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Even here it says "tried to become", which doesn't mean he did!

Edit; It even says "tried to" not once, but twice in that scan. Which tells me he didn't actually become it.
Like I've reiterated, in the process in becoming or not, he will eventually become the order and justice of the universe, which he eventually does since after he said to be the literal embodiment of justice and order itself.
It doesn't also change the fact that he integrated Goku's body (which possesses the Positive energy).
I think the argument you hold falls off here.
 
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@Killerdrone123 Where is the statement that remotely mentions evil being a fundamental force in reality? Especially in the context of Janemba where he cannot die so long as the idea of Evil exists? Because they're just more of reiterating Janemba being made of wicked thoughts collected from the soul cleansing machine, which btw is still using that individual kanji 念 and not 概念, the latter is the thing you need for ideas/concepts to be solidified while the former just means thoughts.

There would be no more evil people by default of you nuking all timelines in existence since no one is left to be alive at that point. Sealas' goal of wanting to "get rid of evil" so his justice can be true doesn't narrow down the interpretation to evil as a concept exists and can be manipulated. Again the time scrolls in of itself contain the timelines of the series and anything dangerous that happens to them results in everything there being gone. This is no different than Ultron's goals of wanting to wipe out humanity to create true peace and remove all disorder and conflict, and neither instances talk about controlling the literal concept of evil itself.

@TheGodOfICE777 No it cannot, being an abstract is at best supporting evidence and not the main evidence for something to be a concept. Plus the only thing the blog remotely proves is that evil or anything akin to it can warp reality. That's not it being a fundamental force of reality, it just means the power has reality warping capabilities.

The negative energy warping reality doesn't translate it to being conceptual. I only questioned it because you guys are trying to compare Janemba's power to the Shadow Dragon's powers and claim they're one and the same just because they had similar names, and even with the King Yemma stuff it at best just shows these types of powers can warp laws, something that doesn't require being conceptual in nature for you to achieve such a feat.

Where does it say that the literal concept of Justice and Order is being manipulated during his time as a sentient timeline? You've only shown that he distorts reality and just keep using the term of being justice and order and nothing else. Also Positive Energy for someone like Zamasu? Did we watch the same Arc or are we just ignoring the entire point of the Arc is that Zamasu is flat out evil and is trying to kill all life in the universe? By this logic Light Yagami is considered a good guy because he always touts himself as an arbiter of justice who'd strike evil despite the entire point of his story in Death Note is that he's as evil, if not more evil than the people he's going out of his way to kill.
 
Explain to me his concepthax. I want to know how it works!
We are not exactly saying Infinite Zamasu automatically gets CM being just merely an embodiment, but you do agree that he embodies concepts correct? I'm pretty sure you do. The positive energy gains the CM, just a supporting instance by the fact that he controls the whole universe as an abstraction. (although I'm not really opposing that IZ gains concept hax directly himself).
Is it clear?
Also Positive Energy for someone like Zamasu?
More so he gains it indirectly, since he steals DBH goku's body.. But the thing is that Dbh goku posseses the Positive energy, hence why Infinite Zamasu will become the very justice and order itself, possessing Positive energy, laws of nature governing the ideal world. supporting notion is the former. (The other supporters can correct me tho if I misinterpret what they are trying to convey)
 
We are not exactly saying Infinite Zamasu automatically gets CM being just merely an embodiment, but you do agree that he embodies concepts correct? I'm pretty sure you do. The positive energy gains the CM, just a supporting instance by the fact that he controls the whole universe as an abstraction. (although I'm not really opposing that IZ gains concept hax directly himself).
To be frank, I assumed he did embody the actual concept(s) based on the translation provided here, worded as: "It is becoming justice and order itself". However, that may have been a mistranslation, especially given the repeated phrasing throughout various sources that Infinite Zamasu is only trying to become justice and order. From where I stand, this appears to be a recurring pattern:

1. Earlier in the thread, I questioned that translation and attempted to verify it (admittedly in a somewhat amateurish manner). I reviewed several anime clips with alternate subtitles, most of which consistently used language indicating intent or effort rather than completion. One example (I timestamped the video in question here, in a previous post) included the lines:
"Zamasu...
".... Might be trying to become the universe"
"He's cast off his form as a god..."
"....and is trying to become justice and order itself..."

Granted, I would still like a Translation Helper to clarify the original meaning of what Gowasu said so this can finally be settled. The statement in question is from Episode 67.




2. In this Sparkling! Zero scan provided by you (your comment, the first scan), it says:
"And it is this thought that drives him to become the universe itself."
"Abandoning his divine form, he attempts to become justice and order itself."

Whereas the description for the Imgur link in that scan says:

"In Sparking! Zero, the narrator directly stated that Zamasu was becoming justice and order itself along with the universe".

This is what I find difficult to accept: the idea that phrases like “was becoming” or “attempts to become” automatically imply he already has. The wording in the scan clearly suggests otherwise. It indicates an effort, not an accomplished state. Pedantic as it may sound, this distinction matters. That’s why I don’t believe he’s embodying the literal concept of justice or order, but rather trying to. Ironically, what he becomes is the symbolically opposite of those ideals too. He's guided by his own distorted perception of justice, which ultimately amounts to the destruction of all mortals. And we see this play out when he nukes Future Earth and merges with the universe, though this is less to the point.




3. Based on the above, I'm inclined to think that the scan from Dokkan Battle (here again, the second scan) is a hyped-up statement that lacks meaningful support from the source material. The line, “The god who embodies justice and order renders all attacks ineffective!” comes off as unreliable and likely an outlier. And this is literally also referring to his in-game mechanics, which comes off as strange to use as supporting evidence for this at all.

