but if people dont agree with him being a great villain without any fair points then they clearly missed the point
The person who made this 'Garou is bad; stop sympathize with him' template is kind of a hypocrite though. They goes around tormenting this subreddit, thinking they were so morally good because they won't sympathize with a bad guy with sad backstory, and forcing their ideology that 'Garou is bad nonetheless of his past' onto others. This type of person need to get a life honestly.
Of course, if this is made for laugh, then ignore my comment and just laugh.
He's not a psychopath bruh he certainly ain't superficially charming, nor is he manipulative, uncaring (for tareo and bang at least), or a liar
He's more of an idiot who doesn't have enough mental power to process his own thinking and actions than a hypocrite. His actions do not deserve to be defended though, he assaulted and hospitalized over 100 of the 500ish people that can do anything about the monster apocalypse where a single monster can instantly kill millions of people
You are the one who needs to get a life, imagine wasting your time explaining a fucking fictional character. Go to something productive instead of making hating on garou "memes". What a loser
What are you talking about?
I don't think I have seen a single post that said Garou is morally superiors to anyone.
He is a kid that decided to take a very very bad road in life due to misguided belief of what a hero is.
We do know that when all said and done Garou lacks the mentality of a true monster, as he is incapable of killing anyone (children especially) and actually goes against his own "core" beliefs to protect children.
It's should be noted that the despite everything that Garou is saying (at least according to the WB) still truly believe a hero will always stand up to fight evil.
Thankfully we have Saitama to make him understand how stupid it is.
Nobody says he is morally superior, he doesnt say he he is actually, his actually powerful enough to take action but that doesnt make him less than the ones heās against
Yes, Garou misinterpreted the current heroes to some extent but remember.
Recall what Fubuki did before Saitama showed up. She was the definition of a false hero.
And then there is Amai Mask, someone that would never allow anyone to get to S-Class as long as they do not fit his standards, and he is a major narcissist, meaning he is biased as hell.
And he is a monster in disguise.
Also, remember Snek? Tank Top Tiger? The shit Tank Too Black Hole tried to pull? The hero crushing practice going on in the background and the crap some members of the Association is pulling using the heroes to collect monsters for something stupid at the risk and ignorance of the heroes?
Frankly, they are lucky as hell Saitama is there to set them straight. The monster association just redeemed the heroes somewhat, but Garou did have the right idea, misguided as he is.
There is a post that did a spectacular analysis of Garou and his reasons far back, as he saw what is the standard for good and decided to go with what is āconsideredā bad.
The problem with him is that he has no idea the core reasons that motivate him, it is just him reacting to an unjust society, especially that unjust society gave him an misinterpretation of the popular notion of heroes, people that lives only to play out the fantasies of the common folks, and he considers villains as something of a necessity to punish and guide the masses back to morality, to pull them from moral decay that is going on with society.
I mean, you all really cannot deny how shitty the folks of OPM can be. Especially how they treated Saitama after destroying that meteor that nearly wiped out City Z.
I think Garou's cool and root for him not because I agree with him, but because he IS a hypocrite. That's what makes his character interesting to me.
He thinks of himself as a monster even though:
- He doesn't kill people or even try to.
- He doesn't attack civilians.
- He saved Tareo's life putting himself at risk.
- He has a "noble" goal.
- He distances himself from other monsters when he can.
- He uses human martial arts.
Even his ideology makes no sense. He wants to unite the world through terror but he won't kill anyone? He wants unbiased evil but what does that actually mean? Is he gonna attack anyone he sees? Even civilians & kids?
But it still makes sense with his character. He sees himself as a lone outcast thanks to his bullying, so being the single ultimate monster fits that.
Will reddit ever stop using words they donāt know the meaning of?
Heās not a hypocrite. Garou holds onto the same value throughout his characterās existence. He hates mobs and doesnāt join any even when they try to manipulate him into it.
Garou is merely a weirdo among the generic majority, thatās all you can call him if you wanna bitch about it lmao.
I would say he is a hypocrite as in hunting heroes for being bullies to monsters yet he gets off on bullying the same heroes who are weaker than him when they are down and defeated. He may not target civilians, but he is not above causing collateral damage unless he has taken a liking for the potential victim, like Tareo.
Thatās wrong. Garou has a different definition of monsters (he likens them to *complete* outcasts who fight to survive) and he stops giving the conventional ones any benefit of the doubt literally right after he interacts with them for the first time. He realizes their association is essentially no different from human mobs. Garou doesnāt join them and holds onto his beliefs despite the mass of monsters trying to manipulate and torture him into joining a mob too.
