Genos

“	If there was a threat that my master could not defeat, humanity would have perished long ago.	„
	~ Genos' admiration towards Saitama

Background

Genos is the deuteragonist of One-Punch Man. He is a 19-year-old cyborg and the disciple of Saitama. He is always aiming to become more powerful and he fights for justice. Under the Hero Association, he is given the name Demon Cyborg and is currently S-Class Rank 14.

Personality

• Unwavering Determination: When Genos sets his mind to something, he does it t once. Such as when he moved to live with Saitama, he stood there with all of his belongings, intent on showing his "unwavering determination".

• Admiration to Saitama: Genos without any doubt has absolute dedication to his master. Going as far as to call for complaints whenever the heroes association ever does something wrong, such as messing up his merchandise or when he was going to go off to attack a person for sending Saitama hate mail. Genos views his master as an absolute being of true heroism. Zombieman even notes that Genos really admires Saitama. Genos himself has even said nothing is more important then Saitama, showing his admiration for him even goes beyond his vegeance against the mysterious cyborg.

• Straightfoward: Genos unlike some of the other heroes, is on constant pursuit of any monster, even if his arms or legs are ripped off he won't stop fighting until he's at his opponents throats, being noted to have a "demonic" aggression.

• Vengeance: His pursuit of strength is fueled by his desire for vegeance from the mysterious cyborg who took his hometown from him. Genos notes how Amai Mask was like him before he met Saitama, having a hard heart that deeply hates evil and rushes to destroy it.

General Information

Name: Genos

Nicknames: Demon Cyborg

Origin: One-Punch Man

First Appearance: One-Punch Man House of Evolution Arc

Company: Shueisha, Tonari no Young Jump, Madhouse (Season 1 anime studio), J.C. Staff (Season 2 anime studio)

Creator: One, Yusuke Murata (The illustrator), Shingo Natsume (Season 1 anime director), Chikara Sakurai (Season 2 Anime Director)

Actor

• Japanese Voice Actor: Kaito Ishikawa
• English Voice Actor: Zach Aguilar

Sex: Male

Sexuality: Likely Asexual (Genos doesn't seem to have a direct attraction to anyone, though he does possess a great admiration for Saitama, there is not any implication of him harbouring feelings for him)

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: 15 as a normal human (Noted that four years ago he was a normal human being until he was about 15), 19 currently (Noted that four years has passed and that he is now 19, re-affirming it to Saitama, with the hero encyclopedia also confirming this)

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Formerly City Z (Moved in with Saitama), City A, Hero Association Building (Moved next door to Saitama's apartment room)

Story Role: Hero, Student

Classification: Cyborg

Species: Human

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Cyborg Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Potentially God

Occupation: Professional Hero

Ranking

• S Class Hero: Rank 17: National Superhero Registry Arc to Giant Meteor Arc.
• S Class Hero: Rank 16: Giant Meteor Arc to to Blizzard Group Arc.
• S Class Hero: Rank 14: Blizzard Group Arc to Ninjas Arc.

Affiliations: Saitama, Fubuki, Bang, Bomb, King, Flashy Flash

Enemies: Mysterious Cyborg (The mysterious cyborg destroyed Genos' home and he wants revenge), Speed-o'-Sound Sonic, Monsters, Monster Association, House of Evolution

Height: 178 cm

Weight: Undisclosed

Status: Deceased before time travel (Genos was killed by Awakened Garou), Alive after time travel (Saitama traveling through time stopped Garou before he went to attack everyone in his Awakened Garou state, preventing the deaths of everyone from his cosmic radiation)

Date of Death: End of Monster Association Arc

Alignment: Chaotic Good (Genos notes in his backstory that he has been riding the world of evil while trying to find the cyborg that took the lives of his family. Saved a little girl by sacrificing his own body when Deep Sea King shot acid at her)

Protection Level: Global Protector (S Class Heroes are considered important enough to where they're summoned to save the earth)

Codex Statistics

Key: Pre-Giant Meteor Arc | Post-Giant Meteor Arc | Post-Alien Conquerors Arc | Post-Super Fight Arc | Post-Elder Centipede Fight | Post-Monster Association Arc

