Basako wrote:In the Manga Earth is not the first step, it is said that he has devastated countless of planets before. At least it avoids the plothole that would cause Black fighting Jiren, which is a problem in the anime. And they really are more incompetent than in the manga fighting the saiyans, they have advantage all the time, for nothing, and they escape from him more times.
Probably "first step" is not the correct wording, but it is implied in the manga they are way ahead to complete the plan differently from the anime Black/Zamasu.
Yes, it is a plot hole as you adressed, I just pointed as example that no matter how they did it, Black/Zamasu were close to fulfil their plan, thus being more competent than their manga counterparts.
TheMikado wrote:ArchedThunder wrote:Nope, in the anime when Merged Zamasu shows up he says that he will complete his plan "today", he never says that Earth is the last planet. They did kill all of the Kaioshin in Trunks' timeline though, but that is in the manga as well.
If their plan is to kill every mortal and it's taken them that long just to kill Trunks/Mai. I'd imagine every other mortal would have to be dead for their plan to be completed "today". It may not be explicit but it seems implied.
Exactly. I don't see how would be another way to what Zamasu said about completing the plan "today".
Kanassa wrote:You're assuming that 17 years into the future those characters would still be a problem.
Would they not? Or you're assuming age is a factor? I still think it's a plot hole, but people uses Zamasu's immortality as excuse to how they defeated that guy, even so I think it would take years, maybe decades and Goku Black should already unlocked Rosé, by so many battles he fought.