"I am brilliant and beautiful. Anything I want on this earth I can take and no one can stop me. Simply, I am bored."
-- Daken Akihiro
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The Respect Thread will be divided into the following sections:
- Physicals
- Speed
- Strength
- Durability
- Mutant Powers
- Healing Factor
- Pheromones
- Claws
- Combat Skill
- Accolades
- Technical Skill
- Battles
- Intelligence
Physicals
Speed
Spider-Man claims Daken is as fast as his father, Wolverine:
Daken easily dodges several rocks and boulders thrown by Skaar:
Several examples of Daken dodging bullets from close-range:
Particularly impressive is that Daken dodges several shots from the Punisher, an expert marksman and assassin:
Daken easily dodges a shot from FrankenCastle, a reanimated Punisher, at point-blank range:
Daken dances around Ben Grimm:
Daken easily side-steps Ben's attack:
Daken dodges a strike from Wolverine:
Daken easily reacts to Spider-Man's attack, despite Peter catching him off-guard:
Strength
Wolverine muses that he and Daken are "equal forces of destruction, clashing with apocalyptic force", implying Daken is his equal strength-wise:
Daken easily throws a car door:
Daken lands a well-placed strike on Dark Spider-Man:
Daken casually stops a kick from Deadpool:
Daken throws back Cyber:
Daken easily grabs and throws Spider-Man:
Daken knocks down Fang:
Daken knocks down FrankenCastle, a reanimated Punisher with superhuman strength and durability:
Daken kicks FrankenCastle down:
Daken throws FrankenCastle hard enough that he smashes a swatcar:
Daken does this again, this time hurling Frank an even further distance and incapacitating him:
Daken then easily lifts and smashes Frank into a wall:
Daken kicks X-23 hard enough to send her flying back, smashing a wall:
Daken, while he only had one hand, manages to restrain X-23:
Daken throws Wolverine through a wall:
Daken lands several solid hits on Spider-Man:
A bloodlusted Daken, while having his mutant powers(most noticeably his healing factor) stripped away by drugs and while suffering several injuries because of it, punches the Thing, causing him to bleed:
Durability
Note: A lot of Daken's durability feats can be attributed to his healing factor, but in some instances he had his healing factor stripped away. Because of that I'll place (X) next to a feat as a sign that he had no healing factor when the feat happened.
Daken endures a blast from Moses Magnum:
Daken endures an explosion and a house collapsing on him:
(X) Daken endures an onslaught from the Runaways:
Getting stabbed in the chest only makes Daken angry:
Daken endures an enraged X-23's punches:
Daken and X-23 survive a big fall:
(X) Here Daken survives an even bigger fall and still easily gets up and flees from the Avengers:
Daken bounces back from a blow from Skaar:
Daken takes a beating from Ben Grimm:
Daken is unharmed from several attacks from the Human Torch:
Daken takes part in a brutal fight with the Punisher, where both land several crippling blows to each other:
Daken gets hit by a truck and gets up, moments later, unharmed:
Daken endures three days of torture, without making a sound:
A list of all the things Daken endured during those three days:
Mutant Powers
Healing Factor/Regeneration
Daken heals from a bullet wound:
Daken is unphased by several bullet wounds:
Daken easily walks through plasma-breath of another mutant:
Daken heals from an explosion:
Daken heals from one of Gambit's attacks:
Daken can't get enough explosions, apparently. This time he and Laura heal from an explosion that destroys a giant building:
Daken falls into one of the Punisher's traps. He gets impaled dozens of times, and then, you guessed it, another explosion happens. Daken heals:
After the impalement and explosions Daken healed from earlier, he gets smashed by a car:
FrankenCastle and Daken then proceed to fight, and Daken endures a beating:
Then, even after that, Daken gets electrecuted and hit by a train:
Daken heals from that from all of that, fairly quickly:
Pheromones
Daken has the ability to make people do whatever he wants, by manipulating their emotions through pheromones:
Daken even notes that this takes "no effort at all", when boasting to Bullseye:
