WhileDragon Ballhas amassed one of the large rooter bases in anime history , it is n’t without its fair share of literary criticism , and in one casing , Gokuhimself is in entire agreement .

Since the start of the serial , Goku and the Z - Fighters have consistently battle world - ending foes . From King Piccolo and Frieza , to Cell and Majin Buu , Goku and company are always having to pitch - up for their next fight that ordinarily decides the fate of the whole world . Thankfully , the Z - Fighters have n’t been beat yet , and every villain who has threaten to destroy the world has go – well , sort of . Every prison term one of these bad guys total around , there is a massive amount of civilian casualty . King Piccolo and Cell wiped out cities across the world like it was nothing , Frieza destroyed the integrality of Planet Namek , and Majin Buu really bring home the bacon in bollix up Planet Earth . So , how did the Z - Fighters win , again ? Well , the answer is simple : the Dragon Balls . At the end of every conflict , the Z - Fighters simply apply the Dragon Balls to restore the way thing were before the end and carnage make by whatever baddie they just faced . This trope was passably consistent across every saga , and was the point of literary criticism for some fans , as it made the gum anime finger a bit insistent .

Dragon Ball GT Totally Flips DBZ’s Biggest Trope

InDragon Ball GTepisode 63 ( write by Atsushi Maekawa , directed by Osamu Kasai , produced by Toei Animation ) , Goku and Vegeta are getting utterly destroyed by Omega Shenron . Omega Shenron is a Shadow Dragon born from the immorality created with every wish upon the Dragon Balls . He gained ultimate major power by engulf every Dragon Ball , making him the absolute powerhouse demonstrate in thisGTSaga . When Omega Shenron unleashed his final attack against Goku , the Saiyan warrior used every last ounce of free energy he had to keep the attack at bay , as it also had the power to blow up the entire Earth upon impact . While observe this blast from strike the satellite , Goku say to himself that , while the Dragon Balls have been there in the past times to undo the destruction of the Earth and its people , it was now up to him , and him alone , to do that .

This is improbably interesting as it totally flips the one mainstay of the entire series : no matter how spoilt thing get , the Dragon Balls were always there to put things correct . But now , it was the Dragon Balls that were about to ruin the Earth , leaving only Goku and the Z - Fighters to do the one thing that they ’ve never really been able to do before : actually save the earth . certain , Goku and the crowd always get their scoundrel , but if they did n’t have the Dragon Balls , there would be no real rationality to save the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. in the first place . The Dragon Balls brought back the people killed by King Piccolo and Cell , they created a whole new humans for the Namekians , and they restored Planet Earth afterMajin Buu fumble up the planet . The Dragon Balls have been the substantial heroes of the series , not the Z - Fighters – that is , until they became the anime ’s ultimate villain .

The upright part of this proverbial table - tour is the fact that Goku is aware of it . Goku love that he and the Z - Fighters have been overly reliant on the Dragon Balls in the past , which is ostensibly a meta address to the material - world complaints about this tired plot point . At the terminal of the day , Goku listened to his devotee base and actually step up to be a submarine sandwich when the series ’ failsafe turned out to be its greatest villain , which proves that evenGokuagrees withDragon Ballfans ’ self-aggrandising criticism .

Solo Leveling’s Jin Woo with glowing eyes and a blue aura in front of a pink and black Kirito from Sword Art Online

Solo Leveling Sung Jinwoo with his shadow soldiers behind him

Rimuru from That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Rudeus from Mushoku Tensei, and Kirito from Sword Art Online

Goku and Sheron in Dragon Ball.

Goku fighting Omega Shenron’s final attack, a massive ball of pink and red energy.