Goku didn't win so much in Super

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Re: Goku didn't win so much in Super

Post by GodVegetto91 » Sun Jun 03, 2018 9:34 pm

A better question we should be asking ourselves is:

Why don’t point-blank kamehameha’s KILL their opponents. (Kefla and Jiren) And than you have Toppo who got blasted almost the same way several times throughout the series. It seems characters in Super are nearly indestructible in comparison to characters in Z. Where Freeza, Cell and Majin Buu got blasted to absolute nothingness. Here in Super, characters just take them full on, and not only live to tell about it, but are (somehow) immediately able to stand up to battle again in most cases. The only (main baddie) in Super who got killed by one of our main heroes was Freeza. The other one being Zamasu, but hey, it’s the all erasing Omni-King who did it. So no surprise there.

Yeah i get it, as usual, it’s an out of universe explanation (plot conveniency!) but from an in-universe standpoint, it still doesn’t make sense ofcourse.

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Re: Goku didn't win so much in Super

Post by Toxin45 » Sun Jun 03, 2018 11:04 pm

GodVegetto91 wrote:A better question we should be asking ourselves is:

Why don’t point-blank kamehameha’s KILL their opponents. (Kefla and Jiren) And than you have Toppo who got blasted almost the same way several times throughout the series. It seems characters in Super are nearly indestructible in comparison to characters in Z. Where Freeza, Cell and Majin Buu got blasted to absolute nothingness. Here in Super, characters just take them full on, and not only live to tell about it, but are (somehow) immediately able to stand up to battle again in most cases. The only (main baddie) in Super who got killed by one of our main heroes was Freeza. The other one being Zamasu, but hey, it’s the all erasing Omni-King who did it. So no surprise there.

Yeah i get it, as usual, it’s an out of universe explanation (plot conveniency!) but from an in-universe standpoint, it still doesn’t make sense ofcourse.
Yeah Frieza survived against Hakai in the tournament of power and that was when he was still dead.

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Re: Goku didn't win so much in Super

Post by PsionicWarrior » Mon Jun 04, 2018 4:17 am

GodVegetto91 wrote:AIt seems characters in Super are nearly indestructible in comparison to characters in Z.
Well tbh they're also much stronger lol

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Re: Goku didn't win so much in Super

Post by GodVegetto91 » Mon Jun 04, 2018 4:39 am

PsionicWarrior wrote:
GodVegetto91 wrote:AIt seems characters in Super are nearly indestructible in comparison to characters in Z.
Well tbh they're also much stronger lol
That argument is flawed since our heroes are also much stronger and on their level. It’s the same thing.

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Re: Goku didn't win so much in Super

Post by PsionicWarrior » Mon Jun 04, 2018 8:02 am

Ok that's a fair remark, but not the thread's point lol

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Re: Goku didn't win so much in Super

Post by Meshack » Tue Jun 05, 2018 2:14 pm

Gokou rarely wins against the big bad. Starting with Zed, Gokou gets killed by Piccolo, loses to Vegeta, gets beaten by Ginew, doesn’t kill Freeza, loses to Android No. 19, couldn’t beat Cell, "loses" to Majin Vegeta, couldn’t beat Super Boo, and needed help to defeat Majin-Boo. In Super, can't beat Beerus, needed Whis’s power to reverse his mishap, loses early in the tournament to Frost, eliminates himself in tournament against Hit, couldn’t beat Gokou-Black or Potara Zamasu, and didn’t win the Tournament of Power.

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Re: Goku didn't win so much in Super

Post by Lord Beerus » Tue Jun 05, 2018 3:06 pm

GodVegetto91 wrote:A better question we should be asking ourselves is:

Why don’t point-blank kamehameha’s KILL their opponents. (Kefla and Jiren) And than you have Toppo who got blasted almost the same way several times throughout the series. It seems characters in Super are nearly indestructible in comparison to characters in Z. Where Freeza, Cell and Majin Buu got blasted to absolute nothingness. Here in Super, characters just take them full on, and not only live to tell about it, but are (somehow) immediately able to stand up to battle again in most cases. The only (main baddie) in Super who got killed by one of our main heroes was Freeza. The other one being Zamasu, but hey, it’s the all erasing Omni-King who did it. So no surprise there.