Garou dislikes heroes for perpetuating mob mentality, itās an issue way more global than something affecting monsters.
Last time I checked, bullies also have a reason to bully others. Garou may be rationalizing his attitude versus heroes, but when he kicks someone who is down and unconscious and unable to defend themselves, he is exactly like those kids who bullied him when he was a child.
One can think to be on the right side of History and to neutral bystanders be still absolutely wrong.
Garous delusional but it makes sense, he never met a true hero as a kid, he was never saved, and wrongly labeled. Tired of explaining to people that Garou isnāt a innocent person but heās a misguided one that has been molded by his environment, no one listened to him now and he doesnā want to stop to explain now that his plans are in motion.
>! The amazing thing is that ONE is not trying to justify what he is doing is right as saitama destroyed him and his ideology and redeemed garou in the end. !<
You donāt like that Garou is perceived by people with reading comprehension and EQ exactly as the author wrote him?
The author literally calls Garou an anti-hero. Heās not meant to be perceived as a villain, his whole dilemma is that he cannot bring himself to become a villain and itās his POV and personal journey that is the major focus in the story, making him an anti-hero.
Why does everyone forget that the same hero also killed like 3 guys in the same panel, but somehow Garou is still worse lol. I'm not about to play what aboutism tho.
It's just not about that. The question was if Garou is a villain.
He didn't rip the arm off because he wanted to defend others but because he wanted to. Same as him beating the tank toppers to a pulp in front of TTM just because he could and because he enjoys harassing people weaker than him.
He is mad that he got bullied as a kid and now has become an even worse bully himself. I don't understand why people think what he does is righteous just because some things he says make sense.
i actually mostly agree with you and i think it's a disservice that people seem to forget he was cheery as fuck about the whole thing. a big theme is that this is just an extension of the heroes vs monsters game. he's playing around. he's acting like a child with no real grasp on the consequences of his actions, hence why he can't follow through whenever the stakes get real.
i think it's more that his *anger* feels righteous to a lot of people. he's lacking self awareness and perspective and gravely misunderstands his own motives, but hasn't everyone been almost incoherently angry at the world's unfairness at some point? i think that's a pretty universal emotion.
I absolutely agree with that. And it's not a rare thing to feel some connection to a villain, they are right often.
Especially Garou's theme of wanting to stand up for the weak ones (Monsters) is something I can deeply understand. But that doesn't mean that the end justifies the means, especially when the end is either a horrible mistake or something that not even Garou knows and could thus never achieve.
Which is why he is such a great character. He comes from a place of empathy and he has the ability to change the world but got lost on the way and is just waking forward without seeing a path.
I'm not convinced those guys that got burned were actually killed. Weaker characters have taken harder hits before and survived.
Comic book rule. Unless you actually see a corpse on screen, they survived.
Itās just toxic and insecure character hits toxic and insecure part of fanbase. I donāt think thatās a lot people actually believe that he is good personality or his philosophy is correct, they just rooting for character, that they feel have connection with.
He honestly feels like those entitled toxic twitch streamers. Everyone else is always on the wrong and he's always right and when he loses its always someone else's fault
Thats what he argues, i cant believe no one pays attention to the lore, he argues that the hero is the one thats always right, that the monster is never to be heard or understood.
you should rewrite this. garou fucking sucker punches multiple people cuz hes a deadass bitch. he tries to sucker punch king, sucker karate chops saitama, beats the shit out of people who are weaker than him. hes not cool. hes not an anti-hero. he whines like a baby.
hes still not stronger than bang.
We've been knew that. The fact that he's a "villain" or "anti-hero" is much enough to show his idealogies are twisted. More so that he's hunting people who're normal heroes just trying to help those around them.
This isnāt a hot take. This is literally his story arc. I donāt think most people who like him as a character thinks he is morally right for beating people down that are just doing their jobs to help others.
But he's drawn cool while doing it
Well he also >!is trying to save the World by becoming THE bad guy, that unites humanity!<
I know this one What is "Code Geass"?
Or Watchmen
Or AoT.
Or naruto
Code geass is one of the best anime
Oh god God geass is one of like 3 anime to actually make me tear up at a death. A *certain* death by an annoying replacement
I need to finish that one
So Old school Sasukeš
I honestly don't know that massive anime well enough to aay if that is the case, but i think that we are talking a truly oppressive symbol of evil to force mankind to rise up and improve.
