Death Battle Predictions: Beerus VS Sailor Galaxia

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And now with DBX and our own mid-season break blogs all wrapped up, it’s time we return to our regularly scheduled program.

There are a lot of gods foretold in many religions around the world. They are often incomprehensibly powerful beings that mere men don’t even deserve to gawk at. Egypt in particular was the religion that had many gods with different roles. From Anubis, god of the dead, to Bat, a… cow goddess. But one god in particular was known as the evil rival to the sun god Ra himself. The God of Destruction, Apep (Apophis). Many characters in fiction today have earned this threatening title where both heroes and villains alike fear their very name alone. And with the mid season return of Death Battle near, it is truly a Battle of Gods for this unique and destructive matchup. 

Beerus, Universe 7’s gluttonous God of Destruction from Dragon Ball. Sailor Galaxia, Sailor Moon’s Sailor of Destruction and ruler of Shadow Galactica. We’ve known Beerus was due for a Death Battle since last year’s finale, but his many worthy foes eluded us. Until the season finale of Death Race, where all doubts and hopes were crushed or validated. It’s the battle of sphinx and Cleopatra. They have killed trillions and obliterated galaxies or planets without batting an eye, albeit for different reasons. The fighters are gonna have to give it their all for a change, and find out which egotistical fearsome destroyer of worlds reigns supreme. Will Beerus be able to hakai the Star Galaxia, or will the Sailor Scout of Destruction punish the Beers from existence? 

A Heads Up from Ya Bois

Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon each have various canonicites, each with their own contradictions. For this matchup, the Dragon Ball Super anime and the original Sailor Moon manga will be our primary sources of analysis. 

The Super manga and the Sailor Moon anime shows will be included for extra and supporting information. This also includes the movies as long as they are official canon and affect the stories of their main series, such as Dragon Ball Super: Broly. 

Background

Beerus

“Before any creation must come destruction!”

The world of Dragon Ball has many, many gods. Some are kind and benevolent, while others are cruel and unforgiving. Some invoke fear, others…not so much. And some are tasked with creating life, while others are to destroy it. 

One such God of Destruction, or GoD, is Beerus, easily the most feared god of his kind. He rules over Universe 7 of the Dragon Ball multiverse, and as such his task is to destroy any planets and races under his authority that threaten the progressive development of U7. 

But titles can be deceiving. A “God of Destruction” may sound like a no-nonsense guy who’s honor-bound to necessary order, but he’s really a lazy, gluttonous, and petty kind of guy. He’ll judge planets based on how much he likes the food, and destroy them for a mere hint of disrespect towards him. He’s even blown up half a planet simply because he found their food too greasy and unhealthy despite how delicious it was. He’d much rather be eating and sleeping than deciding the fates of trillions. However, his kill count is still one beyond comprehension. 

Due to his immense power, he found his job pretty boring. Beerus could never find a fun challenge worth his time, as all who opposed him weren’t even comparable to his ability. That is, until he was told of a “Super Saiyan God”. Beerus was excited at the thought of a true battle, and went into a deep sleep for 39 years. 

After awakening from his slumber, Beerus and his angelic master/teacher Whis traveled the universe. Planets were destroyed and food was served. Soon enough, Beerus learns that there were a few surviving Saiyans from the genocide long ago, and so he made his way to Earth. 

A string of unfortunate events ensued, including Earth’s Z fighters challenging (and losing to) Beerus, enraging him enough to wanna blow up the planet. The day was saved, however, by the Super Saiyan God himself, Son Goku. An epic fight took place, but the sphinx proved too much for even the Saiyan, and the Earth was doomed…until Beerus fell asleep and Whis took him back home. 

Since then, Beerus has mostly mellowed out, thanks in part to the impressive battle with Goku. Earth is safe and sound, though Beerus doesn’t really care most of the time. As long as he gets to eat, sleep, and be treated like the Lord he is, all is well. Who cares if Frieza wants to kill everybody? If the ice cream keeps coming, then he’ll make sure at least some lives are spared. But disrespect a God of Destruction and, well, you know exactly what’s coming your way. 

Sailor Galaxia

“This is the body of the most powerful soldier in the galaxy, Sailor Galaxia!”

Sailor Galaxia is a cosmically powerful destructive force feared by the entire Milky Way, but before that, she was just, well, Galaxia. Galaxia was born alone on a planet that she could only describe as a nightmare. Every day of her life was spent wandering in solitude, feeling as if both herself and the hellish planet she was prisoner to were “trash”. 

Galaxia seemed resigned to living in loneliness, until one day, without warning, her powers as a Sailor Scout, a guardian chosen by the planet they lived on, awakened. Even this newfound power, through which she could escape this living abyss, was not enough for her however. The desolate landscape had corrupted her view of the world, and she felt chosen by God with this sudden ascension, desiring to rise above the common trash of a mere ordinary Sailor Scout. She wanted the strongest power in the galaxy, she wanted control over the strongest planets, but above all she sought to find a planet worthy of her power, so she could take it for herself and finally attain ultimate strength. Wandering the Milky Way in search of this place, she grew frustrated with the garbage populating the cosmos, using her galactic power to bring swift ends to all planets unworthy of her. 

