#ive seen a lot of people talk about how weird and morally gray saitama is

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wait so garou loves tareo a lot. he’s super protective of him and always come in at the very last second to save the kid. garou is very oblivious to his protective nature over the kid but we can all see just how much he adores him. ergo, when cosmic garou finally sees tareo dead on the ground, he loses all his motivation to become evil. garou finally sees what destruction he’s brought about and hates it. he goes so far as to turn back time to prevent this terrible future.

on the other hand, we have saitama. he also clearly cares about genos. he’s constantly worrying that genos has gone and gotten himself destroyed in some way or another. like garou, he’s oblivious to how much he cares for genos. like garou, he always shows up to save the day at the very last second but unlike the self-proclaimed villain, he shows up after genos has already been hurt and the villain has destroyed most of everything. when saitama sees genos dead on the ground (parallel with garou’s experience with tareo later, which is not at all a coincidence), he doesn’t look at the destruction around him and try to think of a way to save everyone or fix the situation. saitama goes on a rampage. he destroys jupiter and jupiter’s moon, almost blows up earth without hesitation, and becomes so antagonistic that he looks like a villain (shaded face, large eyes devoid of empathy).

the only reason saitama doesn’t kill garou is because tareo requested him not to. saitama was completely, wholeheartedly ready to take a life. he didn’t think twice about the destruction he’d brought about on earth or on jupiter. he had gained a sense of purpose: to avenge genos. and it seems that he had no limitations on how far he would go to follow through with it. garou and saitama had two very different reactions to the death of the person they were clinging to (and i love it).

in summary, garou is a self-proclaimed villain with heroic tendencies while saitama is a self-proclaimed hero with villainous tendencies.

#this may be super obvious but i just wanted to talk about it lol #ive seen a lot of people talk about how weird and morally gray saitama is #and i think this certainly adds to it #garou my sweet baby <3 #he stopped becoming a villain and saitama stopped becoming a hero LMAOOOO #they are each other’s opposites #opm #one punch man #opm spoilers #one punch man spoilers #saitama #genos #garou #saigenos #genosai