Respect Meruem, King of the Ants! (Hunter X Hunter) [Composite]

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Well, who am I? A nameless king, in a borrowed castle. My subjects nothing more than mindless puppets. If this is the mandate the heavens have granted me... I fear nothing except the tedium that it will bring!

♫Unasked Advice/♫The Last Mission/♫Elegy of the Dynast

Meruem, known simply as The King for most of his life, was a Chimera Ant King, the ultimate offspring of a Chimera Ant Queen, an insect who passes on the genetic traits of species she eats to her progeny. The King’s role is to mate with other species and create the next generation of Queens and nests. Meruem’s Queen was a human sized mutant that ate thousands of people to give birth to Meruem, as well as Neferpitou, Shaiapouf, and Menthuthuyoupi, the Royal Guards that she hoped would allow him to conquer the world. Shortly before he was to be born, Meruem tore himself out of his mother’s womb and left her to die before even learning his name, while he and the Royal Guard looked for a place to start their own nest. They quickly took over the country of East Gorteau, planning to turn much of its population into Chimera Ants to serve as Meruem’s army. To pass the time, Meruem played with the country’s champions at various board games, beating all of them except one. To his frustration but also amusement, Meruem was unable to defeat a blind girl named Komugi at a game called gungi. This caused him to become torn between his instincts as an ant and his human compassion. Meruem’s dilemma was dramatically compounded when the Hunter Association attacked the royal palace. With Komugi injured, he asked Pitou to heal her, while Youpi and Pouf dealt with the other intruders, as he left for a deserted location to face Isaac Netero, chairman of the Hunter Association. Instead of fighting Netero, however, Meruem tried to have a dialogue with him, asking him to join him in remaking the world into a utopia. Netero declined Meruem’s offer, but was unable to get him to fight him, until he revealed he had learned what his mother had named him just before she died. Intrigued, the King engaged Netero, and using the experience from all his matches with Komugi, defeated him. However, Netero revealed he had come prepared to lose, activating a nuclear weapon right after telling Meruem his name, nearly killing him. Healed by Youpi and Pouf, Meruem now had amnesia, which Pouf, wanting to help his king in taking over the world, used as an opportunity to try and kill Komugi. Fortunately, she was protected by the hunters who had invaded the palace, and Meruem was able to remember her shortly after learning the nuclear weapon had poisoned him. Asking the hunters to let him see Komugi before he died, Meruem told her of his condition before they played game after game of gungi, until they finally passed away in each other’s arms

Note: This respect thread will be using feats from the 2011 anime. Feats from this source will be labeled.

##Physicals

###Strength

Obliterates the heads of two Nen users with swipes of his tail ^- ^Chapter ^213
Punches a large hole in a thick rock wall [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^213, ^Episode ^91
Stabs his tail into rock and uses it to fling himself to the top of a mountain [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^198, ^213, ^Episode ^91
Hits Neferpitou with his tail hard enough to draw blood ^- ^Chapter ^214
[Anime] Kills six soldiers and a Nen user with a swipe of his tail ^- ^Episode ^93
Hits Shaiapouf with his tail hard enough to draw blood and send him flying ^- ^Chapter ^249
Hits Menthuthuyoupi with his tail hard enough to draw blood [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^261, ^Episode ^110
- Youpi was unharmed after exploding with enough force to turn a building into a crater [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^216, ^277-279, ^304, ^Episode ^117-118
Easily pushes back two of the hands of Netero's 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^290, ^Episode ^122
Jumps between concrete pillars hard enough to crater them [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^292, ^Episode ^126
Dismembers Netero every time he hits him ^- ^Chapter ^296-297
- Killua, who was strong enough to tear apart metal restraints, hurt his leg kicking Netero ^- ^Chapter ^13, ^42
Becomes stronger than before after eating 6/7ths of Pouf's body and over 90% of Youpi's and absorbing most of their aura ^- ^Chapter ^299, ^301, ^310
Knocks out Knuckle and Meleoron by tapping them ^- ^Chapter ^308
- Knuckle was able to stay conscious briefly after getting hit by Gon's Jajanken punch, which shattered a boulder ^- ^Chapter ^203, ^145

