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Friday's page.

It was a simpler era, one where The Big 3 weren't able to do as they pleased because they kept each other in check. One where Zen Buu's powers were simple plot tools and intelligence and not omnipotence. One where Buu's biggest strength was only his regeneration.

Later on this rivalry/mutual counter with Vegito will prove to be extremely misleading, as Vegito as a SSJ2 and even SSJ3, fighting with the entire multiverse at his side, will not stand a chance against a Zen Buu who is massively holding back.

The sad part is U4 Buu is the only one who really broke the balance. Vegetto had hard limits put on him, with his limited time at SS3 (meaning his full power is so great he can barely use it) and the insane hunger that requires him to need to consume senzu beans to maintain his body. Gast's actual ki was revealed to be closer to high SS3 level fighter to compensate for his high skill level in magic. The problem with U4 Buu is when you give him both ki that can rival SS2 Vegetto and magic that can work on a universal scale like the Dragon Balls with no cost then the character is just too broken to work in universe. Buu is essentially a reality warper with no defined limits. There needs to be a cost to keep him balanced. 

Since SS3 weakness was exaggerated to give to give Vegetto harder limits to balance him out then I think Buu's limit should have been giving him a cool off time where he cannot use magic the stronger the spell he uses. What that means is if Buu revives everyone at the tournament, it means he cannot use his magic for long period of time. That means he cannot regenerate, cannot split himself up, control parts of his bodies, transfer his consciousness to them, or absorb anyone. Buu wants to make a black hole, well that is complex magic and needs 5 minutes to recharge his magic to use again. Buu stays damn strong but giving him a cost for strongest spells and magic we see him use balances him out. 


Imagine in an alternate take on Buu vs Multiverse that after Buu used high level spells to seal off Gast that he couldn't use his magic for 5 minutes. The story shifts to trying to defeat Buu in those 5 minutes, before he his magic returns. It forces Buu to have to be clever to survive his enemies without regeneration or endless clones he can create from his body. Any damage he takes actually cost him stamina and ki. Even if he does manage to kill Vegetto and Bra we could have had it to where they damaged him enough for a joint group attack is enough to kill Buu right before his magic returns or he gets sealed by Mafuba from U9 Tien.   

Zen Buu is all the worst tropes of the DB Fan Villain I already was "eh" on him at the start but he just gets worse and worse as the story goes on. Character flaws? Nah he is above that kind of thing, limitations? He's not cool if he isn't the strongest and most broken.

Woops. Nothing is here. IGNORE ME!

Wednesday's page.

To answer Vegetto's question: Yes, Zen Buu wanted to absorb Broly. He just wasn't that serious about it. 

Buu, Vegito and Gast, 3 characters that were constantly shown to be far above the rest. This created a very interesting dynamic where those three were feared or respected by everyone else in the Tournament, yet in case any of them went rogue, the other 2 would stop him. It made you want to see how the fights between them would go- And in a classic example of the Worf Effect trope, these three were matched up against XXI to show off how dangerous he could be.

This dynamic was lost later as the comic went on and Gast was shown to be only a SSJ3 level fighter with hax magic, and Buu was outright shown to be the strongest character in the series, at least until we see what XXI is hiding.

This is shows that Yamcha (and the human in general) has potential if Toriyama cared about him.

And here's in explanation from Salagir about the Future Androids being weaker than their present counter part:

Kaioken should have become the humans answer to Super Saiyan. Goiu discarding it for Super Saiyan, since it is superior to Kaioken. In the manga he was never going to use it again. Letting it become the humans signature move to at least allow them to keep pace with the aliens would have been good. That is why Universe 9 is one of my favorite universes in DBM. It shows humans didn’t need to be cast aside.

It sucks fans don’t like them enough to draw U9 stories. The concept of humans finding ways to overcome the threats that Goku and the Saiyans dealt with is a cool concept. It is even cooler that DBM did it without making the humans go the Saiyan route of getting a crap ton of transformations and zenkai power boosts. Yamecha is a cyborg, but other than that we see skill and teamwork became their bread and butter and allowed them to win against stronger foes. That is cool.