And Boo arc Super Vegetto's level has long since been surpassed.
Yeah but how powerful Buu is after training and getting his Thin Form is up in the air.
The real reason Buu was unbalanced and therefore excluded, as Kaioshin points out in the manga, are his healing powers. They wreck the entire premise of the TOP. Not like they did much with the stamina plot point to begin with though.
The second reason is that the first thing he would have done would be this attack
◊ which would have instantly eliminated 90% of the competitors without actually costing Buu any stamina.
Edited by Kamiccolo on Oct 12th 2018 at 9:27:56 AM
The healing powers don't wreck the premise, actually. Since killing an opponent is already forbidden, the fact that Buu is nearly impossible to kill is irrelevant.
This is a tournament of Ringouts.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I'm not talking about his regeneration, I'm talking about his Healing Hands (or Healing Ray) that can fix anything from decapitation to large holes in the body to blindness. He can do that. He got it from absorbing those Kaioshins.
Healing someone also restores all their energy, even for someone stronger than the healer (see Kibito healing Gohan or Trunks healing Goku in the manga). It would be impossible for any of his teammates to tire themselves out or take lasting damage as long as he's there. And eliminating him in the first place would be difficult enough due to his regeneration and weird body. He'd basically be a heroic (and stronger) future Zamasu in role. His teammates would be at 100% continously.
Remember when MUI Goku and Limit Break Jiren were going at each other full force, and Goku started to look like he was winning, only for him to gas out before Jiren and lose? Not an issue with Buu there. He could just zap Goku's body back to being good as new and let him take care of the still-damaged and still-drained Jiren easily.
Edited by Kamiccolo on Oct 12th 2018 at 9:41:31 AM
While Jiren's standing there?
Ask Dende how well that worked out for him.
...shit, Goku probably wouldn't even let him do that anyway because it's cheating.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 12th 2018 at 10:44:22 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Buu doesn't actually need to be close to people to heal him, and Jiren was about to be distracted for several minutes by Jobza anyway. He could have easily healed Goku then. Essentially any time he's not directly being confronted by one of the exactly three or four foes there that are stronger than him (Jiren, Toppo, Kale/Kefla, and maybe Dyspo), he can be healing someone. And all of them were continuously busy anyway.
And Goku wouldn't care if Buu did it, not even Super Tardku. He had no issue taking a bag of senzus against the Zamasus or trying to gang up on Jiren 4-1. Nor did he object to Kaioshin's plan to have Buu be the medic in the manga.
Edited by Kamiccolo on Oct 12th 2018 at 9:53:11 AM
What Goku will or won't object to is entirely up to Toriyama's whims.
While you're right that he didn't have these issues before (or in the manga) I question as to whether our favourite Author wound't opt to have Goku go Honour Before Reason if it suited the plot.
Of course, I'm also notorious for selling him short on a lot of things, so my own words should be taken with a few hundred grains of salt.
One Strip! One Strip!In a tournament, Kakarotto would object to healing...
More likely...
It's a life or life situation...
Edited by randomness4 on Oct 12th 2018 at 10:24:39 AM
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Goku agreeing to have Buu be the medic doesn't mean he'd be cool with being healed himself.
Like.
He didn't object to having Senzu at the Cell Games. But he did give one to Cell.
He used the Potara but later decided he didn't like it and crushed it.
What Goku intellectually knows to be a good idea and what Goku wants in the short term are two different animals, and the latter usually wins out over the former in the heat of the moment. He's emotionally-driven.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 12th 2018 at 12:13:49 PM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Buu's ability to take a hit is irrelevant when he just needs to be knocked out-of-bounds. Jiren is supposed to be stronger than Beerus, IIRC, who was batting Buu around like a ping-pong ball with no difficulty.
If Jiren wanted to take him out of the fight, Buu would last about as long as Dende did against Frieza.
There are plenty of ways to write around Buu's healing in the Tournament of Power. The main problem, like I noted before, is all the cool characters that Toriyama and Toei both wanted to introduce and play around with, who would be turned to candy in the first five seconds if Buu was present.
There's a reason this was written as a battle royale. Boardwipes are not conducive to that reason.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 12th 2018 at 1:37:43 PM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The candy beam isn't any harder to write around than the mass explosions, which literally any character that powerful can do. And the heavy hitters in the TOP are miles ahead of where Boo is.
Boo's stamina isn't really infinite, as Vegeta observes when Fat Boo and Kid Boo fight.
Even his healing isn't a problem. Just do what the manga did with Trunks' healing and establish limits. All we've seen him do is heal injuries quickly, make it take longer to restore someone's stamina so that when Boo is healing someone it takes him out of commission for a while.
Boo wouldn't work in Toei's version of the TOP where the tournament is stretched out for thirty episodes and focus is spread out all over the place, but that version already made no sense with the existing cast. The manga version is much more fast paced, so there's less fridge logic with stronger characters not immediately eliminating weaker ones - Kale even does the big 'explosive wave' to knock out a bunch of competitors at once. Boo would work just fine in that set up.

...the thing is, even though you've prevented examples that show the opposite, I feel like if it had been Toriyama doing that, he'd have just had them get crushed to show how strong the other guy is. I've spent so long thinking that way that it's hard to get away from.
Edited by HandsomeRob on Oct 10th 2018 at 8:05:09 AM
One Strip! One Strip!