How They Compare: Bloodman (Fairy Tail)

Bloodman is one of the more unappreciated villains in the Fairy Tail series and today I felt like throwing him a much needed spotlight. Bloodman is an Etherious, a specific type of Demon that was created by The Legendary Black Wizard, Zeref for the specific purpose of killing him. But like the rest of his Etherious Brethren, he failed in this mission due to Zeref’s Curse. After this, Bloodman became one of Zeref’s top enforcers in The Alvarez Empire, joining his elite Spriggan Twelve and causing terror wherever he was needed.

Bloodman was designed to be the most powerful Demon in the world, placing him far above the demon Deliora, who made tidal waves eclipsing Galuna Island in size with its Roar while it was literally dying. In Battle, he was able to almost single handedly defeat and crucify the entirety of both the Blue Pegasus and Sabertooth Guilds at once, and get into a prolonged fight with powerful Fairy Tail member, Gajeel Redfox. Gajeel was relative to the likes of Natsu and Erza, the latter of which at the time could jump up into the air at Sub-Relativistic Speeds and smash a mountain sized meteorite while critically injured, which via Kinetic Energy would be hundreds of Teratons of TNT if not more. As Bloodman was able to keep up with Gajeel in speed and even match him in a beam struggle at one point, he scales to Country Level, Sub-Relativistic.

The first thing we have to talk about with Bloodman is his body itself. Bloodman cannot be physically attacked, as he is not a solid mass but a logia being composed entirely of Bane Particles. Bane Particles are an incredibly toxic substance that can be breathed in or absorbed directly through the skin. It is capable of liquifying peoples organs within minutes of being exposed, and is more effective the stronger a victims magic is. Bane Particle Poisoning renders a wizard incapable of using magic and rapidly deteriorates their organs at a far faster rate. He can also move his body elastically and passively spread these Bane Particles as a toxic cloud across an entire battlefield, giving him the nickname, The Grim Reaper due to just how many seem to drop dead and decay in his presence.

As a Demon, Bloodman uses the power of Curses and wields a larger arsenal of Curse attacks than any Demon seen in the series. With the Curse of Disaster, he can summon forth massive weather events like Tornados, Earthquakes, Blazes, Quicksand, Monsoons and Lightning. His other elemental powers include the Curse of Thorns which lets him control demonic plants, the Bomb Curse that lets him generate explosions anywhere he can see, and Tenchi Kaimei, which allows him to summon forth a great flood of black water from the Sea of Hades, which is so black you can’t find the surface and is composed entirely of Bane Particles.

With Tenga Goken, his arms take on the properties of blades that can spatially slice through anything, and fire sword beams, and with his Necromancy he can raise dead zombies and skeletons that can death hax people. He can also absorb people's souls and use them to become more powerful, he can even absorb the ‘soul’ of magical attacks to render them useless against him. His most Haxy Curses include Macro, which allows him to take complete control over someone using both Bodily Control and Mind Control at once, The Curse of Enhancement which lets him alter people's bodies, such as robbing them of all their senses or making their pain receptors so sensitive that a breeze feels like being set on fire, and Memento Mori, which just straight up completely erases people from existence.

His favorite Curse however is Over Skelter. A Curse that creates a vortex of bones and tentacles that seek out life and drag it into the underworld.

Bloodman is also the only Demon who can use magic, in his case, Ice Demon Slayer Magic. This Magic allows him to control Ice and Cold, but not just any Ice, a super durable lavender ice that specifically harms Demons. It also allows him immunity to ice and cold, the ability to consume ice to raise his power, and super senses. If he needs more power, he can enter his Etherious form, which raises his stats, and if that still isn’t enough, he has a final self destruct, suicide move that traps his slayer in an explosion that pulls them into Hell, a real dick move, but ya’know, Demon.

In terms of Weaknesses, Bloodman is specifically weak to both Light and Holy attacks, which can damage and destroy Bane Particles, allowing them to nullify his attacks and harm him past his defenses. Because of how deadly just his sheer presence is, he has also grown quite arrogant and isn’t nearly as skilled in actual combat as one would assume.

Name: Bloodman, The Grim Reaper

Origin: Fairy Tail

Classification: Demon (Etherious)

Powers and Abilities: Logia, Toxikinesis, Magic Nullification, Elasticity, Fragokinesis, Geokinesis, Storm Creation, Pyrokinesis, Hydrokinesis, Chlorokinesis, Aerokinesis, Cryokinesis, Ice Resistance/Absorption, Anti-Demonic Attacks, Sword Beams, Spatial Manipulation, Necromancy, Death Manipulation, Soul Hax, Mind Control, Bodily Control, Sensation Manipulation, Status Effect Inducement, Existence Erasure, Dimensional BFR

Weaknesses: Light and Holy Magic.

