The tag team of Zamasu and Goku Black were an incredibly strong duo, but Fused Zamasu’s strength is stupidly high. This fused character’s power is even more ridiculous now because he has Zamasu’s immortality and Goku Black’s capacity to infinitely increase his strength. He unlocks such insurmountable levels of power that he literally develops a halo that looks like an AT Field from out of Evangelion.

Zamasu finally feels vindication and like all of the work that he’s done has finally been worthwhile. This is the Godly takedown of humanity that the tyrant has had in mind! There’s a small exchange between Supreme Kai and Gowasu where they discuss how theycan’t even begin to comprehend the full extent of Fused Zamasu’s powers and these guys are all-knowing deities! It’s a tiny aside, but it goes a long ways to illustrate how dire things are right now.

Fused Zamasu’s new strength almost destroys what’s left of this timeline’s world and Goku, Vegeta, and Trunks are left to quickly figure out what to do. So much for the Evil Containment Wave saving the day and being the kick-ass solution that everyone thought that it would be! The fight scenes here are all brief, but they’re as satisfying as something like this should be (as are Vegeta’s casual potshots at Goku as he compliments him).

Fused Zamasu basically just continues to drop impressive new abilities on Goku and Vegeta as they scramble to survive and figure out how to retaliate. Zamasu has already shown off some cool techniques throughout the series, but abilities like Blades of Justice and Lightning of Absolution are just awesome. It’s a relief that these moves are packed into the recent addition of Fused Zamasu in Dragon Ball FighterZ otherwise fans everywhere would weep.

All of this action plays quite well, but Goku and Vegeta’s plans here are pretty sad. Vegeta’s strategy is simply to fight because he doesn’t have any better ideas and Goku just wants to beat him because he won’t be satisfied otherwise. It would be generous to refer to these approaches as “strategies,” but it’s also why the two almost immediately lose here. It’s quite disheartening to see Goku and Vegeta get so sufficiently destroyed by Fused Zamasu, but it’s necessary to show off the villain’s new strength. During all of this emasculating defeat, Bulma and Future Mai toil away on the time machine, but it remains to be seen if there will be anyone left standing to get into it.