It was on one of these worlds she came across an otherworldly figure, a mystic who claimed to know the place from which stars are born. Unbeknownst to her, this was an avatar of the unknowable evil creature known simply as Chaos. Eager to gain the power she so desired, Galaxia heeded the creature’s word, and was guided to Sagittarius Zero Star and the Galaxy Cauldron contained within at the center of the galaxy. 

Now bearing knowledge of where she could find new power, Galaxia established the Galaxy Palace, a base to operate from, around the cauldron in the center of the cosmos. She realised that if she truly wanted to obtain the status of ruler of the universe, she needed to capture and harness the power of the Sailor Crystals contained within the countless other Sailor Scouts spread throughout the Milky Way. Creating an empire known as Shadow Galactica, she began mercilessly destroying planets across the galaxy, and convinced some of the many scouts whose worlds she had brought to an end to join her, promising them new bodies and entire celestial bodies to rule, all while snatching both the life and the Sailor Crystals of those who refused. She had risen above her past as a piece of common trash, and had become the Soldier of Destruction: Sailor Galaxia.

Galaxia has taken many innocent lives in her conquests. She didn’t blindly follow Chaos, however. She knew it planned to betray her, so she plotted on obtaining the Silver Crystal to defeat him. The owner of which was Sailor Moon herself. Galaxia messed with Usagi’s psyche as much as she could to bring out the dark potential in her, but ultimately did not succeed. Galaxia met her end when Chaos turned on her before she was saved by Moon. Seeing her purity, Galaxia lost her will to continue. Her bracelets killed her because she had found something worth protecting, and she died thinking Usagi was the brightest star in the universe. 

 Equipment

Beerus

(Beerus carries no equipment)

Sailor Galaxia

Sapphire Seed

When a person is chosen to become a Sailor Scout, their Star Seed, a gem that acts as the life essence of every living thing in the universe (including whole planets), becomes a Sailor Crystal, which is what grants them their extraordinary power. Sailor Galaxia is no different of course. Her Sailor Crystal is known as the Sapphire Seed, which grants her the ability of destruction. The crystal is one of the most powerful in the universe and bears cataclysmic power, granting it the title of  “Crystal of Destruction”.

Galactica Bracelets

Galaxia’s main tools are her Galactica Bracelets, which can fire off powerful energy blasts. They can bestow the powers of a Sailor Senshi upon any who wear it as well. Removing the bracelets means instant death for the person wearing it, so Galaxia can use the bracelets to force loyalty from her soldiers. The bracelets also have the ability to deflect incoming energy projectiles – both energy based and magic based.

Sword

(Anime Exclusive)

In the anime, Galaxia possesses a sword imbued with evil power, which she has used to great effect against those who oppose her.

Abilities

Beerus

Hand-to-Hand Combat

Being somebody that has existed for hundreds of millions of years (with the occasional decade long sleep) Beerus has had more than enough time to hone his fighting skills under the tutelage of the angel, chef, and sometimes adviser Whis. So don’t let his lanky aspect fool you, this guy packs a deadly wallop, aside from the basic punches and kicks, dive-kicks, headbuts and even finger-flicking, Beerus uses his tail as another weapon in his arsenal. He also seems to have a pretty deep understanding of Pressure Point combat as he displayed it during his fight with the Z-Warriors, and when he one-shot SS3 Goku

Ki Manipulation

Like many characters in the Dragon Ball franchise, Beerus is able to manipulate his Ki perform various attacks and techniques. Ki, also known as “latent energy” or “Fighting Power” is the life force energy used by many Dragon Ball characters. Ki is a tangible energy inside every living being, by drawing it out, a skilled individual is able to control it and use it for many different techniques or also use it to increase their strength and durability. Godly Ki is far superior than regular Ki, and the godly Ki of a God of Destruction is fueled by their Energy of Destruction. Here are the various Ki-based techniques and attacks Beerus can do:

Power of Destruction

As a God of Destruction, Beerus has direct access to Energy of Destruction, which is the power to… destroy (duh) given shape. With it, Beerus can literally “erase” anything from existence. The people affected by this do not go to hell or heaven or any of that, they simply cease to exist entirely. It works on pretty much everything, whether it be living beings, entire cities, to dissipate energy attacks, turn objects into dust, or even non-corporeal beings like ghosts. If destroying your body and soul wasn’t enough, as it turns out the Hakai will just erase you out of the timestream as well, effectively removing you from all possible timelines unless you possess special resistances (Like Goku Black’s time ring).

If desired this energy can take the form of spheres which the user can create and manipulate at will, these destroy anything they come in contact with. Some users have even used it to surround themselves with it, kinda like a barrier that will erase anything that touches it. Although Beerus hasn’t displayed some of these abilities it’s very likely that he’s well acquainted with them due to his experience and power, he has even dissipated such attacks before. The only thing that the Energy of Destruction doesn’t seem to work on are immortals (he even states this himself in the manga), though this is a separate continuity, so take it with a grain of salt. Also, if the opponent is strong enough, they can survive or outright nullify the effects of the Hakai, even being able to control it and redirect it like Golden Frieza did once

Superhuman Senses

Due to being some sort of cat god, Beerus possesses superhuman senses of smell and hearing like normal cats would have. With his long ears, Beerus is able to overhear people even if they are far away from him and whispering. For example, in the Battle of Gods movie, Beerus was able to overhear Yamcha and Oolong’s plan on how Oolong will beat Beerus at Rock-Paper-Scissors, which allowed Beerus to beat Oolong at the game. Beerus even points this out after winning against Oolong. As for Beerus’ sense of smell, it’s so great, he was able to smell the combination of all of Earth’s most delicious food all the way from his planet.

