#power levels

This is not an exaggeration. Every time I see anything where Danny Phantom is the 'Ancient of Space' (Which I maintain should be 'Master of Space' given that Clockwork's title is 'Master of Time') I see the same things. He has a body that looks like it is made of the night sky or is dotted in galaxies, he can eat/make stars and planets, he has absurd destructive power, et cetra. But that's not 'Space', that is 'Celestial Bodies'.

Space is more than just planets and stars; it is DISTANCE and DIRECTION and DENSITY and more!

A Danny Phantom who is the Ancient of Space should be able to do more than just throw around energy blasts or look cool. He should be able to pull of Gojo-type shit and more! Compressing matter, altering the distance something has to travel, distorting the placement of things and energy, warping the path something travels and yet having it still act as if it is moving in a straight line!

You could shoot Danny with a laser and it would look like it is standing still because he warped space so that a centimeter is a billion light-years. Danny could take a step forward and travel a thousand miles. Flicking his finger to his side could result in you feeling the impact from the opposite direction upside your head. He could look up at the sky and see EVERYTHING that is happening on the planet/in the galaxy/across the universe AT ONCE if he wanted to!

Being the Ancient of Space means he commands and manipulates SPACE ITSELF, not just large celestial objects!

"Colors" do not include shades of gray, black, white and very very dissaturated colors.

Apprentices: Apprentices don't wear colors. Maybe it's a uniform thing, maybe they are not allowed, or this in a whole is just for the sake of character design and to show off the power scale, that the universe is not fully aware of.

The only apprentice who has a "color" in their outfit is Marsha, her clothing has a yellow hem.

Najin's outfit is just on the edge. Apprentices don't usually wear brown. (Boots don't count) As I mentioned in a previous post, this might be a reference to the DDs, but maybe it's a power level thing. Who knows

Usually, their design contains two colors, the hair and the eye. But sometimes, there's only one. (Example: Pymel, Lauzun, Quaring, Tamin and Tyr with black hair/eyes) But, IN VERY RARE CASES, there is no color in one's design. (Example: Darigon) (I can't base this off of anything, but I speculate if one's design lacks color this early on, they are very likely to end up with a color status such as White, Gray, Black or Silver. And if Darigon is not getting to be a "Snake" after all his effort to make his whip weapon work I'll cry.)

How dark one's outfit is might be a reference to how strong they are, as the story implied. This could be true to some people, (example: Marsha, Lauzun, Lyamin, if I even dare to include her in the apprentices) but very off for others (Nuljin and Yulnia, Pymel who are all considered strong apprentices, if I'm not wrong) so it's not a proven theory yet.

Knights: Knight designs can have varying numbers of colors, but only one saturated in the outfit, which might be the same as their status color. Their status color can be based on their outfit, eyes, or hair color. It can but doesn't have to appear in their design.

Oftentimes a knight's status color appears in their outfit (Example: Hen, Elephant, Qilin, Fox, Hippo, Hound) Other times, it is reflected by their hair and/or eye color (Example: Wild Dog, Cat) but there are some who are in both categories. (Badger, Doe, Crow) And there are others who's/whose design does not reflect their status color at all. (Example: Racoon and Rabbit) (->his design has some light browns but I wouldn't call those peach... Racoon canonically dislikes sky blue, so knights seem to be allowed to alter their looks)

The frequency of a knight's status color in their design might reflect their power level.

The amount of darks/blacks in a knight's outfit might reflect on their power level.

The darkness of a knight's status color might reflect on their power level. (more of how much of a strategist are they)

The frequency of a knight's status color in their design might reflect how much of a strategist are they.

The amount of darks/blacks in a knight's outfit might reflect how much of a strategist are they.

I think about this every other day and I still don't have a rule/theory that stands.

Generals: they share pretty much the same rules as the knights. They usually have a "main color". They don't really have other remarkable and/or saturated color in their design beside that.

Generals usually, if not always, have one main color. (Example: Miorang, Haejin, Naryun, Asadun (?) and the unnamed general Solvas killed) Their design only includes black and white, and sometimes brown other than that. (If I'm not wrong, but I can't recall generals wearing gray at all)

The other designs don't alter too much from these, not enough that I could set a rule up, anyways. But there is one person. Who spits in the face of this carefully built rule. You'll never guess who it is.

The damn Dokkaebi.

With two main saturated colors in their outfit, a saturated hair color and multicolored eyes, and, you guessed it, one of those colors is saturated. That's four. Four completely different saturated colors. Wow.

I am not willing to analyze this case right now, just know that dragons work differently, Dokkaebi is very powerful, yada yada yada...

