Dragon Ball in general has a lot of Story-Breaker Power going around, to the point where the examples sometimes almost cancel each other out. Given that the story features constantly growing levels of power, it's no surprise that a fighter or technique can be horribly overpowered in one arc and manageable in a later one. The series also seems to divide its story-breakers between otherwise weak characters that have one horribly overpowered gimmick, or fighters and techniques that are simply stupidly powerful.
General
- The titular Dragon Balls. Gathering all seven and reciting an incantation summons the dragon Shenron, who will grant one wish of near any desire. Naturally, the story put several restrictions to keep the Dragon Balls from making things too easy for our heroes. After said wish is granted, the balls are scattered across the planet and remain unusable for a year. This kept the heroes from using the balls immediately even if the Dragon Radar is used to find them quickly. More importantly, Shenron could only revive someone from death once and could not kill anyone stronger than his creator Kami. Kami is fairly weak by the Saiyan Saga onwards, so Shenron couldn't kill Nappa and Vegeta before they arrived on Earth for example. Eventually several of these limitations were lifted after Dende created new Dragon Balls, requiring the stakes to be upped by several magnitudes each arc in order to create any tension whatsoever.
- There are also titular Super Dragon Balls. Their size is equal to planet, Namekian balls were made from one of them, and they grant any wish with no limitation.
- Considering all the times Goku arrives late, is dead, or just not in the picture for whatever reason, Toriyama seems to think he's a story-breaking character. He's one of the strongest, most dependable beings in the series, and later he can teleport instantly anywhere in the universe as long as he can sense energy. Many of the sagas would end early if Goku was around from the start, and the time he wasn't around once was enough to plunge Earth into a Bad Future.
- Ironically, one of the purest examples of this takes place during the Android Saga when Goku has one of his biggest absences. After Trunks defeats Frieza, he waits for Goku to arrive. During a quick sparring match it's established that Goku is not only stronger than Trunks (who effortlessly trounced Frieza by the way) but that Trunks isn't even in his league. After Goku gets sick with the heart virus, everything that happens afterwards comes with the caveat that if Goku were around, healthy, and fighting with his friends, none of this would be an issue.
- Fused characters, in general, are as strong as their fusion components put together amplified at least tens of times over. While both available fusion methods have limitations (Potara lasting 1 hour for non-Supreme Kais and the Fusion dance lasting for 30 minutes, and both can drop further if the fused warrior is too powerful), these are generally negligible compared to the benefits. Goten and Trunks almost took down Super Buu when they fused even though they are individually far weaker than the relevant cast members, to give an idea of Fusion's power, so when genuinely heavy hitters fuse it creates horribly, horribly broken warriors.
- Vegito, the fusion of Goku and Vegeta is (discounting Dragon Ball GT, where Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta, a fusion of Goku and Vegeta using a different method, gives him a run for his money, but not discounting Dragon Ball Super: Broly, where Gogeta smacked Broly, a worthy example of this trope himself, into defeat) the single most powerful mortal being in the universe, capable of defeating Majin Buu's most powerful form with ease, not even needing to go beyond Super Saiyan, at least in the anime. Even after being turned into a piece of candy, he was still too much for Buu. However, after he gets Buu to absorb him (as part of his plan to free those absorbed by Buu before defeating the demon) something about Buu's insides makes Vegito defuse. Prior to the introduction of the god forms, Vegito was the undisputed strongest canon character. By the time he makes a comeback in Super, Goku and Vegeta had individually surpassed Vegito's previous level, which makes Vegito far more powerful than before and gives him access to Super Saiyan Blue himself. Given he is facing another fused warrior, an immortal one at that, he wasn't quite as much of a story-breaker this time around. At the same time, the recently revealed Potara Fusion drawback for non-Kai users came into play, and Vegito is so powerful that he greatly shortens the time limit.
- Fused Zamasu is the aforementioned immortal fusion Vegito had to fight. When Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse into Fused Zamasu, combining the former's Complete Immortality and the latter's Super Saiyan Rosé power and ability to continuously grow stronger through battle. Naturally, he proclaims himself to be the supreme god. It says a lot that Super Saiyan Blue Vegito is required to counter him. Super's producer even calls him a cheat character even by Dragon Ball standards. However, since he merged with Goku Black, who wasn't an immortal, he has incomplete regeneration, allowing Future Trunks to split him in half. Which only ends up making him stronger since he merges with the universe and becomes a near unstoppable force that wipes out almost all life across the multiverse. It takes Future Zeno, Story-Breaker Power personified, to destroy the timeline itself to finally kill him.
