#mad cyborg

[theomnicode]

Saigenos & Mad cyborg

‘I... lost…’

Genos tries to move, but it proves futile without any limbs. The mad cyborg, missing its right arm and riddled with holes in its exoskeleton that reveal its innards, points its mounted cannon arm at his head.

“You lost, boy.” The Mad cyborg states dispassionately.

He needed to self-destruct, Genos realizes. That's the only way he could still take out the Mad Cyborg. His entire body is wrecked, torn to shreds and he's unable to continue the fight anymore. He needs to end this, avenge his family and his town. His success hinges on this last-ditch effort.

He lies on the ground, thinking about his fate as the Mad Cyborg preps for a blast aimed at his head that would surely end his life. But as the draw of the curtain draws closer, one thought rises above the rest.

‘...I can't do it.’

His resolve shatters.

‘Everything I worked for and after all this, I just... I cannot bring myself to self-destruct.’

He stares at death in the face and starts to cry bitter, oily tears. ‘I’m the worst possible son. I can’t avenge them... because I found reasons for living after I finally dealt with him... I’m so sorry.’ His face contorts in anguish, black oil running down his face in rivulets and he shuts his eyes against the inevitable.

“It’s over,” The Mad Cyborg proclaims, cannon firing and blast overtakes Genos. But the pain never comes.

“Hm? Who are you?” The Mad Cyborg states in confusion.

Genos opens his eyes to Saitama cradling his prone, broken torso to his body, then gently lowering him to the ground.

“Just a hero who thought his disciple needed some help.”

Genos’ eyes flood with more tears and he chokes out words, “Sensei... thank you.”

‘For everything.’

[jaijaitbinks]

AU where Saitama came across the Mad Cyborg during his training years and killed it, unbeknownst to Genos. And later down the road, when they meet, it all happens the same way—except Saitama doesn't realize he killed Mad Cyborg when Genos mentions him.

I have not fully fleshed out this idea it only now just came to my brain-

[onecinder]

Genos vs Mad Cyborg theories

(Crossposted from reddit)

These are probably incoherent ramblings. I’ve been speculating on what could potentially happen in the Mad Cyborg arc, and what would happen if Genos were to face off against it. I’ve mapped out some pathways here.

Genos one-shots the Mad Cyborg

Even after getting the greatest upgrade, losing Dr. Kuseno and preparing years for this face-off… his new upgrade or the mad cyborg’s surprising weakness allows him to one-shot it. Then he would get no satisfaction at all from killing him, which ties in nicely with ONE’s theme: being hellbent on revenge isn’t worth it. Instead, work toward a new path—which was what Genos was doing (learning how to live like a human teenager with Saitama) before Drive Knight came along and pointed him toward MC… SCREW YOU, DK! Genos will also realise how Saitama feels about ‘ultimate power’ after oneshotting: ultimate power does not grant one satisfaction at all.

There's another thing that might fit under this theory heading: The Mad Cyborg doesn't even remember Genos. He's either too crazy to remember him, he was too mindless when following orders when he destroyed the town or in too much of a blood frenzy and doesn't remember individuals, or he simply doesn't remember Genos. This can make Genos super angry and oneshots him.

Genos goes on a rampage like MC

Dr. Kuseno faked his death to try and push Genos over the edge of sanity. We already see the cracks in Genos and Saitama’s relationship forming ocer the past few webcomic chapters. There’s no denying that Saitama just isn’t the right guy to help Genos deal with loss and just—his emotions right now. Plus, we see earlier in a panel where Genos was getting super mad after hearing about MC from DK and was about to lose control (as stated by him, too) before he saw Saitama’s face in the clouds and calmed down. So, we can conclude that Saitama is the only person (especially now that Dr. Kuseno is gone) keeping Genos sane. The gap between Genos and Saitama is growing, physically and psychologically—Genos was even disrespectful to him and sent him away. Saitama is not equipped to guide Genos through this mess of emotions and hatred that runs deep. They are not good at understanding each other or communicating on the same wavelength. It doesn’t help that Saitama has that dead fish expression nearly all the time even when Kuseno died and that he was the strongest guy but still couldn’t save him.

These guys seriously need to learn to talk things out.

The seeds were even planted all the way back when Neo Heroes were introduced and Genos thought Saitama didn’t notice him when they sparred for the second time. So I think Saitama might not be there to keep Genos in check when he faces off with the MC and as a result Genos falls into the same fate and goes mad as well. Or, Saitama could arrive just on time and save him—speak his magic, just like Amai Mask and Garou, and remind Genos of himself again.