Yes, it appears in the text. But that alone doesn’t make it definitive, especially when other sources (even in Sparkling Zero) consistently frame it as “he’s trying” to become X. All in all I feel that this scan is little more than flavored character text rather than a conclusive interpretation. And since Dokkan as is sourcing Infinite Zamasu from Super and not any other derivative material, I'm inclined to think that the meaning/interpretation from Super is the absolute one in this case.
 
Regarding DBH Zamasu being conceptual through his merger with the universe and implicitly embodying positive energy, I think this is where I disagree the most. Primarily for the reasons Glass outlined in his previous post. I also touched on this somewhat in my other posts.

I will not comment further for now. I think at this point we'll just be going in circles. I will simply see where this goes.
 
Explain to me his concepthax. I want to know how it works!
?, like what?, this isn't an argument, your argument is literally character A has ability X but he didn't use it so he should has X. Before Zamasu could do anything, he was erased

Where is the statement that remotely mentions evil being a fundamental force in reality?
Aren't no way, did you read Sealas point?


Because they're just more of reiterating Janemba being made of wicked thoughts collected from the soul cleansing machine, which btw is still using that individual kanji 念 and not 概念, the latter is the thing you need for ideas/concepts to be solidified while the former just means thoughts.
Semantic nitpicking, in fact 概念 also translated into general ideas, notion, theory which of course the result from thoughts. Concepts as i have explained in the blog, and google are free too, concepts are mental construct, mental contruct is literal ideas, or thoughts. You nitpicking certain translation of the kanji hardly mean anything, even in our site we literally hardly give away concept hax by simply namedrop the word concept, contexts can mean otherwise. You are overfocusing on a single translation of that text why ignoring others


There would be no more evil people by default of you nuking all timelines in existence since no one is left to be alive at that point. Sealas' goal of wanting to "get rid of evil" so his justice can be true doesn't narrow down the interpretation to evil as a concept exists and can be manipulated. Again the time scrolls in of itself contain the timelines of the series and anything dangerous that happens to them results in everything there being gone. This is no different than Ultron's goals of wanting to wipe out humanity to create true peace and remove all disorder and conflict, and neither instances talk about controlling the literal concept of evil itself.
I can't post scan cause on phone, and the site often freeze, but anyway, as people have said, Sealas can destroy the multiverse and create new timeline, if he just want to get rid of evil guys then he could just simply blow up the multiverse, make a new world to his liking, why he still need to go after the Timescroll????, and the term "Evil" was literally written in capital, signified the important of the term

No it cannot, being an abstract is at best supporting evidence and not the main evidence for something to be a concept. Plus the only thing the blog remotely proves is that evil or anything akin to it can warp reality. That's not it being a fundamental force of reality, it just means the power has reality warping capabilities.
So you agree that being abstract is evidences, huh?, literally what we are arguing is abstract ideas that can impact physical reality and even influence metaphysical aspect, literally, Janemba's Evil Ideas can warp reality of the afterlife, breaking the law of said world, etc..... law is a metaphysical aspect


The negative energy warping reality doesn't translate it to being conceptual. I only questioned it because you guys are trying to compare Janemba's power to the Shadow Dragon's powers and claim they're one and the same just because they had similar names, and even with the King Yemma stuff it at best just shows these types of powers can warp laws, something that doesn't require being conceptual in nature for you to achieve such a feat.
They didn't have the same name, they literally have different, but was literally called Evil power, Evil energy. It is very clear talking about their nature being the same thing. Like, i already responsed and countered this point before, but look like you didn't care

Where does it say that the literal concept of Justice and Order is being manipulated during his time as a sentient timeline
No way we goes with namedrop argument, like, i dislike whataboutism, but since you also used it, i feel like using it too. Like there are so many verses that didn't namedrop this "concept" word and still easily get CM, where do you at that time?

Also, like what i said, bro literally got erased before he could finish what he was doing, why the hell you guys asking for what he could do?



Did we watch the same Arc or are we just ignoring the entire point of the Arc is that Zamasu is flat out evil and is trying to kill all life in the universe? By this logic Light Yagami is considered a good guy because he always touts himself as an arbiter of justice who'd strike evil despite the entire point of his story in Death Note is that he's as evil, if not more evil than the people he's going out of his way to kill.
I think people already said this, but we are talking about DBH IZ or rather, DB Game IZ

To be frank, I assumed he did embody the actual concept(s) based on the translation provided here, worded as: "It is becoming justice and order itself". However, that may have been a mistranslation, especially given the repeated phrasing throughout various sources that Infinite Zamasu is only trying to become justice and order. From where I stand, this appears to be a recurring pattern:

1. Earlier in the thread, I questioned that translation and attempted to verify it (admittedly in a somewhat amateurish manner). I reviewed several anime clips with alternate subtitles, most of which consistently used language indicating intent or effort rather than completion. One example (I timestamped the video in question here, in a previous post) included the lines:


Granted, I would still like a Translation Helper to clarify the original meaning of what Gowasu said so this can finally be settled. The statement in question is from Episode 67.




2. In this Sparkling! Zero scan provided by you (your comment, the first scan), it says:


Whereas the description for the Imgur link in that scan says:

"In Sparking! Zero, the narrator directly stated that Zamasu was becoming justice and order itself along with the universe".

