So, I finally got around to reading the Onslaught set, because I hadn't ever gotten around to it and a local library has a pretty good selection of comics.
What the fuck did I just read.
No really. What the fuck.
Logan is a cave man, and can't stop crying that he's not a man anymore? There's a magic aborigine on the roof of Xavier Academy?
What the flaming flamingo. I know comics can get all over the place, especially if you don't read much into the buildup that leads into an event, but this is the first event I've read that reads more like a fever dream of the Twilight Zone than a comic.
What the shit.
Cosgrove said:
IIRC, it was actually Bulma's fault. Normally it takes years to gather all seven dragonballs. However, with the Dragon Radar it made it easy to find all seven which mean the wishes were used more often then they should have been which caused... whatever it was.
Or something.
Didn't really watch GT.
Wishes are possible because they channel the 'overflow' of positive emotions and feelings in part of the universe (the unspoken implication being that there are other methods of making wishes in the universe elsewhere). This overflow builds up naturally over time, and can be a bad thing, but the wishing mechanism allows it to be 'vented' in the form of wishes.
Yin-Yang. Too much good is bad. Too much bad is bad. There needs to be a balance.
That balance was disrupted with the creation of the Dragon Radar. The Dragon Balls divide after every wish to prevent wishes from being made in rapid succession. It would typically take at least a hundred years to assemble them all again, which is more than enough time for the positive energy of the galaxy to start overflowing again. However, with the Dragon Radar, what used to take hundreds of years, can now be shortened to hundreds of days, and after the Z Fighters start powering up and becoming universally capable of supersonic flight, hundreds of hours.
This meant that more wishes were made in the span of a few decades than should have been made in a few thousand years. This drained the majority of the positive energy out of the universe, which created a severe imbalance in favor of negative energy, which ultimately resulted in this:
Honestly, I'm not opposed to the overall concept of GT, in that making loads of wishes is bad because wishfuel exists. That would have been a great plot for the setting, and would have been the logical conclusion of the series, as it ties everything else together.
It's more like absolutely everything else 'in' GT was pure shit. Like, all of it. Seriously. It was terrible.
In fact, Goku remains pretty damn static in his untransformed abilities past Namek, and it's implied he's reached his limit, whereas Gohan could exceed that.
Gohan had his limits removed by Guru on Namek. If Goku had also underwent that process, he too could have likely progressed indefinitely.
