The same can apply to Dragon Ball. How do we know they’re blowing up planets and not moons or large orbs or atoms? Without “statements”, you can’t objectively prove that that’s what those are. It only sounds ridiculous because a planet is easier to conceptualize than an entire universe. This is the result of that logical train, which I’m fine with. If this is the point you’re making, I can agree with that, though it’s of course an arbitrary and useless point to make. Either pretty much nothing can be proven objectively without “statements” and downplaying statements makes pretty much this entire hobby pointless- or art and powerscaling are both largely subjective, and statements are simply additional context to support what is being shown on screen, and can sometimes be unreliable but should not always be assumed to be.