This is what I find difficult to accept: the idea that phrases like “was becoming” or “attempts to become” automatically imply he already has. The wording in the scan clearly suggests otherwise. It indicates an effort, not an accomplished state. Pedantic as it may sound, this distinction matters. That’s why I don’t believe he’s embodying the literal concept of justice or order, but rather trying to. Ironically, what he becomes is the symbolically opposite of those ideals too. He's guided by his own distorted perception of justice, which ultimately amounts to the destruction of all mortals. And we see this play out when he nukes Future Earth and merges with the universe, though this is less to the point.




3. Based on the above, I'm inclined to think that the scan from Dokkan Battle (here again, the second scan) is a hyped-up statement that lacks meaningful support from the source material. The line, “The god who embodies justice and order renders all attacks ineffective!” comes off as unreliable and likely an outlier. And this is literally also referring to his in-game mechanics, which comes off as strange to use as supporting evidence for this at all.

Yes, it appears in the text. But that alone doesn’t make it definitive, especially when other sources (even in Sparkling Zero) consistently frame it as “he’s trying” to become X. All in all I feel that this scan is little more than flavored character text rather than a conclusive interpretation. And since Dokkan as is sourcing Infinite Zamasu from Super and not any other derivative material, I'm inclined to think that the meaning/interpretation from Super is the absolute one in this case.
Aren't no way we goes with mistranslation and it is just hyped up statement argument again

Ngl here i feel very frustrating, like, why only in DB thread we have counter-argument is "it is just flowery language" without a single shred of evidences on why they are flowery?
 
Ngl here i feel very frustrating, like, why only in DB thread we have counter-argument is "it is just flowery language" without a single shred of evidences on why they are flowery?
She is trying to say that Zamasu did not completely merge with the universe, only a little bit of her argument was about the flowery language stuff so this is kinda disingenuous

but anyway the argument that Zamasu did not completely merge with the universe was already addressed here @Wonder_of_Fantasy
 
but anyway the argument that Zamasu did not completely merge with the universe was already addressed here @Wonder_of_Fantasy
Can we argue moon level roshi being an outlier despite being addressed several times while we’re at it
 
To be frank, I assumed he did embody the actual concept(s) based on the translation provided here, worded as: "It is becoming justice and order itself". However, that may have been a mistranslation, especially given the repeated phrasing throughout various sources that Infinite Zamasu is only trying to become justice and order. From where I stand, this appears to be a recurring pattern:

1. Earlier in the thread, I questioned that translation and attempted to verify it (admittedly in a somewhat amateurish manner). I reviewed several anime clips with alternate subtitles, most of which consistently used language indicating intent or effort rather than completion. One example (I timestamped the video in question here, in a previous post) included the lines:


Granted, I would still like a Translation Helper to clarify the original meaning of what Gowasu said so this can finally be settled. The statement in question is from Episode 67.




2. In this Sparkling! Zero scan provided by you (your comment, the first scan), it says:


Whereas the description for the Imgur link in that scan says:

"In Sparking! Zero, the narrator directly stated that Zamasu was becoming justice and order itself along with the universe".

This is what I find difficult to accept: the idea that phrases like “was becoming” or “attempts to become” automatically imply he already has. The wording in the scan clearly suggests otherwise. It indicates an effort, not an accomplished state. Pedantic as it may sound, this distinction matters. That’s why I don’t believe he’s embodying the literal concept of justice or order, but rather trying to. Ironically, what he becomes is the symbolically opposite of those ideals too. He's guided by his own distorted perception of justice, which ultimately amounts to the destruction of all mortals. And we see this play out when he nukes Future Earth and merges with the universe, though this is less to the point.




3. Based on the above, I'm inclined to think that the scan from Dokkan Battle (here again, the second scan) is a hyped-up statement that lacks meaningful support from the source material. The line, “The god who embodies justice and order renders all attacks ineffective!” comes off as unreliable and likely an outlier. And this is literally also referring to his in-game mechanics, which comes off as strange to use as supporting evidence for this at all.

Yes, it appears in the text. But that alone doesn’t make it definitive, especially when other sources (even in Sparkling Zero) consistently frame it as “he’s trying” to become X. All in all I feel that this scan is little more than flavored character text rather than a conclusive interpretation. And since Dokkan as is sourcing Infinite Zamasu from Super and not any other derivative material, I'm inclined to think that the meaning/interpretation from Super is the absolute one in this case.
Ngl, this also makes me also frustrated a bit, we aren't even arguing for Canon infinite Zamasu, we are arguing for Games Zamasu being a concept, we accepted that the Gowasu statement from the anime may seem flowery, but the games have more precedence over the anime.
Its during the process of turning grotesque when the inclined statement of the narrator stating "he attempts to become with order and justice" but it doesn't mean he necessarily failed, there's no implication that he failed as such, but when he successfully merged with everything in the universe, he is said to become and embodies the justice and order itself (as shown when his grotesque form truly manifested as such) saying it's a flowery language is a bit disingenuous, when there's many implications in the games that "justice" and "order" are literal.

Regarding DBH Zamasu being conceptual through his merger with the universe and implicitly embodying positive energy, I think this is where I disagree the most. Primarily for the reasons Glass outlined in his previous post. I also touched on this somewhat in my other posts.

I will not comment further for now. I think at this point we'll just be going in circles. I will simply see where this goes.
no not really he's just making an analogy, the simple notion is this that

Zamasu steals DBH Goku's body including (possesses Positive energy)

He now has Goku's body, it's already accepted the that Goku Black possesses the abilities of Goku.

