...No it isn't. It's expecting the obvious substance to take precedence over flash. Normally that would be considered respectful of the audience, but for some reason here it isn't.
What, should they randomly blow up Mars or something to look "impressive"? It's like complaining "We didn't see Cell blow away the Solar System so he couldn't really do it." It's not actually backed up by anything, it's just skepticism for skepticism's sake at that point.
edited 1st Apr '18 5:00:42 PM by LSBK
No one is saying that the Androids are secretly weaker than Nappa or something, just that the characters don't look more impressive than the tiers below them because they do the exact same things as the weaker characters but we're told they're stronger. And sometimes they don't even do that. It leads to a lot of diminishing returns when it comes to selling threats. Telling people they should accept it because the show tells you isn't the same thing as feeling a new level of strength.
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It's not like Dragon Ball has ever been big on things like that. Character's show they're stronger than other characters by beating up other characters, not escalating series of feats.
It was a long time before anyone did anything comparable to Roshi blowing up the moon, but that didn't change that Goku, Tao Paipai, Tien, Popo, Kami, and Piccolo were all much stronger than him.
Picking the Androids being stronger than Frieza as somehow egregious just seems very arbitrary. The series has always been that way.
edited 1st Apr '18 5:09:21 PM by LSBK
I'll sum it up this way then: in my opinion the Android Saga has some Show, Don't Tell issues with respect to certain characters' abilities. That make sense?
He can according to GT...
But GT is too positive to use for examples...
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Cell does say in Fighter Z that he no longer can absorb the Androids.
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.@ LSBK: Cell started sucking up more humans after Piccolo beat him. Or maybe he wanted to make sure that the androids couldn't stop him even if they teamed up, which is why he ate people in the present. Maybe he could've lost some strength after regressing to his larval state for four years.
It's interesting to think that Cell has only really been alive for two years. He spent over twenty years in a tube, and four of the six years outside of it gathering energy underground. Hmmm...I wonder when Cell exactly became self-aware. I'm pretty sure the embryo Cell we see in the present was mindless, but I'm wondering when Cell could think and feel for himself.

I'm not talking about higher numbers, I'm talking about the fact that it is firmly established that these people, who are stronger than Frieza, are nothing to do the Androids. That we don't see the Androids blow up a planet doesn't change that.
Defeating two Super Saiyans, Trunks and Vegeta, both of whom are stronger than Frieza, and having Goku say he can't beat them should remove doubt better than any "feat" could. It's very simple, or should be, anyway.
edited 1st Apr '18 4:53:49 PM by LSBK