Talk:King and Saitama vs. Elder Centipede/@comment-2601:4A:C402:ACC2:D41B:E58D:7998:9A54-20181108012940

I've seen a little bit of controversy over this, so here's me trying to end it.

Some reasons Saitama used serious punch:

1) As the manga suggested, he wanted to release his pent up frustration from losing to King in video games. If you read those chapters you know how mad he was. And...that's probably all there is to it. Saitama is both a main character and a comic relief character, so this is not out of the question. Matter of fact, it fits Saitama's character the best. Unfortunately, we have peeps who don't take this beautifully simple character at face value, so here I am.

2) He doesn't know exactly how strong elder centipede is.  He knows from King that this is a monster that survived a battle with the top hero, (who he's never met, and probably believes is as strong as he is) The possibility of elder centipede escaping, getting stronger, and causing mass havoc made saitama decide to be serious.

3)Even if he was confident he could kill him, as king said, sending EC's huge body flying would cause mass destruction. He didn't want to repeat the mistake he made with beefcake, and elder centipede is far larger overall than beefcake.

4) This last reason has nothing to do with Saitama's decision making, but rather ONE himself. Saitama fighting a monster that Blast has fought (and more importantly, failed to defeat)was the perfect oppurtunity to powerscale Saitama and Blast, but ONE didnt want us to jump to conclusions. Blast failed to defeat EC, but he was trying to capture him so he was obviously holding back. Saitama defeated EC, but he was angry and aiming to kill EC from the start, so he did not hold back. ONE obviously trolled us, by giving us a cool nugget of information that we can't really figure out anything with. He does that a lot.