- Played with in the case of Kefla, the fusion of Caulifla and Kale. While she is a Potara fusion of two individually powerful warriors, and exudes insane levels of power, fact is Goku has simply gotten so strong at this point that he can still fight her one-on-one and mostly match her with the Super Saiyan Blue Kaio-ken. While she does eventually get the upper hand (and keeps the advantage quite convincingly) until Goku taps back into Ultra Instinct, it's explicitly pointed out that Goku was not at peak performance and still pushed her to her limit.
- The one-shot villain from the first story arc Boss Rabbit. He has the ability to turn anyone who touches him into a carrot. Touch this guy in any way and you're produce. Thankfully, he's a weakling who gives up just by being hit by Goku's Power Pole and is never seen again since he can easily take out people who don't know about his powers.
- Spike the Devilman emits waves that amplify every evil or impure thought, causing even saintly people to explode from within. He was defeated only because Goku has a totally pure heart and could not be affected. Unsurprisingly, he never appeared again after the story arc featuring him, except for a cameo in an anime-only filler scene in the final portion of the Buu Saga where he and his teammates give their power to Goku's Super Spirit Bomb. note
- The Evil Containment Wave, when properly executed, is this, being able to seal beings many times stronger than the user, including immortals like Future Zamasu. It came with several drawbacks that kept it from being spammed against every Big Bad in Z and GT; it has a chance of killing the user if the sealing process is too stressful, you need a container for the sealing, and you also need a special sealing tag, otherwise the person can escape after only a few minutes. When Super brought Master Roshi back for the Universal Survival Saga, many of its limitations ceased to apply in order to make it a worthwhile attack to use. The cost of this decision opened up a Pandora's Box within the narrative: Why did nobody ever think to learn the Evil Containment Wave if it could be used like this?
- Garlic Jr, from the Filler and Non-Serial Movies, has Complete Immortality. Both times he's popped up, he had to have a sudden bout of stupidity and open a portal to the inescapable Dead Zone to finish off the protagonists, even though he could beat every single character in the series simply by virtue of attrition. Both times, the protagonists promptly shoved him into his own portal, because there simply wasn't any other way to get rid of him.
- Gohan can easily become the strongest mortal character in the entire universe, far surpassing his father and fellow hybrids, if he had a love for training and growing stronger. If Gohan had kept up his training during the seven-year time skip, he probably could have easily killed Fat Buu without any help. Also specific to Gohan is his Ultimate form, the state he gains after Old Kai unleashes all his hidden power. Gohan in his Ultimate state is stronger than both Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks and Goku, and because his power is unlocked in his base form, Gohan doesn't have the power drain issue that cripples the Super Saiyan 3 form. So he can fight at full power for a long time without losing any stamina, making it the best power-up in the series before the introduction of Super Saiyan Blue. And it might have regained said status as of the Universe Survival Saga: once he's finished training with Piccolo to regain his edge following the events of Resurrection 'F' (and its adaptation in Super), Ultimate Gohan is able to thoroughly trounce Super Saiyan Blue Goku in a pre-Tournament of Power sparring match, only being defeated when Goku adds Kaio-ken x20 to the mix. With Piccolo theorizing that the power Old Kai drew out from Gohan during the Buu Saga was merely the first wall of many, this drastic leap in strength draws parallels to Frieza (see below) and begs the question of how deep the rabbit hole goes regarding Gohan's hidden power, something that seems to hold true with the sudden acquisition of his Beast form in Super Hero.
- One often overlooked detail about Gohan is just how strong he was at the end of the Cell Saga. In the Buu Saga, Goku and Vegeta are said to be stronger than Gohan was in the Cell Saga, but the way Piccolo words it implies the gap isn't that big (when talking about Vegeta's power, Piccolo says "Such inordinate power... As when Gohan fought against Cell—no, even greater!"), meaning that it took Goku and Vegeta seven years to surpass Cell Saga Gohan. It's no wonder Goku himself felt like he couldn't defeat Cell if it took him that long to surpass Gohan, as the gap between Goku and Cell was pretty large.
- Several characters by the start of the Saiyan Saga have the ability to use Solar Flare (temporarily blinds any enemy with eyes, effective against even much more powerful opponents) and Destructo Disc (unblockable, cut-anything attack; can't be blocked, but can be dodged), but they never think to use them together. However, after Frieza, it becomes a moot point because the main villains can all regenerate.
