Lets be fair... Dragon Ball Z. Dragon Ball was an entertaining martial arts comedy with mystical stuff occurring at random. DBZ is The More Power! parody... only people tended to take it seriously. They missed that most of the epic combat was either flying sissy slap fights... leading into tossing more energy than actually exists at each other. Add in the infinite unoccupied battle grounds from nowhere and where things like Vegita swearing vengence on everyone involved in the Nappa/Vegita arc and he swears vengence on 'Whoever it is that cut my tail off!!!' Maijin Buu was an attempt by the writer to kill the series with stupid. This went over the fanbases head almost entirely. He gave up bashing his head against that fan wall and someone else handle GT. A hundred years later and the entire universe is back to DB power levels (they did post series thing about a Goku descendant roughlt 80-100 years later).. So apparently whoever is incharge of that universe caused DBZ to clean the system of stupidly overpowered crap.
This is also why Krillian (who had a power level of around 30-35k while fighting a SS10) lasted so long... Krillian is nightmare fuel for Frieza. He broke the paradym and nearly got offed by someone with (1,000,000/30,000=100/3) 3% of his power almost one shotted him... skill beats power... everyone, but Krillian largely ignores that in series.
In short, DBZ is a parody stealthing itself so much in Epic that the largest part of the fanbase missed this entirely. As did its largest force of detractors and haters. Overly effective camouflage I guess. I had a cousin who hadn't watched any westerns to speak of watch Blazing Saddles. We stopped part way through as he was utterly baffled on how this was any kind of entertaining.. Parody is wasted on the unready.
This is also why Krillian (who had a power level of around 30-35k while fighting a SS10) lasted so long... Krillian is nightmare fuel for Frieza. He broke the paradym and nearly got offed by someone with (1,000,000/30,000=100/3) 3% of his power almost one shotted him... skill beats power... everyone, but Krillian largely ignores that in series.
In short, DBZ is a parody stealthing itself so much in Epic that the largest part of the fanbase missed this entirely. As did its largest force of detractors and haters. Overly effective camouflage I guess. I had a cousin who hadn't watched any westerns to speak of watch Blazing Saddles. We stopped part way through as he was utterly baffled on how this was any kind of entertaining.. Parody is wasted on the unready.