I'd need to reread it again but I recall him casually jumping over a building like it was nothing. Yamcha also feared him as a great martial artist. I can see him taking the Bear Thief relatively easily.
Remember how legit Bear Thief is though. Bulma literally witnessed Goku smash the Pterodactyl with absolute ease and despite that she thinks Bear Thief will kill Goku.
Bear Thief > Expected Goku >> Pterodactyl
And the Pterodactyl is capable of holding Bulma in his hands like she's a child. No average human has any chance against this Pterodactyl. You'd have to be superhuman (by our standards).
Pterodactyl should be able to defeat Mike Tyson, Brock Lesnar, and Shaq with ease. And if Hercule is a 6.66, those guys can't be much above that. I'd say our peak humans in reality top out at 7-7.5 or so. Hercule is a legit world champion in a world of freaks. In our world Hercule would be legit, but obviously we are going to put those super freaks we have above him I'd say. Tyson is probably going to be my highest power level guy. But even then the most I can put him at is like 8 or something. I can see him absolutely smashing Hercule, but he's not pulling off any Goku vs Ginyu feats you know?
Agreed, I guess we chalk it up to a lack of knowledge of ki.
Yeah, that's how I've resolved a lot of Part 1 issues. Without proper ki knowledge their defense is just not the same. They are more reliant on their bodies and natural ki defense but don't have the hardened ki defense others might have. I don't go too far with this because power level is power level, but it is a bit different in Part 1 no doubt.
Goku grew so much stronger by the time he fought Gohan that fitting it into a 10x gap feels unreasonable to me.
I have him fit into it quite reasonably. It took a lot of time, but it's possible. There's nothing we can do about the 10x Oozaru boost, this isn't like the SSJ2 boost or whatever, we are completely restricted by it. The Oozaru boost would force new interpretations on you that should be accepted. We have our limits and should abide by them. And we don't even have the play that Future 17 gave us with his less than half. I have to stretch that one because of the legit power gaps, but if Future 17 stated something like he is actually 40% power, we'd have no choice to cram everything in.
BoDB Goku is a bit weird to me. His strength feats are plain absurd, but in the 100m run he and Kuririn are only slightly better than real life records.
One way to alleviate that is knowing that travel speed and movement speed have nothing to do with each other. They might be moving at light speed in their battles but when they travel they are only like Mach 5 or whatever.
Beat Bandit is at least crushing a car with his bare hands, but size and power level have nothing to do with each other so idk what I’d make of him.
Size and power level typically go hand in hand for non-ki experts. If you just randomly see a giant bear and you see an old man with a turtle shell on his back, it's safe to assume that the giant bear would kill the old man. Now we know in this case, it's not actually true. But the assumptions from our world carry over into theirs. They aren't assuming everyone is secretly a martial arts master. Size matters, bigger people beat smaller people. So much so we had to keep smaller people away from fighting bigger people because it's unfair to the smaller people. All those natural facts should remain true.
Bear Bandit is a monstrous power. He easily defeats every human in our world. Multiples of them. Bear Bandit would absolutely demolish Shaq, Brock, and Tyson with the greatest of ease. They'd crap themselves if they were locked in a room with them. They have zero chance. They have zero chance against the Pterodactyl let alone Bear Thief.
It's going to take something supernatural to defeat the Bear Thief.
