Most Underrated/Overrated characters?

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Pyrus said:
Overrated:

- East Kaioshin: It's not as commonly noticed, but it happens where he's perceived as Super Saiyan 2 tier due to holding Super Saiyan 2 Teen Gohan with his magic and surviving a nasty beatdown from Fat Boo. That kind of thinking would work if it wasn't his magic holding Gohan and Boo wasn't clearly toying with him.

- Vegetto: I dread Vegetto debates. He's heralded as the god of the series (because people like to ignore GT). He can do no wrong. He's invincible. You can put him up against anyone and he'll find a way to win because he's goddamned Vegetto. The fanboys of this guy are so hideously biased it's almost a pain to encounter them. Part of it is because he's comprised of Goku and Vegeta, so bias from those guys bleeds into him (the opposite for Gotenks, but we'll get to that later). Any excuse to keep this guy on top of the food chain can and will be used.

- Gogeta: This is basically the same as Vegetto. If it was stated in the manga that Gogeta was a fly compared to Vegetto, you can bet that would be ignored or called hyperbole so he could be placed second only to Godgetto. I can't decide whether his fanboys are worse than Godgetto's or not.

- Broly: The fanboyism used to be so much worse in the mid-2000s.

- Freeza: "He's the tyrant of the universe for a reason." Yeah, maybe until his story arc ended. Move on.

- Pure Boo: Final villain has to be the strongest, so many excuses and literature twisting, yada yada. It isn't bad when you've got a coherent, civil person to debate with, but people (you know who) that can't comprehend basic literary devices and rules should just be ignored.

- Super Saiyan 3 Goku: Same as Pure Boo.

- Tenshinhan: He's bald, stoic, loyal, always training, and farms and plays volleyball with Chaozu. "He held back Cell! omgzzz11!!" Awesome...now give the Shin Kikoho to Yamcha and let the nerfing unfold. I won't even get into the Krillin shenanigans.

Underrated:

- Goten/Trunks/Gotenks: It's pure bias against the characters at times combined with too much bias in favor of Goku. Debates about these characters are often filled with so much twisting and morphing of statements that you'd swear you were in a competition solely for that.

- Post-Boo Gohan: Sure, he's a pretty pathetic shell of his former Ultimate/Cell Games self, but the amount of nerfing I've seen for him in the past has bordered on disappointing. From outright ignoring the GT Perfect Files to simply making up random power placements for him, I think I've seen it all for this guy.

- Krillin: Usually in direct opposition of Tenshinhan bloating.

- Chi-Chi: Because she got one-shotted by wind and never did anything outside of filler/movies, people tend to ignore the rest of her fight with Goku at the 23rd TB, the praise she received, and the implications surrounding her entry into the tournament and even making it to fight Goku. Videl could beat her? Maybe in Universe 8 or something.
What's worse is that it wasn't even wind yet people see it as that. It was a charged ki shockwave (Kiai; which is practically invisible)... Piccolo even expletively points out it's one of his Demon Clan's techniques. The fandom are bullies.

I mean, if it really was that unimpressive defeat then nobody woulda been stunned by much less Krillin, Yamcha, and Muten Roshi.


Anyways....

Overrated

Vegeta - Even though Vegeta's like my favorite character, he gets blowed by fans a little too hard. People act like he was robbed of not receiving every bit of glory when there's reasons for it and downplay Goku on the side.

SSJ2 Gohan - So many praise this Gohan to the ground for being 'badass' so much that it's like they're not really fans of Gohan but what they want him to be.

East Kaioshin - Doesn't deserve any fans.


Underrated

Krillin - Humans in general are underrated in Dragon Ball (except Bulma, Tenshinhan, and #18) but I give it to my man Krillin. He's always got Goku's back since day one yet people keep mocking him for being "useless" and "dying a lot".

Without him Gohan woulda died....

Dabra - He died way too early and was wasted potential that not enough people caught up on.

Raditz - Same as above


Both

Broli - Fanboys act like he's greatest thing since the wheel while haters act like he's the worst thing since the holocaust. Both are equally exaggerating if you ask me.
 

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Overrated

Broly - You know a villain's overrated when he gets transformation after transformation in DBH and is heralded as a good villain, despite having the stupidest goals out of any villain I've seen in any anime/manga. Yeah, being eternally pissed at a guy who cried near you is a lot more sensible than doing so over a guy who's dad stabbed you.

Bardock - I like Bardock. His Rambo-esque trait of being a one man army in that special was pretty epic, but the guy's been in almost as many video games as Broly, despite serving very little role in the main plot. Then there's Episode of Bardock...

Son Goku - Pretty obvious. Thanks for all the power ups, Toei.

