Bio Booster Armor Guyver - The Guyver Units

The Guyver Units

The Guyver Units are mysterious symbiotic bio-mechanisms that bond with a host, thus enhancing the host's own capabilities. The Guyver Unit was designed as an all-purpose environment suit for its Creators (believed to be a group of aliens of different species). Although referred to as 'armor', the guyver changes many aspects of the hosts internal systems replacing parts and even removing unnecessary organs.

The first Guyver was an experiment by the Creators aeons ago. They were curious as to how their newly developed weapons would react to their standard armament (Guyver Unit). However, the Guyver (dubbed Guyver 0) attacked the Creators, destroying one of their ships. The human would not remove the armor when ordered to. The Creators programmed the humans to be telepathically controlled by them and so, as this human would not listen, the bio-booster human was named 'Guyver' (a word meaning "out of control" in the Creators' language, though other versions give it as "beyond the norm" and Bioboosted Armor Guyver gives the meaning as "not to specification"). They gave the 'Unit Remover' to Archanfel, who then proceeded to remove the Unit from the human and subsequently incinerate him.

In its deactivated form, a Guyver is portable and shaped like a wheel, with the Control Metal in the center. In its activated form, the Guyver is humanoid-shaped, with the Control Metal on the forehead.

• Guyver 0 -
• Unit Holder: Unnamed Cro-magnon.
• Gender: Male.
• Appearance: Dark, with a unique collar around the neck. An unusual shade that can appear green/brown or even pink at times.
• Height: Unknown.
• Weight: Unknown.

• Guyver I -
• Unit Holder: Sho Fukamachi.
• Gender: Male.
• Appearance: Light coloured and simple, usually a shade of light blue/teal.
• Height: 174 cm.
• Weight: 261 kg.

• Guyver II -
• Unit Holder: Oswald A. Lisker
• Gender: Male.
• Appearance: Asymmetrical features, wide sonic swords, light coloured, usually yellow.
• Height: 210 cm.
• Weight: 360 kg.

• Guyver III -
• Unit Holder: Agito Makishima.
• Gender: Male.
• Appearance: Dark and spiky, with extra sonic swords. Sometimes given a tint of purple.
• Height: 191 cm.
• Weight: 328 kg.

• Guyver II Female -
• Unit Holder: Valkyria.
• Gender: Female.
• Appearance: Simple and light colored, usually pink/violet. more curvy figure.
• Height: 181 cm.
• Weight: 262 kg.

As the human race was developed as a weapon, the unit gives the wearer super-strength, incredible speed, strong armor and various weapons and abilities:

• Vibration Globes (口部金属球, Kōbu Kinzoku Kyū?): Two orbs at the Guyver's mouth that produce highly destructive sound waves known as the "Sonic Buster" (聲波爆破, Shōha Bakuha?). Literally means "mouthpart metallic spheres".
• Mega-Smasher (胸部粒子砲, Kyōbu Ryūshihō?): Two high-power particle cannons contained beneath the Guyver's chest armor. It should be noted that the Mega-Smasher is considered, in Guyver canon, to be the most powerful particle beam weapon in existence on Earth. It has been shown heavily gouging Mount Minakami, as proof of its raw power. The upgraded version in the Gigantic version of the armor are even more powerful at 100 times the power of the Mega-Smasher. The Gigantic version of the Mega-Smasher is called the Giga-Smasher. In Bioboosted Armor Guyver, the Mega-Smasher is shown to require a significant amount of time to recharge after being fired. Its original name literally means "chest particle cannon".
• Head Beam: A multi-directional laser mounted just above the Control Metal on the Guyver's head. In the 2005 anime series, Lisker explains it utilizes excess body heat.
• High Frequency Swords (高周波ソード, Kōshūha Sōdo?): Blades that extend from the Guyver's forearms. These blades vibrate at an extremely high frequency allowing them to cut through almost any material with ease. Also known as Sonic Swords (see vibroblade).
• Gravity Control Orb/Controller (重力制御球/裝置, Jūryoku Seigyokyū/Sōchi?): The Gravity Controller siphons gravitational energy from a higher dimension. Two main uses include giving the Guyver the ability to fly and to unleash destructive gravity waves in the form of a directed "Gravity Cannon", also known as the "Pressure Cannon" (重壓砲, Jūatsuhō?). It could also be used to block attacks like a small temporary shield.
• Hyper Sense: Each Guyver has two adjustable metallic orbs on its head, one on each side. These orbs give the Guyver the ability to sense electromagnetic fields outside of their direct line of physical sight. The manga often displays this as an outline of whatever body the Guyver is sensing. The orbs appear to have some thermal sensing and super-hearing properties as well. This ability was demonstrated early by Guyver I and has gone unnamed until its recent usage by the unknown female Guyver. The Guyver Gigantic exhibits two sets of these orbs.
• Control Metal (制御装置/控制金屬 Seigyō Sōchi/Kōsei Kinzoku) located on the Guyver's forehead, this metal button-like sphere regulates the energy flow between the organism and the host's body, as well as preventing the alien parasite that the Guyver system is based on from literally eating its host alive. It also stores the genetic structure and memories of its host, so that if the host is injured or killed, it regenerates that host from even the smallest bits of genetic material. If the Control Metal is destroyed, the Unit absorbs its host. The Control Metal has tentacles that reach into the host's brain and is the hard wiring of the Unit that allows the host to use the systems of the Guyver. During the joining with the Guyver, the host's body is changed permanently. The Guyver leaves two growths on the back of the host that act as a form of 'transceiver' to the Guyver while also being able to sense other Guyver hosts nearby. When the host calls for the Guyver, a signal is sent and the Guyver is activated. When not needed, the armor is stored in what can best be described as a sub-dimension; it follows the host constantly so as to be instantly available when needed. When the Guyver is called by its host, its appearance causes a destructive burst that damages anything within a few feet of the host's body.

While extremely hardy, there are a number of things that can damage or destroy a Guyver. The various Enzyme-type Zoanoids were specifically developed to exude a type of acid that dissolves the Bio-Booster Armor. A battle-trained, experienced Zoalord has enough pure power to destroy a Guyver, as do some of the Hyper Zoanoids. Finally, the Creators developed a tool called the 'Unit-Remover'. It actually deletes host data from the Control Metal, forcing the Guyver to return to its inactive state. The condition of the human host after being subjected to the Remover's effects is unclear. Unlike the Zoanoids, the Guyver is humanoid in form - mostly because its hosts are human. The Guyver would have been used by the command crew element of Creator spaceships and in later chapters, Shō uses his Control Metal to speak telepathically with one of the craft.

A Guyver Unit itself is semi-sentient and can act on its own to a limited extent if its host is unable to direct it. In this mode, it will usually take no action except to defend itself from what it perceives to be a threat. Guyver I was in this mode when he first assumed his bioboosted form, when he was regenerated by the Control Metal in Cronos headquarters and when he killed the Zoanoid his father had been turned into. It is presumably also this semi-sentience that prevents the host from disengaging the armor if they have sustained injuries that would prove fatal without the Guyver's protection and ability to rapidly heal from damage. Guyver I has demonstrated the ability to regrow approximately 50% of the host's brain and skull in a matter of minutes.