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Why doesn't Genos get to win?
He's a faggot, meaning; a weakling.
>>134398919
Because he's the "gets stronger as the series' progresses" Shonen trope.
because saitama's a dirty cheater
>>134398919
Because he's the Sanosuke of the series.
he won against armored gorilla
>>134398919
Class S jobber
>>134398919
He wins all the time, you just don't get to see his winning fights on-screen. You DO get to see his defeated enemies quite a bit, though.
>>134398919
sea king got infinity regen from the stupid rain
>>134398919
Big-mouth loli.
>>134398919
Because he's Worf from star trek. His role is to showcase how strong the opponent is so it will make Saitama stand out even more.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWorfEffect
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>>134398919
Genos feels more like the MC than Saitama.
Saitama feels more like a force of nature/plot device than an actual character.
>>134399042
Except he doesn't. Genos is limited by technology.
The only one who's getting stronger as the series progresses is Saitama. Also maybe Fubuki and Tatsumaki because of their rivalry.
Genos is the Saucegay of the series. Good looking, cool, liked by everyone, always underestimating his opponents.
Only difference is he gets his ass kicked on the reg. It's like a fuck you to those cool archetypes.
>>134402146
>saitama
>getting stronger
>>134401841
>>>/facebook/
his character was literally made just to job/
>hmmm how do I make saitama look powerful
>oh I know I'll give him a sidekick that always loses every fight first
>oh and I'll make him a robot so he can just rebuild himself when he gets too damaged
>>134402217
Nailed it.
>>134402146
Technology has limits in their world?
>>134402223
He will become zero punch man
>>134402146
>constantly getting upgrade parts
>Saitama getting stronger
You're retarded
>>134402217
Genos is nothing like Sasuke, otherwise he would've been super salty about getting one-upped by Saitama by now.
>>134402096
That's the point. Genos' entire back story and character are intentionally supposed to harken to a more typical battle manga protagonist, or maybe even the rival.
He's the hero of a story not at all related to Saitama's and is just sort of there. And that's fine. One Punch Man is a comedy series about an impossible strong dude.
>>134398919
>that part when he looks at the little girl and she's crying cause he got torn apart from saving her
Man I feel depressed when he gets beaten like that
>>134402217
>liked by everyone
You mean exclusively liked by teenagers, edgelords and bimbos.
>>134402423
Genos doesn't act like a typical battle manga protag at all though. Far too calm and efficient for that.
>>134402502
He obviously meant liked by everyone in-universe
>>134402566
try reading something older than ten years; OPM is inspired by a lot of the classics.
Why is king such a jobber?
>>134402096
>those duck sucking lips
>>134398919
Genos is Saitama's FOIL. If there wasn't another cool looking guy fighting the bad guy first we would not know how powerful the bad guy is.
Saitama may be strong but his greatest weakness is that he shows up things late and then beats the guy in one punch. It's the gag.
Although each arc follows the same formula, the best part of the show is the execution and the character development the characters undergo.
>>134399042
Genos is already fucking strong but he keeps getting distracted at key points. He's fast and have a shitton of destructive power but is a nice guy and a Fragile Speedsters/Glass Cannon because his durability is shit compared with most high level threats.
He's the "weak but skilled" character comparatively speaking.
Where does Genos even get his money from? I mean he's rich enough to pay for ridiculously expensive cyborg upgrades & maintenance. He also was able to pay Saitama rent with a huge wad of cash.
>>134401040
the rain just made him stronger, the instant regeneration was his natural ability. Case in point, he regenerated when fighting against Prisoner(there was no rain) and he regenerated fighting against Genos INSIDE the dome
>>134407242
I'm pretty sure it was said in the manga that S class heroes basically get limitless resources from the association.
Could Subterranean King/Ashura Kabuto fight on even grounds against Deepsea King?
>>134402146
>The only one who's getting stronger as the series progresses is Saitama.
>>134408984
SubKing would lose, Asura would kill Sea king
>>134405760
>ach arc follows the same formula
The Boros arc doesn't really go like that, if anything Saitama is the first one to act there.
He beat that cyborg king kongs right?
Some of the scenes in the anime are fucking comfy. It makes me want an OPM SOL. I want to hear more idle chatter between Saitama and Licenseless Rider like when they eating udon together.
>>134398919
>>134402096
Why is Genos so hot?
>>134408945
He paid the rent before he became an S class, though.I bet he rented out his services as the perfect waifubot, if you know what I mean.
