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In the last chapters of the manga,

> Genos's beam was able to deflect a beam from Orochi-Psykos fusion, who was
> able to trigger planetary scale effects with her/his beams and powers.

Was Genos this powerful in the webcomic? Was Genos upgraded as much as he was
in the manga, in the webcomic?


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Was Genos upgraded as much as he was in the manga, in the webcomic?


In the Web Comic Genos is largely [The
Worf](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/main/theworfeffect). An
ostensibly powerful combatant, who ends up becoming little more than a
measuring stick for how much stronger the new villain (or non-villain) is.
Meaning he gets handily beat up on a regular basis, and doesn't need to serve
any other purpose than giving a brutal display of how strong his opponent is.
Genos in particular tends to serve in that limited basis, doing little more
than providing exposition in addition to getting his butt whupped.

What victories he does have are generally off-screen. You may recall the
Machine God that Genos fought while Saitama tracked down King and learned the
truth of King's power. In the Manga this is a highly detailed fight where we
see exactly how Genos handles the fight and how tough it is. In the webcomic
the fight occurs completely off-screen. The manga has, subsequently,
significantly increased the apparent power of Genos, simply through giving us
more exposure to his actual successes (or even draws).

As Orochi is a Manga original character, so too is the Psykos-Orochi fusion.
We've been told by Murata that Orochi was meant to give Tatsumaki more of a
challenge than any one fighter did in the Webcomic. However, Tatsumaki does
still have certain issues in the fights that ensue after she lifts up the
entire Monster Association base in the webcomic, and Genos _does_ intervene to
help her out in that fight as well. This occurs in Chapter 71 of the webcomic.
The end result is that, while he effectively deflects an attack from a Dragon-
level threat to bail Tatsumaki out of a bad situation—much as with the manga
scene you reference—he does no real damage to anyone and immediately loses his
arms to a counterattack. While he doesn't exit the fight immediately,
attempting to continue with nothing but kicking power, he is effectively a
non-factor doing little more than providing minor distractions and expository
observations from that point on.

As a general rule, Genos does go through an upgrade cycle after every failure,
both in the webcomic and manga. This occurs when he gets repaired. The manga
has entire arcs that do not appear in the webcomic, though, such as the
tournament, as well as significant alterations to various fights. I believe
there are two upgrade cycles that are subsequently unique to the manga, due to
their preceding fights not existing in the webcomic:

  1. Goketsu. This character and the tournament arc do not exist in the webcomic. As such the bodily destruction and subsequent repair+upgrade exists only in the manga.
  2. Elder Centipede. In the webcomic, Elder Centipede is not only not fought by Genos, but is not even fought and defeated by Saitama. In the webcomic, he's bested by Garou, who takes up the fight after Metal Bat.

If we take Genos at his own word about his powers, then immediately preceding
the Manga scene you reference he says that he is now able to destroy meteors;
presumably his baseline is the meteor he failed to deal with earlier in the
story, that was ultimately taken out by Saitama. That meteor was assigned the
threat level of Dragon. In the Web Comic, however, Genos does not make any
claims about being able to defeat a Dragon level threat (meteor or otherwise)
until after his repair+upgrade cycle following the Monster Association arc
(and even then the claim seemed somewhat questionable, as he almost
immediately loses an arm to a Demon level threat, but later on he does seem to
perform well in comparison to Flashy Flash).

So the net conclusion is: he's been upgraded more times in the manga, but for
trivial reasons (more necessary repairs were added); but he seems to have been
upgraded to "one level" higher, being able to deal with a dragon-level threat
pre-MA fights rather than post-MA fights.


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