God offers Genos his hand

It is heavily speculated and implied that God only visits those who are in the pits of despair and desperation to grant them the way out—ultimate power. Genos, even after his latest upgrade, might still be too weak for the MC and as a result God reaches out his hand to Genos. And Genos takes it. This ties in nicely with what Genos already thinks about himself (see this awesome review on manga ch. 186, Genos and Saitama’s second sparring match.)—he cannot see how powerful he’s become, only that he’s still weaker than Saitama. So even though he can easily defeat dragon-level monsters, he still can’t beat the MC, and hates himself for it (poor guy…)

Anyway, the next stage then happens—he could fight Saitama, because ultimately, all of God’s victims gained ultimate power but lost themselves. If this happens, I think Saitama would eventually save him, just like he did with Garou, but hopefully with a little more nuance. There’s no way he would kill/maim/capture his best friend unless Genos absolutely HAS to be stopped (might be talking about a bigger threat than Garou here. He’d be more uncontrollable than Garou too—Garou at least was still clinging onto a thread of his humanity because deep down inside he wanted to be a hero, but Genos… his goal isn’t to be a hero, but to take vengeance. To destroy.)

Genos IS the Mad Cyborg.

I know this theory used to circulate around a lot, but I thought i should include it here anyway because I think it’s pretty interesting. Basically, Genos was the MC all along—meaning he was the one who slaughtered his family and burned his town to the ground. I see this as two ways:

He actually did have memory of killing his family and literally everything we’e been told is fake. He used to work for The Organisation or the evil side and killed his family willingly (i would believe it was brainwashing and they wanted him to kill them for a ‘good cause’) but then had his memory wiped afterward so he now believes what he told Saitama (i really don’t believe Genos is evil though.)

Genos’s memory was not intact even when he killed his family. Dr. Kuseno/DK/Bofoi implanted fake memories in him.

So, after he realises that everything he had been striving for, dedicating himself body, mind, and soul and even sacrificing his humanity for, was a complete lie… he hates himself more than he ever had and decides to self-destruct (and just when i thought he got rid of his suicidal tendency!) lest he go on a rampage again. hopefully he doesn’t because Saitama is here to save the day… only that Saitama was sent off by him… No. I refuse to believe Saitama wouldn’t arrive on time to save him.

Genos and Saitama fight each other/face-off against each other

There are multiple ways that could’ve lead up to this point:

Genos goes mad/on a rampage and fights Saitama (I doubt Saitama would fight back, though.)

Genos takes God’s hand, gaining ultimate power but losing himself (as all of God’s victims do) and fights Saitama

Drive Knight is actually the mastermind and killed off/made Bofoi his pawn long ago.

(DK was created by Bofoi but turned against him. Is DK the MC? Was he not actually mad? Was he created to be like the MC but went against Bofoi’s wishes?)

Bofoi could have nothing to do with the Mad Cyborg or The Organisation. So far, only DK told Genos that Bofoi was his enemy and that Bofoi created him (?) and that it’s in Bofoi’s stronghold. And ultimately, we don’t really know if DK is trustworthy.

We know Bofoi’s goal is to gain control over everyone using his robots. We wouldn’t put it past him to do a test run on the MC by sending it to destroy a town—destroying EVERYONE in a town isn’t a rampage… it’s murder. Controlled murder.

It seems to me that DK is planting all the seeds here… sus.

The Mad Cyborg took God’s hand

And lost himself. That’s what would happen to Genos too.

Genos had said that even saitama may have trouble defeating MC (which is probably not true. saitama is saitama) but because of this declaration we can’t completely dismiss the fact that MC is super powerful even if Saitama could still defeat it in one punch.

Well, thanks for reading this unorganised ramblings if you made it this far! i hope Saitama comes to some epiphany during the climax and saves Genos….

[inkiedraws]

Many one piss drawings.

Not all of these are finished but they’re good enough to post.

Also to be clear,I don’t actually know how true Robin’s trivia is, i just took it from a “Fun facts about the human body” list. (But also i couldn't find anything that disputed this? Ah! So it's a mystery fact!)

Luffy and Robin 🤝 Being neurodivergent about silly things.

EDIT

It's true!! @merlions

[leidensygdom]

drow in a lab coat, what crimes will they commit-

I was in dire need of drawing The Onirist (BBEG in our campaign), because who doesn't love some puppet/puppeteer motifs! A celestial meat computer will do that to you. We are now at the doors of the fight with them and I sure hope we can pry them out of there safely.

