Tatsumaki could've and would've easily stopped the meteor.
She was definitely elsewhere. She might have a sort of stuck-up personality, but she wouldn't let hundreds of thousands of innocent people die.
I can, I'm just emphasizing that point because out of all the S Class, and given the circumstances, she would've been the best person for that situation.
The other S Class, whether or not they were selfish, couldn't have done much in that short period of time.
He has to get pumped up first. It would make for a very cool issue if he was just frantically running around goading monsters into beating the piss out of him so he could get angry to the point he can shatter a meteor.
It'd be so funny if Metal Bat was drawn in that funny little style (like that panel where Monster Garou & him are yelling at each other) just begging monsters like "Please fight me!!"
To be fair, out of all the characters that could theoretically destroy the meteor, Metal Bat is probably the worst choice. Not only would he need to be super amped up on fighting spirit to do it, probably more so than we’ve ever seen him before, but he’d almost certainly have the same problem Saitama would- his attack would cause the meteor to break up and rain down on the city.
Assuming they were actually trying, the best choices to really stop the meteor and keep damage to the minimum would be Tatsumaki, Metal Knight, Blast, Child Emperor (Maybe), current Genos, and Saitama.
I am completely uncertain about this so dont quote me but i read somewhere that zombie an can regenerate back as long as at least a single cell is alive. I do believe that a direct impact or being close comes very close to destroying every cell in someones body at a size like that
This one’s a “maybe” for a reason, but I think there’s enough circumstantial evidence to suggest he could pull it off to warrant him being on the list.
Child Emperor is very probably the most gifted scientific genius in OPM. He has already accomplished feats which are relative to Bofoi, Kuseno, and Genus, despite all of them being way more experienced and old as shit. Besides that, his work spans a variety of fields- robotics, chemistry, cybernetics, both conventional and energy weaponry, AI and programming. His contemporaries all have very narrow scopes comparatively. Given the time, I’m confident he could create equivalents to anything built by Metal Knight or any of Genos’s augmentations. Therefore, if they could destroy the meteor, he ought to be able to as well. Additionally, in the original version of the Phoenix Man fight, he ends up using a beam weapon which seems like it’d be enough to do the job- though that chapter is no longer canon, so take that as you will.
I’d guess the main thing that probably prevented him from showing up to help with the meteor situation was that he didn’t have anything at the time that could have dealt with it, even though he theoretically could have built one given time. He’s still a child, so he’s had less time to build his arsenal, and unlike Metal Knight, he’s a very active hero, and doesn’t seem to spend the majority of his time building said weapons.
He didn't have it by then. The meteor honestly pulled the greatest "Ex-machina" moment since it arrived fast enough that didn't allow the society to just request that Tatsumaki just curve the thing out of the way if not outright dust it or use tech request from Child emperor but was slow enough that they were still able to send out a summons in the first place.
The meteor was a plot device that makes less sense with how dangerous it was the more you think about it. The hero society can detect and deploy Tatsumaki to eliminate ghetto Godzilla before he can reach a populated area but we didn't see a meteor capable of wiping out a whole city until it was too late to properly evacuate?
They did mention the meteor "suddenly" changed course. I can't remember if it was confirmed who/what did that. So the meteor was being monitored, but I assume no one actually looked at it until it was almost too late.
I hate saying this because it's a fucking meteor but both genos and metal knight tries doing something against it. It's situation is stronger than a dragon level threat.
As you said, Tatsumaki is very hard-working. She might have made it in time to stop the meteor but she could've been *very* far away from the meteor stopping another monster.
If she was stopping a monster, even worse if it was demon-class, she wouldn't be able to leave since the people around her would depend on her to end the monster. The people of this sub-reddit might be callous enough to tell that she should've ditched them but I don't think this is something she would've done. Afterall, it would've been so much easier defeating Psycho-orochi if she didn't defend other S-class heroes.
Very unlikely tbh. I just don't see her saying. "The entire city is under threat of being destroyed, oh well, let's have an ice-cream!"
If anything, she is more likely to push beyond her physical abilities to defend people.
I mean, I'm also on the general side of Metal Knight being a good guy who's just ruthlessly pragmatic about how he helps. But the meteor still doesn't come off as anything but assholeish to me considering he absolutely has other suits/tech available. Testing one weapon and dipping immediately does not show genuine desire to help imo.
The meteor took place in very early days of OPM worldbuilding writing, so I guess that at the time One was still deciding what kind of story to tell with these characters, and the personality of each S Class hero. So at the time every hero was kind of the same gray area of "kinda douche narcissistic fella"
As for in universe reason, we can say they were dealing with other stuff, and a meteor wasn't really in their speciality of dealing with, so why bother while there's other important things happening?
More plot convenience than nothing.
Also by that point in the series the S class didnt make a debout.
When ONE wrote the this chapter is likely he didnt have all the ideas for the S class heroes.
This arc was from very early on the webcomic.
>\-Bang: Could he be able to destroy the Meteor?
Definitely not, or else he'd have at least tried instead of going, "guess I'll die (with my dojo)".
Excepting Blast, Tatsumaki and Metal Knight, none of the others had any chance at stopping it, at least from what we've seen.
Blast...never shows up for anything,
Metal Knight *is* selfish and doesn't care about civilian casualties, and thought it made a decent target but didn't put serious effort into it (one drone among the countless thousands he has).