Key Information

• Pre-Giant Meteor Arc: This covers everything of Genos from the House of Evolution to Rumored Monster Arc. This is before he gets his upgraded prototype arm mode.
• Post-Giant Meteor Arc: This is where Genos gets his upgraded prototype arm mode.
• Post-Alien Conquerors Arc: This covers after his fight with Monster God G4, where he uses its parts to upgrade himself and grow stronger.
• Post-Super Fight Arc: This covers after Genos' body was mostly destroyed by Goketsu, where Kuseno upgraded his body and made him stronger.
• Post-Elder Centipede Fight: This covers after his fight with Elder Centipede where he needed to upgrade his combat capabilities again, one that focuses more on offense.
• Post-Monster Association Arc: This covers after the Monster Association Arc where Genos has been powered again.

Grade: A (Easily cleared the physical exams, noting them to be easy, with it being noted that Genos passing both the written and physical test with perfect scores is a feat that hasn't been seen in two years, along with him jumping straight to S class) | A | A | A | A | A

Tier: 7-C, Higher with Maximum Gauge Incineration Cannon, Far Higher with Full Powered Blast, Even Higher with Self-Destruction | 7-C, Higher with Maximum Gauge Incineration Cannon, Far Higher with Core, Even Higher with Self-Destruction | At least 7-C, Higher with Maximum Gauge Incineration Cannon, Far Higher with Core, Even Higher with Self-Destruction | At least 7-C, up to High 6-A with 10 Second Mode, Far Higher with Core, Even Higher with Self-Destruction | At least 7-B

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Town level (Potency) (Genos caused a massive blast, resulting in a massive explosion with him being able to fire these blast out of a 500-meter radius, which gets these results. Completely vaporized the house of evolution with a blast so powerful it destroyed a part of several mountains, getting these results. Genos power was considered so great he was immediately put as an S-Class Hero, which should put him above Hammerhead who only has a B-class bounty, where his battlesuit easily destroyed a skyscraper with a single punch [[|which nets these results), Higher with Maximum Incineration Cannon (His maximum gauge incineration cannon is the incineration cannon fired at maximum output, with all guns open and firing in unison, putting its power in a different league), Far Higher with Core (His core when detatched and connected to parts such as his arms can concetrate all of his power into a single spot), Even Higher with Self-Destruction (His final weapon that will detonate and blow up everything including himself and the enemy, Genos believed this would be enough to take out Mosquito Girl after she became far beyond him in power) | Town level (Potency) (Puri Puri Prisoner admits Genos being the reason he fell to the bottom rank of S Class, with Speed-O'-Sound Sonic noting that Puri-Puri Prisoner is more powerful than Hammerhead's suit, where his battlesuit easily destroyed a skyscraper with a single punch |which nets these results. Fought equally with a Hydrated Deep Sea King. Should be stronger then before as he gained upgraded prototype arms, which concetrate the energy in the arms to greatly increase the power of the incineration canon, which he got from the parts he of Machine God G4 he took. Noted that Genos brings back parts of the enemies he defeats and uses them to modify himself, as his enemies become stronger, his evolution accelerates), Far Higher with Core (Used his own core to shoot an energy blast that uses absolutely everything that he has) | At least Town level (Potency) (Took parts from Machine God G4 to greatly increase the power of the incineration cannon), Higher with Maximum Gauge Incineration Cannon, Far Higher with Core, Even Higher with Self-Destruction | At least Town level (Potency) (Dr. Kuseno upgraded his body and made him stronger. Noted by Garou to be as powerful as Tanktop Master), Higher with Maximum Gauge Incineration Cannon, Far Higher with Core, Even Higher with Self-Destruction | At least Town level (Potency) (Upgraded his cybernetics to a new style that focuses more on offense then defense), up to Multi-Continent level (Potency) with Ten Second Mode (Deflected a blast from Psykos fused with Orochi who showcased her psychic power by shooting an energy beam that launched an entire portion of Earth into the air), Far Higher with Core (Genos noted his ultimate weapon can pulverize a massive meteor in one shot along with being able to briefly beam struggle with stronger blast from Psykos fused with Orochi), Even Higher with Self-Destruction | At least City level (Potency) (Genos has been powered up to be able to fight against dragon level threats now)