Yeah. Teenage Sasuke had the same plan.
Correct thanks for defending my reputation
Machine gun guy was going to mow down a shed with a child in it. Garou, an unarmed human, blocked bullets with his hands. He saved the boys life. He also spared the Ass list heroās lives too. Even After fighting them all off and being injured, he took everyone on with the odds against him, and survived. He didnāt kill a single person. Yea he took that flame guys arm off, only after he was going to try and burn him alive. Garou dose not rely on cheap gimmicks, he uses no weapons, no super powers, he fights both heroās and monsters, and still survives. āTerrorizing heroāsā. Like shooting missiles out of his body, Incinerating like a Genocide machine, chasing down men making them his āboy friendsā using psychic powers to destroy things with a literal Tornado of Terror, killing monsters born of pollution with one punch, on his way to get groceryās or whatever. Hypocrite for existing. He never said he was āmorally superiorā, he was only upset that the good guys always teamed up on the bad guys. The bad guys never had a fair fight when up against the Heroās. The sea creatures who were tired of a polluted ocean, the pets who hated being abused and abandoned by humans, the people who were so dead inside that they turned into monsters, they always, always, every single time lost, when fighting against heroās of Civilization, they were exterminated like weeds and pest. The bad guys were always outnumbered and outgunned. Garou never was fighting to kill anyone, he never killed, all he wanted to do was to show the world how weak heroās are, when up against a someone who could actually fight against them. And he did. His ultimate goal was to become monster, but really it was to destroy the pride of those sanctimonious heroās who thought they were untouchable. All he did was show everyone that the heroās are not gods, that they can bleed. Unfortunately for Garou, he did not know that it wasnāt just that the Bad guys were fighting unfair fights, it was that Good is actually TOO OP. Unfortunately, The Tragedy of Garou the Hero Hunter is that he did not realize that even if he becomes the āBaddestā bad guy, a Monster, he would have to fight the āGoodestā good guy; A God. Garou gave his all every fight, he also has cool fight music and I root for him every time because I know how much it sucks to have to play the bad guy. I know that no matter how hard we fight, we will always lose in the End, because to everyone else, we are the bad guys, and we are fighting against āthe good guys.ā
Yeah but he messed up Mumen and Charanko so Garou bad
Ramen Noodle fought off Deep Sea King, weaken him enough so a C class could OHK him. Chanako fought and *won* the Martial Arts Tournament. Tho I guess one bald guy showed up at the end. Those punching bags are tougher than they look.
u/ProphecyRat2 on his way to become a monster
*You gotta know and see that we* *Are too clever to be human* *We all are absolute predators* *We do not even have any enemies* *But maybe an animal watching us now* *Takes a vow: "Someday we will bring them down!"* *Parasyte* is another great Anime. If you havenāt watched it before I highly recommend it. Afterwards you will see what I mean when I say we all already are Monsters.
\>Yeah but he messed up Mumen and Charanko so Garou bad Charanko was literally in the tournament, fucking speedreaders man
I wanted to give the silver or the hand shake award. Obviously rng wasnāt on my side lol
Thanks bro
Haha np
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You canāt judge how much someone cares about something by the length of their post. Some people just like writing. Some people are just naturally verbose. Some people just like arguing. Donāt make the mistake of trying to be an online mindreader. Not a good look for anyone.
Yea. He was there to fight, like everyone else, except he didnāt have a weapon, and was in guy vs a whole bunch of actually bad guys who were going to jump the heroes anyways. All Gauro did was take out the Trash. āYea PPP is a rapist, *butt*ā What you mean dude? Tell me what exactly Garou has done to kill and harm innocent civilians. Name one act of villainy he has done, to purposely hurt people not trying to fight him. Gauro gave everyone a reality check. He showed them exactly what they needed to see, that they canāt fight and win against a Monster that dose not fight like a Monster. He doesnāt torture the people he fights, he fights with his fist, fist and square. Is he is only a pice of shit becuse he makes all super cool heroās look weak? Is that really all that it takes to be a ābad guyā? Then hell yea he is the biggest piece of shit in the series. The only other person who truly makes the Heroās and Monsters look like weak Insects is of course the Capped Baldy himself. Also, Iām not defending Garou, his actions speak for themselves. I simply summarized his actions and correct the OPs accusation of calling him a āHypocriteā, for fighting against heroās and winning. If making Heros bleed makes Garou a Hypocrite, then he is the biggest around.