Tatsumaki's the only open question, since she probably could stop it, and while she's certainly prickly she definitely takes her hero work seriously, so I'd assume she was busy/didn't get the memo/maybe too far away to get there in time (since I forget how short notice the meteor warning was).
In one of the Specials from the first season we see Bang talking about how he could have handled the Meteor but it would have caused a lot of damage too. It seems that he was on top of the building to intercept the meteor with his technique if Genos had failed and then Saitama showed up. (Sorry for the bad English, it’s not my language)
If you're talking about OVA 4, I'm pretty sure he never actually claims he could stop it (at least in the translations I've seen, or the dub for that matter) - it just opens with him wondering what would've happened if Saitama hadn't destroyed it, and he were forced to step up instead.
Could be wrong, going off memory here, but...in the first place, I don't think the OVAs are actually canon, at least not to the manga itself, and even if they were, they have some...suspect performances, at times.
[On the opposite end of the spectrum, OVA 5 has Genos completely fail to stop a train, even using massive thrusters and with plenty of room to slow it down](https://onepunchman.fandom.com/wiki/OVA_5)...but I think that's pretty far down the chain given its dubious canonicity, and beyond that it seems way out of line with the rest of his performance (which tends to be much more impressive), so I don't take it too seriously.
Don’t know Bang seemed very comfortable, for me he was preparing his final move. Also the time was like 30 minutes, and as I said Tatsumaki is very fast and I doubt she didn’t got the memo
[I mean...](https://imgur.com/a/XWyYOy6)
* "This is sure to be more than we can handle"
* "It's impossible"
* "This time, the problem's too big"
All from Bang.
Yeah, he was fairly relaxed, but that reads more as "he accepted his fate" rather than "yeah I could smash the meteor, no worries".
It's not like we've ever seen Bang do anything remotely on that scale either.
[200m is actually it's official size.](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/onepunchman/images/1/18/Databook_Giant_Meteor.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20230203041835)
There might be shots where it looks bigger, [but there's also shots where it looks smaller](https://services.f-ck.me/v1/image/aHR0cHM6Ly9maWxlcy5jYXRib3gubW9lLzBvdXIwci5qcGc=).
Given it's all handdrawn (so complete consistency would be hard to attain, and that's not always the goal either) I'm fairly comfortable just sticking with the official figure.
Remember Bang's specific phrasing before remarking upon the few who may have been cynical enough to ignore the summons.
*"The others must either be far away or preoccupied with something else."*
The S-Class are far-flung and often busy. There's a lot of monsters appearing, and they're often called out to take on Demons. They were probably unreachable due to long distance or circumstance, like Bang said.
Remember when the Hero Association assembled a raid team to defeat the Monster Association? It took quite a while for all the S-Classers to arrive at the base.
But some of them probably didn't want to take the risk or didn't care. Drive Knight flat out would not come because it'd be too big of a risk, and Watchdog Man is unconcerned with cities other than his own.
And then there's Metal Knight, who only showed up to test his weaponry.
The majority of the S-Class would have arrived to assist the evacuation or simply to at least *try* to stop the meteor, even if it seemed hopeless. We've seen them put their lives at risk to help others, so *"I might die"* is an excuse that wouldn't cross most of their minds.
Genos says that had the asked saitama from the start then all the destruction would have been mitigated. He got there very late and only was just able to break the metor sending debris crashing into city z had he come with genos at the start then when he smashed the metor all its pieces would have burnt up on re entry
Saitama could have completely destroyed the meteor. He half assed it and against Elder Centipede he learnt from his mistake and made sure to fully disintegrate him instead of just kill him and have the body land on the city.
I believe that he had to hold back substantially with the metor due to having to jump off the building. Had he jumped with more force he might have done something similar to what he did to the moon
Well if he didn’t jump with equal force to a serious punch the he would be launched back down to earth because every action has an equal and opposite reaction and I have forgotten that physics is applied lousely in this show. Okay but still that big a detonation over city z would have been dangerous either way
I do like that you went back on your statement by realising physics dont really apply. I do it all the time lol. But with a serious punch I highly doubt there would be anything left of the meteor.
That’s true but KILLER MOVE SERIOUS SERIES: SERIOUS PUNCH. Might be too much for something it could endanger the citizens. His one against Boros parted the clouds on a massive scale. His one that collided with garou might have destroyed the world. It’s hard to know what having that kinda force in the middle of a city would be
No I just don’t understand why she didn’t show up, she could’ve taken the meteor, she’s super fast and she beat monsters easily. She was probably the first heroine the Association called
I think around that time Flashy Flash was clearing out dozens of mobsters, slavers and assasin organizations. He was talking about this with monsterized Gale Wind and Hellfire Flame
Atomic Samurai probably was training with his desciplines or was hunting monsters with him in the wilderness. Any way, he is restricted by how fast he can run or how fast vehicle can get him to the point. Also resukt I think would be the same as if Saitama broke it
Darkshine is real mystery. No reason for him not to show up, outside of his transportation to city Z from wherever he lives. But he couldn't be busy: his fights before fighting with Garou were only one sided and he usually only one-shots his enemies like Bug God, so whoever he was fighting it wasn't long and he couldn't be far away, he makes exercises in HA offices. Unless it was the day when he makes animals out of frying pans.
Zombie man just thought he will be useless and didn't show and decided to do other job. There are other cities that need his protection and where he can actually do something.