Ultra Instinct

While training Goku and Vegeta, Whis has stated that Beerus has been learning how to automatically react to any threat without the need to acknowledge it and defend himself. This is the working mechanism of Ultra Instinct. However, Whis has stated that Beerus hasn’t fully mastered the technique. This is shown in the Dragon Ball Super manga when Beerus was in a battle royale with the other Gods of Destruction.

Ultra Instinct is similar to the real life martial art concept known as Mushin, or Empty Mind. Mushin is a mental state that can be reached by Zen and Daoist meditators as well as highly trained martial artists during combat. Essentially, the user experiences a moment in which their body reacts without the need of any specific intentions or plans in mind, refined only to their instincts and intuition up to the point where they can respond to any threat without the need for thought. Hence Mushin’s full term being Mushin No Shin, or Mind Without Mind.

In Dragon Ball, Ultra Instinct is no different than Mushin No Shin but is highly referred to as a very rare and highly advanced mental state that even the gods have difficulty obtaining. As stated earlier, users with this mental state can automatically react to any threat without the need to acknowledge it and defend themselves. Their bodies can also move and adapt on their own while in battle, allowing users to attack and defend simultaneously without thinking. There’s an offensive and defensive variant of Ultra Instinct. To truly master Ultra Instinct, both variants must be obtained and learned. While the defensive variant (dodging and moving) is easy to master, the offensive variant (attack without thinking) is much more difficult due to fighters being inclined to think about their attacks before making them, resulting in the fighters being slowed down and their attacks weakened when performing the move.

Despite being highly regarded as a divine mental state, Ultra Instinct is achieved by mortals with Son Goku being the first mortal to enter this state as well as obtain the mastered version. However, mortals do receive a high drawback when it comes to obtaining Ultra Instinct. They can only sustain the sheer power of the ability for a short amount of time before their body breaks down from being pushed far beyond its limits, including a risk of death. However, deities such as Gods of Destruction and their angels receive no such drawback.

Overall, while Beerus hasn’t mastered Ultra Instinct, he’s still capable of utilising some of its properties. He has used it to dodge attacks from the likes of even other Gods of Destruction, but as Whis has stated, he still has more to learn.

Miscellaneous

Beerus can occasionally have prophetic dreams (although Whis states they are wrong more often than not). In terms of other miscellaneous abilities, he has immunity to poisons as well as having strong lung capacity. Beerus is also immune to joke characters and Toon Force.

Sailor Galaxia

Sailor Soldier Powers

As a Sailor Scout, Galaxia has several powers granted to her by her Sailor Crystal, which are shared between every scout in the galaxy.

Destruction

Destruction is a fundamental balancing force in the universe, the opposite to the life and creation represented by the Silver Crystal. Galaxia’s Sapphire Seed allows her to harness this cosmic force for her own purposes. With a mere gesture, she can effortlessly destroy entire planets. More practically, however, she can rip the Star Seed of any living creature right out of their body, effectively disintegrating them and leaving only their life essence behind. This ability is in essence an instant kill against any being that has life, and she has utilised it to steal the Sailor Crystals of countless Sailor Soldiers across the galaxy.

Energy Manipulation

Sailor Scouts have the ability to manipulate their own energy and use it for different purposes, both offensive and defensive. Galaxia is no different and has various techniques that utilise this power to the fullest.

Offensive Energy Manipulation

The following abilities listed are not powers Galaxia herself has used, but rather ones she has granted to the soldiers who follow her with the Galactica Bracelets. Given this fact, she should likely be able to use these abilities in combat as well.

Defensive Energy Manipulation 

Miscellaneous

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Feats

Beerus

Overall

Power

Speed

Durability

Sailor Galaxia

Overall

Power

Speed

Durability

Weaknesses

Beerus

While Beerus is one of the most powerful characters in the Dragon Ball franchise, it’s difficult to determine what his exact limits are. The only thing that we do know is that he’s weaker than the angels, Zeno’s royal guards, the Grand Priest, and Zeno himself.

Additionally, Beerus is extremely lazy. He prefers to eat and sleep rather than engage in a fight unless his interest is piqued or someone pisses him off. His gluttonous and lazy attitude and tendency to sleep for many, many years has affected his job as a God of Destruction (he judges planets based on how delicious their food is or if any of the locals pissed him off) and is part of the reason why Universe 7 has a low mortal level.

Beerus has a life link with the Supreme Kai of Universe 7 so if they die so will Beerus. Also, Beerus will forever be a low-tier in DragonBall FighterZ (“Malcolm Belmont mained Beerus in Dragon Ball FightersZ *cries*”).

Sailor Galaxia

Sailor Galaxia is, at her core, a lonely woman who craves power. While smart enough to not let her ego hinder her in battle, her constant obsession with seeking strength prevents her from accessing the full power of the Sailor Crystals, which are empowered by friendship and togetherness. Her bracelets are the source of her power and, if she ends up finding something she considers worth protecting and abandons her search for power, they will unlock and instantly destroy her, which is what ultimately killed her in-canon.

