Characters / Tower of God: Twenty-Fifth Bam

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Tower of God Main Character Index
Main Characters (Twenty-Fifth Bam) | Organizations (FUG (Canines), Wolhaiksong) | Regulars (First Batch, Second Batch, Third Batch, Fourth Batch, Fifth Batch, Sixth Batch) | Rankers | Irregulars | Jahad Empire (Great Warriors, Princesses of Jahad, 13 Month Series) | Floor Guardians | Others

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Twenty-Fifth Bam / Jue Viole Grace

Voiced by: Taichi Ichikawa (Japanese), Johnny Yong Bosch (English)

Tower Position: Wave Controller

Bam during Part 1 (Anime)

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Stars, thrones, skies, the outside world, I don't need any of those things.... But if someone tries to hurt those that are precious to me, I will fight.

The Hero of Tower of God. Twenty-Fifth Bam is unusual to the Tower in that he opened the door himself, thus making him an Irregular, who are universally feared throughout the Tower as being ultra-powerful monsters who almost always bring great calamity within the Tower. He's also considered borderline crazy because he values his friends over his own desire to climb the Tower, and is thus quickly deemed dangerous by those who rule within it. His one true desire however, is to be with Rachel, a girl who freed Bam from being stuck in a dark prison outside the Tower, and kept him from ever truly being lonely due to the time the two spent together.

In Season 1, Bam's desire to be with Rachel again is so strong that it gave him the courage to take Headon's 1st Floor test despite the obvious danger. Following his arrival on the 2nd Floor, he befriends many Regulars, passing the floor's many tests together.

Bam takes a darker path in Season 2 after being forced into joining FUG, a terrorist organization that wishes to dispose of the current Tower rule by killing King Jahad and those loyal to him. As FUG's new Slayer Candidate, Jue Viole Grace, Bam's new Tower climb results in him joining forces with Ja Wangnan's Sweet and Sour on the 20th Floor. His old teammates find out that he is alive and manage to free him from FUG. Afterwards, Bam and his teammates go on a journey through the Hell Train.

Season 3 takes place a few years after the Battle of the Last Station. To rescue Ha Jinsung, Bam enlists the help of Baylord Yama, a FUG slayer. Together, him and his teammates adventure through the Nest.

