Chapter 14: X-Raided.
In reference to my poll from last week, "All Nude" was the leading choice when I actually went home and faced Jim in the video game ring. Unfortunately, the jerks at Nintendo didn't allow nudity as an option, so I was left with the next best thing: sumo wrestler undies. I also gave the Buttdawg a really stupid top hat, so I basically ended up
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Nah, I didn't hear no bell. It was all this hyperlinking that had me putting it off so long.
Its damn near impossible to distinguish SSJ/USSJ/SSJ2 anyway, so who the heck knows?
Well, that part isn't necessarily the trouble. A plain vanilla SSJ just has the yellow hair and green eyes. Ultra Super Saiyan has longer hair and bigger muscles, hence the whole weakness of the form being bulkier and slower in spite of the additional strength. Super Saiyan 2 hair is pointier, mainly, and the eyes are blue instead of green, but the key discintction is the lightning bolts that dance around the person's body when they do it. Of course, the trick there is that sometimes the animators don't always draw it in. In the upcoming "Fusion Reborn" movie, Goku and Vegeta use Super Saiyan 2, but it's just about impossible to tell by looking, because no lightning. But since they're getting their asses kicked for much of the film, it's a safe assumption that they wouldn't be fighting in Super Saiyan 1 if they didn't have to.
But you're right, it's not much to go on, which is why message boards on the subject are constantly deluged with newer fans who aren't sure who could do what and when. It doesn't help much that they never really established "Ascended Saiyan = SSJ2" until Goku did his big SSJ3 demonstration.
Of course, if any of the stuff from the seven-year-gap were really important, there wouldn't have been a seven-year-gap to begin with, and that's the thing folks so often forget.
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