Discussion Anime / DragonBallZBattleOfGods

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• Always Someone Better: The whole concept is torn to shreds with Beers, who is the God of Destruction and a god which all of the other gods fear. This would normally be not as dangerous considering how the gods of the Dragonball Universe normally rank in the power scale., until he curb stomps Super Saiyan 3 Goku with a finger. Since this is the canonical universe, where Super Saiyan 3 is the strongest state aside from Mystic and Fusions, this is a big deal. Then the Super Saiyan God state, which is the strongest state in the series' canon is activated by Goku to defeat this guy, normally you'd expect a Curb-Stomp Battle to ensue and deal with the Big Bad. Nope, Goku still loses, only managing to force Beers to go 70% of his power and suffers no punishment. The real scary part comes after this turns out despite being the strongest character in the series according to V-jump, his advisor Whis is much stronger than he is, and given that we never see the full extent of Beer's power, Whis' power must be beyond comprehension. We also get this bit of information; turns that he's the designated God of Destruction for the universe that Dragon Ball is based in which is No.7 out of 12. To sum up Beers, the most powerful character in the series, has several shades of Bigger Bad algorithms above him. There's his mentor who's stronger than he is, and then there's the other Eleven Universes' Gods of Destruction that are all possibly stronger than he is. Needless to say, Goku can't become the strongest in the universe, because as long as gods like Beers exist, he never will be.

How exactly is Always Someone Better deconstructed here? It looks like it could be Up To Eleven, but there doesn't seem to be any real element of the trope being deconstructed here as written.

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