#Dr. Bofoi

[gofancyninjaworld]

Polling day

New art from ONE.

Looks like this world takes universal enfranchisement very seriously. Everyone's voting, except the kids, who are looking on approvingly.

As good a parable as any. If you can, do.

[no1monstersimp]

Cyborg Theories (Webcomic Spoilers)

I've been thinking about the latest chapters of the Webcomic and it had me thinking of something dark. What if the robots that are loose are Bofoi's, BUT he isn't the one controlling them. What if Bofoi is already dead? It wouldn't be far fetched the cyborgs who killed Kuseno would also kill Bofoi so he won't get in their way. I have a feeling Drive Knight is trying to get control over the association and Bofoi is in his way, because he's actually good but has a weird sense of justice. In the manga Drive Knight goes out of his way twice to harm people, Genos and Sekinger. Though Sekinger can be up in the air because we don't have proof he was lying about not being able to help. That cyborg's timing was way too convenient for him, G5 even says that himself.Now I just wonder what he wants with Blast, maybe he needs him out of his way aswell.

Something that catches my eye aswell is when Phoenix Man is talking about the hero association he puts Drive Knight in the "killer machines" category with Metal Knight(an actual robot) but excludes Genos from the category and doesnt talk of him at all. Sometimes I think Drive Knight is a machine similar to the Metal Knight and is being controlled by someone else, just like how G5 could have been aswell.

Looking at the manga, there is a part where Genos brings Kuseno parts of the cyborg he destroyed and his reaction caught my eye. He starts to sweat and looks nervous. I feel like he knows more than he's letting on, he's probably not evil, but perhaps he made mistakes in the past.

Im excited to see if we'll get more clues from Phoenix man about some things.

[divisionull]

HappyHalloween🎃

I always appreciate that his headless dullahan form is canon. Speaking of canon, the latest webcomic update was really surprising. ONE sensei uploaded an image to promote voting recently, and there's Dr. Bofoi on it. Still, it's all unsettled who is in the background, so I'll keep believing heroes' justice minds.

I came up a phrase in Japanese drawing this. 菓子せしめし騎士頭無し It reads "Kashi seshime-shi kishi kashira nashi". I thought it's full of rhymes. However, I couldn't translate well. The phrase means "The knight who coveted treats was headless".

☝︎I also tried to draw some other costumes: Lance dullahan, hippocampus and reaper remake(not here). I'd like to reuse these idea maybe sometime later.

[theinternetisaweboflies]

Kaiju Flicks and Shrimp Chips by girlinstory

Saitama was expecting Godzilla.

He was expecting fuzzy science, epic kaiju, and a lot of municipal damage. He was expecting shrimp chips and Pocky. He was expecting a lighthearted movie night with his roommate.

He was not expecting Genos to cry his refuse-ducts dry on Saitama's seventh favorite hoodie.

Saitama sighed and started rummaging around in the pocket of his cargo shorts.

The kid sure cried a lot, but if anyone deserved to cry, it was probably Genos, so Saitama just started carrying hand towels instead of handkerchiefs. Today's towel was Doraemon.

He passed it to Genos, who started mopping up the oil that was streaming down his faceplates.

It looked a little like Genos was one of those girls in the TV Doramas Saitama surfed past sometimes, whose mascara had started to run because they were crying over their ex-girlfriend's twin's cousin's ghost or something. It looked a little pretty.

Saitama shook his head, as if it was an Etch A-Sketch and he could physically remove that thought.

"Is it 'cause they made Mechagodzilla a cyborg?" he asked.

Saitama had been surprised by that particular plot point as well. Mechagodzilla had been around since the Showa Era. When he was introduced in the 1974 film Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, it was as a robotic superweapon created by simian aliens to aid in their conquest of planet earth.

The newer stuff was… different. For one thing, Mechagodzilla had been given a name. Kiryu, short for Kikai Ryu or metal dragon. He was created by the Japanese military, using the skeletal remains of the first Godzilla, all that was left behind after the Oxygen Destroyer's detonation in 1954.

There was a scene where Kiryu had a freaking flashback to his own death.

Genos had stiffened beside him, and the kid was usually pretty stiff in the first place.

He hadn't spoken though, so Saitama didn't mention it either. Genos didn't speak- or start crying (probably)- until the credits rolled on Tokyo SOS.

Saitama had been planning to save the second movie for another night, or forget it altogether, since it was probably bringing up some bad memories, but Genos had immediately switched it in and hit play.

