Shizuo Heiwajima

Shizuo Heiwajima is a protagonist of the novel, manga, and anime Durarara!!!. He is the rival of the questionably antagonist Izaya Orihara and is one of the two strongest men of Ikebukuro, Japan and the other one being Izaya. He is voiced by Crispin Freeman in the English version and by Daisuke Ono in the Japanese version

History
Shizuo was born to two normal parents and had a younger brother named Kasuka. One day when he was a child, his monsterous strentgh surfaced when he snapped and try to hurl a refrigerator at his brother when he ate his last pudding. Whenever Shizuo gets angry or if someone irratiates him, he would break a plastic spoon or a pencil in half and crush it under his foot and hurls a nearby object at them, but strains himself and breaks a bone in his body which ends him in the hospital everytime. However this physical abuse even made him become stronger and he becomes adjusted to lifting heavier objects as time goes by. Shizuo was a fellow high school classmate with Izaya Orihara, Shinra Kishitani, and Tom Tanaka. As Shizuo first entered high school, he quickly became rivals with Izaya, and everyday on the streets, the two would battle and try to kill each other all the way through graduation and adulthood. Shizuo stated that there was no good reason and because he just hates him. After graduation, Shizuo tried to get a job and was fired everytime because of his short temper. Finally he became a bartender and Kasuka even gave him new outfits. However he was fired there also because he was framed by Izaya with the police. The police soon found that Shizuo was innocent and was freed. He was quickly found by Tom and was hired to work with him. From here on out, Shizuo became Tom's personal bodyguard.