I meant a Dragon Ball to be blamed, like how DB was blamed earlier in this thread for the circa 2015-2016/2020-2021 revisions of people's pet franchises getting Universe Buster status. What franchise introduced via Death Battle or the wider versus community as a whole would inadvertently cause a huge influx of upgrades.
In Dragon Ball, Roshi destroyed a moon.
In Dragon Ball Z, Frieza destroyed a large planet.
In Dragon Ball Super, "with God Ki, Goku could match blows with the God of Destruction, Beerus. Their clash nearly destroyed the entirety of Universe 7, a cosmological structure at least nine times larger than our own universe. At most, it could even be as large as 13 times greater than ours. Uh, side note, it's worth mentioning that when two Gods of Destruction fought, they were capable of casually destroying two of these universes."
Oh Dr Slump has Arale casually playing around planets (and even she was defeated by Beerus). Popeye, Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny casually jumped out of the anime reel and interact with the animators.
In fact, whenever a franchise gets popular, it easily becomes a template for other writers to follow suit. Just like the online game craze and VR craze spawned off Sword Art Online, which spawned off Log Horizon, Bofuri and more isekai genre.
Or how Gundam Seed spawned off praises on Gary Stus.
Or how Saikano spawned off those "grotesque / doomsday weapon girlfriend" genre (one of which is Elfen Lied).
*they only travel in straight lines
*they generate heat rather than produce force when impacting objects
*they cut things instead of fragmenting them
*they reflect off of mirrors
*Velvet was able to make a perfect replica of her lasers with her Light Dust (Dust in RWBY literally being natural elements turned into crystals)
Fair enough.
That make Blake stomps harder on Mikasa, while implying Mitsuru is far stronger than how she was portrayed in fighting Weiss. Not what can boost Yang against Tifa though.
Wait what? Kaguya-sama: Love is War shares a universe with other series?
This... Actually served as a counter argument against the belief that some characters are god tier by living in the same verse as gods who performed some godly feats.
Just look at Marvel and DC. (I must say though sometimes people refuse to acknowledge characters reaching high tiers because characters actually went fist upon fist with other high tier characters.)
Do we have a CRT on the Soul Eater / Fire Force god tiers now? (If people are accepting such scaling)