By Yea Forums god standards, is Aku actually powerful or an inept fighter gifted with overwhelming powers?

Aku conquered and controlled the entire universe for thousands of years, creating dystopian hellholes because it amused him. He'd let colonists prosper before letting extraterrestrial criminals attack them because it amused him. He systematically corrupted and perverted every culture he encountered into worshipping him because it amused him. He let demons and monsters and dark magic run rampant because it amused him. Every single act of rebellion was immediately found and crushed without exception, and even those loyal to him lived in misery and fear.

Sheev Palpatine ruled the galaxy for a few decades.
Aku ruled the cosmos for centuries. No other villain in /co history won as hard as he won.

Aku conquered part of the galaxy, not the universe.

I didn't see a single planet he hadn't conquered or wasn't immediately conquering

>drains an entire planet of it's water
>immigrants from that planet come to seek aid
>he straight up admits to stealing their water just because even though he didn't need it
>forces them to be his worshippers and build him a shrine "as a token of appreciation for allowing you refuge on my planet"
>they thank him for his mercy

>first scene of the future is Aku fucking a planet of water people
>later a doggo tells Jack "I'm sure he plans to spread his vileness through the stars"
Aku's interplanetary conquest was just getting started. He didn't rule the universe. He didn't even rule the galaxy.

>Remember how some elemental spirits kicked his ass over and over for hundreds of years?
No i don't, when was that?

That episode where Jack becomes a mafioso and gets water crystal for the Family so they can monopolise water supply in there, don't remember why he did that tho

Virgin FOOLISH SAMURAI vs. Shapeshifting Chad of Evil

Awful quality tho youtu.be/Sry0MUDntIg?t=581

>Destroying all portals then waiting Jack out was a great plan.

Emphasis on "was".

yes and no, sometimes he's a complete tool (well, most of the time), but then there are times where he's an absolute BEAST (like when he gets jack's sword and pretty much turns into a flood of darkness and arms, and both times he's raining death on armies in the final season).

The last episode kinda ruined him. If he could travel back in time, he should be nearly impossible to beat.

Up until that episode it wasn't clear whether it's actually possible to travel back in time. When Ashi did it like it was nothing, the entirety of Aki's and Jack's character arcs went to shit.

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Why would Aku WANT to go back in time? His completely unopposed victory in now, he's vulnerable in the past with the sword

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he's a splinter of a greater evil he has been shown to get beat back by other gods and frankly i don't get why the gods don't just kick his ass like last time

They couldn't kill him though. Aku 1 Elemental Thots 0
Their influence waned as the eons passed, either because Aku is the only god being worshipped or they're simply not powerful enough to intervene beyond the odd miracle

>Why would Aku WANT to go back in time?
To fuck with people? To fuck with the Gods who are capable of killing him? Plenty of reasons. If he could go back in time and kill the Gods he'd be the most powerful being in the universe.

Or, more likely, they don't give a shit as long as he's not a threat to them

The gods can oneshot Aku.

>an inept fighter
?
Aku has shown exceptional proficiency in a range of combat methods as Ikra, in vaguely humanoid forms, in his giant form and various monster forms.
The thing is the Emperor and Jack are usually equally capable and blessed with divine buffs and he usually underestimates an opponent the first time around before learning to keep his distance and observe.

You're using selective thinking though, recall that Aku's essence can also infect anything, even the highest gods. So if they come after him he has just as much a shot to end them even if they did him in. Odin, Rama and Ra probably only even went for it the first time around because the Chaos was destroying and spreading wildly anyway.

>Odin, Rama and Ra nuked the original evil like nothing
>unable to defeat some elementals
>so much of a pussy that his plan to "beat" Jack was just being a basement dweller

>Odin, Rama and Ra nuked the original evil like nothing
Yes, it took 3 of the most powerful gods there is to take on one Super Aku, and their strongest blasts were collectively whittling it down, not one of them could one shot it. Meanwhile it was dangerously close to ending Ra and Rama with a touch if they didn't react or have the others to support.

Ra and Rama came ridiculously close to being consumed by the Black Mass, and needed the combined might that they all possessed to whittle the thing down. They would've immediately lost otherwise.

The only reason why the Black Mass wasn't even more dangerous was because it had no mind to truly speak off.

He's extremely powerful and can floor Jack when he doesn't have the sword in seconds. However, he's just a fragment of a much bigger demon at the end of the day.

I always pictured him as Pazuzu.

When was this? Some shit from the nu season?

>like nothing
It was a long cataclysmic war they almost lost, and it took the three strongest gods in the universe to do it.

Fucking casual
And that was against a mindless shapeless mass. Imagine them against Aku's power and creativity

The reason the gods use Jack as Champion is because they simply cannot defeat Aku on their own

They can. Aku is just a minuscule part of the original evil. Aku jobbing to the nature elements just showed he was small time compared to actual gods or the original darkness. Gods just wanted their creations to take care of the offspring of the evil.

>The reason the gods use Jack as Champion is because they simply cannot defeat Aku on their own
I always fancied that the reason the gods don't directly intervene against Aku was because he was no longer a threat to them, instead being reduced to a simple galactic conqueror rather than a divine threat. They took pity on the mortals and gave them the means to beat him, but other than that they don't seem to care much.