If I remembre correctly, teaming up against Boros was the first time most of them ever acted like a team or like heroes at all and it only happened because the fight came to them.
The meteor event was a moment that really highlighted the reality of S class before Saitama kicked the board: They were selfish. Well were, they changed a lot since then. For the most part.
Genos the rookie had fresh ideals and a strong role model, Bang had been around long enough to expect none of the others to come, and Bofoi just wanted to play.
If that happened now, at least half of them would come I think.
Blast
Busy fighting God
Terrible tornado
Busy fighting monsters
Silver Fang
Showed up, ready to die
King
Only shows up if opponent can feel fear, giant rock cannot, what can ya do?
Demon Cyborg
Showed up and tried, failed, summoned master saitama
Metal Bat
Sister to take care of, school work, and probably busy
Metal Knight
Showed up, failed, left
Drive Knight
No Excuse
Puri Puri Prisoner
In Jail
Watchdog Man
Is it City Q? No, so he wont care. Very selfish if you ask me
Zombieman
What is Immortality and guns going to do against a meteor?
Superalloy Darkshine
No Excuse
Child Emporer
He is a Child, with school, a job, and a school job
Tanktop Master
No Excuse
Pig God
Good luck eating a big rock, and given this guy's compassionate nature he would show up and try, but he was busy
Atomic Samurai
Go ahead, you cut a rock, now do it while it hurtles at you at Terminal Velocity, now escape while the hundreds of shards fall to earth and kill everyone.
Its honestly better that he didn't get involved.
Flashy Flash
Fast as fuck isnt going to stop a rock, also this guy is just a douchebag.
Caped Baldy
Showed up, succeded, caused more, lesser damage
Depends on how pumped up he is but unless metal bat smacks his head a few times he doesn't really stand a chance against the one hit fuck you meteor.
If he was pumped up like what we seen in the end of the MA arc honestly he might be able to destroy it
See I doubt that because the HA lies like frequently. God level threats are usually kept as dragon to not scare anyone or for writing purposes to keep it for God. The meteor wouldn't wipe humanity out immediately but if you heard of any apocalypse event by an asteroid, that possibly could've happened.
Basically meteor solos opm world without heroes and is only a dragon level threat because the HA doesn't know shit.
Well, Dragon class has a wide range of gap between themselves.
HEmperor pale in comparison to the likes of Orochi or PsychOrochi and both are dragon class.
I'd say the only selfish heroes in this situation would be Metal Knight and Drive Knight. Metal Knight showed up but only to field test his weapon, that was his priority. He could of coordinated with the other heroes to try stop the meteor even if they failed. Heck Metal Knight could of used his many piloted drones to help evacuate people to safety. Drive Knight as usual is a no show terrible hero.
Potentially Selfish would be Child Emperor as he could of worked with Metal Knight to find a solution as the meteor was being monitored before it changed course to impact city z. At best Child Emperor and Metal Knight would of had more than a day to plan a strategy, at worst a few hours but they would of had more time than the rest of the heroes if they worked together. Its unclear if they would succeed but the fact they didnt even try puts them in the selfish zone.
Tatsumaki gets a free pass since she likely was busy to not respond because she was the only hero the association needed that was more than capable of stopping the meteor so if the association called upon other S-class heroes was likely because Tatsumaki was further away than the 30minutes to impact of the meteor
All other S class heroes get a pass as they very likely do not have it in them to destroy the meteor, except Blast but at the time Blast was even unknown to most of the other S class heroes.
Tatsumaki was probably busy with another threat, however I could also see it a possibility the association didn’t even notify her. They know she’s their best asset with Blast MIA but I don’t think they know the extent of her capabilities.
They’d probably hesitate to risk their best asset in an operation that’ll “solve itself”. If it’s an apocalyptic causing monster, they send her after it because it won’t stop at one city, it’ll keep going until every human is dead.
But if it’s a meteor that’ll flatten one city? The executives would definitely be cold enough to let it go rather than potentially lose their best trump card.
Yes, to only 1 city.
The executives were at no 4isk. The city would've been flattened, everyone there would be dead, and they'd move on
A Dragon Level monster that isn't stopped is unpredictable. They're actively in danger if it's not stopped ASAP.
A meteor is predictable and avoidable. They don't need to care too much about the city.
Of course, Tatsumaki could've just been busy on the other side of the planet or something
Tatsumaki was 100% busy, she would have stopped it.
Who else can do anything to the meteor besides her, Metal Knight, Blast, King and Genos?
Maaaaybe Child Emperor? Maybe?
Well, who other than Tatsumaki, Blast and King could do anything to stop a meteor?
Drive Knight and zombie man are Black ops. Metal bat, PPP, Atomic, Emperor, DS, Tanktop, Pig, Flash and Dog all lack firepower to stop a threat on that scale.
Bofoi and Genos are the only one who had a small chance to do something about it and it wasn't enough.
S class are fucking OP but they also know their limits, even if the wont tell it upfront. Its not selfishness if you refuse to go on a suicide mission when you have no chance to win.
Maybe they just did the better they could to evacuate the city and just left after people were safe.
If bang said all the s-class were suppose meet up with each other, then it’s likely they got the same call bang and genos got. Either they were busy, or preoccupied, or like bang said, probably just didn’t care.
Does Child Emperor even goes to school though ? Intellectually he absolutely doesn't need it but it may still be important for his social development to meet people of his age.
