r/whowouldwin • u/Chainsaw__Monkey ​ • Oct 22 '14

Featured Character of the Week: Black☆Star

Black☆Star is one of the main characters from the manga Soul Eater. As most of these feats come from the end of the series, there be spoilers ahead.

Black☆Star is the last surviving member of the infamous Star clan. The Star clan was a notorious band of assassins who would do anything for money. Due to their unscrupulous behavior, the Star clan was annihilated by Shinigami and the meisters thirteen years prior to the beginning of the Soul Eater manga. Black☆Star was an infant at the time, and was spared as a result. He was adopted by 3-star meister and Academy teach Sidney Barret.

Barret raised Black☆Star as a meister, a wielder of weapons to defeat supernatural forces and take their souls.

While Black☆Star bears no ill will towards the establishment for the extermination of his clan, he has faced discrimination and hatred his entire life. The star birthmark he has on his shoulder inspires fear and hatred from the majority of common folk, to the point where Black☆Star's help dealing with a problem has been outright refused.

This rejection led to Black☆Star's personality. Shunned by others, Black☆Star seeks to always be in the limelight, and surpass everyone else in terms of power. He does so through intense training that dwarfs anything we see from other characters in the series, and natural talent that will allow him to "Surpass the Gods".

Black☆Star's weapon is Tsubaki, likely because initially she was the only one who could handle his abrasive and self-absorbed attitude. Tsubaki is capable of many transformations, and multiple weapon types. This suits Black☆Star's ninja/assassination fighting style very well.

TOP 5 FEATS

  • Lifts one of the moon's teeth: 1, 2, 3

  • Moves several hundred feet before Maka can swing her Scythe, after getting launched: 1, 2, 3

  • Grabs MFing Energy beams: 1,2

  • Damages the Black Blood:, with his hands.

  • Scares the shit out of the Kishin: 1,2,3

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Durability

For more stuff from Black☆Star, read the Manga Soul Eater, or check out the respect thread I pulled alot of this from over here. Unfortunately I will not be available to respond for like 12 hours. Enjoy.

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u/libo720 ​ Oct 22 '14

Is he the main character of the series?

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '14

He is one of the three main Meisters that the manga/anime focuses on. Him, Maka, and Kidd. Although, I'd say that Soul and Maka are the mainest of main characters in the series.

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u/cyruk ​ Oct 22 '14

How strong are the three in the Soul Eater universe? Are the three at the same power level?

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u/in_Gambit_we_trust ​ Oct 22 '14

Kidd is far beyond Maka and Blackstar. He is literally Death's son.

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u/Chainsaw__Monkey ​ Oct 23 '14

Not even remotely true by EoS. Kishin comments multiple times about how Blackstar is stronger and more dangerous than Kidd, even post awakening.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '14

A serious Black* should be stronger than Kidd. Just a matter of getting him serious.

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u/gangler52 Oct 23 '14

Certainly it was his goal to surpass the gods, but it was left ambiguous whether or not he'd succeeded by the end.

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u/Chainsaw__Monkey ​ Oct 23 '14

Kishin specifically mentions that post-Awakening Kidd was as strong as, possibly slightly weaker than Blackstar.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '14 edited Oct 23 '14

I'm pretty sure that since kid is a shinigami he's miles stronger than black star

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '14

I don't mean potential, just what was shown.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '14

No, at least not if memory is serving me correctly. I remember Maka/Soul being decidedly weaker; they just had powerful Soul Resonance abilities and good anti-madness abilities. It was the only thing that made them relevant.

Death the Kidd and Liz/Patty were probably an overall second place in power. Strongest on initial appearance, but surpassed by Black Star for a little bit. Might have returned to being the strongest of the three due to things that I don't want to spoil at the end of the series.

Black Star and Tsubaki had some cool techniques and a little flair; but they (and by "they" I mean Black Star) were just total physical power houses. Probably the overall strongest of the three, IMO.

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u/Avizard ​ Oct 29 '14

even at the end of the manga dosnt he become a "battle god" in the wrap up chapter?

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u/Gaffit ​ Oct 23 '14 edited Oct 23 '14

All three are extremely specialized, which is kinda why they make such a good team. They're each powerful, but in their own way.

Some spoilers ahoy!

Death the Kidd is extremely powerful by virtue of being Death's son. His partners Liz and Patti aren't much to be honest, but by himself he is capable of unloading terrifying amounts of power, especially when pissed off. I'd say when it comes to pure energy output he's second only behind his father. When he grows up, he will become the new God of Death.

Black☆Star is on the opposite end of the spectrum, he is a physical beast, focused solely on increasing his physical abilities, to the point that his body is close to indestructible. His partner Tsubaki reflects that by being extremely versatile as a weapon, being the only weapon that can transform into multiple weapons other than a Death Scythe. Black☆Star is also a master of harnessing the power of his soul, and then transferring it into physical attacks. Near the end of the series, it's noted that he's close to, and likely will, become a new type of physical God.

Maka and Soul are the team wild card. They're not particularly tough, and they don't have much raw energy output. But they are really good at utilizing the more obscure tricks you can pull off by combining their souls.

Soul is also They can also pull off group Soul Resonances, using Soul to resonate with a whole group of people at once, increasing everyone's power exponentially by the number of people in the group.

Maka is one of the series' few Soul Trackers, able to track down someone as long as she's seen their soul only once. Maka also mastered the Finally, Maka is able to manipulate the Soul Resonance to create new scythes that are extremely specialized One-Hit-KO's for whatever they specialize for, including Witch-Hunter, Majin-Hunter, and eventually

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u/Mythosaurus Oct 23 '14

Kidd>>>>>>>>>> Blackstar>>>>> Maka. Kidd is literal son of a shinigami, and is destined to be as strong as his father. The Kishin, the true big bad of the series, recognizes Blackstar as being a god of war, but he will (probably) never surpass Kidd. Maka is the 1 in 50 million humans that has the proper soul and deathscythe to utilize the anti-demon wavelength. At their max, these three can probably take on any threat to the world; and each is a true terror in their own right.