Goku Black and Zamasu fused (hence Fusion Zamasu has Goku Black's Positive energy)

DBH/Xenoverse Zamasu becomes Grotesque Zamasu, and fuses with the universe, eventually becoming and embodying order and justice, transcending his physical form, Positive energy is the power of virtue/justice, and what laws of nature are that governs the ideal world, which he possesses.. Even he goes as far as invading the time nest, even the Time scrolls records the future trunk timeline's erasure.
Fu even stated in the Xenoverse that Ideals and justice are abstracts, which is directly referring to Infinite Zamasus. as you can see, if you read that part of the blog the scene takes place in the Future Trunks/Goku Black Saga from DBS adapted into Xenoverse's story, with SSR Goku Black and then Fused Zamasu.
 
@TheGodOfICE777 No it cannot, being an abstract is at best supporting evidence and not the main evidence for something to be a concept.
I agree with that, but I was demonstrating how IZ being an abstract influences reality throughout the universe.
The negative energy warping reality doesn't translate it to being conceptual. I only questioned it because you guys are trying to compare Janemba's power to the Shadow Dragon's powers and claim they're one and the same just because they had similar names, and even with the King Yemma stuff it at best just shows these types of powers can warp laws, something that doesn't require being conceptual in nature for you to achieve such a feat.
Yeah, because it’s showing that something that’s abstract in nature is influencing reality in that way. It’s consistent with negative energy being the opposite of positive energy which is the literal abstraction of the form of the ideal world. Yes, the chaos in reality that ensues from this is from the abstraction of evil influencing reality. I do agree that warping laws and reality doesn’t require something to be conceptual, but I’m giving the context of all of this.
Where does it say that the literal concept of Justice and Order is being manipulated during his time as a sentient timeline? You've only shown that he distorts reality and just keep using the term of being justice and order and nothing else.
I don’t need to drop the exact wording of “concept of justice and order,” if I show that justice and order is an abstraction that governs and enacts changes on reality, then that’s a demonstration of it being conceptual. I don’t see how justice and order enacting changes (distorting) on reality doesn’t show that he’s more than just an abstract idea. The ideas that someone has doesn’t enact changes on reality.
Also Positive Energy for someone like Zamasu? Did we watch the same Arc or are we just ignoring the entire point of the Arc
Also, Fusion Zamasu does have positive energy because of DBH Goku in the games, but in DBS, Zamasu wouldn’t have it.
 
Zamasu becoming the universe or not is not pertinent to this thread. Aside from that, it's been proven to be true multiple times. Please stop derailing.

You're free to believe he's not 2-C, we respect your opinion, but again, it's got nothing to do with what we're discussing here.
No, it's never been proven. Ya'll proved the opposite if anything with several scans saying he is TRYING to become one with it.

Never made that argument, learn how to read.🤣
 
@Shar122 Goku's body is already destroyed by the time he became one with the Universe. You literally only see Zamasu's face across the universe, not Goku Black or anything akin to it, it's still Zamasu at the end, plus saying he has "positive energy" just because he has goku's body despite it being clear as day it's not Goku anymore is just pretending Zamasu isn't the main villain here.

@Vietthai96 I did and it's insufficient on saying anything about Evil being a fundamental force of nature in the series.

No it's not semantic nitpicking it's explaining the basic grammar of the Kanji being used here. If you think I'm nitpicking, 2 other JP translators who knows the language (one of them lived in Japan for a long while btw) has said that that one single Kanji does not mean concept. Also Jisho would like to have a word with you because it doesn't say theory, it says general idea, concept and notion. Also no this is not a "single translation", this is in like every other Janemba text you're using in the blog that's using the single kanji that just means thoughts and extrapolating it to mean concept.

What about Evil being capitalized remotely helps it being a concept when he's referring to it as a thing he wants to destroy. By that logic the Justice and Order stuff doesn't really mean much since it's not capitalized either so what makes that remotely special beyond it being something Sealas can nuke? Also you're implying Sealas blowing up the multiverse in of itself wouldn't have drawn the attention of the time patrollers if they notice someone is going to nuke all of reality. The only logical reason he'd go after the scrolls is it doesn't take as much effort and draw nearly as much attention as making a giant nuke that could explode the entire multiverse.

Did you read what I said? I said it's at best supporting evidence, not the main evidence. Also cool, you just described law hax, not conceptual manipulation. None of this remotely follows the example I posted earlier about what IZ would need for him to qualify for concept hax.

Lastly, Negative Energy is also stated to be Evil power/Evil energy, thus mean it is similar to that of Janemba's evil energy
What is this supposed to mean if your argument wasn't that they have the same name then? Plus again none of this is relevant for concept hax.

If you bothered reading my earlier response to GodofICE I literally explained how IZ would even qualify for concept hax. We ask for what he could do because your entire argument for IZ being a concept is a single line of "he's trying to become justice and order" being repeated over and over without any elaboration on what that remotely means, and the only close thing we get to an elaboration is in DBS where Gowasu says this in context to him merging with the entire universe itself.

It doesn't matter if it's Game or Anime IZ, they're fundamentally the same character with the same background only in different forms of media. Trying to argue Zamasu of all characters has "positive energy" which is supposed to be the opposite of evil energy by your own arguments flies in the face of what Zamasu is as a character.

@TheGodOfICE777 The only "influencing reality" thing you've guys brought up is the fact that the laws of the other world got messed up and the fact that the negative energy can destroy the entire universe. Both of them do not need concept hax for either of them to happen. If I were to nullify King Yemma's powers to maintain the other world I wouldn't get concept hax from that being used as an example. For the negative energy itself it needs to be shown that you're controlling the fundamental aspects of negative/evil itself, which the shadow dragons lack that.

