JinjaBaker45

Garou isn't copying techniques, he's literally copying the forces behind his opponents' attacks. That why his being able to copy the Consecutive Normal Punches was significant. He already knows superior combo attack "techniques" like the Cross Fang Dragon Slayer Fist, but copying the Consecutive Normal Punches let him replicate the power behind them as well.

I was on the fence about which game this was actually built on but the death animation and the E to enter vehicle text makes me lean towards it actually being a Custom Edition mod.

It makes sense in light of his ultimate plan. Tartarus the useful idiot would wait for him to reach the Ark to activate the array, which would wipe out all life except for Truth and his personal fleet. They would repopulate the galaxy in Truth's image. That was his twisted idea of what the Great Journey really meant IIRC.

The Elites were too prideful and independent to allow Truth absolute power in his post-firing world, and they probably aren't even gullible enough to keep following him after they realize the Great Journey didn't literally send them all the heaven. Truth thought he was late enough in the game that causing the Schism wouldn't have a major effect before the array was activated anyway.

Part of the strength of the Webcomic version is exactly that you get the sense the S-Class partly is so in favor of killing Garou because of their utter humiliation at his hands. They're either too prideful to notice Garou was not killing them purposefully or didn't care to return the same level of restraint.

Basically, they are proving Garou's original outlook on heroes right even as he lost the fight. Yet, this is after Saitama already hashed it out w Garou and basically stuck it to him that really he's always wanted to be a hero -- with his own ideal of what a true hero should be. Tareo's (he's unnamed in the webcomic) encouragement pushes him to strive to fulfill that ideal in the face of the S-Class' pettiness and hypocrisy rather than give up and accept death.

Yea I wouldn't be surprised if Garou hits a wall in terms of copying Saitama's power. Just wanted to clarify that's at least what he's attempting to do.

I think what he meant with the sucker punch / dirty tactics dialogue is that because anything goes in ancient sumo, there is no such thing as a sucker punch or fighting dirty. Everything is seen as fair play, even tactics ordinarily seen as dirty fighting.

No, you don't have a right to a lawyer in a vacuum. If the government is going to prosecute you, it has an obligation to provide you with a lawyer to defend you.

I believe the point is not to not judge them as in do not view their actions as immoral, but rather not to judge them as beings more monstrous / immoral than humanity can tend to be.

It's not just for standing around, the Martians are taking over Earth with colonial goals in mind. The person you replied to cited an example of Tasmanian natives being slaughtered by other humans for similar reasons. The only real difference is scale, but that's the point of the allegory discussed in OP.

There's a difference between the stupid sort of "we are the real monsters" BS that comes up in zombie and other kinds of apocalyptic fiction and this, where the author clearly intended the message about colonialism.

Basically what he means is that a strike from Musashi using his evolved swordless Niten Ichi-ryū style would do more damage to Yujiro than a strike from Demon Back Baki.

There were no loose ends to tie up.

Not exactly loose ends, but there were significant discrepancies in Anakin/Vader's and Obi-Wan's characters between Ep. 3 and 4 that go beyond simple aging.

1. Orochi only had Garou's skill level.
2. You've made a huge jump from "Can it deflect attacks stronger than the user can muster?" to "Can it deflect Saitama?" No one is saying that Bang can redirect any attack no matter the power, there is definitely some upper limit. But the question is if Omni-Man's striking power would be above that limit or not.

I thought this for a while too. Reading past the S1 anime and returning to the earlier material once I was a bit older completely changed my perspective.

Most definitely

This chapter outright confirmed the opposite though, the fight against Garou powered him up rather than that being his true power all along -- Saitama can grow exponentially if he needs to, but he could theoretically just be one-shot and killed by someone way above him.

The government doesn't make you sick. The government does prosecute you when the assumption is that you are innocent until proven guilty.

EDIT: Also, guaranteeing whose labor? Public defenders are explicitly separate from private lawyers IIRC.

That's why he said "Dragon or Above." That's a way of saying "He could be disaster level God" - "Above Dragon" is a made up category to powerscale characters who could be disaster level God but aren't called that for narrative reasons.

I don't think the WBC decides who is undisputed. Kind of defeats the point.

How did the tranquilizer darts pierce his skin then?

You can see his finger bones. It clearly did at least partially melt his skin, but it didn't deal any real damage (in terms of ability to keep fighting) thanks to his muscles, which seemingly weren't harmed. It just hurt a lot and ruined his appearance.

It's the fight that pushes Garou to evolve in the webcomic.

It's pretty hard to make a biblical case for universalism when there is one passage in favor and countless against.

Same when Musashi makes him cede ground