So Gohan has no lightning in about a dozen to a dozen and a half panels, around 2 pages in total out of an entire volume. That's pretty consistent. Hell, most of those panels were when they massively enlarged theri auras in preparation for their final Kamehameha duel, so really it's not even a...
I think AT still making a conscious effort to draw 95% of panels involving post-transformation Goku and Majin Vegeta with lightning, and making a conscious effort not to with post-Budokai SSJ Gohan on top of Gohan never having an aura more intense than Goku's in the CG (other than when he was...
But it has lightning. And there are panels where Gotenks has a less intense aura as well, or lacks lightning. But since Vegeta has lightning drawn on that page, and Gotenks had the long hair indicative of a SSJ3, AT probably thought "this should be a good enough indicator since I'm consistent...
Gohan also lacks lightning in sone scattered panels in the CG. I never said lightning was present in all 100% of panels, but it is more or less consistently there. With post-Budokai Gohan, it is ALWAYS not there and the aura is unmistakably that of regular SSJ.
I am not saying SSJg3 is anything like SSJ2. But it has an aura that looks like a large sphere of electricity, and those qualities just disappear and look like a generic flight/quick motion aura effect when the user is flying.
There's lightning on the adjacent panel lol. Nobody says AT...
SSJg3 auras lost their electric qualities when the user was making quick movements as well. Plus, both cases had Vegeta have lightning on the very same page, without a visible power up like in the pages I linked to above. In my pages, his aura returned to the less pronounced firey aura of a...
You can argue Goku was at first comparing Dabura to the Cell he fought 7 yrs ago, not FP PC or Zenkai PC. This fits in with a weakened Gohan being around his level. No matter what the case he isn't comparing Dabura to SPC who is closer to SSJ2 Kid Gohan than SSJ2 Teenaged Gohan and would beat...
Vegeta and Goku only lack lightning in a couple of panels, and Vegeta could have gone back down to SSJ once Goku was out cold since there was no threat. Gohan never had lightning in any panel after the Budokai.
I believe Toriyama depicted him with an SSJ1 aura for a reason. The fiercer aura and accompanying lightning bolts were present in the Budokai, no reason for AT to omit them from SSJ2 Gohan.
It was stated that Babidi spent 10 yrs gathering the energy, so he probably engaged in many fights. By Super logic, that could make him a few times stronger.
Future Dabura was born and converted to Majin centuries before the timeline split. The future cyborgs were converted after. So the additional passage of time could simply have made him stronger.