Talk:Bakuzan/@comment-95.247.127.49-20170404215004

At the very least the guy had one redeeming quality: he didn't overestimate himself (except against Saitama, but come on, almost everyone does that) and in the end he could recognize that Suiryu was stronger than him and even admitted his own shortcoming (note for author or translator: what Bakuzan felt towards Suiryu is "envy", not "jelousy")

As for Bakuzan eating every cells and saying it's stupid, well, of course after we see the side-effects it's easy to say, but no one had a clue about it before he did it. He was not just trying to get more power with more cells, but he was effectively trying to make sure Suiryu wouldn't change his mind and, in a desperate act to save his life, swallow a monster cell as well.

If you look at it in a in-character perspective (and not as a reader, duh), what he did was not stupid, it was immoral yes, but for the information he had, it was his best shot at getting out of there alive and as the strongest one as well.