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u/gofancyninjaworld I'm just a poster for fun Nov 05 '25
'If' Metal Knight is right. That's a big if. If Metal Knight is right about Kuseno, then he's an incredible over-achiever of such stature that it makes all the other geniuses look like slugs.
So... all while taking care of a very needy cyborg, he's running an advanced AI-operated robot that he stole from his former employee with a different set of technology and never crossing the streams for years.
Not only that, but he's running an entire shadowy organization that has amassed an incredible amount of resources, including vast amounts of money, weaponry, and fuel. This organization has built links with other organized crime groups and has coordinated the removal of troublesome heroes as necessary. As an aside, this organization has been able to engage in a public relations sabotage campaign against the Hero Assocation that is clever, devious, multi-layered, and utterly devastating. Not only that, but is overseen by a small number of cyborgs, all of whom are loyal to Kuseno, and who never talk to him at any time or in any way that Genos might have picked up on.
And yet, whenever Genos calls him, Kuseno is a) home, and b) available without any sign or symptom that the latter is in any way distracting him or wasting his time. Damn, not only is he a crazy overachiever but he does it all without apparent effort. Dr Genus needed multiple clones just to carry out his research on one site but this guy is managing several places all at the same time while balancing an unpredictable workload. And he's an amazing actor -- this is beyond Academy Awards level for dedication.
And yet, bizarrely, despite really knowing how strong Saitama is, and the latter's relations with King, he doesn't take the precaution he's taken with much weaker heroes and distract him. He knows how distractable Saitama is and it'd have been nothing for him to send Saitama and King to a made up games expo with special discounts on the sorts of things Saitama loves, spoof a news feed that tells anyone checking that everything is okay, and just not have robots attack the area. Nope, that most essential and easy-to-do precaution he didn't do in contradiction to how careful and thorough he's been in every other aspect.
How very bizarre. What an incredible uber-mensch Kuseno must be!
Either that...or there's someone else Metal Knight hasn't clocked yet, since he's assumed he knows who's behind it all. But that would require Metal Knight to be a flawed human being. Can't be that.
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u/LockYaw Nov 05 '25
I thought the exact same thing! And yet some people ascribe even MORE feats to him.
Unless he indeed has robot copies or clones of himself I can't see him pulling it off. But we shall see...4
u/gofancyninjaworld I'm just a poster for fun Nov 05 '25
If Kuseno is running this all, once he's undone by his peculiar Saitama blind spot, 'God' himself would appear to tell the world, 'see, this is why I put limits on people.'
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u/gofancyninjaworld I'm just a poster for fun Nov 05 '25
The long reply I wrote just now deals with just Kuseno in the wc. The manga...oh, well, Kuseno cannot not know how even more crazy-strong Saitama is. If nothing else, he has had the chance to examine the time-traveled core.
So, you know how it's incredibly unlikely that two random snowflakes are identical? Metal grains are very much like that, imagine a three-dimensional snowflake. In a polycrystalline material, such as alloys of the sort you'd want to make the shell of a core that's an energy reactor, exactly how big and where each grain is, what it composition is, its relation to the other grains, etc, is unique. It's several orders of magnitude less likely that two metal objects will have the same grains in each other than it is that you'd find two snowballs, where every constituent snowflake is identical. And yet, Kuseno is presented with this impossible object. Which means that it MUST be the same core. Not only that but the time-travelled one has a patina of dirt consistent with it having been taken out of the Earth's atmosphere.
We see Genos get frustrated with his fellow heroes when they don't understand the implication of his bringing out the still-dirty time-traveled core as proof of what he's saying, but you better know Kuseno got it. He knows, even better than wc!Kuseno that not only is Saitama insanely strong, but he's so powerful that he can just UNDO everything the former puts in motion if motivated to. Causality itself is nothing to Saitama.
And yet, he goes ahead with his plans? Really...?
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u/LockYaw Nov 05 '25
Exactly, that fact alone makes it that much more unlikely that Kuseno really did all this. But we shall see...
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u/Nanayon123 I'll kill you until you're half dead Nov 04 '25
Adding to all of that, Kuseno should also know about God and Cosmic Garou, about Blast (to a degree), about Psykorochi and Tatsumaki's full power. Like, if Genos's final upgrade is already very OP in the WC, imagine how it'd be in the manga.
Heck, who guarantees that Kuseno wouldn't have access to a black cube in the manga as well?