Is Vegetto the Strongest of Any Anime Characters?

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Re: Is Vegetto the Strongest of Any Anime Characters?

Post by Cursed Lemon » Sun Jan 12, 2014 10:35 pm

Rocketman wrote:You can't destroy a black hole. It is a hole, nothingness. It is not even empty space.
Technically we're not sure if a black hole isn't some kind of even deeper degenerate matter (conventional mathematics says this isn't true, I think).

Even then, though...disregarding actual real-life physics, will we make the assumption that Vegetto could propel himself faster than the speed of light?
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Post by rereboy » Sun Jan 12, 2014 10:39 pm

Rocketman wrote:You can't destroy a black hole. It is a hole, nothingness. It is not even empty space.
If you cause it to cease to be a black hole, to exist, you would have destroyed the black hole. There would no longer be any black hole (which is basically the definition of being destroyed, ceasing to exist).

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Re: Is Vegetto the Strongest of Any Anime Characters?

Post by Rocketman » Sun Jan 12, 2014 10:44 pm

rereboy wrote:If you cause it to cease to be a black hole, you would have destroyed the black hole. There would no longer be any black hole.
And how do you propose to do that?
Cursed Lemon wrote:Even then, though...disregarding actual real-life physics, will we make the assumption that Vegetto could propel himself faster than the speed of light?
Disregarding real-life physics, the question is meaningless.

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Re: Is Vegetto the Strongest of Any Anime Characters?

Post by rereboy » Sun Jan 12, 2014 10:51 pm

Rocketman wrote:
rereboy wrote:If you cause it to cease to be a black hole, you would have destroyed the black hole. There would no longer be any black hole.
And how do you propose to do that?
I'm sorry, are we discussion feats by fictional characters in fictional works of entertainment or discussing theoretical astrophysics?

We don't even know how real black holes work, let alone fictional black holes in fictional universes.

Whatever is required to do that doesn't really matter other than the fact that its more impressive and probably signifies a great deal of more power than blowing up physical celestial objects. Probably involves unbelievably strong magic and/or reality-space-time warping abilities.

(And being impossible and not coherent with our understanding of the real world doesn't really matter because Dragon Ball is guilty of the same.)

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Re: Is Vegetto the Strongest of Any Anime Characters?

Post by mmg86 » Sun Jan 12, 2014 10:55 pm

Rocketman wrote:
rereboy wrote:If you cause it to cease to be a black hole, you would have destroyed the black hole. There would no longer be any black hole.
And how do you propose to do that?
Like this, perhaps?

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Re: Is Vegetto the Strongest of Any Anime Characters?

Post by Rocketman » Sun Jan 12, 2014 10:57 pm

rereboy wrote:Whatever is required to do that doesn't really matter other than the fact that its more impressive and probably signifies a great deal of more power than blowing up physical celestial objects. Probably involves unbelievably strong magic and/or reality-space-time warping abilities.
Black holes are not part of reality/space-time.
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Re: Is Vegetto the Strongest of Any Anime Characters?

Post by rereboy » Sun Jan 12, 2014 11:01 pm

Rocketman wrote:
rereboy wrote:Whatever is required to do that doesn't really matter other than the fact that its more impressive and probably signifies a great deal of more power than blowing up physical celestial objects. Probably involves unbelievably strong magic and/or reality-space-time warping abilities.
Black holes are not part of reality/space-time.
You did notice that that was merely a suggestion of the kind of level of powers that probably had to be involved, right? I almost put "reality-space-time-dimension-thing warping abilities" before I figured it was too long.

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Re: Is Vegetto the Strongest of Any Anime Characters?

