| “ | We are truly the same, you and I... The world is a more interesting place with people like you in it. I never agreed with the Boss's revolution. His dreams of world conquest do not interest me. I just wanted an excuse to kill as many people as I could. | „ |
| ~ Psycho Mantis to Solid Snake |
Summary[]
Born in a small village during the Cold War, the future Psycho Mantis' mother died during childbirth, leaving his father to resent and despise him for this and his disfigurement. When he discovered his psychic powers and used them, he found his father's true feelings for him, and, fearing for his life, he killed him and destroyed his home town. He would go on to become known as Tretij Rebenok (Russian for "Third Child"), and sought out those with strong negative feelings, such as the Man on Fire, before ultimately joining up with Liquid Snake and going on to participate in FOXHOUND's armed takeover of Shadow Moses Island.
Powers and Stats[]
Tier: 8-C, likely higher | At least 8-C | 8-A
Keys: The Floating Boy | Psycho Mantis | Possessing Screaming Mantis
Name: Psycho Mantis, Tretij Rebenok, The Third Child, Floating Boy, real name unknown.
Origin: Metal Gear Solid
Age: Likely in his 30s
Gender: Male
Classification: Human, Psychic
Powers and Abilities:
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Genius Intelligence
- Enhanced Senses (Awareness; Can feel the controller beyond the Fourth Wall)
- Extrasensory Perception
- Levitation
- Telekinesis
- Telepathy
- Teleportation
- Mind Manipulation (Brainwashed dissenters from the Genome Army and controlled Meryl)
- Immortality (Type 6; His ghost can possess inanimate objects, possessed Screaming Mantis after his death)
- Biological Manipulation (Removed the vocal cord parasite from inside Eli's lungs, an operation that would certainly have killed him if performed conventionally)
- Energy Manipulation
- Fire Manipulation
- Forcefield Creation
- Illusion Creation
- Invisibility (Has optic camouflage that allows him to turn invisible)
- Intangibility (Displayed multiple times throughout MGSV:TPP)
- Power Bestowal and Possession (Possessed Screaming Mantis through the remains of his psychic powers)
- Body Puppetry
- Precognition (Can see the future and predict attacks by reading into his opponent's mind)
- Breaking the Fourth Wall (Can read the data stored inside a memory card and make controllers vibrate with his mind)
Resistance to:
- Extreme Heat (Can stay right next to The Man on Fire without repercussions)
- Precognition (Can see into the future)
Attack Potency: Building level, likely higher (Upscales from Man on Fire's feats due to his power source coming from Mantis, and he can quickly overwhelm Venom Snake) | At least Building level (Stronger than when he was a child. Can fight against and injure Solid Snake. Is one of the most powerful psychics, above those who can cause natural disasters) | Multi-City Block level (Had a prolonged fight against Old Snake to the point where he nearly won, causing The Sorrow and even Kojima to intervene)
Speed: Superhuman with Massively Hypersonic+ combat speed (Upscales from Man on Fire) | Superhuman with Relativistic combat speed (Can keep up with Solid Snake) | Superhuman with Relativistic+ combat speed (Can keep up with Old Snake)
Lifting Strength: Unknown
Striking Strength: Building level, likely higher | At least Building level | Multi-City Block level
Durability: Building level, likely higher | At least Building level | Multi-City Block level
Stamina: Superhuman
Range: Standard Melee Range; Kilometers with abilities (has a reception range of 3 miles); Can also reach beyond the Fourth Wall (He can affect the player's controller)
Standard Equipment: Gas mask, Stealth Camo.
- The world's greatest mind-reader and psychic.
- Has an IQ of over 180.
- Responsible for constructing the Shadow Moses plan
Weaknesses: Mantis loathes his own disfigured face to such an extent that seeing any depictions of his face would break his concentration. As a child, he was greatly influenced by the negative emotions of others, which caused him to parasitize off of the person who bore the most hatred in his reception range, completely losing his ego and becoming little more than a weapon in the user's hands.
Notable Matchups[]
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