Perfection, I believe that this is a road that everyone has tried following a couple
of times.
Some want to have a perfect form, some want to live perfect, and some want to perfect
their abilities.
The strive for perfection is a common one, and it’s so common, we see it a lot in fiction.
There have been so many characters that have strived for perfection, and some that were
created to be perfect.
I have a couple of examples of these perfect and or ultimate lifeforms, how it worked,
and their effect.
In Dragon Ball Z, we have the creation of Dr. Gero, Cell. Cell was a being designed
to be the perfect warrior, possessing the genetics and special abilities of some of
the strongest fighters to touch the earth.
Possessing these genetics gave him accessibility for many things that only work for a specific
species.
He’s able to regenerate, breathe in space, and has access to Zenkai boosts.
Cell once he became whole was one thing, but the road to said perfection was a journey
that had gone on for a couple of years in Z, and that’s just speaking on his own personal
journey and not the planning of Gero, which that is much larger.
Though the thing with Perfect Cell is that he was made to be stronger off scaling alone,
but Gohan being the secret weapon that was above Cell is what finished it all.
It had shown that something artificially made can’t be on part with the originals.
By that I mean Cell had a certain cap and Gohan’s was higher.
Now, in terms of potential I’m not sure.
Maybe Cell could’ve trained to be stronger than everyone there since he had access to
Zenkai Boosts.
That’s not up for me to debate.
My thoughts are around the narrative, and of course the villain is going to win, the
thing is Cell believed he was as high as could be.
Well, that’s until he was beaten twice, I’d say.
The next character I have here is Doomsday.
Now while there’s two separate iterations of him with different history, they both end
up with his origins being in a lab, so we have a case like Cell.
Doomsday was created and grew though being cloned and killed repetitively as an infant,
with each death being even more harsh than the last.
All those deaths by the dangerous beings or conditions of the universe, led to Doomsday
being extremely durable, some say invulnerable with what he’s gone against.
I don’t exactly keep Doomsday up to date to now in specific, but so far through his
history he’s still continuously defeated.
Even when he’s taken large wins against strong characters
in DC.
Kars is an ancient being who longed for the ability to live under the sun.
He found the power to do so with the Red Stone of Aja, and it had transformed him into Ultimate
Life form Kars or Ultimate Kars.
Ultimate Kars had access to regeneration, transformation into any things that’s ever
lived on earth, doesn’t grow old, there’s a lot he can do.
I’ll be putting his stat page up and there’s also two videos where I go over the power
of Ultimate Kars.
Kars had become one of the strongest beings to touch the earth in JoJo, yet he was beat
still.
The thing with Battle Tendency here, it was meant to show that no one is immortal, no
one is unbeatable, and sometimes not everything is what it seems.
The defeat of Kars didn’t lay in him being defeated, but by him being ultimate.
This is a common thing you’ll see when someone gets ahead of themselves once they believe
they have an advantage against their opposition.
And last, Mewtwo.
The product of repetitive gene splicing and the dream of creating the most powerful Pokémon,
Mewtwo stood tall in the realm of Pokémon.
The first Pokémon move shows a great portrayal of Mewtwo, but the thing is we don’t get
any of that in the game.
Mewtwo’s story was more circulated towards “being the ultimate Pokémon, but never
asking for any of it”.
To be captivated, and continuously experimented on was something that Mewtwo had never asked
for it.
When it comes to villains who go on the path of perfection, they’ll almost never be finished
or how they wanted.
With Mewtwo, it probably could’ve been even more stronger than it already is, but it never
wanted to be made into this ultimate being.
It wanted to live like other Pokémon, so it left and did.
I feel like this is a common thing we see with characters that are ridiculously strong,
but it’s not something that they had strived to attain.
It’s more on power being given to them against their will and having that much power makes
you this huge target.
Something to be controlled and used for reasons that aren’t your own.
With great power comes great responsibility, but if you never wanted that power then it’s
just a great burden.
Now, with showing you these examples, what do we do with it?
Well, you realize that the perfect life form doesn’t exist, and it can’t.
Having an ultimate life form in your franchise is purely done to show a point on how you
should be viewing a situation like that, or how you should be viewing yourself.
You can take apart each character we had mentioned here, and even include other characters that
are considered ultimate life forms, and notice what they did was to establish a learning
point in the plot for not only who they’re against but the viewer.
Now obviously, this is would happen since majority of ultimate life forms we see in
fiction are villains in the story, but it’s something that these stories want to get into
to show their take on a belief that the perfect life form makes relevant.
On why it can’t exist, you have to think about being perfect.
Without involving the concept of other worldly beings like gods, which even then still aren’t
perfect, there hasn’t been a thing to be 100%.
To be perfect in everything contradicts in multiple areas.
If to be perfect in terms of a Shonen character, strength, speed, durability, stamina, abilities,
all of those attributes being as high as they could be, whose one to say that’s actually
as high as it gets.
If a character that’s like that is introduced into a franchise, there’s nowhere to go
from that.
It’s either your main character beats them and proves that they weren’t perfect, or
they’re actually perfect, and they go on an unstoppable spree and the franchise is
over.
Perfection is a goal, but mastering is where you’ll end up being at in the end of it
all.
Even then, when you master something, you can still craft it to be better than it was
before depending on what it is.
Personally, I believe that something can always be made better than it already is, well, except
fruit punch Powerade, but everything
else yeah.