So, I was thinking about how it fills me with incredible rage whenever people are like [insert character here] vs Saitama from One Punch Man: who would win? Because the answer is always. ALWAYS. going to be Saitama. He operates on comedy rules in that, no matter how powerful the enemy is, he’s going to win because it’s funny. He simply cannot lose by design. I’d say he is THE very definition of plot armour. The joke is that a hypothetical villian is a destroyer of universes, has trained for millions of years and- Oh. nevermind. Saitama was quicker so he’s dead now and it was actually really easy for him - you get the idea. You might be thinking of characters right now who could beat him like “oh but Thanos got all the infinity stones so he could do whatever he wante-” Shut up. shutup. ShHhHHHHHush. The man monologues so hard he’d be killed mid-monologue because that’s hilarious. Also picture if Thanos decided to abandon his supposed “morals” and just kill everyone to start life over, and a strange little bald man is just standing right next to him after the snap. Oh my god. I’m cracking myself up. You might also be thinking “But what if Light Yagami from Death Note wrote Saitama’s name in the Death Note” or some shit like that. Well first of all no one knows Saitama’s last name, second of all its way funnier if his name gets written in the notebook and what follows the murder attempt is a series of comical errors where Genos is beside himself with worry as Saitama inexplicably dodges falling pianos and whatnot because the god of death cannot fucking kill this guy. BUT. But. here’s the thing: because Saitama is operating on comedy rules, that ALSO means that he could theoretically lose, if the joke that he lost is funnier than if he were to win. We get a glimpse of this when Saitama cannot, for the life of him, kill a mosquito. He’s the most powerful man in the world, he can kill things in a single punch without breaking a sweat, and he can’t even catch a mosquito. The mosquito survives because it’s funnier that Saitama loses to it.
anyways, that’s why I think gilear faeth could kill one punch man.
