Dragon Ball Super: The Consequences of Frieza's New Form

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The most recent chapter of the Dragon Ball Super manga, chapter 87, marked the end of the Granolah the Survivor Saga after a surprise appearance from the franchise's most iconic antagonist, Frieza. With Goku and Vegeta pushed to the very brink by back-to-back fights against individuals who were both once the strongest beings in Universe 7, they find themselves relieved, surprised and dismayed when Frieza dispatches the arc's main antagonists, Gas and his brother Elec, in two hits.

Frieza decimates the enemy with characteristic ruthlessness, brandishing a brand-new transformation he dubs «Black Frieza». What does the re-establishment of Frieza as Universe 7's most fearsome foe mean for the Dragon Ball franchise going forward?

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Since Frieza's defeat on Planet Namek, and his subsequent embarrassment on Earth courtesy of Trunks, he was no longer a threat to the universe. However, the Resurrection of F movie saw the return of the space tyrant, sporting a new form that was meant to surprise and best his sworn enemy Goku, and Vegeta, but they were well-prepared with their Super Saiyan Blue forms.

With help from Whis, the threat of Frieza was suppressed once more, and it was assumed that he would never be as big a threat as he has been in the past, especially with the new heights achieved by Goku and Vegeta, the emergence of fighters far stronger than them in the other universes, and the presence of Beerus, The Destroyer. Frieza becomes even more of an afterthought in the Granolah the Survivor Saga as the arc's eponymous character uses the Dragon Balls from his home, Planet Cereal, to make himself the strongest warrior in the universe in exchange for a huge portion of his