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A — C

• Achievements in Ignorance: When Lero Ro conjures a shinsuu barrier to filter out regulars on 2nd floor, Bam just walks past the barrier as though he were strolling in a park, causing Lero Ro, in his internal monologue, to rightfully call Bam a monster.
• Action Fashionista: A Rare Male Example. He has an ever-changing wardrobe of stylish clothes no thanks to Ha Jinsung, even a purple and black striped suit at one point and a designer hoodie during the 21st Floor Test, and, thanks to his gift in shinsu, becomes one of the best fighters in the Tower.
• Agent Peacock: In Season 2 his hair is a long ponytail and he wears a fabulous black robe, making him mistaken as a girl by some. He has also gained an infamous reputation as a Slayer candidate and become much more powerful with Shinsu.
• All-Loving Hero: In the competitive, back-stabbing world of the Tower, Bam genuinely wants to help others.
• All Your Powers Combined: Baam is able to instantly learn any skill or Shinsu used on him, even those Ranker needed decades to learn, and he can reproduces them if he has the aptitude. He is also able to absorb sentient items, or living beings, body and soul, and claim their powers for himself, as seen when he absorbed Black March and the Leviathan.
• Animal Motifs: Butterflies. Some of his shinsu techniques have a distinct butterfly motif in their appearances, and Bam is a pretty young man who undergoes great change throughout the series.
• The Apprentice: Before Season 2, he was trained in martial arts by Ha Jinsung. Towards the end of season 2, Bam becomes one to the high-ranker, Evankhell. He accepts her offer to rescue Ha Jinsung and to take revenge on Kallavan.
• Badass Boast: Gives some during Part 2.
• Badass Normal: Subverted. He appears this way at first, but eventually it's shown he's an innate genius at Shinsu manipulation.
• Berserk Button: Hurting the people he trusts is a good way to set him off, just ask Beta and Reflejo.
  "But if you play around with my friends' lives like this again- I will kill you all."
• Berserker Tears: Outright tell Bam that you've killed one of his close friends or master, and this happens.
  (crying over Jinsung Ha's apparent death) "Even if it means I have to die here, I'm going to fight...!!"
• Beware the Nice Ones: Bam's a nice guy... just don't hurt his friends.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman:
  • He was trained by Ha Jinsung in martial arts, meaning he's more than capable of handling opponents in close-combat.
  • Even after getting the Thorn, he spent a year after the Workshop to train at various dojos and combine their styles. As a result, he can keep up with new opponents without using much of the Thorn's power.
  • He then goes through another round of boxing lessons during his training with Evankhell, under a not-quite Ranker who notes that due to his mass copying of techniques instead of actually learning them, he's got tons of master-level moves but lacks the basic foundation set that they're built on. He fixes that by having Bam rebuild his skill set from "zero."
• Break the Cutie: An alternate title to Tower of God might as well be Tower of Breaking The Protagonist.
  • He wasn't completely broken, but Hoh’s suicide got him very close to snapping. He laments the constant infighting between Regulars, even when everybody says it's the most normal, logical thing to happen.
  • After heartwarmingly assuring Rachel he’ll stay by her side no matter what, and defending her from a dangerous giant fish... she pushes him off a platform and leaves him to die. Bam doesn’t cope well with this, being haunted by what happened even after 6 years.
  • Hansung Yu and FUG intend on making Bam their next slayer candidate and future weapon against Jahad, regardless of whether he wants to or not. If he doesn’t comply, or hesitates even a little bit, one of his friends will die.
  • When Bam meets Rachel again and calls out to her, Rachel coldly brushes him off. She states her goals are much more important than Bam, and doesn’t even try to make an excuse for herself. Upon realizing just how little he meant to Rachel, and how things can never go back to how they used to be, he shuts down and goes crazy with the power of the thorn.
  • Once Bam finds out Kallavan might've killed his master, Jinsung Ha, who treated him as if he were his son, he goes berserk once again. He cries hard, refuses to listen to reason and picks a fight with Kallavan, a Commander in Jahad’s army.
• Broken Ace: He'a good at pretty much everything, but suffers greatly because of Rachel’s betrayal and FUG’s threat to his friends’ lives.
