THE MONKEY KING: THE BEGINNING

Lately all this superhero stories have followed the same trend, the villain starts out stronger or gains some great new power that gives him an edge over the hero, and after overcoming a series of trials the hero defeats the almost victorious villain, who practically had a cake walk until when it mattered the most. I’m tired of such plots, I know it’s fun watching someone surmount unbelievable odds, but watching the same thing many times over gets tiring.

Sadly there are just not many stories that don’t follow this trend, and I began to think maybe without this trend hero stories would suck. I was wrong. There’s this manga I’ve been reading and the protagonist is crazy strong, like I’m yet to see a bad guy that can actually beat him and the story is still very interesting, of course he goes through tough challenges but at least it’s not cuz he’s weak or anything.  The character is called the Monkey King, I knew it was from folklore of sorts but I wasn’t sure which and was interested in it, so I went on find out all I could about it, so here is the story of the badass Monkey King who shook the heavens.

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    A long time ago, before dinosaurs and such roamed the earth, a time beyond counting, a huge gem fell from the heavens, it landed on a mountain that split in two from the impact of the falling gem and the gem got fixed right at the center of the mountain split in two. After absorbing light from the sun and the wind blowing against it, the gem eventually began to take shape and it was shaped as a monkey, I know I made it seem brief but that shii took a lot of years, like over a million. The monkey could move and talk and stuff so it started communicating with other animals, taking a particular interest in monkeys (obviously), and his name was Sun Wukong. One day the monkeys decided to stop lying around and move to find the source of the water they use and they found themselves in front of a waterfall. One wise ass suggested they should crown whoever could go into the waterfall, find d source and return alive their king. Needless to say Sun went it then came out and then went in again, then the other pussy ass monkeys followed suit. As promised he was crowned king and from then on he was known as “The Monkey King” (duh).

 The Monkey King was powerful, he could jump to distant lands (he could go 54000 km to b exact) in a single somersault, he was incredibly strong and fast and he was very witty. He also had magic powers, he could do 72 different transformations and every strand of his hair could be transformed into a clone of him or an animal or weapon. The Monkey King decided to find a weapon matching his skill, after trying countless weapons, none seem to be able to withstand his strength, and they all ended up either broken or bent out of shape. After another futile search in the kingdom of the Dragon Sea King, the queen suggested a huge rod in their armory to the Monkey King thinking he wouldn’t be able to lift it (she didn’t even know), this rod was super huge, it was used by one other dude to measure the depth of the ocean (yeah that shii was that big) it also weighed over 7 tons, like 7960 kg to be exact . Our dear Monkey dude lifted the rod with ease, probably with one hand (wasn’t specified) and then told the rod to shrink and that shii agreed and shrunk to the size of a normal rod, the rod had supposedly been glowing upon his arrival indicating he was its true master or some shii. Wukong later went on to defeat the four dragon kings in battle and force the to give him a golden chain mail shirt, a phoenix feather cap and cloud walking boots.

The Monkey King gradually established himself and his people as a force to be reckoned with and then formed an alliance with the Bull Demon King and some other kings. After hell tried to claim Wukong's soul, but instead of reincarnating and stuff like all other living things under heaven, dude was like “Don’t you niggas know I’m immortal” then he went on to wipe his name out of the book of life and death (As a badass), he also wiped off every monkey’s name he knew also. The Kings of Hell were enraged and together with the Dragon Kings decided to report him to the Jade Emperor (damn snitches).  
                                                  
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The story continues here- THE MONKEY KING: HAVOC IN HEAVEN
And ends here- THE MONKEY KING: IMPRISONMENT