- The Zenkai boost, introduced in the Namek Arc as a justification to keep Goku, Gohan, and Vegeta from getting steamrolled, provides a boost in strength whenever the fighter recovers from near-mortal injuries. Between healing pods, senzu beans, and characters like Dende, this is incredibly easy to abuse; Vegeta became hundreds of times stronger after just three such recoveries, one of which happened after he deliberately let Krillin wound him so he could get healed by Dende. Needless to say, the ability gets quietly forgotten about after Namek (with only Cell ever being noted to receive the boost again), presumably either because it becomes ineffective past a certain point, or because Toriyama realized that a Saiyan with any of the above things on hand and a friend willing to hurt them could obtain functionally limitless power in about a week by repeating Vegeta's feat.
- Guldo's Time Freeze. As long as he holds his breath, he stops time for the entire universe. With time stop, he can move around freely to escape fatal attacks or attack his opponents while they're defenseless. He's the only being in the series able to manipulate time to this level except for Angels and Hit. This power is balanced by Guldo being completely out of shape and not being particularly strong. If someone who is truly powerful had this ability, they would be nearly unbeatable. If that wasn't enough, he has another broken technique, Mind Freeze. When he uses this, he paralyzes any opponent even if they're many times stronger than him. He uses this to nearly kill Gohan and Krillin, and would have succeeded if Vegeta didn't save them. The only known drawback is that this technique uses a lot of energy and Guldo only uses it when he's desperate.
- Captain Ginyu's body switch technique. As far as we know, it can't be blocked and paralyzes the person in place. The only thing that can stop it is another living creature getting between the beam and its intended victim. If Ginyu wanted to, he could probably body jack Frieza. The only limitation is that Ginyu physically has to say the word "Change" in order to activate it, meaning he's screwed if he winds up in a body that can't speak. Oddly enough, this gets an alteration in Super, where Ginyu, in a frog's body, writes "Change" on the ground, causing the other party to call it out, and switches bodies with Tagoma — only to get killed for real very quickly by Vegeta, who completely outclasses him by this point.
- Frieza. The monster Goku and the others fought on Namek was naturally that powerful. Without training a day in his life, Frieza was the most powerful mortal in the universe. When he did train, he surpasses Goku in pure power after he ascends past godhood in just four months. His biggest failing is that he didn't bother to master his Golden Super Mode, causing his stamina to tank after only a short time of fighting, although he fixes this problem when he's temporarily revived in the Universal Survival Saga. He truly would have been unbeatable on Namek if he had Goku's work ethic. There is also Frieza's species extreme survivability. He can survive in a vacuum and even live if he's chopped to pieces. This rigs many battles in his favor since, while any fighter stronger than Namek Saga Frieza can survive a planetary explosion, only a select few can survive in outer space. He actually kills Vegeta this way after the latter had him completely beat, but Whis reverses time on him. The Broly movie has him get a power boost from training a bit more, with that and him being Made of Iron allowing Frieza to be able to survive fighting an hour against a rampaging Super Saiyan Broly (see the Super section below), when Super Saiyan Blue Goku and Vegeta scampered very quickly. And that's assuming there weren't more failed attempts at the Fusion Dance beyond the two shown on-screen; it's entirely possible Frieza survived an even longer beatdown. This is to say nothing of the manga-only Granolah arc, wherein Frieza conquers a planet with the same Year Inside, Hour Outside properties as the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and trains there for the equivalent of a decade, unlocking a new transformation (Black Frieza) that makes him magnitudes stronger than Granolah (who made a wish on the Cerealian Dragon Balls to become the strongest fighter in the universe), Goku (who had already mastered Ultra Instinct and was in the process of honing a new version of UI to better match his fighting style), and Vegeta (who followed the path of a God of Destruction to obtain a new transformation known as Ultra Ego). The only reason they survive is because of some serious Plot Armor.
- Speaking of broken techniques, the Instant Transmission. With this technique, Goku can teleport anywhere in the universe and even the afterlife, as long as he can sense life energy. He can even gain access to the Sacred World of the Kais which is supposed to be off-limits to mortals. Goku can also use his Instant Transmission to move around opponents who are faster than him like Beerus, escape lethal attacks like Cell's Kamehameha, or move dangerous objects or people to another location. Only the Kais themselves have a better version of the Instant Transmission (Kai Kai where the person can teleport anywhere in the lower realm regardless if it has life or not and can even go into other universes) and even Beerus must rely on Whis to ferry him across the universe. There's a reasons why this technique remains limited to only a handful of named characters in the entire series and at least two of them are dead.
