CAN HARUHI SHUZUMIYA BE DEFEATED??

Ok, so I thought this was unanimously agreed upon by the entire anime community, at least those who watched the show, that Haruhi Shuzumiya, the main protagonist of the anime series: The Melancholy of Haruhi Shuzumiya was invincible and undefeatable! Like yeah, not Goku (Dragon Ball Series) nor Saitama (One Punch Man) can defeat her, neither Rimuru Tempest (Tensura) nor Anos Voldigold (Maou Gakuin), and not ANY overpowered characters like Ainz Ooal Gown (Overlord) or Wang Ling (Daily Life Of Immortal King) or the Dragon God (Mushoko Tensei)!

THEY DON’T HAVE A CHANCE!!

“Yeah, she can defeat them, but only in her imagination!”

“Exactly!”

I hope the fans get the joke. But for those of you who are pissed, I would like to say that until wherever I read these works or the research I did with the help of youtube and Wiki fandoms, I REALLY failed to find the way these characters can defeat her.

But in this yt short I came across, the comments mocked the Haruhi fans for this. So, yeah, maybe some character can actually defeat her?

HOW THOUGH?

Fact is they can’t, and I know this will piss many off. My judgment is unbiased, but if fans of other animes declare me biased and wrong, I would like to be corrected.

Thing is, I would go a step ahead to help them, by revealing the only time when our invincible Haruhi was DEFEATED!!

16th of December, only a few days to Christmas, Kyon, our narrator wakes up ready to confront yet another day of Haruhi’s shenanigans. But he finds out the world has changed-Mikuru has forgotten Kyon, Yuki has become a shy bookworm, and worst of all, Koizumi and Haruhi have disappeared! Even worse, Asakura has returned!

This is the situation in the movie Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, a movie even many OG fans hadn’t watched since the ‘endless eight’ disaster! But the movie itself became a classic, within the entire anime fandom simply for its brilliant writing!! But, how did this happen? Who could make Haruhi disappear?

SPOILERS AHEAD!!

It was later revealed that a malfunctioning Yuki Nagato ‘stole’ the powers of Haruhi herself, changing the world! But the Data Overmind which created her, how did they permit such a drastic change? Well, they didn’t. Yuki used Haruhi’s powers, already confirmed to be much more powerful and yet unfathomable to the Data Overmind itself, to destroy her own creators!!

She also rendered Haruhi herself powerless and even her memories are overwritten. In a sense, she was defeated!!

Kyon eventually restores the world, and I would be glad if anyone got interested would watch the movie. So, here’s the way, be an alien who can steal Haruhi’s powers and then, DEFEAT HER!!

Easy, ain’t it? Except…there’s a twist.

Haruhi Shuzumiya’s story continues well after the anime, through light novels and manga. And we are introduced to a new set of characters- Sasaki, Kyon’s old friend, Kuyou Suou, Fujiwara and Kyouko Tachibana. They are all normal on the surface, but honestly, except Sasaki, each of them are special- an alien, a time traveller and yet another esper.

Sasaki is also revealed to have the power- to form closed spaces! It’s the only thing similar to Haruhi, but she can’t alter reality. This doesn’t however stop the new trio from using her. The new esper claims she’s the true God, not Haruhi! And what about the alien or the time traveller? They are pretty mysterious, but they have the same goal, transfer Haruhi’s power to Sasaki’s. After a freaky kidnapping of Mikuru, they show up again with Sasaki, alarming Kyon. Kyon decides to help Sasaki knowing how dangerous they are. And that very evening, something strange happens- for us readers of course!! The story gets separated into α and β timelines, without any prior explanation, and runs parallel showing two different sets of events-

α timeline: Where they live carelessly without trouble. Even a new club member joins them!

β timeline: Where they are hurt in various ways by the new enemies until Kyon is trapped in Sasaki’s closed space by Fujiwara!

‘"Come on. Let's get going."

Fujiwara acted as our vanguard and began walking inside the school. The timid Kyouko Tachibana also began to place her feet inside the campus of another school. I continued as I normally did since I was familiar with this school. A few moments later I looked up and immediately stopped.

"What…What…What is this?" Both my eyes and my mouth were wide open. Nothing could come out of my mouth.

The sky…

It had become a clear sepia color with cream pitched in. The Venus that was shining brightly a few seconds ago had disappeared into this impossible phenomenon. It gave off a soft and sweet feeling. Quietly shining on all of nature with its lighting.

But I know this color. When Sasaki had called me to the coffee shop Kyouko Tachibana had brought me to this world.

No one inside. Nothing else around us. It's the exact opposite of Haruhi's closed space…

Throwing away any and all reflexes I had, I turned back to where we came from.

It was useless. I had assumed that the taxi went down the hill right after we left. But Sasaki wasn't there and neither was the taxi. We were only separated by about ten centimeters between the gate, but now we're in entirely different worlds.’

Fujiwara takes him to the clubroom for the sake of their plan. It is revealed that Fujiwara wants to destroy all timelines- past, present and future of each one (!) and create a new one, which can be done using Haruhi’s powers!

"In that room is everything. All sorts of powers have combined in there, especially the one that will allow me to change the future. In there is every possibility as well as the possibility to stop anything. Both progress and stagnation are holed up together in there. Well, one would guess even the dead might exist as well."

But…

As they entered the clubroom, Kyon found his clone from another timeline and the new member. Things happened, and soon Sasaki’s closed space breaks down! How the author describes it is pure bliss:

‘The heavens were whirling about. In the pale, glowing, cream-colored sky, a dark light of blue-ashen colors intermingled as if a cluster of galaxies was colliding, painting a bizarre scene. Here and there, pale bright light and dim, dark gray tentacles wriggled about, as if scrambling to find their point of influence. Like colors dissolved in a container of Indian ink, a crazy artist was moving his brush around without restraint.

Everything in the world cut off by the rectangular window was being completely submerged by the two colors—the grass in the courtyard, the towering school building, the passageway, all the leaves of the cherry blossom trees…everything.

I still remember this world tinted by this array of light colors. It's a Closed Space that Sasaki unconsciously creates. As if competing against that Space, the other color was squirming about. Of course, I remember it too. The Closed Space that Haruhi creates.’

This allowed for the SOS Brigade to come over while the enemies obstructed, even the alien herself couldn’t interfere very far. Then Fujiwara came up with a new plan.

‘Fujiwara again pressed Kuyou. "End Haruhi Suzumiya's life! You said you could do it."‘

By killing Haruhi and taking her powers, aliens like Kuyou Suou could also change the entire existence. Similar to what Yuki did!

Except they couldn’t. The celestials saved Haruhi (and Kyon) and destroyed the enemies’ plans!!

In the end, it is revealed that Haruhi had subconsciously split the timeline itself to account for all the worst events that could happen in β timeline and countered them through the α timeline. She divided time itself the very moment hostilities emerged, not even allowing them an inch!

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This ends the second last light novel of the series. And if someone has read up to this part…what conclusion do you arrive at?

The only one who ever ‘defeated’ Haruhi was Yuki, and she only did it due to an unfortunate malfunction. Sorry, but not even all aliens can harm her.

So, can any of the contenders or other characters…maybe Anti-Spiral from the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann series can defeat her? Can they? Be honest. I would like to know the answers. Can Haruhi Suzumiya actually be…defeated? Tell me in the comments!

P.S.:- Anos can go beyond time, but would that help in fighting the timeless powers of Haruhi? Kuyou herself says:

"-----The past, the future, and even the present cannot exist here. Matter, quantum, waves, also willpower. The realization of reality. The future becomes the past, the past becomes the present…"

THANK YOU FOR READING!!