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An Irregular is not chosen like us, they opened the door by themselves without being selected... They violate the rules of the Tower, and they've always brought chaos.
—Shibisu
Irregulars are people who opened the door to the Tower themselves and entered from the Outside; generally, they are among the strongest and most terrifying creatures in the whole Tower. Most of them are Shrouded in Myth, and rumors about them never give much away except that they are pretty dangerous.
Since Jahad and the Heads of the 10 families entered from outside the Tower, they are technically irregulars as well (see Ashul Edwaru's comments in Of the Tower's Weapons
from the author's blog, or Yu Hansung's comment in Chapter 58 that an Irregular is "...one who opened the door himself, just like the great Jahad or Urek Mazino"); but they are generally not considered as such in casual conversation.
For Twenty-Fifth Baam and Rachel, see Main Characters, for Urek Mazino, see Wolhaiksong
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True Irregulars
In General
- The Chosen One: Played with. While Irregulars are considered anomalies due to not being chosen by Headon, its implied that they might be chosen by the Tower itself.Alumik Edroch: You really don't know... What Irregulars are capable of. The Tower doesn't open its gates for just anyone. No matter what, it only opens its gate to something that it needs. Stability, change, revolution, or liberty....
- Flying Brick: Most of the Irregulars shown so far uniquely possess the ability to fly, which they can combine with Shinsu Body Reinforcement to become this. It's best shown during the fight between the data versions of Jahad and Khun Eduan, who move through the air so fast Baam can barely keep up and cause shockwaves with every blow.
- Immortal Breaker: Irregulars are the only beings in the Tower capable of overcoming Jahad's Complete Immortality, so they are coveted by FUG.
- Outside-Context Problem: They come from outside the Tower and break its rules, and they tend to be so powerful there's no way to prepare against them anyway.
Twenty-Fifth Bam / Jue Viole Grace
See Main Characters.
Rachel
See Main Characters.
Phantaminum
Phantaminum
Rank: 1
Sobriquet: The Riddle
From the Chapter 57 Flashback
The Jahad Family's Rankers, known to be the strongest, all fell at the hands of Phantaminum.
—Yu Hansung
A mysterious and highly dangerous Irregular. He is the most powerful entity in the Tower and is an Axis, which is a concept from SIU's older stories which are no longer available for viewing. In this sense, Phantaminum is older than the Tower of God story.
He is ranked 1st for the famous incident where he broke into Jahad's palace on the 134th floor, killing everyone he came across, all of them powerful High Rankers. Only two survived this rampage; a young Yuri Ha who refuses to talk about the incident, only saying that Phantaminum was "a dirty one", and Jahad himself. Phantanimum disappeared without a fight after meeting with Jahad, and any appearances afterwards are only rumors that cannot be proven.
His mysterious appearance and disappearance raised a lot of questions, which is why he left behind a legacy as the "Riddle" of the Tower. With no clear motivations, affiliations, or relationships, every Ranker is on the watch for any action he may make. He is rumored to be the only High Ranker capable of ascending to the 135th Floor.
- All-Powerful Bystander: He has the ability to fully and instantly resolve all the conflicts of the Tower but, barring a single instance of going on a rampage in Jahad's castle, he seems to abide by a non-interference policy.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He vs anyone. Period. This is due to the fact that his status as an Axis means that nothing other than another Axis of greater power can defeat him due to their Reality Warper status. Not that any of the inhabitants of the Tower are aware of this fact.
- The Dreaded: He, along with Enryu, created the prejudice against the Irregulars. The few witnesses to his rampage either died or lost their minds from whatever he did.
- The Ghost: We get a brief glance of his shadow, or his hair, or weapon, or clothes. Really we don't know.
- One-Man Army: Any of the highest Rankers qualifies as this, but Phantaminum explicitly stormed the most fortified and powerful fortress in the world, which was guarded by the most powerful people in the world, all on his own.
- Outside-Context Problem: From the perspective of the rest of the Tower. He appeared from nowhere using a type of weapon none of them had ever seen before, completely slaughtered their strongest champions for reasons nobody understands, then vanished just as mysteriously.
- Reality Warper: According to
Word of God this is what an Axis is. - Red Baron: The Riddle. No further explanation needed, or possible.
- Run the Gauntlet: Stormed the 134th Floor's palace, where many High Rankers, as well as Jahad himself, resided. He killed everyone he came across, with only Yuri Ha as the sole survivor, and supposedly came to face Jahad but left without doing anything.
- Satellite Character: An odd example of this, but despite his minimal importance to the story, it had been noted that the reason why Urek entered the Tower was probably because he was pursuing Phantaminum.
- Shrouded in Myth: Inside the Tower, what is known about him basically amounts to "scary guy who can flatten anybody". And, a lot of shrugging.
- Spell My Name With An S: Pentaminum?
- Storming the Castle: Attacked the fortress of the king (where nearly all the strongest Rankers in the Tower were) singlehandedly. And before he decided to stop (for unknown reasons), he was winning. Easily.
- Story-Breaker Power: Word of God says he could destroy the entire story of Tower of God if he wanted to.