Durability: Town level | Town level | At least Town level | At least Town level | At least City level

Striking Strength: Town Class (Potency) | Town Class (Potency) | At least Town Class (Potency) | At least Town Class (Potency) | At least City Class (Potency)

Lifting Strength: At least Class 5 (Can casually rip off both of Mosquito Girl's legs, which takes about 30,000 Newtons) | At least Class 5 | At least Class 5 | At least Class 100 (Noted to be as powerful as Tanktop Master, who can lift and throw a large portion of a destroyed building) | At least Class 100 | At least Class 100

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Could easily outpace a truck going full throttle) | Superhuman | Superhuman | Superhuman | Superhuman

Attack Speed: High Hypersonic (Can tag Mosquito Girl, a monster noted for her unimaginable speeds, who should be faster then her mosquitoes, who can travel to her from a 50 kilometer radius, moving at these speeds) | Massively Hypersonic (Genos was able to move and attack so fast that Fubuki couldn't see him, who can protect Bang and Bomb from an attack from Overgrown Pocchi, where Bang fought together with Atomic Samurai, Metal Bat, and Puri-Puri Prisoner, where Atomic Samura can draw his sword and do over a hundred slashes, to where a man who can draw his sword faster than the speed of sound couldn't perceive his movements, resulting in these speeds) | Massively Hypersonic | Massively Hypersonic | Massively Hypersonic

Reaction Speed: High Hypersonic | Massively Hypersonic (Able to avoid dozens of pseudo-lasers) | Massively Hypersonic | Massively Hypersonic | Massively Hypersonic

Stamina: Limitless physiology (As Genos' body is fully cybernetic, he possesses no biological composition for him to get tired from)

Range: Standard Melee, Hundreds of Meters with Heat Manipulation & Information Analysis (Genos is able to shoot out heat blasts able to completely incinerate an opponent, with him being able to fire these blast out of a 500-meter radius), Even Higher using his full power (Used his own core to shoot an energy blast that traveled this distance), Tens of Kilometers with Ultra Spiral Incineration Cannon (His Ultra Spiral Incineration cannon traveled all throughout Elder Centipede's body who is this long)

Intelligence: Gifted Intelligence (Easily passed the written test for the Hero's Association, noting that it was so easy, being noted to have gotten a perfect score on it along with the physical tests, being a feat that hasn't been seen in two years)

Knowledge: Master level

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Cyborgization (Full; Directly noted he's a cyborg, where he can rebuild his body as long as he has the parts. His cyborg body allows him to survive half his body being melted from acid), Acrobatics (Can jump large distances, such as hopping from building to building), Radar Sensing (Genos is able to detect enemies approaching even if they're moving at high speeds. This sensor allows him to detect living organisms, fast approaching objects, high-energy bodies, and many other anomalies, making it nearly impossible to catch him off guard), Limited Cosmic Awareness (If Genos connects with a core from another timeline, he gets all of the memories from that timeline), Fusionism (Can combine his power core with another cyborg's power core to fuse together into a far more powerful being), Information Analysis (Machine Based; Genos has systems in him that allow him to confirm there was no other life within a 500-meter radius), Lock-On (Genos is able to lock on to targets with his mechanical eyes and completely obliterate them with his incineration cannons. This lock on stays on a target no matter how fast they move or how hidden they are by a smoke screen), Statistics Boost (His core can be detatched and connected to parts such as his arm to concentrate his power into a single spot), Heat Manipulation & Fire Manipulation (Genos is able to shoot out heat blasts able to completely incinerate an opponent, with him being able to fire these blast out of a 500-meter radius), Self-Destruction (Genos has a built in self-destruct orb if an enemy is too powerful for him to defeat).