Saitama thought about saying something then, but still, Genos was silent. Like, unusually silent. Maybe that meant he didn't want to talk. Saitama could understand that. Some things were better processed with kaiju flicks and shrimp chips.

Apparently not this though.

Genos nodded minutely into Doraemon.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"Mechagodzilla was not a functional weapon," Genos hiccupped.

"I underst- Wait." Saitama cleaned out his ear with a pinky. "What?"

"Mechagodzilla was not a functional weapon."

So he had heard him right. "That's… what's bothering you?"

"He malfunctioned because he was too traumatized. He kept having flashbacks and either going on a rampage or committing suicide."

Saitama tried to ignore the squirm in his intestines at that last word. He'd wondered sometimes about how Genos could talk near constantly without once mentioning his future after killing the Mad Cyborg.

"Genos, what are y-"

"It reminded me of something Metal Knight told me once," said Genos, in a rare interruption.

"The other cyborg?" Saitama had been trying to remember the names of all the S Class heroes because apparently the short one didn't like to be called that.

Genos was the only one he got right with any regularity.

"No, sensei, Metal Drive is the other cyborg. Metal Knight is Dr. Bofoi, who provides a significant amount of the Hero Association's weaponry in addition to his S Class duties."

"Oh, the one with all the body armor?"

"Correct, sensei," said Genos.

"Well, what'd he say?"

"That cyborgs are an inherently flawed idea, because anyone damaged enough to require substantial body modification is too damaged to be trusted with it."

After the minute or two it took him to figure out what that meant, Saitama immediately developed a very strong urge to give Dr. Bofoi at least a semi-serious punch.

He also felt himself flush with anger, which would usually bother him, because it always made people look at the top of his head, but Genos was too busy crying again.

"Yeah, well you're not damaged enough to say something like that," said Saitama. "I bet Dr. Bofoi wasn't hugged enough as a child. That explains all the armor. Intimacy issues."

Genos gave an oily laugh.

"Or maybe it's just because he looks like if Colonel Sanders was actually in the military."

That earned him a snort. Saitama vaguely wondered if Genos had boogers, and if they were made of oil too, but he wasn't damaged enough to ask.

"Forget Dr. Buffoon," Saitama said, casually switching over to an old magical girl anime he'd caught Genos glancing up from his notebooks to watch on more than one occasion.

Genos had enough nightmares as it was for Saitama to suggest rolling out their futons despite the late hour.

"Like he has room to talk," he went on, opening another box of Pocky. "You're a way better hero than he is. You'll outclass him in no time if the HA has any idea what they're doing."

Genos was steaming slightly. "Th- That is not true, sensei! It is you, who will- I'm not even-"

It was Saitama's turn to snort. "It's pretty hypocritical of you to be this bad at taking a compliment, Genos."

Genos steamed even harder, but at least he wasn't leaking anymore.

[gofancyninjaworld]

We have had the anagnorisis, where Genos sees his situation all-too-clearly. So we're set up for the peripateia, that moment of reversal of fortune. The signs all point to Dr Bofoi being as guilty as hell, and yet... we have a horrible sense that a massive miscarriage of justice is about to occur.

Blue being knocked flying by Saitama is a hell of an oops, but it just may be the best thing to have happened. We have to wait and see.

Drive Knight not bothering to bring his box but apparently robot spotting does seem very ominous. Like he's just watching a plan come together.

We really need to see what happens next. ONE has this pot on the boil!

imagine he kills boifoi right before realizing that he wasn't the one responsible for it (like if drive knight shows up and tells him the truth) Dude has to deal with Kuseno dying, Saitama not being perfect, murdering an innocent hero (sorta), and being manipulated by drive knight ( who I think is the mad cyborg)

ONE's definitely setting all this up for SOMETHING 👀 and whether it's to manipulate Genos' emotions into blowing up on an enraged warpath doing a terrible mistake (like how Saitama almost seriously punched out Blue in the heat of the moment...yikes!) then...hooboy;; Genos will have been dealt a really shitty hand in life...That said, what IS up with Drive Knight?! We saw him there, suspiciously observing the robots commencing their attack on the cities without doing anything and HMMM 🤔🤔 gah! ONE we need more answers! I'd say ONE's completely got our attention here to see what happens!

[mugiwara-shuenobi]

[gottahaveguts]

wholesome? (not including the last message one year ago thing)

[theomnicode]

I swear to fucking god...

