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Why does Tatsumaki have so much power reserve than any other psychics around
her combined?

> In the manga series she is seen to be concentrating more and more as people
> of the Hero Association leave the building and finally blasts off with her
> power towering more than Geryuganshoop and Orochi combined.

I just want to know how is it even possible?


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Why does "Tornado of Terror" have so much power reserved in her storage?


The origins of her powers are presently unknown, so in that sense that's all
that can be said about your question. She's known to have had them since a
young age, if not since birth. Her sister also has exceptional power, but
Tatsumaki's is just so ridiculous that she puts it to shame. So possibly she
is just the winner of the psychic genetic lottery. We do know there is some
organization that was trying to engineer and refine psychics, ultimately
including Tatsumaki, but to date Tatsumaki's connections to them are not known
to predate her childhood.

As a storytelling matter, the entire character and power level of Orochi (and
Orochi-Psykos) were specifically designed to challenge Tatsumaki. In the
original webcomic, Tatsumaki is never really challenged at her full power
during the MA arc, and she still pulls the entire base up from underground
with barely any effort and tries to take everyone on by herself. Instead she
gets hit with a cleverly orchestrated sneak attack that gives her a
concussion, which significantly dampens her power. At the very least,
Tatsumaki herself blames everything on it, rather than anyone actually having
adequate power to oppose her.

For the manga version, Murata and One decided that Tatsumaki needed a more
proper challenge and a more breathtaking display of her power. Hence the
Orochi-Psykos fight and all the ridiculous stuff Tatsumaki does during it.
This also serves to help them introduce a number of elements about Tatsumaki's
backstory and motivations earlier than they are given in the webcomic. It also
elevates the concept of a "God" level threat from unrealistic bluster and
exaggeration to plausible. As a matter of storytelling tautology, a "God"
level threat must necessitate the world be able to sustain and produce heroes
of great power to oppose it, and so a Tatsumaki like entity is an
inevitability.

Back to the in-story reasons, the best we can do is conjecture, as there are
quite a lot of questions about Blast, the nature and origins of his power, and
what exactly these cubes are he's collected and who the "him" he says it
connects to actually is. These mysteries seem to be going down into the very
roots of the nature of this world, and may be near cosmic in profundity (and
so make the idea of a "God" level threat potentially more than just bluster
and exaggeration), so any further revelations about them may similarly reveal
the reason that certain heroes, Tatsumaki and Blast in particular, exist and
have so much power.


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