Hi everyone I'm Jack Red, I was there for the premiere of Lobo vs. Ghost Rider episode. A few minutes ago, I watched during the crazy fast chat was going. Someone suggested a surprisingly interesting fight I had to cover. I am talking about Saitama versus The Mask. Two very different broken character types going at it.
The Mask
Keep in mind, a lot of people with not as many animals has wore this mask. Among putting it on transforms the user into a living cartoon being. Essentially the user can do virtually anything they want. There isn't that many limits for what they can't do either. Just imagine a god like being or Deadpool on a ridiculous among of drugs.
Saitama
Saitama was like everyone else until he too became a victim. It was this day, he chose to do his regular exercises that turned him into a powerful being. We are talking about the famous one punch man himself. He is widely known for defeating powerful beings with ease. In short, there isn't anything he can't do.
Powers and Abilities
The Mask
Regularly I list as their abilities & powers here. To be honest, The Mask as stated earlier can virtually do anything. Therefore at best instead of listing a lot of powers like normal. I will just state the character much like those with any lantern corp rings from DC can do even impossible things. Trust me the actual list would've made this already lengthy blog a lot longer than it needs to be.
PS. I could name around twenty maybe more powers alone for this character. You are welcome, I hope you enjoy my prediction blog.
Saitama
+Superhuman Strength
+Superhuman Speed
+Superhuman Reflexes
+Superhuman Durability (already more ridiculous than your standard anime durability)
Weaknesses
The Mask
Those wearing the mask instantly becomes insane. Their imagination could play a factor in what they can do. Sometimes does stupid things on purpose. The Mask by default is not much of a strategist. Some boundary reality laws to a degree must be followed.
Saitama
Saitama doesn't have any real training for combat. He's holding back to make any fight a bit longer. Originally a human does require oxygen. His main method of attack is his fists. Saitama doesn't rely on using anything else in a fight.
Advantages
The Mask
+Has way more powers
+Possibly able to know anything
+Superior speed (one of them traveled the world within a second)
+More unpredictable
+More likely to attacks due to insanity
+No clear limits in what they can do
Saitama
+Superior durability (not much of a gap though)
+Superior reflexes
+His punches are ridiculously powerful
+More of a strategist out of the two
+Could trick or convince the user into taking off their mask
+Likely to handle even the worst The Mask can dish out
Disadvantages
The Mask
-More careless out of the two
-Some reality warping has laws they must follow to a degree
-Insanity
-Must be the user that takes off the mask
-Saitama likely durable enough to tank anything he throws at him
Saitama
-By default is holding back his true strength to prologue any fight
-Relies on only using his hands during combat thus lacks a way to kill The Mask
-Although he is human, his body still requires oxygen
-Isn't able to prevent any knowledge given to The Mask
Verdict
This fight could easily end in a draw. But on Death Battle, someone has to die. So unless a fight similar enough to Chuck Norris vs. Segata Sanshiro happens soon. The most likely draw you are getting is both of them dies. In this particular case we essentially have the unstoppable force versus the immovable object.
Saitama quickly done exercises every day until he was strong enough. Thus he quickly gain the reputation of One Punch Man. A guy who can defeat almost every opponent in a single punch. Even if he doesn't, he usually wins anyway shortly after that. Even to this very day, Saitama never match a real challenge.
On the other hand, The Mask is whoever wearing this mask gains the powers of a Norse god Loki. Essentially transforming anyone into a living cartoon character. Virtually capable of doing even the impossible relatively easy. The Mask is capable of doing whatever they want. At the same time, they only have those said powers as long they are wearing the mask.
Saitama did exercises to the point he became an insanely powerful character. By default, he would be more dangerous. Despite some characters flaws, Saitama doesn't appear to have any physical or mental weaknesses. In fact, he does have some resistance to mental powers. The Mask is insane the moment the user puts on the mask.
Sure in some ways The Mask will be more difficult to predict. But also likely to do what is expected as well. Even if I limit this to one particular person who wore the mask. Very likely going to be Stanley Ipkiss in this case. His level of creatively being higher than most who wore the mask still isn't enough.
We're talking about a guy who won a fight inside a black hole. Obviously this alone proven he was meant to be one of those comical characters that can do anything. Even if it can't truly be explained at all. Which brings me to the most likely win The Mask needs to do. Saitama is still a human being despite how ridiculous his stats truly are.
Thus Saitama does require oxygen to survive. Clearly his lungs are amazing to survive inside a black hole. The one place in the universe it's virtually impossible to breath. This also means unless The Mask can create something greater than a black hole. His options are strictly limited in this regard. Saitama isn't going to lose that way.
But due to his usual fighting style of only using his fists. To clarify, he really does pack an insane level of force possibly greater than the biggest recorded bomb in mankind's history. There is two ways anyone wearing the mask can die in canon. First way is through beheading with a weapon. You see almost everything else that hits around his neck isn't effective.
By using a sword or spear, it is possible to bypass those powers to cut off the user's head. There are some smaller proofs of this like in the movie, A gun shot went through his bow tie cutting right through it at an unusual angle. The piece that was on the ground turned back to normal. Originally I was going to make another point about a time limit the mask works on any of it's users.
It turns out the night to day rule doesn't exist mostly in the comics as well as the cartoon. This simply removes a possible scenario where Saitama could win. Now going back to the beheading part for a moment. There is some examples where some of the users got knocked into things & being fine. One such example is Walter punched the character's head through a wooden fence.
To clarify I'm not stating Walter to Saitama by any means. The real point is any force done to any part of the body is pointless. Saitama can't punch The Mask's head off as soon as the fight starts. So his only real option to win is either convincing or tricking the user to removing the mask. By doing so removes all of those powers.
Last I checked most users that wore the mask doesn't have any real powers. Within that one quick moment Saitama is going to take the user out. I think they're the closest in speed alone. Saitama obviously has superior overall reflexes while The Mask can go a ridiculously fast around the world. In theory, The Mask has superior speed but Saitama has fought a bigger variety of enemies.
Most of what The Mask takes on not counting crossovers is regular people. Now I know some people will really blow that point away without consideration. Saying stuff like "Oh that's telling me is The Mask really isn't much of a threat at all? To clarify something, The Mask does have a ridiculous amount of powers.
Hell they could warp reality to a degree. But the user needs to understand how to go about them within those laws. Just imagine if the character could simply ignore it altogether. No body including gods wouldn't be safe. Clearly we got two insanely powerful characters that have some great advantages over each other.
Saitama is without question the raw force you shouldn't get in the direction path of. The Mask is more of the very definition of randomness as well as insanity. It is kinda mess up that Saitama has to manipulate his opponent into throwing in the towel in order to win. Although Saitama is a surprisingly nice guy despite how the other heroes treats him.
Basically to sum it even further without people losing their minds over a surprisingly complex fight to the death. Saitama himself is incredibly durable tanking insane level of force. This also will cause The Mask to become more desperate. Trust me, you could be seeing some truly mess up stuff in this particular fight you probably won't see ever again.
The Mask has so many powers that not even the user can keep track of them. This in itself could also act as a double edge sword. Saitama could figure something out to use that to his advantage. This is going to be one crazy battle regardless where it takes place. But in the end with every major scenario imaginable, I just see Saitama winning that one particular way.
Winner: Saitama
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