User blog comment:ThatScrewyDuck/PE Proposal: Babidi/@comment-25342388-20191109014629/@comment-39032584-20191109020949

With all due respect, that last part isn't true at all. His magic powers may have been powerful enough to to kill more ordinary people, but they still weren't nearly powerful enough for him to use them to conquer humanity and whatnot. Buu was far more powerful than him and any of his other minions, so using Buu to achieve this was a much more effective option. Again, he ordered Buut to kill at least several cities of people just to get his petty revenge on three particular individuals and was eventually going to do the same to the rest of the Earth, something he never could have done with just his own powers. It has absolutely nothing to do with not doing as much as he could; again, he's not much of a threat beyond bringing powerful beings with evil in their hearts under his controls, so by essentially using Buu as a weapon of mass destruction, he absolutely does about as much as he can given his own physical limitations, at least in my opinion.