Talk:Goku vs Saitama/@comment-30810718-20170802080759/@comment-30810718-20170802132759

Who said that scene was funny? I didn't. Unless I blacked out, wrote you, then woke back up some time later with no memory of it. I mean, it is, because killing someone for someting as petty as noise in a comedy series like One Punch Man is comedic, but you didn't hear it from me. Threatening to kill isn't killing. Hadn't killed anyone before. That's why I say he's not in the business of killing people: It's not a habit.

The entire point of Saitama is that nothing can hurt him and he defeats his enemies without trying. We don't know his limits in either terms of durability, since nothing has even punctured his skin or broke his bones, or his limits of power output since nothing close to his strength has appeared in the series. So, going off of that, I said 'I THINK' it'd be a draw. Not it defintely would be. It's personal opinion based on the trends in OPM and Dragonball: Saitama being unbeatable and facing stronger and stronger enemies he overcomes without trying, and Goku getting increasingly, exponentially stronger to face enemies he couldn't previously overcome at what was his strongest prior to leveling up.

On the topic of ongoing series characters never showing full potential: That's a bit misleading. Goku has shown, constantly, to face enemies he couldn't beat even at his full power at that point, until he trains up and breaks past those limits. Naruto, Luffy, Ichigo, even non-animanga characters like Superman or Spiderman, and other protagonists in ficton do much the same. Not Saitama, though. No one has come close to forcing him to push past his limits. Which is the entire point I'm making. His strength is certainly beyond his feats, so his feats are pointless to compare other characters with, making every Saitama match-up a waste of time.

And yes, you could interpret that as me saying 'Saitama VS' match-ups shouldn't be made until we get a real handle on what his full output is.

Him getting scratched by a cat and being unable to kill a mosquito are very relevant, actually: They prove the entire series is a parody. A joke. Much of what is done is for comedic effect, including Saitama's calmness in the face of a world-destroying alien, or him getting angry that he missed a sale becuase he misread a calendar and lashing out on the giant beetle dude. It doesn't mean the entire series has to be funny. There are serious moments, like Genos recalling how he became a cyborg. Comedy is just the main purpose.