The respect thread of K' (KOF univerce, based on NeoSun comics/manga)

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The respect thread of K' (KOF univerce, based on NeoSun comics/manga)

This respect thread is a bit odd, since it dedicated to a character who's mostly known for his appearance in KOF fighting games series. But that thread is not based on his in-game feats, but on feats from HK comics published by NeoSun.

Disclaimer:1. Comics appearance is different from in-game appearace, there's some minor differences in plot and more noticeable differences in characters' power showings (the powerset is basically the same, but there's much more diversity). So the feats from comics aren't valid in game versus discussion- there's 2 separate universes and comics feats in most cases aren't canon in games. Comics version of game character is often like a movie version of comisc character- movie isn't canon in comics debates, but movie version is fine for debates as a separate character.
2. If someone tries to use that as a reason of using our "handsome whitehaired adaptable flame" in comics versus forum, I'd like to warn you that it can be disapproved by mods... But there's always chance that the thread can survive if made properly.
3. That's mostly just for pleasure and delight of people like me and Avalonofthewind. As for other purposes- see above.
4. The majority of scans are in Chinese. That may cause some difficulties in understanding- for example, Chinese comics\manga should be read from right to left...

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Who's K'?
That description fits him perfectly-
He has the power, the courage, the speed, the style and he has the combinations and the counter moves that make his defense almost impossible to breach. This guy can hand almost anyone’s ass to him.

Combining his awesome fighting skills (he uses his own personal fighting style, which is described in games as "pure violence" but in many ways it's a tribute to Jet Kun Do- hence the stance he takes when the opponent has finished talking before a fight in KOF 2000 (Which according to Bruce's book, it is the Ready Stance). Also some of the moves/move names, such as K's One Inch, are obvious references to Bruce Lee.) with impressive control over mystical flames of Kusanagi implanted into him, as well as the strength and the speed, K' was created by NESTS to become "the strongest human". But due to the failure of experiment he didn't become "the KOF's Cap America" immediately- K Prime had to prove his superiority over the "perfect model", Krizalid, who appeared to be cloned from "prototype model", K'.

That's the Wiki bio of him- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K'

Some people noticed the similarities between his history and Wolverine's but the only thing which is similiar is that both of them are victims of weird experiments who had their memories erased for some time, but eventually ot them back.

K's best friend and longtime partner is Maxima, canadian cyborg with sideburns. Psychologically they are perfect complitments to each other- light-hearted and easy-going Maxima and unsociable K'.

Since it's pretty cold here in Minsk and it rains heavily, I'm going to start the list of feats with FLAME

The powerful blast of flames wrecks the military aviabase- it's not much weaker that Human Torch's Supernova.

Flame control feat- controlling the lava stream enough to get himself and Kula Diamond- a cryokinetic who was made to kill K' but ended up becoming a mix of little sister and girlfriend to K'- to safety. He controls lava by mixing it with his own flames.

Blowing up a skyscraper in fight with Iori Yagami- devastating rage of sacred flames unleached

Surprises people with his mastery of flame control at KOF 2000- surrounds himself in aura of his own fiery energy to take a powerful fiery assault- and then beats old guy who was stupid enough to mess with Beast Of Prey in that way

Survives supposingly deadly flame assault of his "superior", Krizalid, and then uses his flame and fighting skills to return a favour (though it took him a lot of effort)

Speed feats (it's all about combat speed, so it's also can be the martial art demonstration)

Speedblitzing some thugs in "WTF hit me" style- boring routine for The Beast Of Prey

Easily parrying h2h attack which speed is "like a speeding bullet"

One of the nicest moves in K's arsenal is Blackout. In game it's shown as a teleport- but it looks more like a speedup to the point where he seems like a black blurry shadow to human eye...

He uses that to outrun and dodge the projectile which was once used to deflect a city-destroying beam and was so powerful that according to the calculation of his friend Maxima, K' would have been dead if projectile connected

Durability feats

As any top level martial artist, K' can easily deaden himself to pain.
Here he gets stabbed with rapier to get himself into position which is better for beating the rapier's owner, beats her with style and then removes the rapier like nothing.
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Survives being thrown through the wall of building with a huge TK blast

Agility&fighting skills

K' has to fight his icy counterpart, Kula, on the top of the plane which is going to crash into the mountain (luckily, K's friend Maxima uses his superstrength and piloting skills to avoid the wreck). K' had to melt plane's skin a bit to be able to stand and fight on the top of moving plane...but even despite that, that's a great agility feat.

continued in the next post

nice to see that you quoted me 🙂
keep up the good work! great scans there and now we all know why K is one of the coolest SNK design so far....wonder where it all went when they made Ass Crimson🙁

you can also mention how in the intro of KoFMI2 K' is taking on heavily armored assualt teams like there is nothing...in fact he stands there in his usual cool way and simply charges up his flames: "bring it on"
and he actually attacks them head on and beats them!

Stamina:
K' takes on the semifinalist team of KoF2001 (could be Kyo team or even NESTS team) defeats them, fights Original Zero (who has a screen filling special and so much power that he can pull off such a huge move by simply clenching his fists) and Zero's strikers, defeats Original Zero on his own, fights Igniz, gets thrashed badly since Igniz is a god, then with help gets up fights Igniz again and DEFEATS him, goes through a mega crash when the space ship crashes into the ocean, swims back up and fights of K9999 and Angel to save Kula.

Speed:
-black out speaks for itself
-the speed of heat driver where in KoF2003 onwards you can't even see him
-the heaven driver where he performs scorching flame attacks in less than 2 seconds

Fighting Genius:
-the way he uses the shades to confuse his opponent
-his fiery defense-offense in creating a ring of fire (iron trigger) and then shooting it away or up to become an anti-air, juggle friendly projectile or simply to cancel out a projectile and kick the fire at his opponent
-the fact that he won KoF2001 dsepite people like Terry bogard, Kyo, Iori, K999, Ryo, Kim etc all in the fray. K stands out.

~Sado

The "strongest human who has become unstoppable to normal humans" was taken from K's intro story from KOF MI2. He dodges bullets like nothing...and in case of someone being "too clever" with trying to shot him he has his Iron Trigger to melt the bullets.

As for scans- that's just a beginning...

Flame control

Uses cigarette butt as a projectile- Gambit-style

Flame control&fighting skills
K' versus Athena Asamiya- psionic, who was an incarnation of Greek goddess Athena and a wieder of spiritual "Phoenix" energy (has nothing to do with Phoenix Force, of course). She even manages to burn K' with her Phoenix "flame"- much to his surprice, since being burnt was an unusual feeling for him. But finally he manages to protect himself against those spiritual flames- and wins!

Mental resistance
Athena's master tries to read K's mind to predict his moves (and succeeds in that for a while- but K' wins by using defensive tactics, provocating Chin Gentsai on attacks and beating him via counterattacks). But when he gets too deep into his mind...he understands what Martian Manhunter felt when he tried to read Black Adam's mind.

Fighting skills, strength&firepower

K' is breaking machine made of pretty damage resistant alloys with just one strike (he adds his flame in it, but he definitely knows how to throw STRONG kick)

K' vs Krizalid

K' fights his "superior" at the river- they stalemate, till K's sister, Whip, stops the fight. Great demonstration of agility and fighting skills, as well as firepower.

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Firepower&smart fighting

K' has to fight robot with the ability to reform after being broken. He acts smart- simply catches one of details of robot and melts it completely, thus not letting the magnetic field to gather parts of the robot together again- it wasn't able to "recreate" the detail from molten metal...and then delievers finishing blow.

Great thread. 👆

K is one of my favorite characters from the KOF series.