Hence why I was just not going to be fair to Goku one bit. Since by all means there is no evidence to suggest Goku can survive lava (since he can't... even Broli had to protect himself from it somehow).
NEXT PERSON WHO TALKS ABOUT LAVA GETS LOCKED FROM THE THREAD. Let's just assume that scene with Frieza was purely for comedy and that Broly never happened. That reminds me of a rule I was gonna write...
No non-canon sources.Goku is not stupid in the area where it counts. He learned how to do the Kamehameha after watching it once. Learning Kamehameha wave took Master Roshi 50 years.
This isn't really related to the competition but I just wanted to say that I think Goku's trick there is actually a kind of Saiyan ability. The one time said "ability" gets shown off is when Vegeta cuts off Gohan's tail with the Destructo Disc, having seen the technique only once, just like Goku with the Kamehameha.
In the recent movie, Goku has also absorbed one attack directed at him fully, so that's a non-feat from Superman.
He absorbed the Ki likely. But do you have a link?
Wouldn't that be like saying "he didn't absorb the blast of a nuclear explosion - he just absorbed the energy produced by the blast"?
EDIT: It could also mean the reverse, but it still means the same thing, really.
I dunno... Bardock survived it easily enough.
In fact Bardock wasn't even all that hurt by it all things considered and he wasn't even Super Saiyan.
But on a more serious note... Yeah he could block it... But that technique doesn't blow up planets it is made to take out and interfere with the core of a planet causing it to self-destruct. It is one of the two techniques in the show that are specifically designed to take down planets. The two being Deathball (Frieza's move) and the Garlic Gun.
I'm calling Episode of Bardock non-canon. Bardock Special can stay, though. If there's a reason why EoB should be treated as canon (Word of God, for example) then please tell me.
The reason he wasn't hurt is because he came back to life and travelled through time....somehow.
Three things...no four...no FIVE. One: it's called the Death Ball - two words (nitpicky but whatever). Two: The Death Ball and the Supernova are two different techniques, Supernova being the more powerful of the two and the one that blew up Vegeta. Three: This is just my own opinion so take it as you will. Supernova tunnels down into the planet's core and explodes, destroying the planet in a very simple way. The attack he used to destroy Vegeta (which isn't Death Ball, as it turns out, and is actually a different technique called 'Destroy the Planet!', funnily enough) works differently and actually interacts with the core, leading to an explosion later on but requiring less energy to do so (though with enough energy put into the attack it would destroy the planet more-or-less instantly). Four: It's called the Gallick Gun. Five: The Gallick Gun isn't made specifically to blow up planets any more than the Kamehameha is - it just serves as a convenient tool for doing so, again just like the Kamehameha.