Goku vs. the Duplicate Vegeta! Which One Is Going to Win?!

The battle between Goku and Duplicate Vegeta escalates rapidly as both prove evenly matched in their base forms. Vegeta, forced to watch from the sidelines, cannot help coaching both fighters simultaneously, screaming at his copy for dodging poorly while urging Goku not to hold back. His body continues fading, growing more transparent by the minute. Potage offers the Commeson's key as a temporary remedy; Vegeta must chew on the pacifier-shaped object to slow his disappearance, creating a humiliating image that Jaco desperately tries to photograph before his camera dies.

Both fighters transform into Super Saiyan Blue, and the surrounding landscape begins to shatter under the force of their exchanges. While they clash, Trunks and Goten hunt for Commeson's core, the original mass of purple substance that sustains all duplicates. They track it to where Duplicate Gryll fell, but find it has moved and is now stalking them. Their blasts pass through it harmlessly, and it ignores Jaco entirely, apparently uninterested in his power level.

The decisive moment comes from the most unlikely source. Monaka, regaining consciousness on the sidelines, casually steps on the Commeson's core while standing up. The damage ripples through Duplicate Vegeta, weakening him at the critical instant. Goku seizes the opening and fires a God Kamehameha that disintegrates the copy completely. Vegeta's body solidifies, and Trunks throws himself into his father's arms. Potage reseals the Commeson, and the group returns to Earth, where Vegeta discovers to his horror that the pacifier he was chewing is a baby's teething toy.

Monaka saving the day by literally stepping on the villain is a deliberate subversion of Dragon Ball's usual formula. The weakest character present delivers the decisive blow through sheer accident, while the two strongest warriors in the universe are locked in a stalemate. It reinforces the arc's comedic DNA and provides a satisfying payoff to Monaka's presence throughout these episodes.

The Vegeta pacifier subplot is a masterful piece of sustained comedy. His pride will not allow him to die, so he endures the indignity of sucking on a baby's toy while watching someone else fight in his place. When he later discovers what it actually was, his declaration that he would have chosen death over the humiliation rings completely true to his character. It is a small moment that says everything about who Vegeta is.

The episode wraps the Copy-Vegeta arc efficiently while planting the single most important seed for what comes next. In the final seconds, the scene shifts to an apocalyptic alternate timeline where a battered Future Trunks flees through ruins before a blast of light catches him off guard. This brief teaser marks the beginning of the "Future" Trunks Saga, one of the most acclaimed arcs in Dragon Ball Super. The tonal shift from pacifier comedy to post-apocalyptic dread is jarring by design, signaling that the series is about to become dramatically more serious. It is also the first episode to feature different preview music and Future Trunks narrating the next episode teaser.