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burninmylight on 03 July 2013
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JayWood2010 said:

Gohan is stronger than both Vegeta and Goku in Dragon Ball Z so at least Goku isn't the strongest in the series. Or at least until GT.

The thing is, the show wanted to show that heart and desire was just important as anything else. Another important note to remember is some people are born more skilled than others and regardless of how much training you have that wont change. It would be like comparing you to Michael Jordan. Sure you could practice 24/7 but MJ will still be better because he was born with a natural talent for it. Practice only helped him improve even more.

WAY OFF TOPIC: You love you some MJ, don'tcha? :) I think he'd find your comment disrespectful.

 

WAY BACK ON TOPIC: Completely agree. I hate idiot heroes. WHO THE HELL LEAVES THE FATE OF ALL LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE IN THE HANDS OF A COUPLE OF 7-YEAR-OLDS?!?!?! And before that, the dumbass lounged around with his son like a deadbeat weedhead hippie who didn't have a superpowerful bio-android specifically engineered to kill him and his friends.

I feel like DBZ got progressively worse with each new arc and big bad villain. All the periphery fighters got progressively useless, the characters got progressively overpowered to the point to where you wonder how someone doesn't blow up the half the world by farting, and the applied phlebotinum or other new magical plot devices  got progressively more ridiculous to the point of unintentional hilarity (Z Sword? Fusion Dance? WTF?)

It got to the point to where the whole namesake of the show either made you sit and wonder why the cast didn't just keep reusing the dragon balls for everything (like they did at the end of the Frieza/Namek arc) or that the dragon balls were now completely useless because the dragon was far too weak to have any effect on the villains. It became, "Uh-oh, new villain appeared whose even more powerful than the last! Time for everyone to get their ass whipped to buy time for Goku to show up late and get knocked silly with the idiot ball for a dozen episodes before he finally does what the rest of us would have done from the get-go!"