Additionally, if her bracelets are destroyed by an outside force, she will lose the source of her power. 

Summary

Beerus

“I am a god with a heart… but there’s one thing I cannot tolerate… people who don’t pay proper respect to others.”

Advantages:

  • Superior in the stat trinity
  • Much more skilled
  • Likely more experienced 
  • Can nullify Galaxia’s energy attacks
  • Resistant to mental attacks
  • Resists Destruction
  • Cat

Disadvantages:

  • Less versatile
  • Galaxia could potentially steal his life essence and end the fight instantly 
  • More limited reserves
  • Hakai is resisted
  • Forever shit-tier in FigherZ (even after the buffs)

Sailor Galaxia

“Teamwork is a pitiful illusion! The only one you can rely on in this vast galaxy is yourself!”

Advantages:

  • More versatile
  • Can potentially steal Beerus’ life essence for an instant win
  • Larger pool of energy to draw from
  • Regeneration can help her heal from damage
  • Resists Hakai
  • Somehow our first Magical Girl rep and not Sailor Moon herself

Disadvantages:

  • Inferior in the stat trinity
  • Nowhere near as skilled
  • Likely less experienced
  • Her energy attacks can be nullified 
  • Her mental attacks are resisted
  • Destruction is resisted
  • Thotticus Maximus

Verdicts

Ramen

(daisuke)

The DeLorean and the Hachiroku surviving the last Death Race made me feel giddy in ways I didn’t know were possible. Eurobeat.

Anyway, welcome back after two whole months of dead air during the continuing existential nightmare that is this current pandemic. I see you all have aged tenfold since the year has started, some gracefully and others not so much. Also, close fights are a thing. Breathing is good. Milk and cookies make good ice cream.

Our resident favorite Hakaishin is in the house taking on a lass I’m sure most casual viewers didn’t see coming, but hey, Sailor Moon finally gets some play on the show, and when you compare this to most Beerus’ other opponents, Galaxia is probably the closest fight they could have gotten for him. We’re probably at the match which is potentially the tightest this season, as both Beerus and Galaxia have enough win conditions between the two of them that could make this go either way, so let’s outline what could happen off the bat.

At first glance, it seems like Beerus holds a lot of advantages that seem pretty obvious, and would actually be enough to decisively take down Galaxia without much effort. For starters, destructive capability and durability fall to him easily; Universe 7 being a collection of smaller universes that was threatened by Beerus’ battle against Super Saiyan God Goku already puts him on a power scale that Galaxia doesn’t exist on, even if her clashes against the likes of Eternal Sailor Moon put her on the same universe destroying level. He could potentially be as fast as Galaxia, but this is where some contention could come in regarding what’s accepted; some analysis could make Galaxia take the edge in speed, but overall, neither are blitzing the other. (I’ll get back to this later.)

Abilities-wise, they’ve good blow-by-blow counters for one another, but while Galaxia possesses the more versatile movelist, Beerus has the tools needed to overcome them. Galaxia can potentially BFR Beerus via teleporting him to another dimension, but Beerus can scale to weaker Dragon Ball characters who have done the same thing. Galaxia has mind hax, but Beerus has resistances to them. Galaxia can absorb energy, while Beerus can nully it altogether. While Galaxia has a wider range of projectile attacks, Beerus is by far the deadlier close-range combatant, and combined with his longer lifespan and fighting experience edges him out over Galaxia in those departments.

Their main destruction abilities though are where we find the one main win condition that shuts out Beerus from turning this into a stomp. See, Beerus’ Hakai and Galaxia’s Star Seed stealing would normally be one hit kills in any scenario, but it’s not quite clean cut here. Galaxia’s own resistances to existence erasure in addition to simply being within Beerus’ level means that she isn’t getting Hakai-d, and most interpretations of her being able to steel Beerus’ life essence actually see her netting a few wins, especially if you believe her to have the speed advantage that could let her one-shot Beerus from the fight’s start. That said, it’s possible to say (again) that Beerus could scale to the amount of times weaker Dragon Ball characters who’ve resisted the Hakai, and seeing as how he’s one of his verse’s god tiers, the argument can be made that he can resist Galaxia enough to win via the time-honored DBZ ritual of “i’ll kick the shit out of you with my bare fists”.

Tl;dr Galaxia might get her ass kicked by a cat. Here’s the last thing she’s likely gonna see:

Phantom Falcon

Beerus has been one of my most wanted characters to show up on Death Battle for years now, and not only is he finally here, but his opponent, Galaxia, is my favorite idea for him. It’s thematic, close, and has sick as hell animation potential. My hype for this episode is big, and I can’t wait for it to come out.

At first glance looking at VSBW or some shit, this seems like an easy win for Galaxia. But upon researching Sailor Moon (good read btw. Nothing too amazing but I enjoyed it) and finding new feats for Dragon Ball that were never calc’d or considered, this fight got WAY more interesting and debatable. Definitely one of the closest fights this season.

To start out with the obvious, Beerus dominates in pure skill and experience. Not only is he skilled enough to easily match fighters like Goku and Vegeta, who have been training virtually all their life, but he’s trained much longer, thanks to his mentor Whis, and has been a GoD for over millions of years. It’s a no brainer he takes this category and schlaps Galaxia in a pure CQC fight.

