r/OnePunchMan 11d ago

discussion What’s your favorite display of Saitamas power?

I think I’d have to go with the Serious Punch Squared

Both because it’s arguably the greatest overall display of power and because it’s Saitama at his angriest with near murderous intent.

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u/nightcity_rockerboy 11d ago

The sneeze. Even cosmic garou was shook with that feat. This is where he knew saitama is in a realm of his own.

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u/MR-rozek DSK wanker 11d ago

It made no sense for garou to be surprised by the sneeze when they obliterated countless galaxies a few moments before. Its like being surprised by hulk blowing out a candle after he destroyed a city

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u/CosmicHudz2283 11d ago

He and Saitama never saw the aftermath of the serious punch² so they wouldn't know they wiped galaxies.

Monster Garou was suprised about Saitama being as tough as a mountain when he himself is above mountain level and busts a mountain range and sends shockwaves throughout the planet right after. I think he's just not adjusted to the power. These power jumps all happened in a day and he only went Cosmic 30 minutes before the Jupiter sneeze probably? It makes sense that he'd be suprised about Jupiter being wiped by a SNEEZE. Not even a punch and it wasn't even intentional. Just like that the largest planet in the solar system is destroyed.

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u/relax336 11d ago

Garou commented on his power throughout the entire fight from monster to cosmic.

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u/Grouchy-Ad7795 11d ago

The thing is: Garou and Saitama did not see the hole that was left in the observable universe, they were already in I.O...

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u/Wizarddonald 11d ago

But Garou instinctively avoided him because he considered him dangerous. 

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u/Grouchy-Ad7795 10d ago

I understand, but that does not change the fact that they did not see - and even with all that power, he was still human, and he was fighting the strongest being in the verse there, you can understand why he was afraid

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u/blackpan2040 10d ago

It's a sneeze.

He was shocked what an accidental sneeze did.

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u/Beneficial-Tension93 8d ago

Lol thats bc the void was a sphere shape and not a beam/cylinder shape fool, ya fool

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u/lacegem 11d ago

I still think what happened is that the punch knocked out the nearby visible light of distant galaxies, resulting in a black spot that'll last until new light fills it. It makes way more sense.

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u/0oooooog 11d ago

It would until you realise the idea of knocking out the visible light is complete nonsense.

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u/lacegem 11d ago

How so? Light can be a wave or a particle, but it still exists physically and is subject to physical forces. We can manipulate light with gravity and energy, and force it to act through other mediums. If Blast concentrated the energy of the attack into a small enough area, and the attack destroyed everything within its volume, then the light would go with it.

I support the theory because it's the closest theory to what's actually possible in the rules we know, not because I think it's cooler or anything.

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u/0oooooog 11d ago

"And the attack destroyed everything within its volume, then light would go with it"

Along with the planets and stars yes? If youre able to destroy photons, ignoring conservation of energy, then destroying stars or even galaxies doesnt seem far fetched.

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u/lacegem 11d ago

The problem is range. Destroying a volume of photons locally is easier than destroying an expanding volume of everything at the vast cosmic distances of the countless galaxies across the visible sky. One is ridiculous, the other calls the limits of Planck energy into question.

I'm not trying to bring actual science into it, it's just that one is far easier to justify than the other and fits better on the scale of what we see before and after. If the latter were true, and he actually destroyed all light-emitting objects within that field of view across the universe, then even growing to destroy Jupiter with a sneeze would be a massive downgrade. That's not just unfathomable power, it's beyond breaking the furthest laws of physics.

We'll never get an actual answer, so I'm not very invested in it. I just think it makes more sense.

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u/3rdmilDiego 11d ago

I like your thought process. I too was kind of at a loss for words when it happened too and I got into the light being destroyed explanation.

But I think the punch being literally squared by some violation of the laws of thermodynamics and energy conservation makes...more sense. Story wise

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u/seficarnifex serious series: serious repost 11d ago

They didnt destroy countless galaxies. At best the blast blocked the light temporarily. Even if they some had instantly worm holed billions of light years instantly we have to wait billions of years for the sky to change

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u/PapiBIanco 11d ago

I don’t get the “destroyed the light not the stars argument”. How would you be able to tell the difference from if they did destroy the stars? To me an artist draws an explosion going the direction of some stars, next panel there’s no more stars, I feel it’s pretty clear what they were trying to illustrate.