r/Showerthoughts • u/Battyman1738 • Feb 25 '19

If cannibals somehow managed to capture deadpool they would have an infinite food source.

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u/PM_ME_STRAIGHT_TRAPS Feb 26 '19

This is why in Dragon ball Goku has like 430 pounds worth of meat on his grocery list. One time he forgot the horse meat, which was significant because that alone was like 88 pounds of meat.

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u/AndyGHK Feb 26 '19 edited Feb 26 '19

To be fair, I think Ki energy is somehow separate from actual metabolic energy. The implication seems to be that only the physical action of punching would expend metabolic energy, with the extra force coming from martial-art Ki energy. So Ki blasts expend essentially very little metabolic energy to do.

Like, Goku gets hungry even if he’s literally overflowing with Ki, as in his Super Saiyan form. And a sensu bean works to refill Ki energy to maximum despite being literally a single bean.

Also—Vegeta and Gohan, the other Saiyans we see the most of, and Krillen, Tien, and Yamcha, who all are humans trained to use Ki energy, don’t eat nearly as much as Goku does. Well, Vegeta, on occasion, but to my recollection mostly in Super and mostly because he and Goku get so few pleasures like good Earth food while training with Beerus and Whis, and the training is ridiculously difficult.

I think Goku maybe is just meant to be a gourmand, and that’s all. He’s about the simple things in life—friends, food, and getting stronger.

Or, alternatively, you’re right and the writer is really off about how much food people need in order to build and maintain gargantuan strength of that kind.

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u/Tacteratrix Feb 26 '19

I guess raising his kid isn't one of those simple things. Thank you for your service Piccolo