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A 2009 [[webcomic]] about a bald guy.
Saitama is just
The truth is, One-Punch Man isn't a serious story. It's a comedy and a parody of both superhero comics and fighting manga.
Written and self-published by ONE. A remake of the series, drawn by Yusuke Murata (of ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' fame) debuted in 2012, bringing an incredible art upgrade; this latter version was the one from where the character design for the 2015 [[One-Punch Man (anime)|anime]] adaptation came from.
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* [[All a Part of the Job]]: Saitama losing his hair, he feels is all part of the job. "Train hard everyday until your hair falls out."
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* [[All Aliens Have Superpowers]]: All monsters and aliens introduced seem to have some form of power beyond a normal human.
* [[Ass Pull]]: The words of wisdom Saitama says to Genos. He ''does'' say some wise things, but he's secretly just making it up on the spot.
* [[Ass in Ambassador]]: Saitama always tries to convince his foes to stop or surrender, but if
* [[Asshole Victim]]: The villains don't tend to get much development for us to feel the least bit sorry for them when Saitama punches them.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Saitama tells people the exact way he apparently got his powers, but no one ever believes him.
* [[Badass]]: Many characters like Genos and Tornado are incredibly powerful and cool; in terms of power they are still little flies compared to Saitama.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Several of the heroes are seemingly normal human beings, such as Mumen Rider, Tank-Top Tiger, and even the S-Class hero {{spoiler|Metal Knight, who is actually just a seemingly normal human with high intelligence, but the bodies seen by the public are all robotic drones he sends out}}.
* [[The Beast Master]]: Mosquito Girl can controls so much mosquitoes that her insect swarm is a very serious threat by itself.
* [[Calling All Heroes]]: The Hero's Association works by recruiting heroes of all sorts into their ranks in order to organize and dispatch them to deal with threats as they come up.
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Everyone does it. Even Mumen Rider. {{spoiler|Hell, even ''Saitama'' does it a couple times when he isn't using his most basic punch.}}
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: The giant brute in the chapter three of the webcomic.
▲* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Saitama Vs... Well... Anybody.
* [[Exactly What it Says on the Tin]]: One-Punch Man. He's a dude, and all his foes tend to die from a single punch. {{spoiler|Which makes it that much more special (both to him and the reader) when someone actually survives more than one punch from him.}}
▲* [[Dumb Muscle]]: The giant brute in the chapter three of the webcomic accidentally kills his brother because he was told that Saitama was on his shoulder...but he don't even asks whic one, hitting the one where is his brother and killing him instantly.
* [[Exactly What
▲* [[Exactly As Planned]]: Saitama wanted to become a super hero, and he got everything he wanted... Except that he became ''too'' strong and has begun to lose touch with his humanity.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: People tend to address heroes by their "hero names", such as "Tornado", "Metal Bat", "Metal Knight", "Tank Top Tiger", "Mumen Rider", and... "Caped Baldy".
* [[Fanservice]]: Of both female and male variety, thanks to Saitama's clothes being as not resistant as him and Tornado's permanently exposed thighs.
* [[Fanservice Costumes]]: One of the characters' "costume" is a prison uniform, which he sheds when he unleashes his full power and proceeds to fight nude.
* [[Flat Joy]]: Saitama's expressions are this, especially early on.
* [[For the Evulz]]: A lot of the villains have pretty much no back story or character development whatsoever, so their reasons for being evil and doing what they do tends to boil down to this. Justified though, because from a writing perspective, what's the point in developing a bunch of villains if they all end up dead from a single punch from the main character?
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* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: Saitama's body and especially his fists. Any villain that shows up may be strong enough to give the other heroes trouble, but not Saitama.
* [[Jump Scare]]: Saitama pulls one off on a moleman bad guy from the House of Evolution, seconds before he punched him.
