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New studies suggest that hypertrophy (muscle growth) is caused by mechanical tension applied to the fibers, which is facilitated by muscle recruitment. Micro tears (muscle fibres getting damaged) is just a by product of this process, not the main cause.

This is why even in lab controlled environments causing micro tears to someone and waiting for them to heal don’t cause any hypertrophy and by extension strength growth.

In short executing a physical task hard enough to send enough signals to your brain is the main cause of muscle growth and muscle damage is a by product of the process. If we lived in a world where micro tears didn’t exist hypertrophy would still exist.

He took a break because the Gotham needs him.

The Boys: After Homelander is defeated Vought, the main big bad corporation villain and the main cause of Homelander’s existence stays undefeated. It’s only a matter of time before another probably even stronger Homelander is created and only systematic change at the end is government being more cautious and there being a small group of “good” supes ready to fight endless fights while casualties grow more and source of the problem remains unaddressed.

While some argue it’s “realistic” that system doesn’t change and the main person responsible remains unpunished. When Stan Edgar essentially says "you can't change the system" and being proven uncritically correct is the exact opposite of satire. Far from critiquing those in power, it simply repeats the ideas people in power want to push onto us. That's not satire, that's propaganda.

Arcane Season 2: Main class war between two cities is shortly set aside for one common enemy. After fighting side by side, oppressive state of Piltover lets a single person from Zaun in to the council. Not only this is an empty reward because council makes decisions with a voting system, making having a single person from Zaun ultimately meaningless as they are guaranteed to get outnumbered in every decision council decides to make. We are also yet to see any other systemic changes from happening.

Bro JUST started to use a sword and outplayed the Hotel owner and go toe to toe with Chihiro, who has been using the enchanted blade for 3 years now. He then touches a enchanted blade that he wasn’t even compatible with for the first time and go toe to toe with Chihiro (while not using his actual sorcery once) who spent 3 years mastering his own custom made enchanted blade that was literally made JUST for him to counter the most powerful EB. Yes he losses in the end but considering all this context makes me think Hiruhiko was more impressive and makes me nervous how powerful he’s gonna be when he comes back.

He can turn someone small and increase their weight so anyone he touches insta die. If he’s able to select which areas he can affect he can turn someone’s head so large they get crushed by the weight etc. Obviously he doesn’t need to be op but id love to see his ability be used more creatively in the future, like momentarily increasing the weight of his hands to punch etc.