Kaboom wrote:Though the pamphlet's power levels in general can probably be considered a big "take it or leave" type of deal, with how wonky and contrary to other official levels a lot of them are.
Yeah, at the very least all those numbers for pre-Z characters certainly don't seem to have been made with the idea of Goku having a BP of 10 at the start of the series in mind. Unless they really meant to claim Pilaf was stronger than Goku. But kid Goku's BP of 10 wasn't assigned until Daizenshuu 7 came out years later, so I guess it's understandable. Still, they've even got some of the Red Ribbon guys as stronger than Kame-sennin's 139, so who knows what they were thinking?
Overall I think it was a mistake to throw the DBZ movie 3 pamphlet BPs into the Combined List like that. They seem to just be their own thing, without necessarily trying to tie into the numbers from the main series. We left out the video game BPs from the Combined List for a similar reason (that, and different games give different BPs for the same character). For instance, Attack of the Saiyans has General White at 800, but I doubt this was intended to reflect his strength from the actual series; it's just do that he can be strong enough to have a proper boss battle against. And of course they've got No.8 at 888, an obvious joke.
Still, the whole point of the Battle Power Guide is to document all the battle powers given in official material, whatever they may be. And, as I often point out, battle powers were never really meant to be a particularly coherent system, so Who Are We To Judge which ones "deserve" to be included? But maybe the entire Combined List page should be reorganized so that it gives a rundown of everything organized according to source rather than the series' internal chronology?