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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Wed Aug 05, 2015 9:54 pm

h0kuten wrote:Feats of the finished material over-ride the script, which is subject to change, which has and will continue to happen to Mr. Akira Toriyama.
So... you are basically picking what you like & treat you assumptions as facts in order to prove your point.
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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by Doctor. » Wed Aug 05, 2015 9:55 pm

Any opinion on my list using Freeza's 1.3M as correct?

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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by h0kuten » Wed Aug 05, 2015 10:30 pm

DBZGTKOSDH wrote:
h0kuten wrote:Feats of the finished material over-ride the script, which is subject to change, which has and will continue to happen to Mr. Akira Toriyama.
So... you are basically picking what you like & treat you assumptions as facts in order to prove your point.
Nope.

Things that happened in the script didn't happen on screen It's common fact Toei doesn't use all of Toriyama's ideas, that is 100% fact.
Doctor. wrote:Any opinion on my list using Freeza's 1.3M as correct?
Eh?

That sounded weird... Anyways, I enjoyed the list, but try and do it with the Daizenshuu's list of Goku being at 150 mill and Frieza at 120 mill. You'll see why I personally believe it to be impossible. Anywways, I'm going to try and do another one, so I'll be back shortly.

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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by Kaboom » Wed Aug 05, 2015 10:52 pm

Jaco turned down a senzu for plot-related reasons, so that there'd be one left for Goku later. There, bickering over that topic can be over now.
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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by RandomGuy96 » Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:08 pm

Fun fact: the introductory page in volume 25 of the manga outright says that Goten and Trunks are stronger than Piccolo.
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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 Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by dbgtFO » Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:09 pm

RandomGuy96 wrote:Fun fact: the introductory page in volume 25 of the manga outright says that Goten and Trunks are stronger than Piccolo.
So that would be the last volume by normal standards?
Though it may not be the case in the japanese version, I can see why the editors at Viz would think that.

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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by RandomGuy96 » Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:11 pm

dbgtFO wrote:
RandomGuy96 wrote:Fun fact: the introductory page in volume 25 of the manga outright says that Goten and Trunks are stronger than Piccolo.
So that would be the last volume by normal standards?
Though it may not be the case in the japanese version, I can see why the editors at Viz would think that.
Nah, the last is volume 26. I don't really see any reason to doubt Viz for the moment. The page in question:
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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 Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by Kaboom » Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:12 pm

RandomGuy96 wrote:Fun fact: the introductory page in volume 25 of the manga outright says that Goten and Trunks are stronger than Piccolo.
Aren't those little introductory bios and summaries just made up by Viz? I'm pretty sure the original manga volumes don't have equivalents to that. But I don't own any of the original 42 volumes in Japanese, so...
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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by RandomGuy96 » Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:13 pm

Kaboom wrote:
RandomGuy96 wrote:Fun fact: the introductory page in volume 25 of the manga outright says that Goten and Trunks are stronger than Piccolo.
Aren't those little introductory bios and summaries just made up by Viz? I'm pretty sure the original manga volumes don't have equivalents to that. But I don't own any of the original 42 volumes in Japanese, so...
Oh, are they? I'm not sure. I wouldn't be surprised, just thought that bit was interesting.
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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 Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by h0kuten » Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:14 pm

Nope, it's impossible, I can't do it. I've even got these:
Even by turning the bloat unto maximum proportions it's impossible to make Frieza's 1,300,000 number work. I guess it's best to ignore it at this point and assume he surpassed his own expectations

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Goku didn't see Vegeta die in the afterlife or Gohan, he told his friends specifically that they were dead BEFORE he returned to the afterlife.

You're also aware Viz states that Fat Buu is superior to Gotenks Ssj Pre-ROST?

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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by RandomGuy96 » Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:19 pm

h0kuten wrote: @Randomguy26
Goku didn't see Vegeta die in the afterlife or Gohan, he told his friends specifically that they were dead BEFORE he returned to the afterlife.

You're also aware Viz states that Fat Buu is superior to Gotenks Ssj Pre-ROST?
So?