Destructive Capacity: Country Level

Range: Hundreds of Meters

Speed: Sub-Relativistic

Durability: Country Level

Stamina: Very High, fought against multiple armies of wizards for well over 2 days.

Intelligence: High, is over a century old.

 

So how would Bloodman do in other verses?

In DC Comics, Bloodman would be a MONSTER among the lower tier heroes and villains. Having stats comparable to characters like Mera, but a grabbag of hax that would let him potentially take out characters outright superior to her, especially with the fact that he is basically a walking cloud of super poison that Looks like a common monster for the verse, a lot of characters could get exposed just by rushing in to fight him. He’s also helped by the fact that most of the Haxy low tier characters like John Constantine are Magic users themselves who could get their powers nulled. I think he would have an interesting fight against characters like Aquaman who has his own powers like necromancy and mind manipulation. Though Bloodman would certainly be stopped by higher tier characters like Superman before long, even discounting the massive super senses, Bloodman isn’t exactly stealthy with all the devastation his body causes, and would not go unnoticed.

In the Saint Seyia series, Bloodman would be an extremely challenging threat among all Bronze and Silver Saints, having comparable power to the latter, and speed that is outright superior to both. That said the Saints have some tricks of their own, their most helpful of which is their complete control over Atoms, which would completely negate Bloodman’s logia defense, allowing them to physically strike him. They can also resist a large chunk of his arsenal, including Mind and Soul manipulation, Freezing, and the poison of his Bane Particles. Not to Mention, since Curses are an ability Bloodman had to learn, The Saints Reactive Evolution would give them resistance to any of these if they can manage to survive it once. This coupled with numbers and their large skill advantage could let them bring him down. But given Bloodman still has many effective attacks, including potentially drowning them in a flood of black water, they would need to be extremely careful.

In Yu Yu Hakusho, Bloodman would fittingly be considered an S Class Demon in terms of physical stats, albeit his versatility is quite high even for this impressive rank. Bloodman has Some devastating powers that could allow him to potentially kill anyone in the series if he uses them right, such as existence erasure, and the ability to absorb souls. He also would be able to counteract the intangibility and invisibility many of the characters have due to the aforementioned soul hax, and his super sense. That said Demon’s of this verse could give him a great deal of trouble, due to their vastly, VASTLY superior skill, and some deadly powers like Dimensional BFR and Illusions. Some of Bloodman’s abilities like the Macro Curse, Enhancement Curse and the Bane Particles also outright don’t affect Demons. That said his Demon slaying Ice would certainly be a game changer in a lot of those fights. The Best characters to take on Bloodman would be Hiei, whose Jigan Eye would protect him from several of Bloodman’s powers and Darkness Flame can match his Demonic Ice, and also Kurama who is just so much more intelligent and skilled that he’d just outthink him awesomely.

In the Samurai Jack series, Bloodman would be an Aku level threat, being straight up comparable to Aku in physical power and having a similar amount of Hax. This includes Aku’s ability of being an amorphous, regenerating blob of darkness that can poison or corrupt those exposed. Against almost anyone in this Verse, Bloodman can basically steamroll them through sheer power and potent Hax, that said there are two clear exceptions to that. One of which is Aku himself, who possesses several of the same powers as Bloodman, yet superior speed. A fight between the two could go either way, though it is somewhat more Likely that Aku would win via banishing him to another time period. But someone who could totally stop him would ironically be Jack himself. While Bloodman does hold the power advantage, Jack is much faster than him and his Mystical Katana would completely destroy Bloodman with its purifying holy blade. Jack’s skill advantage over Bloodman is hilariously massive, and would allow him to straight up dodge most of Bloodman’s attacks, and resist powers like Soul Attacks, and Mind Control, he can also abuse stealth, fight through poison, hold his breath indefinitely and fight completely blind. And since Bloodman can’t fly, teleport, time travel or use any of the other mobility options that Aku has, he also couldn’t escape Jack.

Lastly in the Divine Comedy verse. Bloodman would be quite busted within Inferno, being far more powerful than Any of the Damned and all the Demons that reside there and absorbing their souls, gaining more and more strength, the only thing that could potentially stop him is Medusa’s petrification, but she’d likely die from his sheer presence first. He, with his many hax abilities and better intelligence, would even be able to slay Satan himself in the bottom of the 9th circle and advance into Purgatorio. As the absolute zero temperatures there would not work thanks to his Ice Immunity and he has his own spatial manipulation, more than letting him conquer that entire plain. Whether or not he can get through Purgatorio however is much more up in the Air as it’s likely at that point the Angels would intervene. Bloodman absolutely cannot fight Angel’s or any of the residents of Paradiso for that matter as they exist on a higher plane than any of his own hax, and wield Holy powers that could easily destroy him like a common insect, they also have a notable speed advantage.