She is not purely 100% good and utterly free of evil. She has at least a tiny sliver of it in her soul.Odd assumption to make
This is in no way a good reason to do it. Evil Containment Wave will have a higher chance of defeating the dragon and unlike the Spirit Bomb has a good chance of defeating it non-lethally. Both of those things are much more important by far than improving our reputation.
Goku is a dubious example of pure good. Also it makes the most sense to do both evil containment wave and spirit bomb. It allows redundancy.
Only among the fanbase. In-universe he is pure good and arguing that point is pointless.
Well if Goku was pure good then so is Kakara.
Counterpoint: Son Goku.
...Excuse me, what
Again, odd assumption.
Remember Devilman?
Nowhere is it stated that this is even a possibility.
On that note we should make a better container then a rice cooker or a pot. We should have it made out of super materials. It might help.
No one's at the tournament for it, that's not the purpose of the tournament. We can hold another one if needed!
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Fairly sure you don't get to be the judge of that.
0% Evil =/= 100% Good.
Dudee. Not cool. Lailoken has been pretty pro-mercy lately, there is no need to call him names.
Nobody has so far. Frankly, I am more worried about how we would close the container with humongeous monkey fingers but that is what multiform is for.
...why do we want to beat the dragon non-lethaly? I mean, it would be good practice for later enemies but it sounds like begging for trouble later on.
No it isn't. Mutaito, Roshi, and Tien were all non-magic users and they used it just fine.
Because it's the right thing to do.
, either for it being magical or for the people who have used it having elsewhere shown any ability to use magic whatsoever.
It has been used by Roshi, Tien, Goku and future Trunks.
Among the fanbase who listen to Akira Toriyama, perhaps. According to Toriyama, Goku is not supposed to be an example of a righteous hero. He fights because he likes to fight, and secondarily because it helps people. According to Toriyama, Goku acting as a righteous hero is down to the English dubs changing his dialogue to be more in line with that characterization, which Toriyama did not appreciate. You can see this if you contrast the Japanese and English dubs. Especially in light of certain plot point that have arisen in Dragon Ball Super, I cleave to that characterization. I cannot imagine how the English dubbers are going to preserve, "Goku the righteous hero," with the latest arc's dub.
Which is more in-line with Shinto thoughts on Purity anyway.
In other words we could not have figured it out well we were troubled or reflective. In fact Dad's Atoner trait might be getting in the way of him managing the spirit bomb.
Gohan bounced it off because he was pure and didn't have any evil within him. Kid Buu and Frieza were pure evil and did not bounce it off. You do actually need to be pure good for that technique. Simply being pure something is insufficient, else those two could've bounced the technique off like Gohan did.
I don't know if kid Buu or Frieza were pure evil. I mean if they were 99% evil would we be able to tell?
Perhaps pure good is required for bouncing, but since Goku can use it, it plainly does not require that you be pure good to form it.
Edit:Naturally, including Trunks if you count Super
Daizenshuu 7 as I remember it being called a magic technique, which is backed up by the wiki, and the nature of the technique fits more with what we've seen of magic then Ki.
Actually, as revealed in supplementary media, someone who is "pure evil" can use the technique, in which case it can't hurt those who are similarly "pure evil". So it's more along the lines of "can't hurt someone of the same alignment", to use D&D terms.
There ya go.
