one punch man: why is the rider guy the weakest?

[Kyle Nuva]

seriously, the entire show is one big gag fest

a generic bald dude whos god tier yet isnt known at all

a generic guy in a fursuit

a generic guy with a bat

king who is this animes hercule but hes far more likable because hes no glory hogging fraud

discount gohan. the guy in the track suit
and many more

yet the rider is pathetic but is considered a hero but got his biker butt wrecked

[Rio]

Is he suppose to represent what one punch man really would be at, if he wasn't given a cheat?

Like how rock lee in naruto represents what naruto really would be, if he wasn't given demon fox powers and so much genetic and family bonuses it makes him like a god?

Where rock lee, can't do hardly much and ruins his body trying to win his first real fight. But he tries real, real hard, and life gave him nothing to make him special. And he's not smart enough to use all the ninja stuff.



I only saw one punch season 1, so I never saw him do much.

[Bomb Shot]

Rider guy is the toughest messenger. He works like a scout for the troop.

[Jackie Daytona]

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one punch man: why is the rider guy the weakest?
yet the rider is pathetic but is considered a hero but got his biker butt wrecked

I feel it is a social commentary on super heroes. As is a great deal of the show.

An ordinary man can help. But he is helpless against the big things. I think that's one of the messages the show is trying to convey. (Through the bicycle guy, specifically.)

[Fake]

Mumen Rider would make an excellent Blue Lantern.

[permanent name]

well something to think about in ONE's works is that the big bad of Mob Psycho 100 was literally the president of the suzuki motor company, who has been gathering energy to build psychic nukes since ww2.

I heard that before his works got popular and he received several major deals, the planned story arc for one punch was that the hero association was actually a sort of revolutionary power cabal similar to the utena student council. And Mumen Rider was actually a government agent sent to infiltrate the organization, as an idealistic and slightly dumb bicycle hero.

So the series makes you care for and about him as an idealistc 'everyman hero,' except he's literally a secret agent who thinks heroes are fundamentally evil. Like at their core they represent a threat to civil governemnt. And he appreciates Saitama because he's more or less a normal person, almost obsessively so, despite his power.

The Rock Lee comparison is problematic because Rock Lee more or less becomes Guy Might's equal in terms of eventual technique. His problems are simply overcome, and he becomes as or more powerful as any mainline cast character is.

A better comparison might be Ten Ten, who multiple times attempted to deliver a speech about how her weaknesses and gimmicky abilities were so cheap to use and represented such a minimal loss should she die that she sees more action on more missions than most elites do. Specifically because she's so useless that she's disposable.

Of course Japan's image of portraying every single citizen as necessarily important and unique and special is at odds with the reality of how it conducts intelligence work. And consequently the realities of how it runs its government. So this was censored, along with most aspects of Naruto which attempt to deal with the real world.

[Caldari Ghost]

Mumen rider shows that character isn't about how much power you have, but how you use your power. He is the one hero that saitama relates to as a hero, despite them being on opposite sides of the power spectrum.

[permanent name]

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Mumen rider shows that character isn't about how much power you have, but how you use your power.

he seems to resent his weakness, and saitama lies to him about it to make him feel less resentful of himself.

saitama also subtly bullies him, the same way he does everyone that's dishonest with him.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

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Mumen rider shows that character isn't about how much power you have, but how you use your power.

he seems to resent his weakness, and saitama lies to him about it to make him feel less resentful of himself.

saitama also subtly bullies him, the same way he does everyone that's dishonest with him.

tbh
aside from genos

he is one of the first few who respected saitama as a true hero

[permanent name]

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he seems to resent his weakness, and saitama lies to him about it to make him feel less resentful of himself.

saitama also subtly bullies him, the same way he does everyone that's dishonest with him.

tbh
aside from genos

he is one of the first few who respected saitama as a true hero

yeah, but when saitama visits him in the hospital he brings this whole bag of fruit and stuff and sort of acts like he's going to share with him. then eats it all in front of him and leaves him a single banana he doesn't want.

this is basically what the government does with taxes. it buys a bunch of stuff for itself, acts like it's going to give people things, then leaves them something they don't even want. this is the standard ciriticsm of all japanese governmental programs period.

if he respects saitama it's because he's placing him in the same kind of bondage that the government has placed him in. the same kind of hero-worshipping servitude, just it's the 'ideal vision' of saitama. not a working government. either way he's enthralled, powerless and in service of power. in love with his own weakness. he's kind of like that one character in mob psycho that clings to the first thing that makes him feel not-alone.

i think he reveals that saitama is actually insightful. similar to how genos reveals that he's actually very powerful. both have a hard time seeing anything but themselves in saitama, and the clarity of their connection is what makes them respect him.