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| “ | How about turning the whole world into metal? You and me. We can rust the whole world and scatter it into the dust of the universe. Together, we can turn this f***ing world into rust! Let's go! | „ |
| ~ Tomoo to a barely conscious Yatsu at the end of Tetsuo: The Iron Man, detailing his destructive desire to coat the world in metal. |
Yatsu is the main antagonist of the Tetsuo trilogy of films. A man with a obsession with metallic objects, throughout all three films in the series, he managed to obtain the ability to morph and shift his body into metal appendages. With his powers, he has the ultimate goal of destroying the world, ruining the lives of several individuals as a means to corrupt them into loyal servants.
He was portrayed by writer/director Shinya Tsukamoto.
Biography[]
Tetsuo: The Iron Man[]
Yatsu's fascination with metal began at a young age, blooming from an injury he received in his youth that left a piece of metal embedded in his head. Being unable to be removed without killing them, Yatsu became nightmarishly obsessed with metallic objects after being repeatedly bashed by a pipe-wielding vagrant, seeing it as the key towards becoming a perfect being.
The first film starts with Yatsu returning from his shrine to steel, his hideout coated with scrap and photos of famous athletes. Once in his hideout, Yatsu proceeds to cut a gash into his leg in a sort of experiment, before inserting a metal beam into the wound. Alarmed after this injury gets swarmed by maggots, the man runs madly into the street before he is hit by a car owned by our protagonist, Tomoo Taniguchi. Angered that he and his girlfriend threw his seemingly dying body in a ditch before having sex on a nearby tree, Yatsu begins his acts of petty revenge against Tomoo by "gifting" him his infection, with metal slowly covering his body (starting with a dot on his cheek) heralding the arrival of strange nightmares. As the metallic infection takes ahold on the man, Yatsu's influence continues to control the people around Tomoo, first seen when a woman on a subway gets herself possessed by Yatsu's manipulation. With her arm devolving into a bouquet of iron, the stranger chases Tomoo until they reach a warehouse, where Tomoo is forced to break her in half with his newfound powers.
However, things only gets worsened when Tomoo's body mutates further, with his own sense of hearing being invaded by arousing clangs and blasts. This ultimately culminates when his genitalia morphs into a whirling drill, his girlfriend ending her life upon it in a sexual frenzy. Calling Tomoo once both himself and his house are fully consumed by Yatsu's cybernetics, he angerly reveals his identity to the man before warning them of his incoming arrival. After this, Yatsu uses repulsors on his legs to propel himself to Tomoo's apartment, his influence causing metal objects to malfunction and wither. Upon reaching his abode, Yatsu envelops his pet cats into metal and takes control of his girlfriend's corpse, using the latter's remains to take his true form.
After showing the "Iron Man" his vision of a world fully consumed by metal through a TV screen, Yatsu pursues his adversary through the city streets, only being slowed by the traumatic memory of the beating he received. Cornering the hero in a factory after regaining his bearings, Yatsu morphs Tomoo into a lump of metal before engaging him combat, converting one of his arms into a flamethrower in order to fight the protagonist. While Tomoo at first seems to gain the upper-hand by fusing his being with Yatsu, the fetishist gains the last laugh as their minds fuse into one, converting Tomoo into a mental extension of his goals. Arising from the factory as a motorized phallus, Yatsu announces his destructive plans to the world before speeding off, with no one being left to impede their scheme.
Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer[]
A reimagining of the first film, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer changes the role of Yatsu to that of Tomoo's own brother, while keeping his obsessive habits towards all things metallic. This time, his and his brother's metallic powers are realized through the action's of their father (a fellow user of this ability), helping them fuse weapons into their human form. Even from a young age, Yatsu's vicious behavior manifested itself in numerous areas, killing a dog at the behest of his father's wishes and showing little reaction to the same man accidentally shooting his mother. Disgusted at finding the resulting carnage beautiful after killing his parents, Tomoo represses the memories of his past prior to his adoption, while Yatsu uses his past as motivation for tracking down his brother. Leading a band of fellow fetishists, Yatsu enlists the help of a scientist to create a pistol-like syringe capable of transforming ordinary people into cyborgs, all in the interest of creating an army of destructive superhumans for Yatsu to control.
At the beginning of the film, Yatsu's gang are first seen stalking a drunk businessman on his way home, before killing them using their energy-based powers. After this, first stalk Tomoo before kidnapping his young son, Minori, and seemingly inject them with their powers (although it is later revealed to be an inherit ability Tomoo has), hoping to manipulate them into becoming Yatsu's minion. While Tomoo manages to fight off the criminals and save his son, the metal infection once again takes hold of his body, slowly morphing them into a living weapon. When one of the gangsters from before spirits away Tomoo's child again, he fakes the act of dropping his child off a roof to purposefully awaken Tomoo's powers. Once attuned to his new gift, Tomoo takes aim at the gangster with a large energy rifle emerging from his arm, only for them to fatally use his own child as a shield. Driven into delirium through grief and his infection, Yatsu's goons drive an unconscious Tomoo to their hideout, Yatsu's scientist henchman manipulates his memories to showcase his powers, generating an cannon from his chest to rain hellfire upon their nearby surroundings. While the experiment proved to be a success, the scientist's diminishing use causes his death at Yatsu's hand. As one his minions encircles the dormant form of Tomoo to have him terminated, his awakening causes him to blast them asunder.