- Unknown Rivals: Supposedly with Enryu, people may talk about it, but they have never met before. Possibly with Urek Mazino as well, as Urek expressed a desire to fight or at least find Phantaminum. Whether or not he knows about Urek searching for him or even knows he exists at all is unknown.
- Was Once a Man: He is noted to be an "Awakened" Axis, in other words, he used to be a normal person before becoming whatever he is now.
- World's Strongest Man: Definitively. The only guy people are giving a snowball's chance in hell to defeat him is Enryu. And Word of God is that since Phantaminum is an Axis, even Enryu would have no chance whatsoever against him.
Enryu
Enryu
Tower Position: Spear Bearer
Rank: 2
Sobriquet: Red Tower
From the Chapter 321 Flashback
Only those who believe in the false king will remain here and face death.
The first Irregular (discounting Jahad himself, who technically entered as an Irregular but predates the Irregular/Regular system) and second strongest Ranker in the Tower. Enryu became a legend when the rumors spread that he managed to kill a Guardian (which had previously been considered to be impossible). This led to his being the first being ever to be given a Rank higher than Jahad himself, dropping the King of the Tower to the second place, although Phantaminum was later ranked above both of them. He is described by Princess Garam as a messenger of God who came to deliver his Thorn to the child of Arlene's prophecy.
Enryu appeared suddenly after Jahad built a shrine on a Floor Arlene loved dedicated to him, and appeared because he could not seem to tolerate this defilement. Denouncing Jahad as the false king, he swept aside his Rankers that tried to attack him and fought the Guardian of the floor, which ended in it being killed. He hid his Thorn behind for the one to kill Jahad to find before departing.
Currently, Enryu's whereabouts are unknown and no one knows what he is doing, but it is rumored Headon is looking for him.
- The Ace: Admittedly most of what we hear about him comes from SIU, but considering he's the World's Strongest Man (barring Phantaminum who, as an Axis, hardly counts), is known as the "coolest" and "best-looking" guy in the tower, and has enough control over Shinsu to kill an Administrator and create life, Enryu definitely qualifies.
- Beyond the Impossible: The Guardians, who can control shinsu freely and manage the flow of shinsu on each floor? Yeah, Enryu's shinsu control is actually greater than theirs; it's a "heretical ability that breaks the laws of the Tower". He killed the guardian of the 43rd floor, an achievement far beyond the scope of Jahad's power.
- Convenient Color Change: In his presence, all Shinsoo turns red. No one in the Tower really knows why, although many have guesses.
- Creating Life: Is rumored to have the ability to create living things from Shinsu.
- Death from Above: Sure, you can focus on him. But, that means you're not watching where the attack is likely to come from...
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: Subverted. While he does summon THOUSANDS of spears, each one is strong enough to significantly damage a Physical God.
- The Dreaded: He, along with Phantaminum created the prejudice against the Irregulars.
- Flechette Storm: Subverted; Enryu's spears are absolutely massive and he can make countless amounts and fling them at his enemy with a gesture. No Ranker could hope to stand against this and not even the Guardian could endure.
- The Ghost: It is rumoured that Enryu will appear during the middle of the story. Though you have to remember that the creator is SIU. The middle could be anytime. He eventually appeared in Garam's recounting of his exploits. Whether or not he will appear in person has yet to be seen.
- Kill the God: To let the people know that Guardians weren't absolute beings, and possibly to hide his Thorn for the child of prophecy.
- More Dakka: Killed the Guardian by shooting thousands of giant spears.
- Munchkin: The author literally describes him as such (in the power-gamer sense) in his character notes.
- Off the Rails: Because of the murder of the 43rd Floor Guardian, Regulars simply advance through the middle area of the 43rd Floor without taking a test.
- Person of Mass Destruction: His battle with the Guardian devastated the 43rd floor, destroying its mountains, seas, and buildings.
- Red Baron: Is called the Red Tower due to the fact that all Shinsu turns red when he is around.
- Shrouded in Myth: A lot of things are said of Enryu, most notably that he can create life using shinsu.
- Signature Move: "Red Rain". It's notorious enough as the only move he was shown using. Even here, there are 7 tropes (including this one) currently describing it.
- Spam Attack: Red, pointy death comes in bulk. He likely has other attacks along similar lines, given how abilities usually build on each other.
- Storm of Blades: His Red Rain ability.
- Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: He and Phantaminum have never met and have nothing to do with each other, but since they're the first and second-strongest Rankers who ever lived, fans of each within the Tower constantly speculate about who would win in a fight. The outcome would obviously be Phantaminum's victory due to him being an Axis, but no one knows this.
- World's Strongest Man: Enryu's power far exceeds that of Jahad and even the Administrators themselves, and was touted as the strongest being in the Tower until the arrival of Phantaminum. He actually still is From a Certain Point of View, as Phantaminum relies on his Wrong Context Magic abilities as an Axis, Enryu still holds the record for the single most powerful use of Shinsu the Tower has on record.
Urek Mazino
See Wolhaiksong
Original Tower Climbers
Jahad and the 10 Great Family Leaders
See Great Warriors.