If all these people are somehow related I swear-

Same hair, which is receding for Dr. Bofoi and short for him and Bang, same hairline for both Blast and Bang, same large nose for Kuseno, Bofoi and Bomb but the downward angularity and nose bridge is more prominent in Bang, Garou and Blast. Same mustache for Bang and Blast and same short bangs in the front (hehe geddit) and Bofoi, Bang, Garou and Blast all share the wild eyebrows while Kuseno and Bomb's eyebrows are less wild. Same high cheekbones are visible for Bofoi, Kuseno, Bomb and Bang and Blast and Bang share the same chin too. Bonus points for Bang having the same hair colour as Blast and Garou getting a similarly coloured hair as Blast once he got into spiral Garou form. Young Bomb also has the same goatee as Blast but managed to get different flowing hair, unlike everyone else's spiky hair.

Bonus image for more obvious hairdo comparison:

Inb4 Blast is actually Bang's illegitimate grandson and this whole fight was a family feud type of deal. Bang's actual heir versus the person Bang wanted to make into his heir.

And that would make Garou Blue's cousin or something if Garou's parent is related to Blast.

Idk the family tree might be frikken wild. I'm gonna take a wild guess it's not all natural genetic relations. Bonus points if Genos is related to Genus and there's been a lot of gene manipulation thrown around.

I sense a certain arc is going to be a blast. If this family tree is gonna get super messy.

[iwillgetridofyourangerforyou]

cyborg king lol

WEBCOMIC SPOILERS!! 

Cyborg HC: King

There are two reasons King hasn’t already gotten Cybernetic enhancements. The first is that he’s so well known as he is that getting cybernetic enhancements would spark a huge controversy and give the poor guy even more of a headache. The second is that King is actually kind of poor and unconnected. Sure he knows Genos but Dr. Kuseno wouldn’t give just anyone cybernetic enhancements, I’m sure it actually took a fair bit of convincing to get Dr. Kuseno to agree to offer Saitama an enhancement as simple as hair implants, and Genos can be quite persistent. 

Tangent aside, King has a massive problem to deal with and he has to deal with it asap. He’s taken an enormous risk in the webcomic by asking a fair number of fellow heroes to train him. So far he’s had no luck.

Let's assume he gets really desperate and starts considering cybernetic modifications as an option, finances aside, I think he’d be open to considering them to help him ‘get strong’ like Saitama suggested. I don’t think he has anything against cyborgs. However, this is a big decision and I think if King took a critical look at himself, his situation, his skill set, and his temperament, he might come to the wise conclusion that cybernetic enhancements aren’t necessarily his best option. Although he has an intimidating appearance his body is quite weak, and he’s not skilled in weaponry or combat, he’s cautious (or cowardly depending on how you look at it), he’s the type of person who might become a liability in the thick of a battle. It would be ignorant to suggest that King is witless but he strikes me as more of a deep thinker than a fast thinker. He excels with the time and space to refine himself and study good strategy. 

So, no, I don’t think King would get Cybernetic enhancements for himself. But I also don’t think he has any problems with them. It’s just not his style. 

So, what might be a good option for King, hypothetically? 

Let's consider two other characters that wield immense power in the world but are comparatively physically weak. Dr. Kuseno, and Bofoi. 

Whatever you might think of these men, both are arguably genius engineers and while King seems to be more of an artist than a scientist at heart he could always learn if he showed any interest. He wouldn’t have to be a genius engineer to effectively wield technology. If he teamed up with someone like Bofoi who builds neat robots for King to control from a distance King could be pretty kick-ass. Better yet if he took an interest in building his own. Dr. Kuseno could use an apprentice I think even though their specialties are a bit different their life philosophies don’t seem entirely incompatible. 

Here is the challenge. It doesn’t matter how hard King trains, I have a hard time imagining he’ll be able to become as people assume he is fast enough to avoid people finding out the truth. I don’t think King will be able to grow as a character as long as he is unwilling to let people challenge their expectations of him. If he took a route similar to these reclusive inventors it would absolutely change people’s perceptions of him for better or worse. 

It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out. 

[gofancyninjaworld]

'I Don't Want To Cure Cancer' OPM Edition

With apologies to Spiderman.

Let's go round and interview a few scientists in OPM, shall we?

Us: Dr. Bofoi, we can't help but notice the extraordinary speed with which you cleared City A and erected a new headquarters, all at a small fraction of the cost that would have been expected. Beyond that, we notice that your capacity to build at scale is unparalleled. With so many people losing their homes to monster attacks and other disasters, why don't you take the next step and cure homelessness?

Dr. Bofoi: I don't want to cure homelessness. I want to bill the Hero Association for every Yen I can get. I assure you, it's going to a far more important cause. Actually, more importantly, how did you get in here?

