Unpopular/controversial power level/strength opinions?
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The creator himself called it "a silly little scene".
The Monkey King wrote:It was actually Beerus disguised as Zarbon #StayWokeRandomGuy96 wrote:He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.dbgtFO wrote: Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.
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Oh well. It was played straight in the movie.
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People often forget that Gohan was supposed to be a Ssj. I just rationalize Gohan's inability to do better than Vegeta by assuming Gohan was still intoxicated.
Vegeta: "Funny... I seem to recall Kakarot being fed the same information right before he transformed; the distinct look on your faces when he went Super Saiyan didn't exactly inspire confidence. One does not predict or calculate power like ours."
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In universe I say he was drunk. When its not. I just say Gohan a ssjTheMightyOzaru wrote:People often forget that Gohan was supposed to be a Ssj. I just rationalize Gohan's inability to do better than Vegeta by assuming Gohan was still intoxicated.
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Man, he should've just made the form temporary and a lot of this mess could have been fixed.
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Sorry for double post. On phone. Its not irrelevant. Yajoribe has more potential but is limit due to human. Look at how Gohan potential was increasingly thoughout the series.Vice wrote:Irrelevant. We're talking potential here, not why it exists.TheGmGoken wrote:1. Gohan is also a Saiyan. While Yajoribe is 100% human. And Gohan had rage boost.
Sure, they were teasing Vegeta with it after the fact, but it was taken very much seriously at the time it occurred.2. It was treated as such. Once I get off my phone and onto Pc. I will show you interviews of workers saying it was a rather funny scene
Once again interviews point Vegeta being a gag power up
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Uh, no dude. Stop. Yajirobe's potential was to be a decently strong little human. Hell, he ain't even impressive for them as Krillin and the others have such potential that he looks like trash next to them, and they're trash in this series.TheGmGoken wrote:Sorry for double post. On phone. Its not irrelevant. Yajoribe has more potential but is limit due to human. Look at how Gohan potential was increasingly thoughout the series.
I'm not trying to be an asshole but this opinion isn't controversial, it's ridiculous.
And the canon movie plays it straight. Face it, it's not up to you to decide.Once again interviews point Vegeta being a gag power up
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1. Yajoribe didn't train that much either. So his power is high for someone who lacks constant training.Vice wrote:Uh, no dude. Stop. Yajirobe's potential was to be a decently strong little human. Hell, he ain't even impressive for them as Krillin and the others have such potential that he looks like trash next to them, and they're trash in this series.TheGmGoken wrote:Sorry for double post. On phone. Its not irrelevant. Yajoribe has more potential but is limit due to human. Look at how Gohan potential was increasingly thoughout the series.
I'm not trying to be an asshole but this opinion isn't controversial, it's ridiculous.
And the canon movie plays it straight. Face it, it's not up to you to decide.Once again interviews point Vegeta being a gag power up
2. I didn't decide it. The creator said it wad a gag. Not me.
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Irrelevant. Gohan hadn't trained any and he was near ko-ing aliens.TheGmGoken wrote:1. Yajoribe didn't train that much either. So his power is high for someone who lacks constant training.
Come on, dude.
He said it was silly, not a gag and then played it straight in canon. This isn't Mr. Satan running around karate chopping Cell.2. I didn't decide it. The creator said it wad a gag. Not me.
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1. Gohn also wad pissed off. Please tell me how strong he was after training with Piccolo with no rage. Yajoribe is more impressive and shown a large amount of potential. He is lazy yet and barely train yet he shown lots of powerVice wrote:Irrelevant. Gohan hadn't trained any and he was near ko-ing aliens.TheGmGoken wrote:1. Yajoribe didn't train that much either. So his power is high for someone who lacks constant training.
Come on, dude.
He said it was silly, not a gag and then played it straight in canon. This isn't Mr. Satan running around karate chopping Cell.2. I didn't decide it. The creator said it wad a gag. Not me.
2. Gags are more or less silly. So whats your point?
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And? What difference does it make?TheGmGoken wrote: 1. Gohn also wad pissed off.
Almost 1,000. And then eventually well over a billion. Did Yajirobe ever even break 300 in his life?Please tell me how strong he was after training with Piccolo with no rage.
Ridiculous. Gohan's entire role in the plot revolves around his potential.Yajoribe is more impressive
Compared to your average, run of the mill, power level around 5 human.and shown a large amount of potential. He is lazy yet and barely train yet he shown lots of power
Compared to Gohan? Calling him a speck of dust would be a compliment.
Something silly doesn't necessarily means it's a gag. Vegeta is usurping Gohan's plot significance in the story. It's just what it is.2. Gags are more or less silly. So whats your point?
I'm done arguing about this by the way.
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Umm Yajoribe did not do hardcore training yet increase so much. Yajoribe > Gohan potential. Gohan just had hidden power.