[robraeinnevermore]

he started as a joke but now he can’t stop

(pt 2 I guess)

[matchavtea]

and if i said hes hot

[badjohnspeakeasy]

Genos: All is forgiven, sensei!

Saitama: Good! Y'know, patting Tatsumaki on the head worked too.

Genos: ...Don't talk to me.

Saitama: WHAT? What'd I say?!

Genos: ...

Saitama: GODDAMMIT

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[theomnicode]

do you think the mad cyborg is still alive/out there? do you think kuseno was at all involved with the mad cyborg prior to meeting genos? somehow i feel that the parts of the story we dont know about are sinister in some way..

It would be quite underwhelming if the mad cyborg was already done and deal with, seeing how it's the entire reason for Genos begging to be turned cyborg. So I doubt that's going to happen, mad cyborg is definitely alive somehow, somewhere.

We really don't know enough about the mad cyborg or Kuseno's involvement in the business to say for sure, but the old man wants nothing but good for Genos, so despite his past and mad cyborg being both shrouded in mystery, Kuseno is probably not involved in anything untoward regarding the mad cyborg.

There's definitely something sinister afoot, that's for sure and I have wild theories but nothing really concrete. Perhaps Kuseno was involved in the creation of the mad cyborg and he wants to atone or something, perhaps he knew the person who turned mad under cyberneticization, perhaps he knows who's guilty of creating mad cyborg but he doesn't want to say because it would send Genos into another revenge quest...plenty theories that Genos IS the mad cyborg too but just doesn't remember it...

My most wildest theory because of visual Starcraft references in the drive knight and Genos fusion part during Psykorochi fight is that Genos is one part of the mad cyborg that was separated into drive knight, him and some other robotic parts and mad cyborg would've been some kind of hive mind type of cyborg. And when you think about it, Genos would make a terrifying hive mind type of adversary if we went the evil Genos route with the mad cyborg saga.

But unless we're here for the underwhelming conclusion of Genos and his entire cyborg life, Mad cyborg is definitely out there somewhere in some form and not a done deal yet.

[veveisveryuncool]

If you're still taking art requests:

What about Chuchu and Susie hanging out? They're both cute pink girls and I think they deserve to be friends.

im not actually doing official requests right now but i got the exact same anon months ago so. this one goes out to all the Pink Girl Enjoyers out there 👉👉

[iliterallydecepticanteven]

Teen Titans 03 AU where Robin mentions offhand that they're getting their funding through Wayne Enterprises and all their gear from Wayne Tech, on behalf of Robin being Batman's sidekick. Cyborg and Beast Boy are confused and suspicious about this and ask Robin point blank why Bruce Wayne, extravagant billionaire playboy and long time eligible bachelor, would be funding them, especially since they aren't in Gotham.

Without missing a beat, Robin replies, "Because Bruce Wayne and Batman are dating. Everyone knows that."

(This is obviously a lie and a running joke Robin has with Alfred but the Titans wholeheartedly believe it. They even tell other people about it and before long Bruce is getting asked by Gotham tabloids if he is actually dating Batman. Bruce is not amused at all.)

[tiecladartist]

So between Vander to Warwick, Viktor to Machine Herald, and Powder to Jinx, season two is definitely going to have an underlying theme of becoming a "Monster" (in quotations because I'm just going off of the "monster you created" vibes, but more accurately it'll be exploring a permanent loss of self, or finding one's true self/freedom in a form not typically accepted by others. Even the cities have been transformed from what they were before due to traumatic events beyond the control of the people affected).

I am very excited for this.

[sunshinies]

hi!! I'd like some mad scientist (title only) and cyborg / android names and titles ^_^ thank uuuu

I wasn't sure how best to go about cyborg names, so here's the titles instead!

🧪 Mad Scientist themed titles

Prn who creates life , the deranged doctor , the one who experiments , the dreaded one , the surreal surgeon , the sawbones , the demonic doctor

🤖 Android / Cyborg themed titles

Prn of the wires , the cybernetic , prn of the neural network , the man-made , the man-made machine , the machine with a heart

[somequeeralien]

✨Another task for college yay✨

This time teacher asked us to draw worries of our close one. I chose my friend Nana and lots of her thoughts

[emubugg]

Something of an updated ref for him (i am slowly becoming deranged)