Hero Stats from the Museum of Tiger & Bunny 2
The T&B2 museum that's currently open in Japan has physical versions of all the in-universe hero cards (both the Single and Buddy cards). We'd previously seen Keith and Nathan's cards and stats in the show (and most of Kotetsu and Barnaby's), but now we have them all! @kazuko_01 on Twitter took some lovely pictures of them and has very kindly given me permission to use them for this post. どうもありがとうございました! 💙
I'll put all the stats and a some analysis of them under a cut, because the post will get quite long.
Every individual hero card has scores out of 6 for Experience, Speed, Power, Intelligence, and Spirit, plus a special stat that is unique to each hero and is always maxed out. The scores are:
Wild Tiger: Experience 6, Speed 3, Power 5, Intelligence 3, Spirit 5, Passion 6 Barnaby Brooks Jr.: Experience 4, Speed 6, Power 5, Intelligence 6, Spirit 5, Cool 6 Blue Rose: Experience 4, Speed 4, Power 3, Intelligence 4, Spirit 5, Singer 6 Golden Ryan: Experience 5, Speed 4, Power 5, Intelligence 4, Spirit 4, Gravity 6 Fire Emblem: Experience 5, Speed 4, Power 5, Intelligence 5, Spirit 5, Love 6 Sky High: Experience 5, Speed 6, Power 4, Intelligence 4, Spirit 6, Loyalty 6 Origami Cyclone: Experience 4, Speed 5, Power 4, Intelligence 4, Spirit 5, Traditional 6 Rock Bison: Experience 5, Speed 2, Power 6, Intelligence 3, Spirit 5, Pure 6 Dragon Kid: Experience 4, Speed 6, Power 4, Intelligence 4, Spirit 5, Healthy 6 Magical Cat: Experience 2, Speed 4, Power 3, Intelligence 4, Spirit 4, Cute 6 Mr. Black: Experience 2, Speed 3, Power 4, Intelligence 3, Spirit 4, Honest 6 He Is Thomas: Experience 2, Speed 6, Power 5, Intelligence 6, Spirit 5, Smart 6
Kotetsu, the veteran hero, is the only one with max Experience (6); Ryan, Nathan, Keith and Antonio have 5 (Ryan evidently worked a fair bit overseas before coming to Stern Bild). The new kids (on the block) all have 2, which might mean it's the minimum possible score, or that the cards were updated after the start of the season; beating Fugan and Mugan, for example, should certainly count as experience! And Bunny has the same score as Karina, Ivan and Pao-Lin, despite having become a hero at least one season after them and having taken a year off, so this is most likely not strictly how much time they've spent on the job (Bunny was the one who beat Jake, so they might have counted that as extra experience, for example).
Bunny, Keith, Pao-Lin and Thomas all have max Speed, and the lowest stat of any card except for the kids' Experience is here, for Antonio (2). Evidently this counts something other than just the top speed a hero can reach, because Kotetsu only has a 4 even though he also has Hundred Power (although the way he runs might have something to do with it 🤣), and I don't see how Thomas could move as fast as Keith does when he flies, or even as fast as Pao-Lin, Queen of the Quick Flips. Maybe it's just how fast they can run without using their power (or a combination of that and their reflexes)?
The only hero with max Power is... Antonio! This stat honestly seems to just indicate everyone's physical strength, again without accounting for their power, since Kotetsu and Bunny aren't first and the lowest score goes to Karina and Lara. (This might imply that tiny Pao-Lin can deadlift as much as Keith, King of Training, which I adore.)
The heroes with max Intelligence are Bunny and Thomas (who also has Smart as his unique stat, so that's evidently his thing). The only runner-up at 5 is my clever girl Nathan 💖; everyone else is at 4 (yes, Keith too! He's not dumb, he's just... an airhead 😅), except for Kotetsu, Antonio and Subaru, who have a 3. Oh, you disaster boys. 😅
Perhaps predictably, only Keith reaches a perfect score in Spirit, which seems to indicate conviction. Everyone else has a 5... except for Ryan, Lara and Subaru, whom I want to hug while I tell them they can believe in themselves and in being heroes a little bit more. 🥺
As for the unique stats... excuse me while I melt even more at FireSky's being Love and Loyalty! Because yes, we already new, but in the context of the others they're just so... UGH. My heart. They're literally a relationship. 🥺❤️💜
Kotetsu and Bunny's Passion and Cool are very interesting because they illustrate their contrasting approaches and personalities perfectly, but they work so well as Buddies! 💛
And of course, very honorable mention for Antonio's being freaking Pure. Bless him. 🥹 Everyone give the man a hug right now.
(I want to know what poor Ryan did to the person who wrote the cards, though. Like... seriously? Just Gravity? At least I know Thomas's just says Smart because he doesn't really give you anything else you can use, lol.)
If you sum up all the stats you get the following individual rankings:
1st: Barnaby Brooks Jr. (32) 2nd: Sky High (31) 3rd (tied): Fire Emblem and He Is Thomas (30) 5th: Dragon Kid (29) 6th (tied): Wild Tiger, Golden Ryan, Origami Cyclone (28) 9th: Rock Bison (27) 10th: Blue Rose (26) 11th: Magical Cat (23) 12th: Mr. Black (22)
The Buddy cards show the individual stats again, and then a sum of each score for the pair as a whole. The unique stats for each hero are added together here to make a Buddy stat, which is, therefore, also always maxed out... and to be honest I personally have qualms with that (Subaru and Thomas, for example, certainly don't work together as well as the others), but I that's what we get. 😅 I suppose it could represent how well their personal characteristics go together, potentially.
The stats for the Buddy pairs are:
Tiger & Barnaby: Experience 10, Speed 9, Power 10, Intelligence 9, Spirit 10, Buddy 12
BlueGolden: Experience 9, Speed 8, Power 8, Intelligence 8, Spirit 9, Buddy 12
FireSky: Experience 10, Speed 10, Power 9, Intelligence 9, Spirit 11, Buddy 12
OrigamiRock: Experience 9, Speed 7, Power 10, Intelligence 7, Spirit 10, Buddy 12
KidCat: Experience 6, Speed 10, Power 7, Intelligence 8, Spirit 9, Buddy 12
Mr. Black: Experience 4, Speed 9, Power 9, Intelligence 9, Spirit 9, Buddy 12
The highest combined non-Buddy stat is FireSky's Spirit at 11 (🥺🥹💕); the lowest is Mr. Black's Experience at 4 (fair).
Adding everything together gives us these rankings for the Buddy pairs:
1st: FireSky (61) (❤️💜) 2nd: Tiger & Barnaby (60) 3rd: OrigamiRock (55) 4th: BlueGolden (54) 5th (tied): KidCat and Mr. Black (52)
In conclusion: I need a copy of that FireSky card like I need air. 🥺