- Androids 17 and 18 possess infinite energy reactors that, among other things, gives them limitless stamina, allowing them to theoretically defeat anyone simply through endurance. Thanks to being cyborgs rather than robots, they can also increase their power through training, rather than it being a fixed limit. If all that weren't enough, because they don't use ki, they can't be detected through the usual means of ki sense. It's a small wonder, then, that 18 was Demoted to Extra and 17 Put on a Bus, and when the pair return to an active role in Super's Universe Survival arc, their story-breaking aspects show — 17's now strong enough to match Super Saiyan Blue Goku (even when both are holding back), 18 isn't too far behind, and the pair openly use the tactic of wearing down opponents while never tiring out themselves to score several knockouts.
- The Hyperbolic Time Chamber dilates time to the point that a day outside the room equals a year inside it. Being able to pack several years of training into a short timespan was an incredible boon to the protagonists during the Android Saga. After just a day, Vegeta and Future Trunks went from weaker than Androids 17 and 18 (who were both stronger than Namek Saga Frieza and the Super Saiyans beforehand) to curb-stomping Semi-Perfect Cell (who himself was much stronger than 16, an Android even more powerful than 17 and 18). The main reason it wasn't used more often is because each being is limited to 2 years inside. Going over that limit will cause the entrance to vanish, trapping all residents within the Room for eternity. In Dragon Ball Super, Dende removes this limit for good in order to allow Goku and Vegeta to train up to 3 days within. Now that the Room is more convenient to use, it has to be destroyed over and over to remove it as an option for emergency training. Or even to resolve non-training issues such as waking Majin Buu from his 2-month nap during the Universe Survival Saga.
- Cell can survive in any environment or with any injury due to having Frieza's cells, regenerate endlessly From a Single Cell thanks to inheriting the Namekian regeneration ability, and grows stronger after suffering severe damage like a Saiyan. Under the right conditions, he could possibly surpass every being ever depicted in the series, which is why he needed to go after surviving his own self-destruction. This isn't even getting into the Fridge Horror/Fanfic Fuel of whether or not Cell could replicate Frieza's aforementioned exponential growth in power by actually training (as seen in Resurrection 'F' and Super) on account of possessing his cells.
- Dabura's Super Spit that can turn anyone hit by it into stone, regardless of power. If you're not expecting it, you're almost guaranteed to be a lawn statue. Once hit, you are for all intents and purposes dead and the spell can only be reversed with Dabura's death. Thankfully, spit tends to be slow (by the standards of a series where everyone who's anyone has Super-Speed), making it somewhat easy to dodge and if the spit hits clothing, it can be removed without harm.
- Buu's transformation beam can turn anyone into food or an object of Buu's desire, and can't be blocked. The only saving grace is that it can be dodged if a person is fast enough or expects it, or blown back if there's a vast power difference. However, one slip and you're dessert. This is on top of Buu being able to reform from a single molecule, and his absorption technique, taking in any fighter and gaining their knowledge, techniques, and power, though the latter can backfire and make him weaker if he absorbs the wrong type of person. Buu becomes even more broken, after he learns how to teleport, destroying a planet, regenerating, teleporting to the next planet, and repeating, turning him into a galactic wrecking ball.
- Beerus, the God of Destruction from the Battle of Gods movie, shames all of the above in terms of raw power. Not only he can destroy entire galaxies and curb-stomp Super Saiyan 3 Goku with a finger, he can also fight one-on-one with Super Saiyan God Goku (whose sheer power threatens the universe), while holding back roughly one-third of his power. What keeps Beerus from breaking the story in the heroes' favor is his personality; if he was less of a jerk and more of an ally then Golden Frieza and Goku Black wouldn't have gotten very far into their respective sagas.
- Forget Goku, Gohan, Vegito, and Beerus, the real story-breaking character is Whis. Toriyama put his power as a 15 on a 1 to 10 scale, beating the God of Destruction himself who only scores a 10. He also has the ability to rewind time by three minutes so he can undo the mistakes of himself or others, can spawn babies out of a pregnant woman, bypassing all the pain and hassle of letting them out, can revive other people from the dead and he is a Reality Warper. We then find out that Whis has an older sister who may be stronger than him and has almost the same power set. Whis, and rest of the Angel race he belongs to, are basically sworn to neutrality and typically don't do much outside of tending to their God of Destruction. This keeps Whis' role in the plot minor enough so he doesn't invalidate Goku and Vegeta's efforts.
