RandomGuy96 wrote:
Nope. The most impressive measurable strength feat is whenever someone smacks away a planet buster, because those blasts work on force and kinetic energy (alternatively, Goku casually tossing giant Piccolo). The most impressive measurable speed feat is Piccolo's beam reaching the moon near-instantly when there are characters even at the time who can outrun Piccolo's beams. The most impressive measurable travel speed feat is SS Gotenks flying around the Earth several times. The most impressive measurable destructive feat is Pure Buu's star-busting level Vanishing Ball that he produced while suppressed (or Vegeta and Goku's Supernova-level ki blasts if you count DBO).
There are many more impressive feats if you count the anime, though.
None of the feats you mentioned are actually reasonably measurable because they don't give us numbers/data to measure.
Your strength feat is a relative feat that only tells us that somebody is stronger or close in power to another somebody (and tossing giant Piccolo requires less strength than what Tao Pai Pai did).
Your speed feat is more an example of cinematic timing than anything else (since such level of speed is contradicted later on and since its not reasonable to expect the author to follow the rules of physics regarding the distance of the moon to Earth and speed of light) and the manga doesn't give us any numbers regarding that or regarding Gotenks flying around.
And your destruction feat only gives a feat of destroying a planet, which had already been done by first form Freeza, without giving us any numbers.
In any case, its not really relevant which ones are the best for the point I was making.
Puto wrote:I wasn't referring to first-form Freeza. What proof do we have that Boo is [x] times stronger than Freeza? And I'm referring to final-form Freeza here, not heavily suppressed Freeza.
And why exactly do you care about final form Freeza for the purposes of this discussion? We know that first form Freeza is a planet buster since he destroyed planet Vegeta in that form. That is confirmed in the manga. So, regarding the discussion of Kid Buu being only classified as a planet buster, only first form Freeza is relevant, which is why I always only mentioned first form Freeza. Final form Freeza is irrelevant for what I was saying.
Puto wrote:Also, additionally, what proof do we have that power levels are proportional to lifting strength or destructive power or whatever?
Chapter: 227 (DBZ 33), P1.3, P2.1
Kuririn: “Guh…Goku, how’d you do that? Was that something you were taught by Lord Kaio?
Goku: “Yeah. It’s called Kaio-Ken!”
Goku: “You control all the ki in your body…momentarily amplifying it. If you get it right, your power, speed, destructive force, and defensive force all become many times greater…”
Chapter: 284 (DBZ 90), P14.1
Context: after Goku tells Ginyu to watch his scouter
Ginyu: "Kukkukku... I don't have to look at my scouter. You should most likely be able to raise it up to 85,000."
Chapter: 285 (DBZ 91), P1.2-3, P2.2
Context: as Goku continues to use the Kaio-ken
Ginyu: "Twe... 120,000... 130,000... 140,000... It's sti... sti... still rising... !!!! It... it can't be... 160,000... "Eigh... 180,000...?! Un…unbelievable…Th-this is your true power…?!!”
As you can see, we know that Kaioken (Kaioken x2) doubles everything, namely power, speed, destructive force, and defensive force. And when Goku used Kaioken in Namek, he went from a BP that Ginyu estimated to be 85.000 to basically double that (Ginyu was probably off by 5000 in his estimation). So, Kaioken doubles everything and that is translated in a scouter as double the BP. So, Kaioken = twice the power, speed, destructive force, and defensive force = twice the BP.
There's simply no better proof or a better demonstration of a correlation that this.
Puto wrote:You're working under the assumption that 'if x can destroy a planet, then y with power level equal to x*1000 can destroy 1000 planets at once'. That is NOT a fact that's backed up by any kinds of logic. In fact, let's think about that.
Saiyan-arc Vegeta has a power level of 18000. This is a fact.
Saiyan-arc Vegeta has the ability to destroy the Earth, if his words during the fight with Gokū are to be believed (and we have no reason not to).
The Farmer with Shotgun from DBZ episode 1 has a power level of 5. This is a fact.
18000/5 = 3600. The Earth has 5.972*10^24 kg of mass. By this assumption, that means that the Farmer with Shotgun has the ability to destroy any object with 5.972*10^24/3600=1.66*10^21 kg of mass. Farmer with Shotgun can blow up a continent—confirmed!
Except no, he can't, which means that power levels aren't proportional with how much one can destroy.
That's all correct... if you actually think that Toriyama is an author who is coherent and meticulous enough to accurately depict to that extent the rules of physics of the real world and accurately correspond the levels of powers of his characters with the exact real world energy needed to do such a thing... He's not.
His intent in regards to a correlation between power level and destructive force is what I posted above. The fact that that not entirely accurate regarding real world physics and energy is meaningless since he never really cared about that.