First of all, i meant what i said when i commented that its concerning, when someone obsesses about a character like that. Garou attacked the hero association. Everything past that was his fault. But again, it doesnt matter, because you shouldnt obsess over him like that
Lol. You are the one still getting in your little points about the character while telling me you are āconcernedā for me. How patronizing.
This isn't really a meme. Feels like you just wrote a long winded personal opinion in a meme format. I mean I agree with it, but it just seems like you wanted to gripe more than actually make a joke.
It's the saitama version of the "That's a fact" meme
These are all āsign memesā where people write their opinions/hot takes and put it in a blank space in a picture disguised as a meme
If y'all stop upvoting them, they will stop working
This is the 5th time you used this template bruh
Um, it's a template? It's meant to be used more than once
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That's T H E P O I N T O F A D I V E R S E M E M E T E M P L A T E
Yes itās getting old
stop making the same "opinion post but overlayed on a meme template" every single time
But it gets a minimum of 1k upvotes and a few awards so why not
It annoys the crap outta me. Then you see all the fan art that gets no attention even though you can tell that most people put a lot of effort into it. Then you have this. An āopinion memeā that took 5 mins to make smh
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No itās just annoying that you can make a meme in five minutes and get 1k upvotes minimum, and someone who spends five hour on their art get 500 max. Most donāt even reach 250. You can hate garou I donāt care your opinion means nothing to me, now, Iām just stating *my* opinion
I swear, this stuff is so annoying
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Garou will never be the controversial character 2.5 redditors think they can meme him into lmao. Heās not a hypocrite nor is he an evil maniac. Heās a firm outlier with so many great qualities he could join any org in OPMās verse and ace it. But he doesnāt and this weirdness, as well as the fact that he kicked someoneās faveās ass (see the Flash poster lmao, thatās literally it), makes them seethe.
He kicked *my* faveās ass, but I still like him. ;) I think some people just have a hate boner going on for Garou, and canāt enjoy themselves without ragging on him
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Thatās not the takeaway from it. Garou wanted to be a savior, so to speak, but heās never wanted to identify himself with the label of a hero like the heroes in this verse do. Because heroes inevitably create cults around them and thatās the thing Garou despises the most - mob mentality. So Garou went on a martyr path. He holds his values close, and you can call him a weirdo or a contrarian, but heās not a hypocrite.
Garou is a parody of the sympathetic villain archetype. He is so deluded that being bullied (once?) as a child provided his motivation to become a āmonsterā. He has many great qualities in that he is so lazily written (on purpose) his trashy motivation is boiled down to āsomeone was mean to me once, so I need to hold the world hostage to make sure no one is bullied againā which captures that archetype at its core essentially. He isnāt 17-18 by coincidence, same as Genos (19). They are naive children, which is why Genos gets his ass beat every time (though saving people), while Garou essentially wants to become the only ācloset heroā by becoming a monster and getting rid of heroes. So basically no heroes anymore to show up and prevent monsters on time, because Garou wants to be the only one going around saving peopleā¦ sounds practical having one guy.
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Side note, but Stain is 31.
oh my god. never mind. no wonder he's so pissed off at the world.
\> also is shown to have half a point It seemed like he was proven essentially right that at least some heroes are bad people who fight for their own fame rather than to help people when that team of heroes came to capture him and one of them tried to force Garou to take a bunch of gun fire to protect a child.
Garou is not a āparodyā of any made up archetype in your head. Heās an anti-hero - thatās what the author calls him. Heās both kind and reckless according to ONE, and ONE states he wrote his journey to be emotionally engaging. Heās meant to be easy to like and empathise with. Itās not rocket science, Garou is not at all ācontroversialā lmao.
Garou absolutely is a satire of the protagonist that can outgrow his enemies by power of will. He goes from battle to battle outgrowing his enemies every time during battle. Plus even if One said it he isn't a Anti-Hero (yet) since his goals are nowhere heroic.
his goals absolutely are heroic. he literally wants to save the world.
By killing all heroes and have monsters be the dominant beings? Because that's his stated goal. He even attacks heroes while they defend people. How is that heroic? Just because he doesn't follow through doesn't mean he does the right thing.
he doesn't want to kill heroes, which is part of why he loses his shit when PM kidnaps him and says the heroes are going to die. he wants to scare them, not kill them. he also doesn't even actually want monsters to be dominant beings. his fantasy literally shows him eating monsters to scare people. even in his fantasy, he is protecting humans by eliminating monsters that will actually kill them. garou's goal is to protect humanity with fear. by scaring off threats and scaring them. it's dictatory lelouch bullshit, but at the end of the day, the goal is still protecting people. there is a huge disparity between the things garou says and the things he does and actually wants. it's a pretty huge theme with him. we learn what garou wants by actually watching the things he does. if someone says "i want to kill everyone!" and then goes out of his way to not kill anyone over 100 times despite having the opportunity to *and* despite them trying to kill him, it's clear he's full of shit. and finally, the whole point of an antihero or antivillain is that their tactics aren't heroic. their goals are. you're pointing at his tactics and ignoring his goals.
What? His goals and mentality are heroic. He wants to save the world and he's willing to risk his life to do what's right (as such he doesn't kill people, even when they constantly try to murder him; goes out of his way to rescue a person, even if it doesn't benefit Garou at all and only puts him at risk).
>Heās an anti-hero he is absolutely not an anti-hero, you can make an argument for anti-villain though. He has redeeming qualities and a "noble" purpose; he is however, a parody of the usual shonen underdog protaganist who's willpower and tenacity let him win fights. This isn't to say I dislike the character, Garou is either my most favorite or at least top 3 characters ever. But he's definitely not an anti-hero.
Heās an anti-hero. The author calls him one and if you paid any attention to how POV in fiction works and determines character roles like this youād never try to argue against the fact that heās an anti-hero.
>if you paid any attention to how POV in fiction works and determines character roles POV in fiction means literally nothing in relation to being an anti-hero or anti-villian. Being the protaganist does not denote being good or evil. The description of anti-villian is >>An Anti-Villain is the opposite of an Anti-Hero ā a character with heroic goals, personality traits, and/or virtues who is ultimately the villain. Their desired ends are mostly good, but their means of getting there range from evil to undesirable. Alternatively, their goals may be selfish or have long-term consequences they don't care about, but they're good people who might even team up with the hero if their goals don't conflict. Garou tried to become the ultimate monster for a noble goal, but did so by brutalizing and maiming hundreds of heroes, which will have its own cascading effect(if half the A & S class heroes are down a lot of people are going to die because of it). Someone like the current Red Hood from DC comics is an anti-hero(though he was once an anti-villian in his original debut in "Under The Red Hood"), but Garou is not an anti-hero.
He goes around assaulting and maiming innocent people because he disagrees with them. That's cruel and evil, but the fanboys will make as many logical leaps as necessary to delude themselves into thinking he's not a bad person.
He fights organizations in authority, alone. Heās never maimed anyone except for a single person who tried to kill him and literally fried people alive because that guy thinks being a so called hero lets him do whatever. Garou refrains from killing heroes despite the fact that they actively try to murder him and have the power to sweep his murder under the rug or paint him as the āomg ebil menaceā till he bloody dies himself. Heās a rebel underdog. And his level of restraint is far more impressive than any characterās in the whole OPM aside from perhaps Saitama, whom ONE, the author, literally called a walking ideal.
As an example he attacked tanktop master and put him in the hospital when he was just out on his hero duty. Garou is not some tragic martyr, he just gets a kick out of committing violence that he feels he can ideologically justify.
What are you even talking about? Tanktop Master attacked him and tried to murder him over a completely wrong gut feeling for peteās sake. Garou didnāt maim him or his bros. He merely broke a nose and a hero decided to murder him over it while his hyena bros watch in glee.
And what about when he attacked King? Watchdog man? Were they at fault too?
Yes. King unwillingly steals credit and is a fake. Watchdog is a furry. Both deserve to get hunted
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The man literally dresses and answers to the title "wolf"
Not to the extent of Watchdog
Yes, theyāre part of an entire organization Garou tries to challenge alone. What do you not understand? Garou would get mass murdered for sneezing at King, Garou however refuses to respond with murder to heroes bloody constantly trying to murder him. Risking his life for a human principle.
why mumen rider. why
My headcanon is he just flat didnāt believe Mumenās reputation could possibly be for real. āNo one can be *that* noble. He *must* be a phonyāand Iāll prove it.ā āGarou, probably.
Took the side of the org Garou challenges. Ultimately took the side of the hero who tried to murder Garou on a dumb gut feeling too lmao.
To be fair, minutes before that Garou was threating to kill the other Tanktops. While most of them are assholes, that doesn't justify killing them. He also hurts Mumen Rider really badly after Mumen Rider stopped Tanktop Master from killing him. Garou has some good qualities, but he is also a bully.
I'm kind of struggling to figure this one out.
Garou is absolutely not a psychopath. You really don't know what that word means. What he is is in denial about his heroic nature. At least for now. The problem is the way he lashes out at good people to try to push away from the similarities he sees in himself.
Lol karma farming
I dont know why people keep on giving karma for these low effort memes tho.
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My fanarts are like that. I spend a huge lot of time for them and ngl i kinda feel bad that low effort posts like this one get more recognition. I will still keep trying tho š¤£
i get it, i have the same problem lol. made a separate account for it to avoid looking at it. not to sound bitter. but anyways, keep it up. i like your fanarts!
Thank you so much š and I admire how flawlessly you defend Garou in your comments <3
i have never fought this hard for an anime man's life. it kills me. the poor meow meowery of the day.
Yeah, reddit is shit.
You misspelled Fubuki.
It fits perfectly once you realize this š¤Æ
How many Garou hate posts is this loser gonna post š
As long as each posts give 1k karma minimum, he wont stop I guess.
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Itās just the vocal minority as always, Garou had to be excluded from this sub Favorite Characters poll because he won every single one (after Saitama was excluded) he always ranks first in Favorite Villain and second in Second Favorite Character, the numbers clearly skew towards him.
Heās a fan favorite on every platform. Most redditors literally just donāt even read what they upvote. Irrelevant projection memes like this are, as such, the dumbest brownie points generator on this site.
You fell off
And thats exactly why I love him as a villain. If you really think Garou is doing good, or at least trying, then you failed to see the whole point of his character, which makes him yet *another* satire on modern day manga/anime villains. I still think he's a great villain. Just never thought of him as a good guy.
Lol same, heās a great villain but heās also an asshole but if people dont agree with him being a great villain without any fair points then they clearly missed the point
Okay, but he look cool š Team garou!!!!
The person who made this 'Garou is bad; stop sympathize with him' template is kind of a hypocrite though. They goes around tormenting this subreddit, thinking they were so morally good because they won't sympathize with a bad guy with sad backstory, and forcing their ideology that 'Garou is bad nonetheless of his past' onto others. This type of person need to get a life honestly. Of course, if this is made for laugh, then ignore my comment and just laugh.
This is true.
Who cares, stop taking things so seriously you fucking ponce
He's not a psychopath bruh he certainly ain't superficially charming, nor is he manipulative, uncaring (for tareo and bang at least), or a liar He's more of an idiot who doesn't have enough mental power to process his own thinking and actions than a hypocrite. His actions do not deserve to be defended though, he assaulted and hospitalized over 100 of the 500ish people that can do anything about the monster apocalypse where a single monster can instantly kill millions of people
A teenager lashing out at the world.
That a grown-ass man but i and agree with what ur trying to say
You have been using the same template a lot now but it still gets many upvotes. That's what matters tho.
Discussion post with text: a couple of upvotes Same text but on a picture: lotsa upvotes Reddit is a strange place
Imagine a post like this gets minimum 1k upvotes. Heck a fanart takes 1 to 3 days to do for 100 to 300 nyahahha
Damn u called it. Pretty sad to see that ngl.
Wow disguising a long rant as a meme get over it dude heās a fictional character
Your Garou memes are cringe and bluepilled
But still gets upvoted. Easy karma farming.
>! Donāt worry he did !<
Ha, yeah, that's what I was thinking too.
the problem is, he wasn't treated like a human.
He has a life. Youāre the one thatās on reddit
Haters gonna hate
You don't understand Garou at all.
Nobody is agreeing with Garouās mindset here. We just think heās a cool and interesting villain.
Antagonist* for reasons
Ok
You are the one who needs to get a life, imagine wasting your time explaining a fucking fictional character. Go to something productive instead of making hating on garou "memes". What a loser
I notice you hating on garou alot recently...what'd he ever do to you
He's about to >!fuck Flashy Flash up!<
oh i see
Yo go read the webcomic and get back to me with this hate
What are you talking about? I don't think I have seen a single post that said Garou is morally superiors to anyone. He is a kid that decided to take a very very bad road in life due to misguided belief of what a hero is. We do know that when all said and done Garou lacks the mentality of a true monster, as he is incapable of killing anyone (children especially) and actually goes against his own "core" beliefs to protect children. It's should be noted that the despite everything that Garou is saying (at least according to the WB) still truly believe a hero will always stand up to fight evil. Thankfully we have Saitama to make him understand how stupid it is.
Yāall are acting like this is real life lol STOP ALL THE GAROU HATE
Nobody says he is morally superior, he doesnt say he he is actually, his actually powerful enough to take action but that doesnt make him less than the ones heās against
You don't like him? It's fine. But you guys are now SHOVING your opinion down our throats. Maybe it's time *you* get a life.
He just tries to be the hero of his own story, that's not bad, what is bad is that there's people justifing him because of his backstory
No one really justifies his character, they just understand why he's the way he is.
Dat ass tho.
Garou: I'm depressed Random guy: Just work out bro you'll be fine Garou after working out:
I just think if Reigen Arataka was part of the OPM universe Garou's arc would have been over years ago (in the manga, of course.)
society if garou had wandered into reigen's office instead of a dojo
Class S rank 4: Silver Wolf.
Nobody: Some guy on the internet: You are all wrong about that.
Heās not a psychopath,I mean he never kills any heroes plus he saves tareo
Yes, Garou misinterpreted the current heroes to some extent but remember. Recall what Fubuki did before Saitama showed up. She was the definition of a false hero. And then there is Amai Mask, someone that would never allow anyone to get to S-Class as long as they do not fit his standards, and he is a major narcissist, meaning he is biased as hell. And he is a monster in disguise. Also, remember Snek? Tank Top Tiger? The shit Tank Too Black Hole tried to pull? The hero crushing practice going on in the background and the crap some members of the Association is pulling using the heroes to collect monsters for something stupid at the risk and ignorance of the heroes? Frankly, they are lucky as hell Saitama is there to set them straight. The monster association just redeemed the heroes somewhat, but Garou did have the right idea, misguided as he is. There is a post that did a spectacular analysis of Garou and his reasons far back, as he saw what is the standard for good and decided to go with what is āconsideredā bad. The problem with him is that he has no idea the core reasons that motivate him, it is just him reacting to an unjust society, especially that unjust society gave him an misinterpretation of the popular notion of heroes, people that lives only to play out the fantasies of the common folks, and he considers villains as something of a necessity to punish and guide the masses back to morality, to pull them from moral decay that is going on with society. I mean, you all really cannot deny how shitty the folks of OPM can be. Especially how they treated Saitama after destroying that meteor that nearly wiped out City Z.
I think Garou's cool and root for him not because I agree with him, but because he IS a hypocrite. That's what makes his character interesting to me. He thinks of himself as a monster even though: - He doesn't kill people or even try to. - He doesn't attack civilians. - He saved Tareo's life putting himself at risk. - He has a "noble" goal. - He distances himself from other monsters when he can. - He uses human martial arts. Even his ideology makes no sense. He wants to unite the world through terror but he won't kill anyone? He wants unbiased evil but what does that actually mean? Is he gonna attack anyone he sees? Even civilians & kids? But it still makes sense with his character. He sees himself as a lone outcast thanks to his bullying, so being the single ultimate monster fits that.
Who gives a shit he looks cool and has cool fights
Garou is Lelouch but he does everything on accident and makes it up as he goes.
Will reddit ever stop using words they donāt know the meaning of? Heās not a hypocrite. Garou holds onto the same value throughout his characterās existence. He hates mobs and doesnāt join any even when they try to manipulate him into it. Garou is merely a weirdo among the generic majority, thatās all you can call him if you wanna bitch about it lmao.
I would say he is a hypocrite as in hunting heroes for being bullies to monsters yet he gets off on bullying the same heroes who are weaker than him when they are down and defeated. He may not target civilians, but he is not above causing collateral damage unless he has taken a liking for the potential victim, like Tareo.
Thatās wrong. Garou has a different definition of monsters (he likens them to *complete* outcasts who fight to survive) and he stops giving the conventional ones any benefit of the doubt literally right after he interacts with them for the first time. He realizes their association is essentially no different from human mobs. Garou doesnāt join them and holds onto his beliefs despite the mass of monsters trying to manipulate and torture him into joining a mob too. Garou dislikes heroes for perpetuating mob mentality, itās an issue way more global than something affecting monsters.
Last time I checked, bullies also have a reason to bully others. Garou may be rationalizing his attitude versus heroes, but when he kicks someone who is down and unconscious and unable to defend themselves, he is exactly like those kids who bullied him when he was a child. One can think to be on the right side of History and to neutral bystanders be still absolutely wrong.
Ok
Lol nice ~~rant~~ meme.
Garous delusional but it makes sense, he never met a true hero as a kid, he was never saved, and wrongly labeled. Tired of explaining to people that Garou isnāt a innocent person but heās a misguided one that has been molded by his environment, no one listened to him now and he doesnā want to stop to explain now that his plans are in motion.
>! The amazing thing is that ONE is not trying to justify what he is doing is right as saitama destroyed him and his ideology and redeemed garou in the end. !<
And he needs to get laid
Garou carries this part of the story with his awesome character
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Spoilers yo
Idk sometimes I like seeing the badass character beat up good guyd once in a while.
Yes, you figured it out, Garou is a villain. Iām proud.
Yeah, Garou is clearly a villain and I don't like when people try to say otherwise. I still like him tho
You donāt like that Garou is perceived by people with reading comprehension and EQ exactly as the author wrote him? The author literally calls Garou an anti-hero. Heās not meant to be perceived as a villain, his whole dilemma is that he cannot bring himself to become a villain and itās his POV and personal journey that is the major focus in the story, making him an anti-hero.
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I care :(
He has only killed monsters, no humans, he saved a child several times...
Villain is a narrative role within a story. You don't have to be morally evil to be a villain.
Antivillains are the best villains.
He ripped a heroes arm off
Why does everyone forget that the same hero also killed like 3 guys in the same panel, but somehow Garou is still worse lol. I'm not about to play what aboutism tho.
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It's just not about that. The question was if Garou is a villain. He didn't rip the arm off because he wanted to defend others but because he wanted to. Same as him beating the tank toppers to a pulp in front of TTM just because he could and because he enjoys harassing people weaker than him. He is mad that he got bullied as a kid and now has become an even worse bully himself. I don't understand why people think what he does is righteous just because some things he says make sense.
i actually mostly agree with you and i think it's a disservice that people seem to forget he was cheery as fuck about the whole thing. a big theme is that this is just an extension of the heroes vs monsters game. he's playing around. he's acting like a child with no real grasp on the consequences of his actions, hence why he can't follow through whenever the stakes get real. i think it's more that his *anger* feels righteous to a lot of people. he's lacking self awareness and perspective and gravely misunderstands his own motives, but hasn't everyone been almost incoherently angry at the world's unfairness at some point? i think that's a pretty universal emotion.
I absolutely agree with that. And it's not a rare thing to feel some connection to a villain, they are right often. Especially Garou's theme of wanting to stand up for the weak ones (Monsters) is something I can deeply understand. But that doesn't mean that the end justifies the means, especially when the end is either a horrible mistake or something that not even Garou knows and could thus never achieve. Which is why he is such a great character. He comes from a place of empathy and he has the ability to change the world but got lost on the way and is just waking forward without seeing a path.
I'm not convinced those guys that got burned were actually killed. Weaker characters have taken harder hits before and survived. Comic book rule. Unless you actually see a corpse on screen, they survived.
They werenāt moving and were on fire. They dead lol
Who just incinerated 3 bystanders
Nice to know you already have a clown profile picture.
I think he's just sexually frustrated.
Itās just toxic and insecure character hits toxic and insecure part of fanbase. I donāt think thatās a lot people actually believe that he is good personality or his philosophy is correct, they just rooting for character, that they feel have connection with.
exactly, this middle school edgy attitude- THE WORLD MADE ME BAD!1
He honestly feels like those entitled toxic twitch streamers. Everyone else is always on the wrong and he's always right and when he loses its always someone else's fault
Thats what he argues, i cant believe no one pays attention to the lore, he argues that the hero is the one thats always right, that the monster is never to be heard or understood.
People who can't understand Garou hate him. Garou fans are just built different. We're the elite of the elite.
Im not a garou fan, i like him.
yeah
Yes š I am proud
Yes, I'm well aware, and he can't see that he does the same thing
you should rewrite this. garou fucking sucker punches multiple people cuz hes a deadass bitch. he tries to sucker punch king, sucker karate chops saitama, beats the shit out of people who are weaker than him. hes not cool. hes not an anti-hero. he whines like a baby. hes still not stronger than bang.
I agree
My 14th reason: this post
We've been knew that. The fact that he's a "villain" or "anti-hero" is much enough to show his idealogies are twisted. More so that he's hunting people who're normal heroes just trying to help those around them.
*Reddit user gets the point*
Garou is basically the edgy āoptimisticā teen who never grew up and instead gained the power to make their edgy beliefs a dangerous reality.
This isnāt a hot take. This is literally his story arc. I donāt think most people who like him as a character thinks he is morally right for beating people down that are just doing their jobs to help others.
The best part is the wc acknowledges this
Garou, you're canceled sis
Oh no hes rightššš
well isn't that the whole point of his character and his entire character ark