• Broken Bird: Bam becomes a rare male one, becoming cold and somber after he gets betrayed by Rachel, who was his only friend and essentially raised him, and forced to work under FUG because they're threatening his friends. It's all but stated that he's become so to protect himself from getting hurt again and avoid endangering others.
• Calling Your Attacks:
  • Averted. Bam never yells out what he's doing: the most you get is a handy label down the side of the action or a footnote.
  • Despite Bam not doing this in season 1, the only exception will sometimes be when he copies a move, he'll call out the attacks as he makes them. Notably, this is why he doesn't use Urek Mazino's attacks, which he did copy—because he feels the attack's name is extremely embarrassing.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Mostly confined to the first arc of part 2, where he plays up his role as FUG's Slayer candidate to almost mustache curling levels in an attempt to scare away the competition. Pointed out by Khun, who says it's like he's reading out of a textbook for evil people.
• Chaste Hero: Seems to just not understand things related to romance or intimacy judging by his confusion about a date and how he was unaware how saying he isn't interested in a woman's body may offend them. Justified by his isolated life before entering the Tower. Once he gets a better handle on these things, he evolves into a Celibate Hero and still rejects offers to date.
• Chick Magnet: Starting with Yuri, and Endorsi who gets a lot of Ship Tease. According to SIU, Bam will cause many women to cry. Season 2 continues to build the women that are showing the signs towards Bam.
  • Yeon Ehwa has had moments here and there where she will be blushing in Bam/Viole's vicinity.
  • Hwaryun is considered another candidate, with the Hell Train arc in particular focusing a lot on the strange amount of trust the two have for each other despite the whole "turning Bam into Viole" thing. Not to mention him going pretty much ballistic when he learns what Reflejo had done to her during the Workshop Battle.
  • Endorsi's Ship Tease becomes much less platonic once she starts reminding Bam of the date he supposedly promised her once they are reunited. She even goes so far as to outright refer to him as her boyfriend when talking about him, although Hatz says she's probably bluffing in this instance.
  • Elaine, aka Kaiser, was saved by Baam and became one of his teammates at season 3.
• The Chosen One:
  • Many people believe he was chosen by God to kill King Jahad and help everyone reach the top of the Tower. A few of said people resent God for choosing Bam and want to steal his destiny for themselves.
  • Rachel claims that the above is not the case at all, and that his true destiny is far more sinister. According to her, his mother saw him as nothing but a monster born to curse and devour the Tower for her Revenge.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Bam will save even a complete stranger, despite any consequences. On the Hell Train he has to play a game where he and his opponents both have to save their teammates from being lowered into their deaths, getting points for saving teammates but spending points to go in to save them. After his opponent, Hoaqin, makes it clear he's perfectly fine with playing with the lives of others and he's not going to try to save all his teammates, Bam decides he's going to save everyone — even Hoaqin's evil teammates whose rescue gives points to Hoaqin instead.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: On the 50th floor, during his efforts to gain Yama's support and save his master, Bam demonstrates he is strong enough to defeat a Ranker now, which he eventually does officially, earning the ire of Jahad's army and support from insurgent factions and surpassing the feat of Adori Jahad, the present commander-in-chief of Jahad's Army, but the normal Rankers back then are still capable of posing a real threat to him in his normal form, as displayed by how a ranker of Baylord Paul manages to push him back for a while before Bam deals the finishing blow with a Piercing Technique. When he wrecks a low-level test ranker in the Administration office despite being a regular, it was clearly a struggle, Bam suffering several nasty injuries and visibly being exhausted by the end of his fight with Pan. Then he fights Charlie on the Nest and overwhelms him but not before being cut once with his poisoned needle that would have killed him had he not nulified it. which earns him the ire of Jahad's army and support from insurgent factions.

