liketolaugh-writes:
I have a theory now for how Saitama got his power and it’s ‘Saitama accidentally did to himself what the Weapon X program did to its subjects’
Like you can say that his training program wasn’t that intensive but when you remember that he had like no money, thought a banana for breakfast was enough, and did not step himself up gradually, yeah I can see why he was spitting blood and it’s because he was straight-up starving himself, man was burning SO many calories that he did not have
So yeah he stress-activated his own meta gene
And no one understands it because the OPM world is in fucking shambles and no one has figured out exactly why some people develop powers and some don’t (aka they haven’t discovered their version of the meta gene yet)
I feel that this theory is sound and holds up to scrutiny
Canonically, this is ALMOST true.
There’s no such thing as a meta-gene in-universe. However, if you’re obsessed with a thing? That will make you stronger. We see this over and over again in the other heroes (and villains).
What happened to Saitama is however a bit unique, because (as described by the many-clone-guys later on) Saitama “broke the ceiling”.
Basically, Saitama did something impossible, and since he was too obsessed to fail, reality as a whole just kind of… gave up on holding him back. So now he can just keep getting stronger, forever.
Now, what did he actually do in order to “break the ceiling”? Simple. Saitama who’s just starting out decided on an exercise-regime that he physically cannot do. And then he did it anyway.
That’s it. Nothing more than that.
Instead of adjusting his exercise to fit him, he works himself to death and then doesn’t die.
Which is so ridiculous that nobody in-universe believes that he did it like that.
