Judging my the way it's written, it seems very unexpected.Piririn wrote: Plus, Freeza blew up Namek when he was losing against Goku during the Freeza saga. So it's not like him blowing up Earth is unexpected.
At worst, people would expect him to raise his hand, concentrate a ball, say "can you survive in space?" and throw it down from the air. More than enough time to intervene if you expect such a trick.
But here, Freezer is apparently on his knees and hands to the ground, with a blast suddenly coming out of his hand without any kind of warning, with the beam being hidden through the ground and impossible to intercept.
Nobody could see that one coming. Aside from Vegeta against Reacum, I think it's mostly unprecedented to have a character throwing a surprise blast without charging it first and saying "Here's what I'm gonna do now, you're caught my surprise, aren't you?" - and even Vegeta actually moved his arms to Reacum's face to blast him.
Again, compare the way Freezer destroyed Namek, in which case Goku could have easily interrupted him if he expected that kind of reaction, and the way it is written for this movie.
It really seems as if you were The Flash fighting a guy equiped with a bomb, and you'd expect that if he tries something, he will try to reach for a button, leaving you more than enough time to prevent it if it happens, except that in the end, all it takes to trigger it is actually for him to blink twice: no way to see that coming even when you expected him to do something to trigger the bomb.
If you're watching if someone will make a dangerous move and without them even moving it just goes blast-BOOM, anybody would be caught by surprise.
Very clever twist of events here, just by reading the recap, I could imagine how shocking the scene is.