The exact wording is not what I'm looking for, I'm looking for explicit evidence that Justice and Order itself is actually being controlled by Zamasu when he merged with the universe. Also you haven't shown justice and order itself being an abstraction in the verse and those exact ideas itself being what's warping reality, you've shown Zamasu shedding his physical form and his thoughts merging with the universe. Those are two completely different things.

Ok so our definition of what's "Positive energy" is completely backwards then if Zamasu of all characters can have it despite being one of the most evil Dragon ball villains in recent history.
 
@Nami_Kami You literally made the argument. That quote about him "never truly fusing" is directly challenging the claim that he became one with the universe, which is what is accepted on the wiki.

So... yeah, you did argue against it. Own your words instead of backpedaling with “never made that argument” and throwing out "learn to read" like a catchphrase.
 
@TheGodOfICE777 The only "influencing reality" thing you've guys brought up is the fact that the laws of the other world got messed up and the fact that the negative energy can destroy the entire universe. Both of them do not need concept hax for either of them to happen. If I were to nullify King Yemma's powers to maintain the other world I wouldn't get concept hax from that being used as an example. For the negative energy itself it needs to be shown that you're controlling the fundamental aspects of negative/evil itself, which the shadow dragons lack that.
I agree that affecting laws or destroying the universe doesn’t entail something being conceptual; however, if something is abstract and due to its nature it enacts changes on reality by messing up laws, and merging worlds into one. Also, I pointed out that in regards to the positive energy stuff. It’s literally stated to be the form of the ideal world, and due to that it can enact changes by reality by naturally fixing things, such as the stuff that negative energy caused.
The exact wording is not what I'm looking for, I'm looking for explicit evidence that Justice and Order itself is actually being controlled by Zamasu when he merged with the universe. Also you haven't shown justice and order itself being an abstraction in the verse and those exact ideas itself being what's warping reality,
If somehow abstract things (justice and order) are directly stated to be enacting changed (distorting) to reality (the universe). How is Zamasu not controlling the justice and order? Funny thing is it’s literally stated the universe would fall under his control too it’s in the blog. Also, the scans in the blog literally state that those things are abstract. The scan I also sent earlier literally says it’s “universe distorting justice and order” it literally tells us the that those things are what’s warping reality.
 
@Nami_Kami You literally made the argument. That quote about him "never truly fusing" is directly challenging the claim that he became one with the universe, which is what is accepted on the wiki.

So... yeah, you did argue against it. Own your words instead of backpedaling with “never made that argument” and throwing out "learn to read" like a catchphrase.
Making the argument he didn't fuse with it ≠ making the argument he isn't 2-C. So yeah, what I said still applies. 🤣
 
@TheGodOfICE777 So it fixes the law distorting stuff, but the main thing you got from it is the gogeta scene. I've asked again if there's anything else that elaborates on the nature of positive and negative energy because all of the stuff I'm seeing for both of them is at best Law hax since Negative energy can distort the laws of the other world and positive energy is meant to be it's polar opposite.

Where does it say those ideas are what's controlling the universe? The Universe would be "under his control" because He literally is merging with the entire universe. That's what's happening at the end of the goku black arc. You can by default control something if your entire existence is literally a part of it. This is no different with Symbiotes in Marvel controlling their hosts when they merge with them. Also the Universe distorting line again is just more reality warping without much elaboration on if he's using justice and order as something he can manipulate.

@Nami_Kami Telling someone to "learn how to read" is disrespecting their intelligence, and by proxy you insulting the person, which is an Ad Hominem. Also 2 wrongs don't make a right, Mods being rude to others doesn't justify your action so cut it out. If you want to disagree with the Supporters on Zamasu merging with the universe, take it somewhere else since we're not talking about the legitimacy of him being one with the universe and don't be a jerk about it.
 
@Theglassman12 I won't say anything else on the IZ matter, as you already explained [for the 3rd time] that it is not pertinent to the thread. He's free to make a CRT if he believes IZ's merging with the universe never happened.
 
邪念 can mean ideas to a wiki translator has backed us up there

A concept in its core definition is just abstract ideas or thoughts what make them qualifying concept here is how they impact physical reality with there abstract essence

Now returning to the point we have again and again proven how evil energy is the very evil ideas/thoughts itself making it abstract and is responsible for giving birth to evil beings in db for eg janemba who is said to be the very embodiment of evil ideas not to mention this very evil ideas/evil energy is removed from evil souls to purify them and send them back for reincarnation which confirms the notion of it being responsible for evil beings in reality of db

When we take a look again at seleas motives seleas wanted to create a world without evil for this he has to destroy the very evil energy itself which is responsible for the birth of evil beings so that evil will not longer exist and he would achieve his goal of creating a good world once again proving how this very evil/evil energy is responsible for all the evil beings in db world making it an abstract governing force which governs the very notion of evil in reality remove it and there would no longer be any evil or evil beings

Coming back to janemba point we see how janemba by manipulating this very abstract force was causing chaos in reality manipulating it and breaking the very laws of nature or the world itself moreover janemba using this very evil energy of the world is capable of attacking Goku at his exact location and is capable of recreating his body using it by materialising and de materialising where ever he wants and the only way to kill him was to completely purify the very evil energy he is made of as no physical attacks were able to finish him off completely.
 
@Ottavio_Merluzzo I'd have to question how you could argue IZ never merged with the universe despite it being in your face in the finale but they're more than welcomed to try.

@Killerdrone123 Is there any source on where the Idea/concept side of the text is more ideal than it being one's mind or thoughts? Because Jisho is saying this (邪念) to be wicked thoughts/wicked mind, and a third translator I know has said the same thing on this generally translating into Wicked thoughts/wicked mind rather than wicked ideas/concepts.

