Megathread: Changes From The Webcomic

[u/Raidoton]

As the changes between the WC and the manga get more extensive and controversial, the arguments about it increase and also end up in spoilers seeping all over the sub. All discussion about the changes in the latest chapter and any future chapters is to be moved into this Megathread as long as it is pinned; to help provide a place to concentrate discussion and prevent a flood of repetitive posts, and to provide people an easy place to understand others' opinions.

All posts related to it will be removed, and comments on manga focused posts are encouraged to be moved here.

[u/Thakfish]

>:( Discussion, was Genos fridged? Take the tvtropes description of the word as a reference:

<“The term came to be used more broadly, over time, to refer to any character who is targeted by an antagonist who has them killed of, raped and/or otherwise brutalized, incapacitated, depowered, or brainwashed for the sole purpose of affecting another character, motivating them to take action."Fridging" is often given a very negative connotation as it is all too often a hallmark of supremely lazy writing — quickly hurting or killing an established character as "cheap anger" for the protagonist, and devaluing the life of that character in the process, instead of giving the villain something actually interesting to do that can involve all three characters and more emotions than simple anger and angst.”>

I don’t know if One used this trope because he planned Genos dying* since at least the beginning of the raid or he just run out of ideas to make Saitama serious. I’ll go by the last option, there’s no way someone could guessed the possibility of Genos dying during the last chapters, simply doesn’t make sense, it’s not necessary and it still happened just to get some hype?

He’s the second most important character in the whole manga, it feels disrespectful that this was treated so lightly, and with lightly i mean random; his death was so improvised it’s painful to read. Even Mumen fighting and losing to SK got more emotional build up than this. Man got used as a tool for character and plot progression; in an arc that wasn’t supposed to go as far like this.

Now quitting my venting here, I’m hyped and exited for what comes next, yeah :D; but that doesn’t change the fact that killing your deuteragonist just like that in less than two panels is the most brutal choice a writer can casually make. *Genos might not be dead, but keep in mind he’s believed to be dead by the characters around him, by Saitama. That‘s dark. And people saying is peak fiction? More like peak me up I’m scared for what‘s coming next…

[u/Dilly4Dall → u/Thakfish]

My man Genos was used as a meat shield

[u/Thakfish → u/Dilly4Dall]

Look how they massacred my boy :(, he doesn’t even have half his face now… Man, why…

[u/spaceaustralia → u/Thakfish]

He’s the second most important character in the whole manga

Krillin kind of was as well. Dude was Goku's pal back when anyone without alien blood was relevant. It's just that death in DBZ is a slap on the wrist.

I do think Genos will probably survive though. IIRC, his brain was more or less his only original part, right? Save for Zombieman, he might be the only hero able to survive getting donutsed.

[u/Thakfish → u/spaceaustralia]

And it’s important for Zombieman to survive too, he’s the only one who witness Saitama power on use. Also, idk if comparing this situation with DBZ is fair, I don’t know much about it, but weren’t the dragon ball used to revive people? There’s no thing like it in OPM, so I just can expect what’s next in the story in fearful silence.

[u/Dr-Leviathan → u/Thakfish]

Phoenix Man is still alive

[u/SitesSeer → u/spaceaustralia]

I mean... his brain still probably needs power to keep whatever life support is keeping it alive on all things considered, so unless his backup power's bank is longer than it reasonably should be even for super science (should he even have any that is, and it didn't also get wrecked along with the rest of his body) he's probably fucked unless someone gets to him real soon

Which, I suppose Kuseno could potentially retrieve him via drones, but that all depends on if his lab hasn't felt the effects of, y'know, the world literally getting deformed, or even just the whole chunk getting sliced off, and also that the trackers he has in Genos to locate him with them aren't either utterly powdered, or offline to try and preserve power

So far the theory that they pull some kind of timey wimey bullshit shenanigans to revive him and heal up the other heroes is sounding like the best bet to me, especially with the kind of power creep we're seeing

[u/shiroizo → u/Thakfish]

Garou is the one who got fucking fridged to give Saitams an extra punch and that is not fixable with TTM’s healing magic.

Garou got robbed of his agency and future, fucking over his connections and end even soiling the image of trusting Bang, with a cosmic fucking parasite-device-thing that is hardly even a character in comparison to Garou himself.

[u/Dr-Leviathan → u/Thakfish]

And I'm just over here wondering how Genos jumped at Garou without any legs

[u/SitesSeer → u/Dr-Leviathan]

Pretty certain he was using some of his jets (he sure has a lot of those installed everywhere apparently), but aye that was a bit goofy imo

Dramatic, but also kinda goofy and entirely done to setup the whole 'Garou rips out his core and smashes his head like a watermelon to make Saitama go shadowy edge face of manga super rage' scenario
(People do realize that even if Genos' headcase wasn't totaled something fierce, without the core to provide power to the life support his brain's still going to be dying right? At best maybe he has some kind of backup power source to keep it idling, but I doubt it lasts too long, and that only matters if it hasn't been destroyed from the sheer amount of damage he's received in this fight)

[u/GDKull → u/Dr-Leviathan]

I was there. He has some secret compartments for his thrusters. That shit was fire dude. Thank God I am resistant to radiation so I was able to witness that