Post by Toriyama-sama » Sun Jan 12, 2014 11:03 pm

rereboy wrote:Like what? Resisting Buu's candy beam is probably just because he's so strong compared to Buu that not even Buu's magic worked properly.
Well, it's magic, ain't it? :wink:
No, disappear or cease to exist in the same way that a person ceases to exist when she is killed. There are lots of ways a person can be killed, but all that matters is that the person ceases to exist right? Its the same line of thought regarding a black hole.
Well, you can't kill a black hole, now can you? Don't really get the point you're trying to make.
You can't blow up a black hole, and if you google "destroy black hole" the results you'll find don't exactly match the definition you'd expect, and besides they correspond to still unsettled hypotheses which, in case they are actually true, wouldn't really be that impressive for a DBZ character to accomplish (namely, raise the BH's angular momentum past a certain value and you get rid of the event horizon - singularity's still there though, and there's no going around that as far as our understanding goes).
Now, if an author comes up with a fictional way of destroying (as in "snaps fingers and it vanishes") a fictional black hole, then he gets to decide how said move works. Remember when Chaozu's telekinesis didn't work on Piccolo Daimao? Who's to say the same won't happen this time? And I hope we can agree Vegetto is in every way superior to Akkuman. But Akkuman can kill Vegetto, can't he?
Summing things up, physical strength and ki are not the same as magic.

Most of the characters listed by me on that list on the top half aren't ordinary scientists with extraordinary machines, but beings of incredible power that surpass Vegetto in every way.
Well, you see, I am not trying to argue that this particular character from this particular universe can't beat someone else. Even if just because I'm not familiar with most of them. What I'm trying to point out is that bringing up expressions such as "black hole buster", "Big Bang survivor" or "multiverse buster" have absolutely no scientific meaning, so it's no use making an argument based on them comparing different fictional universes with different sets of governing laws, because the meanings can freely vary between each since they don't really mean anything in the real world. "Busting" a four-galaxy universe isn't quite the same as "busting" our Universe, right?

And you ignored my completely. Nice.
No, I didn't. Just trying to make you understand what I mean by complexity. That a system of particles is more complex than a particle. And actually a black hole's structure is relatively simple (which is not to say the calculations can't get out of control pretty quicky).

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Re: Is Vegetto the Strongest of Any Anime Characters?

Post by Mewzard » Sun Jan 12, 2014 11:11 pm

Rocketman wrote:
rereboy wrote:If you cause it to cease to be a black hole, you would have destroyed the black hole. There would no longer be any black hole.
And how do you propose to do that?
Well, if you removed/destroyed enough matter inside that the mass within a certain space wasn't too great, it would no longer be a blackhole. Black Holes themselves can drop in mass overtime due to Hawking Radiation.

And no, I would not say Vegetto is the strongest of any Anime/Manga character. Not even close really.

Characters from Saint Seiya surpassed Vegetto before Goku even knew he was a Saiyan (So many techniques that could cause Vegetto insane trouble).

It's looking more and more like high tier Toriko characters could really do some damage to DBZ characters (Jirou punching a Jupiter-sized planet so hard the planet itself stopped rotating and everyone was knocked in place, and Ichiryu's Minority World? Vegetto's body would completely stop functioning *no breathing, amongst other things*).

Jojo's Bizarre Adventures characters definitely could beat Vegetto. That series had some insaaaane powers. At least one villain could reset the entire universe on Vegetto.

Those are just series in my Top 10 Jump Series list (DB's in there too) that could beat Vegetto.

Sailor Moon at the end of the series was insanely powerful (though I think Toei tried to tone her down in the anime, she did defeat Chaos itself, a ridiculous feat).
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Post by mmg86 » Sun Jan 12, 2014 11:21 pm

Now that i think about it, all this discussion about Black Holes started because of the "blackhole buster" label for a Diebuster character, back on the first page, right? Forget about how weird it sounds to you all to destroy it (which as i understand, was done with a kick...)... apparently the same series has some sort of space mollusk that uses a black hole as a shell or something... here there seems to be some info about it (though i cant vouch for the accuracy of it, given how often the members of that website make stuff up):

http://outskirtsbattledome.wikispaces.c ... avity+Well

And here is their profile for the "black hole kicker":

http://outskirtsbattledome.wikispaces.c ... ile+-+Nono

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Post by Rocketman » Sun Jan 12, 2014 11:23 pm

