Porcupine_I said: i still think the Freezer saga was the climax of Dragon Ball and where it should have ended.
getting even stronger became just silly from that point on
I dunno. I'd argue power levels got silly at the end of Dragon Ball. As in, before they added the Z.
Master Roshi, aka "Guy too fucking weak to even be beat up before Goku showed up to save everyone else" was casually blowing up the freaking moon at mid series.
Dragonball Powerscaling was nonsense, and it's stupid to think of DBZ in a relatable similar superhero level enviorment, since their energy attacks always did WAY more then their physical attacks could on an order of maginitude that's nearly impossible to overstate... yet both were treated as equals when fighting. Or near equals anyway.
Supposedly the thing Ki control that allows them to fire those blasts also gives them a defense against the same blasts
Yeah, that was my guess too... but still, Roshi's most powerful attacks were moonbusters... which means somehing is seriously messed up, otherwise Goku/Vegeta's first battle should casually accidently blow up the world or at least leave GIANT hunks in it.
Dragon Ball was never meant to be taken seriously from a realistic point of view.