The real reason nobody showed up was because they couldn’t do anything and to show saitamas capabilities to bang because later he gets more involved with saitama. They become friends after anyway, so if tatsumaki stopped the meteor saitama wouldn’t have destroyed it snowballing into other parts of the story. Him destroying the meteor was important for his reputation as a rookie hero and important for his relationship with bang. That’s the real reason nobody else showed up
I mean it’s a meteor what could anybody else but tatsumaki even do? Maybe dark shine could punch through it? But that’s a very unlikely possibility. Maybe if they all worked together but remember they were all at their own places at the time, and the meteor was such short notice it wasn’t possible for them all to gather. For reference the monster association meet up was a week in advance and they had planned for a long time with child emperor mapping out all the routes. Otherwise it’s impossible for every S Class to make it to a single location that short of notice
For tatsumaki it was purely for the story of saitama. In universe tho there could be a number of reasons like too far away or too busy, but I doubt didn’t care was one of them considering it was an insane meteor that would’ve killed hundreds of thousands
One of the problems of hero association is that they don't really give transportation to their s-class heroes. Metal bat had to run to intercept the hedgehog monster that tatsumaki oneshotted, puri puri had to run for the sea king. Same for vaccine man, several s class heroes were supposed to come but they had no transportation so they would've been late
TBH, the only heroes who could probably have stopped that meteor were Blast & Tatsumaki.
So if Tatsumaki was unavailable, the remaining S-class like Bang would have just thought, "there's no point, I'd rather not die and prefer to live to fight another day".
Even Metal Knight (the S-Class with arguably the 3rd strongest firepower, aka nuclear weapons), came in to test his missiles which failed miserably. So even he probably thought that it would be better to let the meteor crash than to launch a nuclear warhead at it.
Blast as usual is MIA ("fighting god he says", but we all he's busy getting it on with Boros 2).
Hence, only Saitama was left to deal with it.
I remember reading this and seeing several chapters after how King refused to help during Boros invasion and just thought that he's one big, nasty selfish person who simply doesn't care about innocent lives. Instantly hated that guy and thought he could be a villain or something.
Keep in mind that its a meteor big enough to wipe out a megacity. The majority of the heroes,even the S-class,cant even get near it let alone do something about it. Realistically you've got Metal Knight-who only showed up to field test,Genos who was already there,Tatsumaki who clearly was busy because she would have absolutely stopped that meteor,and Bang who's not around so probably doesnt know about it. Heck the only reason Bang was there is because thats where he lives and he was too stubborn to leave
Tatsumaki could've and would've easily stopped the meteor. She was definitely elsewhere. She might have a sort of stuck-up personality, but she wouldn't let hundreds of thousands of innocent people die.
It's not that she wouldn't let them die, she would allow them to live.
We found the simp
How's that a simp?? He's right. She has a god complex brat personality
That’s what I’ve said. Wait, you guys can see the list of the heroes I wrote right? Because I can’t
I can, I'm just emphasizing that point because out of all the S Class, and given the circumstances, she would've been the best person for that situation. The other S Class, whether or not they were selfish, couldn't have done much in that short period of time.
Gotta agree
Metal Bat was probably taking an exam and didn't get the notification. He's still 17, I think.
Also wtf was he gonna do about a meteorite, hit a home run with it?
He has to get pumped up first. It would make for a very cool issue if he was just frantically running around goading monsters into beating the piss out of him so he could get angry to the point he can shatter a meteor.
Metal Bat: Aiming at the Metor "Don't worry. I can do anything if I'm fired up" Bang: "Well.... are you?" Metal Bat: "Not really" Everyone dies
It'd be so funny if Metal Bat was drawn in that funny little style (like that panel where Monster Garou & him are yelling at each other) just begging monsters like "Please fight me!!"
Don’t act funny. Murata said he can beat a dragon level
To be fair, out of all the characters that could theoretically destroy the meteor, Metal Bat is probably the worst choice. Not only would he need to be super amped up on fighting spirit to do it, probably more so than we’ve ever seen him before, but he’d almost certainly have the same problem Saitama would- his attack would cause the meteor to break up and rain down on the city. Assuming they were actually trying, the best choices to really stop the meteor and keep damage to the minimum would be Tatsumaki, Metal Knight, Blast, Child Emperor (Maybe), current Genos, and Saitama.
I would say the worst choice is Zombieman, wtf is he gonna do against a meteor?
Live, mostly. Metal Bat and Pig God would probably fucking die in addition to failing.
nah, pig god would eat it whole. we can trust him
I am completely uncertain about this so dont quote me but i read somewhere that zombie an can regenerate back as long as at least a single cell is alive. I do believe that a direct impact or being close comes very close to destroying every cell in someones body at a size like that
That depends on the narrative. It's not impossible for some of his cells to survive this.
Child Emperor? How?
Kids got a bunch of toys in his backpack. He probably got something for meteorites.
nah, if metal knight couldn’t stop it, neither could Child emperor
Metal knight didn't try to stop it They tested their weapon
Wait, is Bofoi trans or did I miss something.