D — I

• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: The Thorn. After one year of training, he may use it once a day for ten minutes at most, else it will go out of control and turn him into a raging berserker that will kill anything around him.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Despite dressing in mostly dark colors and his name meaning "night", he is one of the most morally sound people in the entire cast.
• Death Glare: Begins to sport one once someone gets him sufficiently angry, most of the time it occurs when you harm his friends. He gives a really nasty one to Raguel when she says she is going to kill Hwaryun.
• Defector from Decadence: Once the FUG faction Karaka belongs to reveals it has no intentions to play by its own rules, Bam ceases any pretense of willingness to work for FUG and immediately follows Khun's plans to leave them.
• Defense Mechanism Superpower: When Bam's fate is at risk, the Thorn will react to protect it and him, in one case outright evacuating him when King Jahad is about to kill him.
• The Dreaded: As a Slayer candidate. Everyone is terrified of Jue Viole Grace up until they actually meet him, anyway. Even after he ditches FUG and re-assumes his identity as Bam, many FUG members still refer to him as Viole due to his infamous potential as a Slayer.
• Dub Name Change: The Japanese version changes his name to "Nijuugo no Yoru" (or just Yoru for short), as a transliteration of his Korean name and an effort to keep his "night" theme naming.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: At the beginning of season 2, even the Ranker mistakes him for a lady. Ehwa also mistakes him for a female and outright invites him to bathe with her.
  • Happens again with Nobic and Ran, and them wondering how they never heard of an E-rank Regular with "her" skills.
• Empowered Badass Normal:
  • Becoming a living Ignition Weapon by merging with the Thorn boosted his already impressive Shinsu control and power, on top of being an Irregular. SIU has hinted that this, and not his nature as an Irregular, is the biggest reason for his power boost in Season 2.
  • He gains another boost during the Hell Train arc when he gains the souls of billions of people Hoaqin killed. Unlike the Thorn, this has yet to change much beyond giving him an observable power boost.
• Enemy Within: In the Rice Pot, Bam is tempted by the manifestation of his own power, who tries to exploit his hidden desire to Never Be Hurt Again.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: He sports longer hair as an FUG. And at the end of season 2, after he gets back with his friends, he cuts it. He "gets it back" temporarily with a wig at the "Name Hunt Station" so the enemies would take him seriously as "Viole". By Part III, he's grown it out slightly and now has a short ponytail.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Bam has this dynamic with his first team. Rak is the fighter as a brawny Blood Knight who fights using a spear and brute strength; Bam is the mage, being a shinsu prodigy who can master techniques almost instantly; and Khun is the thief who uses intelligence and manipulation to achieve his goals.
• Fish out of Water: Bam's background, ethical standards and basic moral compass are not like those belonging to most Tower residents to put it mildly. He grew up in a cave with his only contact to the human world being a girl that taught him everything he knew, then stumbling into a place full of magic, people, conflict and rules, with one stating that his presence is against the law.
• Friendless Background: Had absolutely no human contact until he met Rachel. Even the name he was given by somebody refers to his birthdate. His loneliness is what made him so caring about human beings and eager for friendship, while it also makes him quite the stalker.
• The Gift: Being an Irregular, he has incredible Shinsu resistance and a huge talent for learning Shinsu techniques. His immense talent draws a lot of jealousy towards him, with some of his teammates developing crushing inferiority complexes as a result.
• Glass Cannon: How Kallavan describes his combat power, noting that he is weak but deadly, capable of delivering attacks that can actually scratch his Nigh-Invulnerability, but would die quickly if hit.
• A God I Am Not: Quite a few people refer to him as "my/our god" on account of his position as a Slayer candidate and an Irregular. Bam's reactions to this range from strong discomfort to violent retaliation, depending on who's addressing him.
  • Changes his mind after he can't help his friends when they're attacked by Karaka and they sacrifice their places on the train so he can advance.
  Bam, back in the "rice pot": Teach me how to be a god.
  • The "God of Guardians" promptly tells him A) resemblance to Thor aside "God" is just a nickname and B) more power won't make him and his friends happy — especially since he can't control it — and tells him to return after he passes the next test and cools his head. Bam returns after the test and his friends tell him how much he means to them and NOW he's ready to learn advanced shinsu control. The "God of Guardians" knows what he's talking about since the last guy he taught who wanted to be a god (or "king") to change the tower and make everyone happy was Jahad and clearly that didn't work out... but Bam's a bit different:
  God of Guardians: Jahad wanted power in order to stand above others and change them... But this boy simply thinks that he needs power in order to stay with them. It's a slight difference that I overlooked — but it's worth taking a chance on.
• Gone Horribly Right: During the Workshop Battle arc, the plan to make him an Ignition Weapon ended up backfiring against Karaka and signalled Bam's defection from FUG.
• Guile Hero: Bam is definitely not stupid. Ignorant about a lot of things, sure. But good luck tricking him in a way close to one he's met before.
• Healing Factor: He heals almost instantaneously in flashes of red light. Even near-fatal injuries only put him out of commission for a few days. This is apparently a function of being a living Ignition Weapon.
• Hearing Voices: The Thorn apparently speaks to him.
• The Heart: One of the few idealists in the Tower, and the most dedicated of the cast to keeping everyone alive.
• Heroes Fight Barehanded: Like Ha Jinsung he fights barehanded most of the time.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: The kind hero of the story, and sometimes he wields the needle Black March, in contrast with Rak and Khun who wield a spear and knives.
• Heroic Neutral: All Bam ever wants is to be left alone with his friends; he couldn't care less about Tower politics. Unfortunately for his goals and dreams, Tower politics cares about him and won't leave them or him alone.
• Heroic RRoD: After that one incident of overusing the Thorn, he becomes very prone to passing out.
• Hero Protagonist: The main character of Tower of God and a thoroughly kind young man who wants to protect his friends and help them climb the Tower.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Khun. Bam describes Khun as his most precious friend, and has gone through immense lengths to support Khun multiple times in the manhwa. Their bond is strong enough that, when Rachel (whom of which Bam previously considered as his entire world and spent most of his time in the tower pursuing) nearly kills Khun, it completely severs any mercy Bam had left for Rachel.
• He Who Fights Monsters:
  • When his recklessness gets a good number of his friends taken hostage by the FUG-affiliated Hell Train conductor, he realizes that his obsession with Rachel is making him just as selfish as her.
  • After Yeon, Rak, and Dahnwa's apparent deaths, Bam asks the "God" of Guardians to teach him how to become a god to protect his friends. The guardian warns him that Jahad started with a similar mindset, yet his power ended up making the Tower system unjust in many ways.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: In season 3, many members of Jahad's army are wary of Bam, and that's when he is not using Black March or the Thorn fragment.
• Immune to Fate: His status as an Irregular makes it so that Guide are unable to predict what he will do, or what changes he can bring.
• Important Haircut: Gets one after escaping FUG in the epilogue of Part 2, in which he cuts his long hair so it looks more like it did in part 1.
• Imposed Handicap Training: Evankhell forbids him from using the Thorn or Black March while training under her.
• In-Series Nickname: Called "Black Turtle" by Rak.
• Instant Expert: Not only will he immediately turn their own techniques around on people during a fight, but Bam can also blend both moves and styles on the fly, making him very adaptable and hard to read.
  • This extends to even physical moves sets, mastering no less than five different martial arts styles by having the practitioners use him as a practice dummy.

