Honestly I can't even remember a time when Screaming and the power of friendship ever won a fight in Super. Ever. Not even the ever infamous Rage trunks won his fights and Spirit Sword, effectivly amounted to zip. So maybe I'm forgetting the time a magic power up won the day.TKA wrote: In truth, that is irrelevant to the point I'm raising. I don't care about "muh power levuuulls!" I care about competent writing. In Dragonball, characters develop through training and hardship (think back to Goku and Krillin training with Roshi, or Gohan and Piccolo's training, or Goku training with King Kai, or Gohan just sitting there with Elder Kai; character development). Krillin getting powered up by the grand elder touching his head is acceptable given the development that came along with it, and that it followed all the commando-esque actions he and Gohan had been involved in beforehand. It allowed both he and Gohan to be involved in the fighting aspects of the arc, and all they did was lose. All the powerup was was an excuse to not have them die the second they got into a fight. Toriyama did this because, as a writer, he knew that establishing limits on what characters can do is how you generate tension.
No, that isn't my point at all. My point is how can drama and tension exist if characters get power ups in the 11th hour out of nowhere? If all a character has to do is shout and really believe in themselves, why don't they just do that at the start of the fight? And if a character is losing, I have no reason to be invested because I know that eventually they'll dig deep and pull out more power.
Also I seem to remember when the manga introduced the 100% SSJ blue form that Goku uses and there was a small outcry of people wondering where this came from and calling it an asspull, and I believe you told them to stop making judgements before we get all the information, that this is a story and not all the info it going to be given to us all at once and to not freak out over leaks without context. So I find it a little odd that you're here doing exactly that. Saying something is already dumb before it's even come out, because of a few images and previews and not having all the info.