- Botamo can transfer damage he would've taken to another dimension, negating all the damage. This unique damage absorption ability can even keep him safe from Goku's Kamehameha. If Botamo was in a regular fight, he would certainly beat most opponents simply by wearing down their stamina before finishing them off. Lucky for Goku, Botamo was in a tournament with ring out rules, allowing Goku to defeat him without showing any of his real strength.
- Hit is a Time Master similar to Guldo who can freeze time for everyone except himself. He can only do it for 0.1 seconds, but since Hit has Super-Speed on top of his ability, he can mortally wound an opponent before they even have the chance to move. Also, unlike Guldo, he can spam his ability as many times as he wants since it seems to take no stamina. During his match against Goku, he improves the technique, taking it up to 0.5 seconds. Goku can only counter it by using the even more broken Super Saiyan Blue Kaio-ken combination to literally break time, and even then Hit improves again and manages to stop that. When Goku has his rematch with Hit, he reveals more of his abilities, like having invisible energy attacks that can instantly stop someone's heart if they land. He also can create a pocket dimension where he stores all the time he skipped, allowing him to phase through attacks like a ghost. Goku only manages to overcome Hit thanks to being a combat genius who quickly learns how to counter Hit's techniques.
- Zeno is not a fighter according to Beerus, but he's the second strongest being in all the Dragon World (the only person stronger than him being Tori-Bot). He can wipe out anything. Evil people, planets, galaxies, even universes. Whis says that there were once 18 Universes. Zeno destroyed 6 of them when he was angry. Future Zeno shows this firsthand when he erased an immortal god who has become one with the multiverse.
- Zamasu's future counterpart from Future Trunks' timeline is an immortal, allowing him to survive any injury including being impaled and blasted by a Final Flash and a Kamehameha that disables Super Saiyan Blue Goku and Future Trunks. Goku even lampshades how unfair it is. It takes Zeno erasing the entire timeline so he has nowhere to exist in to finally put him down.
- The absolute king of this trope in regards to raw strength alone is Jiren. According to Whis, there are rumors of a mortal existing who's even stronger than a God of Destruction. This mortal is Jiren, a member of the Pride Troopers and resident of Universe 11. Jiren's power level is simply colossal, being so high in both the manga and the anime he does not so much as budge when Super Saiyan Blue Kaio-ken Goku and Super Saiyan Blue Evolution Vegeta both lay into him with everything they have — and he proceeds to knock them out in two hits each. This was at his restrained level, by the way. Even when Goku mastered his Ultra Instinct form mentioned above, he could only fight evenly with Jiren's full power for a time,note and he still lost (albeit largely due to the aforementioned Power-Strain Blackout of Ultra Instinct taking its toll on Goku at an inopportune moment).note Even Hit's Time Skip abilities were useless against Jiren, and Hit's Time Cage trap simply fell when Jiren flexed his raw power. The only reason Jiren didn't just eliminate every other fighter right away was that nobody up until Mastered UI Goku had given him any trouble and he figured his team would be able to win without him. In the end, he's only "beaten" by the technicality of being forced out of the ring (Goku admits they'd have lost terribly if they couldn't exploit that rule). What makes him so broken is that, unlike Ultra Instinct Goku, Jiren doesn't need to unlock a form to be stronger than the Gods of Destruction, he's that strong naturally after a lifetime of hard training. In his last appearance, he swore to keep training, so we can expect him to become even more ridiculous. Notably, unlike other "rival" characters like Piccolo and Vegeta, Jiren was hastily written out of the series following the conclusion of his arc. Like Ultra Instinct Goku, he only shows up in Heroes from then on, where he's shown to be stronger than a Goku-Vegeta Super Saiyan Blue fusion, and so formidable that Hearts refers to him as "without a doubt, the strongest being in all the universes."
