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| “ | I'm about to achieve what no one has: The total control of the human soul! The power of a god! It's so close I can almost taste it! | „ |
| ~ Sugou declaring his goals. |
Nobuyuki Sugou, also known as Fairy King Oberon in ALO, is one of the main antagonists of the Sword Art Online franchise.
He is the director of the RECT Inc.'s FullDive research division, RECT Progress, who trapped 300 survivors of Sword Art Online inside his own VRMMORPG, ALfheim Online, in order to use them as test subjects for mind control experiments in hopes of learning how to manipulate minds using VR technology, which he hopes would allow him to surpass his former classmate, Akihiko Kayaba.
In the video game continuity, instead of transferring SAO survivors to his servers after the game's end, he tried to do this during the gameplay, in process, accidentally trapping himself inside SAO, but also receiving a high-level avatar, Alberich, using which he would continue to pursue his selfish goals.
He also serves as one of the most hated and personal arch-nemeses of Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya, and the arch-enemy of Asuna Yuuki, being the latter's ex-fiancé.
He was voiced by Takehito Koyasu in the Japanese (who also voiced Dio Brando and Shinya Aiba) and by Todd Haberkorn in the English dubbed version (who also voiced E.N.D. in Fairy Tail, Assassin in Fate/stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works, Herbert P. Bear in Club Penguin Island, Petelgeuse Romanee-Conti in Re:Zero, Genthru in Hunter x Hunter, Bellion in The Seven Deadly Sins, Android 19 in Dragon Ball Z Kai, Jadeite in Sailor Moon, Ayato Kirishima in Tokyo Ghoul, Baatar Jr. in The Legend of Korra and Henry Peter Gyrich in X-Men '97)
Appearance
Real Life
In the real world, Sugou appears to be a tall and slim man with short and slicked dark brown hair, brown eyes under black glasses and wears a blueish-grey polo shirt with a pink tie under a navy blue business suit with a pair of brown shoes. During his fight with Kirito in the real world, he wears a long brown coat with a pair of black gloves and his left eye becomes swollen and engorged turning a pinkish hue with bloodshot veins.
ALfheim Online Avatar
In ALO his avatar has green eyes and wings, shoulder-length blond hair and wears a crown and long olive green robe and green cloak both with an emerald-like jewel. In both cases, he has pale skin and in ALO he has long pointed ears as do all characters except Cait Siths but his have gold leaves on top of them like Asuna's avatar in ALO.
Personality
Sugou is an extremely selfish individual that has a desire and thinks nothing more than to become a god amongst all living things whether in the digital world or not. In addition, he has a perverted and depraved mind, as he gleefully assaulted and nearly raped Asuna in front of Kirito. However, he usually hides this beneath a polite, calm and soft-spoken manner while rarely losing his temper though he can become violent and aggressive, especially during his fight with Kirito. He is also deceitful, manipulative and highly intelligent which helps him inside and outside his avatar. After his first easy defeat by Kirito, Nobuyuki is more than a sore loser when still believing Asuna is his and kill Kirito in real life only to be shown to be weak. While in his disadvantage against Kirito, he is also a coward when he tries to run away only to be brutalized by Kirito.
History
Originally selected by Asuna's father to marry her he was soon adopted into her family on his wishes. He attended the same school with Akihiko Kayaba aka Commander Heathcliff who he viewed as his rival. Once Sword Art Online was cleared (until that point the SAO server was untouchable thanks to Kayaba's machinations and tampering) he was able to hack into it via the routers and obtain the minds of 300 out of the surviving 6,147 SAO players including Asuna as test subjects for research on controlling people's feelings and memories; in other words research on the manipulation of human souls. In ALfheim Online he adopted the persona of Fairy King Oberon.
As Oberon he kept Asuna locked in a birdcage at the top of the World Tree; in the real world he confronted Kazuto by voicing his intentions of wedding her. While keeping Asuna locked up he constantly visited her and brought her to the verge of tears by harassing her and making her aware he held full control over the virtual world.
After Kirito managed to ascend the World Tree and reach the cage Oberon appeared and used his administrator privileges to keep Kirito and Asuna pinned down with gravity magic. Once they were unable to move he used a menu to call down chains to shackle Asuna. After Kirito voiced his protest he used his own sword to stab him and turned the pain absorber down so Kirito and Asuna experienced real pain. Oberon then sexually assaulted Asuna in front of Kirito by removing her robes, licking her tears and nearly raping her. Fortunately a digitized Kayaba saved them by giving him the details necessary to log in with Heathcliff's ID which due to ALO being an exact server copy of SAO had greater system authority; this allowed Kirito to not only stop Sugou a second before raping Asuna, but also use a Voice Command to nullify Oberon's supervisor status.