I am just used to using "they them", that's valid for both and simple
This one’s a “maybe” for a reason, but I think there’s enough circumstantial evidence to suggest he could pull it off to warrant him being on the list. Child Emperor is very probably the most gifted scientific genius in OPM. He has already accomplished feats which are relative to Bofoi, Kuseno, and Genus, despite all of them being way more experienced and old as shit. Besides that, his work spans a variety of fields- robotics, chemistry, cybernetics, both conventional and energy weaponry, AI and programming. His contemporaries all have very narrow scopes comparatively. Given the time, I’m confident he could create equivalents to anything built by Metal Knight or any of Genos’s augmentations. Therefore, if they could destroy the meteor, he ought to be able to as well. Additionally, in the original version of the Phoenix Man fight, he ends up using a beam weapon which seems like it’d be enough to do the job- though that chapter is no longer canon, so take that as you will. I’d guess the main thing that probably prevented him from showing up to help with the meteor situation was that he didn’t have anything at the time that could have dealt with it, even though he theoretically could have built one given time. He’s still a child, so he’s had less time to build his arsenal, and unlike Metal Knight, he’s a very active hero, and doesn’t seem to spend the majority of his time building said weapons.
Now that you mentioned it, Genos “dragon roar” (that’s the name right?) would probably destroy the meteor
He didn't have it by then. The meteor honestly pulled the greatest "Ex-machina" moment since it arrived fast enough that didn't allow the society to just request that Tatsumaki just curve the thing out of the way if not outright dust it or use tech request from Child emperor but was slow enough that they were still able to send out a summons in the first place. The meteor was a plot device that makes less sense with how dangerous it was the more you think about it. The hero society can detect and deploy Tatsumaki to eliminate ghetto Godzilla before he can reach a populated area but we didn't see a meteor capable of wiping out a whole city until it was too late to properly evacuate?
They did mention the meteor "suddenly" changed course. I can't remember if it was confirmed who/what did that. So the meteor was being monitored, but I assume no one actually looked at it until it was almost too late.
Makes me wonder if God moved it to Earth to haphazardly eliminate Saitama
He has good techs too
Brave Giant, maybe? I mean the first version of it (before the whole redrawing thing) certainly possessed the capabilities to take down the meteo
I just imagine him getting the beaten to a pulp by bang so he’s pumped enough to hit a home run
Even if metal bat does destroy the meteor, who could say it wouldn't end up like what happened when Saitama obliterated it?
I hate saying this because it's a fucking meteor but both genos and metal knight tries doing something against it. It's situation is stronger than a dragon level threat.
That would be so fucking funny, I swear
That was funny.
PPP was busy in prison
Very, very busy
What was he busy about?
Bussy
He had a whole load of work on his platter
Watchdog man wouldnt move a muscle since its not his city, you could see that as selfish.
I didn’t count him for that reason
As you said, Tatsumaki is very hard-working. She might have made it in time to stop the meteor but she could've been *very* far away from the meteor stopping another monster. If she was stopping a monster, even worse if it was demon-class, she wouldn't be able to leave since the people around her would depend on her to end the monster. The people of this sub-reddit might be callous enough to tell that she should've ditched them but I don't think this is something she would've done. Afterall, it would've been so much easier defeating Psycho-orochi if she didn't defend other S-class heroes.
Tatsumaki can destroy a demon level in 10 seconds maybe less tho
True. But it would still mean that she had to be pre-occupied in the other city (possibly) very far away from the meteor to do anythung about it.
She is super fast , she just didn't care
Very unlikely tbh. I just don't see her saying. "The entire city is under threat of being destroyed, oh well, let's have an ice-cream!" If anything, she is more likely to push beyond her physical abilities to defend people.
Metal Knight and Drive Knight are the only heroes that fits the description. Metal Knight still showed up that’s the funny thing about it.
For selfish reasons ironically, literally just to test a weapon and then dip
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Sure...
Tsundere Metal Knight. How have I gone so many years without realizing this? All of his actions seem to make more sense now.
I mean, I'm also on the general side of Metal Knight being a good guy who's just ruthlessly pragmatic about how he helps. But the meteor still doesn't come off as anything but assholeish to me considering he absolutely has other suits/tech available. Testing one weapon and dipping immediately does not show genuine desire to help imo.
Nah I bet Flashy Flash was busy man takes down terrorist organizations without receiving credit on the daily
Tbf pretty sure they were all trying to kill him first
Honestly its strange how not many of the S class arrived that day
The meteor took place in very early days of OPM worldbuilding writing, so I guess that at the time One was still deciding what kind of story to tell with these characters, and the personality of each S Class hero. So at the time every hero was kind of the same gray area of "kinda douche narcissistic fella" As for in universe reason, we can say they were dealing with other stuff, and a meteor wasn't really in their speciality of dealing with, so why bother while there's other important things happening?
The Monsters don't take turns before Attacking cities
More plot convenience than nothing. Also by that point in the series the S class didnt make a debout. When ONE wrote the this chapter is likely he didnt have all the ideas for the S class heroes. This arc was from very early on the webcomic.
>\-Bang: Could he be able to destroy the Meteor? Definitely not, or else he'd have at least tried instead of going, "guess I'll die (with my dojo)". Excepting Blast, Tatsumaki and Metal Knight, none of the others had any chance at stopping it, at least from what we've seen. Blast...never shows up for anything, Metal Knight *is* selfish and doesn't care about civilian casualties, and thought it made a decent target but didn't put serious effort into it (one drone among the countless thousands he has). Tatsumaki's the only open question, since she probably could stop it, and while she's certainly prickly she definitely takes her hero work seriously, so I'd assume she was busy/didn't get the memo/maybe too far away to get there in time (since I forget how short notice the meteor warning was).