K — R

• Kill the God: Is being developed by FUG as a Slayer, because as an Irregular he's the only person with the power to kill Jahad and change the Tower's system.
• The Kirk: In-between the much more calm, calculating Khun and boisterous, impatient Rak.
• Knight, Knave, and Squire: The inexperienced, naive Squire to Khun's ruthless, pragmatic Knave and Rak's shrewdly idealistic Knight.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: In addition to his existing prowess with Shinsu manipulation, he has become a master physical combatant during the timeskip and he mixes this skill with shinsu.
• Legally Dead: After Rachel tried to kill him and he was never found dead. He's forced to join FUG and is renamed Jue Viole Grace.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Rachel, along with pretty much all of Bam's teammates (particularly Rak and Khun). Rachel eventually loses this status as Bam finds reasons to progress and grow beyond her. He rejects her completely after she nearly kills Khun on the Hell Train and calls her out on her hypocrisy, double standards, and callousness.
• Living MacGuffin:
  • As an Irregular, FUG hopes to use him as a weapon to destroy the current power structure in the Tower. Just as many in the existing Great Houses are interested in either stopping him being used (terminally, if they can manage it) or in using him themselves, too.
  • Doubly so due to his status as a complete living Ignition Weapon, and obtaining the true Thorn.
• Loners Are Freaks: Much more withdrawn in Season 2 than before because he doesn't want to lose anybody anymore, thus making others perceive him as a solitary type of individual. As if his status as a Slayer candidate didn't people avoid him enough before.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: As Jue Viole Grace. He cuts off his hair near the end of the 20th Floor arc, but he does briefly regain it in the Hell Train saga.
• Magnetic Hero: Becomes well liked and friendly with many of his fellows, so much so that they choose to help him out even when it means that they will be disadvantaged in the Tower. He's so endearing, his mentors in FUG are beginning to question their motivations. Nobic specifically mentions this to Sia Sia, warning her that trying to manipulate him in the long run won't work because the people he attracts are too loyal to him.
• Meaningful Name:
  • His name "Twenty-Fifth Bam" means "Twenty-Fifth Night", which according to the author was given to him by Rachel to signify the day he was born.
  • Bam also means "chestnut" which fits with his brown hair and round face. Headon alludes to this meaning, abbreviating his name to just "Bam".
  • In-Universe example. The actual make-up of his name isn't really symbolic of anything, but the fact that the leader of FUG granted him his surname "Grace" as part of his alias, brings to question just how important Bam is to their plans, since their leader essentially adopted him personally.
• Messianic Archetype: Bam is one to an absurd degree, being an All-Loving Hero with an incredible capacity for forgiveness and a tendency to inspire those around him, including villains, to become better people. He was betrayed by his close friend Rachel, is worshipped by FUG, and has been resurrected by the Outside god. Even his full name, the Twenty-Fifth Night, denotes the date he was born, just like Jesus was (claimed to be) born on December 25th.
• Mysterious Past: Who or what Bam is, even he doesn't know. It's not even clear where he was initially, though it seems he was either in the Middle area of the Tower or outside it completely.
• Naïve Newcomer: Starts as this. It doesn’t last.
• Never Found the Body: Everyone simply accepted that he was dead after they failed to pull his body from the lake.
• Nice Guy: Really kind and caring, hating not only his own loneliness but others' as well. Less so after Bam joins FUG and Rachel, the person who taught him his morals, betrays him. Some of it returns once he breaks free from FUG and reunites with Khun and Rak.
• No-Sell: He's virtually immune to most Shinsu attacks and Shinsu in general. Only extremely powerful ones are capable of harming him.
• Not Good with Rejection: Once he meets Rachel after several long years, Bam asks her once more if they can ever go back to the way they were. Once she reaffirms that no, they can't, cue Bam screaming "this is unacceptable!" and going on a crazy rampage with the power of the Thorn.
• Not So Similar: According to the "God" of Guardians, both Bam and Jahad want to gain power for benevolent purposes, but the difference is that Jahad wants to rule over his people to change them while Bam prefers to be by his friends' side.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: FUG gave him one after Rachel’s betrayal. If he didn’t join them and become a Slayer candidate, they would have killed all his friends.
• One-Man Army:
