You would think a literal god of destruction wouldn't live in such a tranquil looking ecosystem. Not to mention, his home planet is very much full of water, air, sunshine, and all sorts of life. He's actually really annoyed that Pilaf would do that. Even when an old DB character, Pilaf begins threatening people with violence, he doesn't take delight in it.
He's actually very delightful in his mannerism, outside of a few instances here and there, and he doesn't show any signs that he really cares for destruction at all. Emphasis on "supposed to be" because he acts nothing like the name suggests. His name is Beerus the Destroyer, and he is supposed to be the literal god of destruction in the DBZ universe. Which brings another big problem the movie suffers from. If this is not what a fan expects to take up most of the run time in a movie subtitled "Battle of the Gods", then I am afraid they will be greatly disappointed. They goof around doing things like dancing, singing, and even playing bingo. For most of the movie, in fact, he is a very polite presence in the company of the Z-Fighters. Outside of some temper tantrums here and there along side a few empty threats that are mostly played for laughs, he never posits himself as being a threat. The fight has no tension, and you can tell that the so-called antagonist of this movie isn't really a threat to anyone. However, this movie might as well have been plagued with all the filler in the world for how crappy the actual "Battle of Gods" fight we do get ended up being. Even during the end when the story is coming to a close, there is an unnecessary scene about sushi and the fine dining of earth that goes on for three minutes, and adds nothing to the story even as an epilogue scene. This is because the movie is plagued with useless scenes that do nothing to advance the plot and easily could have been removed to no consequence to the rest of the movie, or in other words, the movie is plagued with filler. One of the biggest flaws of the movie is the lack of battling, especially that of gods in the plural sense ("Prophecy of the Super Saiyan God" would have been more fitting as a title). If a comparison can be made, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods is much like the critically panned Manos: the Hands of Fate, which was riffed on by the crew of MST3K, in that the viewer will constantly check the subtitle of the movie over and over again to see if there has been some mistake. How about the subtitle of the movie itself? At least Dragon Ball: Grand Tour has an appropriate subtitle since the greater part of the series involves a journey across space. Actually, it is even worse than that since there are still many things DBGT gets right that Battle of Gods does not. Dragon Ball Z: the Battle of Gods is the biggest betrayal to DBZ fans since DBGT.
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