Well maybe I will just have to watch Battle Of The Gods again later with that gripe in mind.
So Goku is a preteen, he really took idiot hero huh?
Modified Ura-nage, Torture RackArale in Dr. Slump can split the planet in half with her physical strength alone.
I don't think anyone from dragonball could take that without some sort of pain to them..
Watch SymphogearPlanet? Really? When Arale was drunk she moved the sun, with a fork, turning day into night...which 10 kinds of absurd (how did a fork reach that far, shoudln't it have melted, shouldn't Earth have moved instead, how does a robot get drunk yet perform not metabolic function-only being the most obvious) but she did it nonetheless.
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Cracking a planet isn't all that impressive; not only do DB characters routinely punch away blasts with enough power to destroy the Earth hundreds of thousands of times over, but there's a calc going around the web now of what Goku punching a hole through a planet with x10 the gravity of Earth yet a tiny fraction of the size means. Basically: punching a planet in half would be like punching air to him, and he's weaksauce by the standard of the high tiers.
The sun feats are pretty impressive though. But I don't think Arale could take the higher tiers of the Buu Saga.
The Daizenshuu implies that Slump Arale and DB Arale truly are the same. If that's the case, it either died when Super Buu extinguished all the humans (unlikely, since he wouldn't have a ki signature to track) or when Pure Buu blew up the Earth. And since Arale was a machine, it was never brought back.
I believe Zeni does not show up until the world tournament, I remember the currency being different during the initial journey. I forgot how crazy Goku's match with Jackie Chun was. He was a Heli-Critter years before the fan lizard.
Modified Ura-nage, Torture RackNo, the one where Goku and General Blue fell onto their island.
Long live Cinematech. FC:0259-0435-4987And how do you know THAT wasn't just a throwaway gag given the nature of Dr. Slump?
Long live Cinematech. FC:0259-0435-4987Because it appears multiple times and there's no reason to think it is, since Dragon Ball was never planned at that stage and it wasn't presented as a gag.
And Senbei isn't as smart in Dragon Ball as he is in Dr Slump.
Really Senbei who did not know that most dinosaurs were too large to be caught in bug nets is not as smart in Dragon Ball?
Yen exists in the first dragon ball arc and Sergeant Murosaki wears the American flag, stars, stripes and all, so I am not totally convinced they are different universes based on those.
Modified Ura-nage, Torture RackIn terms of inventions, no. He can't figure out the Dragon Radar at all despite being building way more fantastic inventions in Doctor Slump.
I forgot about yen and the American flag, but the geography still isn't the same. Yen was given a currency conversion to zeni in Jaco anyway.
And Dr. Slump runs purely on gag logic when Dragon Ball doesn't. It's impossible to reconcile the two universes.
All we know is there is a Penguin Village in Dragon Ball and that Arale is strong enough to beat Blue.
Bulma has invented many of the same things as Senbe (shrinking device, time machine), it could be that he did not have time to really study whatever radiation/frequency the dragon balls give off and they would not fall under traditional science anyway. Senbe does not get Gachan either, who is a product of Earth's god just like the dragon balls are but his Touched by Vorlons son is not confused at all.
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Arale from Dr. Slump could, but the one in Dragon Ball might not have.
And Instant Transmission isn't enough to justify Goku doing better. He did better even without the IT once he went Super Saiyan.
edited 2nd Oct '13 4:36:05 PM by Saiga