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* Call me slow but I just need to check: When Krillin wished Piccolo on Namek, where was Piccolo implied to have been sent? i.e., above or below ground?
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*** The official explanation for mainstream DBZ is that Goku was about to zap down and thrash Freeza, but then he sensed Trunks was there and doing the work for him.
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** Two reasons, first Instant Transmission (at least in the standard cannon) doesn't work like that. He has to be able to sense someone's energy which is why he's able to go to New Namek once King Kai points him in the right general direction. Even if he can't teleport to the ship however he could easily have teleported to say Kami House or the Look Out. Probably to Capsule Corps when Vegeta was still there. Ultimately other than because he wanted to let other people have a chance to fight there is no excuse either in abridged or in the cannon for why he didn't show up. . .which leads to an interesting problem in DBZ.
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** Goku's kind of spacey.
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*** Nope. The trip to Namek took a few weeks, tops.
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* So, when Yamcha asks him why he didn't use his teleportation powers to stop Frieza and his father, Goku replies that 'he wanted to give them a chance'. Fine, I buy that. Hell, given the source material, I expect this kind of impracticality. ''But'', Goku explains his power works only if he can imagine where it is he wants to be, technically, he's never been on King Cold's ship and therefore doesn't know what to imagine. So, he ''can't'' teleport onto it even if he tried. Why not just use this excuse that no one can fault him for?
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* Vegeta doesn't like his pink T-shirt. So why wear it? Tien shows up in an undershirt, so it's not like it was cold or anything.
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*** Wasn't that scar-faced chap, the pokemon and the triclops dead for something approaching that span of time? They brought them back with the Namekian balls, didn't they?
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** The former. In the US, "sick" is only used as a noun to refer to people who are sick.
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*** Because it's fucking funny, that's why. Up until that point Zarbon was a thundering cacophony of gay stereotypes. ''Everything'' pointed toward him being gay. Finding out that he was actually straight all along is hilarious.


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** If Cui's species reproduces asexually then (depending on exactly how they reproduce) it should be ''physically impossible'' for Vegeta to plow his mother. For instance, if Cui's people reproduce by budding then Cui's gender-ambiguous parent wouldn't have a vagina for Vegeta to fuck.
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** ...Yes?
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** The Dragonballs can't revive anyone who's been dead more than a year.
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* Guy from the above here, I dunno if this was ever answered in the anime because I honestly haven't seen any unabridged Dragonball since I was 5 or so, but when they made that wish to bring back everyone Freeza and his men killed; why didn't the Saiyans come back to life?
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** But this is the type of woman who would castrate a man for bringing her bad news - Oh, nevermind. Fine. Okay, how does Vegeta know about MMOs in spite of needing Nappa to explain the concept of a video game to him in the first installment of Two Saiyans Play? For that matter, how does Vegeta know about Warhammer 40000 judging by how he constantly chants the time honoured "DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA" when firing in general.

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** But this is the type of woman who would castrate a man for bringing her bad news - Oh, nevermind. Fine. Okay, how does Vegeta know about MMOs in spite of needing Nappa to explain the concept of a video game to him in the first installment of Two Saiyans Play? For that matter, how does Vegeta know about Warhammer 40000 judging by how he constantly chants the time honoured "DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA" when firing in general. Unless of course Warhammer's real in his universe and he's actually met the Orkz in the flesh...
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** Fine. How does Vegeta know about MMOs in spite of needing Nappa to explain the concept of a video game to him in the first installment of Two Saiyans Play? For that matter, how does Vegeta know about Warhammer 40000 judging by how he constantly chants the time honoured "DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA" when firing in general.

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** But this is the type of woman who would castrate a man for bringing her bad news - Oh, nevermind. Fine. How Okay, how does Vegeta know about MMOs in spite of needing Nappa to explain the concept of a video game to him in the first installment of Two Saiyans Play? For that matter, how does Vegeta know about Warhammer 40000 judging by how he constantly chants the time honoured "DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA" when firing in general.
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** Fine. How does Vegeta know about MMOs in spite of needing Nappa to explain the concept of a video game to him in the first installment of Two Saiyans Play?