And even then the elementals couldn't destroy him, and IIRC that was a background event where he wasn't at the height of his strength yet.

> where he wasn't at the height of his strength yet.
He kept trying for centuries and then gave up. Jack did in his first try. Aku was a jobber.

No.

>go back in time
>merge with self
>go back in time
>merge with self
>go back in time
>merge with self
>repeat until even more powerful than before

Aku's a bitch but if memory serves he's only a fragment of a larger being

No, that's retarded. Aku's just a tiny fragment of the abyss they destroyed, dangerous and intelligent to be sure but not beyond a single one of them.

The reason they chose Jack's father was becuase he was the one who gave that tiny dormant fragment a consciousness and an intellect, and he sought out their aid to rectify his mistake. Humanity created Aku, Aku was their problem to fix.

>>user doesn't know what happens to a starfish's leg when you cut it off.
>>Thinks that a fragment of an eldritch horror that tested the will and strength of the gods is weaker just because it's smaller

If he were really so powerful on his own why didn't he just kill Jack instead of sending back in time? His whole thing is being very manipulative.

Aku IS way weaker. The only reason he was able to take over the world (and other planets) was the lack of meta humans and other super powerful beings in the Samurai Jack universe.

>Long ago in a distant land...
>I, Adolfku the shapeshifting master of National Socialism, UNLEASHED AN UNSPEAKABLE EVIL (and you will go to prison for if you attempt to deny that it happened).
>But a pregnant Jewish girl, wielding a magic diary stepped forth to oppose me.
>Before the Final Solution was struck, I tore open a portal in time and FLUNG her into the past, where Slave Power is law!
>Now the Jewess seeks to return from the past, and undo the future that is Adolfku...
>cue a heavily pregnant Anne Frank having her diary cushion her landing as she arrives in Maryland, 1862.

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Aku rode on his invulnerability to pretty much anything but the sword. Sure the elemental spirits flexed on him in combat, but as it has already been said, they weren't able to truly wound him either (he just got tired of getting pummeled)

It was ultimately a matchup thing. Aku was pushed around by the spirits, who were defeated by Jack, who was shat on by the Guardian, who was defeated by Aku. The setting was fucked outside of Jack because nobody had a sacred artiifact on the level of the sword for some reason, so Aku could safely spam shit like his rain of stakes and destroy most things, and what little he couldn't destroy himself he easily avoided and continued on, since he could jump between planets in the blink of an eye.

Yeah I never understood why he did that. Like he killed his parents didn't he?
What a massive plot hole.

Does that make Charles Ashi?

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I mean his face is very Oni like, but with the body they just did what they wanted.

I was more thinking Scotsman since Charles II's story arc makes about as much sense as Scotsman.

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>>No metahumans
>>Ignores the Scotsman and his wife, and daughters
>>Ignores the Imakandi

No, he’s not even a top tier deity in his own universe. 4 basic bitch elementals were able to kick his ass.

He stays on earth because there are thousands of people on his level that could kick his ass.

Sounds like a good way to make a time paradox

Kind of a half truth, since the only thing that can kill Aku is the sword. He did get whooped by basic elemental goddesses though, in the same sense a civilian with invulnerability would get blown the fuck out by Spider-Man. There's absolutely no way he'd stand a chance against cosmic level threats. Even if they can't bypass his invulnerability (which they should be able to if they can tap into godly power like Ra, Odin, etc) they could just lock him in a box and toss him into a sun to burn for all eternity.

>Nurrr why did the gods not kill Aku

ITT: anons forgetting that "Aku" as we know him was accidentally created by Jack's dad and therefore falls under the "Mortal shit that mortals have to sort out on their own" clause of interfaith gods law. Essentially, in most religions mortals create their own struggles and their own monsters that they have to overcome to be granted peace in the afterlife and Aku was simply a literal (and catastrophic) example.

The second Aku popped out of the ground as a vaguely-human sludge man he was immune to direct divine intervention, the same way the gods don't come down and personally smite particularly evil people because it's their choice to BE evil as beings with mortal souls.
That's not to say Aku can't get his ass handed to him if he initiates a fight, but he generally has no interest in fighting and every interest in simply gathering resources, same as any other human. He just has dick ways of ensuring that people don't get in his way (or are enslaved to help him) while he does it.
When he realizes he isn't making any progress obtaining something specific he quits, like with the Neptune jewel; not because he thinks it will kill him to keep trying but because he gets tired of losing and gives up on putting in any more effort. He's lazy with a big ego.

There is plenty of ridiculously OP shit in Samurai Jack's world, but Jack's sword is so devastating to Aku because it was specifically made from the righteous part of the soul of the same mortal whose hate "made" Aku. It is a direct counter to the "mortal" part of Aku which is why it can kill him.

As far as power levels go, Aku could probably destroy worlds, but he would much rather sit around watching TV.

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>*blocks your path*

But seriously Dominator got to do whatever the fuck she wanted to with at least several galaxies prior to the one in the show so imagine at least around half a dozen BAD ENDs and that's where she's at

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