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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Great Umbrage" data-source="post: 373961" data-attributes="member: 4063">The power scaling in DBZ actually SLOWS down after reaching a certain point.  This is a creative barrier, because after claiming to be able to blow up moons and planets, there's really not that much more to boast about.For instance, in the first tourney, Roshi blows up the moon, from pretty far away.  His fighting power was something like 150 or so, DBZ rating.When Goku and Vegeta first battle, Vegeta claims to be able to blow up the Earth.  Their fighting power was around 15,000 to 20,000.Later, Frieza threatens to blow up Namek.  He powers up to his final form, with several million in fighting power, and...doesn't blow up Namek.  Of course, he did blow up Planet Vegeta before, so he's actually done it.Cell makes a few threats to blow up Earth, explodes and blows up the tiny planet of Kaiou-sama.In each of the instances cited above, the characters are considerably more powerful in the following instance--that is, Roshi was a lot weaker than Vegeta in his first battle, who was a lot weaker than Frieza's final form, which is a lot weaker than Cell's final form.  However, the amount of destructive force each one has is about equal.This implies that, while the power levels start out quite high early on, they don't escalate that much, even though the differences are quite noticeable in terms of fighting ability.  In other words, destructive ability increases minimally, but overall fighting ability increases drastically.Of course, the limitation might be due to a ceiling effect.  Once Vegeta threatens to blow up the planet, it's hard to top that, even if you could.Oh, and yes, every hero and villain must claim to only use 1% of his true fighting power.  I guess they all have 500 ranks in Bluff.</blockquote>

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