So, uh, been watching the new DB episodes and all, but been away from discussions for a couple of months. What's the deal with Omniman vs Bardock? Sorry for the silly question, but I don't know anything about Invincible.
Besides the wonkyness of the calc.... (IIRC, we have a calc blog of our own that tried it multiple ways because of DB & couldn't get the same result they did.)
Well, the other factor is it doesn't make sense plot wise.
The Sun Disk was there to block the sun from some race that gets stronger in sun light. Not the Ragnarrs or something, but still.
The Coalition of Planets or whatever it's called, for reasons I don't recall (Alien alliance, maybe?), wanted the sun disk gone. & it was stated elsewhere that they don't have any weapons that can hurt Viltrumites.
But a regular ship destroyed the Sun Disk with a laser blast. (I forget if they had help or not.)
(Nolan isn't even the strongest Viltrumite, FWIW, but he's at least Above Average, IIRC.)
DB used that to justify scaling Nolan above the feat's yield they got, since if they have no weapons strong enough to hurt Viltrumites, that would include the one that destroyed the Sun Disk, ergo, Omni-Man is stronger than the Sun Disk bust. (I forget their logic to say how it applies to Attack Potency/Striking Strength. Probably "He can hurt someone who can hurt him".)
The ship that did this was a regular, unexceptional ship, & this is a big plot hole because the main enemy in the story, IIRC, IS the Viltrumites, yet here they have a regular ship doing a feat stronger than ANYTHING ELSE Omni-Man had done.
& yes, that includes the like, Tier 6 Planet Bust or something he did with like, 2 other Viltrumites, by a targeted attack on a weak point in the core, & yet was still immensely difficult & nearly fatal for him.
The Sun Disk by comparison was like, high into Tier 5 or Tier 4; Mathematically, the yield they got is almost certainly an outlier just by the crazy difference.
Storywise, it's nonsense because why were they seeking other anti-Viltrumite options if they had ships that could hit harder than any Viltrumite feat? (& again, it contradicts their statements about lack of weapons to harm Viltrumites.)
& calc-wise, it doesn't line up with how other people have calc'd the feat.
Not to mention, Bardock arguably may have had a shot anyway! Why? Due to, IIRC, King Vegeta doing a very casual Triple Planet Bust.
King Vegeta is the king of the Saiyan race and the head of the royal family. In Dragon Ball Z, while he was facing Frieza on Namek, Vegeta remarked that, as a child he was already more powerful than his father, implying King Vegeta's power level is
under 18,000.
Heck it may be lower than that. That PL of 18,000 comparison is from SAIYAN SAGA Vegeta, but as said, Vegeta was already stronger than his dad as a KID.
Do you think Kid Vegeta was close to the PL he had as an adult in the Saiyan Saga?!
Super Saiyan gives a 50x boost, & Bardock has a base power level of 10,000.
500,000 / 18,000 = 27.77
So if 18,000 (Or a lot less because that's Saiyan Saga Vegeta's PL & again, that's the PL used for comparison with King Vegeta.) is enough to destroy 3 Planets at once, very casually, & Super Saiyan Bardock is nearly 28 times stronger than that....
Well, IDK if the math actually works out to beat DB's Sun Disk feat yield, but I think you get the idea, right?
Sorry for all the words.