* [[Kick
* [[Look Behind You!]]: Saitama gets into fights with many people who show off their power, fighting skill, and speed. Saitama dwarfs them all and pulls this off a lot. Even Genos has it happen, and he nearly crapped his pants when Saitama seemed like he was going to punch him at "Kill Force".▼
▲* [[Kick The Dog]]: The villains LOVE doing this to everyone and anyone, and usually for no reason whatsoever than [[For the Evulz]].
* [[Made of Explodium]]:
▲* [[Look Behind You!]]: Saitama gets into fights with many people who show off their power, fighting skill, and speed. Saitama dwarfs them all and pulls this off a lot. Even Genos has it happen and he nearly crapped his pants when Saitama seemed like he was going to punch him at "Kill Force".
* [[Mole Men]]: Appear in one of Saitama's dreams, where they're trying to destroy mankind for Earth's resources, saying that's a matter of survival and only one of the two species can survive with the resources Earth have.
▲* [[Made of Explodium]]: Things that Saitama punches {{spoiler|enemies included}}, seem to be made of this, but that's not true. Instead, it's just that his punches are that strong.
* [[No Sense of Direction]]: Saitama gets lost a lot it seems, hence why he ends up taking so long to respond to some of the catastrophes and monster attacks that happen.
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: Saitama's defining trope, as described in the page introduction.
* [[Peace Through Superior Firepower]]: Part of the logic behind some of the actions of the members of the Hero's Association. {{spoiler|Metal Knight seems to believe in this, although he never quite seems too into the "peace" part.}}
* [[Prophetic Dreams]]: Saitama dreams of [[Mole Men|creatures from the underground]] invading the surface, with the invaders finally giving Saitama the fight of his life and the one he always wanted. He then meets them almost immediately after, but sadly they aren't as strong as they are in his dream, and Saitama easily forces them to surrender.
* [[Quick Draw]]: Genos' equipment transforms and fires pretty fast.
* [[Rank Inflation]]: Saitama starts out as one of the lowest in the C-class heroes, but due to {{spoiler|his capture of Sonic and destroying a giant meteor, he gets to near the top of the C-class ranks very quickly - to the point that some of the other heroes think he was cheating his way up the ranks and taking credit for the works of other higher ranked heroes, leading to them beginning to spread rumors and wrecking his reputation}}.
* [[Rank Up]]: The Hero's Association uses a class and rank-based system which lets heroes move up the ranks by performing heroic deeds.
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* [[Something Something Leonard Bernstein]]: The theme song is mostly in Japanese but [[Gratuitous English|has a little English]].
* [[Terrorists Without a Cause]]: Many of the monsters or villains that appear in the series have little to no reason, much less something close to justification for all the pain and suffering they inflict on people.
* [[Ungrateful Townsfolk]]: Played with. Two heroes manipulating [[Gullible Lemmings|a bunch of plebians]] into blaming him for the damages to their home lives is the primary example. See below. But this is the common norm for most to all citizens whom generally have no real care for heroes to start with. Case in point, even though it was purposeful on Saitama's part. A number of people he'd saved from the Sea King all sent him a bunch of hate mail calling him a fraud.
* [[Veganism and Vegetarianism]]: Tanktop Vegetarian from ''[[One-Punch Man]]'' has an [[Meaningful Name|expository name]].
* [[Victim Blaming]]: {{spoiler|Tank-Top Black Hole and his brother Tank-Top Tiger turned the citizens of City Z against Saitama after he got moved up the ranks for destroying the meteor (which also ended up damaging much of the city). They thought Saitama was cheating to move up the ranks, but he DID destroy the meteor. However, he felt being blamed for the meteor at all was stupid since it was the meteor that destroyed everything, not him, so if they had a problem, they should take it up with the damn meteor}}.
* [[Won't Work On Me]]:
* [[World of Badass]]: To the point where there's an entire hero organization, and even it doesn't necessarily contain every hero of their world.
* [[You Again]]: People seeing Saitama tend to forget him, until after they see him in action doing what they deem impossible.
* [[You Can See the Explosion from Orbit]]: "Serious Punch"
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