| “ | I can't stand this miserable world. I don't think anyone could ever be unhappier than I am... I'll just have to... Kill them all. Either way I have no one left... I'll still be all alone... so... All of you, be gone. | „ |
| ~ Kim Minso's words before turning into Demon Lord |
Kim Minso is the main antagonist of the manhwa Hero Has Return/The Warrior Returns. He is the Sword Hero who turned into a Demon Lord after falling into despair upon returning home from another world only to discover that everyone he cares for is either dead or shuns him, going on a rampage with other corrupted Warriors to make everyone as miserable as him.
Appearance[]
Human[]
Minsu is an average-height man and muscular built teenager with short black hair and red eyes. He wore a grey standard school uniform and black pants with sneakers.
Sword Hero[]
Minso wears a clad white colored full body armor with a white crusader helmet and a red plume attached to it. The armor shoulder part has a diamond shape strap attached to his red cape. He also carried a giant greatsword that could change its size at will.
Demon Lord[]
After becoming a new Demon Lord, Kim Minso’s hair turned pure white, and due to his battle against Ivan Pushkin, he lost both of his legs and arms, resulting in him using magic to create artificial prosthetic legs made from light and scripture writings and restructure his Holy Sword Durant into prosthetic arms. The irises of his red eyes were also shown to have changed shape, with a pentagon star having formed in them.
Personality[]
Formerly known to be a friendly, and kind-hearted boy. Kim is a deterministic and brave boy who is willing to risk his life to save the world in order to return and see his loved ones. However, after being brought back to his world and experiencing all the tragedies that transpires in the aftermath of his adventure, Kim lost every hopes he has in humanity, and now sees that pain, despair, destruction, and malefic is his reality.
He changes drastically from a once benevolent, calm, and good-will warrior into a callous, depressed, violent, ruthless, apathetic, cynical, and fatalistic villain.
Minso doesn't really enjoy killing others after becoming a fallen hero, but he has to do this because feels like its unfair that others can't feel the same way he does, and wants everyone to know the despair of what it feels like to lose everything that matters to them.
Biography[]
Kim Minso is summoned to a different world upon being hit by a truck while walking home. After many years of training, and being apart with friends that are supportive, Kim Minso apparently has to return to his original world because his mission of protecting the world is finished.
His friends had blessed him a good life, but, that good life did not come to Kim Minso. Kim Minso is forced to face a dark reality where his parents died after his disappearance, his mother, got hit by a car while trying to give out missing posters in a very desperate way, his father blames himself for his mother's death and committed suicide by jumping off the tall building, his friends, and their families rejects him, and some even blames him for their son's death.
What's worst is that Kim realizes that he has no place to stay, as the apartment he once lived is currently owned by another person. This made him fallen into despair, and hopelessness, and reached a breaking point, Kim wants a reward, and that reward is to make humanity suffer for the rest of their life.
He summons his powers and abilities and massacred the whole country, after a year later, he created a cycle of despair, which, it was meant to let humanity suffer from nothing but sorrow, hopelessness, and other negative things, he also established a faction consist of heroines like him, heroes that lost hope in humanity, and just wants humanity to suffer. As he orders each of the heroines who follows him to take over a continent of Korea and enslave the peoples who live there, or use them for their own personal gains.
Powers and Abilities[]
Minso is by far the strongest Hero, stemming from the general rule that each Hero is usually slightly stronger than their respective Demon Lord, with the one he fought being especially powerful. It is a testament to his strength that every timeline where he was part of the Resistance Heroes ended in their victory, no matter how many times Seongjun Lee reset. After becoming a Demon Lord, his powers were further boosted, to the point that it is now believed that he could truly single-handedly end the world.
Immense Strength: It can either be that he trained through most of his journey in the other world, or it can either be a boost by a goddess blessing, Minsu breaks Park Demon lord armor with just a single punch and even send him flying by a single kick.
Immense Durability: As shown, Minsu’s body by default possess immense physical durability. This is seen where he could shrug of bullets and rocket launchers without problem and without needing to actually defend himself. During his rampage to Russia, Minsu was able to completely tank the various attempt to destroy him by government’s army, including using various modern weapons, gigantic bombs and even nuclear bombs, with Minsu being completely uninjured and unbothered by them as he calmly walked from one country to another.
