History SerialEscalation / AnimeAndManga

* Movie 10: The Private Eye's Requiem, for the unnecessary CastHerd [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters pileup]]. How many of the 30+ regulars can fit in one movie?

* Air Gear is no stranger to this. Starting out, it's crazy cool tricks like wall riding and shooting compressed air out of one's rollerblades that dominate the series. Later on though, [[spoiler: making tornados with your bare hands, accessing the tricks of others via futuristic software, or combining roads to make insane hybrids of other roads, i.e wind and gem road equal the jade road. take the place of once plausible tricks in favor of asinine tricks that could never be acheived in a million years.]]

** Compared to her somewhat underwhelming introduction as a [[InformedAbility supposed]] AcePilot, Rebuild 2.22 has Asuka managing to take down a colossal Angel while falling from the sky, only to realize she destroyed the wrong part and then still manage to place 6 crossbow bolts right on each other's end, in the right core... And top it all off with what looks like an Inazuma Kick. In less than 70 seconds.

** The soundtrack is recorded with a richer, more powerful orchestra. "The Beast" epitomises this, being renamed "Les Bêtes" - pluralised and [[EverythingsSexierInFrench French]] - sounding utterly crazed and featuring facemelting guitar leads and [[PsychoStrings shrieking violins]].

** A sign of how the series works, Son Goku's level reaches ''32,000'' just a few episodes after those famous words were spoken. (X4 Kaiô-Ken) Indeed, less than two months later, he had defeated Freeza, whose (canonically given in the Daizenshuu) power level in his final form was 120,000,000 (Though it had dropped due to fatigue). So, Goku had gone from 416 (him fighting Raditz) to 150,000,000 in barely over a year. And they just get stronger from there. Son Goku's power has to be considered to grow exponentially. Non-canonic numbers are hard to consider afterwards, as there are multiple ideas about the power levels beyond Frieza. Not that it removes any entertainment value. [[spoiler:(As a side note, ThisVeryWiki states[[EnsembleDarkhorse Broly]] from the {{Non Serial Movie}}s to have a power of 1.4 '''''billion''''')]]

* ''SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' , [[TheAce Max Jenius]] outflew TheHero on his first combat sortie, steals the title of TheAce from ''Roy Focker'', fights the enemy ace in single combat and wins ''[[RuleOfThree three times consecutively]]'', then woos and marries her ''within hours'' of her third defeat, starting the first InterspeciesRomance and spawning not one but seven children -- who all apparently inherit some of his awesome. You'd think he'd call it quits at that point, but no, that's just what happened before ''MacrossSeven''.\\

* ''SengokuBasara'': How epic can the fights get? How [[strike:manly]] "[[GratuitousEnglish manry]]" and HotBlooded can the characters be? Is there any way the AnachronismStew and the historical inaccuracies can be even ''more'' [[RefugeInCool hilariously awesome]]? How gratuitous and engrishy can Masamune's [[GratuitousEnglish Gratuitous Engrish]] become? Can we cram any more [[HoYay blatant homoeroticism]] into this before Masamune and Yukimura actually start making out onscreen? How much of a [[CompleteMonster gigantic, creepy prick]] can we make [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Mitsuhide]]? Can OdaNobunaga possibly ''be'' any more ObviouslyEvil?

* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' can probably be considered its predecessor in many aspects, but doesn't get nearly as far. They finished with a robot the size of, or rather ''made out of'', a space colony that is apparently the size of Japan. They more than make up for it by trying to out cheese themselves in a WriterRevolt.

** The series thrives on this. Each new installment of the 8-part (and still ongoing) saga has weirder powers, more sick-in-the-head ubervillains, more insane stunts, more {{mind screw}}...
** The 6th installment involves breaking out of a prison full of super-powered, extremely weird criminals and stopping a SinisterMinister from ''resetting the ENTIRE UNIVERSE as we know it to repeat past events again, starting from the beginning of time''.

