Wait, the inventor of the spirit bomb never perfected it as well as his mentally-deficient student? (I mean, I know Goku’s supposed to be really good at fighting, but making techniques isn’t part of that. The only times I can think of where Goku used his own techniques instead of ones stolen from others are the Golden Dragon Fist from GT and that one movie, and a few basic moves from Dragon Ball. And we never learned where he learned either of those, so for all we know he actually learned those from someone else.)
North Kaio has a line in Dragon Ball Z where he says that he never perfected the Kaio-ken, and that Goku has taken the technique farther than he ever did. He says it while Goku is training on his planet during the Saiyan Arc.
I don’t think of it as nonsense, I think of it as an homage to the classic Hong Kong kung fu cinema that Toriyama was inspired by while creating Dragon Ball. It’s a common trope that the disciple surpasses the master by following their rigorous and outlandish training regimen.
Wait, the inventor of the spirit bomb never perfected it as well as his mentally-deficient student? (I mean, I know Goku’s supposed to be really good at fighting, but making techniques isn’t part of that. The only times I can think of where Goku used his own techniques instead of ones stolen from others are the Golden Dragon Fist from GT and that one movie, and a few basic moves from Dragon Ball. And we never learned where he learned either of those, so for all we know he actually learned those from someone else.)
North Kaio has a line in Dragon Ball Z where he says that he never perfected the Kaio-ken, and that Goku has taken the technique farther than he ever did. He says it while Goku is training on his planet during the Saiyan Arc.
Oh. So I should blame Toriyama for that nonsense, not the guys who wrote Zeroverse.
I don’t think of it as nonsense, I think of it as an homage to the classic Hong Kong kung fu cinema that Toriyama was inspired by while creating Dragon Ball. It’s a common trope that the disciple surpasses the master by following their rigorous and outlandish training regimen.
I still find that more than a bit nonsensical. Especially when the master is literally a god and the disciple is literally an idiot.