In regards to the Janemba stuff, ignoring the reality warping/portal creation stuff Janemba's known for. It's not exactly stated that purifying Janemba is the only way to kill him, especially with the goofy "insult him and his construct" weakness being a thing and Pikkon got close to freeing King Yemma from the giant jelly bean before he decided to help Goku and Vegeta with the fusion dance by using the same weakness on him. And again for Sealas, he's trying to destroy all evil by burning all of the time scrolls the patroller have stored, which houses all things in the Dragon Ball multiverse. He doesn't need to warp the literal fabric of evil itself from the scrolls if all he has to do is nuke reality through the time scrolls, which would by default get rid of anything that is evil since no one is left alive by then.
 
@Ottavio_Merluzzo I'd have to question how you could argue IZ never merged with the universe despite it being in your face in the finale but they're more than welcomed to try.

@Killerdrone123 Is there any source on where the Idea/concept side of the text is more ideal than it being one's mind or thoughts? Because Jisho is saying this (邪念) to be wicked thoughts/wicked mind, and a third translator I know has said the same thing on this generally translating into Wicked thoughts/wicked mind rather than wicked ideas/concepts.
You have literally a wiki translator confirming it means ideas check executor response he confirmed it means ideas too so it is preety much accurate
In regards to the Janemba stuff, ignoring the reality warping/portal creation stuff Janemba's known for. It's not exactly stated that purifying Janemba is the only way to kill him, especially with the goofy "insult him and his construct" weakness being a thing and Pikkon got close to freeing King Yemma from the giant jelly bean before he decided to help Goku and Vegeta with the fusion dance by using the same weakness on him. And again for Sealas, he's trying to destroy all evil by burning all of the time scrolls the patroller have stored, which houses all things in the Dragon Ball multiverse. He doesn't need to warp the literal fabric of evil itself from the scrolls if all he has to do is nuke reality through the time scrolls, which would by default get rid of anything that is evil since no one is left alive by then.
I think we are going in circle here again the main goal of seleas was to create a world without evil not just simply nuke it for that he needs to remove this very fundamental energy from existence other wise evil would still exist in the world.

It was never stated that those insults can kill janemba i don't remember it being the case the only thing they did was some what make him weak do you have any proof of that?.The most i remember them doing is causing cracks in him which he regenerated from

I think we can't convince each other here tbh and are going in circles so it is better to just agree to disagree
 
In regards to the Janemba stuff, ignoring the reality warping/portal creation stuff Janemba's known for. It's not exactly stated that purifying Janemba is the only way to kill him, especially with the goofy "insult him and his construct" weakness.
Minor correction, it is actually never stated that insults can kill Janemba, we even see that despite being insulted he never loses any power and can still pretty much curbstomp anyone not named Gogeta. From all we've seen of him, purifying is the only real way to kill him permanently. Even Gogeta's physical hits didn't cause him any permanent damage.
 
If we're going to be waiting for other staffs, I think it's a good idea to create a summary for the topic so that staffs don't get confused about what exactly the topic is. or not?
 
@TheGodOfICE777 So it fixes the law distorting stuff, but the main thing you got from it is the gogeta scene. I've asked again if there's anything else that elaborates on the nature of positive and negative energy because all of the stuff I'm seeing for both of them is at best Law hax since Negative energy can distort the laws of the other world and positive energy is meant to be it's polar opposite.
I mean it fixing the law distorting stuff it’s in the Gogeta scene, but it’s also directly stated that it undos the effects of negative energy, within the scan that tells us it’s the form of the ideal world. If you could elaborate what more you mean by more elaboration on its nature. I feel like it’s nature is already pretty clearcut. The positive energy is stated to be the ideal form of the world, and influences it, and the laws/order of it.
Where does it say those ideas are what's controlling the universe? The Universe would be "under his control"
Also the Universe distorting line again is just more reality warping without much elaboration on if he's using justice and order as something he can manipulate.
Because it’s part of his being controlling the universe, but even regarding the second point. The universe distorting like literally says it’s Justice and order that’s doing the distorting. I don’t know why you’re glossing over that part. It’s elaborating that the Justice and order is the thing distorting the universe. That literally shows that the Justice and order (abstraction) influences the universe (reality).
 
This evil energy also gives birth to evil beings like the Black Smoke Dragon and Shadow Dragons, in fact it is confirmed that Evil Dragons will always come back as long as the Negative Energy continues to exist; in other words Evil Dragons, Shadow Dragons all are the avatars, manifestations of Negative Energy
  • I feel like this is a stretch of those scans.
Positive and Negative Energy

