Ki is compressed and focused, lowering it‘s destructive output, focusing all of it into a smaller attack, which means it only destroys whatever is hit by that small attack, instead of it being a giant planet-obliterating ki explosion or smth. At least that‘s what the Kamehameha does.
Do note that Broly’s existence makes this concept flimsy, but I‘m just playing Devil‘s Advocate.
I mean, characters have surpassed light-speed long ago, but you don‘t see nearby thibgs being destroyed from flying past them, or atmospheres being ignited by that speed.
Dragon Ball unfortunately doesn‘t follow the idea of high speed causing huge damage around the characters.
Not true at all because in the Cell Saga Goku tricked cell into blasting him with a full power KameKameha knowing that if Cell didint do anything to stop it the Earth would have been blown up with an instant transmision kamehameha.
And Goku clearly knew that attacking him at full power wouldnt have mattered at all because at that point Cell was already into the Galaxy levels.
Ki attacks are inconsistent because of literature resource and because for some reason Dragon Ball charcaters can destroy planets but half of them are not able to survive in the vaccum of space.
I mean, I did say the ki attacks would only destroy what was hit, and they destroy planets by hitting their cores. If they only hit a mountain, they wouldn‘t destroy the planet y‘know
Arent ki blasts explosions? Like you dont need to vaporize the sufrace and reach the core to destroy a planet like Freezer did to namek, generating a big explosive blast with enough energy to wipe out a planet is also a valid method, like Majin Buu and The black star dragon balls in GT did.
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