Talk:Sweet Mask/@comment-26523876-20160228072021/@comment-175.137.6.237-20160724095438

Sweet Mask seems to be a very practical man in that he doesn't care what you /intended/ to do, but rather what you've accomplished at the end of the day. Looking at this, " Sweet Mask has stated that he believes that heroes are to protect the citizens, and if they can't do that, they must become strong enough to be able to do so." it's obvious what kind of philosophy he holds. At the end of the day, if you've failed you've failed. No one's going to pat you on the back and say, "It's okay, you did your best." because a hero ISN'T supposed to fail, and if a hero fails that means lives can be lost.

The reason for his critique of Genos was because he'd set a very high bar for Genos, who is not only very attractive to the public but also had perfect scores for the hero exam: the image of an ideal hero. Unfortunately, all Genos had to show were battles where he'd mostly been curb-stomped (poor guy), and it doesn't matter to Sweet Mask if the monster was just too strong because as a hero you're bound to meet stronger monsters.

And I think in the end you'd have to wonder if maybe, just maybe, he /could've/ done something had he been there. We've not been shown what he's capable of doing in the anime and even in the manga we've not been shown the full extent of his powers just yet (especially now that he's newly motivated by a very, very strong hero).