Immense Speed & Reflexes: Minsu has also displayed immense speed and physical reflexes, allowing him to easily outmaneuver and overpower other heroes by quickly closing the gap between them in seconds. As shown, despite his Sword’s large size, Minsu is able to easily swing it around and move with immense speed uninhibited.
Sword of Durant: His main ability as the sword hero, a massive sword, representing a great sword capable of causing mass destruction. Minsu can summon it by calling out to the Sword of Durant by saying 'Answer my call, Sword of Durant', which, in response to this, will fall from the sky, right next to Minsu. The capabilities of the sword are yet to be discovered, but from what is shown in the Manhwa up until now, it is capable of creating massive shockwaves, and Minsu can also infuse it with multiple elements to increase the amount of damage he deals on impact.
Eclipse Mode: Minsu change his weapon when he called out, The eclipse mode of the Sword of Durant is a larger version of the sword, and additional sheathe of white blades around the normal black and gold sword core, that creates mass destruction with just a single strike or even at a long distance. Currently, the sword of Durant is shown to look like a massive Greatsword when it's in Eclipse Mode that can either block the enemy Attack or even deflect it.
Daybreaker Mode: Minsu change his weapon when he called out, The Daybreaker mode of the sword of Durant is a smaller version of the sword, the normal black and gold core of the sword, that creates a swift in a singular horizontal/ Vertical motion of slashes and can even use as a long-range attack as well. The sword of Durant is shown to look like a smaller, but still large Greatsword when it's in Daybreaker mode that can cut anything in its path.
Unknown mode Split: The sword has also been shown to be able to split in half. They turn into a sword with one edge and on the other side is a flat side, allow with massive round and heavily spiked knuckle bows. The sword edge consists of constant erratically-moving, sharp lights when wielded, somewhat reminiscent of a one-sided chainsaw. This light only appears if Minsu is actually holding the blades, and in periods of intense usage can seemingly almost solidify into a straight smooth edge of light. Minsu can make his helmet appear and disappear whenever he's in combat mode against a strong opponent.
- Prosthetic Arms: After becoming the Earth’s Demon King and having his limbs torn out by Ivan Pushkin’s the undead army, Minsu Kim was able to restructure and craft his dual split swords of the Holy Sword Durant into prosthetic arms. As shown, due to his swords now literally being his new arms, he no longer needs to use its sword form to attack, instead being able to simply point and flick his fingers at his intended targets to use his new skills to reduce and slice his targets into mince meat.
Magic: Despite not making much use of it, it has been implied that Minsu had also been taught the magic of the Sword World he was summoned to. After he lost his legs to Ivan Pushkin’s undead army, Minsu was able to conjure magical prosthetic legs created from light and scripture writings.
Blessing Of Goddess Seraphine: Minsu summons a Goddess that can either give him any buff boost, heal him from certain damage, or protect him from any incoming attack. However, Minsu notes that the Goddess' Blessing is useless against things that are within his body, such as the lethal frostbite spreading through his limbs and to his heart caused by Ivan Pushkin, the Glaciation Hero.
Trivia[]
- Minsu Kim is presented as a false protagonist during the series' first chapter, making it appear as if he would be the main character while this is not the case.
- According to the author, Minsu Kim's character is based on a protagonist of an "Isekai" story, where the main character is transported to another world.
- According to the author in a Q&A in the Season 1 Afterword, it is uncertain but possible that Minsu Kim possesses the characteristic of a Demon Lord that would continue to unleash power and destroy the different Otherworlds if he somehow found a way there or was moved there, in which case it would be very likely that he would continue to destroy.
- In another Q&A conducted by Yongdol Gallery, it is stated that it is hard to say whether a Hero who has fallen and uses the power of a Demon Lord is stronger than a Hero who awakens the power of a God, as both are quite powerful. However, a Hero that uses the power of both a God/Hero and a Demon Lord would be really strong.
- In that same Q&A, it is stated that, prior to being a corrupted Hero, Minsu Kim is strong when he has something to protect, and by being capable of making rational decisions, he can evolve depending on his opponent until he gains the upper hand in interpersonal battles like a snowball.
- In the same Q&A, it is explained that even if the latest generation of Glaciation Hero had survived, defeated their Demon Lord, and returned to Earth, they still would not be able to defeat Minsu Kim, and that Minsu's specs were the highest of the Heroes.