Rocketman wrote:Saiga wrote:You really think Black's missile would kill one of the Z fighters?
If it's atomic, yes. None of the Z fighters could withstand the heat of a nuclear chain reaction.
You seem to think that the fighters protect themselves with only their flesh...
Their primary means of defense is Ki.
As proven in the Namek saga by Vegeta and Krillin (when Krillin blasted Vegeta to trigger a Zenkai), if they lower their Ki defenses, even someone or something relatively very weak can destroy them. They are not like Superman who is just
that resistant in his skin, flesh and bones.
Nowhere in the series is stated that Ki doesn't also protect from extreme heat or that it can't be used for that purpose.
Freeza survived an exploding planet bigger than Earth that seemed to be engulfed in a sea of lava and heat with little Ki to protect himself with.
Therefore, as long as Ki is able to also protect against heat (and nowhere is stated that it doesn't), the fighters would be able to protect themselves with their Ki agaisnt the forces of an atomic bomb, including its heat. The only question is if their defenses would be able to hold.
Also, the only two villains who were killed by the sun, weren't killed exclusively by the sun. They both received a Ki blast stronger than themselves that severely weakened them. The sun just finished them. And in Coola's case, it didn't even destroy his body completely... There was enough of him left for the plot of the Metal Cooler movie.