If zenkais won't work if they're self-inflicted, how did Goku get so many on his way to Namek?
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If zenkais won't work if they're self-inflicted, how did Goku get so many on his way to Namek?
Didn't he Kamehameha himself on the ship? Vegeta said to Krillin that a zenkai won't be achieve if it's self-inflicted. So there was no zenkai abuse on that ship then? Goku's power gain was just the result of training under 100G?
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Vegeta making shit up because he's too narcissistic to directly harm himself.
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Re: If zenkais won't work if they're self-inflicted, how did Goku get so many on his way to Namek?
Vegeta is too much of a pussy to harm himself so he made it up..
Well if you want him to look good, vegeta is a warrior and by beating himself to get a zenkai is shameful ( somehow )
Zenkais definitely work for any injury, the goku example you gave is one..
Even black out a sword through his hand and got a major power boost, call it anger or zenkai, I think it's a combination of both..
Well if you want him to look good, vegeta is a warrior and by beating himself to get a zenkai is shameful ( somehow )
Zenkais definitely work for any injury, the goku example you gave is one..
Even black out a sword through his hand and got a major power boost, call it anger or zenkai, I think it's a combination of both..
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Other than calling it a plothole/mistake, the only thing I can think of is that there's some difference between how Goku was doing it and how Vegeta thought of it.
Goku was firing off a beam on a curve then steeling himself to try to tank it, while Vegeta presumably would drop his power put his hand to his gut and blast.
Goku was firing off a beam on a curve then steeling himself to try to tank it, while Vegeta presumably would drop his power put his hand to his gut and blast.
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Re: If zenkais won't work if they're self-inflicted, how did Goku get so many on his way to Namek?
Nowhere in the manga was it insinuated that his power on Namek came from zenkai boosts, that presumption comes from anime-only material. His power came from training in 100g, a feat that had never been done before.
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Re: If zenkais won't work if they're self-inflicted, how did Goku get so many on his way to Namek?
So in the manga, Goku never Kamehameha'd himself to near death in that trip to Namek?Jinzoningen MULE wrote:Nowhere in the manga was it insinuated that his power on Namek came from zenkai boosts, that presumption comes from anime-only material. His power came from training in 100g, a feat that had never been done before.
If he didn't Kamehameha himself in the manga, then this would be the 3rd or 4th thread that I can recall off the top of my head, that I will scream.. Those damn fillers!
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I don't remember if that specific scene happened or not, but I can check later. However, a zenkai boost is certainly never implied, unless I'm forgetting something.Angelus wrote:So in the manga, Goku never Kamehameha'd himself to near death in that trip to Namek?Jinzoningen MULE wrote:Nowhere in the manga was it insinuated that his power on Namek came from zenkai boosts, that presumption comes from anime-only material. His power came from training in 100g, a feat that had never been done before.
If he didn't Kamehameha himself in the manga, then this would be the 3rd or 4th thread that I can recall off the top of my head, that I will scream.. Those damn fillers!
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Re: If zenkais won't work if they're self-inflicted, how did Goku get so many on his way to Namek?
Jinzoningen MULE wrote:I don't remember if that specific scene happened or not, but I can check later. However, a zenkai boost is certainly never implied, unless I'm forgetting something.Angelus wrote:So in the manga, Goku never Kamehameha'd himself to near death in that trip to Namek?Jinzoningen MULE wrote:Nowhere in the manga was it insinuated that his power on Namek came from zenkai boosts, that presumption comes from anime-only material. His power came from training in 100g, a feat that had never been done before.
If he didn't Kamehameha himself in the manga, then this would be the 3rd or 4th thread that I can recall off the top of my head, that I will scream.. Those damn fillers!
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My bad then. I don't know how I forgot, I literally just read it.
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Re: If zenkais won't work if they're self-inflicted, how did Goku get so many on his way to Namek?
Oh so it was still a zenkai boost but there was no scene of Goku self-inflicting damage, via Kamehamehas, in the manga? He was basically just training under such extreme gravity that he almost died, but ate a senzu?
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I checked my manga, and it's right, the narrator does pretty much say outright that Goku got stronger through Zenkai's. This is just from me flipping through, so I could be wrong, but I don't see many instances of the training itself, and definitely nothing where he's intentionally bringing himself near death. So there's no plot-hole by a technicality.Angelus wrote:Oh so it was still a zenkai boost but there was no scene of Goku self-inflicting damage, via Kamehamehas, in the manga? He was basically just training under such extreme gravity that he almost died, but ate a senzu?
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Re: If zenkais won't work if they're self-inflicted, how did Goku get so many on his way to Namek?
That did indeed happen in the manga.Angelus wrote:Oh so it was still a zenkai boost but there was no scene of Goku self-inflicting damage, via Kamehamehas, in the manga? He was basically just training under such extreme gravity that he almost died, but ate a senzu?
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And it is in those final two panels that the narrator makes the comment about him learning about the near-death power-up
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Re: If zenkais won't work if they're self-inflicted, how did Goku get so many on his way to Namek?
Well, looks like this contradicts with Vegeta's statement.
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Re: If zenkais won't work if they're self-inflicted, how did Goku get so many on his way to Namek?
And it makes you wonder why the hell Goku, Vegeta, Gohan and Future Trunks didn't abuse that shit when training in the ROSAT during the Android/Cell arc. Just have some senzu beans on stand-by and they would have wrecked Cell.Angelus wrote:Well, looks like this contradicts with Vegeta's statement.
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Isn't the common explanation for that being that the boosts have negligible effects after they became Super Saiyans?Lord Beerus wrote:And it makes you wonder why the hell Goku, Vegeta, Gohan and Future Trunks didn't abuse that shit when training in the ROSAT during the Android/Cell arc. Just have some senzu beans on stand-by and they would have wrecked Cell.Angelus wrote:Well, looks like this contradicts with Vegeta's statement.
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Re: If zenkais won't work if they're self-inflicted, how did Goku get so many on his way to Namek?
I think most of it was from the 100g.Angelus wrote:Didn't he Kamehameha himself on the ship? Vegeta said to Krillin that a zenkai won't be achieve if it's self-inflicted. So there was no zenkai abuse on that ship then? Goku's power gain was just the result of training under 100G?
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The zenkai boosts allowed Goku to get strong quickly to be able to train in high gravity.dragon boss z wrote:I think most of it was from the 100g.Angelus wrote:Didn't he Kamehameha himself on the ship? Vegeta said to Krillin that a zenkai won't be achieve if it's self-inflicted. So there was no zenkai abuse on that ship then? Goku's power gain was just the result of training under 100G?
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That's correct. Additionally, it comes with the risk of accidentally killing yourself. It's better to earn strength naturally through newer training philosophies. The moments where characters utilized extreme methods to advance their strength were committed with (usually urgent) purpose. There's a difference between Vegeta desperately needing a power boost against an enemy right in front of him and Vegeta attempting to climb over the Super Saiyan wall in a (chaotically) controlled environment for a year.Zephyr wrote:Isn't the common explanation for that being that the boosts have negligible effects after they became Super Saiyans?Lord Beerus wrote:And it makes you wonder why the hell Goku, Vegeta, Gohan and Future Trunks didn't abuse that shit when training in the ROSAT during the Android/Cell arc. Just have some senzu beans on stand-by and they would have wrecked Cell.Angelus wrote:Well, looks like this contradicts with Vegeta's statement.