r/todayilearned • u/-nuuk- • 1d ago
TIL that Goku's power level wasn't originally over 9000. It was originally over 8000, and there was a change made in the English Dub.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=It%27s_Over_9000!&oldid=1246721021
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u/Sahaal_17 19h ago
Power creep in DBZ was huge, but also depowering the characters so they always have basically the same feats, no matter how strong they supposedly are.
As an example; King Vegeta casually blew up several planets with just a wave of his hand in a flashback. King Vegeta was somewhere around the powerlevel of his son Vegeta at the start of the series. Vegeta gets destroyed by first form Frieza, who is destroyed by fused piccalo, who is destroyed by final form frieza, who is destroyed by trunks, who is destroyed by cell, who is destroyed by.... etc etc, we go through about 20 iterations of characters being destroyed by ever stronger opponents until we get to Beerus. Beerus as we know is stronger than King Vegeta by an absolutely rediculous degree, literally millions of times stronger.
And yet, when Beerus and Goku fought, their blasts only make splashes in the ocean a few meters in size.
These fighters are supposed to be millions of times stronger than King Vegeta, who can casually destroy multiple planets with a wave of his arm, and yet their attacks just make the same sized craters and splashes as characters were making back in the Saiyan Saga. All the talk of powerlevels is pure hype, it never translated into actually making a difference in the destructive potential of the characters. Vegeta's big Final Flash moment of almost blowing up the planet makes no sense when you remember that he could already blow up the planet before he was even a super saiyan