(Source: The Post-Vulgate Cycle - Merlin Continuation)

(Source: Le Morte D'Arthur, by Thomas Malory )

(Source: La Tavola Ritonda)

For any fan of dragon ball, the word power level is something that is likely ingrained into the back of your brain.

Sentō Ryoku or Combat power is the potential ability of a fighter. Power level is the numerical quantification of one's combat power.

Akira Toriyama introduced it in Dragonball when Goku first learn to sense energy, but the power level concept didnt get a measure until the introduction of scouters and Power levels at the start of dragonball Z.

Though I hear you ask, how does combat power even get measured? What is it measuring? Simply put, its a Ki measurement device, the more Ki someone has, the stronger they are.

Now the next question is, why are power levels so important anyway? Well they help us gage how much stronger one person is to another in a straight up fight.

For example lets say Person A has a power level of 5000 and person B has a power level of 7500. Person B is a lot more likely to win in typical circumstances. But that doesnt include special skills, magic, techniques, or strategies Person A or B might have that change the outcome of the fight. Thats the point.

The point of power levels was to on paper seem definitive but then be defied by the heroes.

Though there was a problem, Toriyama was too good at making the Power level system.

If the power level system was properly explore and articulated... the power scaling would be even crazier.

Now allow me to explain.

There is something rather interesting that is over looked when it comes to the discussion of power levels.

Having a power level 2x greater than someone makes said person able to take attacks from that person without taking any damage.

Raditz gloats over piccolo and Goku by saying he is 3x stronger than them, though he was refering to power level not actual physical strength.

Many people have the assumption that having a power level double that of another person simply means you are twice as strong and twice as fast as said person. That is NOT the case.

Allow me to put into perspective for you.

In DBZ a normal human has a power level of 4 or 5.

According to the Daizenshuu (Basically Dragonball z encyclopedia). Kid Goku at the VERY START of Dragonball, had a power level of around 10.

At a power level of 10. Kid Goku was able to, TANK GUN FIRE with relatively no injury. Get flung into rocks and mountains, and was able to lift a car and throw CAR.

(And goku as a child has been shot several times even outside of Gags and the reactions are relatively the same, he comments it hurts but is relatively unharmed)

Even if a normal person is given twice the strength and durability. Getting shot point blank would still be deadly, and picking up and chucking a car (while still small, is arguably at least 1 ton) Goku is much more than double the strength and speed of a human.

Based on the image, Goku chucked that car at least 10 meters. The average human throwing capacity of a 5KG about 10 to 15 meters

That car was a 1980–1984 Renault 5 Turbo, which generally weighs about 970 kg and if we include Bulma. Round it to exactly 1 ton.

If this is to be believed

Goku at a power level of around 10, was nearly 200x physically stronger than an average person with a power level of 10!

This actually makes a lot of sense on why a normal person could not beat some trained Martial artist. Why Goku and Krillin after training with Roshi were easily outclassing most of the tournament competitors with barely a finger. They were so above human level it was crazy. Moving faster than the eye could track.

And you know what is crazy. Roshi Blowing up the moon is actually not hard to believe. Roshi had a power level of 139,

Now we know he used a full power Kamehameha to do it. Thanks to the fight with Raditz, the focus and power of the Kamehameha is shown to double the power level output, So that Kamehameha arguably had a power of around 378. Which tracks because Piccolo does the exact same thing with a regular beam attack in DBZ

Which Piccolo at the time his power level with weighted clothing was 329 as he was wearing weighted clothing. We can argue this was a demon wave. Which would be around 400.

So we can make a proper estimation of completely obliterating the moon takes a power level of over 300.

In DBZ filler we see King Vegeta (who is said to have a power level of 10,000) do this

Now one could argue this is filler, and by the size of the planets we could even argue that they are smaller planets. not earth size.

Well we can confirm vegeta threatened to blow up the earth with his power level of 18,000

So for the sake of simplicity, lets say its 18,000

So lets take the power level needed to blow up a moon and divide it by power needed to blow up earth

18000/300 = 60

So a power level of 60x that of 300 is needed to blow up a planet

Now, doing the math, the amount of energy needed to blow up the earth is 2.24 x 10^32 Joules.

While the moon would require 1.24 x 10^29 joules

To save the time, that is roughly 1800x. Thats how many times more energy needed to blow up a planet compared to the moon

now, remember how I said Goku with a power level of 10 was 200x stronger than a person with a power level of 5?

well 200 x 60 = 12,000

That is Well over the needed to match output.