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Us: Dr. Kuseno, your endeavours in supporting the hero Demon Cyborg are truly extraordinary. Once people thought the dream of near-infinite clean energy from nuclear power to be a pipe dream, yet you appear to have solved this problem in an incredibly compact and robust way. Why don't you use your technology to cure energy shortage and usher in a new industrial revolution?

Dr Kuseno: Lol, I fear you may have mistaken me for someone with lofty ideals. I don't aspire to anything as grand as a new industrial revolution. I don't mind doing the odd good deed, but my aims are far more simple: I want to develop a killer cyborg through whom I can pour out the fullness of my burning rage against my enemies.

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Us: Dr. Genus, you have not only understood the rules of life far better than any person but have rewritten them entirely. With your army of you, there are few fields that you do not have a purview of. Perhaps the most amazing thing you could do would be to harness your ability to clone flesh indefinitely to cure world hunger and stop the depredation of the natural world to feed humanity. How about it?

Dr. Genus: Starving is about all the unimproved mass of humanity deserves. I have no interest in curing world hunger. I just want somebody intelligent enough to talk to. Pause Which you most certainly aren't.

[que-yang]

We've seen villain!Genos, but what about a forced villain Genos AU?

Since his mind is his own, but his body is a complete machine, it could be easily manipulated by some hacker or technologic genius (seeing the webcomic, Dr Bofoi would fit pretty well this role)

So Genos loses control over his own body while still being completely conscious of his actions and with no choice but to watch the city fall and citizens die by his hands

wow... genius

It sounds will be a extremely pain to genos.

My brain keeps running after watched your prompt! Maybe I will try after my busy time ended!Xp

[handlewcaare]

How S-Class respond to being followed by paparazzi:

• 🌪Tatsumaki🌪: She straight up ends up levitating the paparazzi upside down until he passed out from blood loss. She’s never been harassed since then

• 🌊Silverfang / Bang 🌊: really isn’t a popular guy to follow, though he’s rather clever in keeping astray from the paparazzi.

• ⚛️ Kamikaze Samurai⚛️ : the type of guy to go deadass slice a camera in several different pieces that is so clean, the surfaces stick together if you press hard enough. That’s just a nice way of giving you a warning.

• 🤖 Child Emperor 🤖 : He usually tries to blend in with a group of kids to keep the paparazzi away from him. He also knows how to crypt a camera with a little gizmo that essentially destroys the lenses.

• 💩 Bofoi 💩 : I wouldn’t want to follow him. He’d probably be the one to spy on the paparazzi and give threats about disclosing their dark secret

• 👾 King👾 : people are usually too intimidated to try and follow him. He’s also quite hard to find, considering the paparazzi will linger at gyms, high-prestige places filled with monsters for him to show up.

• 🧟‍♂️ Zombieman 🧟‍♂️: usually doesn’t care until they opt to be an ass, then he straight up pulls a Keanu Reeves and steals a paparazzi’s camera before bolting with it. Motherfucker ran for miles around the cities laughing like a mad man:

• 👁 Drive Knight 👁 : DON’T.

• 🐷 Pig God 🐷: Probably just snatched that shit and devoured the camera right in front of them. Deadpan and all. He made sure to make it as obnoxious as possible so they heard their paycheck being crushed between his teeth. He probably did it out of spite when an adult was following CE—you know, a child?

• 🩲 Darkshine 🩲 : Too nice to destroy cameras, but he would politely request that they not follow him around. If they ignore him / tell him off, he’ll just pick them up by their collar and leave them in a tree before resuming what he was doing.

• 🐶 Watchdog man🐶 : honestly doesn’t care. Probably sits still atop of the little post he’s perched on and doesn’t answer questions.

• ⚡️ Flashy Flash⚡️: too quick to interview and even get a decent picture of. Don’t even bother to try and sneak up on him because he WILL destroy your camera.