Yeah i get it, as usual, it’s an out of universe explanation (plot conveniency!) but from an in-universe standpoint, it still doesn’t make sense ofcourse.
You do know one of the rules of the Tournament Of Power was "No Killing"?

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Re: Goku didn't win so much in Super

Post by GodVegetto91 » Tue Jun 05, 2018 11:04 pm

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GodVegetto91 wrote:A better question we should be asking ourselves is:

Why don’t point-blank kamehameha’s KILL their opponents. (Kefla and Jiren) And than you have Toppo who got blasted almost the same way several times throughout the series. It seems characters in Super are nearly indestructible in comparison to characters in Z. Where Freeza, Cell and Majin Buu got blasted to absolute nothingness. Here in Super, characters just take them full on, and not only live to tell about it, but are (somehow) immediately able to stand up to battle again in most cases. The only (main baddie) in Super who got killed by one of our main heroes was Freeza. The other one being Zamasu, but hey, it’s the all erasing Omni-King who did it. So no surprise there.

Yeah i get it, as usual, it’s an out of universe explanation (plot conveniency!) but from an in-universe standpoint, it still doesn’t make sense ofcourse.
You do know one of the rules of the Tournament Of Power was "No Killing"?
And you do know that if a zenkai boosted full power Mastered Ultra Instinct Goku fires a fully powered (100%) kamehameha at POINT BLANK RANGE to Jiren, that it’s not in his control wether Jiren dies or lives right?

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Re: Goku didn't win so much in Super

Post by VegettoEX » Wed Jun 06, 2018 12:58 pm

GodVegetto91 wrote:And you do know that if a zenkai boosted full power Mastered Ultra Instinct Goku fires a fully powered (100%) kamehameha at POINT BLANK RANGE to Jiren, that it’s not in his control wether Jiren dies or lives right?
The tone present in this and other posts is unnecessary; furthermore, this is going beyond the intended point of the thread, and is best served in some of the more dedicated "strength comparison" threads already in progress elsewhere.
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Re: Goku didn't win so much in Super

Post by emperior » Wed Jun 06, 2018 2:00 pm

GodVegetto91 wrote:A better question we should be asking ourselves is:

Why don’t point-blank kamehameha’s KILL their opponents. (Kefla and Jiren) And than you have Toppo who got blasted almost the same way several times throughout the series. It seems characters in Super are nearly indestructible in comparison to characters in Z. Where Freeza, Cell and Majin Buu got blasted to absolute nothingness. Here in Super, characters just take them full on, and not only live to tell about it, but are (somehow) immediately able to stand up to battle again in most cases. The only (main baddie) in Super who got killed by one of our main heroes was Freeza. The other one being Zamasu, but hey, it’s the all erasing Omni-King who did it. So no surprise there.

Yeah i get it, as usual, it’s an out of universe explanation (plot conveniency!) but from an in-universe standpoint, it still doesn’t make sense ofcourse.
This is a interesting observation that I absolutely agree with, although as VegettoEX pointed out it's off-topic. Maybe you should create a thread about this very topic, so that we can all discuss about how damage is portrayed in Super.
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Re: Goku didn't win so much in Super

Post by GodVegetto91 » Thu Jun 07, 2018 10:18 am

VegettoEX wrote:
GodVegetto91 wrote:And you do know that if a zenkai boosted full power Mastered Ultra Instinct Goku fires a fully powered (100%) kamehameha at POINT BLANK RANGE to Jiren, that it’s not in his control wether Jiren dies or lives right?
The tone present in this and other posts is unnecessary; furthermore, this is going beyond the intended point of the thread, and is best served in some of the more dedicated "strength comparison" threads already in progress elsewhere.
Okay sir. I’ll keep that in mind.

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