Effortlessly withstands most powerful magic attacks in existence

>Effortlessly withstands most powerful magic attacks in existence
>Dies from radiation
Why is nen so weak?

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Because nukes are strong. They created anime.

Why didn't they just send in a guy with radioactive nen?

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its not like he had just walked near a radioactive zone, a nuke exploted next to him, and his body wasnt even 100% destroyed by it
the amount of radiation in his body is insanely big

It's called an asspull and it's bad

Was kind of weird they had the most powerful nen user on Earth sacrifice himself just to set off one ordinary instance of a mass produced nuclear bomb that even poor smaller countries had in their arsenals.
They could have delivered radiation in a lot of other ways that would have avoided that and also wouldn't require hiring the most powerful assassin on Earth on top of that and having him accidentally kill a bunch of their own people.

Nukes trump everything in anime

Because that would require a transmuter who has been exposed to lethal amounts of radiation.

Here's that (You) you wanted. Happy?

No one else could/would get that close.

The blast he was hit with wasn’t that strong moron. Look at the damage it did to the area vs the damage the nuke did to the area. Hell even youpis attack had a bigger blast radius than zero hand

Netero wanted a challenge why can’t you people think critically

Netero sacrificed himself because he wanted a fight to the death with an unstoppable opponent, this is literally explicitly stated at the beginning of their fight

because he was so powerful, the writer wrote himself into a corner so he had to asspull some bullshit explanation

>he wanted a fight to the death with an unstoppable opponent
He expresses shock after each attack he uses fails to kill him. The nuke seemed more like a backup plan than something he expected to need.

Because none of the basic Nen abilities provide a way to recover from radiation poisoning.

Meruem should've just used rubber nen to repair his cells.

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He could have easily come up with a nen ability to counter the poison, arguably on his own even with the little time he had left, but he had to die because plot demanded it. In the end, having a good emotional ending is better than being autistic and super relasitc about nen and power level faggotry

It’s possible the king could have run away or dodged it if he had an inkling of notice.
His reflexes are insanely fast. Delivering a bomb in a surprise attack like how Netero did would make him overconfident, and he wouldn’t even consider that Netero had a nuke in him.

That would have made zero sense unlike in Hisoka's case.

It’s called wanting an all out fight while simultaneously completing the mission in case things go awry. He is both a martial artist and a hunter.

They could have just gotten another Kurapika to use their asspull chains to only work on Mereum.

That nen user would somehow have to be resistant or immune to their own radiation.

It is a recurring theme in Togashi's works that humans can be much more terrible than anything in fantasy. The entire arc is this awful nightmare about ants eating people and then BAM he puts it into your face that a nuke, something real, is endlessly more horrifying

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Did he deserved to be redeemed? I thought the whole message that "Humans can be worse than the ants" dumb, considering all the atrocities we see Mereum and them commit, while the worst the humans did was set off the Rose bomb in a remote unpopulated area to kill Mereum and Gon threatening to kill Komugi when he's clearly not mentally well

>still suspicious of blind girl and thrratens to kill her while dying
Made his exit meaningless

You don't fight with the intent to lose. If he did, it would go against all of what was established for his character.

>In the end, having a good emotional ending is better than being autistic and super relasitc about nen and power level faggotry
That's only because he was destined to be primarily defined by his character development to begin with. Meruem was never interesting for anything but how humans affected him.

Maybe not "deserved." But was a neat little character arc to have a complete psychopath with near omnipotence become infatuated with a simple peasant girl who's really good at a board game and in the process develop into a more rounded person who ends up vulnerable and sick.