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** Somewhere, there's a timeline where Zamasu never meets Goku since Trunks doesn't come back. But Zamasu is shown to already harbor hatred for mortals. Goku would still have caused the Tournament of Power, and Zamasu would have seen 80 fighters capable of matching a god in fighting power. And one is rumored to be stronger than a God of Destruction. If he didn't throw a fit there and get erased by Zen'o, he would have developed a plan to take out the mortals of all 12 universes.
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** This is the first time in a long time that Goku has been knocked out with a regular attack, and a weak one at that. Overall, there was no reason for Goku to just pass out. Chi-chi may have also remembered Goku nearly dying from his heart disease.
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** The Gods of Destruction find using Ultra Instinct extremely difficult, to the point Beerus is the only one who showed any proficiency in it... Because their very power require them to constantly think about destruction and emote hard, and the Angels teach it in a way that requires complete emotional control, directly contradicting what they need to do to be Gods of Destruction. Beerus, [[HadToBeSharp having pissed off all his colleagues]], is simply the only God of Destruction who had any reason to try and solve this apparent contradiction, and thus the only one who actually managed to learn the basics.
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* While they are both body snatchers, Goku Black was much better than Ginyu when it came to using Goku's body, but there's two good reasons:
** After meeting King Kai, Goku had trained his body to suppress his ki when not in use and then draw it out when needed. Ginyu had heard of this skill but never encountered it until Namek, but Goku Black, being born and trained as a God, had already this training and knew what to do, at least for the base power.
** Ginyu only had control of Goku's body for less than a hour, while Goku Black had much longer before meeting our heroes. Goku Black had all the time he needed to get used to his new body, while Ginyu had barely started figuring out how to draw out Goku's full base power before being tricked in the frog's body.
** After meeting King Kai, Goku had trained his body to suppress his ki when not in use and then draw it out when needed. Ginyu had heard of this skill but never encountered it until Namek, but Goku Black, being born and trained as a God, had already this training and knew what to do, at least for the base power.
** Ginyu only had control of Goku's body for less than a hour, while Goku Black had much longer before meeting our heroes. Goku Black had all the time he needed to get used to his new body, while Ginyu had barely started figuring out how to draw out Goku's full base power before being tricked in the frog's body.
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* Ultra Ego explains a lot of stuff:
** When he fights Goku, Beerus is forced to use up to 70% of his power, but later is ''immensely'' stronger than that... But at the time of the fight Beerus had just woken up, his power hadn't had the time to grow much from his base ''and'' he wasn't thinking much about destruction at that moment. Later, however, he's usually awake for longer or something happens to make him want to destroy stuff, so his power is greater.
** Jiren is said to be stronger than his God of Destruction, yet Belmod shows himself in Beerus' league, who himself is far beyond Jiren's ability. Belmod wouldn't want to destroy Jiren, so the power he had available when Jiren showed himself stronger wasn't his full power but his base, and Jiren was stronger than ''that''.
** Toppo's sudden change into a God of Destruction-lite during the Tournament of Power came when he abandoned his ideals of Justice and started wanting to destroy everything, triggering his Ultra Ego ability. But since that was likely the first time he actually used it, he couldn't balance it with the need of ''not'' killing his opponents and Vegeta could overpower it, similar to how later Vegeta at his first use would need to be hit to increase his power.
** Jiren thinks only about strength... So to him is ''impossible'' to use Ultra Ego and become a God of Destruction, even if he wanted.
** When he fights Goku, Beerus is forced to use up to 70% of his power, but later is ''immensely'' stronger than that... But at the time of the fight Beerus had just woken up, his power hadn't had the time to grow much from his base ''and'' he wasn't thinking much about destruction at that moment. Later, however, he's usually awake for longer or something happens to make him want to destroy stuff, so his power is greater.
** Jiren is said to be stronger than his God of Destruction, yet Belmod shows himself in Beerus' league, who himself is far beyond Jiren's ability. Belmod wouldn't want to destroy Jiren, so the power he had available when Jiren showed himself stronger wasn't his full power but his base, and Jiren was stronger than ''that''.
** Toppo's sudden change into a God of Destruction-lite during the Tournament of Power came when he abandoned his ideals of Justice and started wanting to destroy everything, triggering his Ultra Ego ability. But since that was likely the first time he actually used it, he couldn't balance it with the need of ''not'' killing his opponents and Vegeta could overpower it, similar to how later Vegeta at his first use would need to be hit to increase his power.
** Jiren thinks only about strength... So to him is ''impossible'' to use Ultra Ego and become a God of Destruction, even if he wanted.
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** The location of the "tingly feeling" is between the shoulder blades, right where the Middle Dantian is. According to Taoist tradition and traditional Chinese medicine, the Middle Dantian is both where ki is generated and the main center of emotions. That's both why sudden rage facilitate the Super Saiyan transformation and why, until mastering, Super Saiyan have trouble controlling their emotions, the overwhelming anger concentrates their ki in its origin point and causes the transformation and the transformation amplifies the anger. But a prodigy like Caulifla only needed to be told how to do it to achieve the first transformation, and being extremely in touch with her emotions didn't suffer the extreme anger.
*** On the other hand, Kale, being nowhere near as a prodigy like Caulifla, emotionally repressed and the Legendary Super Saiyan on top of that, needed the overwhelming anger to transform... And was in turn overwhelmed, at least at first.
*** On the other hand, Kale, being nowhere near as a prodigy like Caulifla, emotionally repressed and the Legendary Super Saiyan on top of that, needed the overwhelming anger to transform... And was in turn overwhelmed, at least at first.
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** This also explains Frieza's insane gains in power: when one first starts lifting weights their gains in the first few months are ''far'' greater than anything they'll ever get again with a similar amount of effort. And in the same way, Frieza went from weaker than SJJ Goku on Namek to capable of holding his own against Super!Goku even without his Golden form.
