

When Garou fights heroes does he actually kill them or just severly injure
them. If he killed them then that will leave the Hero Association at a huge
loss and in previous episodes

> When Garou fought the 8 heroes in Gatling Gunner's squad it seemed like some
> of them died.

Does he actually kill heroes?


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Does Garou actually kill the heroes?


No, he severely injures many of them, enough to require hospitalization, but
there are no actual hero kills associated to Garou. His initial appearance is
probably his most murderous looking, though: he clearly severs Blue Flame's
arm clean off (which can very easily be lethal), for example. He even talks a
lot about how he's going to kill everyone there, hero or not. Possibly Garou
was originally intended to be legitimately murderous, but these behaviors are
still consistent with the fear he wishes to instill everyone with.

The Monster Association calls him out on how he claims to be a monster but yet
doesn't kill any heroes. That's why they demand he actually go kill a hero to
properly join them. Garou, however, doesn't much care for their demands. He
sees it as, at best, stereotypical and lame monster/hero dynamics, one of the
things he's looking to upend and subvert; and at worst that wanton murdering
(especially for social conformity) is not even consistent with what monsters
should be doing.

Much later in the webcomic

> Saitama also calls him out on not having killed anyone, saying he must have
> intentionally fought everyone in a way that they could survive. Earlier he
> calls Garou a big softy. Later he posits that Garou just wanted to be a
> hero, but found it difficult and gave up and took the easy way out of being
> a monster; he just couldn't shed his desire to not kill people. [![Saitama
> thinks Garou intentionally didn't kill
> anyone](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xrpNK.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xrpNK.jpg)  
> You can see here in the last panel that the S-class heroes are demanding his
> death. This is meant to contrast the faults of the so-called heroes versus
> the ideals of Garou and Saitama. That was much of the point of this story
> arc, in fact: to subvert the Hero genre and point out its flaws and
> failures, both at individual and societal levels. Saitama just sees Garou as
> a human who beat some people up, so won't kill him, while the "heroes" are
> all murderously incensed.


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