Explaining the Limiter & If Everyone in One Punch Man Can Remove It

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One Punch Man - Chapter 139 - Chapter 140 - Saitama - Limiter - Garou - Awakened - Tatsumaki - Blast - God - Disaster Level - Dragon - Season 3

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[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

"I would try to romance Tatsumaki and Fubuki"

That honestly sounds like something Zhoniin WOULD do.

[AfroSamurai]

Garou broke his limiter ( meaning he has more levels to go ), Saitama on the other hand just removed every level of his limiter completely; basically Saitama hit the delete button on his entire limiter.

[robertorayoherrera]

Remember the day when wolfpup was highest.

[amanofnoreputation]

The limiter feels like just a way to lend and extra layer of grounding and credibility to Saitama's absurd powers -- It's doubtful that it has any serious implications for how anyone else could attain to his level.
Take note that the part of the story to feature this explanation also involves Saitama explaining his own limited understanding of where his powers came from. An explanation that, while funny, I intuitively understood to be a just a little too tenuous and that the joke would actually be *even funnier* and more long-lived if I could give it a gloss of reality.
The limiter was this pretext: rather than being a cumulative system where a being can simply get more powerful the more power it absorbs, like how stars simply get larger and larger as they assimilate more mass with seemingly no end (although I suppose there must theoretically be a point where the thing would just explode instantaneously) you're not actually *supposed* to get any stronger after a certain point.
So specifically because I established that limitless power is against the natural order of OPM's universe, I highlighted that Saitama's power is not just physically impossible by *our* real life standards, but by the logical heuristics of his own universe as well. Which means that when Saitama does something impossible, the astonishment the audience feels is that much less distinguishable from that felt by the characters. Even in a world with espers, tanktop martial arts, super strength and cybenetic power suits, this man's punches make no sense whatsoever.
The curse of Saitama's isolation is thereby also complete in ways it wouldn't otherwise be.

[bnmftw]

I think people keep forgetting that it never stated Saitama broke his limiter..he *removed* his limiter. Genus explained that you can break through a limiter..but a new one will be created in its place. There’s always suppose to be a peak, a limit, of one’s power, and the it’s suppose to get harder and harder to break the limiter every time it’s broken. That’s what makes Saitama so crazy, by removing the limiter, his power in theory is limitless.

EDIT: Apparently this started a debate between Saitama having unlimited power or unlimited potential and I believe Goku got brought up at some point, have fun!

[planetearth]

The thing about the limiter is garou is constantly breaking his limiter siatama has REMOVED his limiter garou will still have a limit while siatama has no limits whatsoever thats why garou was absolutely schooled by saitama garou still had a limit while siatama dident

[dhelsgade]

Take a look at this, when Saitama was
still in training, he always said that he must surpass his limit and once he's done it, he'll called it a day then roaming the city or go home, right?
He'd done this everyday. For 3 years.
3 years: 365 days x 3 = 1, 095 days.
That's basically saying he surpassed
or breaking his limiter 1095 times.
Meanwhile Garou at this time only
breaking his limiter one time only
when he fought with Darkshine.
I don't know if all the fights he's done
from like Dojo hunting, Hero hunting,
Genos, Bang and Bomb attack, Royal
Ripper ft. Bug god, Overgrown Rover,
Orochi, and 3 times getting hit by
Saitama is count as a process for him
to "break his limiter". He simply just
keep evolving and became what he
always wanted, the strongest monster.
He's simply want to become a monster
that could beat an S-class heroes with
no effort while still maintaining his
humanity. But his goal was nothing
compared to Saitama's. Saitama said
that he want to be the strongest hero
that could send a villain flying with just
one punch. His way of thinking is far
too simple just like us, maybe he was
thinking like: "If I want to beat with my
opponent with just one punch then what I should do is training my muscles, right? What should I do?
I'm not gonna go to the gym, I'm far
too broke for that, maybe daily push ups, sit ups, squats and running?
That'll do I guess. I can do it but for
how long... maybe 3 years? Aight.
Since I don't have a job and got nothing
better to do anyway. Guess after I'm
done maybe I'll look awesome and have
a better chance for dating girls."

