That's my main objection as well.
It's a good thing the first line in the calc shows why
As far as I'm aware it's never stated that Vegeta is is average for a planet's size in the Dragon Ball world. Just because Frieza calls Earth a "small" planet doesn't therefore mean that every other planet in the Universe is bigger.
It doesn't have to be spoonfed to us, it's never called small and has 10x earth gravity, one of only 3 or so planets to show this,and it's never called particular dense, it takes far less assumptions and common sense to know that it would be bigger, we simply didn't have any wau to accurately upscale until we were told what an average planet's diameter is
Not to mention that Champa doesn't even use the word "average" in his original statement,
'it's almost as big as A PLANET' is a statement that is clearly referring to average planets in their universe especially as each of them are bigger than earth. In what world do you need to see the word average to know that statement is referring to the general group of the object?
nor does his statement imply that the Super Dragon Balls are smaller than planets either.
And this is outright ridiculous, "almost the size of" something literally means smaller. LITERALLY
Does Freeza call it small? I remember Cold saying it, but admittedly Dodoria also called Namek small, so... I dunno.
Cold called earth small, dodoria didn't call namek small, he said it wasn't too big, meaning it was average
Yes - but it would be an Association fallacy to use this as proof that Vegeta (or Namek, or any other planet) is automatically average.
Last I checked, the entire point of an average is that it represents all other variables. If the SDBs are smaller than an average planet, then it LITERALLY means majority of planets in dragon ball are at that size which is why earth is seen as small. Not to mention , planet Vegeta has 10x earth gravity, namek has 3 suns, there's far more proof that they are bigger than earth than otherwise.
Just because Earth is called "smalL" doesn't mean that any planet not explicitly called small on-screen is therefore average.
Earth being called small has nothing to do with other planets being average, it's because we have a BLATANT statement comparing the size of 'A planet' to the SDBs
It'd be like a if a character was called "strong" but that label was never used explicitly for other characters so you assume that every single other character is average in comparison to the guy called strong. While this kind of conclusion is possible, it is unsupported and ultimately just conjecture.
Now this is just a straight up misleading analogy here. Nobody is saying planets are Average because SDBs were called big (which is what this analogy implies), we have a literal statement from a reliable source comparing "A PLANET" to the SDBs, not 'that planet', not 'my planet', not 'large planet'. Do I really have to explain the use of the indefinite article there?
As for your analogy, here is the appropriate one; if a person had moon level AP and was said to be as strong as "A" captain in a verse, would you not scale basically any captain to that person's AP unless they showed otherwise?
If one said, Mr X is almost as dense as a General's Armour, assuming his density was 5000kg/m^3, would you not scale every general's armor to it unless proven otherwise?
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I think I the kanji in both the manga and anime scenes should be checked, Viz is weird with their translations sometimes so it could have the possibility of being "just
as large as a plant" or "almost as large to be considered a planet". Both of these possibilities could alter the direction of this thread, either that or Viz was right and I got it checked for nothing
Just as large or almost as large than a planet would not change a thing, as it is the diameter of the SDBs themselves that was used, so unless the scans were so wrong thsh theu flipped it and the SDBs are actually bigger than a planet, ot would not affect anything
