Tatsumaki
Tatsumaki is a female anime and manga character who features in One-Punch Man.
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Biography
Tatsumaki (Japanese: タツマキ, Hepburn: Tatsumaki; Viz: Tornado) was a female human born in the modern age where she was the older sister of Fubuki. Her psychic abilities eventually led to her being taken away from her adopted family when she was 7 years old by scientists interested in studying her powers. Her parents were said to had been given money for complying whereupon Tatsumaki was tested on by the scientists because of her extraordinary powers. They rewarded her with candy and toys for cooperation but denied her requests to go outside. Moreover, the scientists locked her up in a cell whenever she would not use her powers. Around 18 years ago, when she was 10 years old when a monster outbreak occurred while she was still locked in a cell leaving her alone to fend off the monster. Luckily, Blast managed to come to Tatsumaki's rescue. He then introduced himself to the young esper and questioned her on why she didn't use her psychic powers to save herself. Tatsumaki answered that her powers weren't working, but Blast realized that she was lying because she held it back so that the scientists would deem her useless and let her go. Tatsumaki admitted this, due to being heartbroken by her parents for selling her out. Blast also somehow realized that Tatsumaki still had her little sister, giving her advice not to expect anyone to save her next time, and be strong to protect her only family.
Tatsumaki visits the Z-City branch of the Hero Association to see if she can investigate the restricted area of Z-City. However, she is informed by Busho that she didn't need to come, since the Association thought that an S-Class wasn't necessary for the job. She leaves, calling Busho an idiot. Later, after both Golden Ball and Spring Mustachio return badly injured, Tatsumaki is enraged and yells at the worker saying she should have gone. The worker shows her a picture of the destruction, saying even she might have had a hard time. Tatsumaki tells him she could handle it then calls him an idiot again. Tatsumaki is sent to the mountains by plane to fight the Ancient King, only to be called back to the Hero Association HQ by cellphone, which angers her greatly. She quickly ends the fight by sending a meteor crashing down on the Ancient King. Tatsumaki later meets Saitama at the Hero Association HQ due to Bang inviting him to the Hero Association S-Class meeting. She becomes indignant at his presence, asking who let Saitama in, pointing out that he is a lower-ranked hero, and accusing him of only coming to the meeting to see the S-Class heroes up close. A perplexed Saitama mistakes her for a child and asks if she is lost, prompting Genos to explain her identity. Genos observes that most of the S-Class heroes have arrived and goes to take his seat, causing Saitama to ignore her, much to her chagrin. Upon the meeting's inception, Bang asks what the heroes were called to the meeting for, to which Tatsumaki states that she had to wait for two hours without hearing an explanation.
During the alien invasion of A-City, Tatsumaki prepares to set out to engage with the enemy and their aircraft. Because of King's moniker of "The Strongest Man on Earth", fellow S-Class hero Superalloy Darkshine asks for King's opinion on how to deal with the spaceship, but King states that they can't do anything due to the ship being too far away. Tatsumaki deems this answer pathetic and decides to take down the spaceship alone, rudely declining Genos's offer to assist. At the site of the heroes' engagement with Melzargard, the aircraft of the Dark Matter Thieves fires cannons towards the ground in an attempt to eliminate Bang, Atomic Samurai, Metal Bat and Puri-Puri Prisoner, only to be intercepted by Tatsumaki, who redirects them back at the aircraft. In the midst of the battle, Tanktop Master attempts to help her by throwing concrete blocks at the enemy, until he realized that Tatsumaki's psychic ability can do more than Tanktop Master could ever accomplish on his own. The spaceship eventually falls, though she is not convinced it is because of her doing. After the fight is over, Saitama bursts out from the wreckage, and is asked by Tatsumaki if he came on his own. He ignores her and starts a conversation with Genos. Angered by being ignored, she starts insulting Saitama and slams Genos against a wall after he addresses her as a brat in retaliation. Bang stops her when she is about to attack Saitama, telling her to act properly as an S-Class hero.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Tatsumaki was a petite woman where this quality made her being mistaken for being much younger than she actually was with this sometimes leading to her being thought of as a child. Her adolescent face had emerald green eyes and green hair that naturally curled up on the ends. She came to be known by the alias of the Tornado of Terror (戦慄のタツマキ, Senritsu no Tatsumaki; Viz: Terrible Tornado).
Typically, she was rather brash, moody, hotheaded, and impatient personality. She tended to be disrespectful towards most people especially to those she deemed to be incompetent.
She especially disliked being ignored or being called things like 'brat' and 'runt'.
Tatsumaki had claimed multiple times that no monster stood a chance against her and even tended to take a situation nonchalantly.
Both she and her sister came to be referred together as the Psychic Sisters (エスパー姉妹, Esupā shimai).
Powers and abilities
Tatsumaki was born a human with the powers of an Esper (エスパー, Esupā) where she had psychokinetic abilities. Such was her power that she was ranked as the second-ranked S-Class hero. Many people believed that there existed no being that could defeat her with conventional methods and the world treated her as the association's ultimate weapon.
Notes
- Tatsumaki was created by ONE where she featured in the setting of the One-Punch Man universe.
- During a stream, manga illustrator Yusuke Murata claimed that Tatsumaki could lift the entirety of Z-City.
In other media
Television
Video games
Appearances
- One-Punch Man:
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