The moral alignment of Beerus

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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by saunasolmu » Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:09 pm

He's going to destroy planets anyways. He's going to kill trillions of people anyways. That's what he's supposed to do. So if he decides to destroy the planets with annoying inhabitants, I don't see how that makes him evil. He's going to have to destroy x amount of planets anyways.

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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by Doctor. » Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:12 pm

saunasolmu wrote:He's going to destroy planets anyways. He's going to kill trillions of people anyways. That's what he's supposed to do. So if he decides to destroy the planets with annoying inhabitants, I don't see how that makes him evil. He's going to have to destroy x amount of planets anyways.
But he's enjoying it... that's evil.

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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by Lord Beerus » Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:20 pm

Doctor. wrote:
saunasolmu wrote:He's going to destroy planets anyways. He's going to kill trillions of people anyways. That's what he's supposed to do. So if he decides to destroy the planets with annoying inhabitants, I don't see how that makes him evil. He's going to have to destroy x amount of planets anyways.
But he's enjoying it... that's evil.
But Beerus knows full well that all the beings he kills will be reincarnated anyway. So does it really matter? It's not like he evilly laughing like after destroying a planet like Freeza did after he destroyed Planet Vegeta.

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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by Polyphase Avatron » Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:39 pm

Goku: Lawful good
Vegeta: Neutral good
Freeza: Lawful evil
Cell: Chaotic evil
Kid Buu: Chaotic evil
Mr. Buu: Chaotic good
Kaioshin: Lawful good
Beerus: Chaotic neutral
Whis: True neutral
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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by Lord Beerus » Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:51 pm

Polyphase Avatron wrote:Goku: Lawful good
Vegeta: Neutral good
Freeza: Lawful evil
Cell: Chaotic evil
Kid Buu: Chaotic evil
Mr. Buu: Chaotic good
Kaioshin: Lawful good
Beerus: Chaotic neutral
Whis: True neutral
I'd personally say that Goku and Vegeta are more Chaotic Good than Lawful or Neutral Good. I mean, they are Saiyans and their Blood Knight characteristics can often get the best of them at the worst of times. But to their credit, they do try their best to minimise the possibility of casualties if they create too much of ruckus. So they can flip flop between Chaotic Good and Neutral Good. But other than that, every other alignment is spot on.

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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by Doctor. » Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:53 pm

Lord Beerus wrote:
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saunasolmu wrote:He's going to destroy planets anyways. He's going to kill trillions of people anyways. That's what he's supposed to do. So if he decides to destroy the planets with annoying inhabitants, I don't see how that makes him evil. He's going to have to destroy x amount of planets anyways.
But he's enjoying it... that's evil.
But Beerus knows full well that all the beings he kills will be reincarnated anyway. So does it really matter? It's not like he evilly laughing like after destroying a planet like Freeza did after he destroyed Planet Vegeta.
How does that negate the suffering that those beings had to endure when they were dying...?

Them being reincarnated doesn't negate Beerus' evil actions. By that logic, no villain in Dragon Ball is actually evil. He wasn't laughing, but he was smiling, close enough.

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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by Polyphase Avatron » Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:54 pm

Doctor. wrote:How does that negate the suffering that those beings had to endure when they were dying...?

Them being reincarnated doesn't negate Beerus' evil actions. By that logic, no villain in Dragon Ball is actually evil. He wasn't laughing, but he was smiling, close enough.
Well then every time Goku or the Z-senshi damage the Earth in a fight and figure they can just wish people back with the dragonballs, they're being evil too.

Besides, Beerus seemed more bored than happy destroying planets.
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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by Doctor. » Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:59 pm

Polyphase Avatron wrote:
Doctor. wrote:How does that negate the suffering that those beings had to endure when they were dying...?

Them being reincarnated doesn't negate Beerus' evil actions. By that logic, no villain in Dragon Ball is actually evil. He wasn't laughing, but he was smiling, close enough.
Well then every time Goku or the Z-senshi damage the Earth in a fight and figure they can just wish people back with the dragonballs, they're being evil too.

Besides, Beerus seemed more bored than happy destroying planets.
They're not damaging it on purpose and they don't enjoy it, I can't believe you're making this comparison right now.

Beerus was clearly smiling in episode 2 and even said he couldn't get bored of watching planets explode, c'mon lol.

