Warning! Spoilers ahead for Dragon Ball Super chapter 81!
Recently,Goku began battling the villain Gas who planet Cereal's eternal dragon made the strongest warrior in Dragon Ball's seventh universe.
Until now, Granolah the Cerealian has been fighting Gas thanks to a wounded Vegeta who earlier gave the Cerealian his only Senzu Bean. Vegeta was compelled to cast aside his pride and heal him after learning that Gas killed Granolah's mother long ago and that Gas' older brother and leader of the Heeter Force Elec still had the audacity to employ her orphaned son as a bounty hunter. Goku only takes over fighting in chapter 81 of Dragon Ball Super after Elec fatally shoots Granolah in the back, ostensibly killing him.
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Although it's exciting that Goku's current opponent is officially the strongest in the universe, both Granolah's power and the battle's timing provide additional context. It isn't news that countless villains throughout Dragon Ball have proclaimed that they are the most powerful, but this is one of the few times that readers (and Goku) aren't viewing this form of incessant bragging as hyperbole since the dragon balls literally made him the strongest. There's also no dispute that Goku isn't even right below Gas in terms of power because Granolah originally wished to Toronbo to become the most powerful, so, naturally, when Toronbo later gave Gas that title, Granolah automatically took the second spot. That means that, at best, Goku can only be the third most powerful, and that's only if someone else isn't stronger than him. This makes the likelihood that Goku can win even less likely than in previous battles.
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