With Toppo now a god of destruction, Universe 7 has its hands full trying to survive as only minutes remain in the tournament of power.
At the end of the previous episode, Toppo crushed Frieza and tossed him aside, only for 17 to save the evil emperor by hitting him with a rock. 17 finds that he is definitely no match for the empowered Toppo, but devises a plan after seeing a rock formation crumble after Toppo destroyed a section of it. This moment makes good use of the typically obvious zoom on a character's face when they notice something, as opposed to when Jaco saw Frost's needles or Gohan deduced Frieza's ruse against Frost. Deciding to use the environment to his advantage, 17 hides behind another section of rock and lets Toppo carve a path like previously. Once the smoke has cleared, 17 destroys the remaining formation, causing it to collapse on Toppo. Toppo easily escapes this and slams 17 with a barrage of ki blasts until he falls, but Frieza comes to the rescue and paralyzes Toppo. Deciding to finally eliminate Frieza and 17, Toppo is interrupted when stray blasts from the battle with Jiren hit him, and one of Jiren's shots hits Frieza and 17. As the two battles merge, Toppo and Jiren come to a silent agreement and Toppo pulls Vegeta into a separate fight. Vegeta chastises Toppo for his recent endeavors, noting how quickly he switched from being all about justice to destruction. Toppo states that justice no longer matters because the ultimate goal is survival, and says he tossed away pointless things to achieve his greater power. In what appears to be a reference to Vegeta's fight against Goku in the Majin Buu arc, Toppo slams Vegeta wide-armed into a rock formation. Toppo mocks Vegeta for his Saiyan pride, dismissing the race and saying Vegeta should toss such things away as he did, but Vegeta, thinking of his family and the promise he made to Cabba, becomes enraged. Again powering up to full, Vegeta rushes Toppo, managing to land repeated blows as well as punching straight through a blast of destruction energy. Vegeta again taunts Toppo, asking what the use was in throwing away things that formerly meant so much to him if he's not more powerful. Universe 11's god of destruction and supreme kai, shocked at the turn, tell Toppo to just destroy all of Vegeta's attacks and just be sure not to kill him. In a final clash, Toppo forms a massive amount of destruction energy and Vegeta says he will create more power than Toppo can destroy. With a flashback to Majin Buu, Piccolo realizes Vegeta is preparing his "Final Explosion," though longtime fans likely knew what was going on as soon as the power began gathering. The previous time Vegeta used this attack, it destroyed him in the end, turning his body to stone which then fell and shattered, and was quickly blown away. The episode comes to a climax as Vegeta risks everything to take down the wayward Pride Trooper and save Universes 7 and 6. While it wasn't quite as awe-inspiring as when he fought Goku Black, or Goku's recent endeavors using Ultra Instinct, Vegeta's battle against Toppo was a great one to see. Given Toppo and Vegeta's past fight as well as occasional comments about the similarities and differences between the two, a final bout between them has been awaited. In particular, now that Toppo has sacrificed everything he stood for to gain his destruction powers, there is an interesting dynamic from Vegeta's own refusal to give up his pride. As he famously proclaimed when Babidi was shocked he couldn't control his mind, "There's one thing a Saiyan always keeps: his pride!" This episode, while obviously reminiscent in multiple ways of the Buu saga, is less obviously a continuation of Vegeta's over-arcing character progression, being the greatest of all the DBZ characters. When he originally landed on Earth, Vegeta was a ruthless soldier willing to kill his own partner for being injured, but as I've mentioned in past posts, he has become one of the Z-Fighters' most righteous warriors. Until now in Dragon Ball Super, Vegeta was constantly getting the short of the stick, only occasionally getting to fight main antagonists, and even when he does, he gets shot down often effortlessly. Here, however, he goes toe-to-toe with Toppo, who, as fans have seen recently, become strong enough to make Frieza nothing more than an insect. With so few characters standing and only four minutes remaining in the Tournament of Power, a battle with Jiren is yet to come as everyone fights for survival.
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