A cool You Tube video looking at what would happen if you were hit my a Kamehameha, from a physics angle, similar to the 'What if Superman punched you' video.
Wow physics way to show how lucky the DBZ universe works the way it does...and how lucky we are not to have the Kamehameha technique and its variations.
Cool video. But I have no idea how he came to the conclusion that SSJ4 Gogeta had BP of 25,000,000,000. I'm not OCD about Battle Power's but even I know that's really wrong.
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Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
Lord Beerus wrote:Cool video. But I have no idea how he came to the conclusion that SSJ4 Gogeta had BP of 25,000,000,000. I'm not OCD about Battle Power's but even I know that's really wrong.
Yeah he's wrong on that one. Perhaps he multiplied the 2 billion whatever fo Gogeta in V-Jump by a made up SSJ4 Multiplier to get that number.
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
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Doctor. wrote:I've explained before, I'll just paraphrase myself.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
Lord Beerus wrote:Cool video. But I have no idea how he came to the conclusion that SSJ4 Gogeta had BP of 25,000,000,000. I'm not OCD about Battle Power's but even I know that's really wrong.
Yeah he's wrong on that one. Perhaps he multiplied the 2 billion whatever fo Gogeta in V-Jump by a made up SSJ4 Multiplier to get that number.
Honestly, I don't think it matters what his supposed power level is. What matters is that x100 Big Bang Kamehameha would completely obliterate the Solar System and then some, though I can't help but wonder what would happen to the one who fired the blast?
"Your body would become as hot as the sun for a few nanoseconds, before your atoms fly apart"
In the "physics" of DB, Kamehamehas aren't actually that hot, are they? They don't even significantly increase in brightness based on powerlevel; a Taiyoken, for example, is always brighter. Mr.Satan never got flash burns from seeing ki blasts.
Rather than trying to conform DB to real life physics, it probably makes more sense to just find consistent internal rules, because series incidentally establish their own "physics" purely through world building.
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
jjgp1112 wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:31 am
I'm just about done with the concept of reboots and making shows that were products of their time and impactful "new and sexy" and in line with modern tastes and sensibilities. Let stuff stay in their era and give today's kids their own shit to watch.
I always side eye the people who say "Now my kids/today's kids can experience what I did as a child!" Nigga, who gives a fuck about your childhood? You're an adult now and it was at least 15 years ago. Let the kids have their own experience instead of picking at a corpse.
Regarder wrote:"Your body would become as hot as the sun for a few nanoseconds, before your atoms fly apart"
In the "physics" of DB, Kamehamehas aren't actually that hot, are they? They don't even significantly increase in brightness based on powerlevel; a Taiyoken, for example, is always brighter. Mr.Satan never got flash burns from seeing ki blasts.
Rather than trying to conform DB to real life physics, it probably makes more sense to just find consistent internal rules, because series incidentally establish their own "physics" purely through world building.
The whole point of the video is to talk a bit about what would happen if they were real, not what would happen to an average person from the DB universe inside the DB universe.
Regarder wrote:"Your body would become as hot as the sun for a few nanoseconds, before your atoms fly apart"
In the "physics" of DB, Kamehamehas aren't actually that hot, are they? They don't even significantly increase in brightness based on powerlevel; a Taiyoken, for example, is always brighter. Mr.Satan never got flash burns from seeing ki blasts.
Rather than trying to conform DB to real life physics, it probably makes more sense to just find consistent internal rules, because series incidentally establish their own "physics" purely through world building.
The whole point of the video is to talk a bit about what would happen if they were real, not what would happen to an average person from the DB universe inside the DB universe.
But my point is that DB physics don't work that way, and the kamehameha doesn't act like that, so if you were to pull it into the real world, it would NOT be burning people so much. The video is really about what would happen if you were hit by something that could destroy the moon or a supernova. The DB stuff is just to appeal to fans. More realistic series could be analyzed in this way, but not DB, unless you ignore tons of stuff. It's too cartoonish.
Regarder wrote:"Your body would become as hot as the sun for a few nanoseconds, before your atoms fly apart"
In the "physics" of DB, Kamehamehas aren't actually that hot, are they? They don't even significantly increase in brightness based on powerlevel; a Taiyoken, for example, is always brighter. Mr.Satan never got flash burns from seeing ki blasts.
Rather than trying to conform DB to real life physics, it probably makes more sense to just find consistent internal rules, because series incidentally establish their own "physics" purely through world building.
The whole point of the video is to talk a bit about what would happen if they were real, not what would happen to an average person from the DB universe inside the DB universe.
But my point is that DB physics don't work that way, and the kamehameha doesn't act like that, so if you were to pull it into the real world, it would NOT be burning people so much. The video is really about what would happen if you were hit by something that could destroy the moon or a supernova. The DB stuff is just to appeal to fans. More realistic series could be analyzed in this way, but not DB, unless you ignore tons of stuff. It's too cartoonish.
So, no fun allowed.
It doesn't work line that because its not real. But if it was real, aka the whole point of the video, it would work more or less like the video describes.
Polyphase Avatron wrote:I'd rather be hit by a genki dama. Then I can at least hope that I'm pure of heart.
what about the huge crater that genki dama makes? assuming that the ground would also be pure of heart doesn't stop it from being completely obliterated. being pure of heart only would ease the blow or prevents genki dama from taking its full advantage of the evil heart. but it doesn't necessary make someone invisible from being completely hurt by genki dama.
Anyway, to think when we were little that we had always wanted to do a Kamehameha wave... Only to find out that it'd launch us backward into the solar system if we were to try it, with a Big Bang Kamehameha being able to destroy our solar system and more with just one use.
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Polyphase Avatron wrote:I'd rather be hit by a genki dama. Then I can at least hope that I'm pure of heart.
what about the huge crater that genki dama makes? assuming that the ground would also be pure of heart doesn't stop it from being completely obliterated. being pure of heart only would ease the blow or prevents genki dama from taking its full advantage of the evil heart. but it doesn't necessary make someone invisible from being completely hurt by genki dama.
Well Gohan was able to deflect it because he was pure of heart. Maybe someone else could do the same.