>>134409120
I'm not sure about that but either way Kuseno must be loaded if he can just build high tech cyborgs and pull replacement parts out of his ass.
>>134409178
Kuseno might build stuff for other people like Metal Knight does. And he can test prototypes on Genos.
>>134409215
He could also fuck your mom, who gives a shit he has money deal with it.
>>134398919
Because it's a normie show with boring writing.
>>134398919
Terrible attention span.
>>134402304
Well he has a point.
Metal is metal and he'll just keep losing his arms each fight.
>>134408984
He could throw Saitama away with a punch when Sea King can't even do that. Pretty sure he can
>>134398919
>Using a combo move without intent to kill
>He has the attention span of a duck
>Thinking anyone who beat angel style would go down easy
>>134398919
Because Genos doesn't learn from Saitama. He studies under him, yet every time he overestimates his abilities and pays for it.
>>134409681
Genos wasn't there to see angel style.
>>134409766
But he knew Puri Puri Prisoner got beat
>>134399042
direct opposite anon
hes the broken but unskilled type.
imagine if garou had genos level destructive ability
he relies on the power too mush and it makes him complacent and cocky
>>134398919
>Why doesn't Genos get to win?
He wins...
>Armored Gorilla
And there was a robot he defeated in the manga..The one that was sent after King if i remember correctly.
How is his attention span short and how is he underestimating his enemies? He seems pretty concentrated and calculated. He just jobs cos he's not strong enough.
He'll be stronger than Saitama in three years like Saitama said.
>>134409035
>enemy/enemies show(s) up
>on-site hero gets rekt
>hero association dispatches appropriate heroes to fight
>when really theyre just buying time
>saitama is on the way
>most of the arc is about the association holding off the villain till saitama gets to the boss or deals with them
saitama may have already been there but shit didnt end until he killed boros
Because hes the bad guy.
>Fucking obivious.
>Green Text
>>134409975
The S class heroes are fighting one guy(and win) while Saitama goes and destroys the whole ship. Whether they were there or not literally wouldn't have made a difference. But it would've been a boring arc if it was just Saitama walking around killing everything, without the S class heroes showing their abilities while fighting Melzalgald.
what would happen if sea king spit acid on saitama?
what would happen if saitama fought a physically unpunchable foe? Like one of those schrodinger cat faggots.
>caring about character development in a manga that is based around someone who literally cannot lose
I will never understand the appeal of One Punch Man. I'm not saying it is bad or anything, the art looks great, just that there is no point to actually read it. You know what will always happen. There's no risk.
>>134410188
Go back to /v/ faggot, stories don't need to be about "muh risks"
>>134402425
I wonder if that little girl has nightmares about that.
I like to think Genos visited her after he was fixed up just to reassure her that he was alright.
>>134410114
>what would happen if sea king spit acid on saitama?
His costume would melt but he'd otherwise be unharmed, just like when Genos burned him.
>what would happen if saitama fought a physically unpunchable foe? Like one of those schrodinger cat faggots.
He'd probably be able to punch them anyway for some reason.
Is Power Man a prototype for Saitama?
How much will they adapt today? I'm going to guess when Boros makes his visual debut. Or is that too far?
>>134410188
>character development being at all related to 'winning and losing'
>You know what will always happen. There's no risk
wrong on literally everything and missing the point to boot
I hope you're baiting with standard OPM bait and not actually this much of an ignorant pleb but I never know for sure
>>134407242
>I'm not a robot.
>>134410114
>what would happen if sea king spit acid on saitama?
Nothing would happen to Saitama but his clothes would probably melt.
>what would happen if saitama fought a physically unpunchable foe?
What do you mean by physically unpunchable? Do you mean if his foe was intangible?
If so, Saitama would probably through a punch so hard it would warp space-time and kill it or something.
>Like one of those schrodinger cat faggots.
What?
>>134410114
>schrodinger cat faggots
What?
>>134410456
>>134410703
>>Like one of those Schroedinger cat faggots.
>What?
He's talking about Hellsing I believe.
Long and short of it (and this is spoiler if you still haven't read/watched it (recommend Hellsing Ultimate to watch):Basically, there is a character who has the power to effectively be a walking, talking quantum particle. They both exist, and don't. Their state of existence depends on how they are observed.
Now hold on to you parnts, because this is where it gets crazy.
Said character, can still observe itself, even when it doesn't exist. Meaning, it can observe itself, and decide that it DOES exist, even if it does not.
Meaning, this character can be literally erased from all of existence beyond any trace whatsoever, and they can just casually decide that they are back.
