Showcase of Zeno's powers is something that would've been appropriately showcased at the beginning of the ToP arc. Much like how we saw the GoDs battle each other or the Grand Priest stopping two with fingers. But your stated point does not take away from how poorly written the ending was in the F. Trunks arc.GreatJaiyaman wrote:I think everyone misses the point of Zeno wiping everything out at the end of that arc. In my opinion, I think Toriyama was trying to give weight to the next arc. It's one thing to be told how powerful Zeno is, it's another thing to see it first hand. Whether it was intentional or not, the ending of the Champa arc and the ending of the Trunks arc was both setting up the tournament of power. Zamasu was just a casualty of Zeno, so you could see how powerful Zeno is. Zamasu was immortal and even blue Vegito couldn't defeat him, so I think Toriyama was just intending to show you just how powerful Zeno was to raise the stakes for the tournament of power.
They had at least one means to stop immortality. The Mafuba. The mutherfucking Mafuba. It almost worked once were it not for Goku's hastiness. Or eternal imprisonment like the goat man in the current chapter after they beat him to a bloody pulp. Or whatever Whis did after he went back for Zamasu.
I'm not going to list all the hypothetical ways they could've done it without Zeno. Actually it is not even my platform to dictate how the plot should have unfolded, as a fan and consumer of the series. I am only here to criticize it. And back to my point, whatever hype that was meant to generate, to use Zeno as a means to completely defeat the villain is extremely anti-climactic and gives a wasted sense of effort leading up to the final battle. It is a literal deus ex machina. It is like fighting kid Buu up until Genkidama and they use a wish from Porunga to erase kid Buu from existence during the Genkidama struggle. It is like Goku & Piccolo fighting Raditz and Raditz getting one-shotted by an angry toddler Gohan.
And pardon my French even further here, but it is so goddamn r**arded that they decided to live in a new timeline where they as adults already exist instead of remaining in the current one, a situation that FTrunks has more experience with. I don't understand this insane narrative decision and probably never will.