** To be concise, the series starts off making Shinji and company a ChewToy to fate. The first few episodes aren't so bad, and it looks as though the mental agony is starting to taper off near episode 13. ''Then'' comes the second half of the series... which promptly reintroduces all characters to a hellstorm of mental destruction... which [[ItGotWorse keeps getting worse]]. Sound awful? Take a glimpse at the [[MindScrew last two episodes...]] Not satisfied? Gaze upon the GrandFinale... ''EndOfEvangelion''.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Who's going to fall [[LoveDodecahedron in love with Ranma this time?]] What [[KiAttacks crazy move]] will Ranma [[MegaManning master this time?]] Just how [[{{Tsundere}} angry can Akane get with him this time?]]

* ''{{Maria-sama Ga Miteru}}'': How much more romantic [[{{Subtext}} subtext]] can they put in the relationships between the girls [[BaitAndSwitchLesbians without them actually going anywhere]]? How much more will Yumi berate herself for being insignificant, despite several of the school's most popular girls fawning over her? How long can they postpone Sachiko's inevitable graduation? There has to be a massive black hole in the vicinity of the Lillian high school to explain the immense slowing down of time between New Year's and April, since that period gets covered by least a ''dozen'' [[LightNovels light novels]].

* ''{{Manga/Naruto}}''

* ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' and ''Manga/{{XxxHOLiC}}'': How {{squick}}y and [[MindScrew "Double-You-Tee-Eff?"-inducing]] can the characters' connections and relationships with each other get? How utterly convoluted could the GambitPileup get? How much angst can we pile up on Fay?

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'': How [[{{Gorn}} bloody]] can the violence get? How {{Badass}} can the characters be? How [[{{CloudCuckoolander}} weird]]/[[TheDitz dumb]]/''[[CrazyAwesome awesome]]'' can [[OutlawCouple Isaac and Miria]] get? How badly can karma fuck up [[ButtMonkey Dallas]] this time? How much can we screw over [[BreakTheCutie Czeslaw]] now? Just how [[CrazyAwesome batshit yet supremely awesome]] are [[PsychoForHire Ladd]] and [[HeroicSociopath Claire]] going to be in this episode? Will there ''ever'' be [[MoreDakka enough machine guns?]]
* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'': How many more {{Bishonen}} are going to be introduced? How much larger is Tsuna's [[UnwantedHarem harem]] of possessive, dedicated {{Bishonen}} bodyguards going to get? How many more magical powers does the mafia have? Subtopic for the last question: [[spoiler:How many worlds does Byakuran exist in and can draw knowledge from?]] Answer: All of them. He's just {{crazy prepared}}.

** Parodied in [[TheAbridgedSeries The Abridged Series]] in episode 52. This was about the time the show really [[UpToEleven turned things up]] in the Noah arc.

* ''ToLoveRuDarkness'' does this with fanservice. Just how much ecchi can we make this Shounen manga?

* ''{{Manga/Monster}}'' - [[CompleteMonster Just how bad can a character be before you, the viewer, stop sympathizing with them?]] How many more characters will get more focus...only to not to make it to the end?

* ''ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'': Just how '''[[StoryBreakerPower ridiculously powerful]]''' can the villains be? No matter how powerful, Touma WILL beat him/her...just with his AntiMagic punch. On that note, how much more ridiculous insane/awesome can Accelator's application of his power be? How about throwing an entire freaking [[spoiler:building]] and slowing down [[spoiler:the Earth]] for five minutes?

* The ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' franchise. Just how many digivolutionary levels can the digimon go through? How much more ridiculously powerful can they get? Then came [[CombiningMecha DNA Digivolution]], [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Armor Digivolution]], [[BishounenLine Mode change]] and [[Anime/DigimonTamers Biomerge Digivolution]].
** Then [[Anime/DigimonFrontier humans started getting in on the evolution]]. ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' also concluded with the final villain having enough physical strength to piledrive the strongest of the heroes through a '''MOON''' and said heroes became the equivalent of the Japanese [[JapaneseMythology Storm God]], Susanoomon and with its blade, Zero Arms OROCHI, cuts not just through said villain, but '''SPLITS A PLANET IN HALF WTH IT!'''

