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Crawled out, and proceeded to become the King of Beasts.

Quote from: Cruxador on August 18, 2017, 02:55:40 am

Y'all are wrong. Saitama just does the hero thing as a hobby. He does want money and fans, but he doesn't want them super intensely. He doesn't want anything super intensely in fact, his character is largely about ennui (and isolation) so looking too hard for driving motivations is an inherently misguided method of analyzing the work.

He did do the C-class which was a lot of work... you don't really go through that unless you REALLY want to.

REALLY want to or REALLY need the money. A lot of C-class heroes (Mumen/Licenseless Rider the obvious exception) seem to treat crimefighting as a combination of job and PR opportunity.

Posting to come back later.

In "Kingdom of Loathing" those are called Oxygenarians.  If it's a thing in real life, I'm unaware.
Though I did hear from my dad about hippies who supposedly only ate "live" vegetables, and were able to reclaim water from their urine.

The 60's were kinda fucked.  Sometimes in good ways, often not.

Look up Breatharians for one real-life example. Those folks are/were nuts.

Quote from: hector13 on August 17, 2017, 08:26:23 pm

Water isn't particularly abundant in space.

O_o

Guessing hector meant "outer space". Obviously water is actually pretty abundant in the universe as a whole, but not in Earth orbit.

Well sure, but that's already obvious and kinda to be expected. You've already got a few heroes (like Ms. Mount or whatever her name is...that growing woman) that are clearly mostly in the business for prestige. But the majority of the main cast have decent enough motives, which is refreshing for me. The main kid just wants to be a hero; the "why" isn't obvious yet, but so far he's mostly just a selfless kid that wants to save people even at the cost of his bones. His probable love interest *is* trying to get money...but the money is to support her family, which isn't the worst motivation. Their friend, the speedster, wants to continue the family tradition of hero-work and has been shown to be quite caring of his fellow students.

Take One-Punch Man as a counter-example. The main character, while occasionally displaying genuine heroism, is primarily in it for two reasons: fame & fortune, and the hope of eventually having a real, no-holds-barred battle. His disciple in the beginning was all about the pursuit of vengeance (he's mellowed out a bit since then). The vast majority of low-ranking heroes - and more than a few of the high-ranked ones - are clearly in it for the money, many fleeing from danger unless they are either cornered or convinced they can handle whatever the danger is. I'm certain there are more examples.

Now, I do like OPM quite a lot, but at the moment I'm enjoying MHA for somewhat different reasons. It feels a bit more...pure, I guess.

X-10, use Winged Rapier on the Dancer!

Minimal, but acceptable. I guess >:x