The First Draft Of Lord Beerus Didn’t Fit The Dragon Ball ‘Spirit’

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In an interview with V-Jump, translated by Kanzenshuu.com, Toriyama and Toyotarō, the manga artist for “Dragon Ball Super,”  talked about an earlier draft of “Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods” that had a much more evil Lord Beerus:

Toriyama: “Yeah, in the early version, [Beerus] did all kinds of bad stuff.”

Toyotarō: “But ultimately, he changed into being someone who’s still scary but not actually hateful. More in keeping with the spirit of ‘Dragon Ball,’ one might say.”

It’s important to note that Lord Beerus works on a fundamentally different level than the classic opponents of “Dragon Ball Z.” In contrast, characters like Majin Buu or Frieza are villains with the typical motivations of being hell-bent on destroying Goku. Beerus approaches his fights in an entirely different way. Being a god of destruction, he is characterized as being so much more powerful than Goku that he is merely toying with him for his own entertainment. Pair that attitude with Goku’s hard-headedness, and you have a fight that is very one-sided but keeps the “spirit of Dragon Ball” that Toyotarō is talking about intact.

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