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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by Lord Beerus » Thu Jul 16, 2015 9:10 pm

Doctor. wrote:Beerus was clearly smiling in episode 2 and even said he couldn't get bored of watching planets explode, c'mon lol.
Well, Beerus was obviously smiling about the fact that he prevented that horrible dinosaur meat from plaguing the taste buds of any other being in the universe. He's a hero, dammit! All hail Lord Beerus! :P

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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by Beerus-sama » Thu Jul 16, 2015 9:29 pm

Lord Beerus wrote:
Doctor. wrote:Beerus was clearly smiling in episode 2 and even said he couldn't get bored of watching planets explode, c'mon lol.
Well, Beerus was obviously smiling about the fact that he prevented that horrible dinosaur meat from plaguing the taste buds of any other being in the universe. He's a hero, dammit! All hail Lord Beerus! :P
:lol: :lol:

I thought he was smiling because the explotion made him remember about SSG
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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by AvatarReiko » Fri Jul 17, 2015 2:54 am

Beerus could destroy planets with no life on them. But he doesn't.

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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by singsing » Fri Jul 17, 2015 2:59 am

AvatarReiko wrote:Beerus could destroy planets with no life on them. But he doesn't.
That defeats the purpose of reincarnating souls though.

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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by FoolsGil » Fri Jul 17, 2015 3:10 am

Beers is a Type 1 Chaotic Evil. Paraphrased, more about freedom, less about evil. Capable of great evil, doesn't actually follow up unless you've flipped that switch. Type 1s are capable of working with the forces of good. Keep in mind I'm talking about Super's Beers. BoG Beers is Chaotic Neutral, but I'm sure after spending enough time with Goku, Super's Beers will eventually become Chaotic Neutral as well or maybe Chaotic Good.

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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by RandomGuy96 » Fri Jul 17, 2015 4:01 am

Solid Neutral Evil. He works within the system and does his job, but he's very peculiar about how he does it (e.g. if you can somehow amuse him, he might let you live longer). He doesn't really care about the greater good, and ses his position as a way to have fun by humiliating and stealing from people before murdering them.
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dbgtFO wrote: Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
It was actually Beerus disguised as Zarbon #StayWoke
Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.

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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Fri Jul 17, 2015 7:42 am

Polyphase Avatron wrote:Goku: Chaotic good
Vegeta: Chaotic neutral
Freeza: Lawful evil
Cell: Neutral evil
Kid Buu: Chaotic evil
Mr. Buu: Chaotic good
Kaioshin: Lawful neutral
Beerus: Chaotic neutral, Neutral evil (Super)
Whis: True neutral
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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by Diotor » Fri Jul 17, 2015 7:45 am

I'd go along with Beerus being neutral, but as he seems to be a rather capricious god, I'd probably put him somewhere along the lines of being chaotic neutral.

Someone like Freeza is somewhere between lawful evil and neutral evil.

Buu is chaotic evil.

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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by Lord Beerus » Fri Jul 17, 2015 8:48 am

DBZAOTA482 wrote:
Polyphase Avatron wrote:Goku: Chaotic good
Vegeta: Chaotic neutral
Freeza: Lawful evil
Cell: Neutral evil
Kid Buu: Chaotic evil
Mr. Buu: Chaotic good
Kaioshin: Lawful neutral
Beerus: Chaotic neutral, Neutral evil (Super)
Whis: True neutral
Fix'd.
No way Cell is Neutral Evil. He is an practically evil version of Goku. A Blood Knight who is way off the deep end; much more crueler, sadistic and twisted. He is flat out Chaotic Evil. He only show glimpses of being Neutral Evil is when he's Perfect Cell.
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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by rereboy » Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:02 am

Neutral evil. Beerus does way too many evil things willingly for petty and selfish reasons for him to be chaotic neutral.

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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by Dbzejo » Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:17 am

He is neutral. He is also one of the best characters in the entire franchise, having appeared from 2013 onwards in 2 recent movies and super, he is more entertaining and fun/unique than some of the characters that have been part of the series for 30 years...

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Re: The moral alignment of Beerus

Post by RandomGuy96 » Fri Jul 17, 2015 11:37 am

All he does is talk about food.
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dbgtFO wrote: Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
It was actually Beerus disguised as Zarbon #StayWoke
Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.

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