Enraged at their test subject's escape, the gang's cyborgs track down and fight Tomoo on the streets of Japan, with our hero proving victorious for the time being. However, Tomoo is once again forced to take action against the criminals after they kidnap his wife, Kana, chasing them into their lair once again. Frustrated with his supposed cyborg army's flawed state, Yatsu's problems after further compounded by his brother making it into his hideout, his rage at his wife seemingly dying causing them to embrace their new powers. Fighting their brother throughout his home base, Tomoo seemingly kills his brother after crushing them under a lowering platform before tearing his head off. However, Yatsu reveals himself to be operational even in this state, before unlocking his brother's forgotten memories using a tube-like device, doing so as a means to manipulate his brother into surrendering their desires to mindless slaughter. Following this, Yatsu fuses his wounded form with his brother's perfected state, with his goons allowing themselves to be assimilated as well. While Kana does consider using another device as a means to cause the hybrid to rust away, her love for her husband causes her to refrain from violence, even as the fusion morphs further and further away from the man she once loved. After destroying the surrounding city as a hydra-like tank, the movie ends with Yatsu standing alongside Tomoo and a reborn Minori, with his brother's family being mental appendages of Yatsu's plot once more.
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man[]
Arising from the shadows once again, Yatsu's schemes in the third and final film in the series center around an American man named Anthony, seeking to have them converted into a cyborg to use as a living weapon. At the start of the film, Yatsu engineers a car crash that causes the death of Anthony's son, Tom, resulting in the father transforming himself into yet another metallic being. While Anthony struggles to grasp with his changing world, Yatsu ambushes him with a SWAT officer in an attempt to kill them, revealing to the father than he was the man who caused Tom's death. Enraged at this revelation, the cybernetic protagonist later faces off against Yatsu, before being forced to engage a SWAT team to save his wife, Yuriko.
After seemingly being slain by Anthony, Yatsu heals his wounded form before slaughtering the remaining officers, intent on not leaving any witnesses to his plan. As this is going on, Anthony and Yuriko confront the former's father, Ride, for his actions, only for it to be revealed that Yatsu murdered the man to ensure his secrecy. As he enters the building, Yatsu considers killing himself in front of a projector screen to satisfy his masochism, but decides instead on a far darker plan: have Anthony destroy the world to satisfy his lust for carnage. Having settled on his dark ambition, Yatsu emerges to the family by shooting out the lights, being revealed to have taken his wife hostage in the resulting confusion. In this state, he attempts to goad Anthony into shoot him so he could awaken his full power, only for the protagonist to remain stalwart in his heroism. Realizing his opponent requires more than intimidation to crack, Yatsu then moves on to tricking Anthony in an area he truly cares out: his family. Having the protagonist put a necklace on his wife. Yatsu tricks Anthony into thinking the accessory was actually a concealed bomb, warning that any attempt to track the fetishist down would result in its detonation.
Enraged at the thought of his wife and unborn child being in danger, Anthony fully transforms into a massive metallic being, Yatsu goading him all the while to embark on his path of destruction. While Anthony nearly commits to starting his rampage with Tokyo, Yuriko convinces her husband that ending Yatsu's life would merely result in further destruction. As such, instead of merely blasting his foe to kingdom come, Anthony resolves to forcibly fuse himself with Yatsu. Despite his threats of it killing his wife, Anthony commits to merging Yatsu's being into himself, ending this time in the protagonist's favor. Having returned to human form, Anthony's victory is confirmed with the reveal of Yatsu's bluff, allowing the couple to once again live in peace.
Five years later, Anthony and his family are seen at the end of the film resuming their peaceful lives, with Yuriko having since given birth to their their new son, Elliot. While Yatsu continues his attempts to provoke Anthony into becoming a monster, Anthony has managed to control his literal inner demon by keeping his emotions at bay.
Personality[]
Yatsu is incredibly unstable, often laughing manically, preforming acts of incredible violence, and has said "I don't need money. Destruction is all I need". This shows two of Yatsus aspects, specifically his incredibly violent nature and bizarre concept of what is pleasing to him. Yatsu is immensely seductive in the way he acts most of the time, often wearing close to nothing, occasionally dressing like a BDSM enthusiast, and even saying that he loves the protagonist.
This leads to his bizarre obsession with shoving metallic objects into himself for no apparent reason other than it seemingly brings him pleasure. In fact, he includes phallic imagery in many of things he does. However, this bizarre obsession hides his incredibly manipulative nature. He played several people like fiddles all to sate his immense lust for destruction.
Powers and Abilities[]
Yatsu is superhumanly fast, strong, and durable as a default. He has been known to lift car parts as workout weights, move fast enough to cross long distances in a short span of time, and take lethal damage and find it nothing but a minor inconvenience.
Yatsus true powers come in his ability to manipulate metal. It goes beyond just manipulating it, as he can seemingly create it, destroy it, turn things into it, and seemingly is capable of doing anything with it. He can also create machinery on his body, from weapons, from flamethrowers to guns, to rocket jets.
Yatsu is also capable of messing with the brains of those around him, causing hallucinations, insanity, and even mind control. He can also presumably turn more people into metallic humanoid monsters like him.
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