Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3306440-20140507091001/@comment-5110462-20140509180121

Ten Tailed Fox wrote: The Winter King wrote: You might wanna know this that an Ass-pull is something like the current situation where Naruto and Sasuke are fighting on Par with a God-level Shinobi by using powers of whom they have no previous knowledge of

Cue Goku's ability to read people's mind on Namek just because he "though he could do it". No training. No explanation on how he got it. He just starts reading people's minds as an excuse to have Goku catch up on the events on Namek without actually having anyone explain it to him.

(The quote was literally; "I just felt I could do it!" which is literally the exact same thing Naruto just said about his new abilities.)

Nostalgia plays into your logic. Its blatantly obvious. Nostalgia doesn't play into my logic, Goku used it on Gohan also btw, during Saiyan Saga, vegeta also gains a similar ability cause both he and Goku were able to touch Fat buu and read his thoughts

Goku isn't the only character, if i recall correctly then piccolo is also able to use it during Buu saga

It is true it didn't have any explanation so yes it is an ass-pull,i can probably use the same logic of how vegeta learned how to Ki sense or how cell learned IT Saiyans can learn abilities like this, if i recall it is called Zenkai Goku could've learned it either from King Kai or Roshi

can you tell me how much it impacted the series, did Goku or anyone else use it to do a lot of damage to the enemy kind of like those two brats are doing now?