* ''SilverDiamond'' has many characters capable of this, but [[TheGunslinger Chigusa]] is this trope personified: {{Improbable Aiming Skills}}, {{No Social Skills}}, {{The Determinator}}, {{Genius Ditz}}, [[HealingFactor THE Healing Factor]], or {{Accidental Pervert}}. You name it, chances are he's gonna absolutely destroy the standard for it.

* ''HighSchoolDXD'': How insane and unpredictable can Issei get with his powers!? What kind of a new powers is he able to develop next '''''with Rias' breasts acting as a conduit'''''!? How [[{{HSQ}} awesome]] and [[UpToEleven intense]] are the battles going to be like next!?

* ''SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' , [[TheAce Max Jenius]] outflew TheHero on his first combat sortie, steals the title of TheAce from ''Roy Focker'', fights the [[HotAmazon enemy ace]] in single combat and wins ''[[RuleOfThree three times consecutively]]'', then woos and marries her ''within hours'' of her third defeat, starting the first InterspeciesRomance and spawning not one but seven children -- who all apparently inherit some of his awesome. You'd think he'd call it quits at that point, but no, that's just what happened before ''MacrossSeven''.\\

* ''DragonBallZ'' -- How big can we make this [[KiAttacks energy blast]]? What will the villain [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up]] next? Just how blond and [[BattleAura glowy]] will Goku become next? How many of the cast will die and [[ResetButton be brought back to life]] by the Dragonballs? How many episodes will [[InactionSequence the battle last]]?

*** It doesn't even stop there. In DragonBallGT, he goes Super Saiyan 4. Then Vegeta does it too. Then Goku and Vegeta do the FusionDance and become Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta; SS4 UpToEleven.

* ''PrinceOfTennis''. Basically, it's ''DragonballZ'', only MORE. With junior high school tennis.

* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}''. How ridiculously blatant can a parody be? How many poop jokes and DragonQuest references can be fit into one episode?

** [[TheSameButMore Thousand]] [[ShockAndAwe Thunderbolts]], [[FreezeRay Ending]] [[IceBreaker World]] (and [[HarmlessFreezing Freezing]] [[HumanPopsicle World]], its less deadly version), [[KillItWithFire Burning]] [[StuffBlowingUp Sky]], [[EverythingsCoolerWithLava Tearing]] [[DishingOutDirt Earth]], are called as [[FantasticNuke Ultimate spells]] of lighting, ice, fire and earth element respectively. We are shown that there can be something [[UpToEleven stronger]] when Negi combines the Thousand Thunderbolts with a lighting spear spell to create Titan Slayer, but in latest chapter [[spoiler: Evangeline show us her original spell: Endless White Nine Heavens, which combines Freezing World with lighting element. It takes all the bad guys out aside from the BigBad. And she only spent few months working on this spell.]]

In the GrandFinale, [[YourMileageMayVary after he has redeemed/plunged an entire series from/into mehness and promoted it to awesome/awful]], [[spoiler:he speaks of how he wanted to sing to make a mountain move as a child, and today, he would move that mountain. Basara defeats the BigBad and saves ''every single'' life form in the galaxy from death '''with ThePowerOfRock alone'''.]] Truly, the fact that Nekki Basara ever existed in ''any'' medium is a feat of awesome.

* ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi.'' How much more insane can the characters get? How much crazier can the [[NightmareFace facial distortions]] be? How [[MindScrew confusing]] can the first season be? How is the [[MindScrewdriver second season]] going to explain things? (Answer: awesomely.) For how long can [[spoiler: Rika and Hanyuu]] suffer in those worlds? How cruel can the HopeSpot be? How [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] can the real happy ending be?
* ''PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' is the new [[StudioGainax Gainax]] series that does to RefugeInAudacity and RefugeInVulgarity what ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' did to RuleOfCool. It became the new de facto WidgetSeries after one episode and after nine more, shows no signs of staying in one place for more than [[ThreeShorts eleven minutes]]. How much more vulgar, sexual and just plain weird can this series get, anyway?!

