> Remember when we all said Goku would be a fodder tier 2?
I might recall people on this Wiki saying that, but I prefer not to make any assumptions myself. On the contrary, after seeing how biased content creators like "Screw Attack" seem to be about Western Comics vs Anime/Manga, my kneejerk reaction has been to "support the underdogs" more lately.
Not that I really form my opinions around a poorly animated YouTube series (okay, some of their fights have been okay, Yang vs Tifa comes to mind, though Tifa's face in that was still bad) thinks anyway though. May as well get upset over that "Cartoon Fight Club" garbage my nephew watches (seriously, it's
just terrible). I like to play things out in my own imagination and I hate to sound arrogant but I think I have a better grasp of their actual abilities than they do. They pretend that they've thought everything out but if you do some actual digging into the "facts" they use to back their claims, you find very quickly that they just did a quick Google search to back-up their own confirmation biases and didn't bother to look deeper than the surface. Being an actual fan of all these things, you quickly find all the holes in their logic, and it's glaringly obvious that they're not even real fans of the series they're talking about, they're just skimming search results and data sheets for things they don't even personally follow.
But yeah, I don't like to draw-up any conclusions until a series has ended. I suppose that's hard to do with American Comics because they seem to never end and have so many different versions and plotlines, but Anime and Manga tend to have a definitive beginning and end and thus I like to wait until the conclusion before making any crazy claims.
I don't see the sense in getting hyped about the Tier thing anyway though. I mean, we already have
Xeno Goku, so it's not like MUI Goku is reaching levels that Dragon Ball has never reached before. He'd have to reach beyond Xeno Goku to do that. I'm just enjoying the fireworks.
Let us all remember that the ultimate Son Goku is still
the original Son Goku (Son Wukong) of myth. I'd find it rather strange if Goku surpasses 2B because that's when he's officially surpassed the original concept he was moulded from.
What version of Superman would be good to fight MUI Goku? It seems to me that all of the top-tier DBS cast is way beyond Superman Prime One Million (and pretty much all comic characters aside from their deities and cosmic entities... which makes sense, considering everyone's a God now) at this point, but still isn't anywhere near strong enough to fight the Thought Robot which would be the next strongest version. Kinda puts Goku in an awkward place for theoretical battles with Superman. But I guess if you consider the Thought Robot as "not really Superman" and (and that's what I think too - it's just a creation of the monitors in Superman's likeness), then I suppose Goku and Co have officially surpassed Superman in his entirety more or less.
Ah sorry, now I'm just rambling. Anyway, I've been a lifelong DB fan and happy to see them reaching new heights. But more than anything, I just love the animation of these battles.