WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Excalibur #9, by Tini Howard, Marcus To, Erick Arciniega, & VC's Cory Petit, on sale now

Typically, the heroes and villains of the Dragon Ball franchise are just on a different power scale than most heroes in other fiction. While X-Men like Wolverine might have unbreakable claws in his hands, that doesn't really compare to someone who can casually level a mountain.

Only a handful of X-Men really have that kind of destructive power, and one of the team's most mocked members just put her name at the top of that list in Excalibur #9. Jubilee jumps headlong into battle while utilizing a surprisingly powerful move that wouldn't feel out of place in Dragon Ball Z.

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After gaining the skulls of (almost) all of the Warwolves, Excalibur gets the chance to head to the Starlight Citadel, the former base of operations for the multiversal Captain Britain Corps. The kingdom has been inaccessible since Opal Luna Saturnyne took it over after the Captain Britain Corps were wiped out during the reality-smashing Incursions that led to 2015's Secret Wars. Saturnyne has turned the location into a school for those training in the magical arts to become her priestesses. When they realize Apocalypse is using magic to find them, Saturnyne prepares them for battle against the mutants.

With Otherworld currently under the command of Jamie Braddock, Excalibur seeks to broker a peace with the Starlight Citadel. But Saturnyne doesn't want to risk it and orders her priestesses to attack the mutant team. In the initial volley, Jubilee's son Shogo (who has taken on his dragon form again) is seriously wounded when he's shot through the wing. While Betsy focuses on helping Shogo land safely, Jubilee jumps into the fray and deploys perhaps her greatest attack yet: conjuring up numerous energy blasts and converting them into a mass of swords made of light. Then she brings them all down at once, which causes a massive series of Dragon Ball-esque explosions and presumably taking down a LOT of the priestesses in one fell swoop.

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This attack is almost certainly the most impressive display of her plasma-generating powers that Jubilee has ever displayed. Although she can theoretically detonate matter on a sub-atomic level, Jubilee uses just creates moderately powerful "fireworks" that she primarily uses as simple concussive blasts. She can also morph them into shapes but typically keeps them at basic designs or explosions. However, the ability to creating giant swords out of light feels like a move that would be more at home in something like the Dragon Ball franchise than the world of X-Men. The attack only needs an over-the-top title like "Blasting Blades" to fit right in with famous Dragon Ball Z techniques like the Destructo Disc and the Kamehameha.

However, it's also a fitting move for Jubilee to deploy, especially in this moment. Her power set has been hinted in the past to have far more potential than she's ever used before, and this scene gives those hints some credence. Like many of the biggest outbursts in Dragon Ball, it comes from her being enraged at people who would hurt her loved ones. With her son injured, there's no reason for her to go all out on the people that attacked.

Similarly, Jubilee just got a warning from Captain Britain that it might be time to start using swords in Excalibur #9, which could be seen as a minor teaser for the upcoming X of Swords event. It seems that she took that lesson to heart in her own way. If Jubille is capable of dropping Dragon Ball Z-level attacks on her enemies at will, then it might be time for the world to consider her a much bigger threat than she's ever been seen as before.

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