Well, yes it is. Because in the original Vegeta faces that risk.
It's pretty telling that the anime's way of making Boo menacing has absolutely no effect on the plot. The destroyed planets can be easily reversed, and even if he had successfully killed anyone in the afterlife it wouldn't actually impact their chances of killing Boo.
Meanwhile, Boo being able to instantly find Goku and Vegeta means he could have potentially killed everyone there and gone on to destroy everything else unopposed.
edit: He can get to the afterlife because he's copied Kaioshin's ability to teleport literally anywhere without requiring a ki signature to do so.
edited 30th Dec '16 10:07:23 PM by Saiga
No it's not the same thing because Vegeta chose to go fight him, Kid Buu didn't teleport to a supposedly safe space and pose a direct danger to a bunch of innocents who wouldn't be able to come back like all the other innocents he slew.
And that he could have theoretically done it in the manga doesn't mean anything because it isn't made explicit as a threat.
It's still the same result even if Vegeta chose to take it. And honestly, killing a bunch of innocents just isn't as threatening as killing the only people capable of stopping him.
It'd be a tragedy, yeah, but if he's not stopped than he will destroy everything as Kaioshin said.
edited 30th Dec '16 10:19:24 PM by Saiga
The only difference I see is one of them is being deliberately misconstrued by you.
We know Boo can do that from his abilities. We're outright told that left unchecked he will continue to destroy without end. It's very basic.
And really, if he's going to destroy everyone in the universe like he was said to, there would be no reviving anyone once New Namek goes.
In the manga we are not told he knows how to teleport to the afterlife specifically. In retrospect we can look back and think that "yeah he could probably do that". But it is not presented as a clear and present danger the way the anime throws it into our face.
If Buu murderers a whole bunch of the afterlife, and then Goku and Vegeta kill him, those people are screwed forever. It's a kind of direct threat you don't get from just being really strong.
I mean, if you understand how the technique he copied works, and they do lay out the difference between Instantaneous Movement and Instant Transmission, it's pretty easy to figure out what he's going to do.
You shouldn't have to be told he can go to the afterlife, specifically, when the technique explicitly lets the user go wherever they want.
edited 30th Dec '16 10:40:09 PM by LSBK
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Those people being screwed forever doesn't mean a whole lot when everyone else is fine and the threat is finished.
It's not "oh yeah he can probably do that" it's "he can DEFINITELY do that, it is explicitly what the technique can do". They do need to show him almost doing it to show he can do it, that's just obnoxious.
It might be more impressive to show him doing it, before people even bring up the possibility that he can do that. More surprising that way? I don't know, I'm just musing a bit.
Okay, that's just callous.
Oh God! Natural light!![]()
I'm not saying that it's not true, but simply that saying "in the grand scheme of things, their Cessation of Existence isn't really important" is kind of a dick thing to say, no matter how true it might be.
And I suppose I just dislike devaluing individual lives in such a manner.
edited 31st Dec '16 12:54:50 AM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!Well, I'm sure anyone who's friends irreversibly died to Maijin Buu would be delighted to hear that.
Is a bit of common courtesy truly not considered an admirable trait?
edited 31st Dec '16 12:58:11 AM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!A bit of mourning would be nice. Some measure of compassion, really. Show the Otherworld you care, Saiga!
Oh God! Natural light!

I mean, I'm pretty sure it's still mentioned in the manga that if Vegeta dies again he'll just cease to exist.
And the realm of the Kais or whatever existing outside the Universe doesn't really make sense. Even if it's not the afterlife, that doesn't mean he couldn't get to the afterlife.