Daken proves this to be true. A single use of his pheromones and he makes Bullseye feel jealous, angry and confused. He can also trigger feelings that Bullseye "didn't even know he had":
Daken calms Bullseye down with a kiss, using his pheromones in the process:
Daken triggers rage in Ben Grimm:
Daken triggers rage in Ares:
Daken implants fear in a man, making him walk away:
Daken can also use his pheromones to hinder his enemies. He uses it to hide his scent from Wolverine:
Daken uses his pheromones to mess with Spider-Man's spidey senses:
Claws
Daken's claws have some serious cutting power. They easily pierce Marcus:
This same Marcus was no-selling bullets just minutes prior:
Daken's claws can pierce through Osborn's Iron-Man suit:
They can even cut and pierce Skaar's skin:
Daken's claws also have the unique ability to actually cancel out healing factor for a time, due to part of the Muramasa blade being stuck to his claws at one point:
Combat Skill
Accolades
Cyber claims that Daken is more skilled than him:
Akihiro, alongside X-23, Sabertooth and Lady Deathstrike, is noted as one of the deadliest fighters in the world:
Technical Skill
Daken is trained as a samurai, which besides swordplay, also includes training in archery:
Daken is trained in many martial arts, but perhaps the most noteworthy is a special technique that allows him, through skill and speed, to strike his enemies without them noticing. This also works when your enemy is looking directly at you, and you don't neccessarilly need to be much faster than your foe to use it, as seen when Daken dances around Deadpool:
Daken uses this technique to disarm Deadpool before Wade even realizes:
Daken even takes out Wolverine with this technique:
Fights
Vs Fodder
Daken easily takes out multiple armed assailants:
Daken and X-23 fight off multiple mutants:
Daken fights an Asgardian army, alongside the Dark Avengers:
Daken actually gets a pretty good body count of Asgardians, as well.
Daken, while missing an army, exhausted and did not have access to his healing factor, stomps an Ice Giant:
Vs Punisher
Daken has multiple encounters with Frank Castle, the Punisher. Most of these fights are actually a prep game where the Punisher sets up traps or tries to evade/escape Daken. For the sake of simplicity I'll just list the three fights where they go head-to-head. The first is where Daken wins, successfully killing the Punisher in a bloody fight:
The second fight has Daken losing against FrankenCastle, a superhumanly strong, reanimated Punisher:
Their third fight has them both exhausted and injured, especially after a bit of a intervention by Wolverine, and has Daken winning through skill:
Vs X-23
Most of the fight happens off-screen and in a duration between two comics(X-23 #8 and Daken: Dark Wolverine #8) but we do know that the two of them seem to be on par:
Vs Sabertooth
Again, most of the fight happens off-panel, and we only see the end, that being Daken winning:
Vs Moon Knight
During this fight, Daken was injured, his body and mind were all but broken, his healing factor was gone, and he was hallucinating Wolverine which emotionally unbalanced him. Despite that, he still bested Moon Knight, who kept trying to use his emotional unbalance to his advantage:
Vs Spider-Man
Daken fights, and nearly defeats, Spider-Man, mostly by using the advantage of stealth and pheromones:
Vs Wolverine
Daken has had plenty of encounters against Wolverine during the years, and he's lost most of them. But there are two fights where he performs better than most against Logan. In their first fight, he actually beats his father:
There's also another encounter where Daken and Logan stalemate each other:
Intelligence
Daken plays a game of analysis and deconstruction, so he knows exactly how to break his enemies down. This is a game he considers simple:
Daken takes control of every aspect of Madripoor, through his cunning and manipulation:
Daken places a phone into himself, then allows himself to be captured, so his team can track the phone and find a secret lair:
Daken defeats Reed Richards by anticipating his approach to a situation, and using the heat drug that took his healing factor in order to disable him:
Daken manipulates the X-men, the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, leading them on a wild goose chase and playing them against each other:
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