  • During Season 2, Bam starts to show shades of this compared to other Regulars. Ja Wangnan convinced Bam to make a truce with him because even if he was strong, he wouldn't hold out against the next six contestants. Their squabbling results in Bam fighting and beating them up by himself. Wangnan only remains due to his lucky skills and PokéBombs saving his ass. He later defeats the fake F.U.G followers while subtly mocking them.
  • By Season 3, Regulars are so weak that he can kill dozens of strong Regulars in the form of Yama's Mad Dogs with a single shinsu rain attack and even states he can annahilate the Dog Shelter with a single Orb. With his Red Thryssa transformation, he easily beats all the guards of the Wall with no help from Khun and Rak. After finishing his training under Evankhell for a month, he wipes the floor with the monsters of Gakjadosaeng, all of whom are described as Ranker level monsters, White even commenting how easy it was for Bam to defeat them.
• Outside-Context Problem: Sure, Bam is not in the same league as Phantaminum, but he's still an Irregular and is rather good at coming from an angle most in the Tower can't wrap their heads around until it's too late. Either they wind up hurting for it... or growing because of it. He's the slow burn kind of Outside Context Problem for people at the top of the Tower's hierarchy.
• The Paralyzer: Quant briefly teaches him this in Season 1 (in the form of the technique "Fast Skip"), and it becomes Bam's first example of Power Copying.
• Parental Abandonment: Never had parents and was essentially raised by Rachel. It's revealed that Jahad had killed Bam, driving his mother Arlene mad which led his father V to end his life in despair.
• Person of Mass Destruction: By the time Season 2 rolls around, he's far above the other Regulars on his level in strength. This status is further reinforced after he gains the Thorn and uses its power. Now he has the power of a Floor Guardian in the Red Thryssa as well.
• Powered by a Forsaken Child: White teaches him how to burn devoured souls to power his abilities. As uneasy as Bam feels about it, he becomes willing to use it when the stakes are high enough.
• Power Copying: He can learn most Shinsu techniques by being hit. This, when coupled with his innate ability to control Shinsu with ease, is his greatest combat strength. He's used several abilities that he learned from Rankers, sometimes far better than they did, such as Blue Oar and Fast Skip. The only drawback is he generally lacks the overall power and finesse the Rankers have gained over years honing the full use of their best moves — putting the time in to both polish and understand what he's copied is still a requirement. Additionally, to copy a move both quickly and completely, it actually does have to be used on him, first. In short, he can claim the unofficial Blue Mage mantra as his: I really, really hope I can tank this.
• Power Gives You Wings: Following his fight with data-Jahad, black butterfly wings manifest whenever he needs to fly.
• Power of Trust: He puts faith in the people around him to follow, and live up to their word, even if he, himself, acts out in a selfish manner. This is specifically emphasized in relation to him and Hwaryun. With the two being so effective in battle alongside each other because he has complete trust in her ability to guide him. Though this does get strained at times, since she isn't above abusing that trust to prioritize his safety over his friends.
• Pretty Boy: Bam is often noted to be “cute”, “handsome” or even “a total hotty” by the women in Tower of God. His looks only become more androgynous and attractive in-universe when he grows out his hair.
• Protagonist Power-Up Privileges:
  • Invoked in that many of Bam's biggest power-ups, such as becoming a living Ignition-Weapon and later on absorbing the thorn-fragments, are deliberately done so that he may become strong enough to achieve FUG's goal of killing King Jahad.
  • Played straight on account of the other miscellaneous power-ups, such as the billion souls given to him by White's clone.
• Punny Name: Bam can mean Night or Chestnut. Either how nightmarish he can appear to other or how how cute he is that you want to eat him right up.
• Rage Breaking Point: His meeting with Rachel during the Hell Train arc. Her rejection of him (combined the already unstable power of the Thorn) causes Bam to go completely berserk.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Bam has dark brown hair (often called black) and pale skin, and is regarded as handsome by many women in the story, garnering quite a few female admirers.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Bam is the Red Oni to Khun’s Blue Oni. Whereas Khun is a cool-headed, introverted and pragmatic strategist, Bam is an enthusiastic, passionate and emotional hero. The color red is ever-present in Bam’s appearances in regards to his powers and fashion, while Khun’s forefront color always stays blue due to his hair and outfits.
• Revenge: Bam finally starts treating Rachel as an enemy and decides to make her pay after she damages Khun's heart, bringing him to the brink of death.

