This is a condition that greatly limits the variety of wishes these magic balls can grant.
The dragon balls, one of the emblems of the franchise created by Toriyama
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Dragon balls continue to be a resource of great importance for the protagonists of Dragon Ball and their power is such that it has served to resurrect many of the great heroes who died throughout the history of this work, although they have also been used to fulfill harmless and selfish desires on the part of some of the characters in the series.
Their meeting causes the appearance of the dragon Shenlong in a scene always surrounded by mysticism, but when it comes to using them there is an important condition that is usually forgotten and that takes away a good part of the great usefulness that they already have.
The important restriction that greatly reduces the power of Dragon Ball’s magic balls
This restriction has to do with Kami-samacreator of the dragon balls that exist on planet Earth and, as the dragon Shenlong has indicated on some occasion, supposes the impossibility of granting wishes that require a power greater than that of Kami-sama himself.
Kami-sama is also one of Goku’s best allies in Dragon Ball
This important condition has affected these balls since their creation and with it it is evident that The power of the dragon balls is linked to the power level of the person who creates them, That is to say, if instead of Kami-sama they had been created by someone with much more power, these balls would be capable of fulfilling even more powerful wishes.
In this way, the impossibility of the protagonists wishing someone to be resurrected more than once or wishing that a villain they cannot defeat dies instantly is justified, also serving to give internal logic to the story del manga de Akira Toriyama.
The passage of time and the development of both the characters and the plot caused the dragon balls lost prominence, something that happened with the also iconic Kinton Cloud that Goku used before learning to fly on his own or the magic red staff that helped him so much in an early stage of this story.
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