mmg86 wrote:Now that i think about it, all this discussion about Black Holes started because of the "blackhole buster" label for a Diebuster character, back on the first page, right? Forget about how weird it sounds to you all to destroy it (which as i understand, was done with a kick...)... apparently the same series has some sort of space mollusk that uses a black hole as a shell or something... here there seems to be some info about it (though i cant vouch for the accuracy of it, given how often the members of that website make stuff up):

http://outskirtsbattledome.wikispaces.c ... avity+Well

And here is their profile for the "black hole kicker":

http://outskirtsbattledome.wikispaces.c ... ile+-+Nono
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Post by saberman90 » Sun Jan 12, 2014 11:30 pm

While I was browsing /a/ today, I found something interesting. Unfortunately Vegetto was not there, but Goku and Beerus are (They're on the right side).

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Post by Rocketman » Sun Jan 12, 2014 11:36 pm

Claiming any fictional character is "multiversal" is retarded because it can't affect our universe.

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Post by DragonBalllKaiHD » Sun Jan 12, 2014 11:38 pm

I'm not really sure if any anime characters could destroy black holes. For one thing, black holes are so dense and have extremely powerful gravity that not even light could escape it. How could an anime character's power even harm the black hole when the light, which is the fastest in the universe, is unable to do anything at all?

What's even more uncertainty is that we are not even sure if the black holes exist at all. All we had was unproven theory that they would be hypothetically existed in the universe. Black holes are just as mystery as dark energy, which supposedly was the cause of the accelerated expansion of the universe. I myself don't believe the dark energy exists. If that was the case, then the universe would have heat death already.
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Post by Mewzard » Sun Jan 12, 2014 11:56 pm

Rocketman wrote:Claiming any fictional character is "multiversal" is retarded because it can't affect our universe.
Mulitversal refers to multiple universes, not all universes. Omniversal would be all universes.

And it's fiction anyways, so I fail to see the issue.
DragonBalllKaiHD wrote:I'm not really sure if any anime characters could destroy black holes. For one thing, black holes are so dense and have extremely powerful gravity that not even light could escape it. How could an anime character's power even harm the black hole when the light, which is the fastest in the universe, is unable to do anything at all?

What's even more uncertainty is that we are not even sure if the black holes exist at all. All we had was unproven theory that they would be hypothetically existed in the universe. Black holes are just as mystery as dark energy, which supposedly was the cause of the accelerated expansion of the universe. I myself don't believe the dark energy exists. If that was the case, then the universe would have heat death already.
Going beyond the speed of light can and does happen in fiction. Superman's several times the speed of light in modern incarnations. During the fights with the Gold Saints in Saint Seiya (who fight at the speed of light at least), there were times when the Bronzes were able to surpass their speed to attack them (and that was before facing gods and other powerful foes who were even faster than that). Hypnos, God of Sleep, said it would take a cold several hundred times below Absolute Zero to freeze his Surplice...make of that what you will, given what Absolute Zero is.

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Post by DragonBalllKaiHD » Mon Jan 13, 2014 12:20 am

Eh... It's kind of ridiculous to have powers that could go beyond 0 degree Kelvin, even in fiction. It's impossible to have the degree of this magnitude. Absolute zero is when atomic particles become motionless because there's no more energy to cause the vibration. Not even outer space itself could reach absolute zero. The natural coldest place known in the universe is located in Bowtie Nebulae, which only has about 1 degree kelvin.
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Post by Mewzard » Mon Jan 13, 2014 12:29 am

DragonBalllKaiHD wrote:Eh... It's kind of ridiculous to have powers that could go beyond 0 degree Kelvin, even in fiction. It's impossible to have the degree of this magnitude. Absolute zero is when atomic particles become motionless because there's no more energy to cause the vibration. Not even outer space itself could reach absolute zero. The natural coldest place known in the universe is located in Bowtie Nebulae, which only has about 1 degree kelvin.
At that point, you're dealing with gods, in the realm of where the impossible happens. Going beyond the speed of light is also impossible, yet fiction allows such things. One could try to argue what below Absolute Zero means, is the natural motion of an object reversed? Is the energy turned negative, as if the particle suddenly became Anti-matter?