S — Z

• Save the Villain:
  • He saves all of Hoaqin's teammates during the Dallar Show when the latter refuses to do so himself.
  • In the Hidden Floor, he repeatedly saves his "sworn enemy" despite how the latter exists for the sole purpose of defeating Bam.
• Screw Destiny: Bam, with the help of his sworn enemy, e.g., himself, he realizes that the path he takes is his to decide alone.
• Shaped Like Itself: Bam defines himself as himself.
• Shapeshifter Weapon: After Doom failed to turn him into a Canine he obtained a part of their transformation ability and used it to make weapons, like a cutlass or a shield.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Chews out Beta for the latter's attack on Bam's friends just so he can get his so-called revenge.
  The reason you hated me wasn't for revenge...You just needed someone to hate.
• Spell My Name With An S: His name can be translated as "Bam" or "Baam" but the official translation goes with the former. Same with his alias as "Jue" (the official translation) or "Jyu".
• Stock Shōnen Hero: Zig-Zagged. Tower of God takes a lot of inspiration from shōnen, which shows in Bam being a kind, naive young man with little romantic understanding and incredible potential as a Shinsu user, due to being an Irregular, whose goal is to help his friends. However, getting betrayed and having his kind nature taken advantage of turns Bam into a colder, more merciless invidual — the opposite of this archetype. And the author stated that, unlike in shōnen, Bam doesn't use his powers to "push his 'justice' and 'friendship' on others."
• Super Mode: Has one on account of being a living Ignition Weapon.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Bam has amber/gold eyes and is an Irregular, an anomaly in the Tower who has incredible potential in using Shinsu.
• Super-Reflexes: During one episode of Hearing Voices, Bam realizes his perception has significantly heightened.
• Supreme Chef: Almost outright referred as such by Wangnan in comparison to Yeon. Funnily enough, his best dish is "Prapato Sauce Spaghetti", Endorsi's supposed favorite dish.
• Sweet Tooth: After the 28th Floor Test. You can see it beginning in the background. Word of God states Goseng doesn't let the team eat them due to being unhealthy, and thus Viole became the underground supplier of junk food.
• Take Over the World: The "Power" attempts to guide him towards this. Bam originally rejected his offer, but when he accepts that it is his destiny to fight King Jahad and that he is no where near strong enough as he is, he asks the Power for enough strength to rule the world.
• Technical Pacifist: Though he dislikes enmity and fighting, he defends himself when attacked, he is prepared to kill in order to get to Rachel (though he is relieved when he doesn't have to) and later on, he mops the floor with everyone.
• Technician Versus Performer: The performer to Khun’s technician. Bam is a naturally gifted and talented fighter, being able to copy any attack made on him as long as he’s been hit by it. Despite what he lacks in strategic planning, Bam is able to make up for it with sheer power and on-the-spot gambits. It’s debatable to say he enjoys fighting though, since it’s accurate to say he only does it out of necessity.
• Teleportation: One of the powers of the Needle. It originally activates as a Defence Mechanism Superpower to protect his fate when Jahad tries to kill him directly. He later learns how to use it for himself.
• Token Evil Teammate: Averted since Viole is actually a Nice Guy, but to other people it seems this way, with the rest of Sweet and Sour looking too normal to have a Slayer candidate as a member. Khun points out how jarring this is when he first meets them.
• Took a Level in Badass: Really, one of Bam's main traits is that when he grows, it's done at exponential levels and he can do so at a rapid pace, meaning seeing him repeatedly increase his levels of his badass is no longer surprising as much as the level of improvement he can underwent in a surprisingly little amount of time.
  • Once he begins learning how to manipulate Shinsu in Season 1, he starts being able to take care of himself rather than having to rely completely on his friends.
  • In only seven years between Season 1 and 2, he's learned how to control five baangs of Shinsu and is far above most of the Regulars on his Floor in strength. And as season 2 goes on, the amount of baangs he can control continues to increase. Even throughout Season 2, he's still Power Copying the skills of others to further increase his skillset.
  • Once he obtains the power of the Workshop Battle's Thorn, his power increases considerably.
  • During the journey to the Hell Train, he takes another level in badass after one year of intensive martial arts training, gaining knowledge and techniques from a multitude of schools and learning how to work them together seamlessly.
  • His power increases even further after being given the billion souls that Hoaqin/White sacrificed over the years. And then again on the Floor of Death when he obtains the Red Thryssa.
  • Yet again on the Hidden Floor when he learned to control Shinsu into the shape that best suited him, maximizing its destructive power to new extremes.
  • And once more when he decides to "fight like [himself]," during his battle with Data-Jahad, allowing him to use his power at its strongest as only he knows how it feels. His strongest techniques are made by himself, thus being in the "25th Night Style," a "Bam-type Shinsu Control Skill," or "First Thorn Fragment Transcendental Skill."
  • After 3 years of intensive and hellish training under Evankhell, Bam takes several levels of badass: He acquires a great amount of combat experience after fighting in numerous battlefields, learns numerous skills in both shinsu and physical combat, and his overall power has increased a lot. All this makes him the only Regular in current time and one of the only two Regulars ever capable of defeating a Ranker and unlike the other one (Adori Zahard), he does this as a C-Ranked Regular.
  • Later on, he acquires the ability to transform with the power of the Red Thryssa and now has the means to take on even powerful Rankers in close-combat and damage them.
  • A month later, with his training under Evankhell having mostly finished, Bam becomes strong enough to fight and damage Kallavan alongside Karaka and discovers that he can also use the Blue Thryssa to transform, creating a shield that can hinder even the most powerful of Rankers.
  • He grows even stronger after his fight with Kallavan, to where monsters who can threaten and defeat even Rankers are not much of a challenge. The ultimate display of this is his fight with White, who previously stalemated Kallavan. Bam is able to fight with him directly in close-range using higher than ever levels of shinsu manipulation mixed with martial arts and even manages to disarm him, forcing White to use a rarely used sword to beat him.
  • Currently, the ultimate form he can take is unlocked after said defeat and the power Bam gains from it is on an entirely different level than anything we've ever seen from him before, as he turns the tides almost decisively over White and both his shinsu and physical abilities are so insane all White can do is barely counter them. As White himself puts it, Bam is now much stronger than him.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Went from a naive, kind kid to a much more cold and merciless individual, no thanks to being betrayed and forced to join FUG. He begins to become more expressive again after so long during the Workshop Battle, thanks to FUG's hold on him weakening, and begins gradually becoming more cheerful and happy when he reunited with Khun and Rak, but very much no longer that same kid at the beginning of the story.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Massively Downplayed. In season 3, while he's still the same Bam we all know, he's certainly gotten rougher around the edges - he doesn't hesitate when it comes to combat (although he avoids having to seriously or fatally wound someone if he can), and his vocabulary has expanded to include some rather strong language.