Gag are silly. Its a silly scene therefore its a gag
Gag are silly. Its a silly scene therefore its a gag
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The entire series is a gag though.
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The movie was also made with the intent for Gohan to fight Beerus as a SSJ. Vegeta was directly implied to be stronger than SSJ Gohan with a little bit of black hair dye. It's perfectly reasonable to assume he was intoxicated to get rid of an out-of-universe mistake.
Vegeta: "Funny... I seem to recall Kakarot being fed the same information right before he transformed; the distinct look on your faces when he went Super Saiyan didn't exactly inspire confidence. One does not predict or calculate power like ours."
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Vegeta caught Beers off-guard, and after that, Beers allowed Vegeta to hit him, hoping he will power-up again, but this time into a Super Saiyan God. Vegeta is also stated to have surpassed Goku, but not Gotenks or Gohan.Vice wrote:This is explicitly shown to be untrue. Whether fans like it or not, Toriyama appears to be pushing the series to revolve around Goku and Vegeta.
How do you know that Yajirobe never trained? And who said that he didn't do anything and surpassed Kami?TheGmGoken wrote:Yajoirbe was on Goku level without training and just living in woods. Then he surpass God and we know his lazy ass barely did anything.
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Yajoribe's potential is perhaps the highest among the humans.
Just by hanging out in the mountains, he was basically as strong as 22nd tournament Goku, who was stronger than Roshi (who had blown up the moon).
The only real training we ever see him do is in preparation for the Saiyan's arrival and, even then, it was shown that he wasn't taking it nearly as seriously as the others. Even with that, he became around Radditz level. And then he never trained again.
Just by hanging out in the mountains, he was basically as strong as 22nd tournament Goku, who was stronger than Roshi (who had blown up the moon).
The only real training we ever see him do is in preparation for the Saiyan's arrival and, even then, it was shown that he wasn't taking it nearly as seriously as the others. Even with that, he became around Radditz level. And then he never trained again.
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No it isn't. Like I said, Krillin and the others make him look like trash.rereboy wrote:Yajoribe's potential is perhaps the highest among the humans.
And then was almost immediately irrelevant within the power structure thereafter.Just by hanging out in the mountains, he was basically as strong as 22nd tournament Goku, who was stronger than Roshi (who had blown up the moon).
What? No he wasn't, not even close.Even with that, he became around Radditz level.
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How do you know that Yajirobe never trained? And who said that he didn't do anything and surpassed Kami?[/quote]TheGmGoken wrote:Yajoirbe was on Goku level without training and just living in woods. Then he surpass God and we know his lazy ass barely did anything.
I'm inferring due to how serious he took God training
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Krillin trained his whole life, first in a Shaolin temple, then as Roshi's student (one of the best masters in the world) and then worked his ass off training for the 21st, 22nd and 23rd tournament, and finally he was trained by Kami himself to fight the saiyans.Vice wrote:No it isn't. Like I said, Krillin and the others make him look like trash.rereboy wrote:Yajoribe's potential is perhaps the highest among the humans.
In the meantime, Yajirobe just hung in the mountains by himself, and then was trained by Kami in order to fight the Saiyans, but he put a lot less effort into it than Krillin or the others.
And, despite all that training, Krillin only ended up being a bit stronger than Yajirobe. Are you sure its Yajirobe's potential which looks bad here?
Because he never trained, except for the saiyans where he trained less than any of the others and still manage to be close to Radditz. We are talking about potential here.Vice wrote:[
And then was almost immediately irrelevant within the power structure thereafter.
There's an official power level for him somewhere in the saiyan saga. I don't remember exactly what it was but I remember thinking that it was close enough to Radditz. If I find it, I'll post it.Vice wrote:
What? No he wasn't, not even close.
EDIT: I think this is it. From V-Jump, I believe:

There's more of a difference between him and Krillin than I thought, but the fact remains that Krillin had to train a LOT more to get there. The only training Yajirobe got was Kami's training, which he didn't take as seriously as the others, and he still managed to be about as strong as Goku's maximum power when he fought Raditz.
You may want to debate the accuracy of the power levels but its still an official one I believe, and there's really nothing contradicting it in the manga. And even looking just at the manga, Kami stated at the end of their training that all of them had surpassed him. So, he surpassed god just by being trained by him for a while, without any other training. All the others humans had to traing a lot more.
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I don't know if it's "impopular" because it's what is written/draw on the manga, but Freezer has the same brute power than Perfect Cell at around 12 million units more or less.
PS: This guide contradicts the manga in nearly every character it had to make a guess. 1500 Raditz? 4000 Nappa? King Piccolo above God? Please....
PS: This guide contradicts the manga in nearly every character it had to make a guess. 1500 Raditz? 4000 Nappa? King Piccolo above God? Please....



