Okay to be fair, in Dragonball and all its different forms, the god that Goku punches is not the Almighty. He’s Beerus the god of destruction and he looks like a purple kitty man.

He shows up and tells the main characters that he’s going to destroy the world unless he can fight the Super Saiyan God. Goku achieves it as he does everything in the series and manages to fight him. He still loses the fight but Beerus decides to let the earth survive.

Dragonball constantly offers that any problem with enough effort, the heroes can overcome it. It’s a pretty hopeful sentiment. There’s nothing that you can’t get over.

What if Noah told God that he was going to overthrow the world and Noah was just ripped off his shirt and shouted for God to come down and face him. What if he made up a team with Jacob who was able to wrestle with an angel for 24 hours straight. What would God’s response be? Just to flood the world anyway?

Of course, Noah did not have the abilities that Goku and his friends do in Dragonball Z. They are gods unto themselves. With the flick of a finger they can destroy a planet or turn a city into a glass floor. It would be interesting to see the world through the eyes of a normal person as Goku and his friends let one of their opponents run roughshod over the planet.

Maybe that’s the issue, that once you hit a certain level of power it’s hard to see other people as anything but disposable. We see that throughout Dragonball where innocent people are constantly caught in the crossfire. Cities are destroyed or their people are killed. Finally in the Buu saga the bodycount reaches the maximum as everyone on the planet is killed. The heroes revive everyone but they are returned to the planet knowing what happens on the other side.

If this was the real world, things would change if the entire world was brought back to life. The entirety of what comes next would be shown to the every single person. Religions would change and some would just end. Would people become more or less reckless knowing that they constantly lived on the edge of a knife because of the actions of a handful of individuals?

It’s a question that we’re not going to get an answer to in the actual text. I guess I’m going to have to find it myself.