• Training from Hell: Is subjected to this by his new master, Evankhell. She sends him to various battlegrounds of varying difficulties, and Bam learns many techniques from different people. This pays off, and some people believe that despite being a regular, Bam is better experienced in combat than low level Rankers.
• Tranquil Fury: When he goes berserk he tends to express his rage this way. It can get downright scary when those gold eyes go all eagle.
• Unskilled, but Strong: One of Bam's most prominent traits is that he can rise to being both highly skilled AND powerful or fall to being extremely strong BUT not so skilled compared to the enemy. There are even times where he can be weaker than the enemy but still has the skill needed to fight them along with just enough strength to let his attacks damage such foes.
  • During the first season, he is firmly on the side of being unskilled, as while he has a lot of latent raw power and talent, he lacks the same training and experience the other Regulars have. He can copy even a Ranker's techniques that took said Ranker decades to master in an instant, manipulate shinsu as if by instinct, shrug off powerful shinsu attacks, but when it comes to direct combat, his inexperience means that he sits on the throne to be protected during the games and he doesn't get any fights that rely on skill.
  • By Part II, Bam's years of training means that he has already acquired a great deal of fighting skill and experience that allows him to easily curb-stomp most regular-level fighters. His skill grows even further as he continues to train, such as mastering several forms of martial arts after training under masters of hand-to-hand dojos before entering the Hell Train and then training under the God of Guardians and learning several skills including greater control over the Thorn, the Shinsu Black Hole Sphere, and other mentioned shinsu techniques such as reinforcement. Overall, at those times, he was both very powerful and highly skilled.... That is until he fights Zahard's data. While a month of training under Eduan has given him enough skill and experience to fend off the King of the Tower's data's fierce attacks, it's noted that Bam is relying more on his power and cunning rather than fighting Zahard with skill despite having also improved in that regard, as Bam himself admits his skill doesn't compare to Zahard. Once Zahard gets more serious and starts fighting with finesse, Bam gets overwhelmed slowly but steadily and even when he fully ignites the Thorn, Zahard remains even with him despite having one arm blown off and the only reason Bam wins is because Zahard decides to stop the fight. The resulting fight against Rankers all but confirms he may have the power to threaten one, as SIU himself confirms, but his skill and experience is nowhere near theirs, which allows them to keep fighting him even though he has the power to kill them.
  • Part III makes this contradiction even more prominent. During the early stages of the season, after 3 years of hellish training, Bam shows he has grown both skilled and strong enough to fight with lower Rankers directly and even defeat them without using his more powerful skills and transformations, applying proper mastery and finesse into both his shinsu and martial arts skill, but when he is faced with some of the highest Rankers, he once again shows how he is still lacking compared to them. Gado overwhelms him with both superior power and skill, though it can be argued Bam did manage to show some good prowess by fending off Gado's attacks with his Red Thryssa's blade, and it's only by using the Thorn that he turns the tides. Kallavan outright describes Bam as being less experienced than Karaka but more powerful and sure enough Bam does the attacking while Karaka shields him from lethal attacks while also supporting him with his skill and when Kallavan gets close enough, Bam gets beaten and bloodied quickly.
    • The most prominent case of this is his recent battle with White. White clearly outmatches him, both in power and skill, yet Bam displays he is still both powerful and skilled enough to be a real threat to him and his attacks actually make White actively have to try to block because Bam is not just throwing his power but also applying it proficiently. When Bam finally becomes stronger than White, he is quite able to push him back with powerful stylish moves but White is still able to somewhat keep up with him due to still having more fighting experience and skill.
• We Used to Be Friends: Bam and Rachel. In her quest for the skies, she left Bam behind, but he followed her and, from her perspective, stole her place in the story, resulting in her growing resentment for him. So she follows Yu Hansung's plan and tries to kill him.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Gets a pretty harsh lecture from Hwaryun on how he risked everybody else's safety because of his mindless pursuit of Rachel, leading him to realize that he was acting just like her to an uncomfortable degree.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: He absolutely hates the idea of fighting and harming and truly wants every to be friends, being incapable of understanding why people have to fight each other to reach the top of the Tower. After Rachel's betrayal and the five year time skip, he is still this, but is severely emotionally withdrawn because of his Training from Hell.
  • By Season 3, following the two-year timeskip, he's mostly broken out of this, most likely due to his Training from Hell under Evankhell. While he certainly prefers not to hurt anyone if he doesn't have to, if push comes to shove, he doesn't hesitate. Even then, he'll generally avoid lethal blows if he can help it.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: When using the Thorn for too long.
• Wreathed in Flames: The effect his fighting style gives off, having his arms engulfed in blue flame-like energy while fighting at both close and ranged combat with them.
• Yandere: To Rachel, specially when under the power of the Thorn.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: He knows FUG's signature move, Floral Butterfly Piercing Technique, which applies the simultaneous use of Flow Control and Reverse Control, making an extremely devastating close range attack that doesn't harm Bam if performed properly.
• You Are Number 6: His name means literally "The 25th Night".
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: Increasingly the case. As shown by the number of people who have got a nasty surprise when the cute little cream puff they thought they could easily strong-arm goes all Tranquil Fury on them and totally wrecks their comfortable set-up. Which may occasionally include taking their lives along with their system if they've outright proved themselves rotten to the core... Bam or his friends generally do try to warn them what they're getting into. But, when using looks alone, it's easy to underestimate the monster whose friends they're planning to mug when he's in his relatively happy place.

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