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| “ | We didn't want to go, we didn't want to kill them, but its persistent silence and outstretched arms horrified and comforted us at the same time... | „ |
| ~ Children describing The Slender Man |
Summary
The Slender Man, also written as Slenderman, is the titular main antagonist of The Slender Mythos. It is an internet-born urban legend and enigmatic entity described as a tall, thin figure with a featureless, white face and tentacle-like appendages. It often is seen lurking in the background of photos, typically in wooded or dark enviroments stalking humans and manipulating small children to kidnap them, leaving no trace of their existence behind.
Powers and Stats
Tier: At least 9-C
Name: The Slender Man, "Tall Man" (By children)
Origin: The Slender Mythos
Gender: Unknown, possibly male
Age: At least 300 years old (earliest sighting as "Der Großmann" was in 1702)
Classification: Child kidnapper, mythological entity
Powers and Abilities:
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Intangibility (His body is described as a meaty black smoke and a shapeless figure in photos[1])
- Shapeshifting (Never keeps the same appearance for very long[1])
- Social Influencing (Convinced a group of children to follow it and kill people for it, with it's mere silence alone described as horrifying and comforting[2] Regularly convinces children to trust it and follow it into it's forest)
- Invisibility (Was not able to be seen by Gloria Cready until after she took a photo of herself in a mirror[3])
- Darkness Manipulation (Generated a dark shadow like fog upon appearing)
- Size Manipulation (Can vary in height, varying as just taller than the average human, to reaching the height of large trees[4])
- Large Size (Varies from type 0 to 1[4])
- Additional Limbs
- Sound Manipulation (Made the forest two hunters were in emit murmuring, humming, and children laughter[5])
- Smoke Manipulation (Caused fog levels to rapidly rise[5])
- Technology Manipulation (Caused an entire house to lose power[3])
- Madness Manipulation (Type 3; Staring at photos of it will cause people to puke, staring at Slender Man causes nausea and splitting headaches. Its presence and figure has been described to 'fight over comprehension'.[1] Likely the reason Gloria Cready was put into a mental rehabilitation hospital after the encounter with it[3])
- Fear Manipulation (Causes people to become paranoid, sending shivers down people's spine and make them paranoid that they're being watched[1])
- Mind Manipulation (Persuaded a person to kill and eat the victim for it, later causing them forget who they were, and gave them an entirely new identity after words[1])
- Memory Manipulation (twists and warps memories it can find within people's minds[1])
- Likely Fire Manipulation (Very likely the cause of the library fire happening one week after fourteen children went missing[6])
- Possibly Duplication (Each Slender Man incident is possibly a different Slender Man, noting to 'taste' different
Attack Potency: At least Street level (Disembowled a soldier.[1] Impaled 22 humans on tree branches.[7] Dissected a man leaving their ribcage exposed, and mutilated the body to a point it was impossible to tell how old the person was.[5] Slender Man attacks are commonly noted to have chest mutilation on the victims[7])
Speed: Unknown
Lifting Strength: Above Average Human (Lifted a soldier off the ground[1])
Striking Strength: At least Street level
Durability: At least Street level
Stamina: Unknown (Has never shown to exert itself at all, although has a tendency to stalk it's victims for long periods of time)
Range: Extended Melee Range; Several Meters with tendrils
Standard Equipment: None notable
Intelligence: Gifted (While Slender Man's intelligence is never explicitly defined, he is described as calculating and cold, capable of manipulating and terrorizing its victims through psychological manipulation, manipulating groups of teenagers and adults alike to do horrendous acts for it.[2] Victims of it's attacks are often never found. Killed an entire police team with relative ease)
Standard Tactics: Slender Man will usually stalk his victim for an unknown amount of time, before attacking them, usually at night. For children, it will usually manipulate them into trusting it, before abducting them.
Weaknesses: Cameras appear to mitigate it's Invisibility[3]
Notable Matchups
Victories:
Slenderman (Slender: The Eight Pages) Slenderman's Profile (Speed was equalized and both combatants started in Slender's Forest with no line of sight)
The Seed Eater (Seed Eater Experiences) Seed Eater's Profile
Losses:
Golden Freddy (Five Nights At Freddy's) Golden Freddy's Profile (Base Golden Freddy was used and was bloodlusted. Speed was equalized and the battle took place inside of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria)
Inconclusive:
References
Discussions
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