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General Discussion for Dragon Ball Super Episode 125, aired 28 January 2018
威風堂々! 破壊神トッポ降臨！！
Ifu-Dōdō! Hakaishin Toppo Kōrin!
Majestic! Advent of the God of Destruction, Toppo!!
Summary:
Goku and Vegeta continue to tag-team Jiren, but despite all the attacks the throw at him (including another Final Flash from Vegeta), Jiren still isn’t even sweating. Over in the bleachers, Kuririn is freaked out by this, but Gohan trusts Goku and Vegeta will manage to win. Beerus even congratulates Gohan for doing well (and actually calls him by name for a change).
While the fight against Jiren rages on, Toppo and No.17’s battle continues as well, with 17 using his energy barrier to block Toppo’s Justice Flash attack. Seeing that only about six more minutes remain in the tournament, 17 starts blasting Toppo with an endless barrage of small ki blasts. Although these attacks don’t have much effect on Toppo, they still keep him preoccupied, and in the bleachers 18 explains that 17 plans on using his infinite energy to stall Toppo like this until time runs out.
Realizing 17’s strategy, Toppo breaks away and vows to defeat him right away to protect his universe, firing a tremendous ki beam towards 17, who counters with a beam of his own. The two beams struggle against each other, but before long Toppo’s beam starts pushing 17 towards the edge of the arena. Before 17 can be ringed out though, Freeza (still in Golden mode) appears and blasts Toppo from behind. He thinks 17 has been playing around too much, and steps in to finish Toppo off himself.
Freeza continues to fire at Toppo, who is still stuck in his beam struggle against 17 and unable to turn around and counterattack. Growing bored with his defenseless opponent, Freeza prepares a finishing blow (though he wants to make sure not to kill him), which damages Toppo so much that he finally loses the beam struggle and is enveloped by 17’s blast. It looks as if Toppo has been defeated, but Whis sees that he has not materialized in the bleachers, meaning he’s still in the game.
Indeed, Toppo has remained inside the arena, but he collapses and Freeza mocks him as trash that needs to be thrown away. Before Freeza can “gently” knock Toppo out of bounds though, Toppo gets back up on his feet, his uniform in tatters and his bare chest exposed. Toppo declares that he no longer needs justice and has resolved himself…He begins emitting a gigantic ki very similar to a god’s ki, and Belmod says it’s time Toppo showed them “that” power.
Toppo’s eyes glow purple, he is veiled in a purple aura, and a crest appears on his chest (identical to the one Belmod wears on his clothing). Freeza is unimpressed by Toppo’s transformation, and tests him out by firing off a finger beam. However, the beam is completely nullified by Toppo’s purple aura, and in the bleachers Beerus recognizes this as the Power of Destruction, a power which only a God of Destruction is supposed to have. Khai points out that Toppo is the candidate to be U11's next God of Destruction, and Belmod says now that Toppo’s resolved himself he is no different than a God of Destruction. Marcaritta likewise tells Toppo it's time to show off the fruits of his training under her.
Regardless, Freeza maintains that even a God of Destruction means nothing to him now that he’s Golden Freeza. While Toppo fires off a blast of the Power of Destruction at Freeza, Freeza remembers dealing with this energy prior to the tournament (when U4 sent its assassins against him) and thinks one hand should be enough to block it. But the blast steadily overwhelms him despite his struggles, resulting in an explosion that cracks the arena in pieces.
With Freeza seemingly out of the way, Toppo next goes after 17, who was trying to hide. Toppo uses his Justice Flash, and while 17 blocks with another energy barrier, this time his barrier is cracked to pieces by Toppo’s attack, demonstrating that even Toppo’s regular ki attacks have greatly powered up. Beerus explains that Toppo surrounds himself in Destruction Energy, thus preventing 17 from directly damaging him. Toppo next fires a blast of Destruction Energy at 17, who manages to deflect it out of the way (nearly hitting the bleachers in the process).
From this latest attack, Beerus can tell that Toppo needs time to charge before he can fire off Destruction Energy. However, even while charging he can still surround himself in Destruction Energy, so it seems like there’s no way for 17 to win. Toppo keeps firing away at 17 with his Justice Flash attack, then prepares another blast of Destruction Energy just as 17 has nowhere left to run. However, a rock comes flying out of nowhere and crashes into Toppo’s blast, nullifying it. It turns out Freeza withstood Toppo’s earlier attack, though he has reverted from Golden Freeza to his normal form and is injured head to toe.
Vowing to destroy Toppo, Freeza forms an enormous ball of ki capable of destroying an entire planet (his signature “Death Ball” technique), but Toppo counters it with just a tiny amount of Destruction energy, then rushes in close and begins thrashing Freeza with close-range physical attacks. Although Toppo could easily destroy Freeza now, this would get him disqualified, so he merely throws the thoroughly battered Freeza out of bounds.
As Freeza flies through the air, 17 throws a rock at him, changing his trajectory so that he lands just on the edge of the arena (though 17 claims he was trying to hit Toppo). Toppo praises 17’s ability to have survived so long, but says there’s nothing he can do. However, 17 refuses to give up until the end.
5 minutes remain in the Tournament of Power.