No, they don't. I've seen that argument and it's based off a very poor understanding of the English language. Even if it did say that, which it doesn't, we have Herms' translation of the original line.
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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 Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by h0kuten » Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:24 pm

RandomGuy96 wrote:
h0kuten wrote: @Randomguy26
Goku didn't see Vegeta die in the afterlife or Gohan, he told his friends specifically that they were dead BEFORE he returned to the afterlife.

You're also aware Viz states that Fat Buu is superior to Gotenks Ssj Pre-ROST?
So?

No, they don't. I've seen that argument and it's based off a very poor understanding of the English language. Even if it did say that, which it doesn't, we have Herms' translation of the original line.
So... why are you using Viz to make a point...

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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by RandomGuy96 » Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:27 pm

h0kuten wrote:
RandomGuy96 wrote:
h0kuten wrote: @Randomguy26
Goku didn't see Vegeta die in the afterlife or Gohan, he told his friends specifically that they were dead BEFORE he returned to the afterlife.

You're also aware Viz states that Fat Buu is superior to Gotenks Ssj Pre-ROST?
So?

No, they don't. I've seen that argument and it's based off a very poor understanding of the English language. Even if it did say that, which it doesn't, we have Herms' translation of the original line.
So... why are you using Viz to make a point...
Because, until I see the Herms line or proof that this page doesn't exist in the Japanese manga, I have no reason to doubt it. It's not really important anyway, the manga already shows and states who's superior, I just thought it would be fun to bring up.
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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 Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by h0kuten » Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:28 pm

Because, until I see the Herms line or proof that this page doesn't exist in the Japanese manga, I have no reason to doubt it. It's not really important anyway, the manga already shows and states who's superior, I just thought it would be fun to bring up.
I will not take the bait and get into another 'Trunks fought his dad' argument, ect, ect.

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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by dbgtFO » Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:40 pm

Here's the page in japanese:
As we can see it doesn't have mini-bios on Mr. Satan, Kaioshin, Elder Kaioshin and Majin Buu, so it might not correspond completely to the story summary either.

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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by RandomGuy96 » Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:45 pm

dbgtFO wrote:Here's the page in japanese:
As we can see it doesn't have mini-bios on Mr. Satan, Kaioshin, Elder Kaioshin and Majin Buu, so it might not correspond completely to the story summary either.
Well. It exists, at least, so that's cool. I guess we can take it to the translation thread if someone is willing.
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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 Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by miguelnuva1 » Thu Aug 06, 2015 1:09 am

Frieza says he should be able to reach 1.3 million in 4 months but piccolo says the wish was nade almost 6 months ago, what I do is assume he ment 1.3 million times stronger.

Also if a person punchs 170 balloons while running and dogging they'll still get tired.

Finally Jako ran and used his laser gun to fight which is why he wasn't as tired.

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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by supercat » Thu Aug 06, 2015 1:19 am

Refraining from wiping out all thousand lackeys at once was probably counter productive in terms of conserving energy.

Frieza getting 1.3 million times stronger sounds about right.
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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by RandomGuy96 » Thu Aug 06, 2015 1:19 am

miguelnuva1 wrote:Freeza says he should be able to reach 1.3 million in 4 months but piccolo says the wish was nade almost 6 months ago, what I do is assume he ment 1.3 million times stronger.
Except that's not what he said.
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RandomGuy96 wrote:
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 Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by Saiyan007 » Thu Aug 06, 2015 1:31 am

You guys need to see the movie again gohan and piccolo don't look tired at all they took the beans for pure plot reasons.

Also if a person punchs 170 balloons while running and dogging they'll still get tired.
Are you seriously comparing a z warrior stamina to a human?

Goku back on snack way was running at hypersonic speeds for nearly 2 days near max speed

What human do you know can exert themselves for that long without dying of exhaustion
[Refraining from wiping out all thousand lackeys at once was probably counter productive in terms of conserving energy.
That makes no sense at all why would heavily supressing your power to defeat foes who are more than likely thousands-millions of times weaker than you cause you to lose energy?

It's like saying Beerus would lose energy from flicking 100000 emperor pilaf around

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