Resistance to Extreme Heats (Can withstand being in his own incineration sphere, with him being able to fire these blast out of a 500-meter radius), Radiation Manipulation (Genos is a radiation-resistant cyborg)

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent, Body Control (He can extend his fist outwards with rockets to catch his opponent off guard, Saitama refers to it as a "rocket punch"), Heat Manipulation (Used his incinerate to melt the internal structures of one to make them not able to move anymore)

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent, Adhesive Manipulation (Can create an adhesive gel-like substance to trap those faster then him)

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent, Flight (Can use his jet thrusters to fly at enemies), Thread Manipulation (Can shoot out thread tendrils from his arm to trap his opponent in), Cyborgization (Full; During his fight with Elder Centipede, his body was cut in half though he is able to reconnect it back).

Resistance to Acid Manipulation (Genos was able to withstand the acidic digestive fluids of Elder Centipede where Elder Centipede staed he'd melt in seconds)

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent, Lock-On & Energy Manipulation (Genos now has beams that come out the side of his arms that can home in on targets)

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent, Electricity Manipulation & Light Manipulation (With lightning nucleus, creates a massively bright flash of light with electricity around it)

All beings in One-Punch Man have a Limiter which through trying to break it, starts granting them the following abilities:

Indomitable Will (One that breaks their limiter need to have extreme will to continue), Pain Tolerance (As they constantly need to put constant pressure on both their body and mind), Accelerated Development (Passive, Physical Stats & Abilities; Limiter Removal, allows for endless growth as there is no intrinsic limit placed on people), Adaptation (Garou has shown to increase himself to blitzing and overpowering Darkshine, who previously managed to break his entire ribcage, by breaking his limiter), Supernatural Resilience (Characters like Garou were able to survive being ripped apart and a hole in his chest), Resurrection (To experience explosive growth, one must be on the brink of death and die than resurrect).

Resistance to BFR (Forced Teleportation; Child Emperor due to his strong will, can break out of Pheonix Space), Mind Manipulation & Absorption (Psykos resisted Orochi absorbing them into them and taking over their mind through sheer will), Telekinesis (Garou with his sheer will couldn't have his movements negated by Gyro Gyro), Sleep Manipulation (Through sheer will and getting pumped up Metal Bat can resist the tranquilizing odor that made him nearly lose consciousness), Empathic Manipulation (Fubuki is able to resist Monster Princess' whip due to having a strong will where her whip can turn one into a slave), Power Nullification (Limits are meant to be intrinsic limits placed on people)

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Equipment

• Hyper Sensor: He can sense living organisms, fast approaching objects, high-energy bodies, and many other anomalies. It's impossible to catch him off guard.
• Search Eye: Once a target is locked on to, no matter how fast it moves, or how hidden it is by a smoke screen, he never loses sight of it.
• Core: At the heart of his body is his energy source, the core. When detatched and connected to parts such as his arms, he can concentrate his power in a single spot.
• Cyborg Legs: To withstand high speed movement, they have a robust design. They are also equipped with shock absorbers, reducing the time lag between landing and the next action.
• Boosters: By using the boost installed in his shoulders, he's able to achieve super ultra acceleration. The incineration cannon on the palm of his hand can be fired in the opposite direction, allowing him to change direction suddenly.
• Incinerate: The main weapons that define Genos are cannons on his arms. They fire high-temperature heat rays to instantly wipe out enemies, even from a distance.
• Arms Mode: In order to stop the giant meteor from hitting the ground, he docked with "Arms Mode", a new prototype equipment created by Dr. Kuseno. Concentrating the energy in the arms, it greatly increases the power of the incineration cannon.

