I think the thing that I really love about Mob’s explosions as a power-up concept is that in a lot of other series, these states (especially when they create a negative change in the character’s demeanor) are treated as a separate being, or an aspect of that character that isn’t *really* them. They come down from these “true” states, go into a funk, and are reassured by other characters that “No, this negative side of you isn’t the truth!”
With Mob it’s the opposite. Mob at 100% is Mob in his purest, most honest, and unfiltered state…and it isn’t always very nice. In fact, a majority of his explosions are negative thoughts and feelings that he’s held his tongue over, whether through necessity or Mob not wanting to burden others.
Mob isn’t being influenced by his own powers, but rather, his powers are a magnified reflection of what was already there.
It’s the perfect way to show how being kind and patient is an action, and not necessarily a state of being–that being compassionate is an active choice when we could choose (and sometimes have the right) to be unkind.
His “Goodness” doesn’t come from an inhuman moral perfection, but a very human strive to do and act better when he doesn’t have to.