Gogeta - Even if we exclude power debates, character-wise, we barely got a glimpse of his personality in M12, yet fanboys herald him as a badass. In GT, he was basically just an adult Gotenks too, so to like Gogeta but not Gotenks makes little sense.

Tenshinhan - Gets hyped by fanboys just due to pinning down Cell. Guidebooks even state he's weaker than Kuririn, but that seems to mean jack compared to his manly shoulders.

Vegeta - Copy-paste what Squall put, along with him and Goku being on a completely different tier from the other Zet-Senshi in BoG.

Vegetto - Overrated mainly by GT haters, who instead of rolling with the guidebook statement to imply SS3 Vegetto ~ SS4 Goku, use it to say that SSJ Vegetto ~ SS4 Beyond Limits Goku.

Freeza - FnF. That is all.

Underrated

Chichi - It's a shock that Chichi VS Videl is still a common topic, or people believing she isn't even comparable to characters from the early volumes.

Artificial Humans #19/#20 - Honestly not sure how a solid argument can be made for their post-absorption selves to be lower than Freeza anymore, to be honest.

The Majority of GT characters - GT Haters have a lot of fun in nerfing many characters, whether it be believing Rild to be compared to a lower form of Boo or just ignoring any evidence given about Pan's power.

Goten/Present Trunks - "#18 is stronger than the Kids. Gohan wasn't serious against Goten." We've all heard this tirade of delusions before. Goten in particular got a lot of flak from Japanese fans when he first appeared just because he looked like Goku. Talk about not giving things a chance.

Kuririn - Beyond the whole power debates, people tend to not note how Kuririn is one of the most developed characters in the entire series, even as much as Gohan or Vegeta. He started off as a kid only interested in learning martial arts to get girls, eventually focused more on fighting for Earth's safety and finally got a good wife and family.

Piccolo Daimao - Whilst his arc is often praised as the best of part 1, not a lot of people seem to notice his villainy is on par with Freeza's. Rather than controlling everything under him, Daimao was the only villain who wanted humanity to destroy itself under total anarchy. This act of making people bring out the worst from within themselves is a great villainous quality that not many other DB Villains accomplished.
 

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Overrated is Vegeta. Although I guess it hard to objectively judge something subjective.
 

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Overrated: Broly, shoulder master Tenshinhan, (SSJ3) Goku, Jiren (only due to people taking Jiren > Belmod to mean Jiren > Hakaishin in general), Gogeta

Broly doesn't need an explanation. Trashy character, a design ripped straight out of Grade 3 Trunks' initial appearance wearing a Sailor Moon outfit, the worst backstory not produced unironically. SSJ3 Goku's overrating is obvious due to people believing him to be on par or above Gohan-Boo including (bizarrely enough) V-Jump's writing staff and possibly even forgetful ass AT himself. Jiren is the least of the evils here but his character arc is definitely overrated when he has all the personality of Future Cell (i.e. a cardboard box) and just learns to believe in friendship like 10,000 other characters in fiction with an emo backstory. Gogeta's mainly on there due to people thinking he's some omnipotent deity without limits because he occupied the top of the power chain for about 18 years after GT's ending, although his bland "personality" in M12 and the fapping he received from being a guy who probably isn't far above his base form plays a part too.

Underrated: Kid Goten/Trunks and their fusion for obvious reasons, GT Pan (only in power), Nappa through his Weekly Jump/Daizenshuu level of 4000. Boo arc Gohan can be underrated as well with some people believing he is below SPC who they rate as 2x weaker than SSJ2 Kid Gohan, and Ultimate Gohan getting undermined by some people who can't accept he and Gotenks dwarf Goku in power in the last arc of the manga.
 

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No one said Super Android #13 is overrated yet. I am disappoint.
Along with Super Android #13 being overrated, Raditz and Nappa are the two most underrated characters in DBZ, which is a shame because they're also among my favorite characters in DBZ.
 

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Along with Super Android #13 being overrated, Raditz and Nappa are the two most underrated characters in DBZ, which is a shame because they're also among my favorite characters in DBZ.
I like the Indians in DB
 

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Underrated:
Yamcha - was always pretty unlucky so didn't get many chances to shine, resulting in him getting a lot of disrespect from fans. He was like the research case in a bunch of arcs (21st Budokai fighting Jackie Chun, 22nd Budokai fighting Tenshinhan, 23rd Budokai fighting Kami, Vegeta Saga finding out the Saibamen self-destruct, Android Saga finding the androids/Dr Gero).
Chichi - kicked ass in the 23rd Budokai and was p4p most beautiful chick ("hot" feels a bit off) in the series for a bit


Overrated:

Vegeta - lol ima spam weak ki attacks for the kazillionth time and then get owned
fight iq just a bit overrated
bruh STFU Vegeta is cool
 
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