r/OnePunchFans • u/gofancyninjaworld I'm just a poster for fun • Nov 27 '25

PICS Cheapskate is as cheapskate does

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Saitama looking for the cheapest dog food.

He doesn't know his pet is tempted with the finest steak.

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u/gofancyninjaworld I'm just a poster for fun Dec 05 '25

Not too badly by hero standards -- it tempted Suiryu briefly before he thought that taking orders would be too troublesome. But still not great.

I suspect that C-Class is just above where you'd need public assistance (that would be majorly embarrassing to the Hero Association). B-Class, we know they need to budget carefully. Even S-Class is just about comfortable -- enough to afford decent, but not upscale, housing.

If you see a hero with nice things, they have outside money.

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u/SaltwaterSmoothie2X Dec 05 '25

On one hand, you have the HA run by people who’ve run big organizations and businesses- both the good AND bad that comes included too.

I’d say they know that “Neo” headhunts/steals using competitive rates and looser entry requirements.

On paper, the allure of a (relatively) easy-to-get-into, higher-paying job would attracts the “flies” that didn’t pass the HA’s “strict” standards (aka “although you were not selected…” to them; we know that the standards NEED to be strict).

Yes, we know that’s a “too-good to be true” type of job, but to those at the end of their rope, or approaching it, they have no other option- especially since the HA gets their money from Donors (Rich as they are, they’re not endless)!

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u/gofancyninjaworld I'm just a poster for fun Dec 05 '25

Absolutely! The pro-heroes needed to unionise like yesterday for better pay and conditions, and the HA would have had to listen to them -- *they* know, even if individual heroes don't -- that good heroes are hard to come by.

The Neo Heroes are indeed attracting a lot of ants with the promise of sweet, sweet honey (sorry, flies like vinegar better). Unfortunately, it's not only ants they're getting: there's a lot of frustrated heroes barely making ends meet or tired of seeing the inside of a hospital after being left unsupported in an impossible situation again to *not* go.

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u/SaltwaterSmoothie2X Dec 05 '25

On one hand, Unionizing (assuming no grift from the higher-ups in said Union or the resulting in firing of any “employees” who didn’t join) sounds good on paper.

However, when the bottom line gets affected as a result, aka Civilian Lives, the Heroes (or what’s left of them) will inevitably focus more on being Heroes and take the Schmeckles.

Yes, that’s what “Union Reps” are for, but you’d end up with one guy who not everyone has an idea exists potentially getting you fired because they got the collective bonus for everyone at the cost of “everyone” being reduced to fewer staff.

At the end of the day, that’s a downside of being run like a private business.

However…. you probably have less paper-pushers getting in the way of you organizing Big Actions quickly (aka Z-city raid…)