Stats for both are pretty much all over the place, but based on what I’ve seen, I think I have a solid opinion on where they land. Galaxia at her peak can be argued to Uni+ via scaling massively above Queen Nehelenia creating a parallel universe. “But Phaaaaaantom, Sailor Moon at her best is low multi!!! Why is Galaxia not that strong!!!”. Well, the answer is because Galaxia doesn’t scale to that form of Usagi. Usagi in that state could fight on par with Chaos, who Galaxia has outright admitted is far more powerful than herself. It’d be inconsistent for her to be on par with him. So Galaxia is solidly in the uni+ range at her best. Speed is also not as hyped up, since the oh so famous “universe lighting speed” doesn’t even exist. It’s not outright reaching into another universe, the manga outright says its warping space and time, it’s some fucky dimension warping and not physical speed. Even if we were to assume it crossed a universe, the timeframe is absolutely not 1 second. The anime gives us a timeframe of 17 seconds. So setting the universe radius and a timeframe of 17 seconds, that’s pretty solidly 80 quadrillion c, but that feat is super dubious to use and I would call it a massive outlier anyways since the next best speed feat at that point was country flying. Galaxia’s best speed feat is her traversing the Milky Way planet to planet, which, assuming 1 hour, gets low quadrillions c, though that’s also probably iffy since it’s treated as a long ass event so 1 hour is probably being uh. Generous lol. She also has teleportation so it may not even be a speed feat but w/e. She also traveled outside the Milky Way in a second so solidly trillions c.

With Beerus, it’s a much easier story. He’s around low multiversal via threatening to destroy the U7 macrocosm (each realm is it’s own space time continuum), and it’s consistent with him threatening to destroy U6 and U7 during his fight with Champa (he even survived the energy of their combined clash). U7 has 3 universes, so Beerus is at minimum 3 universe level, possibly even 6 via the Champa thing. Speed wise, he scales to half the speed of Whis, who has a feat of moving 500 quadrillion c, so Beerus is solidly about 250 quadrillion c, and this speed increases with his (admittedly incomplete) Ultra Instinct, which allows him to dodge attacks without even thinking, a big hurdle for Galaxia.

So Beerus holds the star trinity pretty handily, but Galaxia isn’t out of the race yet, she still has way more hax than Beerus and her regen is super good! She can even resist Hakai! Surely she can just hax him, right? Well, no, not really. Galaxia’s hax is overhyped to a big degree lol. She doesn’t really erase minds and shit, it’s just basic telepathy, death hax is total bullshit since it’s just her immense power destroying planets and not some stupid aura or shit, she doesn’t have any energy absorption, her regeneration is not mid godly or shit like that, only Sailor Moon and to a lesser extent Sailor Saturn have regen. They have powers centered around it, particularly Usagi since the silver crystals whole deal is healing people, and conceptual attacks is complete bullshit, nothing in the series implies she has that ability. Even assuming most of these are true, Beerus counters them. He’s superior to Vegeta resisting mind control via ki (and while not canon, resisting Demigra’s mind hax is good supporting evidence), he resists her destruction hax via scaling to Freeza and Vegeta surviving and resisting Hakai, etc. Galaxia’s best option at this point is to steal Beerus’ Starseed, which he doesn’t have a counter for and is a reliable insta win. However, Beerus has options to defend against this. He can summon Ki barriers to protect himself against the projectiles, nullify them with his energy nullification, or even simply dodge it via being faster. 

Overall, this fight is certainly close and I can see Galaxia winning certain scenarios for sure, but Beerus’ advantages are too good in my opinion. Even assuming U7 isn’t a macrocosm and just a slightly bigger universe, he’s still higher in power with how much he upscales from the universal feat (Beerus > Blue Kaioken x10 >>> SSB >>> SSG >>> SSJ >>> Base Goku = Uni+). Even using the highest possible end for Galaxia’s Milky Way feat, Beerus is still at least comparable in speed without factoring in Ultra Instinct, which makes it difficult for Galaxia to hit him. He massively out-ranges her (universal range vs planetary range). He’s much more skilled in hand to hand combat. He resists most of her hax and can defend against Starseed removal. Galaxia definitely has a good enough chance, but based on what I believe for both, I can’t in good confidence say she wins more times than not. In the end, I believe Lord Beerus should win this with relatively high difficulty.

DekHead

(Chucking galaxies through awesome ninja skills)

Man, can I just say for a second that I was fucking relieved that Beerus wasn’t fighting Asura? I was so nervous for months and when I saw that golden bracelet, I cheered so hard at the fact that best dad wasn’t getting fed to Beerus. (Sure he’s probably getting fed to Broly down the line, but that’s besides the point)

Anyways, this matchup is definitely one of the closest ones we’ve had so far. Both have enough power to make the universe go kaput at full strength, and boast a versatile amount of hax that could one shot most foes in an instant. And it didn’t help that people like to make shit up about Galaxia that got debunked multiple times in chat. But let’s get down to the facts.

First off, their greatest techniques likely won’t be much use. Scaling to Sailor Moon and Sailor Saturn, it’s possible Galaxia can resist being wiped from existence via Beerus’ Hakai, preventing an easy win. But the funny thing is, Beerus can scale to the weaker Golden Frieza, who also resisted the Hakai, meaning Galaxia can’t just use the Power of Destruction to yeet him away either. So, it’ll mainly come down to how likely they are to kill each other in a more conventional fight.

