Sun Wukong - the Monkey King

In a retelling of the ancient Chinese text, Journey to the West, the immortal Monkey King Sun Wukong and his friends journey to India on a quest for Buddhist scriptures. The King proves himself to be extremely impulsive and a thorn in the side of any demon or deity that gets in his way. Despite his reputation as a problem-starter, Sun Wukong has a variety of superpowers and martial arts abilities that allow him to get out of jams or rescue his adventuring party on his own. Most of the time.

Strength: Striking

• Knees a monkey in the face (source) (Ep1)
• Punches a soldier across a river (source) (Ep1)
• Kicks down a stone door (source) (Ep3)
• One-shots a river spirit (source) (Ep3)
• Kills a demon with one smack of his staff (source) (Ep4)
• Kicks down a cave wall (source) (Ep8)

Strength: Lifting

• Easily lifts a giant iron pillar that weighs 17,550 pounds (source) (Ep1)
• Would easily be able to escape from under a mountain, unless it’s magically sealed (source) (Ep1)
• Holds a giant tiger demon’s corpse one-handed (source) (Ep3)
• Tosses a cart full of rocks aside (source) (Ep7)
• Unphased by a demon making him weigh 1,000 pounds (source) (Ep6)

Strength: Other

• Leaps from Heaven to the edge of the Universe, although this turns out to be a metaphor for Buddha’s universal influence (source) (Ep1)
• Leaps through a building’s doors, breaking them (source) (Ep7)
• Snaps a bandit’s neck with one hand (source) (Ep2)
• Tears a door off its hinges (source) (Ep3)
• Trapped in a diamond snare (source) ([Limit] Ep1)

Durability

• Gets a mountain dropped on him, which is also the Buddha’s finger (source) (Ep1)
• Survives getting three mountains dropped on top of him, but the weight is enough to keep him in place (source) (Ep5)
• A demon is unable to beat him to death, even when fully restrained (source) (Ep5)
• Immune to thrown blades, flames, and lightning (source) (Ep1)
• Spends 49 days cooking in a magic jar designed to remove immortality, but he’s entirely unphased aside from getting red eyes (source) (Ep1)
• Immune to a rake that targets the victim’s soul (source) (Ep3)
• Can survive with no head, regenerating moments later (source) (Ep7)
• Survives disembowelment (source) (Ep7)
• Totally fine swimming in boiling oil (source) (Ep7)
• Survives a stab to the forehead with a scorpion goddess’ poisoned stinger, sufficient enough to hurt the Buddha (source) (Ep9)
• Blinded by a hurricane of wind to the face, causing him to retreat (source) ([Limit] Ep3)
• While latently immune to fire, hellfire and heavenly fire, a kind of demonic fire called the True Fire of Samedi will eventually burn Wukong (source) (Ep6)
• After being burned, he leaps into a cold river, where the change in temperature knocks him out (source) (Ep6)
• Survives a stab to the forehead with a scorpion goddess’ poisoned stinger (source) (Ep9)

Agility

• Runs across a field, producing a huge dust cloud and knocking aside any demon in his way (source) (Ep1)
• Counters a backstab attempt, sweeping his opponent and breaking their weapon (source) (Ep9)

Shapeshifting

• Has the Art of the Earthly Multitude, which allows him to shapeshift into 72 different forms (source) (Ep1)
• Frequently assumes human forms (source) (Ep1)
• Turns into a giant, multi-armed form (source) (Ep1)
• Turns into another kaiju form (source) (Ep1)
• Turns into a few different bird forms (source) (Ep1)
• Assumes a tiny pill form (source) (Ep2)
• Takes the form of a young woman to trick her monstrous husband (source) (Ep3)
• Turns into a mosquito (source) (Ep3)
• Kills two demons, then disguises himself as both demons (source) (Ep5)
• Begins melting himself to make his captors believe he’s dying (source) (Ep5)
• Turns into a golden scarf, then a fly (source) (Ep6)
• Transforms into the Bull Demon King (source) (Ep6)
• Turns into a gold statue (source) (Ep7)
• Turns into a centipede to bite a deity’s nose (source) (Ep7)
• Turns into a flying cloud (source) (Ep7)
• Turns into a shrimp (source) (Ep8)
• Turns into a fly (source) (Ep8)

Duplication

• Can duplicate himself, defeating a giant king with two more of himself (source) (Ep1)
• Uses a duplicate as a distraction to sneak-attack his opponent (source) (Ep1)
• Makes enough duplicates to fight a small army of demons. Duplicates do not share Sun Wukong’s durability and can be dispatched with hellfire (source) (Ep5)

Transfiguration

• Can turn his staff into a steel file to cut through a golden rope (source) (Ep5)
• Each one of his hairs can turn into a Guardian Thunder Spirit (source) (Ep7)
• Turns one of his hairs into a dog (source) (Ep7)
• Turns one of his hairs into an eagle (source) (Ep7)
• Tosses his staff into the air, multiplying it in midair and causing a rain of weapons to defeat a small army of imps (source) (Ep8)
• Turns a set of pristine clothes into ratty, dirty clothes (source) (Ep7)

Flight

• Can fly on a cloud (source) (Ep1)
• Zooms away from a conversation, traveling over the horizon before Tripitaka can respond (source) (Ep2)
• Flies up to the cloud layer in moments (source)

Other Abilities

• Has laser eyes, that when fired into the sky, reach the Jade Emperor’s temple, which is in Heaven (source) (Ep1)
• Paralyzes seven maidens with a lightning bolt (source) (Ep1)
• Produces an explosion, shattering a mountain to pieces (source) (Ep2)
• Can see through demonic trickery, sensing that a woman is actually a disguised demon (source) (Ep4)
• Dismisses an illusion meant to make a man look like a tiger (source) (Ep4)
• Vanishes in a flash of red light (source) (Ep5)
• Casts a spell to make the party faster or teleport them further up a mountain path (source) (Ep6)
• Casts a fire-repelling charm (source) (Ep6)
• Turns invisible (source) (Ep7)
• Draws a protective ward in the ground, preparing for a demon attack (source) (Ep8)

Miscellaneous

• Goes to a temple in the bottom of the Eastern Ocean (source) (Ep1)
• Achieves immortality through spiritual training (source) (Ep1)
• Eats a garden full of immortality-granting peaches (source) (Ep1)
• Drinks a bunch of immortality-granting wine (source) (Ep1)
• Eats a bunch of immortality-granting pills (source) (Ep1)
• Can’t fight well underwater (source) (Ep7)