What's the deal with power levels?

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Kendamu
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Post by Kendamu » Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:55 am

Majin Kakarot wrote:2. In the boo saga, Goku mentions he is "1,000" x stronger than Satan. I call BS on that one. Mr.Satan's PL, at best, sould be like 20. and that would mean Goku's PL would be 20,000!! WTF??!!!
I don't think that's supposed to be taken literally. I've said things like "Person A is 100 x stronger/better than Person B" before when referring to UFC or Pride or something but it's not meant that they are literally 100x better. It's just a way of saying "This guy is so signifigantly better than that other guy that it's not even funny anymore" or whatever.

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Post by Chibi Mystic Gohan » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:24 pm

That's not even what he said (the statement in question can be seen in the "Gotan" section of the site's Fusion Guide). He says that if he had a power of 1,000, his power would probably only rise to 1,001 (or decrease). He was just throwing out numbers, not power levels. :P

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