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** Fine. How does Vegeta know about MMOs in spite of needing Nappa to explain the concept of a video game to him in the first installment of Two Saiyans Play?Play? For that matter, how does Vegeta know about Warhammer 40000 judging by how he constantly chants the time honoured "DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA" when firing in general.
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** Fine. How does Vegeta know about MMOs in spite of needing Nappa to explain the concept of a video game to him in the first installment of Two Saiyans Play?
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** She doesn't literally keep him glued to books without any outside influence at all. That would just be stupid.
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* How does Gohan know what MMOs are when his mother basically buries his head in books every waking moment of the day?
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* So when Goku said the Yardrats kept feeding him their sick, did he mean their sick people or their sick (as in vomit)?
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** Or Goku sensed that the Z Fighters were losing badly and decided to teleport in at the last minute.
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** Actually at a panel TFS said the joke was that they felt the entire premise of the original special was nonsense to begin with, so for the abridged version they just thought of the most random characteristics they could give to the proto-Saiyans and Chilled and ran with it.

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** Actually at a panel TFS said the joke was that they felt the entire premise of the original special was nonsense to begin with, with (Bardock's rant before going Super Saiyan makes that pretty clear too), so for the abridged version they just thought of the most random characteristics they could give to the proto-Saiyans and Chilled and ran with it.
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** Actually at a panel TFS said the joke was that they felt the entire premise of the original special was nonsense to begin with, so for the abridged version they just thought of the most random characteristics they could give to the proto-Saiyans and Chilled and ran with it.
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** Or Freeza simply chose not to kill them. Assuming the Power Levels are similar to what they were in traditional DBZ and taking into account the only thing we know about King Cold's Power is that instead of trying to transform FIRST attack SECOND a being who'd just taken Frieza's best shot and then killed him that his 2nd form is roughly on par with Frieza's final. If that's true all the Z Fighters combined were no threat. I can easily see Freeza strap on a Scouter look around casually and smirk before speaking.
-->'''Frieza:''' Oh lo lo lo lo look Daddy. Some rats are hiding on that r-r-r-r-r-ridge.
-->'''King Cold:''' Shall we head over and kill them?
-->'''Frieza:''' Not yet, I want them to still be warm when the monkey gets here.
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** Presumably Vegeta went Super Saiyan a bit early via anger and frustration at his own inferiority to the third-class Kakarot.
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* So, in canon Future Trunks's timeline, Goku instant transmissioned straight from his space pod to Earth to fight Freeza and Cold right away. When Future Trunks went back in time, Goku sensed the new, powerful being and decided to wait it out a bit. However, in the Abridged series, Goku's excuse for not teleporting in straight away is that he wanted to give everyone else a chance. Since nobody was killed by Freeza in Future Trunks's timeline, how did they all survive Freeza being on the planet for over three hours?
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* So we can all agree that the [[NoodleIncident Jock Strap Incident]] involved a lot of people dying and being buried in dug up holes. Freeza implies that he needs to dig holes for all the deceased (Zarbon, Dodoria, The Ginyu Force). What doesn't make sense is why he needs to dig up holes if almost everyone exploded (Burter's neck was cracked and Frog!Ginyu was squashed under Vegeta's foot)
** Before claiming that the deaths of Zarbon, Dodoria, and the Ginyu Force were like the Jockstrap incident, Freeza states: "This has been one giant mess." It could be that the events were similar due to being such giant messes, rather than due to people dying.

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* So we can all agree that the [[NoodleIncident Jock Strap Jockstrap Incident]] involved a lot of people dying and being buried in dug up holes. Freeza implies that he needs to dig holes for all the deceased (Zarbon, Dodoria, The Ginyu Force). What doesn't make sense is why he needs to dig up holes if almost everyone exploded (Burter's neck was cracked and Frog!Ginyu was squashed under Vegeta's foot)
** Before claiming that the deaths of Zarbon, Dodoria, and the Ginyu Force were like the Jockstrap incident, Incident, Freeza states: "This has been one giant mess." It could be that the events were similar due to being such giant messes, rather than due to people dying.



*** Maybe the holes were intented as a honorable burial to his men, and even if they were exploded, maybe he could find enough pieces of then to burry, with the superspeed of the 4th form, it would take a minute tops to check the whole planet anyway.

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*** Maybe the holes were intented intended as a honorable burial to his men, and even if they were exploded, maybe he could find enough pieces of then to burry, bury, with the superspeed super speed of the 4th form, it would take a minute tops to check the whole planet anyway.
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*** I always assumed the hole(s) were to bury the eponymous jockstrap....

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*** I always assumed the hole(s) were to bury the eponymous jockstrap....jockstrap...
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** That was kinda the point. When you die, the money goes to your living relatives, not to you, since you're...well...dead. As far as they were concerned, Krillin:

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** That was kinda the point. When you die, the money goes to your living relatives, not to you, since you're...well... well... dead. As far as they were concerned, Krillin:

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