If Goku weren't around none of his friends would be strong as they are (not even close). Babidi could steal the energy from the entire planet and not be enough to awaken Buu.

My point is there would be no energy to steal.

If Babidi's minions were enough to awaken Buu, why did he even go to Earth? Just sacrifice his minions off the bat.

He said Super Buu. Super Buu > Fat Buu (silly one) > Kid Buu > Fat Buu (good one)

He wouldn't have any reason to get anywhere near SSJ2 level because there is no android threat. He could get to Frieza level (or die trying).

Wouldn't be nearly enough. Goku created a cascade that powered up everything on earth. Prior to Goku, Frieza was the strongest being in the known universe. And it took a SSJ2 to fill up the bottle half full (i think). Therefore Frieza would fill it up maybe 10-20%.

If Goku wasn't on earth, there is a chance Raditz and therefore Nappa/Vegeta never come there. And King Piccolo + wishes could probably repel them anyways.

And Goku's friends would not be nearly as strong without him, and the problems he brought with him. The strongest guy in the world (Roshi) at the start of DB had like a power level of 100.

Piccolo isn't strong enough to attract the attention of Babidi. Babidi would look to harvesting Frieza to awaken Buu (which may be a problem because Frieza would be immortal by then).

There are no androids without Goku.

And how does Babidi awaken Buu without Goku and friends?

He's been owning up to his awful picks all season, even nicknaming himself Billy Ice and then Billy Zima. You guys should know this since you stalk Simmons.

I agree with most of this but I thought that they retconned that Dark Phoenix was Jean (originally some clone thingy)?

DC does big events way better than Marvel though. And the Green Lantern events still happened (mostly). Sinister Corps War and Blackest Night were great.

Cap also put Beast on the avengers who's possibly the largest hypocrite in the MU.

Didn't you know? Cap had a huge crush on Wanda.

I wanna hear a defense of Captain America in an objective way. Because I really don't see how anybody can take his side unless they were A) huge Cap/Avengers fans or B) easily swayed by editorial and bad writing.

What exactly did Cyclops do wrong in AvX?

As hard as Marvel tries to shove Avengers stuff down our throats (as well as Wolverine), Team Cyclops' Uncanny X-Men is/was their best seller for a year.

Amen.