Originally posted by carver9
[B]They weren't full of it and agan, the manga had no narriators, the characters themselves were and everything that was said in the story was wrote by akira, not frieza or cell. Just because someone thinks they are or were unstoppable doesn't mean that a character could come along far stronger. Cell and frieza WAS the strongest AND invincible during the time until someone "with a higher powerlevel" surfaced whjich again, takes us back to powerlevel and dbz. I don't understand why you are ignoring this.
Maybe they weren't lying. Maybe they were just wrong. If they said they were the strongest and someone stronger shows up, it means they were either lying or wrong, but the statement was not true. You said it yourself: They only THINK they are the strongest.
Why don't we have proof when frieza himself said this? The only way to make frieza statement none legit is by showing something that suggest that he was lying when he said that he used 1% of his power. Do you have anything going against this? I guess frieza also lied when he screamed out to goku "how did you dodged my blaaaaast" or when frieza was powering up and reached 100%... did he lie then?
If less than 1% of Freiza's power destroyed a planet, the a full powered Freiza should have been able to destroy Namek in less than 5 minutes. There's is reason to doubt his words when a stronger form is unable to do what a weaker form said he could do.
Frieza never lied about his power, he just faced someone that trumped it. Cell never lied about his power (which is what akira wrote) , he just had someone that surpassed him.
Then Cell was just wrong, not lying. Do you think Cell was really perfect? That one was proven wrong when he was defeated. And he simply said he could destroy the solar system, but that can't be verified except by the fact that he did not follow through with his boast.
What is that you don't understand?
Villans brag. Characters are fallible. Anyone that says they are unbeatable/invincible/etc. and is then defeated has been wrong.