Strength is probably about even, with it leaning slightly towards Beerus. Both Galaxia and Beerus have been able to scale to and fight Universe-level beings, such as Eternal Sailor Moon and Champa, though Beerus has been depicted as doing so more consistently in his clashes with Goku and the other Gods of Destruction. Not to mention, given Dragon Ball’s cosmology counting Hell and the Kai Realm as universes, these feats should likely be at least 3 times more powerful. And given they can physically take what they dish out, it applies to durability as well.

Speed…Hoo boy. People say that Galaxia should blitz via an attack from early series Sailor Moon reaching Wiseman at the edge of the universe clocking in at 1.5 quintillion times the speed of light. Beerus, through scaling to ¾ of Whis flying across the universe in 10 seconds, should only be 424.5 quadrillion times the speed of light at most. But neither feat is quite what they seem on the surface. That light was never said to have spread across the universe, only warping space and time to penetrate it, as seen in the original manga, and the anime’s depiction of it. But even if one were to be generous and say that it traveled across the universe, there’s no indication that it only took one second to do so, and being any less generous makes this feat far less impressive than it initially seems. Using the anime’s timeframe of 17 seconds and the radius of our universe as a base, this feat only comes out to 86 quadrillion times the speed of light. And while Beerus’ feat does seem much faster on the surface, keep in mind that him flying to a planet ⅔ the time it took Whis and the aforementioned universe flying feat were different in nature, as there’s no indication Whis was flying that fast while flying to the planet to search for Beerus’ food, and the universe feat was said to be him going the fastest he had than before. Going by safer feats of Galaxia fighting the Sailor Starlights across the Milky Way in one second and Beerus flying to earth from his own world in 26 minutes (credit to Draconic Hero) puts them at 3.3 trillion and 3.7 quadrillion times lightspeed respectively. So, without any scaling and going by feats we can confirm to scale to them, Beerus actually has the advantage that Galaxia was initially believed to hold. Ironic, huh?

Still, while Beerus holds stats above Galaxia, the hax of both means that stats will only matter if Beerus has what he needs to circumvent Galaxia’s abilities to land a fatal blow. But while Galaxia holds a considerably more versatile arsenal, Beerus has a good deal of counters for most of these abilities. His energy nullification can counter a good deal of Galaxia’s attacks and her energy manipulation, scaling to Vegeta resisting Babidi’s mind control and the gods’ casual ESP resistance gives him protection against Galaxia’s telepathy, and teleporting Beerus to another dimension won’t do much good considering he can likely break through reality much like Vegeta. And although the life essence removal is undoubtedly the most dangerous technique Galaxia possesses that could end Beerus if given the chance, Beerus’ already superior speed and the autonomous awareness of Ultra Instinct means that it’s unlikely he wouldn’t be able to evade her attempt. Combined with Beerus’ greater skill in hand to hand combat and his millions of years of age that would likely land him far greater experience than Galaxia, Beerus would ultimately be more likely to beat Galaxia through a hard-fought battle.

This was definitely one of the closest fights we’ve ever had, but Beerus’ overwhelming power, counters, and skill will be enough to spell cat-astrophe for Galaxia.

Kingslease

(What should have been)

I think people are kinda overcomplicating this match. Having read through Sailor Moon and watched portions of the anime, I’ve come to think that a lot of the stuff people are saying about the series power wise is really overblown. As I’m sure other verdicts have addressed, no Galaxia can’t regen from the concept of destruction, nor can she alter universal concepts and whatnot. But people have already said that. Beyond it though, I can’t really say I’m too comfortable with a lot of the stats people toss around for the series as a whole. The primary example for me would be scaling everybody to universal because of Queen Nehelenia maintaining the mirror world. That’s something I’ve seen spread around a lot, but I’ve just never seen a source for her actually maintaining it or anything implying as such. The closest thing I can think of is it seemingly shattering as she died, but that seems like a pretty big stretch to me when the blast was targeting the mirror, and the mirror was just the gateway. It doesn’t seem like the dimension itself was actually destroyed, and we know she can’t have created it given Queen Serenity banished her there in the first place. She ain’t no Jedah. Even then, the only thing supporting the mirror world being the size of a full universe is one line from Chibiusa calling it a “parallel world”, which doesn’t exactly say much in my opinion. That doesn’t mean it has to be universe sized, and it’s not like Chibiusa reciting a bedtime story is exactly the most reliable source of information, even from a narrative perspective. The most we see of the mirror world properly is certainly nowhere near a full universe. It doesn’t feel like a great argument to me, though I fully admit it’s not like just reading Sailor Moon makes me an expert, and I definitely could have missed something.

