User blog comment:ThatScrewyDuck/PE Proposal: Babidi/@comment-25305244-20191109213834/@comment-39032584-20191109231916

Okay, while I can understand your feelings about Babidi in some ways, I'm starting to feel like you're really overexaggerating how powerful his magic is. It's only especially powerful/dangerous in the sense that it brings those with evil in their hearts under his control. Physically, he's still easily the weakest of the main villains next to maybe Emperor Pilaf. In spite of that ability, he still didn't have nearly as many minions as Frieza, and Piccolo had almost no trouble almost killing him when he didn't have Buu there to protect him. I can't possibly see how his resources are higher when he's so dependant on others to do the fighting for him.

And on a related topic, the more I think about it (and I really hope this doesn't come off as rude, because it's not meant to be), the more nonsensical the claim that you and Jester made about the Supreme Kais being scared of him and his magic is. First of all, the other Supreme Kais died long before he became a threat, and second, it's never implied in any way that they were even scared of his predecessor, Bibidi. They were scared of ''Buu. ''Third, in the present tense of the show, the Supreme Kai of the East is only wary of him at all because of the formidable minions like Dabura under his control. If he and Kibito had found out where he was hiding his ship and he didn't have those like Dabura protecting him, they would have no problem personally taking him out like Supreme Kai previous did with Bibidi. And finally, relating partially to the second point, like the other Kais, they were only truly scared of him releasing Buu, so there is absolutely no evidence that Babidi could actually kill them with his magic. As long as they had no evil in their hearts and couldn't be converted, they clearly didn't view him, himself, as a threat. In fact, Vegeta showed the ability to resist his influence even after deliberately letting him take control of him, so even those with really strong wills weren't complete slaves to it.

In short, I really am accepting of different opinions, and for the most part, I understand, if respectfully disagree wit hthe arguments against him, but I'm starting to feel like one of the main arguments being used against him is a case of somehow really blowing the potency of his magic out of proporton. Just because he killed a weaker henchman and one random person that he had a clear, uninterrupted, telepathic link to with his abilities doesn't imply in any way he could do that to a much larger number of random people or to a being as powerful as Frieza.