Or will meet during the arc. The gods have been involved in every arc so far, why would that change now?
Also, if we're talking prior to this arc...
Raditz was an immediate surprise threat, and the talisman needs prep time. Nappa and Vegeta had each other and a bunch of Saibamen as back-up.
Freeza had an army and many elite warriors who could cover for each other if need be. Also, I think Vegeta would be irrationally pissed if Roshi sealed Freeza.
They didn't take the easy way out of fighting the Androids specifically because they wanted to fight them. Cell totally would've been able to counter the Mafuba.
Babidi would've broken Buu out of any trap and Buu totally would've been able to see the Mafuba coming, he had experience with similar sealing techniques. It was unnecessary for Fat Buu because Mark made friends, but Super Buu is way smarter and would've recognized it. Kid Buu is mindless, but Roshi was also long dead by the time he showed up.
Even if Roshi had the foresight to prepare one and have it ready at Bulma's party, Beerus is also familiar with sealing techniques, and sealing him would've ended up REALLY badly. Whis would've been obliged to break him out, and Beerus would've Hakai'd Earth immediately out of sheer rage.
Freeza coming back was a surprise with only an hour of warning. Freeza also specifically had Sorbet hide and cover for him if it looked like he would be in trouble. Sorbet would've shot that container the second it became apparent that would be Freeza's new prison.
Using the Mafuba against Champa in the U6 tournament would've been unsportsmanlike and against the rules. No way Champa would've allowed it, he's much more of a stickler for the rules than Zeno. Unless Roshi was sealing Hit, it wouldn't have mattered anyways. Hit also could've just gone into his temporal pocket dimension to dodge it and break the bottle from there.
They tried using the Mafuba on Zamasu, Goku fucked up and forgot the seal. Hell, even if he hadn't forgotten it, Goku and Vegeta were busy with Black's smoke clones at the time and Black easily could've beaten up Trunks and broken Zamasu out.
edited 29th Dec '17 1:51:07 AM by PushoverMediaCritic
They had at least a day to prepare for Raditz. Didn't take too long for Roshi to prepare one for Daimao, unless he already had it prepared which is way more obvious.
Against Nappa and Vegeta, they don't know they have Saibaimen beforehand. They know two Saiyans are coming and they have three people who ALREADY know the Mafuba and a year to prepare for this.
If the Mafuba was so great, there's no excuse for not teaching it to the people leaving to Namek, or them trying to learn it themselves (as Tenshinhan did in the first place). There are plenty of cases where the heroes were alone with a villain and would be able to use it.
There is no reason not to prepare a container to use the Mafuba as a back-up, or during the three days when Tenshinhan's like "fuck me, I really want to help beat these Androids but have NO IDEAS WHATSOEVER". They specifically sought out a shut-down remote, so at that point they weren't trying to fight directly.
You're just making a big assumption on Boo's part. Fat Boo apparently couldn't counter the spell, he needed to take Babidi off-guard beforehand. We don't know if there's any similarity between the Mafuba and Babidi's sealing either, so that's a complete stretch.
Sorbet's weak and should not be able to freely attack Freeza's container without being thwarted by someone else. I know he got Goku, but that was an extreme case of plot fiat.
And yes, they used another plot contrivance in the Black arc to prevent it sealing Zamasu away. That's not something they should keep relying on.
Just saying, if the argument is "why didn't King Piccolo beam spam it" it's because he couldn't. People don't beam spam in the original DB. They don't have the Ki.
He's hugely caught off guard by Roshi. When Tien tries it in the anime he has Drum interfere and Drum even gets sucked in in his place whereupon Piccolo smashes the bottle.
Also, I'm going to agree with PMC on this. Characters have loads of logical options to deal with the Mafuba. That they never go for them is generally because the average intelligence of characters in this series is fairly low. That's a writing problem. It's the same question as to why hero characters very rarely go for the smart option of fighting villains anymore, and the same reason as "why does Anime!Jiren just not curb stomp everyone else on the field."
As for why Tien doesn't try it, in the manga it's because it still might kill you at that power level (we never see someone survive using it till Super I believe) and he also had no real time to prepare (since they thought they would be strong enough to handle the androids after three years of training) and oh yeah, there are two/three androids.
That means that if one gets sealed in a bottle the other can break it fairly easily.
edited 29th Dec '17 5:30:26 AM by Sigilbreaker26
"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"Piccolo Daimao throws out several ki attacks and from what you're saying it only takes one to destroy the container. That excuse doesn't fit.
Also, you're calling it a writing problem when it's your explanations that don't fit the story. While I believe the Daimao arc should have better defined the limits of the Mafuba so that it wasn't open ended, it never presented the technique as something that would be as universally useful as you're implying and as such it did not need the weaknesses you have invented for it.
The character intelligence excuse makes no sense whatsoever. If the characters aren't smart enough to deal with the Mafuba, then how are they also smart enough to realize their enemies could deal with the Mafuba with methods that have never been used? And why do they think they'd go with such methods when no-one does? That line of thinking isn't logical at all.
Please see my responses above. They've have plenty of opportunities to prepare, and they have multiple people capable of using the technique. At least enough to cover the amount of enemies they have.
edited 29th Dec '17 5:32:51 AM by Saiga
Waifu's of Dragon Ball, what who are those?
Before this tournament there was barely any women in this franchise.
The only chick I've seen people consistently consider a waifu is 18 cause there wasn't much competition really.
........ Alright I'll bite I think Ultimate Gohan is pretty hot & boy does that sound weird with me having a Goku avatar.
edited 29th Dec '17 5:39:23 AM by slimcoder
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I say Beam Spam because one ki blast can be blocked. I don't remember any occasion pre-Z where anyone just pelts someone else with Ki blasts and that's what you need to break the Mafuba- throw so many blasts one gets past.
The main central reason no one has touched the Mafuba throughout all of Z is because it still might kill them. Tien doesn't try it in the manga. By the point of say, the Cell or Buu arcs there are usually too many variables floating around for it to be practical, not to mention neither of the people who can use it can be brought back from the dead.
If you're asking "why doesn't Goku, Vegeta etc. " use it, well they were only persuaded to use it against someone who was literally immortal. In any other case, Saiyan battle instinct saiyan pride etc etc. I'm as tired of that excuse as you but it's consistent at least.
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I don't think Bulma has ever been really exceeded as hottest female DB character TBH.
edited 29th Dec '17 5:43:04 AM by Sigilbreaker26
"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"No, you don't NEED beam spam. The previous argument was that it's very easy to destroy the pot, but now that's been changed since that doesn't hold up... but any number of blasts would be better than none, so if it is possible it's quite silly that we don't see someone try it.
And God already showed off the ability to use the Mafuba without dying. So there must be a different reason they aren't using it.

@Pushover
I'm not talking about going forward. I'm talking about that biiiiig gap between the Daimao arc and the current arc of Super. Furthermore, it's foolish to presume every future antagonist has either been met already or is in league with the Gods.