I've been talking with others about this, and I am well aware I have a reputation on CV for lowballing, but really I'm just not very prone to taking flights of fancy with the feats of Dragonball - though it does happen from time to time.
Anyway, the more I think about it, the more it seems unreasonable to say that Beerus is Universal. Allow me to explain before you choke on your own disbelief...
When Beerus was fighting SSG Goku, Beerus created a destructive energy ball that Goku managed to keep at bay. The two forces created what the Old Kai called a "super, super highly dense ball" of energy that was capable of destroying the Universe. Whis confirmed this.
But Whis also said of Beerus 's original destructive energy ball, that Beerus likely only meant to destroy the Earth and some nearby planets.
I think this is a statement that gets overlooked, but it isn't said for no reason. Lets examine: Earths nearby planets are Venus, Mars and Mercury. At their closest they are roughly 30, 40 and 60 million miles away from Earth respectively. So for Beerus to destroy those nearby planets in a single blast, Beerus would have needed an explosion at least 60 million miles in radius.
That's insanely huge! Far, far more enormous than any explosion in any of Dragonball.
But...
It's still not a patch on the size of the Solar System as a whole, so it begs the question: How did compressing the energy suddenly change what Whis judged to be a potential 60m mile radius ball of death into a Universe killing ball of death?
I'm sure it will be argued by some that the DB Universe is smaller than our own. That could be the case, but its unfounded. And given the reference similarities between the DB universe and our own, is also unjustified.
It's not unheard of in the real world for something to gain disproportionately more potency from becoming denser. A black hole has the same mass as a large blue star, but its gravity is immensely larger because of the significant change density. But the difference in size between a black hole and a blue star is nothing compared to the difference in size between a small portion of a solar system and the entire universe. This idea makes even less sense when you consider that the energy ball didn't get so much smaller to warrant the enormous increase in apparent destructive power.
So I think the reason the 'super super highly dense ball of energy' is Universal is down to the same reason the shockwaves released by the clashing punches between SSG Goku and Beerus would have eventually made the universe crumble.
It seems more reasonable to suggest that because the Energy ball was made with God Ki, the dispersal of its energy might (like the fist clash shockwaves before it) get stronger and faster as they move from the epicentre. And it also seems more reasonable to suggest that the reason this energy ball would be so destructive compared to those shockwaves from the clashing fists, is that there was so much energy put into it by both characters - WAY more than a simple clash of punches.
Suddenly, it makes a lot more sense how a character like Beerus, who its said has destroyed an entire Galaxy before, can destroy a Universe threatening super, super highly dense energy bomb.
So I have come to the conclusion that Beerus is in fact, not Universal. He is Galaxy level, as may well have been the energy ball were it not for the potentially universe obliterating shockwave that would come off of it.
Thoughts?
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