Here’s an overview of what the Mortal Levels are for the Dragon Ball multiverse, how they’re measured, and how the 12 universes are ranked.
When the Tournament of Power began, eight of the twelve universes were expected to join. Only universes 8, 5, 12, and 1 are excluded. The difference between mandatory attendance and exemption had to do with the mortal levels of these universes.
As for what exactly Mortal Levels refer to, there’s still a bit of confusion between dragon ball fandom. Many fans think it has something to do with the average power level, but that’s just a misconception. The true meaning of the human level and the place of all the universe on its scale is a little more complex than that.
How is the human level of the universe determined?
A common misconception about Mortal Levels is that they represent the average power level of the universe. This may be due to the fact that human levels are measured based on the “quality” of humans on a given world. Since this dragon ball, Many fans may have misinterpreted the word “quality” as “medium power level”. power he Part of how humans measure levels, but it’s not the only thing.
The real point of Mortal Levels is to measure the quality of life for humans in the universe. This means promoting the development of appropriate civilizations while eliminating inappropriate civilizations; This is where Kai’s supreme role and god of destruction becomes important. The higher the quality of human beings and the life they lead, the higher the level of death in their universe.
The Mortal Levels are judged by Zeno and Future Zeno, the Omni Kings of the Multiverse. When the current Zeno realized how many universes had insufficient lethality levels, he decided to wipe out all universes with a lethality level below seven. However, Goku convinced him to reconsider this situation and give the universes a fighting chance in the Tournament of Power.
Universe 7, the world of Z Fighters, has one of the lowest Mortal levels at 3.18. In the anime, this made it the second lowest universe ahead of Universe 9 1.86; In the manga, they are also ahead of Universe 6, although the level of this deadly universe is never given. Their low level of death comes from a combination of the Supreme Kai’s non-interference with human lives and Beerus’ wanton destruction of planets. This mismanagement of their being has brought the number of well-developed planets down to 28, which isn’t much.
How do the levels of humans in the 12 universes compare to each other?
Besides universes 7, 6, and 9, five other universes were to be wiped out by Zeno. The other universes ranked from lowest to highest are universes 4, 10, 3, and 11. Although human levels are higher than universes 7, they were all ranked lower than 7 on the scale, so they were all considered equally deserving of erasure.
The dual universes are remarkably similar on a human level. However, Universe 6 and 7 are only about one order of magnitude apart from each other. Similarly, Universe 3, 10, 2, 11, 5, 8, 1, and 12 are all only one order of magnitude apart from each other in terms of human level. The only exceptions to this pattern are Universe 4 and 9, but they are still similar in the sense that they are offbeat.
The concept of Mortal levels might be brought up again if Goku and the gang start traveling to other universes. It will be interesting to see what the excluded universes did from the Tournament of Power to earn such high levels of death. It might be hard to find a bad guy to fight in such a universe, but the story just might find a way.
In any case, the concept of Mortal levels should not begin and end only with Tournament of Power qualifications. There is a lot of story potential surrounding the idea of how levels of humans are determined and what universes have high or low levels of humans. For all the things that should return in the later arcs of Dragon Ball Super This is one of the main ones.