* As a kid and before even being trained by Roshi, Goku could take being hit by a car and then shot in the head with a handgun while surprised with minor injuries, but here a far stronger Goku was downed by Sorbet with a surprise attack. Weird... Except this was explained all the way on Namek: Goku and his allies have trained to ''suppress'' their ki to achieve better control, to the point Goku could go from a "resting" state with the same power level he had when he fought the Saiyan invasion to one-shotting Recoome so fast the Scouters didn't even register it. By now Goku is so good with ki control his resting state is similar to a normal human with his same muscle mass... Allowing Sorbet to take him down with a surprise attack.
** In a later arc, Krillin is vulnerable to bullets when he could take Launch's emptying her machine gun on him with just a few bruises before he started training with Roshi. He too trained for suppression... And since he's got rusty he couldn't raise his ki in time to shrug off the attack.
** This also shows how good is Ultra Instinct, as when one can use that they can go from baseline human to worldbreaker without a conscious thought.
* As a kid and before even being trained by Roshi, Goku could take being hit by a car and then shot in the head with a handgun while surprised with minor injuries, but here a far stronger Goku was downed by Sorbet with a surprise attack. Weird... Except this was explained all the way on Namek: Goku and his allies have trained to ''suppress'' their ki to achieve better control, to the point Goku could go from a "resting" state with the same power level he had when he fought the Saiyan invasion to one-shotting Recoome so fast the Scouters didn't even register it. By now Goku is so good with ki control his resting state is similar to a normal human with his same muscle mass... Allowing Sorbet to take him down with a surprise attack.
** In a later arc, Krillin is vulnerable to bullets when he could take Launch's emptying her machine gun on him with just a few bruises before he started training with Roshi. He too trained for suppression... And since he's got rusty he couldn't raise his ki in time to shrug off the attack.
** This also shows how good is Ultra Instinct, as when one can use that they can go from baseline human to worldbreaker without a conscious thought.
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** This is particularly true in the case of Hit, a professional assassin who easily outclasses Frost. If Frost's villainy were made public to Universe 6 as a whole, then ANY and EVERY one of the victims of his schemes could hire Hit to take him out.
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* Frieza having never trained once in his life was actually already hinted by his poor stamina on Namek, all the way back in ''Dragon Ball Z'', as cardio and stamina increase are a fundamental part of fighting training. And Goku, aving trained as a martial artist for most of his life, would have recognized this issue already back on Namek... And likely factored it in his plan both back then and in this rematch.
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* Vegeta deciding to kill Ginyu as quickly as possible was strategic because he knows for a fact that Ginyu can just body swap with who ever and when ever he wants at a given moment. He could swap with him or Goku, if he realized Beerus, try on him. It might have failed given Beerus far outclass him, but Vegeta was not about to let him try.
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* There's no indication Moro had eaten hundreds of worlds in the two months he gave to the heroes to prepare. Keep in mind, at his most powerful, Moro had consumed ''320'' planets. As powerful and dangerous as Moro was ''now'', imagine how strong he was ten million years ago.
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* Some people have expressed confusion on how Goku was able to beat Merged Zamasu in a beam clash, with many chalking it up to PlotArmor. The actual reason though is due to Merged Zamasu's choice to fire an energy sphere instead of a beam. Due to that Zamasu couldn't increase the power of the attack, just increase the force that pushes it down so Goku only had to put enough power to pierce the sphere instead of actually overpowering Zamasu.
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* Some people have expressed confusion on how Regarding Goku was being able to beat Merged Zamasu in a beam clash, with many chalking it up to PlotArmor. The actual reason though this is due to Merged Zamasu's choice to fire an energy sphere instead of a beam. Due to that Zamasu couldn't increase the power of the attack, just attack itself, merely increase the force that pushes it down down, so Goku only had to put enough power to pierce the sphere instead of actually overpowering Zamasu.
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* Whis creates a whole new timeline for Future Trunks and Future Mai. This is something deities strongly prefer not to do, but Whis feels the circumstances warrant it, so he takes them there with the warning that they'll have to avoid their counterparts in that timeline. But the whole thing is unnecessary. There's already a close-enough timeline in which Trunks is dead: the original, unaltered timeline. The Trunks of that timeline was killed by the Cell of that timeline, who wreaked havoc in the main timeline, and the Trunks still alive is the result of Cell creating the main timeline. The original timeline's Bulma is grieving her son just as Trunks is grieving the version of Bulma that was killed by Goku Black, but she's left to keep grieving while Trunks has to stay away from the Bulma of the new timeline. Wasted opportunity.
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* Whis creates a whole new timeline for Future Trunks and Future Mai. This is something deities strongly prefer not to do, but Whis feels the circumstances warrant it, so he takes them there with the warning that they'll have to avoid their counterparts in that timeline. But the whole thing is unnecessary. There's already a close-enough timeline in which Trunks is dead: the original, unaltered timeline. The Trunks of that timeline was killed by the Cell of that timeline, who wreaked havoc in the main timeline, and the Trunks still alive is the result of Cell creating the main timeline. The original timeline's Bulma is grieving her son just as Trunks is grieving the version of Bulma that was killed by Goku Black, but she's left to keep grieving while Trunks has and Mai go to stay away from the Bulma of the new timeline. Wasted opportunity.timeline.
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* Speaking of fusion: yes, a fusion is much more powerful than the sum of its components, but it's not necessarily more ''smart''. The personality of a fused being is a combination of the minds of its components; as a result, there's the risk that the fusion will exacerbate the character flaws of its components. In a setting like the Tournament of Power, where technique and strategy are more valuable than sheer power, this is a pretty big risk.