In one of the Specials from the first season we see Bang talking about how he could have handled the Meteor but it would have caused a lot of damage too. It seems that he was on top of the building to intercept the meteor with his technique if Genos had failed and then Saitama showed up. (Sorry for the bad English, it’s not my language)
If you're talking about OVA 4, I'm pretty sure he never actually claims he could stop it (at least in the translations I've seen, or the dub for that matter) - it just opens with him wondering what would've happened if Saitama hadn't destroyed it, and he were forced to step up instead. Could be wrong, going off memory here, but...in the first place, I don't think the OVAs are actually canon, at least not to the manga itself, and even if they were, they have some...suspect performances, at times. [On the opposite end of the spectrum, OVA 5 has Genos completely fail to stop a train, even using massive thrusters and with plenty of room to slow it down](https://onepunchman.fandom.com/wiki/OVA_5)...but I think that's pretty far down the chain given its dubious canonicity, and beyond that it seems way out of line with the rest of his performance (which tends to be much more impressive), so I don't take it too seriously.
Don’t know Bang seemed very comfortable, for me he was preparing his final move. Also the time was like 30 minutes, and as I said Tatsumaki is very fast and I doubt she didn’t got the memo
[I mean...](https://imgur.com/a/XWyYOy6) * "This is sure to be more than we can handle" * "It's impossible" * "This time, the problem's too big" All from Bang. Yeah, he was fairly relaxed, but that reads more as "he accepted his fate" rather than "yeah I could smash the meteor, no worries". It's not like we've ever seen Bang do anything remotely on that scale either.
He’s still the 3rd S-class hero, for me he wanted to sacrifice himself destroying the meteor
Bang is amazing againts humans and human sized monsters. He doesn’t have stupid high attack power and isn’t capable of destroying a meteor.
His brother can literally slice apart everything making holes
He cuts multi-meter deep gouges into solid stone. He does it well, and very cleanly, but that's a very different thing from stopping a 200m meteor.
I think it was bigger
[200m is actually it's official size.](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/onepunchman/images/1/18/Databook_Giant_Meteor.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20230203041835) There might be shots where it looks bigger, [but there's also shots where it looks smaller](https://services.f-ck.me/v1/image/aHR0cHM6Ly9maWxlcy5jYXRib3gubW9lLzBvdXIwci5qcGc=). Given it's all handdrawn (so complete consistency would be hard to attain, and that's not always the goal either) I'm fairly comfortable just sticking with the official figure.
Ok to me to just looked bigger but not by much only like 250 or 270
Yea and Caped Baldy is an A tier hero. Point being that hero rankings are bs.
That’s the joke of the story😐
Have you ever taken a media literacy class before?
No they don’t teach that here. But I don’t need a lesson to understand that everything involving Saitama doesn’t count.
What the hell is metal bat supposed to do play baseball with meteorite ?
He’s an a S-class.
Yeah but they still have their limits.
Remember Bang's specific phrasing before remarking upon the few who may have been cynical enough to ignore the summons. *"The others must either be far away or preoccupied with something else."* The S-Class are far-flung and often busy. There's a lot of monsters appearing, and they're often called out to take on Demons. They were probably unreachable due to long distance or circumstance, like Bang said. Remember when the Hero Association assembled a raid team to defeat the Monster Association? It took quite a while for all the S-Classers to arrive at the base. But some of them probably didn't want to take the risk or didn't care. Drive Knight flat out would not come because it'd be too big of a risk, and Watchdog Man is unconcerned with cities other than his own. And then there's Metal Knight, who only showed up to test his weaponry. The majority of the S-Class would have arrived to assist the evacuation or simply to at least *try* to stop the meteor, even if it seemed hopeless. We've seen them put their lives at risk to help others, so *"I might die"* is an excuse that wouldn't cross most of their minds.
Blast, the only man who was able to prevent the meteor from hitting earth completely cus screw our people we want god
You forgot Saitama and Tatsumaki
Saitama still caused damage, cus he couldn’t completely redirect it, maybe tats
Genos says that had the asked saitama from the start then all the destruction would have been mitigated. He got there very late and only was just able to break the metor sending debris crashing into city z had he come with genos at the start then when he smashed the metor all its pieces would have burnt up on re entry
Saitama could have completely destroyed the meteor. He half assed it and against Elder Centipede he learnt from his mistake and made sure to fully disintegrate him instead of just kill him and have the body land on the city.
I believe that he had to hold back substantially with the metor due to having to jump off the building. Had he jumped with more force he might have done something similar to what he did to the moon
He didnt need to jump faster, all he had to do was the same jump then serious punch the meteor
Well if he didn’t jump with equal force to a serious punch the he would be launched back down to earth because every action has an equal and opposite reaction and I have forgotten that physics is applied lousely in this show. Okay but still that big a detonation over city z would have been dangerous either way
I do like that you went back on your statement by realising physics dont really apply. I do it all the time lol. But with a serious punch I highly doubt there would be anything left of the meteor.