Even beyond just that though, some of the lower end arguments don’t really convince me from what I know either. The main thing I can think of is Pharaoh 90 moving the Tau Nebula, which was an entire star system. The trouble there is that it wasn’t like he was physically dragging it? He created a portal, and it was in-fact going to be an overtime assimilation process, sorta merging with the Earth. The exact specifics of what was actually going on were a bit unclear, but I interpreted it as more some weird darkness merging thing. I really don’t think it can apply to physical stats. Even then none of the scouts except Saturn could even stop the merging process anyways. I guess you could argue that Galaxia scales above Pharaoh 90 regardless, but Pharaoh 90 never actually got to finish the assimilation, so those statements were likely just referring to Pharaoh as he was at the time and not as how he eventually could have been. There’s also the idea that Usagi shrunk Chaos, the size of the galaxy’s center, down to an infinitesimally small part of the Galaxy Cauldron. I don’t think Chaos is that big though, the series makes a clear distinction between the Sagittarius Alpha Star, the actual center of the universe, and the Galaxy Cauldron contained within. We see how big the cauldron is in the series, and it’s like, a kilometre wide tops (there isn’t any funky perspective going on here). Sure, it produces stars, but it seems that’s more a metaphysical dream thing that occurs with the creation of Star Seeds as opposed to straight-up being the size of one. Even then, Galaxia admitted she could never beat Chaos, so she wouldn’t scale anyways. Only other thing I can think of is Chaos saying it would forge a new universe, but in-context that’s more referring to them stealing the Star Seeds and taking control of the Galaxy Cauldron to gain ultimate power as opposed to a literal thing.


So, with that all out of the way, I think this matchup is essentially just a quickdraw. Both have instant-kill destruction techniques that they open fights with in-character. I’m not convinced either could resist the other’s, nobody in Dragon Ball has really tanked a full on no-holds-barred Hakai, and most Sailor Scouts have been vulnerable to their souls getting removed before. Hell, Galaxia pretty much ends up dying to her own destruction technique at the end, and I don’t think the “everything is fading away!” bit at the end of the second arc is exactly proper existence erasure. Even if you argue Beerus could resist destruction, you could just as well argue that Star Seed removal bypasses that, considering it still worked on Sailor Saturn who actually does have a good feat of resisting her soul being destroyed. Beerus’s shields might be able to help in that regard, but why would he know to set shields up in the first place? Galaxia doesn’t really fire an energy ball to steal Star Seeds in the manga, she kinda just, does it? There’s no visual indication, and Beerus wouldn’t know to expect it. In terms of destruction techniques, Galaxia’s is definitely way better. It’s far longer-ranged, she doesn’t need to get up-close, she can basically do it by just looking at you, etc. That’s for naught if she doesn’t match Beerus in speed though. There’s that quintillions c Sailor Moon speed feat people are touting, but that’s also not too solid if you ask me, bear with me here for a moment. Basically, depending on which translation you use, this same scene has markedly different implications between them, and that greatly affects the context of the feat. I had a go at transcribing the raw japanese, and the best I could do was “この 時空 の はざま まで つらあく この 光” (note I’m pretty sure the “あく この” part is innacurate). Running that through a dictionary, notable words are ““時空”, meaning spacetime, and ““はざま”, meaning interval. I checked the Viz subtitles for Sailor Moon Crystal, which to my understanding are very faithful, where it was translated as this. Considering the direct use of the words “spacetime” and “interval”, I have reason to suspect this translation is accurate. That’s important because it recontextualizes the feat. It firstly implies that the Wiseman’s realm is actually a separate dimension, which would make sense considering Mamoru, who we know was in a different dimension, could see the light as well, but it also suggests that the light wasn’t really literally travelling to the end of space-time, moreso instead just penetrating into seperate dimension directly, which makes it inapplicable. It’s fucking with space-time after all, and the Wiseman was also looking through a crystal ball, so. I think you’d be hard pressed to scale it to anything anyways, it doesn’t really apply to combat or reactions at all. Same goes for this feat as well. Though this does make me paranoid that the Missdream group whose translation I was reading changes other lines as well, which, sure enough, they seemingly do. The fastest speed feat in Sailor Moon otherwise is likely Chibiusa launching an attack from Earth to the center of the galaxy in what was like, 30 seconds at most. As for Beerus, I don’t agree with using the shockwaves as anything that can apply to reaction or combat speed or whatever, but Champa’s feat in the manga of flying to the Kai realm is probably fine. You could argue that was Vados’s doing as opposed to his own flight, but, eh. I think overall, unless you start arguing that the Dragon Ball universe is smaller cause of stuff like Goku’s ship being able to cross it with only 100 Gs of acceleration, any dubious feat you could apply to Galaxia’s speed, you could probably make a similar case for a similarly dubious feat applying to Beerus, and he’d come out faster at the end. Neither have many direct reaction speed feats, mainly just flight speed, so. And at the point, Beerus is stronger and way more skilled, so he should likely be taking this. Which is a shame, since Galaxia really is a great villain. Sailor Moon as a series has a lot of flaws, especially in characterisation, but I still really enjoyed reading it and it does have a pretty beautiful ending. It’s a classic for a reason, I’d definitely recommend it. The anime improves on it in some categories in that regard, giving more downtime and development for the rest of the Sailor Senshi, I’m glad I got to try it. 

The Black Shulk

(Destruction is pretty kino ngl)

IT SHOULD’VE BEEN HAAAAAAAAAAADEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS

Anywho moving on from that, this matchup is pretty neatish. SM has been long overdue and this is quite the strong start to pair against one of DB’s most unique characters. It goes without saying that a lot of the Sailor Moon feats and haxes and stuff is very bloated and often a result of a majority of people not actually reading/watching the source material and just taking what maybe a few people said and running hog wild with it.

