Superman Goku Essay
Superman Goku Essay
Superman Goku Essay
Under scaling Apokolips and New Genesis by several hundred planetary radii.
Failure to account for distance, coverage, gravitational flux, heat, force, and biology when scaling Frieza's
survival of exploding Namek.
Scaling Superman's durability with a scene where he was faking being unconscious.
Disregard for technique, biology, and training when Power Scaling in general.
Massively under scaling Wonder Woman's durability and resistance to heat, and then Power Scaling off of
her.
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First off, he contradicts himself. He says canon manga only, then he says GT is in. GT has nothing to do
with the manga. He also says anime filler is in. By definition, anime filler has no manga backing. This
guy is clearly an idiot.
He says Superman can survive in space, but not go on forever. This is false, Superman has no need for
air or food and water, he can exist in space indefinitely. Yes he posts a scan with Superman and Green
Lantern, but it's taken out of context. To speak, you need air. For Superman to talk to GL, he needs air
around his mouth to create sound waves. It's not life support, it's communication.
He says Goku can survive in space for long periods of time. This is wrong, Goku still needs air. He can
survive being in space, but he still needs to breathe. He can live in space for only as long as he can hold
his breath.
He claims the solar flare would distract Superman, but that is wrong. Superman's corneas are far to
durable to be affected by mere bright light. Superman does not become more vulnerable when using
heat vision. Using Wonder Woman as an example is silly, as she's only slightly less powerful than
superman, thus she's far more powerful than anyone in DBZ.
He claims Goku withstanding lightning, means he can withstand solar-level heat. Well, normal people
have been hit by lightning and they weren't burned to a crisp, so obviously the heat is not a huge factor in
how lightning can kill you. Also, people survive lightning strikes all the time. Something that's not
universally lethal to humans is nowhere near Superman's league, it would have to be something like a
nuke for him to even feel it.
He says Goku's ki can blow up planets. No shit, Screwattack gave Goku enough Ki Output to blow up the
Earth twelve times over in the video. It's still not enough. So, he's right about Goku but, wrong about the
video, so we'll call that half wrong.
He talks about Ki Sense, which is stupid. Superman's body has no Chi/Ki, as stated specifically within the
comics, so that entire section is wrong.
He thinks that Instant Transmission is travel speed and makes Goku's punches faster. This is wrong, and
IT would be useless as there is no one else in a Death Battle, no other Ki to sense. In this fight, IT is a
completely useless ability.
After-image fools sight, Superman would not be fooled by it. He has x-ray vision, and an after-image has
no organs, he'd instantly detect the ruse so that's another useless ability.
Emotion reading is useless, Superman can easily resist anything but the most powerful telepaths.
Telekinesis is a great power, but unless Goku has thrown planets around with it, it means nothing.
Then he goes on about Power Levels, but Power Levels are vastly inconsistent in DBZ and relying on
them has proven to be foolish, even in the show itself. In Death Battle, they judged Goku's Ki output by
what he himself has done, not by comparing him to others. Power level, if it even means anything,
gauges strength, speed, durability, energy, etc all together. But Power Level 1,000 doesn't mean the
same thing for two different people, one might be faster, the other stronger, so the numbers themselves
hold little concrete value.
He says Cell could blow up a Solar System, but it never actually happens. He makes a decent claim that
it would not have been included if the author didn't mean it, but since it did not happen, this is Toriyama
screwing his own characters over, take your complaint to him.
His ABC logic is irrelevant, Goku's training and abilities are unique to him. He's more powerful than many
other characters, but he does not have their abilities. He can't breathe in space like Freiza, he doesn't
have that body switching trick, and he can't stop time by holding his breath. That entire premise of his is
wrong.
The scans he posted of Goku taking a nuke are again interpreted wrong. It does not take a nuclear blast
to create a mushroom cloud. Goku is tough, but his pants are not. A real Nuke would have blasted him
naked. Maybe not the author's intent, but again, screwing over his own characters.
Goku can survive planet-busting attacks. Yes, yes he can. Doesn't change anything. Moving on.
He claims the weight in the scan is inaccurate, but it's really not. If Dragon ball says he's X strong as a
child, but Y strong as an adult, again, screwed by his own writers, go complain to them. 40 tons is the
limit of his base form.
He says using pressure points would not work on Goku, as he does not have human biology. That is
correct. I guess it's a good thing in the video that Superman said it wasn't working until he used X-Ray
and microscopic vision to find them anyway, so he's an idiot who doesn't pay attention here.
Then there's some crap about martial arts, blah blah, doesn't matter, Goku is to slow to land a hit anyway.
And he ignores how many styles Superman actually knows, nice selective memory. Or just stupidity,
either way. Next.
He claims Goku can fly faster than light. Yup. They said this in the video. Superman is still faster. He
says Goku is fast enough to become invisible. Well, you don't even need to be supersonic to do that, so
he's just an idiot.
He claims the Special Beam Cannon is as fast as light. This is wrong, as it relies on a mistranslation of
the actual Manga, and everything that comes after this is thus also wrong.
Then he actually tries to claim Instant Transmission is combat speed, and that is so wrong and stupid that
it actually hurt to read it. Force = Mass x Acceleration, and Instant Transmission doesn't involve
Acceleration at all: it's teleportation, where Goku goes from Point A to Point B without ever traversing the
space between, but combat speed relies on that space in order to induce acceleration. If Goku uses
Instant Transmission that way, then all his punches have is Mass, which just slices their effectiveness in
half.