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Post by Kor Saiyajinkami on Jun 2, 2021 8:28:09 GMT
Videl is a sad story, she picked up flying faster than many characters in the OG Dragon Ball Goku included and could've been a showcase for what Earthlings can do when given trainer from post SS characters. But Spopovich breaks her and Gohan beds her and that is that. And I don't want to hear the argument she was too weak to contribute to things. Mr. Satan is weaker and arguably saved the Earth.
Yeah sadly Videl is just another casualty of Toeiyama not knowing how to handle the Earthlings properly in Z and beyond. It's not just a DB-thing tho; it's more of a battle shonen problem in general. When it comes to weaker characters that can't get to the same levels of power as the strongest characters, most battle shonen writers have an issue figuring out how to keep them relevant in their stories. Characters that can keep up with the strongest characters sadly usually get left in the dust in most battle shonen.
If you want a good story with Videl maintaining relevancy in the story, I'd suggest checking out MasakoX's What-IF series that focuses on Videl maintaining story relevance. It's a good one and yes sure it does the whole find a way to bullshit it to make her maintain relevancy thru keeping up in power with the major players, but that's just because well Masako tries to write his What-IFs in the way that Toriyama likely would've wrote the story, not necessarily how he'd write the story.
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