1 and half years later: 😱 my hairrrr

Another 1 and half years later: 😑

[ian]

Romancing Tatsumaki is probably more difficult than breaking your limiter

[squirrel]

" And then, you know, on the side, try to romance Tatsumaki and Fubuki"
- Zhoniin 2021

[RighteousGrunt]

I find it interesting that Saitama being a normal guy, probably had a very low 'limit' he needed to surpass, compared to people with incredible natural talent, who would have very high limits that would be exponentially harder to reach. Once Saitama broke his comparatively lower limiter however, his power became limitless.

[Gladuos]

I don't think they'd even be able to do the surgery on Saitama in order to MAKE him a cyborg. His body would just be too invulnerable to be altered imo.

[freshfrozen]

and garou will never be a challange to saitama, infact none will ever be a challange to saitama. garou can go breaking his limiter all day and wont do shit to saitama who removed it. removing limiter is a way of the author to say "hes basically invincible, thats it, no more long ass complicated explanation needed, no power ups, no unlocks this shit or hidden power whatsoever or transform into this or that. hes invincible"

[amanofnoreputation]

Monsters don't *retain* their limiters -- they become new beings with new limiters. Implying that monsters have fewer limitations than humans but at the cost of their sanity.

[JCry-zhqo]

Maybe there's different gods on earth, the earth itself, the manifestation god, another dead god who passed its powers to the chosen defender of planet earth (bald cape guy) and the god who holds the cube. If I can assume.

[lanceresultay]

OPM: Surpassing your limiter.

MHA: You mean *PLUS ULTRA* ?

[nwheregrrl]

I have a theory that technically, anyone _could_ remove their limiter, but what it would take to do so differs depending on the character and is based on their innate talent.

So for Saitama, because he wasn't all that special to begin with (apart from his indomitable will), "all" it took was 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and a 10 kilometer run every day. That's an insane workout schedule for a normal human (not even a healthy one, in fact), but for many characters in One Punch Man, it's peanuts. However, for Saitama _at the time, _ it was right at or even beyond the limits of what he "should" be able to do, and by forcing himself to keep doing it anyway for three years, he ... stripped away his limiter altogether.

The key here is that he was consistently, unceasingly training in a way that pushed him beyond his natural limits. If I'm right, then this means that if, say, Boros had wanted to try to remove _his_ limiter, it would actually have been much more _difficult_ for him to do, if not altogether impossible, because his natural limits were so ridiculously high to begin with. Where does a guy whose ultimate attack kills planets actually _go_ to train in a way that pushes the boundaries of his limits for _three years?_

Incidentally, this would also mean that apart from perhaps Garou, Mumen Rider is also a prime candidate for possibly removing his limiter.

However, I don't think we'll see any removing of limiters at least while One Punch Man is still going. It would kind of undermine the central theme of the story (is it "One Punch Men" now?). I suspect that if it happens at all, it'll probably happen only at the conclusion of the story, as a sort of "passing of the torch."

[ramsaybushnaq]

To the guy who is, 6'5 270 lbs and hit 270 on bench: practice your form and technique and your bench pr will skyrocket once your body gets used to heavier weight especially at your size. You probably have long arms so a wider grip will help, it comes down to repetition and your body adjusting to heavier weight. Size definitely helps on bench, you could hit 405 within a year I bet

[yahirrodriguez]

This guy answered the question 2 mins in, and still made it into 13 mins

[knock_back]

yo that background beat is dope, anyone know wheres its from?

[BerdugongPipi]

In the Case of Garu, he is on the way on breaking his limiter that is why he became so very strong in his final arc. What happened is, because his strong desire to become a monster, from almost breaking his limiter, it diverts in becoming a "monster" but not totally a monster because he went back on becoming a human after the fight with saitama.

This explains the changes and forms that happened to him.