Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7673575-20181008145229

When Kars managed to use Red Stone Mask to mutate himself into the Ultimate Life form, Speedwagon was very vehement in showing his fear of Ultimate Kars exterminating the entire human race.

But, once things are broken down a notch, it becomes evident that Ultimate Kars wasn't nearly as dangerous as he was marketed to be.

Stone Mask cannot turn a Pillar Man into the Ultimate Life Form. It can only grant him/her some enhanced bodily transformations, but at the cost of significantly increased hunger. Now, if we were to compare Pillar Men to constrictor serpents, judging by their body size, an adult Pillar Man would only need to feed twice every three months (assuming they fed exclusively on vampires). This means that an adult Pillar Man would only need to eat 8 humans a year, or 16000 humans during their waking period (assuming their waking periods are as long as their hibernation).

Assuming that an Evolved Pillar Man (ones that were enhanced by Stone Mask) needs 200% of the food that a standard Pillar Man needs, it would mean 16 humans a year, or 32000 humans during a single waking period.

(please keep in mind that these number are the hypothetical lower limit: that is the least that a Pillar Man would need to consume not to starve)

Now, since we have seen that a vampire, Dio, can consume several humans worth of blood in one meal, which is more than a regular human would be able to (hypothetically), it would be healthy to assume that, the more the Stone Mask mutates something, the greater its hunger becomes. Thus, the Ultimate Life Form would certainly have to consume hundreds of humans a year to maintain itself.

Well... no. Not really.

In the Ultimate Life Form chart, it is clearly stated that Ultimate Kars could go for an entire year without the need to feed: after that, he would presumably enter a state of stillness until a source of food was available (kinda like a virus, since ULF can't die). So, it is established right off the bat that Ultimate Kars wouldn't even need to feed more than once a year, going by the hypothetical lower limit (if we don't count that he would, as an intelligent being, seek food not only for sustenance, but for pleasure as well). Assuming he goes low profile (not overusing his ULF abilities) it would most likely amount to a dozen or so humans a year.

Furthermore, Ultimate Kars possesses the DNA of every single living being to ever exist on Earth. While this makes him omnivorous (immediately lowering the number of humans he would need to consume) it also makes him able to utilize photosynthesis. Since he is no longer harmed by sun, he could literally feed merely by standing in daylight. Not to mention that, since he is technically everything, Ultimate Kars could feed on literally anything, including iron.

Lastly, an understanding could be reached between Ultimate Kars and the humans (both of which are intelligent beings). Terminally ill people, death row prisoners, vegetative patients... there are hundreds of thousands of people in this very moment that will die before their time, one way or another. Where's the harm in letting Ultimate Kars feed on them? As the ULF, he is presumably immune to all diseases as well, so it wouldn't be a problem to him.

The only thing that made Ultimate Kars dangerous was that he was going to kill Joseph (which he technically had every right to do).

So there you have it: a pointlessly long and detailed treaty on why Ultimate Kars wasn't dangerous. 