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Caulifla's transformation into Super Saiyan 1/2 is trashy and underwhelming and demystifies Super Saiyan, but I also love it as the logical conclusion for Super Saiyan fan theories.
Like... Goku could turn Super Saiyan all the way back in Namek saga. Caulifla and Kale are wAAAAAAAAY stronger than Goku was back at Namek, so it makes sense that their bodies are able to handle not only SSJ1, but also higher forms of SSJ. If one's ability to turn super saiyan is capped by their body's own strength, rather than being inherent to all Saiyans regardless of power, then this makes sense.
We can also view this compared to Goten and Trunks. Now, Future Trunks had to train quite hard to turn Super Saiyan, he had to feel "the Rage", but he and Gohan got there as children, much sooner than Goku. Then, in the main timeline, Goten and Trunks both seemed to have an inherent super saiyan ability. In Trunks' case, the presence of Vegeta and Goten would have made him more likely to discover this ability, and in Goten's case, not only was Goku already a super saiyan when he was concieved (unlike Gohan and future Trunks), he's also had Trunks and Gohan (and ChiChi???) to compete with. The higher base power level combined with a competitive environment helped them out.
So, Kale and Caulifla are much stronger than Goten and Trunks, who seemed to always have the ability to transform without the need for any sort of blood ending rage (unless you count being a kid).
How does a Super Saiyan transform without feeling blood ending rage? Well it obviously happens all the time. While Vegeta is always mad, and Gohan sometimes needs that extra push, Goten and Trunks and Goku clearly do not need anger to transform.
So, of course, they do it via a "tingly feeling on their back"!!!! How mechanical. It's so stupid, but I love it.
Only Caulifla who probably doesn't feel rage any more than Goku required this method to learn to transform. Her body is incredibly strong so she could reach SSJ2 off the bat. The show teases SSJ3, I think she does have the physical strength for it, it probably requires a psychological push though. Even Gotenks didn't go SSJ3 until Goten watched his mother die and trained super hard.
Kale, though... I'd be shocked if this was the first time Kale transformed. Her form is just called "a berserk super saiyan" in show, but it's clearly "legendary super saiyan" from the movies. She has so much gay anger that I can imagine her transforming once before to beat the shit out of someone who smacktalked Caulifla or got too close to her. Maybe Caulifla is so strong that Goku was the first, but it's clear that Kale is the physically stronger of the two girls, even with Caulifla's super saiyan 2.
Cabba got the Vegeta treatment and Vegeta probably isn't aware of the tingly-feeling-on-your-back method. He just uses his unending well of rage to transform every time. He wouldn't teach Cabba such a pussy haxxor method of going Super Saiyan. Cabba needs to understand the RAGE OF HIS ANCESTORS.
everywhere i go everyone compliments me on the particle cannons i attached to my body. they say things like "those look effective against armored targets, and also very precise" and then i blush cutely and obliterate a scrap car
The biggest scam your brain is telling you is that everybody else is human and allowed to make mistakes but that you yourself have to be perfect and flawless to deserve their company
i have no patience for people talking about violent rhetoric on the left really because every day i read the news and every politician in this country and in most others is saying 'we gotta kill more people'. they use different words to say it. obviously you're not supposed to just say 'we gotta kill more people'. but there's all kinds of polite and okay ways to say it.
'we need to control our borders' is a phrase which here means 'we gotta kill more people, we gotta drown more refugees in boats, we gotta send more people back to warzones and governments that want them dead, we gotta make more camps and we gotta make the camps more fatal'.
'we need to be tougher on welfare fraud' is a phrase which here means 'we gotta kill more people, we gotta make disabled people do more song and dance routines to convince some indifferent bureaucrat that they deserve to eat and we gotta make sure that the bureaucrats say 'no', we gotta starve those kids more, we gotta make sure families and kids and old people are freezing in the winter'.
'we need to tackle violent crime' is a phrase which here means 'we gotta kill more people, specifically Black people, unless we said Terrorism instead of Crime, in which case it's specifically muslims, shoot them, imprison them, surveil them, disappear them, brutalize them, whatever.'
and of course none of this is Violent Speech. this is Sensible Political Discourse. these are Common-Sense Policy Goals. we gotta kill more people: that's an electable policy. you can always count on we gotta kill more people as a platform. we gotta kill more people is gonna sweep the nation baby. we gotta kill more people 2024 -- vote now on your phones. now slow down. hold your horses. did that guy just say we gotta kill more people? well that just wont do. thats why im running on a platform of we gotta kill more people for cheaper, to stop this wasteful madness. and the people just keep dying but seems like there's still some of them left so i guess we're just circling back around to our main thing which is: we gotta kill more people
I have a headcanon about Etheria having the need for an official Space Fleet post war and Adora, Catra and Bow all end up as officers while it's getting off the ground.
And Glimmer meanwhile is already busy enough with Queen duties so she doesn't hold an official office in the Etherian Space Fleet, but she does use her position to shower her friends with random medals and commendations from Bright Moon whenever possible because she can.
Anyway, here's a little Glimbow short about this to go along with the drawing.