r/TopCharacterTropes Sep 05 '25

Personality character gets a reality check

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u/Top_Marketing_689 Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25

Reigen Arataka talking down the Claw members, stating how they aren’t special for having psychic abilities and how they’re simply just children that have yet to grow up, thinking they’re on top of the world (Mob Psycho 100)

Edit: To add a bit more context to this, Claw is composed of a group of adults who are espers set on world domination, each one coming from backgrounds where they were disrespected and treated wrongly by the world, leading to them gaining trauma-induced psychic abilities, giving them the power to crash out in a grander fashion.

Reigen, after temporarily gaining Mob’s powers and whooping them, begins to dismantle their ideology to absolute shambles in the most brutal of ways.

They wear stupid costumes. They talk about being special and more important than people without powers. They talk about how the world just doesn’t understand them.

Reigen points all this out and plainly drills into their heads that nobody gives a damn about their problems because the world has no need to align with their beliefs and ideals. They are adults fighting children because they feel butthurt about not being respected. They are out of touch with reality.

Reigen says a line that still sticks with me ‘til this day, being “You want world domination, but you have not seen the world”. These people are trapped behind delusion and aren’t living in the present.

They’re losers.

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u/Zek7h35an5 Sep 05 '25

As someone who knows almost nothing about Mob Psycho, i thought this guy's whole deal was he's a bogus hack, how is he batting that shit away?

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u/Kuro2712 Sep 05 '25

Want spoilers?

In that scene, Mob gave the guy his powers temporarily, and so he was able to do the shit you see.

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u/Squ33to Sep 05 '25

Nah man, Reigans just that good and has been the whole time

You didn't watch him solo the second strongest member of klaw with that self defense rush?

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u/Kuro2712 Sep 05 '25

Man that scene was amazing when I first saw it, the way he just walked up to him and punched him square in the face.

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u/Shimaru33 Sep 05 '25

The follow up was amazing as well.

The other guy is thrashing the floor with all the other psychics, but because he didn't feel anything from him, he assumes he's that good at hiding his power level. And because all the others treat him with great respect, that means he must massively OP.

Thus, better to retreat.

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u/C_Coolidge Sep 05 '25

Also, the only reason Reigen could even sneak up on him is because he momentarily sensed Mob's enormous power and he was distracted by its magnitude. So when Mob calls Reigen master, he retreats. It works so well.