Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-36366948-20200805112208/@comment-3523655-20200818000921

LegionZero wrote: The first rule of a visual medium is "show, dont tell"

Since Naruto isnt the kind of series where they can go around destroying planets we unfortunately need to be told that information.

Its kind of silly that the anti-planet buster Kinshiki agruement is "we dont see he is that powerful"

But the pro-continent buster Naruto/Sasuke argument is "we are told they are that powerful". We are never shown this but you want to take this as a fact when it falls prey to the same argument as the word of God statement about Kinshiki

I don't know if they're continent busters or whatever the term is. These terms, the whole "power-scaling" aspect is so detached from the storytelling aspect of the franchise, it frankly ruins it. And as Naeyon123 pointed out, all it brings is inconsistencies.

But as far as show-don't-tell goes, we never saw them blow up a planet or a continent... but we did see them destroy mountains. Plenty of them. Mountains. Do you realize how big one of those is?

We don't need to see them blowing up planets, but just two powers clashing obliterated the environment they were around in (which, again, if the final Sasuke vs Naruto fight brought that level of destruction, Sasuke vs Kinshiki not doing so goes to show that either their, or one of their levels aren't that high or that that God Tree, Chojuro and Kurotsuchi are at that level too).

Its just as silly that the planet buster Kinshiki argument is "the databook says so". Because you take away the databook info, I'd know that Sasuke and Naruto are powerful enough to at least raze everything in an x mile radius to the ground. But you take away the databook info, Kinshiki is physically as strong as Tsunade.

The databook is a marketing product, it's there to be bought and have plenty of new info, regardless of its accuracy. In Dragon Ball, databooks are saying Beerus killed the dinosaurs, whereas they can still be seen here and there in their Earth.