* ''ParanoiaAgent'': How screwed up and/or insane can the characters become?

* The ''{{Digimon}}'' franchise. Just how many digivolutionary levels can the digimon go through? How much more ridiculously powerful can they get? Then came [[CombiningMecha DNA Digivolution]], [[DigimonAdventure02 Armor Digivolution]], [[BishounenLine Mode change]] and [[DigimonTamers Biomerge Digivolution]].
** Then [[DigimonFrontier humans started getting in on the evolution]]. ''DigimonFrontier'' also concluded with the final villain having enough physical strength to piledrive the strongest of the heroes through a '''MOON''' and said heroes became the equivalent of the Japanese [[JapaneseMythology Storm God]], Susanoomon and with its blade, Zero Arms OROCHI, cuts not just through said villain, but '''SPLITS A PLANET IN HALF WTH IT!'''
** Then came along a main character named [[DigimonSavers Marcus Damon]]. Just how many digimon can he punch out by himself to allow his agumon to digivolve? Lets just say he goes all the way from a giant chicken to the equivalent of the Digital World's ''GOD''! To show how far the series went, the main digimon went ''beyond the Mega Level''.
** ''DigimonXrosWars'' in particular, with its several {{Shout Out}}s to the SuperRobotGenre, its full of this to levels even the previous series before it couldn't possibly acheive. Just how many digimon can be xrossed together? How much more Hotblooded can Shoutmon get? How much more strategic can Taiki get? How much more ridiculous looking and yet extremely awesome can Shoutmon's Digixros forms get?
*** [[spoiler: Shoutmon X7 Superior Mode. The ultimate crowning example in the '''{{Digimon}} Franchise yet!''']]

* The last twenty chapters or so of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' are basically an exercise in "How many [[Awesome/FullmetalAlchemist crowing moments of awesome]], {{Tear Jerker}}s, and [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FullmetalAlchemist things that make us want to hide under the bed]] can Hiromu Arakawa cram in?" It's an exponential curve, it turns out.

* ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi.'' How much more HighOctaneNightmareFuel can the creators unleash upon the viewers? How much more insane can the characters get? How much crazier can the [[NightmareFace facial distortions]] be? How [[MindScrew confusing]] can the first season be? How is the [[MindScrewdriver second season]] going to explain things? (Answer: awesomely.) For how long can [[spoiler: Rika and Hanyuu]] suffer in those worlds? How cruel can the HopeSpot be? How [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] can the real happy ending be?

* ''{{Bakugan}}.'' How much more [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome ultimate]] can [[UpToEleven Drago, the ultimate bakugan]] get?

* RioRainbowGate: How insane can Howard make his casinos? In episode 5, he opens up the "Sky Resort", a 25 story Glass pyramid with Multiple casino floors, a RidiculouslyHumanRobot girl, the world's largest waterslide (with KILOMETERS of tubes), and a ''Holodeck''. When he cuts the ribbon to open the building, it suddenly RISES UP, as it's revealed the pyramid is on top of a skyscraper. '''AND THEN THE WHOLE THING LAUNCHES INTO SPACE.'''
* OretachiNiTsubasaWaNai pushes how far can it can go with DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything. RefugeInAudacity, indeed.
* SilverDiamond has many characters capable of this, but [[TheGunslinger Chigusa]] is this trope personified: {{Improbable Aiming Skills}}, {{No Social Skills}}, {{The Determinator}}, {{Genius Ditz}}, [[HealingFactor THE Healing Factor]], or {{Accidental Pervert}}. You name it, chances are he's gonna absolutely destroy the standard for it.

** How many people can a Vandenreich member kill in a single chapter? They seem to be outdoing each other with every chapter that gets released.

* ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' and ''{{XxxHOLiC}}'': How {{squick}}y and [[MindScrew "Double-You-Tee-Eff?"-inducing]] can the characters' connections and relationships with each other get? How utterly convoluted could the GambitPileup get? How much angst can we pile up on Fay?

* ''{{Manga//Monster}}'' - [[CompleteMonster Just how bad can a character be before you, the viewer, stop sympathizing with them?]] How many more characters will get more focus...only to not to make it to the end?

* Every single fight scene in TengenToppaGurrenLagann is cooler and more CrazyAwesome than the last. And if you thought that's enough, in the second movie, they go ''[[UpToEleven one step further]]'' ! It gets to a point where you realize that [[spoiler:Having the HumongousMecha pilot ''another'' HumongousMecha, which happens to be the ''moon'']] is just par for the course. For reference, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUJzYSswcj0 here]] is a video that illustrates the size of the titular mecha. And, if you take the movies as canon, this is ''not even the biggest one in the franchise''. That one is '''one hundred times larger.'''

* ''GGundam'' can probably be considered its predecessor in many aspects, but doesn't get nearly as far. They finished with a robot the size of, or rather ''made out of'', a space colony that is apparently the size of Japan. They more than make up for it by trying to out cheese themselves in a WriterRevolt.
** From the {{Gundam00}} manga, Mobile Suit Gundam 00V Battlefield Record, we have Setsuna's new Gundam after the Raiser was nearly totaled fighting Ribbon's suit. [[http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/GN-0000GNHW/7SG_00_Gundam_Seven_Sword/G The 00 Gundam Seven Sword]]. It has ''seven'' blades as opposed to the usual one.
** Don't forget XN-raiser 00 Gundam.

* ''JoJosBizarreAdventure'' thrives on this. Each new installment of the 8-part (and still ongoing) saga has weirder powers, more sick-in-the-head ubervillains, more insane stunts, more {{mind screw}}...
** The 6th installment involves breaking out of a prison full of super-powered, extremely weird criminals and stopping a SinisterMinister from ''resetting the ENTIRE UNIVERSE as we know it to repeat past events again, starting from the beginning of time''. Part 7 is probably one of the saner storylines so far. Even though it's about a cross-country horse race which doubles as an attempt to stop a power-hungry President from gathering the ''mummified body parts of Jesus Christ'' and using them to conquer the world. Yeah...
* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'': How can we [[ButtMonkey break Shinji]] today? What next happens to the characters that [[ThereAreNoTherapists no psychiatrist]] can help with?

* ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma ½]]'': Who's going to fall [[LoveDodecahedron in love with Ranma this time?]] What [[KiAttacks crazy move]] will Ranma [[MegaManning master this time?]] Just how [[{{Tsundere}} angry can Akane get with him this time?]]

* ''OnePiece'' -- [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank How much freaking blood can Zoro lose in one fight?]]

* ''{{Naruto}}'' has been getting into this ever since the Killer Bee Arc. For example: how badass can we make Kumo? How insane can we make Killer Bee and A in comparison to the other characters? What can we do to top Konoha's destruction? How big will Naruto's Rasengans get?

* ''MahouSenseiNegima'': How over-the-top and ridiculous can [[BoisterousBruiser Jack Rakan's]] improvised techniques become? He starts off by summoning a [[{{BFS}} skyscraper sized sword]], moves on to accidentally blowing up a mountain while making up a finishing move for Negi, surfs on a sword, defeats enemies by stealing their panties, and [[spoiler: destroys a pocket dimension by first disrupting the artifact maintaining (by flipping the owner's skirt, repeatedly) then generating a micro-black hole.]] This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by other characters to no end.

* ''KatekyoHitmanReborn'': How many more {{Bishonen}} are going to be introduced? How much larger is Tsuna's [[UnwantedHarem harem]] of possessive, dedicated {{Bishonen}} bodyguards going to get? How many more magical powers does the mafia have? Subtopic for the last question: [[spoiler:How many worlds does Byakuran exist in and can draw knowledge from?]] Answer: All of them. He's just {{crazy prepared}}.