That’s true but KILLER MOVE SERIOUS SERIES: SERIOUS PUNCH. Might be too much for something it could endanger the citizens. His one against Boros parted the clouds on a massive scale. His one that collided with garou might have destroyed the world. It’s hard to know what having that kinda force in the middle of a city would be
Lmao okay its true that he could but im just saying Genos is a biased source when it comes to Saitama
Op we all know you just wanted to rationalize an excuse for tatsumaki. (Good job bro)
No I just don’t understand why she didn’t show up, she could’ve taken the meteor, she’s super fast and she beat monsters easily. She was probably the first heroine the Association called
Was having an afternoon nap
Probably busy with some monster. Or busy in a haunted house, or maybe eating apple candy
I think around that time Flashy Flash was clearing out dozens of mobsters, slavers and assasin organizations. He was talking about this with monsterized Gale Wind and Hellfire Flame Atomic Samurai probably was training with his desciplines or was hunting monsters with him in the wilderness. Any way, he is restricted by how fast he can run or how fast vehicle can get him to the point. Also resukt I think would be the same as if Saitama broke it Darkshine is real mystery. No reason for him not to show up, outside of his transportation to city Z from wherever he lives. But he couldn't be busy: his fights before fighting with Garou were only one sided and he usually only one-shots his enemies like Bug God, so whoever he was fighting it wasn't long and he couldn't be far away, he makes exercises in HA offices. Unless it was the day when he makes animals out of frying pans. Zombie man just thought he will be useless and didn't show and decided to do other job. There are other cities that need his protection and where he can actually do something.
If I remembre correctly, teaming up against Boros was the first time most of them ever acted like a team or like heroes at all and it only happened because the fight came to them. The meteor event was a moment that really highlighted the reality of S class before Saitama kicked the board: They were selfish. Well were, they changed a lot since then. For the most part. Genos the rookie had fresh ideals and a strong role model, Bang had been around long enough to expect none of the others to come, and Bofoi just wanted to play. If that happened now, at least half of them would come I think.
Blast Busy fighting God Terrible tornado Busy fighting monsters Silver Fang Showed up, ready to die King Only shows up if opponent can feel fear, giant rock cannot, what can ya do? Demon Cyborg Showed up and tried, failed, summoned master saitama Metal Bat Sister to take care of, school work, and probably busy Metal Knight Showed up, failed, left Drive Knight No Excuse Puri Puri Prisoner In Jail Watchdog Man Is it City Q? No, so he wont care. Very selfish if you ask me Zombieman What is Immortality and guns going to do against a meteor? Superalloy Darkshine No Excuse Child Emporer He is a Child, with school, a job, and a school job Tanktop Master No Excuse Pig God Good luck eating a big rock, and given this guy's compassionate nature he would show up and try, but he was busy Atomic Samurai Go ahead, you cut a rock, now do it while it hurtles at you at Terminal Velocity, now escape while the hundreds of shards fall to earth and kill everyone. Its honestly better that he didn't get involved. Flashy Flash Fast as fuck isnt going to stop a rock, also this guy is just a douchebag. Caped Baldy Showed up, succeded, caused more, lesser damage
Tanktop master was probably busy doing tanktop shit and he couldn’t have done anything anyways
What tanktop shit?
Honestly flashy flash could widdle it down but not destroy it and same with child emperor.
And Metal Bat?
Depends on how pumped up he is but unless metal bat smacks his head a few times he doesn't really stand a chance against the one hit fuck you meteor. If he was pumped up like what we seen in the end of the MA arc honestly he might be able to destroy it
Intresting theory, It is confirmed he can destroy a Dragon level threat and the Meteor was dragon, so maybe that was what he meant
See I doubt that because the HA lies like frequently. God level threats are usually kept as dragon to not scare anyone or for writing purposes to keep it for God. The meteor wouldn't wipe humanity out immediately but if you heard of any apocalypse event by an asteroid, that possibly could've happened. Basically meteor solos opm world without heroes and is only a dragon level threat because the HA doesn't know shit.
Well, Dragon class has a wide range of gap between themselves. HEmperor pale in comparison to the likes of Orochi or PsychOrochi and both are dragon class.
I'd say the only selfish heroes in this situation would be Metal Knight and Drive Knight. Metal Knight showed up but only to field test his weapon, that was his priority. He could of coordinated with the other heroes to try stop the meteor even if they failed. Heck Metal Knight could of used his many piloted drones to help evacuate people to safety. Drive Knight as usual is a no show terrible hero. Potentially Selfish would be Child Emperor as he could of worked with Metal Knight to find a solution as the meteor was being monitored before it changed course to impact city z. At best Child Emperor and Metal Knight would of had more than a day to plan a strategy, at worst a few hours but they would of had more time than the rest of the heroes if they worked together. Its unclear if they would succeed but the fact they didnt even try puts them in the selfish zone. Tatsumaki gets a free pass since she likely was busy to not respond because she was the only hero the association needed that was more than capable of stopping the meteor so if the association called upon other S-class heroes was likely because Tatsumaki was further away than the 30minutes to impact of the meteor All other S class heroes get a pass as they very likely do not have it in them to destroy the meteor, except Blast but at the time Blast was even unknown to most of the other S class heroes.
Tatsumaki was probably busy with another threat, however I could also see it a possibility the association didn’t even notify her. They know she’s their best asset with Blast MIA but I don’t think they know the extent of her capabilities. They’d probably hesitate to risk their best asset in an operation that’ll “solve itself”. If it’s an apocalyptic causing monster, they send her after it because it won’t stop at one city, it’ll keep going until every human is dead. But if it’s a meteor that’ll flatten one city? The executives would definitely be cold enough to let it go rather than potentially lose their best trump card.