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Notable Techniques

• Incineration Cannon: High-temperature heat rays that can melt iron fired from the palm of his hand. With frequent modifications, its power has increased dramtically.
  • Maximum Gauge Incineration Cannon: Incineration cannon at maximum output. With all the guns open and firing in unison, it's power is in a different league. He fires his cannons in all directions to attack a wide area at the same time. If fired, it will turn the surrounding area into a schorched land in an instant.
  • True Spiral Incineration Cannon: Genos' ultimate attack used in his Post-Elder Centipede body, he notes it is so powerful it can pulverize a massive meteor.
• Rocket Punch: He uses the boost in his wrist to send his fist flying as a punch, a new attack made possible by the new parts he showed in the battle against Machine God G4.
• Machine Gun Blows: He unleashes a barrage of punches just like a machine gun. He uses his arm boost to speed up his barrage, and his iron fists rain down like a torrential downpour, crushing his enemies.
• Boost Attack: A flying kick that uses the momentum of boost acceleration. A kick of iron that strikes at high speed and crushes the enemy's vital organs precisely.
• Jet Drive Arrow: A diving kick attack done by Genos against Elder Centipede, where he re-connects his cut in half body to and greatly enhances all of his jet thrusters in order to deliver a devastating diving kick.
• Self-Destruct: Genos' final weapon which he'll use when he's cornered to the extreme limit, is his own core, which will detonate and blow up everything, including himself and the enemy.

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Other

Standard Tactics:

• Pre-Giant Meteor Arc: Genos mainly focused on fast barrage of punches along with using his incineration beam, if he feels the opponent is too strong, he will proceed to self-destruct to take them down for good.
• Post-Giant Meteor Arc: Genos employs the same strategy though uses more thought with his fights.
• Post-Alien Conquerors Arc: Genos employs the same strategy though uses more thought with his fights, using attacks such as extended his fist out with a rocket to catch an opponent off guard, and used his heat to melt the robots internal strucutres so they could not move anymore.
• Post-Super Fight Arc: Genos employs similar strategies, though he has thrusters now that can pull him off of the ground.
• Post-Elder Centipede Fight: Genos employs similar strategies, though he can now use his ten second mode to use his offensive skills to overpower an opponent.

Weaknesses

• Standard Weaknesses: Due to being a cyborg, physical training means nothing to Genos. It takes his internal energy five seconds to charge a full power blast from his incineration cannons. Fully using up his core's energy will make him unable to move. While Genos has outstanding functionality, he doesn't have any weapons for defeating monsters as large as Elder Centipede, with his firepower being limited by his weapon specs.
• Arc Specific Weaknesses:
  • Giant Meteor Arc: His arm upgrades are a prototype.
  • Post-Elder Centipede Fight: Genos' full power can only be used for ten seconds as his body can not withstand anymore.

Note

• One-Punch Man has a weird two chapter numbering system, one based on those published in volumes and one based on the online chapters, along with the numbering being further messed with due to redrawn chapters and merges/splits, due to this it is not viable to do references to chapters, but rather through arcs.

Miscellaneous Feats

• Easily cleared the physical exams, noting them to be easy, with it being noted that Genos passing both the written and physical test with perfect scores is a feat that hasn't been seen in two years, along with him jumping straight to S class.

Trivia

• Genos likes Saitama's teachings and oiled sardines.
• Genos dislikes people who look down on Saitama and complicated electronics.
• Genos hobbies are surfing the internet, reading, and writing in his diary.
• Genos' hero name origin came from him attacking every monster with unfaltering aggressiveness, unafraid of the ciousness or disaster level.
• Genos cannot be rated by the Okame device due to being cyborg machinery with the Okame device only analyzing muscle mass, neural development and weight distribituion for overall physical strength.

Overly Long Quotes

These are the overly long quotes Genos gives that are slightly harder to read in the manga. Genos telling Saitama his backstory:

“

It all started 4 years ago. I was 15 years old and still a normal human being. Even in this harsh world, I had a pretty happy and peaceful life with my family until then. But one day, a crazy cyborg attacked our town all of a sudden. He had completely lost his mind. I guess his brain had been damaged during its transplantation into his cyborg body. He left after destroying everything in the town. The parks, the schools, the buildings, my home. Of course, my family didn't survive. Only I was miraculously spared, but as I was just a meek 15-year-old boy back then, I wouldn't have survived long all alone in the ruins of a town if Dr. Kuseno hadn't passed the town by chance and found me. Dr. Kuseno is a scientist of justice and was pursuing the cyborg to stop him. I begged Dr. Kuseno to transform me into a cyborg and was reborn as a cyborg who fights for justice. I made a promise to Dr. Kuseno to find that cyborg one day and destroy him.

