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It's no surprise that Vegeta was primarily team-minded at this stage, as opposed to pressing for a solo win with supposedly 'close' strength. Raw stats were out of the picture, it was a matter of potential: From his POV: - Krillin + Gohan would grow to become useful in a fight with an expected...

It was the first time Frieza didn't immediately get his way in a combat exchange, so it's viewed more impressively than it actually is. 1st Form Frieza mid diffs him at worst.

@Animelover5487 It wasn't just the regular humans that reacted that way. What Spopo did certainly isn't commonplace in Dragon Ball combat. I'd go a step further and say there's no comparable instance of another human doing something like this, without at least being seen as an oddball...

@Animelover5487 Having your neck twisted around and popping it back in place constitutes normal durability? I'm curious how you came to that conclusion. Onlookers were freaked out by that occurrence at large. I'm sceptical about how relevant Vegeta is to the situation. Not only was his fight...

I suppose they both fit into the broad category of baseline super strength, firmly distinct from standard human conditioning. Goku could push him back and potentially make him look silly with conventional fighting, but I'm not convinced he wins that way. Spopovitch likely wears him down over...

Likely Krillin in base stats. Tien comes off better (although futile) against opponents with a massive lead, but at the cost of life energy.

Modern Tien is capable of being involved in big battle events (as per ToP), but nowhere near as a central or deciding factor. It didn't come to mind. Dragon Ball tends to go down the brute force route as opposed to extreme hard-countering as well.

Unfortunately, there's little to no meat on the bones when it comes to survival feats in almost all scenarios. What matters: - Damage (beyond cosmetic damage, can they reduce their opponents' health significantly?) - Win Cons (now that we know they can inflict damage, do they have the ability...

It gave Trunks a chance to show his strength and competence prior to transitioning to the next plot. But that's a sad way to go out for a character that gave everyone hell at the end of the last plot. Previously imposing characters getting wrecked is just part of the Dragon Ball life cycle. Tao...

If Tupac starts in his hologram form, then he could stalemate. Otherwise, HIM blitzes. Tupac was cautious of gunfire and potentially dying from it throughout his run. That throws a spanner in the works of his scaling.

Even barring his monster form, Zarbon got his hands dirty quite a bit, while Whis fights in a comparatively clean and evasive way. It would seem that being 'fabulous' would fall in-line more with the latter. Frieza's subordinates' clothes look battle-oriented. The angel garments seem fancier.

Strength-wise, Goku Black low-diffs them. Character-wise, it's between Goku Black and Baby Vegeta. I would say the former, but I can see a case for BV. Copy-Vegeta was a bit more gimmicky, and you could tell that the situation would sort itself out fairly soon.

Nothing major. You could say the armored being would look less rough after a destructive fight. Though if Piccolo's around, that can be fixed up in no time.

Talk of Universal power came quite late into GT, while it's a central theme early on in Super. Not that this level of power isn't respected later on in the show of course.

It played a big role in the iconography of the show, especially the scouter-based variant of it. While its canonical relevance faded away -- at least numerically -- it's hard to imagine something else filling the gap in its absence had it not ever been a thing.