After this Oberon tried using a Voice Command to generate Excalibur, the strongest weapon in ALO for himself but to no avail. After Kirito repeated the same command and gave the generated Excalibur to Oberon he used another Voice Command to deactivate the pain absorber causing every injury to feel as if it were real. Even though Oberon tried attacking his rage and lack of experience left an easy opening Kirito used to strike his cheek. Afterwards Kirito lashed out with his accumulated anger by amputating his foe's hand, bisecting him and then stabbing his head through his eye, destroying his avatar and freeing Asuna in the process.
In the real world, when Kazuto arrives at the hospital Asuna is to find her, Sugou attempted to stab Kazuto. Even though he was in control for a while and had the chance to deal a fatal blow of his eye which was stabbed in ALO with no pain absorption caused him to miss. Kazuto then defeats Sugou by grabbing his head and beating through a white minivan´s door. Kazuto then cuts Sugou´s neck, making him scream in pain loudly before he stops and cries while collapsing in the floor when its beginning to snow.
As Kazuto thought of all the things Sugou had done he was tempted to kill him only to decide he did not have the right to such decisions anymore and should let the law choose his fate. As it is later revelead that Sugou is still alive, so Kazuto later mentions that he was found by the police, in the interrogation, he attempted to blame on Kayaba but after an employee was questioned he confessed and revealed the full extent of his plans to the world which led to the downfall of RECT, its fellow companies including the remains of former SAO owner Argus and the world of VRMMOs.
Quotes
| “ | I'd prefer it if you didn't call me that name in this world. You should address me as His Highness, Fairy King Oberon! | „ |
| ~ Sugou as Oberon. |
| “ | Great! I love it! NPC women just can't make that face... What a lovely smell... Replicating your scent from the real world was hard, I hope you appreciate how much work it took to get an analyzer into your hospital room... | „ |
| ~ Sugou explaining what he did to Asuna. |
| “ | S-Sweet... So sweet! | „ |
| ~ Sugou licking Asuna's tears. |
| “ | That's what I hoped you'd say... How long will you maintain your pride? Thirty minutes? An hour? Try to Hold on to it as long as you can!... Shall I tell you what I'm thinking? once I've had my fun here, I'll go to your hospital room, I'll play a recording of today on a big monitor, and we can enjoy ourselves with your real body. | „ |
| ~ Sugou explaining to Asuna what he will do next. |
| “ | Wh-What? what is that ID?... ...An ID that outranks mine.. Thats impossible...I am the ruler! The creator...! King of this world! God! | „ |
| ~ Sugou Realising that Kirito hacked his Avatar. |
| “ | Y-You stupid kid... How... How dare you talk to me like that...? System command. Generate object ID Excalibur... Do as I say, you piece of crap! These... These are God's orders! | „ |
| ~ Sugou being reduced to level 1 by Kirito. |
| “ | K-Kaya... Kayaba! I see... That ID was... Why? Why do you still thwart me, even after death? You're always this way!... Acting like you know everything Taking everything I want!... You goddamned brat!... Damn it all! | „ |
| ~ Sugou's breakdown upon trying to kill Kirito. |
| “ | That Hurt!... My Hand!... My Hand! | „ |
| ~ Sugou before getting his Avatar destroyed by Kirito. |
| “ | You're late, Kirito... What if I'd caught a cold?... That was a horrible thing you did, Kirito. I can still feel the pain, But first of all, I'm going to kill you now, Kirito. | „ |
| ~ Kirito seeing Sugou in the real world. |
| “ | Hey, stand up...stand up! A piece of trash like you daring to... Daring to get in my way!, Naturally, the punishment for that is death, only death is an acceptable outcome! | „ |
| ~ Sugou beating up Kazuto. |
| “ | Huh? The vision in my right eye is blurry... So I missed... (Grunts) You piece of scum... A wrench like you... A wrench like you has no real power whatsoever!... Die, trash! | „ |
| ~ Sugou's last words before he is defeated by Kazuto in the real world. |
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Trivia
- Sugou's ALO avatar was based on the fictional character of the same name who was the king of fairies in medieval and Renaissance literature best known in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in which he was the consort to the queen of fairies Titania; ironically he gave this last name to Asuna in ALO.
- Because of his personality and actions, Sugou is not only considered to be the most hated character of the entire Sword Art Online series by both fans and viewers, but also one of the most hated anime antagonists of all time.
External Links
- Nobuyuki Sugou on the Pure Evil Wiki.
- Nobuyuki Sugou on the Sword Art Online Wiki.
- Nobuyuki Sugou on the Hate Sink Wiki.
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