Can a Dragon Ball character literally kill someone by simply powering up?

[JohnCenaNation]

I mean think about it, these characters have ki aura that is powerful enough to literally shake the entire planet or the entire universe, and that's simply them powering up. So if you bring a human level opponent within their range while they are powering up, wouldn't they just instantly die since their durability are absolutely fodder in comparison to the Dragon Ball character's ki aura? Now before someone tells me that Bulma didn't die from Beerus simply getting mad, there is a thing called ki control. If Dragon Ball characters are simply allowed to blow up everything around their radius as they wishes, then there wouldn't be any storyline, now would it?

 

[The_Calaca]

It should but it doesn't.

The end.

 

[Mr.Cinos15]

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[Akreious]

Goku merely powering up hard enough as a Super Saiyan 3 was able to cause natural disasters that for all intents and purposes should've ended the world.

So the answer should be a solid "yes". They just don't because we can't have them kill everything on a planet by merely flaring their aura.

 

[The_Calaca]

Every portrayal shows that even if they cause enviromental destruction people just doesn't die from the ki pressure alone. Even when Vegeta did it back in the Saiyan Saga it didn't kill anyone by the pressure alone. People might've died because of the collapse of buildings, but that's a circunstancial event.

 

[Akreious]

Every portrayal shows that even if they cause enviromental destruction people just doesn't die from the ki pressure alone. Even when Vegeta did it back in the Saiyan Saga it didn't kill anyone by the pressure alone. People might've died because of the collapse of buildings, but that's a circunstancial event.

Exactly. Even though the resulting power-up is literally world-endingly cataclysmic, there are no direct casualties even though bystanders can be standing just a few hundreds meter below them. It makes no sense, but hey gotta maintain that rating.

 

[JohnCenaNation]

Exactly. Even though the resulting power-up is literally world-endingly cataclysmic, there are no direct casualties even though bystanders can be standing just a few hundreds meter below them. It makes no sense, but hey gotta maintain that rating.

Anime logic. But hey, by the time Dragon Ball Super ends, we might get the answers that we need, I hope.

 

[The_Calaca]

>Implying that a series might touch such a dark theme like the characters passively killing the people they are fighting to protect

That'd be great.

>The series is Dragon Ball

Welp, guess I'll die before that happens.

 

[ChocomilkAlex]

I honestly never thought about this, yeah I agree with Calaca.

 

[Dominodalek]

They can, Frieza's transformation into his Final Form during the Golden Frieza Saga vaporised his entire army.

 

[Planck69]

While it would be great if Dragon Ball touched upon the consequences of their battles and what they mean for their world, sometimes you just gotta realize that this is at the end of the day a show about muscular men throwing beams of light at each other.

 

[AwkguyDB]

While it would be great if Dragon Ball touched upon the consequences of their battles and what they mean for their world, sometimes you just gotta realize that this is at the end of the day a show about muscular men throwing beams of light at each other.

Isn't that the point of Goku canceling out Beerus' punches in the BoG arc? They had enough power in their fist to rip the U7 Macrocosm a new one yet Goku managed to find a way to control his power from leaking out for the rest of the fight.

 

[ProudLearner]

Dragon ball characters Aura can do the following:

Fear-inducing via Frieza power scaring Krillin or SS2 Gohan power inducing fear into Perfect Cell or Jiren's presence inducing fear into Goku, etc..

Materialized via Goku Black scyth

Catastrophe-inducing SS3 Goku powering up, Saiyan Saga Vegeta Powering up, Beerus and SSJGod Goku clash, etc..

Explosive pretty much when they power up they send flying opponents or allies away.

 

[The_Calaca]

Its Fear Inducing characteristics are tied to people who can sense ki. Those characters you mention are scared because they feel the power of the opponent and are scared because they are far stronger than them.

 

[AKM sama]

They can, Frieza's transformation into his Final Form during the Golden Frieza Saga vaporised his entire army.

Freeza the badass.

 

[AppleLord]

...there is a thing called ki control. If Dragon Ball characters are simply allowed to blow up everything around their radius as they wishes, then there wouldn't be any storyline...

This ain't reiatsu buddy. The fact that not even villains can do this speaks water.

 

[JohnCenaNation]

...there is a thing called ki control. If Dragon Ball characters are simply allowed to blow up everything around their radius as they wishes, then there wouldn't be any storyline...

This ain't reiatsu buddy. The fact that not even villains can do this speaks water.

Someone mentioned that Frieza killed his armies by simply transforming.

 

[AppleLord]

Someone mentioned that Frieza killed his armies by simply transforming.

Yeah, Frieza caused an explosion that left a crater when he transformed. But its not the same that you mentioned on the OP.

 

[Akreious]

Its Fear Inducing characteristics are tied to people who can sense ki. Those characters you mention are scared because they feel the power of the opponent and are scared because they are far stronger than them.

Beerus induced utter fear into Kid Vegeta and he couldn't sense Ki until waaaay into the future in the Namek Saga

 

[The_Calaca]

Yet no other character has induced fear with their ki alone to non-sensing characters outside of Bills, who's a GoD and was presented as a being far above everything that came up before him.

Cell didn't scared the sh*t out of not Satan but Jimmy Firecrackers and the cameraman. Freeza didn't scare Bulma nor Jaco with his power. Buu didn't do it towards the average people that were on Kami's place outside of the "huh, he's Buu, he's scary".

 

[Ionliosite]

Anime logic. But hey, by the time Dragon Ball Super ends, we might get the answers that we need, I hope.

Implying Super hasn't ended.

 

[HST_Master]

I mean Chichi even straight up walked up to and slapped Buu.

 

[The_Calaca]

Yeah, Buu had a tantrum, killed every living being on the planet from the lookout and nobody fainted from his ki pressure or something like that. It's pretty clear that the Fear Inducement is something Bills has and not the ki itself as a characteristic.

 

[AKM sama]

AppleLord
Yeah, Frieza caused an explosion that left a crater when he transformed. But its not the same that you mentioned on the OP.

Characters do some destruction to the surrounding area when they power up. It's just that the show doesn't care about its effects on normal humans otherwise they'd turn to dust.

Like Kale turned the whole katchi-katchin arena into debris, Jiren and UIO Goku shook the WoV, Jiren's heat was also reaching characters sitting on the bench etc.