###Durability and Endurance

[Anime] Possibly unharmed by assault rifle fire ^- ^Episode ^93
Doesn’t seem to feel any pain after tearing off his own arm ^- ^Chapter ^249
Not tired after playing gungi with Komugi for four and a half days straight while skipping meals ^- ^Chapter ^244, ^246, ^255-257
Only slightly bleeding after getting hit into rock hard enough to make a large crater by Netero's Bodhisattva [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^288, ^290, ^Episode ^122
Unharmed after getting pummeled by Netero's Bodhisattva hard enough to create a massive cloud of debris and a giant hole in a concrete roof [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^291, ^Episode ^125
Unharmed after getting slapped through two concrete pillars by Netero’s Bodhisattva and landing on a third one hard enough to crater it [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^291, ^Episode ^125
Unharmed after getting knocked into a concrete pillar hard enough to crater it and hit again hard enough to fracture it by Netero's Bodhisattva [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^292, ^Episode ^126
Unharmed after getting knocked into two concrete pillars hard enough to crater them by Netero's Bodhisattva [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^292, ^Episode ^126
After getting hit thousands of times by Netero's Bodhisattva, only starts to feel a dull internal ache [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^292, ^296, ^Episode ^126
No worse for wear after getting hit over a thousand more times by Netero's Bodhisattva [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^297, ^Episode ^126
Has a lot of gashes but is fine after getting hit by a beam of all of Netero's aura that melted concrete and created a large crater in it [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^297, ^Episode ^126
Barely alive after being at the epicenter of a nuclear explosion that destroyed hills and created a molten crater, though he loses all his limbs [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^297-299, ^Episode ^126-128
Regenerates after eating 6/7ths of Pouf's body and over 90% of Youpi's and absorbing most of their aura ^- ^Chapter ^299, ^301, ^310
After feeling his aura, Knuckle, who was very good at quantifying the power of Nen users, says military power at the state level would be needed to stop Meruem ^- ^Chapter ^308, ^267, ^211
Survives for several hours after it turns out the nuclear weapon used on him had a poison that caused his body to produce more of the poison to spread it, and lasts longer or about as long as the people he contaminated ^- ^Chapter ^310-311, ^314, ^317-318

###Speed

Moves dozens of meters in around 2 seconds and avoids getting hit by a rain of projectiles that moved 2 kilometers in less than 3 seconds ^- ^Chapter ^259, ^261, ^263-267
Walks past Netero and Zeno before they can react after they were distracted for a split second [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^268, ^Episode ^112
- Zeno was fast enough to pin down Chrollo with his attacks, who could easily dodge chains that moved several meters in 0.2 seconds ^- ^Chapter ^99, ^113-114
[Anime] Rocks fall centimeters in half a minute from his perspective ^- ^Episode ^125-126
After each of Netero's attacks, immediately recovers, no matter the angle, and jumps back at him, creating shockwaves and appearing as a blur with his movements [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^292, ^296-297, ^Episode ^126
Does this over a thousand times in less than a minute [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^297, ^Episode ^126
Moves at comparable speeds to Netero bringing his hands together, which was the only motion that surpassed Meruem's speed [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^292, ^Episode ^126
- Netero was able to punch faster than sound [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^265, ^Episode ^111
Flies dozens of kilometer in 5 minutes, and could run the same distance in 20 minutes ^- ^Chapter ^259, ^265, ^267, ^290, ^298, ^301, ^303
[Anime] Flies around as a blur ^- ^Episode ^128
[Anime] Flies fast enough to create a vapor cone ^- ^Episode ^128
Moves hundreds of meters and hits Knuckle and Meleoron before they can react, despite them knowing which direction he would be coming from ^- ^Chapter ^221, ^235, ^304, ^308
- Knuckle was fast enough to react to Cheetu, who moved faster than several bullets inches from hitting him ^- ^Chapter ^221, ^218

###Intelligence

##Nen

Nen is a technique within Hunter X Hunter that grants users the ability to control their life energy, or aura, and use it to gain superhuman attributes. To harness Nen there are 4 general techniques which exist, and several advanced techniques, of which Meruem knows at least 2, as well as 6 categories of Nen user.