* The last twenty chapters or so of ''FullmetalAlchemist'' are basically an exercise in "How many [[Awesome/FullmetalAlchemist crowing moments of awesome]], {{Tear Jerker}}s, and [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FullmetalAlchemist things that make us want to hide under the bed]] can Hiromu Arakawa cram in?" It's an exponential curve, it turns out.

* ''PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' is the new [[StudioGainax Gainax]] series that does to RefugeInAudacity and RefugeInVulgarity what TengenToppaGurrenLagann did to RuleOfCool. It became the new de facto WidgetSeries after one episode and after nine more, shows no signs of staying in one place for more than [[ThreeShorts eleven minutes]]. How much more vulgar, sexual and just plain weird can this series get, anyway?!

* ''{{Anime/Monster}}'' - [[CompleteMonster Just how bad can a character be before you, the viewer, stop sympathizing with them?]]
** How many more characters will get more focus...only to not to make it to the end?

* ''FistOfTheNorthStar'' - Just how cruel, sadistic and despicable can the next villain be?

* ''DeathNote'': How much more audacious can L and Kira get in attempting to unmask each other? [[spoiler:At least in the first half. The second half reduces this tension immensely.]]

* ''{{Baccano}}!'': How [[{{Gorn}} bloody]] can the violence get? How {{Badass}} can the characters be? How [[{{CloudCuckoolander}} weird]]/[[TheDitz dumb]]/''[[CrazyAwesome awesome]]'' can [[OutlawCouple Isaac and Miria]] get? How badly can karma fuck up [[ButtMonkey Dallas]] this time? How much can we screw over [[BreakTheCutie Czeslaw]] now? Just how [[CrazyAwesome batshit yet supremely awesome]] are [[PsychoForHire Ladd]] and [[HeroicSociopath Claire]] going to be in this episode? Will there ''ever'' be [[MoreDakka enough machine guns?]]

* Every single fight scene in TengenToppaGurrenLagann is cooler and more CrazyAwesome than the last. And if you thought that's enough, in the second movie, they go ''[[UpToEleven beyond]]'' BeyondTheImpossible! It gets to a point where you realize that [[spoiler:Having the HumongousMecha pilot ''another'' HumongousMecha, which happens to be the ''moon'']] is just par for the course. For reference, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUJzYSswcj0 here]] is a video that illustrates the size of the titular mecha. And, if you take the movies as canon, this is ''not even the biggest one in the franchise''. That one is '''one hundred times larger.'''

** Achieving the level of Super Saiyan was considered to be a myth and the equivalent of a Saiyan achieving [[AGodAmI godhood]]. Fittingly, Goku accomplishes this, with a Super Saiyan from the future arriving, and then Vegeta, and Goku's son Gohan. Then they got wind of a possibility of going beyond that, known as "ascending the threshold of Super Saiyan", Vegeta and Trunks did it in a sense, Goku and Gohan were the closest, but the latter truly accomplished this and became a Super Saiyan 2 or a "True Ascended Saiyan". ''Then'', facing Majin Buu, Goku gave a tutorial on Saiyans and their transformations; going to ''Super Saiyan 3''; literally saying as he transforms "And this... is to go even further ''beyond!''" Even the English dub voice actor went BeyondTheImpossible with that massive {{Kiai}} he was scripted to do! Truly, becoming an Super Saiyan 3 is this, if anything.

In the GrandFinale, [[YourMileageMayVary after he has redeemed/plunged an entire series from/into mehness and promoted it to awesome/awful]], [[spoiler:he speaks of how he wanted to sing to make a mountain move as a child, and today, he would move that mountain. Basara defeats the BigBad and saves ''every single'' life form in the galaxy from death '''with ThePowerOfRock alone'''.]] Truly, the fact that Nekki Basara ever existed in ''any'' medium is a feat of BeyondTheImpossible itself.

