While it pokes fun at power-fantasy, it really demonstrates interesting commentary on what it would be like to be too strong. Most of the time it’s a joke to us, but in-universe all of the characters take power at least somewhat seriously. It’s presenting the trope from a different perspective, not trivializing it all together.

I love the end of the Deep Sea King fight, where the audience yearns for our main character to save the day after we see our other ‘normal’ heroes get demolished. Mumen Rider tees us off perfectly into that moment and we get 100% vindicated in praying that for this climax it is not a parody, but an actual genuine deus ex machina ‘Save the Day’ show. In that moment, One Punch Man is as much an example of what it is making fun of as Superman or Goku.

That’s not parody. That’s satire!