- Ultra Instinct grants hyper-awareness of the user's surroundings and the ability to automatically dodge any and all attacks without conscious thoughts slowing them down. When Goku learns it, it completes eclipses his Blue/Kaio-ken combination in power. For the duration he is able to use it, his power doesn't drop as his energy depletes (although once he does drop out of the form, he is almost completely drained of energy, and the strain it puts on his body means he can't use it for that long). When Goku gains full mastery of Ultra Instinct, he manages to hold his own against Jiren (see above), a being stronger than or at the bare minimum on the same level as the mightiest Gods of Destruction. For a frame of reference, when Goku first met Beerus, a very small amount of the latter's power left Goku convinced Fusion wouldn't do the trick — in fact, in the anime even the incomplete Ultra Instinct form allowed Goku to defeat Kefla, a fusion of two individually respectably strong Saiyans. After the Universe Survival Arc is finished, it is even pointed out Goku can't consciously access the form — probably just to prevent the writers from having to come up with foes that make Beerus irrelevant, like the aforementioned Jiren. Indeed, during the follow-up movie, Ultra Instinct is nowhere to be seen and it can be easily inferred Broly wouldn't have been able to force Goku and Vegeta to fuse if Goku could just use it (in the following Moro arc in the manga, Vegeta even asks why he didn't use it, and Goku just shrugs and says he still can't). Super Dragon Ball Heroes, which while not canon is still an officially licensed Dragon Ball product, actually puts MUI Goku as stronger than a Super Saiyan 4/Blue fusion of Goku and Vegeta. note
- An honorable mention goes to Broly: BR. Super's reimagining of the character stays true to the precedent set by his original incarnation, but now that Goku and Vegeta have obtained figurative godhood (as opposed to merely the first and second levels of Super Saiyan), Broly has to be able to match them in strength. As a result of being a Saiyan mutant able to tap into the power of a Great Ape while remaining in human form, Broly quickly goes from struggling against an untransformed Vegeta to effortlessly ragdolling Vegeta and Goku as Super Saiyan Gods. And while Super Saiyan Blue Goku is shown to outclass this level of power, Broly still manages to put up a decent showing. Realizing that Broly's Wrathful state has its limits, an observing Frieza then decides to kill Paragus and frame it as an accident. Cue Super Saiyan Broly, who outstrips Goku Blue and Vegeta Blue even when they're working together, forcing the Saiyans to turn to the Fusion Dance as a last resort. Gogeta is able to decisively turn the battle around in his favor through a combination of superior strength and skill, though Broly takes a ridiculous amount of punishment before he finally shows signs of slowing down. In fact, Gogeta spends over half of the fight in Super Saiyan Blue, immediately ascending that far from a regular Super Saiyan the moment Broly's Full Power Super Saiyan form gains an edge over him. (Prior to this, we also see Whis effortlessly dodging Broly's attacks while keeping the berserk Saiyan's attention for a few moments, a subtle indicator that, for all his power, Broly is nowhere near the angel's league.) It bears repeating that this is only Broly as a Super Saiyan. No access to further levels of the transformation, no access to god ki. Just latent power and, prior to his arrival on Earth, roughly four decades spent surviving the Death World that is Vampa while sparring with his father. By the end of the film, with Broly wished away to Vampa so that he can be free from Frieza's machinations, Goku makes a point of designating Broly as a future sparring partner because of how freakishly strong this guy is despite his relative lack of training and battle experience.
- While Baby's regeneration is powerful and significant in its own right, it's not nearly as much of a threat as his power to possess other people by entering the bloodstream and then leaving them subservient to him once he leaves. Indeed, it doesn't matter how strong the opponent is, and in the case of Saiyans, transforming is actually even better for him as it allows him to enter and control the body much easier to the point he tries to get his opponents to do so. One scratch, and it's over. Either Baby is possessing your body or has made it his slave. There's only one known cure and that's specific to Earth. It's through this power alone that he successfully conquers the Earth with ease, possess its strongest fighters in the cast (sans Uub, Buu and Goku), is able to use the Black Star Dragon Balls, and nearly wins in his fight against Goku.
- Super 17 is what 19 and 20 WOULD have been if the story hadn't been changed. While already pretty durable and strong, his ability to absorb ki attacks and add it to his own strength makes him outclass potentially everyone in the series. All he needs to do is strike a pose when someone's about to blast him, and he can close any difference in power and even surpass them rather easily. He's so strong he actually succeeds in beating Gohan, Goten, Uub, Vegeta and Pan, while also having Super Saiyan 4 Goku dead to rights. If 18 hadn't appeared and Super 17 hadn't let himself be killed, the story would have been over very quickly.
