I know it doesn't make much sense for city sized attacks to be scary at that point, but it seems to me everyone was focusing on the size of the explosion of the attack.Darkprince410 wrote:
Regardless of him being tired after, the fact remains that blasts capable of taking out the audience have been going around for ages by individuals well weaker than her, so her panicking at how outrageously powerful the blast was doesn't make sense if her fear was only for the audience. Besides, she knows that the boys have at least somewhat competent ki control (she knows Trunks does and that Goten somewhat does), so again, her fears don't make sense if it's only out of fear of the audience's safety.
The thing is though is that Toriyama is actually fairly good at indicating, in one way or another, if someone is holding back. Either through statements made by them before, during, or after the fight, or comparisons between them and others they fight to where we can extrapolate that so and so was holding back. With both the Vegeta vs. Trunks and #18 vs. Mighty Mask situations, nothing was saying that they were holding back when it came to the important moment. When Vegeta was dodging attacks and then punched Trunks, nothing says that Vegeta was holding back. Likewise, when #18 was fearing the power of the blast Trunks fired (after establishing that she knew who they were and that they had transformed), nothing indicates she was still suppressed from when she was fighting them in their base forms. With no indication, we can't just assume it.
The translation I'm giving is Herms' translation, which is word for word how it comes in the original Japanese manga. The translations you're going with are truncated/altered for the size limitation of the speech bubbles. In the original manga, they do mention they're at a disadvantage, but specifically that it's the outfit that's causing them trouble, not their strength.
Likewise, Trunks specifies that she won't die IF they do it correctly, meaning that she'd die if they tried it a different way. Given that Trunks knows that #18 was once stronger than their dads were, he'd have some baseline for how powerful she is, so he'd know if it was possible for him to kill her if his ki blast wasn't weak enough.Trunks: “Either way, we’re at a disadvantage in this getup, so we’ve got no choice but to settle this with a kiai cannon!”
Goten: “Eh! But will she be alright?...”
Trunks: “Don’t worry, she won’t die if we do it appropriately. She’s No.18…”
Also it doesn't make sense for their ssj forms to be so strong when in their base forms 18 still though they were humans. For her to think they are humans I would assume they would have to be quite a bit weaker than Namek saga base Goku, though their ssj form multipliers could be higher.
As for Trunks saying she won't die if they do it appropriately, I doubt they know exactly how durable 18 and Frieza could probably kill 18 with a ki blast too. If Frieza charged up a planet level attack while at full power I'm not sure if 18 could take a direct hit from that.




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