• 🔥 Genos 🔥 : usually could give less of a shit. It’s only when they start getting obsessive / actively and physically harass Dr. Kuseno or Saitama—hell, even a civilian—that he will pull a Björk and throw your ass down into the concrete. Ever wondered what it was like being decked by a cyborg? Well, now you know:

• 👊🏼 Saitama 👊🏼: Snatches that camera out of your damn hand and crushes it in the process “what the hell are you doing, stalking people like that?” You immediately resign from TMZ

• 😤 Metal Bat 😤 : WILL beat your ass. He doesn’t care if you’re with TMZ or a blog. He doesn’t even destroy your camera, he just gets ready to wreck your shop, especially if you’re taking pictures of Zenko. You better believe you’re gonna have to write a will before you try to take photos of him. You, also, immediately resign from TMZ

• 🎽 TTM 🎽 : Is probably the most diplomatic out of the class, though he won’t tolerate you actively harassing him for a picture. If his words of caution don’t get to you, his squad certainly will and they will barricade you with their tank top power to keep you away / leave their master alone—or Mumen Rider for that matter. It would exactly end in the same fate as that bully from Mob Psycho with the Body Improvement Club:

• 👼 Puri Puri Prisoner 👼 : Not only will he take your camera, but you’re part of his prison harem now. No backsies. This is your bed and now you gotta lie in it.

[berubestgirl]

look at child emperor’s last conversation with dr. bofoi

[flaresanimedump]

When Metal Knight, Bofoi, turns out to be Dr. Bofoi Kuseno, when that very same man is found to be behind the massacre of Genos' family, when his body turns out to be Dr. Kuseno's own personal laboratory for the creation of the best possible cyborg to unleash upon mankind, the best possible weapon against Saitama, Genos, at first, rages. He tears down the earth upon which Metal Knight has stood, has worked, has lived or existed long enough to leave a mark. He makes sure the memory of Metal knight is as desolate as he feels. And Saitama leaves him to it until there's nothing left but rubble, watching silently with a crease between his brows. But once it's done, once all that remains is the agony of having been so thoroughly betrayed and Genos himself, Saitama at last intervenes in his spiral of destruction.

"That's enough," is what he says, calmly, because even though it will never feel like it, it is. "You can stop now. Listen, all this...it's bad. But you've got lots to live for outside revenge." He holds out one gloved hand to Genos. "Let's go home."

"My home is gone." Genos snaps bitterly. The anger and hurt swirling in his chest have nowhere to go, nothing to do but scour him inside, and his words sound quiet under the mechanical hum of his overworked engines.

"What? Did Buff Boy wreck the apartment building or something?" Saitama asks. "Our home, Genos."

That's what it takes. Our home. Reality douses him in cold clarity, washing away the still-burning rage and leaving nothing but regret and longing. Saitama is watching him, serious but with something in his eyes that's trying to assure Genos it's all going to be ok.

"I...would like that, Saitama Sensei." Of course he doesn't understand. Saitama knows no fear anymore, and it would never occur to him what Genos knows he has to do. "But there's still one thing of Bofoi's left in this world. This body he gave me is dangerous. I can't guarantee he hasn't backed his own mind up somewhere inside me, or written protocols to override my brain in his absence. This, Bofoi's greatest weapon, must be destroyed."

"...Can you live without it?"

"No." There are other doctors, but Bofoi was decades ahead of them all in his research, and the only one who had as yet been able to connect directly to a human brain.  

Saitama crouches in front of him, and Genos finds every lost inch between them a comfort. "Then don't worry about it. If any of that bad stuff happens, I'll stop you."

"I can't ask you to kill me, Sensei. You're too kind for something like that."

"You're right, you can't. I'll just knock you around a little and find somebody who can fix you up. That little kid with the spider backpack seems clever."

"I could do something terrible, I could hurt you-"

"You can't hurt me."

Genos hadn't meant injure. There are other ways to hurt Saitama. Detonating his core in the heart of city Z after Saitama had promised to stop him was one. Bofoi was more cunning than Genos, he would have thought of dozens more and worse, and he can't let them come to pass.

"You're right," says Genos, activating his self-destruct protocol. "I can't hurt you, Sensei."

Saitama's widening eyes light up with the overheating glow from his core.

"Will you stay until the end?"

[the-nysh]

Saitama before (wc140) when asked to accompany Genos to infiltrate Metal Knight’s (Bofoi’s) facility right now:

‘Ah...wait, no not right now; I have other duties and need time to adjust my schedule...’ 

Vs Saitama after (wc141) once he’s seen just how urgent and tragic the current situation really is:

‘Alright, we’re doing this right now.’ No fuss, hesitation, or second guesses about rearranging time in his schedule anymore, because aside from his own plans, shifting focus on supporting Genos right now is what’s most important.

Not only is Saitama responsibly keeping his promise to the late Dr. Kuseno that he’ll ‘take care of Genos’ for him, but Saitama’s also faithfully keeping his own word to be there for Genos in his time of need:

So good job and thank you, Saitama! For putting on the reliable, serious hero face and above all else, choosing to be there and prioritize fully supporting Genos in this. :’)

[mugiwara-shuenobi]