Originally posted by krisblazeYou're mostly just ignorant of both the series and of how much more power it takes to destroy, say, Earth than it does the moon tbh.
It's just inconsistent is all.
Having like 10% more strength and speed than someone means that you can completely nosell all their attacks, move faster than they can perceive and so on.
Roshi could apparently destroy the moon with a power level of like 100.
Frieza had a power level of like 100 million, and his destructive capabilities were like slightly higher. Kid Buu had like a million times that power, and his destructive capabilities were roughly the same.
Roshi at a power level of 139 destroyed the moon, yes (though some argue this was an extreme outlier given the rest of the feats in Dragon Ball and Piccolo at the start of Z was the first "legitimate" moon buster).
It takes about 1,800 more energy to destroy the Earth than it does the moon.
A power level of 250,000+, or about half of Freeza's base form and over twice as strong as Captain Ginyu.
If you subscribe to the idea that Piccolo's feat was the first legitimate moon buster, then to destroy Earth with the same attack and ease it would take a power level of over 500,000, which is to say base form Freeza tier.
Either way, both scale around to base form Freeza who is the first undeniable planet buster in the series, interestingly.
Now, that doesn't matter because it is obvious that much thought was not put into the power levels and how they scale to characters' abilities.
But the idea that as the characters' power increases their actual abilities don't is just wrong.
Cell's statement that he can destroy the entire solar system has been backed up by many sources, and the power to bust a solar system is many many orders of magnitude beyond destroying Earth.
