Just like everything else in the Retconed timeline, I hate this feat.

We know Saitama doesn't give a shit about collateral damage.

It's *arguably* his greatest failing as a hero (there's a reason why Superman's Cardboard World speech is an amazing showcase of his character as well as an aura farming moment, there's a reason why ALLMIGHT and MHA heroes in general don't ever use dangerous moves unless the situation calls for it).

He has done this so many times now, I've lost count.

From the first time we saw him fighting Marugori, to Seaweed Girl, to the Meteor (don't even try to act like he couldn't have vaporized it with a serious punch), and now to this.

I thought he was, you know, actually competent at not causing an unbelievably high amount of collateral with Elder Centipede's Serious (Concentrated) Punch, which only trailed along the Monster's body.

That may be all the ones before that were just mistakes or something.

But nope. They dropped this shit right after killing everyone on Earth with radiation.

What's the point of this feat?

Clearly. Powerscaling. It's just there so Powerscalers can jerk each other off about how strong Saitama/Cosmic Garou are.

This doesn't add anything to Saitama and Garou, unless you count genocide (for the ones who believe they destroyed all those stars and galaxies), or being glorified cosmic vacuum cleaners who helped sweep the dust away from our Solar System.

Because alien lives don't matter. So who cares if they get wiped out by the uncaring fist of Saitama, huh? It's not like he wasn't strong enough to make sure Garou never got off that punch in the first place and avoid potentially obliterating Earth or countless innocents across the stars or anything.

Legitimately, this feat made me realize that Saitama was an extremely flawed hero, and broke me out of the propaganda that Genos and the Fandom ran for *years*.

I realized for the first time that...Saitama *doesn't try* at all; he only fights monsters for the *fun* of being a hero and beating up bad guys, not *being* a hero.

He doesn't rush right in ahead of time to ensure that everyone is safe. He was right. He's always late, and he doesn't think that much about the consequences of his actions.

He's like a polar opposite of Amai Mask (in ideology), the kind of hero who is too selfish and doesn't think about what others think, except instead of being an example of strong conviction, it's an example of *apathy*.

It made me realize that the people attacking Saitama for his poor performance against the Meteor were completely right.

We all say that Tatsumaki causes a lot of destruction when she fights, but she's one of the 'cleanest' heroes ever.

Outside of her fight with Saitama, *every* monster she kills is usually very clean. She pops in, either crushes them into a zit or twists them into a corpse. Instant, clean, and only affects the target.

Saitama? If he fights near your house, there's a chance that your house is gonna get crushed because he didn't remember that the giant he lightly punched can fall over and forget to obliterate him instead of just rupturing his insides.

Sure, it's nice that you won't die from the monster killing you now, but what about *your house?* You sure as shit ain't gonna cook anything, you lost basically all your belongings, your home is completely fucked.

It's one thing if the monster is the one who destroyed it; you can just blame God for it, you can justify it to yourself that it was just a tragedy, that no one could've done anything about it. It's another if it only happened because a *hero* who can *perfectly* make sure it didn't happen with *0 effort* decided that his *boredom* matters more than your *entire life*.

What if you were inside that house still? What if your pet were still inside that house and you forgot about it amidst the panic of evacuation?

Oh, your new car got destroyed by the meteor? Boo hoo, live with it.

Except you can't. You just fucking lost your new car *and your house, and the place you worked at*.

Better pack your bags and move to a new place. Oh, but your bags are rubble too.

The more I went down that line of thought, the more I realized.

I lost it. All the wonder I used to have, all the fangirling I used to shower Saitama with whenever I read these chapters.

He wasn't Superman or All Might at all.

Hell, he doesn't even compare to Mob or Reigen, a young boy and a(n ex)*fraud*.

I used to think he would be a good teacher for him, to teach Genos how to be human. But that was just the minimum bar.

Beyond half-assed comments on heroics, beyond the *bare bones* of being a human.

It was *Genos* who was a bigger blessing for Saitama, who actually taught his *master* many things.

From the fact that more things exist beyond that dinky little apartment, the hero association, the existence of the S-Class, a group similar in nature to Saitama, with their own different obsessions.

It's...

Well, rant is over. I'm getting off track anyhow. That's generally why I hated this feat.

It made me realize that I kinda hate Saitama, and appreciate Superman more.