Makes one think, what would the impossible mean? Then again, many things were deemed impossible by the science of old, so even things we take for granted as certain now, somethings are later clarified to the point where the old is wrong...or at least inaccurate as new things are discovered.

It's really physically impossible for a single human being to contain the power we've seen from characters like Tenshinhan or Krillin, so one has to ask where one limits themselves in fiction.
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Post by Rocketman » Mon Jan 13, 2014 12:37 am

If you can move at absolute zero, then it is not absolute zero, and calling it such is bullshit to plump up your character's peen.

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Post by Draken » Mon Jan 13, 2014 2:37 am

Rocketman wrote:If you can move at absolute zero, then it is not absolute zero, and calling it such is bullshit to plump up your character's peen.
Omnipotent beings would be able to, or those above the laws of the universe.

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Post by rereboy » Mon Jan 13, 2014 7:59 am

Toriyama-sama wrote: Well, it's magic, ain't it? :wink:
The only thing magical was Buu's beam. The fact that Vegetto was so strong compared to Buu that Buu's magic didn't work properly doesn't make Vegetto magical or make him have magical abilities. That would be like saying that if Vegetto resisted Chaotzu's telekinesis because he is so strong compared to Chaotzu, then Vegetto has telekinesis.
Well, you can't kill a black hole, now can you? Don't really get the point you're trying to make.
You can't blow up a black hole, and if you google "destroy black hole" the results you'll find don't exactly match the definition you'd expect, and besides they correspond to still unsettled hypotheses which, in case they are actually true, wouldn't really be that impressive for a DBZ character to accomplish (namely, raise the BH's angular momentum past a certain value and you get rid of the event horizon - singularity's still there though, and there's no going around that as far as our understanding goes).
Now, if an author comes up with a fictional way of destroying (as in "snaps fingers and it vanishes") a fictional black hole, then he gets to decide how said move works. Remember when Chaozu's telekinesis didn't work on Piccolo Daimao? Who's to say the same won't happen this time? And I hope we can agree Vegetto is in every way superior to Akkuman. But Akkuman can kill Vegetto, can't he?
Summing things up, physical strength and ki are not the same as magic.
Jeez... Like I've already stated: "If you cause it to cease to be a black hole, you would have destroyed the black hole. There would no longer be any black hole."

In other words, you would have essentially destroyed the black hole. What is it that you don't understand in this straightforward concept?

Well, you see, I am not trying to argue that this particular character from this particular universe can't beat someone else. Even if just because I'm not familiar with most of them. What I'm trying to point out is that bringing up expressions such as "black hole buster", "Big Bang survivor" or "multiverse buster" have absolutely no scientific meaning, so it's no use making an argument based on them comparing different fictional universes with different sets of governing laws, because the meanings can freely vary between each since they don't really mean anything in the real world. "Busting" a four-galaxy universe isn't quite the same as "busting" our Universe, right?
And I've already told you that clinging to scientific accuracy when not even Dragon Ball does it in the slightest is pointless. The terms you are criticizing are all straightforward concepts that don't need scientific accuracy to be understood and that are meant to reflect the scale of the powers of those characters because, guess what, they actually destroy universes and black holes, and survive explosions with energy equivalent to the big bang in their fictional universes.

You're confusing reality with fiction and missing the point of those terms entirely while still somehow arguing in favor of Dragon Ball characters like they had any more scientific accuracy than those other characters...

No, I didn't. Just trying to make you understand what I mean by complexity. That a system of particles is more complex than a particle. And actually a black hole's structure is relatively simple (which is not to say the calculations can't get out of control pretty quicky).
In other words, you took an adjective I used freely to describe a black hole to explain that we don't understand how they work, and used the opportunity to continue to insist on scientific accuracy. And you say you didn't miss the point. Ok.

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