Negative energy is generated as a reaction to the Dragon Ball's wishes. It is a negative energy that is born from the distortion of the laws of nature. If this increases abnormally, an evil dragon will be born. Positive energy is the way nature should be, in other words, the force of justice. Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta has positive energy within his body that can neutralize negative energy.
Meanwhile Negative Energy, or Minus Energy is stated to be the distortion and opposition to the laws of nature, and both of them are opposite of each other, meaning that both Positive EnergyPlus Energy and Negative Energy Minus Energy are actually abstract energy themselves, with one being the laws of nature, force of justice while the other is the opposition, the distortion of laws of nature, the force of evil
  • While I agree that these are abstract energies, I don’t think the wording here is accurate. Negative energy is energy that originates from the distortion of natural laws this is very different from being those laws themselves. Just because something is born from a concept doesn’t mean it is that concept. Similarly, positive energy is described as the power of something; it’s not justice itself, but rather something that comes from justice, just as negative energy comes from distortion. Since positive energy is also called “the way nature should be,” it might relate to law manipulation, considering that nature operates under specific laws.
Regarding the Evil Energy aspect, the main issue is that these are simply abstracts, not actual concepts. Evil thoughts, intentions, and so on while abstract in nature and can make someone an embodiment of that abstract idea, but they aren’t the concept of evil itself. Rather, evil thoughts and intentions would arise from the underlying concept, not the reverse. That’s why I feel the whole section on Evil is somewhat moot.
In Dragon Ball Super, when Zamasu discarded his body, he merges with the universe itself and Gowasu stated he is becoming justice and order itself, however he is also stated to become ideas itself, a pure will; meaning that Zamasu became the very abstract ideas of justice and order
  • Regarding the Zamasu part, I think it’s crucial to pay attention to the wording. Zamasu hasn’t actually become justice and order itself, he’s trying to become justice and order, which means he hasn’t succeeded. In the next scan, it’s clarified that it’s his ideas that soar into the air and envelop the Earth. This makes it clear that, while he has become something abstract, it’s only in relation to his own personal ideals of justice and order. He’s attempting to embody justice and order by spreading his influence, but he isn’t the actual concept itself.
  • Once again, this highlights why the exact phrasing is so important. Zamasu is trying to become justice and order. Similarly, if the universe falls under his control, it would just mean he’s spreading himself everywhere essentially ruling through force and intimidation, not actual conceptual control.
 
Similarly, positive energy is described as the power of something; it’s not justice itself, but rather something that comes from justice, just as negative energy comes from distortion. Since positive energy is also called “the way nature should be,” it might relate to law manipulation, considering that nature operates under specific laws.
Plus Energy, on the other hand, is the form of an ideal natural world and embodies justice. In other words, it is the power of virtue/justice/righteousness. Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta has Plus Energy within his body, counteracting and neutralizing Minus Energy.
It’s described as the form of the ideal world, and as a result it influences reality within its nature. I wouldn’t say it’s the laws itself, since it’s not really like a rule that’s governing reality, but concepts and laws are really close in what they do, so it does seem like that. However, I just wanna point out that it’s not just referred to the power of something, but the actual form of the ideal world, and as a result it naturally influences reality in that way.
Regarding the Evil Energy aspect, the main issue is that these are simply abstracts, not actual concepts. Evil thoughts, intentions, and so on while abstract in nature and can make someone an embodiment of that abstract idea, but they aren’t the concept of evil itself. Rather, evil thoughts and intentions would arise from the underlying concept, not the reverse. That’s why I feel the whole section on Evil is somewhat moot.
I believe in this case, it’s showing the connection to negative energy, in that the manipulation of an abstract influences these effects on reality. All a concept is, is merely an abstraction that governs/shapes/influences something in reality, and as a result you can enact changes in it.
Regarding the Zamasu part, I think it’s crucial to pay attention to the wording. Zamasu hasn’t actually become justice and order itself, he’s trying to become justice and order, which means he hasn’t succeeded. In the next scan, it’s clarified that it’s his ideas that soar into the air and envelop the Earth. This makes it clear that, while he has become something abstract, it’s only in relation to his own personal ideals of justice and order. He’s attempting to embody justice and order by spreading his influence, but he isn’t the actual concept itself.
Yeah, that’s in Super where he’s at the beginning, but in the games it tells us that he’s abstract, and that he does actually embody Justice and order itself. It also tells us that those things are actually abstract, and in another scan it’s tells us that Justice and order is actually distorting the universe. So, this abstraction is enacting changes in reality. The scans were posted by me and Dagoth earlier, and the scans for it being abstract are in the blog. If you need help finding it just lmk.
 
Regarding the Evil Energy aspect, the main issue is that these are simply abstracts, not actual concepts. Evil thoughts, intentions, and so on while abstract in nature and can make someone an embodiment of that abstract idea, but they aren’t the concept of evil itself. Rather, evil thoughts and intentions would arise from the underlying concept, not the reverse. That’s why I feel the whole section on Evil is somewhat moot.
The main idea here is that evil energy is the very abstract ideas of evils and is responsible for the birth of evil beings like janemba The whole seleas point is to prove how evil/evil energy is responsible for the evil beings in db universe and if you destroy it the evil itself would no longer exist in the world meaning this evil energy is very fundamental ideas of evil in reality remove it and evil would no longer exist on a fundamental level,Which is what seleas was going to do he was gonna recreate world without evil/evil energy existing in it so no evil people would be born

I went into a more detail version of this here

Post in thread 'A Very Abstract Dragon ball revision' https://vsbattles.com/threads/a-very-abstract-dragon-ball-revision.181750/post-7202588
 
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It’s described as the form of the ideal world, and as a result it influences reality within its nature. I wouldn’t say it’s the laws itself, since it’s not really like a rule that’s governing reality, but concepts and laws are really close in what they do, so it does seem like that. However, I just wanna point out that it’s not just referred to the power of something, but the actual form of the ideal world, and as a result it naturally influences reality in that way.
It depends on the translation. The first one says Positive Energy is the way nature should be. I feel this makes coherent sense, as Negative Energy is born from a distortion of the laws of nature. Both refer to nature and its laws.