*** [[spoiler: Shoutmon X7 Superior Mode. The ultimate crowning example of BeyondTheImpossible in the '''{{Digimon}} Franchise yet!''']]

* ''DragonBallZ'' -- How big can we make this [[KiAttacks energy blast]]? What will the villain [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up]] next? Just how blond and [[BattleAura glowy]] will Goku become next? How many of the cast will die and [[ResetButton be brought back to life]] by the Dragonballs? How many episodes will [[InactionSequence the battle last]]?\\

A sign of how the series works, Son Goku's level reaches ''32,000'' just a few episodes after those famous words were spoken. (X4 Kaiô-Ken) Indeed, less than two months later, he had defeated Freeza, whose (canonically given in the Daizenshuu) power level in his final form was 120,000,000 (Though his powerlevel has dropped due to fatigue). So Goku had gone from 416 (him fighting Raditz) to 150,000,000 in barely over a year. And they just get stronger from there. Son Goku's power has to be considered to grow exponentially. Non-canonic numbers are hard to consider afterwards, as there are multiple ideas about the powerlevels beyond Frieza. Not that it removes any entertainment value. [[spoiler:(As a side note, ThisVeryWiki has EnsembleDarkhorse Broly from the {{Non Serial Movie}}s to have a power of 1,4 '''''billions'''''!!)]]\\

Achieving the level of Super Saiyan was considered to be a myth and the equivalent of a Saiyan achieving [[AGodAmI godhood]]. Fittingly, Goku accomplishes this, with a Super Saiyan from the future arriving, and then Vegeta, and Goku's son Gohan. Then they got wind of a possibility of going beyond that, known as "ascending the threshold of Super Saiyan", Vegeta and Trunks did it in a sense, Goku and Gohan were the closest, but the latter truly accomplished this and became a Super Saiyan 2 or a "True Ascended Saiyan". ''Then'', facing Majin Buu, Goku gave a tutorial on Saiyans and their transformations; going to ''Super Saiyan 3''; literally saying as he transforms "And this... is to go even further ''beyond!''" Even the English dub voice actor went BeyondTheImpossible with that massive {{Kiai}} he was scripted to do! Truly, becoming an Super Saiyan 3 is this, if anything.
** It doesn't even stop there. In DragonBallGT, he goes Super Saiyan IV. Then Vegeta does it too. Then Goku and Vegeta do the FusionDance and become Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta; SS4 UpToEleven.
* ''MacrossSeven'' -- How much more ''[[CrazyAwesome ridiculously awesome]]'' can Nekki Basara get? First he's just the awesome front man to an awesome band, then he's flying his CoolPlane with ''an Electric Guitar for a joystick'' into the very center of a battle to wow his enemies with ThePowerOfRock.\\
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In the GrandFinale, [[YourMileageMayVary after he has redeemed/plunged an entire series from/into mehness and promoted it to awesome/awful]], [[spoiler:he speaks of how he wanted to sing to make a mountain move as a child, and today, he would move that mountain. Basara defeats the BigBad and saves ''every single'' life form in the galaxy from death '''with ThePowerOfRock alone'''.]] Truly, the fact that Nekki Basara ever existed in ''any'' medium is a feat of BeyondTheImpossible itself.
* ''SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' , [[TheAce Max Jenius]] outflew TheHero on his first combat sortie, steals the title of TheAce from ''Roy Focker'', fights the [[HotAmazon enemy ace]] in single combat and wins ''[[RuleOfThree three times consecutively]]'', then woos and marries her ''within hours'' of her third defeat, starting the first InterspeciesRomance and spawning not one but seven children -- who all apparently inherit some of his awesome. You'd think he'd call it quits at that point, but no, that's just what happened before ''MacrossSeven''.\\
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* ''{{Gintama}}''. How ridiculously blatant can a parody be? How many poop jokes and DragonQuest references can be fit into one episode?