That is the Schrödinger Cat faggot.
>>134402096
The only problem is that being Saitama's sidekick he will never advance. There is nothing he can learn from Saitama that will make him stronger. His diligent note taking is a waste of time.
He is supposed to be intelligent but why can't he realize that what he needs are upgrades not training?
>>134402217
Sasuke got his ass kicked most of the time too.
Killer Bee, Raikage, Itachi. I can't think of many fights he actually won in shippuden.
>>134402217
This.
Although I'd argue that Sonic Ninja is even more that type of "edgelord" character.
>>134410788
In addendum:It also has the power to observe itself however it likes.
He observes himself in Paris? He's in Paris.
He observes himself balls deep in *insert your Waifu here*, you better believe he's giving that bitch the time of her life.
He observes that he's wearing the single most dapper attire imaginable, and rocking it like a champ during the premier screening of some new artfilm? Well, they never get that specific, but basically, he's wherever he wants to be, in whatever condition he wants to be along with his clothes, so yeah, almost definitely can do that too.
>>134410788
Thanks for the explanation, anon.
>>134410788
>>134410926
What kind of madman unleashes a character like that into his story?
Such an immense variable is damaging to the rest of the narrative and characters.I also feel somewhat similarly towards the Dragon Balls. "Perfect Wishes" is too powerful a plot device to use without erasing tension and structure from the surrounding narrative.
>>134398919
I thought it was intended as a take on all those shonen series where you have a supporting cast of side heroes who should by all rights be powerful and effective in their own right, but only ever seem to drop minor antagonists, and hold off the main villain for a bit before the Main Hero shows up and kicks their ass.
I don't know if it's a parody, a homage, or just recreating the idea so straightly that it looks silly.
Is Saitama SSS rank?
>>134402425
got any pic of that?
>>134411081
The kind of madman whoUses said character only at the very end of the story as a trap for the um... Anta-? Prota-?... The big bad unstoppable guy who may or may not be a hero or villain. I'm not even sure what he counts as. He's a force of nature, like Saitama. I mean the guy getting trapped by the Schrödinger guy. Difficult to explain without just copy pasting a plot summary.
>>134410333
Nah because Saitama's feats suck.
>>134410877
That and "small + fast = win" bullshit.
>>134410788
One Punch man is essentially a parody of such characters since it doesn't hide the asspull behind a seemingly elaborate explanation.
>>134411579
Well yeah, kind of.
The way Hellsing is done, I'd like to delude myself into thinking it too was a joke though, just a more straight-faced one.
Still, I think there's a bit more to One Punch Man than just that one note parody. There's a fair bit of heart to the was it does what it does.
>>134411325Hellsing's MC, besides being crazy strong, can absorb souls and use them as his personal army. By absorbing Schrodinger's soul, MC inherited the quantum powers, but due to innumerable other personalities MC had absorbed, MC was unable to observe himself, and disappeared from existence.
That would suffice, I think.
>>134411773
Yeah basically this, but didn't want to go that deep into spoilers.
That being said, I just realized even the OVAs ended 3 years ago, so not sure why I was tip-toeing around it that much.
>>134410811
That's not really true. What he's learned from Saitama was more philosophical than physical.
>>134398919
>Why doesn't Genos get to win?
Because he chose the path of a filthy cheater and got himself a robot costume instead of gitting gud like Saitama and pic related (until he fucked up himself).
>>134409036
Which is why he´s trained in gorilla warfare
>>134402146
What? How can he even get stronger if everyone he fights dies after one hit?
>>134402425
Dude that girl is fucking traumatized
>>134402319
More like death stare man, he just has to look at you the wrong way and you've already been defeated
When does the OPM episode air? Also does anyone have a link?
>>134413138
>When does the OPM episode air? Also does anyone have a link?
Use google.
There is even an online timer that counts to the next episode.
>>134402319
>>134413082
Reminds me of a novel I once read. "Arrived before he even left." Even bullshit has its limitations, you know.
>>134402146
This post really pissed me off.
>>134412611
That was horrible.Why did I laugh?
>>134413082
>Implying Saitama will ever become as powerful as King.
>>134413082
So King?
>>134411290
She might become a mechanic when she grows up.
>>134413768
This. If Saitama ends up fighting King something is going to happen, some sort of baldcryptonite will appear and King will still win. King's power is plot armor.
>>134415024
>Bald Kryptonite
You've got me good.That sounds like some hair growth artefact that Genos would go hunt down to protect Sensei's smile.
