JazzMazz wrote:Ki Breaker wrote:I have noticed, they just tend to put SSB whenever they don't seem to have a clear idea on what level the opponent Goku facing is in..
Like against Android 17, nobody knows how strong he is exactly, he is just said to have good combat abilities in the scan which states freeza and Goku are equal and most powerful..
Trio the dangers beam, Arale who suddenly manages to give out a beam 100 times stronger than before etc..
Very few instances are there where it's use is actually not warranted..
I can name a couple, like when he was fighting Nink, he probably could have just gotten free if he did any sort of transformation, against the trio-de dangers whom they were pretty easily kicking the crap out of in SS and even if they did need a power boost there were 2 other SS transformations they could have used before going blue, and finally, the one that most gets under my skin, Goku goes SSB to save 17 in #87.
Against nink, if by chance his other transformations weren't enough to shake him off, he would be done for, Goku probably didn't wanna risk it..
The the dangers beam I mentioned in my interpretation, nobody knows how strong it was supposed to be, hence blue was used..
Basically, I interpret it as the writers saving themselves form future inconsistencies by having Goku go maximum, and then hold back the required amount.. If in future toriyama suddenly decided to make it a plot point that the trio beam overpowers an SS3 level opponent but Goku had used SS2 to overpower the same beam in the tournament, it will cause unnecessary problems..
So, they don't even try to include their own power scaling and just go with blue whenever theres no clue on what the opponent could be doing in the future..
As for blue to save 17, SSG was moving around in the stratosphere, most likely they used blue because God's the only powerup Which managed survive not completely nearly inside earth's breathable atmosphere..