But lets actually circle back. Some say that the power level needed to blow up the moon was actually 400 and lets take the 10,000 as needed to blow up a planet.

10,000/400 = 25

25 x 200 = 5000

So not only does this make it feasible that the power levels needed are accurate, but also show how insane of a difference power levels are.

It also puts into perspective how F***ing horrifying Frieza actually is.

Lets really do the math. The power needed to destroy an earth size planet is

2.24 x 10^32 Joules.

The power level needed to do such a feat is around 10,000

Frieza's first form had a power level of 530,000

In terms of power level that is 53x higher, and with how being double a power level is equal to being 200x stronger.

That is roughly 10,600x stronger than someone with the power to destroy a planet.

That amount of power is 2.3744e+36

Do you know what the Joule equivalent of that is? it represents an immense amount of energy, roughly equivalent to the total energy output of the Sun over approximately 200,000 years!

And you want to know whats crazy? THAT IS ACCURATE TO FRIEZA BECAUSE LOOK

He has a move that looks like a miniature sun!

THIS IS HIS FIRST FORM! THIS IS NOT EVEN A FRACTION OF A FRACTION OF HIS TRUE POWER

Frieza at his full power in DBZ had a power level of 120,000,000

If the calculations were accurate. with the 200x boost

Frieza's power output would be 5.376e+38

To put that into perspective. That amount of energy is roughly 1.4 trillion times more powerful than the Sun, which is comparable to the luminosity of an extremely bright quasar or an entire large galaxy. 

And you know what, THIS ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE FOR FRIEZA. Frieza was said to be so powerful that the only two beings in the entire universe he was not allowed to mess with were Majin buu and the god of destruction Beerus! The later of whom we know fighting goku casually was able to send ripples THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE.

Its no wonder Beerus is shocked that Frieza lost, Its no surprise it took a saiyan Legend to actually fight Frieza. Heck Frieza having restriction forms even makes a ton of sense if he was rocking more power than a f***ing sun.

Its actually after power levels are removed that the abilities and scaling fail to make sense. Like why can Goku in the Buu saga not lift 40 tons? Or in DBS Goku can clash with Beerus thanks to god ki, and vegeta who has trained with goku and gotten god ki struggle to lift 1000 ton robot? It actually makes people be confused.

But all of what I said was just power scaling, and toriyama didnt want to talk about power and what character could blow up universes, it was about telling a story of self improvement and adventure. It was about the fun and the journey. Thats what really matters. Thats what it actual is.

Edit: this also means that they are not heat-proof or at least not completely heat-proof because the reason lava and fire hurt is because they're both high temperature.

Let's try to answer this question using science.

Adam's body not only can produce much more energy that could ever release inside a fusion reactor, a nuclear bomb or even the core of a star; it also has enough resistance to remain intact without effort despite it contains that energy constantly. Regardless of how such energy is produced inside Adam's body, it must be contained otherwise Adam would just explode. And Adam apparently is able to contain it without even shedding a drop of sweat. This means that Adam could literally walk on the surface of the Sun without the slightest damage. And this without even counting his power to create interdimensional portals (basically wormholes), since if we insert it in the equation Adam should release more energy than the pressure in the core of a neutron star and resist the gravitational squeezing of a black hole, making him unkillable even by the strongest force in the universe.

With all this power, if he was able to control it and release it, Adam could push himself to the limit of the laws of physics. Since he has such resistance and he can release so much energy, he could accelerate until he would come very close to the speed of light (even if he wouldn't be able to reach or surpass it), making him able to travel interstellar distances in an "acceptable time". If that energy was instead concentrate in a part of his body, for example a punch, it would be so intense that even the movement of the air in front of him would cause more damage that the entire US nuclear arsenal. Basically, he would obtain a very similar result to Saitama when he hit Boros (One Punch Man).

With so much power, Adam would surpass the majority of fictional characters, leaving room to fight him only to people like Superman (DC comics) or Omni-Man (Invincible). This two characters would be some of the few that would be able to fight him and win since they are able to travel faster than light. Any other character would be defeated almost immediately thanks to Adam's immense speed and power without even being actually able to fight. Even people like Thanos, Ego, Thor or Hela (MCU) would be defeated in a matter of seconds. This would place Adam as one of the most powerful characters ever to appear in fiction.

The difference between Adam in the various fanfictions and Adam in the canon is precisely that in fanfictions usually he is able to use such power properly, due to good backstories that forced him to accept that he is not invincible. Adam in canon instead never had the reason to train to control his power because once became an angel he was already much stronger than any opponents he faced and he never really had to fight.