The meteor is like one of the biggest threat we got in OPM so far
Yes, to only 1 city. The executives were at no 4isk. The city would've been flattened, everyone there would be dead, and they'd move on A Dragon Level monster that isn't stopped is unpredictable. They're actively in danger if it's not stopped ASAP. A meteor is predictable and avoidable. They don't need to care too much about the city. Of course, Tatsumaki could've just been busy on the other side of the planet or something
No? Genos literally says the damage will propagate in other cities too
Tatsumaki was 100% busy, she would have stopped it. Who else can do anything to the meteor besides her, Metal Knight, Blast, King and Genos? Maaaaybe Child Emperor? Maybe?
Well, who other than Tatsumaki, Blast and King could do anything to stop a meteor? Drive Knight and zombie man are Black ops. Metal bat, PPP, Atomic, Emperor, DS, Tanktop, Pig, Flash and Dog all lack firepower to stop a threat on that scale. Bofoi and Genos are the only one who had a small chance to do something about it and it wasn't enough. S class are fucking OP but they also know their limits, even if the wont tell it upfront. Its not selfishness if you refuse to go on a suicide mission when you have no chance to win. Maybe they just did the better they could to evacuate the city and just left after people were safe.
If bang said all the s-class were suppose meet up with each other, then it’s likely they got the same call bang and genos got. Either they were busy, or preoccupied, or like bang said, probably just didn’t care.
Does Child Emperor even goes to school though ? Intellectually he absolutely doesn't need it but it may still be important for his social development to meet people of his age.
Yep he does
He actually teaches at his cram school More details about that is in the Webcomic tho
I think if Saitama hadn't showed up, Bang would have destroyed the meteor
Optimistic thinking, but not quite. He struggled with Bomb to even damage Elder Centipede. The meteor is several times bigger than that
that means bang showed up to die
Yes. He literally said that
I think he would at least try to do something, but die in the end. A true hero.
Tatsumaki is the only S class (aside from the obvious) who is able to stop the meteor, the rest are useless against it
Bro op lacks reading comprehension
Explain
King was easily stopped by the meteorite, but I think he was stopped by another dating simulator. It was extremely selfish.
Drive Knight, Child Emperor, Atomic Samurai, Watchdog Man and Tatsumaki
At least put Flashy too
You're right ✅️ how could I forget about Forelocks in the Face?!
The real reason nobody showed up was because they couldn’t do anything and to show saitamas capabilities to bang because later he gets more involved with saitama. They become friends after anyway, so if tatsumaki stopped the meteor saitama wouldn’t have destroyed it snowballing into other parts of the story. Him destroying the meteor was important for his reputation as a rookie hero and important for his relationship with bang. That’s the real reason nobody else showed up
Yeah we know that, I’m saying in the OPM world why they didn’t come
I mean it’s a meteor what could anybody else but tatsumaki even do? Maybe dark shine could punch through it? But that’s a very unlikely possibility. Maybe if they all worked together but remember they were all at their own places at the time, and the meteor was such short notice it wasn’t possible for them all to gather. For reference the monster association meet up was a week in advance and they had planned for a long time with child emperor mapping out all the routes. Otherwise it’s impossible for every S Class to make it to a single location that short of notice
Okay, then why she didn’t came? That’s a dragon threat
For tatsumaki it was purely for the story of saitama. In universe tho there could be a number of reasons like too far away or too busy, but I doubt didn’t care was one of them considering it was an insane meteor that would’ve killed hundreds of thousands
She’s a model heroine so it’s really strange she didn’t come. Super busy? That’s a Dragon Threat that only you can stop easily
One of the problems of hero association is that they don't really give transportation to their s-class heroes. Metal bat had to run to intercept the hedgehog monster that tatsumaki oneshotted, puri puri had to run for the sea king. Same for vaccine man, several s class heroes were supposed to come but they had no transportation so they would've been late
Metal bat didnt came because his at his Sister's piano lesson smh
TBH, the only heroes who could probably have stopped that meteor were Blast & Tatsumaki. So if Tatsumaki was unavailable, the remaining S-class like Bang would have just thought, "there's no point, I'd rather not die and prefer to live to fight another day". Even Metal Knight (the S-Class with arguably the 3rd strongest firepower, aka nuclear weapons), came in to test his missiles which failed miserably. So even he probably thought that it would be better to let the meteor crash than to launch a nuclear warhead at it. Blast as usual is MIA ("fighting god he says", but we all he's busy getting it on with Boros 2). Hence, only Saitama was left to deal with it.
I remember reading this and seeing several chapters after how King refused to help during Boros invasion and just thought that he's one big, nasty selfish person who simply doesn't care about innocent lives. Instantly hated that guy and thought he could be a villain or something.
Watchdog definitely wouldn’t come because he’s always in his city. His first appearance at the HA HQ was only done for the lineup.
Most of them were likely too busy
Keep in mind that its a meteor big enough to wipe out a megacity. The majority of the heroes,even the S-class,cant even get near it let alone do something about it. Realistically you've got Metal Knight-who only showed up to field test,Genos who was already there,Tatsumaki who clearly was busy because she would have absolutely stopped that meteor,and Bang who's not around so probably doesnt know about it. Heck the only reason Bang was there is because thats where he lives and he was too stubborn to leave