An explanation of each category, Meruem's type is Emission

###Ten

Ten allows a user to control the flow of their aura and lets a person protect themself with a defensive shield. It is the most basic of Nen techniques but also the most necessary, as it prevents one's aura from simply uncontrollably spilling out of their body.

###Zetsu

Zetsu is used to suppress one's aura, and by doing so can hide their presence and make it easier for them to detect the presence of others, as well as relieve fatigue, at the cost of being otherwise incapable of using aura

###Ren

Ren increases the flow of aura, amplifying the traits granted by Nen, improving users physical attributes and allowing them to expend more of their available aura

Netero's Ren, which feels like being stabbed with needles to other Nen users, is much weaker than Pitou’s, let alone Meruem's ^- ^Chapter ^213, ^215
Nen users weaker than Pitou can induce fear, paralysis, and eventually death in non-users with their Ren ^- ^Chapter ^47, ^361, ^199
An output of Ren that was like a toddler's stomped foot compared to his full power scared Netero ^- ^Chapter ^290
Spreads his Ren over hundreds of meters, filling several other Nen users with despair, and causing Youpi and Pouf to think he could defeat other Nen abilities with just the quantity of his aura [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^304, ^308, ^Episode ^132
His Ren caused another Nen user to prematurely age as if 100 years had passed [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^312-313, ^Episode ^134

###Hatsu

Hatsu is a technique that varies from person to person, it is a personal expression of one's Nen, and for nearly every Nen user in the series, comes in the form of a signature ability

###Nen Absorption

Meruem’s first Hatsu allows him to absorb the aura of other others by eating them, as well as any Hatsu they might have

Eats 6/7ths of Pouf's body and over 90% of Youpi's and absorbs their aura and Hatsu’s ^- ^Chapter ^299, ^310, ^312
Youpi’s Respect Thread
Pouf’s Respect Thread

###Shapeshifting

Grows wings like Youpi and Pouf's ^- ^Chapter ^301

###Rage Blast

Absorbed from Youpi, this Hatsu lets Meruem create explosions by compartmentalizing his anger

Fires a blast of aura that destroys a plateau [Anime] ^- ^Chapter ^302, ^Episode ^129
Aura is invisible to those without Nen unless it's Conjured ^- ^Chapter ^48, ^371

###In

In is an advanced application of Zetsu that makes aura undetectable to the senses without actually suppressing it

###Gyo

Gyo is the focusing of Ren in certain parts of the body, to either increase a user’s senses and detect aura hidden with In, or to improve their offensive or defensive power

Could use Gyo before being taught anything about Nen ^- ^Chapter ^214, ^216

###En

En is an advanced application of Ten and Ren that extends a user’s aura to a radius of 2 meters around their body for at least 1 minute, allowing them to feel the shape and movement of anything that enters it

Expands his En hundreds of meters at the speed of light ^- ^Chapter ^304, ^308
Can read the emotions of those currently or previously exposed to his En and tell if they’re lying thanks to absorbing Pouf's Hatsu ^- ^Chapter ^312
Another Nen user just getting near Pouf's En caused his hair to turn white from the stress ^- ^Chapter ^250-252, ^259
Could tell with his En that Ikalgo previously told Welfin to act as a messenger for him ^- ^Chapter ^309, ^312-313
Can use his En to Transmute his aura into countless photons, which he can scatter to attach to objects and read any data, from physical properties to emotions ^- ^Chapter ^314
Can tell Palm knows he's poisoned with his En ^- ^Chapter ^314

###Shu

Shu is the enveloping of objects with aura to improve their strength and durability

###Ko

Ko is a combination of Ten, Zetsu, Ren, Hatsu, and Gyo, which focuses all of a user’s aura into one part of the body to make it far more destructive

###Ken

Ken is an advanced application of Ten and Ren to maintain the latter for longer, and envelop a user’s body with around 10 times more aura than normal

###Ryu

Ryu is the use of Gyo to quickly change the ratio of one’s offensive and defensive power in combat

Yes, I see it now. This is why I was born. For this moment.

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