ZombieVito wrote:Could it be possible that Freeza didn't get stronger at all but rather he increased the multiplier for his Golden form?
I suppose the only way you could have him significantly stronger, in a broader sense, was if you rationalized that his 100% in ROF was something that fizzled out
fairly quickly, and that Freeza could get only some relative percentage of his power output during most of his fight with Blue Goku. Basically, I think this Freeza could perform at *1.25, *1.5 of his former self during most of the fights. With the added perk of never draining his power completely, which'll obviously make him a force to reckon with.
What we know for sure is only that he doesn't have stamina issues anymore. Hence, it stands to reason he'll perform at a superior level compared to his ROF self, but it doesn't seem like he increased either his normal or golden form by any given factor of x.
Anything more generous than that, though, and you'd either have to argue Goku got almost no increase since ROF, or that Freeza was many times stronger than Goku and yet the latter still insisted to fight him head on when they sensed their respective powers in ROF. Both scenarios appear equally dubious to me (especially the second one, since it wouldn't make sense for godly-powered heroes to take Freeza so lightly when he towered
both Goku and Vegeta in ROF).
In short, like many different users pointed out some pages, this revelation Freeza can still contend with Goku grants granitic credibility to the idea that, while the characters got stronger, these same characters shouldn't be leaps and bounds above their selves after Whis' training (even something like them getting four or five times stronger seems too much, in light of Freeza's feats). Again, this was something the series never really tried to promote, bar maybe some occurence in Goku vs. Hit part II - which at this point can be reasonably reconciled in at least some other ways. Goku's endeavors almost certainly made him overcome the power gap between him and 100% Golden Freeza, making him his equal in the purest sense, but it can't really be much more than that.