The second translation seems to take more liberties.
I believe in this case, it’s showing the connection to negative energy, in that the manipulation of an abstract influences these effects on reality. All a concept is, is merely an abstraction that governs/shapes/influences something in reality, and as a result you can enact changes in it.
Abstracts manipulating the world is very different then conceptual manipulation though. Otherwise, any being who can manipulate reality through their emotions would have Conceptual Manipulation.
Yeah, that’s in Super where he’s at the beginning, but in the games it tells us that he’s abstract, and that he does actually embody Justice and order itself.
It also tells us that those things are actually abstract, and in another scan it’s tells us that Justice and order is actually distorting the universe.
So, this abstraction is enacting changes in reality. The scans were posted by me and Dagoth earlier, and the scans for it being abstract are in the blog. If you need help finding it just lmk.
Yeah, I'm going to need scans for each one of those.
 
It depends on the translation. The first one says Positive Energy is the way nature should be. I feel this makes coherent sense, as Negative Energy is born from a distortion of the laws of nature. Both refer to nature and its laws.

The second translation seems to take more liberties.
I believe Executor confirmed the translation. He commented back on it a couple pages ago.
Abstracts manipulating the world is very different then conceptual manipulation though. Otherwise, any being who can manipulate reality through their emotions would have Conceptual Manipulation.
I mean it depends on the verse, if anger or hope is like some abstraction that’s fundamental to reality, and it governs it. Then, it could potentially be a concept, but it’d depend on the context of all of these things considered.
Yeah, I'm going to need scans for each one of those.
Yeah, no problem.
Yeah, that’s in Super where he’s at the beginning, but in the games it tells us that he’s abstract, and that he does actually embody Justice and order itself.
Just a quick interruption, Infinite Zamasu in the games is actually stated to be the very embodiment of justice & order itself so that would seem to imply to me that he is literally justice & order itself since you know....he embodies them
Also, this scan here shows it’s his existence itself that’s affecting reality, and that he is literal Justice and order.
 
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"念" (Nen) is actually one of them, it's made of the radicals 今 (Now) and 心 (Heart), and so you can understand it as "your current state of mind" (In Buddhism, it was used to signify something you need to keep in your mind and never forget). Maybe something that could be contested is pushing it to be just "idea", when just saying "evil thoughts" or "evil feelings" work just as well (And I would say it flows more naturally, but this is just my preference). I think that we can all agree that the intended meaning for Janemba is for it to represent the evil thoughts and desires that every spirit had and needed to be cleansed, but merged together until it became Janemba (Or crystallized as one of the scans said).

Did you read what Executor said? Because he said that it being evil thoughts or feelings not only work just as well, but flows more naturally in his eyes. Plus again, 3 other translators I've talked to have confirmed that those kanjis do not automatically mean concept and evil thoughts/mind is considered the more appropriate translation.

The fact that the jelly bean looking objects he made had permanent damage and was getting closer and closer to King Yemma tells me that it could just permanently break, implying that said weakness applies to Janemba since Pikkon theorized the insult weakness works on him too, which he was proven right. If you want to stop the discussion on the evil stuff that's fine by me, I'll finish up the remaining conversations here and tag some staff members to get this thread finished.

@MeiouHades Is it flat out stated that the purification is the only way to kill Janemba? Because he was also scared shitless of Gogeta powering up before he just styles on him like no tomorrow on top of this happening before Stardust Breaker came out. It's still a weakness that did cause some noteworthy damage, and given what Pikkon did to the giant Jelly Bean where it couldn't regenerate from those insults I don't think the insults stuff is out of the table as another way you could "conventionally" kill Janemba.

@TheGodOfICE777 More elaboration on the nature of positive and negative energy like the examples I gave for IZ. Are Positive and Negative energy a fundamental aspect of existence to the point that you controlling literal positive energy itself at its core translates to you affecting positive energy across reality? If you destroy something that embodies said energy do the concepts get affected in any meaningful way? That kind of stuff that would support it being conceptual in power.

Does it? That scan just sounds more like the typical hype lines in other forms of media like "Super dimensional battle" between X and Y without much elaboration on what that even means. Again the only part of the "Justice and Order" elaboration we get from Zamasu is that he's merging with the entire universe and is able to spread his genocide on what his twisted sense of Justice is. His entire story and motivations are all revolved around the fact he sees Mortals as ugly creatures full of sin and that he must purge the entire Dragon Ball world of Mortals as it's the only way for Justice to be realized.
 
@MeiouHades Is it flat out stated that the purification is the only way to kill Janemba? Because he was also scared shitless of Gogeta powering up before he just styles on him like no tomorrow on top of this happening before Stardust Breaker came out. It's still a weakness that did cause some noteworthy damage, and given what Pikkon did to the giant Jelly Bean where it couldn't regenerate from those insults I don't think the insults stuff is out of the table as another way you could "conventionally" kill Janemba.
I mean I think it's pretty off the table considering what janemba actually IS, and that you don't really have any further proof that this is something that COULD kill him. From the way its portrayed in the move? Its an inconvenience at best that doesn't seem to have any long lasting affects on janemba himself at all. I mean that's the entire reason gogeta used that specific move.
 
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Did you read what Executor said? Because he said that it being evil thoughts or feelings not only work just as well, but flows more naturally in his eyes. Plus again, 3 other translators I've talked to have confirmed that those kanjis do not automatically mean concept and evil thoughts/mind is considered the more appropriate translation.
Again he said considering if someone can interpret it as evil ideas they aren't wrong here also,You missed the whole point the general notion or the very definition of the term concept is abstract thoughts or ideas the thing which make them qualifying concept here is how they affect or govern reality.Our claim is how evil energy is this very abstract evil ideas/thoughts and how evil energy is responsible for all the evil in the world/reality.

I never claimed the kanji meant concept I just said that the term can mean evil ideas or thoughts
 
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