I understand that Dragonball Super was far less popular than original Dragonball or Dragonball Z but it still had a wide following and the introduction of female Saiyans was kind of a big deal. It was always something people just thought about or thought well Pan and Bulla are both part Saiyan because one is Gohan's daughter and the other is Vegeta's daughter, maybe they'll be able to grow strong, become Super Saiyans and continue the legacy. Maybe they still will but Caulifla and Kale were introduced first and it was the way they were introduced that made them great.
Cabba, the only Universe 6 Saiyan we knew of, was taught by Vegeta in a tournament how to become a Super Saiyan; once the Tournament of Power started and every universe needed 10 warriors Cabba knew of one Saiyan girl he could ask. A tough gang leader by the name of Caulifla. Already we know she was tough, rough, willing to fight everyone to prove how strong she is which is a parallel to a particular main protagonist who is exactly the same except he's more of a goof. Cabba showed Caulifla what Vegeta showed him and she became the series first female Super Saiyan. Then her sister Kale was introduced, she was shy, quiet, and introverted and they figured she could also be one of the 10 warriors as there aren't a lot in Universe 6; upon teaching her how to become a Super Saiyan something drastically wrong happened. Her hair colour, her lack of pupils, her berserker rage, her massive physique, her lack of speech and cognition, her overwhelming strength, they basically created a female version of the Legendary Super Saiyan Broly. At first, I was upset with this because I hate Broly and always found him to be a dull character but that's probably because he was shoved down our throats for 3 movies (little did I know it would soon be 4); so to "ruin" Kale I didn't see it as legit but Caulifla defeated Kale, gaining Super Saiyan 2 in the process.
It was at this tournament that we first see the interaction between the girls and the Universe 7 Saiyans: Goku, Vegeta, and Gohan but specifically Goku. Caulifla is drawn to Goku because she sees him as the strongest on the battlefield and thinking she's stronger wants to prove it.
Why gate them off from games ?? Why not make figurines of them ?? I get that he was the "big bad" of the Tourny Arc but Jiren was 1000x more boring and useless than Caulifla and Kale but he gets game representation and figurines. I attribute it to the massive amount of disrespect I see towards the two (or one if you just want to count Kefla). One thing and I'm just gonna out right say it, is because they are both female Saiyans; they'll never be as good as Goku or Vegeta because of that. Dragonball is a shonen anime, aimed at that crowd of young boys, who I don't think want a tough female character if they did Videl wouldn't have become so lame. Even Vegeta is treated like shit in Japan, it's all about Goku, so why expect 2 characters from one arc of Super to get this treatment; other than the way they're portrayed, the whole first female Saiyans, better than Jiren thing ?
It boggles the mind how both Eastern and Western peoples, because I'm not going to just shoulder the Eastern culture for this but the West as well, would just say, "Ya these two are rather worthless, there's no redeeming qualities to either. Just token women fighters. Why bother liking them ??" Token female fighters is also why you've seen a decrease in Android 18's importance. Despite the fact that there is lots of fan art, lots of people asking, etc. about Kefla's addition to things.
But no..........let's add ANOTHER FUCKING GOKU, ANOTHER FUCKING BROLY, ANOTHER FUCKING VEGETA, ANOTHER GOGETA OR VEGETO, ANOTHER MORE USELESS CHARACTER, A SMALL SIDE CHARACTER.............to everything we do and ignore these two.
These two Saiyan girls pushed Goku to his limits, Jiren was the only other person who did, no one else and you're telling me that they don't deserve any recognition for pushing Goku past his limits when few people do. The only people who've pushed Goku beyond his limits: Vegeta, Frieza, Cell, Majin Buu, Goku Black, Jiren, and I guess Broly cuz he's cannon now...........but I see a trend. Every one of them is a major villain or important character, Kefla was one such character (even though not a villain). Yet both Caulifla and Kale (or Kefla) are treated like dirt and brushed off.
Combined they are:
- THE FIRST FULL FEMALE SAIYANS (Pan and Bulla are halfsies)
- THE FIRST FEMALE SUPER SAIYANS
- ONE OF A SELECT FEW PEOPLE TO PUSH GOKU PAST HIS LIMITS
- ONE OF THE FEW CHARACTERS GIVEN A SPEEDY LEARNING CURVE (CAULIFLA) AND A BROLY GOD-LIKE POWER (KALE)
- A FUSION ON PAR, OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE, SUPER SAIYAN BLUE WITH THEM FUSED AT JUST SUPER SAIYAN 2
- WAY MORE INTERESTING THAN 95% OF SUPER'S CHARACTERS (INCLUDING JIREN)
All of that said and neither is worth a spec of dust to most people.
So much can be done with them, with the coolest being Caulifla becoming Goku's desciple rather than the dumb idea they had at the end of DBZ which was Uub. To have more crossover with Universe 6, to see Goku train Caulifla (maybe Kale too) and Vegeta train Cabba, would be awesome and maybe they would get thrown in with Whis too sometimes. It's already shown that Caulifla learns faster than others, with training from Goku, she might be able to attain God & Blue faster than Goku and Vegeta did; she may even surpass him. Doing it before Vegeta could throw in an awesome arc where one of them turns on the other because their rivalry with each other to surpass Goku changes them. Kale could have her own side story, not truly being able to control herself yet, the whole berserker thing not being gone; it may be on Caulifla, Cabba, Goku, and Vegeta to stop her. Either way there's lots of potential for both girls.
They're missing out on figure sales, shirt and other merch sales, interesting storylines in the future of Super, good gameplay in video games. Sorry, I had to pay $12.99 CAD for Xenovers 2's pack that had Kefla in it, and she wasn't even the main focus of that pack I believe it was Bojack from the movies. My apologies again she's in one game: a game focused around your created character and not the other characters. Whoopty fucking doo. Oh and I found a $10 figure that looks like it comes from a Gatcha machine, that's it.
ANYWAYS UNTIL THEY FIX THIS I'M BASICALLY JUST DOING THIS TO PEOPLE: