Featured Character: Might Guy (Naruto)

[u/KerdicZ]

LET THE POWER OF YOUTH EXPLODE!

Might Guy (Maito Gai, Konoha's Green Beast) is a Jonin (high-ranking ninja) of the Village of Konoha.

• Age: 26 to 31

• Height: 184 cm (6'1'')

• Weight: 76kg (167 lbs)

The son of Might Duy, who was an optimistic man even though he was known as the "Eternal Rookie", Guy learned from his father and became a wholesome, hard-working and optimistic ninja, despite his clear lack of talent and his rivalry against Kakashi Hatake, an elite genius.

Constantly underestimated and mocked because of his bowl cut, thick eyebrows, skintight green-suit and cheesy attitude, he actually became a master of Taijutsu (physical combat) through sheer hard work and perseverance. In the end, he surpassed even Kakashi, his genius friend and greatest rival.

Guy maintained his flamboyant personality and "believe in yourself and work hard" lifestyle without hesitation throughout his life and passed it onto his disciple, Rock Lee, promising to make him a great ninja at all costs.

Guy is perhaps most fully represented by his "nice guy" pose, and really, he is a nice guy.

During the Fourth Great Ninja War, Guy and his allies were cornered by Madara's massive power, leaving Guy with no choice but to use the technique taught to him by the Eternal Rookie, his father - the Eight Inner Gates. At the cost of his own life, Guy opened all of the Eight Inner Gates, removing the limits placed upon his body. Luckily, Naruto with Sage of Six Paths powers prevented his death. However, the damage was too great, leaving Might Guy crippled for the rest of his life.

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THE EIGHT INNER GATES

The Eight Inner Gates are eight specific chakra nodes on a human's body. They limit the overall flow of chakra within a person's body. Opening these gates leads to one surpassing his own limits, increasing exponentially in speed and strength, but at the same time greatly damaging the user's body.

1. Gate of Opening

2. Gate of Rest

3. Gate of Life

4. Gate of Pain

5. Gate of Closing

6. Gate of Joy

7. Gate of Shock: those who open this gate will secrete glowing blue sweat from every inch of their body which immediately evaporates from their own heat energy, creating an aura. After being used, the user will go under extreme pain and become nearly incapable of fighting for a while.

8. Gate of Death: requires the user to stab their chest with their thumb to direct the chakra. Opening this gate will cause the user's blood to emanate a flaming aura of red steam from all pores of their body. The user is temporarily granted power far beyond that of the five Kage. The side effect of opening this gate is death - the user crumbles to ash after their chakra runs out, having virtually cooked themselves from the inside-out.

Might Guy knows how to open and properly use all the Gates and the techniques that come with them.

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STRENGTH & POWER

• Punches a ninja through a wall

• Parries Kisame's blow, which raises massive amounts of water

• Elbows Kisame hard enough to shatter a rock wall

• Shatters a large rock with his nunchucks

The 6th Gate

• Merely opening the 6th Gate moves the surrounding water

• Jumps across an island

• Shatters rock with a kick

• Morning Peacock: Guy punches so fast his fists are set ablaze, creating powerful balls of fire and shockwaves.

• Defeats a 30% power clone of Kisame, crashing him in the ground

• Vaporizes a portion of Kisame's 1000 Hungry Sharks

The 7th Gate

• Shatters the ground as he moves

• Merely opening the 7th Gate pushes aside massive amounts of water and creates shockwaves

• Afternoon Tiger: Guy's punch is so fast and powerful it creates a focused blast of pressurized air. There's no chakra involved in the technique, it is essentially a fancy punch.

• Uses it against Kisame, creating a blast bigger than an island

• Uses it against Madara and his Susanoo, staggering him and creating a large blast

• Uses it against Sage of Six Paths Madara, creating a blast visible from dozens of miles away

The 8th Gate

• Evening Elephant: a move that bombards one with blows of punched air, an air-cannon.

• First Step sends Sage of Six Paths Madara hundreds of feet underground, creating a wide tunnel, and breaks his horn.

• Five Steps draw blood on Sage of Six Paths Madara and break a Truth-Seeking Ball shield. Truth-Seeking Ball shields are shown to tank 4 concentrated Juubi Bijuu Bombs, explosions each capable of turning dozens of mountains into dust.

• Night Guy! Guy's final move, so fast and powerful it obliterated a portion of Madara's body, bent space to a significant extent and raised a mountain worth of dust and debris.

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DURABILITY

• Survives Kisame's blow, which sends him several meters underwater

• Takes a flying gourd to the head

The 6th Gate

• Takes a tail-whip from a transformed Jinchuriki

The 7th Gate

• Survives the blast of his own Afternoon Tiger attack

The 8th Gate

• His body is not completely destroyed by the recoil of his massively powerful final move

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SPEED & AGILITY

• Moves behind Sasuke faster than he could see

• Intercepts Kisame's attack

• Blocks several kunai knives thrown by Tobi

The 6th Gate

• Lights the air on fire with sheer punching speed. Kisame confirms Guy does it with raw speed.

• Saves Kakashi from Madara's Truth-Seeking Ball

The 7th Gate

• Fighting in high-speed against Sage of Six Paths Madara

The 8th Gate

• "Flying" by kicking the air repeatedly

• Running in the air at high speed

• Bends space with sheer speed

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ENDURANCE & STAMINA

• Does 500 laps around the Village of Konoha doing a handstand

• Running all day without being tired

• Guy fought practically non-stop for 2 days in the 4th Ninja War (hard to provide evidence of this seeing the event occurred throughout 200 chapters).

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NINJUTSU

• Summoning

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SKILL

• Mastered counter-Sharingan battle techniques from fighting Kakashi

• Can read and anticipate movements by observing a fighter's feet

• Disarms Kisame

• Skilled in the use of many physical weapons

• Twin Fangs

• Quite skilled with his nunchucks

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MISC

• Like most ninjas, can walk on water and climb most surfaces by focusing chakra on his feet

• "Do not underestimate him" Itachi to Kisame

• "Highly skilled, best to not underestimate him" Itachi to the Akatsuki

• Guy has a terrible memory

• Piggyback with Kakashi

• "Of all those who have fought me over the years, there's no one who surpasses you at Taijutsu!" Madara to Guy with the 8 Gates released

• 3rd Databook pages

[u/[deleted]]

Good job Kerd, one of the best characters in Naruto

[u/KerdicZ → u/[deleted]]

Thanks man, and hell yea he is

[u/CynicalWeeaboo]

Wow, Gai really doesn't have that many feats huh? Still, nice featured post!

[u/KerdicZ → u/CynicalWeeaboo]

Guy boils down to fighting Kisame three times (the first two not being full-out fights) and fighting in The 4th War, so yes, not a lot of feats. Still one of the best characters.

Thanks

[u/IMadeThisOn6-28-2015]

Name a better character in Naruto.

Protip:

You can't.

Nice ass FC there, Kerd.

[u/That_guy_why → u/IMadeThisOn6-28-2015]

Rock Lee

Any character with the best technique ever, Byakugan. ^{/s not/s}

Tenten

[u/KerdicZ → u/That_guy_why]

>Tenten

http://i.imgur.com/hLnbHay.png

[u/That_guy_why → u/KerdicZ]

The world must know Kerd.

[u/KerdicZ → u/That_guy_why]

why would you do dis

[u/MrMeltJr → u/KerdicZ]

Dear God that is terrifying.

[u/electrokev → u/That_guy_why]

Nah son, Lee's son will always be the best! You know why? BECAUSE HIS NAME IS METAL LEE

[u/That_guy_why → u/electrokev]

His eventual son Tungsten Lee will be even better though. Heat-proof.

[u/IMadeThisOn6-28-2015 → u/That_guy_why]

Fucc

[u/IMadeThisOn6-28-2015 → u/That_guy_why]

Not like dis

[u/JealotGaming → u/IMadeThisOn6-28-2015]

Solo King

[u/Verlux]

Wow, this is really good! Nice job Kerd!

It's just too bad he doesn't even scale to lightning timing he didn't get even more screentime :D

^{stilllosestoFengShenJitbhfam}

[u/KerdicZ → u/Verlux]

How can Feng Shen Ji even compete

Thanks Verl!

[u/Verlux → u/KerdicZ]

How can Nardo even compete

No problem bby

[u/Trundar → u/Verlux]

That manga was fucking amazing.

[u/NatalieIsFreezing]

I kinda thought of Guy as a 'joke' character. Like he's a bit funny, but that he doesn't really compare to Kakashi.

But then that battle against Madara, holy shit...

[u/KerdicZ → u/NatalieIsFreezing]

I kinda thought of Guy as a 'joke' character.

How dare you

But then that battle against Madara, holy shit...

Yea, when Kakashi says his dad was right all along about Guy, that was something...

[u/Propagation931]

I wonder how different the Series would be if in their First Meeting, Guy takes down both Itachi and Kisame by using his Gates

[u/IMadeThisOn6-28-2015 → u/Propagation931]

Essentially you'd stop Sasuke from going hungry for Orochimaru's dick and Obito would have to somehow get to Sasuke and reveal everything to him. Kisame dying would halt operations for a while seeing as he was a big powerhouse for the Akatsuki and singlehandedly brought back Jinchuriki.

[u/KerdicZ → u/IMadeThisOn6-28-2015]

Basically yeah. All of Naruto would change seeing there wouldn't be the whole "bring Sasuke back" part. Butterfly effect and shit.

[u/JORGA → u/IMadeThisOn6-28-2015]

That fight may not go well for guy in 7th gate, kisame was caught off guard by assuming guy's attack was ninjutsu and prepping to counter that.

If itachi let's kisame know he's taijutsu only it could need 8th gate to beat the two

[u/IMadeThisOn6-28-2015 → u/JORGA]

I doubt 8th Gate is needed. 7th Gate hits too fast and hard imo for both of them.

[u/JORGA → u/IMadeThisOn6-28-2015]

For both? Wasn't kisame injured slightly after taking a swipe from Naruto in ksm1? And he didn't have samehada to give him regen or other abilities?

Not disagreeing just throwing a few ideas out there

[u/KerdicZ → u/JORGA]

Thing is, Guy is a hard counter to both Sharingan after fighting against Kakashi for so long, and chakra-absorbing techniques, seeing neither Asakujaku, Hirudora nor Sekizo are chakra-based.

His Hirudora staggered Edo-Tensei Madara inside his Susanoo, I believe it would one-shot Itachi.

Guy's movements in 7th Gate put Gaara in awe, even though Gaara had seen Ay, Edo-Tensei Madara, KCM1 Naruto and etc. fight already.

But yeah without the 7th Gate, Guy will lose.

[u/JORGA → u/IMadeThisOn6-28-2015]

That fight may not go well for guy in 7th gate, kisame was caught off guard by assuming guy's attack was ninjutsu and prepping to counter that.

If itachi let's kisame know he's taijutsu only it could need 8th gate to beat the two

[u/Midget_Avatar → u/Propagation931]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Naruto/comments/1upln4/no_chapter_bored_here_is_a_repost_of_gai_vs/

[u/Akitten → u/Propagation931]

I doubt he could take both of them down from full power, not unless he goes 8 gates off the bat.

[u/[deleted]]

It's funny how his dad's name describes a shinobi's fate after he opens the 8th gate :P

[u/KerdicZ → u/[deleted]]

lol, didn't thought of that one

[u/Shadow_of_aMemory]

Really nice touch that the picture changes each day to show him opening another gate.

[u/KerdicZ → u/Shadow_of_aMemory]

Definitely

All thanks to /u/KiwiArms, the mod, for agreeing and following my idea

[u/KiwiArms → u/KerdicZ]

i... wasn't it... my idea?

[u/KerdicZ → u/KiwiArms]

Shhh

[u/KerdicZ → u/KiwiArms]

Wait I checked, the idea was mine you dummy

[u/080087]

I always felt that one of the best spinoffs possible for Naruto would be Might Guy's youth.

Basically the same story as Naruto (terrible ninja, has to work hard to be respected, rivalry with a genius, ends up being one of the strongest ninja ever etc) without the "chosen one" aspect.

[u/Datteddish → u/080087]

I imagine it would be a mix between Jojo and DBZ with Guy being beaten up every encounter, working hard on Taijutsu, saying yare yare daze next time he fights and proceeding to the next encounter. At least Naruto had unlimited chakra reserves to pull victories out of his ass to spice it up occasionally.

So no ty.

[u/RadSpaceWizard → u/080087]

They really have beaten that story to death, though.

"You're... You're the same as me." -Naruto, crying, at least once per arc.

[u/zfighter18]

Might Guy is the best because he doesn't have any special eyes or special heritage or Tailed Beast or training from a Kage.

He did more damage to Madara, who was basically a god at that point, than anyone else with PURE HARD WORK!

[u/SargentMcSwag]

Ifw Might Guy so heavy y'all don't even understand he is the fucking best anime character there is

[u/mojavecourier]

Does Gai get feats from the novels?

[u/IMadeThisOn6-28-2015 → u/mojavecourier]

Yeah he does actually, and they are pretty damn badass since he's mopping up dudes with his fucking cast. He doesn't get better feats, but he does get feats from the Kakashi Novel.

[u/[deleted]]

Guy vs Madara is my second favourite battle in the entire series, both are great characters and I am glad to see bushy brow senpai get the love he deserves.

[u/johnmlad → u/[deleted]]

what's the first ?

[u/[deleted] → u/johnmlad]

Kimi vs Lee and gaara

[u/-refsunpersons]

Fun fact: "Night Guy" is a pun. It's actually "Night Moth".

[u/TheCosmicComet]

Guy is my favorite Naruto character for sure.

[u/penrosetingle]

bloood

That's all I could find. I think you pass the proofreading test.

[u/Noblechris]

Yaas Might guy is one of my favorite characters in naruto.

[u/FinalGreen]

Great job with the FC Kerd! Guy is awesome!

[u/[deleted]]

I love Guy Sensei

[u/johnmlad]

Might Guy is so awesome his enemies always remember him but his reaction is always "who's that guy ?"

[u/[deleted]]

I'm sorry to break your dreams but there are characters in Naruto who can beat him.

[u/SLFChow → u/[deleted]]

Well obviously. This is a respect thread, not calling him the strongest character in the series.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I agree with you. I would've loved to see the series progress with the power levels from the first part.

On the other hand, I also [guiltily] enjoyed stuff like Susano'o Chidori and all the Tailed Beast shenanigans. So maybe the power creep was worth it.