

In One Punch Man manga chapter #167

> Saitama and Garou have a fight in Io, the Jupiter satellite, where there is
> no air

Do Saitama and Garou have superhuman hold breathing capabilities, or no need
for air at all?


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Do Saitama and Garou have superhuman hold breathing capabilities, or no need for air at all?


Implicitly: Superhuman hold breath for Saitama, at least; put possibly a
greater power.

Why:

> In Chapter 168, after a fairly long (by Saitama standards) battle on Io,
> Saitama eclipses Garou entirely and emits a Serious Sneeze. A sneeze strong
> enough to travel all the way to Jupiter and blast away its atmosphere enough
> to expose its core (and wreck most of Io and send both of them flying away,
> seemingly in excess of escape velocity of Io and Jupiter). This would
> require a massive amount of air, which Saitama must have simply been holding
> onto this entire time. This even despite no apparent effort being made to
> actually hold his breath or to in any way stop air from escaping his body.

The ridiculous part:

> Indeed, without attempting to actually calculate it, I would hazard the
> guess that the effects on Jupiter would require well in excess of the entire
> atmosphere of Earth to have been ejected during the sneeze. If so, perhaps
> the answer isn't Super Hold Breath, but rather Super Create Air: he produces
> whatever air he needs to do what he wants to do it, or an effect equivalent
> to it. So he wants to talk, so he has enough to talk; he wants to sneeze or
> fart prodigious volumes and velocities, and he produces enough to do that.

For Garou:

> In his cosmic form he is said to have connected to the means of producing
> all forms of energy in the cosmos. So he could create breathable air for
> himself on the fly through, say, nucleosynthesis (Big Bang style if need be:
> create tons of energy, condense it into air molecules). He could also simply
> create all the side effects of having adequate air on the fly: he can create
> the soundwaves to talk, he can just give his cells the energy needed without
> relying on chemical reactions, stimulate his nervous system to send the
> "yep, we're breathing just fine" signal, etc.

Combined conclusion for Saitama:

> Combined with Saitama's ability to grab and manipulate dimensional portals
> at will like some sort of Looney Tunes character, as well as his ability to
> evidently "mimic/copy" Garou's power so well he can achieve a time travel
> ability Garou could not, which itself explicitly involves control at an
> atomic scale at least, I would conclude that even "Super Create Air" is
> underselling what Saitama is doing. He seems to instead have a "Do whatever
> I want" reality-bending style of power. He's limited (upwards at least;
> maybe there's a floor on how weak he can be) only by his conception of what
> he could do if he wanted to: he doesn't fly because he doesn't think that's
> possible, but he can fart with impossible control to achieve space travel
> along precise paths; he doesn't think he can time travel until Garou insists
> he can by just mimicing him (which he says is actually Saitama using God's
> power without being connected to or corrupted by God). He's too focused on
> dealing with Garou after Genos's death to realize he should have problems
> breathing (or even being able to talk at a distance), so he has no such
> problems as he defaults to "duh, of course I can breathe, doesn't even
> require me to think about it to do that", etc.


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