In terms of stats Beerus has DC and Durability pretty soundly in the bag. His universe busting feat is direct and consistent throughout the series. Galaxia’s best DC and Dura feats appear to come from scaling her to Moon and Chibi destroying Planet Nemesis and in the anime Moon and Tuxedo Kamen lighting up the universe (apparently some of these might be bunk but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt). A lot of the Uni stuff in Sailor Moon feels very exaggerated on the grounds of taking very flowery language and running with it, such as Chaos being able to “reshape the universe” which can mean a lot that doesn’t involve actually nuking it.

Speed is where things start to get tricky. I’ll say now that the quintillion FTL feat in Sailor Moon is pretty much bunk and uses a very unrealistic timeframe of one second when the highest we typically go for assumed timeframes is 10 seconds. At the same time I don’t fully buy Beerus being consistently 3/4th Whis’s speed in every moment. The basis for that comes from Whis getting to a planet in 9 minutes and Beerus in 12, which doesn’t really set a solid basis for scaling every feat Whis has done and chopping it by 3/4th’s. It’s made clear in later episodes to boot that Whis can adjust his speed depending on the task, so it’s unlikely to me Beerus would get his speed feats. That being said they aren’t both without speed, with the 9 minutes feat mentioned above putting Beerus in the billion c while Galaxia should scale to Sailor Chibi going from Earth to the Milky Way in around 30 seconds which should also be billion c, giving the two even like speed.

Haxes is arguably the part that matters the most in this debate. The only argument for Galaxia resisting a Hakai is scaling her to Sailor Saturn, who’s resistances are arguably more unique to her than anyone else. At the same time Galaxia’s star seed removal is a good win con for her against Beerus. Star Seeds may function differently from normal souls but their description lines up enough that Beerus could arguably have one and be able to rip it out of him. 

The question that ultimately amounts here is who’s hax will be more plausible in the long run and if I’d argue Galaxia’s would come out more often than not. It’s long ranged, unable to be interrupted and arguably more reliable of a win con than Beerus’s hakai techniques.

In the end I foresee Galaxia as the likely winner of this confrontation

The Draconic Hero

(Go Big or Go Home)

Much better. So, Beerus Vs Sailor Galaxia. I’ll admit, not my first choice at first, but after reading the details…yeah this was probably the safest horse Death Battle could’ve bet on. And I watched all of Dragon Ball Super for the first time in the lead up to the announcement of this match so let’s see what we can dig up shall we?

Out the gate, the God of Destruction claps the Galactic Destroyer in terms of physical ability and destructive output, though honestly it seems at least comparable. Really, once you ascend above a threat to a single universe, the measuring stick stops being important. What is important though is that we have a definitive cap on Galaxia so we know that everything we’ve listed is her defined limit. Beerus on the other hand…we’ve never seen what this guy can do at his absolute full strength. The goal post keeps getting moved as to just how powerful he’s supposed to be. Even when he fought Goku he wasn’t at his best, being rusty from sleeping for so long and not even going all out so he could have some fun. So it’s possible his destructive output far outclasses hers just based on what we don’t know yet. Couple that with his experiences and Beerus has her completely outmatched in a straight up brawl, the type his series is best known for.

“But what about speed?” I hear you ask. Well…

It took me a while to get to this part, but I decided to get safer, more reliable calculations that I would run if I was doing this matchup myself–and something I think Death Battle would use.

Galaxia fought the Starlights while zipping across the Milky Way galaxy in about a second or less, which comes out to about 3 to 6 trillion c. Even if I were to wank it, she’s not gonna end up above double digit trillions.

Beerus on the other hand is at least half as fast as the time Whis flew to Earth in 26 minutes. Beerus relied on this method of travel so clearly Whis was faster then than any speed Beerus had traveled. Factoring in the distance between Beerus’ planet and Earth using handy calcs provided by my fellow debaters, this means Beerus’ top speed, at minimum, is 3 quadrillion c and there are arguments that could put him at triple digit quadrillion. No matter how you slice it, Beerus is gonna be faster by far.

So Beerus has the stat trinity on lockdown, so that means Galaxia really only has one way to beat him: her instant win condition.

Now, I’ve looked at this and I’ve thought about it. Galaxia doesn’t need anything like a line of sight or a gesture to literally rip the life energy out of Beerus and end the fight instantly. So, you’re left asking yourself one simple question: does Galaxia’s hax triumph over all and end the fight before Beerus realizes what’s happening to him or is Beerus’ stat trinity advantage going to let him just OHKO her before she can blink? 

Just going by previous Death Battles and my own interpretations of this situation, while Galaxia might have an instant win con and could potentially resist Beerus’ win con, there are things in Dragon Ball that could potentially let Beerus resist her win con as well since, as has been previously stated, some universes were never meant to face off like this. So, what do you do?

Well, I think if you ran this match like 10,000 times, it’s definitely possible for Galaxia to win a lot of them by using this method, but Beerus’ sheer raw force is just going to have her beat a lot of the times. Like, if the Star Seed removal is her only win con and Beerus’ win con is literally “Beat the shit out of her” then he has a myriad of ways to end her while she can’t overcome his sheer brute force and in a lot of scenarios may not realize that until it’s too late.

If Galaxia wins, the Sailor Moon manga will officially be added to my bucket list of things to read/watch. But I think that Beerus is just going to destroy Galaxia in this cataclysmic showdown and sailor the sweet taste of victory. 

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