Power levels inconsistent?

[Eternal Super Saiyan]

In Dragon Ball, particularly the beginning, I find power levels to be not very consistent. Like you have Goku in DB, said to have started the series at 10. He can throw cars, and bullets can't kill him (Bulma shot him in the HEAD and he said "OUCH")

And then we got that farmer in the beginning of the next series Dragon Ball Z, when Raditz arrives. He's at 5. Just a normal person who probably rarely works out, and his number is half of Goku's in the beginning of DB?

[Herms]

I discussed this issue a little while back in this thread.

[Eternal Super Saiyan]

I discussed this issue a little while back in this thread.

Thanks for the reply, I've been off this site for a long time and haven't seen everything being posted since then I guess we'll just close this thread.

[TenshiGokuu]

In Dragon Ball, particularly the beginning, I find power levels to be not very consistent. Like you have Goku in DB, said to have started the series at 10. He can throw cars, and bullets can't kill him (Bulma shot him in the HEAD and he said "OUCH")

And then we got that farmer in the beginning of the next series Dragon Ball Z, when Raditz arrives. He's at 5. Just a normal person who probably rarely works out, and his number is half of Goku's in the beginning of DB?

well no shit i dont think 14 gokus with pl of 10 would be able to bust a moon with kamehameha, considering it struggled to bust a car