the purpose of PL's in early DBZ was to show how villians underestimated the heroes and always would lose in the end (stated in the video) That's why after frieza PL's became obsolete.
Wait, wait, wait....
So NOW you are saying the video got it right?!? Because earlier you were just saying they got it wrong. Which one is it? Because you can't use the same source for information and turn around and bash it at the same time.
Goku in that training exercise had no aura which means he wasn't even powered up doing it so it's stupid to make calculations based off that not to mention he was holding 40 tons and not lifting 40 tons.
1. The Aura is purely for visual effect, there is no real instance of unnamed auras equaling a strength increase.
2. Every power increase Goku uses multiplies from his base power level. The strength example in question was base level Goku lifting. Him using an "aura" would imply a power increase. We (me, you and those Death Battle guys) ALL agree a power amping Goku can probably lift much more but the purpose of using that strength example was to get a baseline of Goku's strength.
3. Goku really doesn't have a lot of strength feats in general anyway, you would do much better to argue for Goku's striking power because thats a whole different conversation. I've trained multiple martial arts and I can tell you physical strength does not equal to striking power. Goku's best strength feat was him lifting a city (or continant, depending on your perspective) as SSJ4. I've literally seen characters like Wonder Woman do that and she isn't even in Superman's strength level.
4. Regardless WHAT feat they use, their strength levels are not even close. You could literally DOUBLE or TRIPLE Goku's base strength level to 80 tons or 120 tons and then use all the SSJ multipliers and he still wouldn't even be half as strong as Superman. Look at those numbers at the end. That's MATH, you can't argue with that.
In DBZ, they always hold back their power and reveal more and more throughout the fight. That's been the case from jump.
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This instance alone tells me you probably do not know too much about Superman (or most comic heroes) because MOST heroes hold back.
Superman has literal year long runs explaining how he holds back his power and how he has to basically tip toe his life because if he gets out of control he could destroy the planet. They BOTH hold back, which is why this fight would last a while because both sides would just gradually increase their power feeling each other out.
AT never meant to draw DBZ to show various "feats", it was one singular storyline while superman has different variations by different writers which gave superman different feats to measure him by. If there were multiple versions of DBZ then we could ideally look at feats but it wasnt like that.
Which is all fine, but none of this is an arguement against the outcome. Goku has less feats than Superman because he hasn't existed as long and he is not as powerful of a character. Which is why he winds up losing this fight.
When has there been an instance in DBZ where goku needed to pull a planet out of a blackhole, or sneeze out galaxies or othere dum shyt
I doubt Goku could do any of this, but honestly none of that matters. Goku is a different kind of character than Superman, which is the point of the comparison. Goku is not meant to be an all powerful character, Superman is.
Look, I actually like Goku MUCH more than Superman and was even rooting for him to win this fight, but given my knowledge of both characters I KNEW that he'd be fighting an uphill battle here because Superman is just too strong of a hero. Point blank.