Agon Kongo - Personality

Personality

The Kongo twins are like chalk and cheese—not only in ability, but also in attitude and personality. Agon Kongo is lazy, arrogant, vicious, invariably turns up late to the matches—often in the second half—and never ever trains, yet his skill is incredible. He is also very sensitive and irritable at times, particularly after he had his dreads shaved, and Mizumachi pointed out the fact that Agon may have been using a wig from then on, to which Agon responded by leaving Mizumachi with a large lump on the head. He is also a chauvinist who does not take rejection well, since when Mamori shrugged-off his advances on the bridge, he threw her on the ground and advanced on her, although he made it look afterwards like an accident. Even though Unsui is a solid player, whose skill has come from constant hard work, Agon's abilities go far beyond even the best. Kumabukuro, the reporter, says that he has tremendous talent that is only seen once every 100 years. Even the Naga coach wants everybody in the team not to act the way he does, and tells them that only Agon has the leeway to act in this manner. This is because Agon's natural talent is near-superhuman, and allows him to do whatever he wants. This has made him arrogant — though as Hiruma and other characters have noted, that arrogance is not overconfidence, but born from the simple fact of his real superiority. He looks down on everyone else - even his own (older) brother, whom he calls "Unko-chan" as if to scorn him (effectively a tautology, as he's calling Unsui small twice - lit. "Little Unsui the Child". "Unko" is also a childish way to say 'Shit' or 'Dumping' in Japanese, effectively calling Unsui a 'little piece of shit'). Initially, he displays his agility to Sena and makes a powerful bullet pass at Torakichi (still in his wheelchair), who teases their team but luckily is saved by Sakuraba, Monta and Sena.

He has incredible strength, as shown when he beat up the entire Zokugaku gang in an instant. Shortly after this incident, Sena and Mamori encounter Agon on their way elsewhere. Agon tries to accost Mamori to help him get to the stadium, but Sena intervenes. Agon weasels his way out of this, however, and as he leaves the pair behind, Sena feels for the first time he has encountered someone with truly evil intent.

While growing up with his twin brother, it was discovered early on that Agon had a talent for learning complex physical tasks within minutes, just after seeing them. This is called the God-Speed Impulse reaction. He was able to balance and ride a bicycle on his first try. His reaction time is at the human limit and is triggered by sight. As he grew up, his brother Unsui encouraged him to develop his amazing ability, while he stayed mostly in the background. Unfortunately, this also led to building Agon's ego and his tendency to regard everyone else, including his own brother, as inferior. Eventually, the two began leaning toward American football and were recruited by the Nagas. Agon's God-Speed Impulse is similar to the photographic muscle-memory abilities of other fictional characters such as Taskmaster from Marvel Comics and Monica Dawson from Heroes.

In the anime, specifically episode 112, he is shown to throw a pass left-handed, but given the character's nature, he is more likely to be ambidextrous.

Although Agon is at the limits of human potential, he is equalled by other characters throughout the story. Sena, Shin, Yamato and Panther in terms of speed; Gao, Kurita, Shin, and Yamato in terms of strength; and Hiruma, Kid, Takami, and Marco in terms of intelligence. Its through these and his arrogance that he is beaten.

In the World Cup Arc, Agon is shown to hate being looked down on; ironically it is the same thing he does to others, but he is also shown to have some sentiment for his brother. He is also shown to not only work well with Hiruma and the rest of the team, but to actually enjoy working with Hiruma, which he is even surprised by, commenting that he and Hiruma would be a perfect team if Hiruma's natural abilities were on par, but still resorts to calling Hiruma trash with no natural talent. He also seems to think more highly of Sena and others, because in college he attends the same college as Akaba, Ikkyu, Banba, Taka, Yamato, Juumonji and Hiruma, and even comes to scout Sena with the others, complimenting Sena by saying that those trashes (The Cupids College Team) can't touch Sena's speed.