Lord Beerus wrote:Hakaishin Liquir wrote:Lord Beerus wrote:All of Universe 10.
Say what you will about Universe 4 and Universe 3, but Universe 4 actually contributed something to tournament by the most important thing of eliminating one of the best performing fighters in the entire tournament up to that stage, and Universe 3 was a major threat the strongest fighters that Universe 7 had to offer and was indirectly responsible for Universe 7 losing another fighter. Both Universe 3 and 4 had some kind of effect in the plot or major relevancy. Nobody on Universe 10 contributed anything of importance or really feel as if they were a challenge. And the only character that who managed to do something was Obuni. But he didn't last long when Gohan went Ultimate.
Yeah Universe 10 was trash, but the recruitment arc made us expect that so I didn't have any high expectations for them.
The recruitment arc didn't have my expectations high for any of the universes apart from 6, 7 and 11.
But guess what... Universes 2, 3, 4 and 9 still either contributed to reducing the numbers of fighters or were a legitimate threats in combat to some of the strongest fighters in the entire tournament.
Thank You For this Post
Lord Beerus and I am glad you got to this topic that I think gets greatly looked over.
While I have mentioned My Disappointment in the Fact that not many Fighters in the ToP, espically My Girl Ribrianne where not shown enough to be on Blue Level or Higher...............I should have mentioned this DOES-NOT = to them be Worthless, Weak or Unskilled fighters!
We tend to Get SO Overly worked-up over how powerful a fighter is, that that ends up being all that really matters in the long run and allot of this disappointment we have been talking about steams mostly from that, Power Levels. But when we get so hooked on seeing only the Higher Fighters we tend to overlook just how powerful the other fighters are and how skilled they where in battle.
Say what you will about U4 but they hosted some of the most impressive variety of Unique skills in the ToP. They where the most various in uniqueness in these skills among their members, I felt like I was reading a Comic about
Mutants, aka The X-Men then watching Dragon Ball at times. They where threats that if not dealt with properly like they where they would have been more trouble as the fight went along. They also contributed to eliminations.
We tend to overlook how allot of these fighters are at levels of power we as Dragon Ball Fans USED to consider the Best Level to be at! Yea we move on and get stronger but we tend to forget just how LONG and How HARD it is to GET to these Power Levels. Need we forget the Journey we have been on with Goku, Vegeta and the other U7 warriors with ALL they had to go threw to get to the next level?!
We may want to have some humility in how we call characters fodder or worthless just cause they are not at what is
"The New & Shine" Best Level right now, one we all-know will be surpassed in time as well. We as fans need to remember the journey it takes to get to these levels of power, how HARD it is and wonder HOW these characters got to those levels and appreciate them more as the Warriors THEY-ARE then the warriors THEY-Are-Not Yet by just obsessing over the "New Shine" Highest Power level standards just made this arc alone.
My U2 was No Different in this, also showing Great Levels of Skill and Power. Again it might not be Blue Level but they where Powerful in their own rights and Unique in their own ways.
My Girl Kakunsa showed a form of Fighting that is similar to that of Marvel Warriors like Black Panther, Wolverine, X-23, Tigra and others that is not the norm in Dragon Ball, the Fury of a Animal with the Skill, Speed and Agility to Boot! While not completely to the highest levels of Android 17, she still gave as much as she got and it took real skill to take her Down.
My Girl Rozie was a fighter that got faster with each punch, doing the reverse in stamina lose in fighting and just gaining more and more speed when attacking which is a unique ablity. Add onto that her impressive Ki control and if you underestimated how she can use it you could get really hurt.
My Girl Ribrianne for the most part while getting confusing power level definitions from Toei, still showed that no matter what for a good while she never seem to tire or even get hurt. Ever punch and attack just did not Phase her in the least and she attack with a smile and positivity in her attacks that is lacking in most other fighters for a longtime. Her various skills and unpredictability in using them keep her opponents guessing her next move, even how she looked too fighters took them off guard to how strong she was. She could give back as well as she took and even took NO Damage from a Hit from Goku Blue by surprise! YES, Toei may have dropped the ball later in showing her levels well, but when you just take that out and analyze both how she Fought, how she took attacks and how the characters she fought with reacted while how well she gave back, she surprised many with what she could do a good amount of times and never seemed to get Hurt!
Not even going into personias, the characters backgrounds and more, the ToP has hosted some interesting fighters that if other fighters did not take seriously could have eliminated them either off guard or rising to levels they did not see, aka the Last 3 U2 warriors with the Power of Love with their Black Hole attack or U3's Final Fusion.
We need to see how Full the glass is then how much we Don't have, we need to be the fans that see the Glass half full and what the fullness gave to us, then what we did not get and what we did not get maybe is meant to happen over time.
Even so, looking back on the ToP fighters, when you take the over burdening ideal of Power Levels out of every battle, many battles are exciting and full of interesting and uniquely skillful moments from fighters that where serious and if not taken seriously could do more damage then thought.