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Genos explaining what he found inside of his alt timeline core:

“

It's merely a hypothesis based on the so-called parallel world or multiverse theory, but I suspect that this core came from one of the countless parallel worlds that diverged as a result of your actions. I do not know at what point this divergence occurs, when the observer makes a decision or when the observer takes action, but it has been confirmed that a new you separated from the original you at the start of your time travel, and merged with the you of this timeline when the moment was completed. The timing of the separation and merging may be a clue to the timing of when the parallel worlds split off. Back to what I was saying, in the future where this core comes from, I was killed by Garou. Even if you were holding back a lot, there is no way that you could have been defeated by Garou, no matter how many parallel worlds exist, and in fact, the events surrounding the core have made it clear that even if the worst outcome had occurred, with the death of me and all the other heroes right before your eyes, you would have transcended time and space to save us all. Your ability to transcend and manipulate the laws of causality is now proof positive of your completely flawless sense of heroism, as we've come to expect from you, master. As for the principles behind traveling backward in time, we can predict it would fall into one of the three scenarios. The first one is...

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Battle Records

11 - 5 - 3

• Mosquito Girl - Fight
  • Conditions: The fight was mainly Genos vs Mosquito Girl, with Saitama stopping her at the end before Genos would've self-destructed.
  • Location: Z-City
  • Note: The fight would've likely ended in an inconclusive as his self-destruct bomb would've taken out both Genos and Mosquito Girl if Saitama didn't interfere.

• Armored Gorilla - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Z-City

• Machine God G4 - Fight
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: City M

• Child Grizz-Meow - Fight
  • Conditions: Several A Class Heroes helped Genos fight it.
  • Location: City Z

• Bad Roads School - Fight
  • Conditions: Saitama and Genos fought them.
  • Location: Bang's dojo

• Jumping Spider - Fight
  • Conditions: Bang, Genos, & Saitama all worked together.
  • Location: City Y
  • Note: Bang, Genos, nor Saitama needed to team up to beat this enemy. They just wanted to do combo moves.

• Face Ripper - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: City C

• Awakened Cockroach - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: City C
  • Note: Roach Awakening fled from the fight at the end by sacrificing his legs.

• Elder Centipede - Fight
  • Conditions: Initially Genos, Bang, & Bomb fought off against Elder Centipede and then King & Saitama came later.
  • Location: Unknown Forest
  • Note: Genos, Bang, & Bomb could not defeat Elder Centipede and King goaded Elder Centipede to come to him so Saitama could hit him. If Saitama was not there, none of them would have beaten Elder Centipede.

• Machine God G5 - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: City Z

• Forest King - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Unknown City

• Carnage Kabuto - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: House of Evolution Basement

• Saitama - Fight
  • Conditions: A sparring match where Genos asked Saitama to go all out and keep fighting until he's immobolized.
  • Location: Unknown

• Deep Sea King - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: J-City Defense Shelter
  • Note: Genos was equal to Deep Sea King, his biggest issues being he let his guard down and he had to save a little girl from being hit by Deep Sea King's acid.

• Gouketsu - Fight
  • Conditions: Fight was off screen.
  • Location: Unknown City

• Fuhrer Ugly & Gums - Fight
  • Conditions: Bang and Genos fought together.
  • Location: City Z

• Speed-O'-Sound Sonic - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: City Z
  • Note: Saitama knocked down Genos as to avoid explosions in front of his house and to not have Genos using his new parts for a street scuffle, thus it's unknown who would've actually won between the two.

• Garou - Fight
  • Conditions: Garou was heavily injured, suffering from blood loss, and poisoned.
  • Location: Unknown Forest
  • Note: Genos was about to take out Garou but he was saved by monsters and then by Bang. Though due to Genos still having a difficult fight with Garou while he was this injured, it's heavily likely that Garou would've beaten Genos if he was in peak condition.

• Saitama - Fight
  • Conditions: This was a rematch spar.
  • Location: Unknown Area
  • Note: Genos ended the fight as soon as he threw a punch, noticing Saitama wasn't phased by his attack.