Might Guy

Tall and heavily muscled, Guy has fair skin, a firm jawline, a fairly large nose, and black hair. His most recognisable features are a glossy bowl cut and a pair of thick brows so prominent that Naruto Uzumaki fondly nicknames him Master Intense Brows. He dresses in a green jumpsuit and orange-striped leg warmers under the standard Konoha flak jacket, which he usually leaves hanging open, and wraps his red forehead protector around his waist like a belt. His look has stayed nearly constant across his career, though as a genin his jumpsuit was sleeveless and paired with a neck scarf, and as a boy his hair fell bushy to his chin. Following the Fourth Great Shinobi War, damage from the fighting leaves his right leg in a cast.

Nothing captures Guy better than his "nice guy" pose: a thumbs-up, a wink, and a gleaming smile finished with a proverbial ping. He reserves it for the weightiest promises made to the people who matter most, which is why tears so often stream down his face when he strikes it. Driven and endlessly committed, he pushes past his own limits by conviction and by his understood-mostly-to-himself Power of Youth, insisting that one must own both strengths and weaknesses and improve whatever can be improved, a lesson inherited from his father. For all his eccentricity he is deeply responsible and selfless, quick to sacrifice himself without hesitation for the greater good and unwilling to wallow in self-pity even after injury ends his career. He also makes a point of relying on taijutsu whenever he can, favouring bladeless weapons and even flimsy disguises over ninjutsu, and admits to a hopeless memory for faces, having failed to recognise Kisame Hoshigaki across three separate encounters. His famous rivalry with Kakashi Hatake, tallied at a lopsided fifty wins to forty-nine across contests as trivial as rock-paper-scissors, only sharpens his drive, yet the two count each other among their closest and most trusted friends. Toward his student Rock Lee he shows an almost fatherly devotion, a bond he later extends to Lee's son Metal.

After a shaky start, Guy proves himself a true late bloomer, growing into one of Konoha's strongest ninja, his power respected by the likes of Itachi Uchiha and Kakashi, who ultimately concedes that Guy has surpassed him. He fights off the Six-Tails alone and, unleashing his fullest capacities, comes close to defeating Madara Uchiha in his Ten-Tails jinchūriki state, drawing comparisons to the First Hokage. Denied talent in ninjutsu and genjutsu as a child, he poured everything into taijutsu, mastering the Strong Fist style and performing feats that need no chakra at all, such as driving a foe clean through a rock wall with a single hand or striking before an opponent registers his presence. His crowning skill is the Eight Gates, taught to him by his father; his mastery lets him fling open the first seven at will, each unlocking greater physical and mental power at the cost of mounting bodily strain, with the eighth gate near-certain to be fatal. From these he draws a signature arsenal: the Front Lotus at the first gate, the Reverse Lotus at the third, the friction-igniting Morning Peacock at the sixth, the one-hit Daytime Tiger at the seventh, the long-range Evening Elephant at the eighth, and finally Night Guy, a space-warping kick that all but kills Madara while shattering his own right leg beyond repair. Though he rarely reaches for them, he can still summon tortoises such as Ningame and wields fire and lightning natures, and he ranks as a master of weapons, favouring nunchaku in his Sōshūga style and having trained Tenten extensively. He even devised a way to track an enemy's feet to slip past the Sharingan's eye-contact genjutsu. His wartime injury officially ended his career, yet after rehabilitation he adapted his stance around his damaged leg and remained a legendary shinobi.