It's not as simple as typing in the translation in a different font. They also need to align the words in the balloon in a way that looks good, mess around with the font size, and change where the line breaks are depending on how it fits and what the font size is. It's easier to just type in the translation in a simple default font somewhere in the bubble, then do the visual artistic stuff. If you're pushed for time you put up the unfinished part.
Oh right. I forgot DBM is French.
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I wonder what Supreme Kai expects to accomplish. Buu is far stronger than him.
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He just trying to give Goku even a tiny chance to escape I suppose.
Right now anything they can do, no matter how slim is better than the alternative.
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Buu is just sorta standing there.
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Plus when your power level is essentially Super Buu Goten, Trunks, Piccolo, Mystic Gohan and Vegeta combined, would you feel threatened by Kibito-Kai, who is probably only marginally more powerful than the little guy who crapped himself at Pui-pui?
edited 30th Mar '15 7:26:34 AM by BaronPraxis
Apparently he hasn't reabsorbed Goten, Trunks, Piccolo or Gohan yet.
Because of reasons.
He didn't do it in canon either. Nor did he notice Vegeto moving around in his body until it was too late.
He might not have any way to locate them.
In canon he didn't have much time between noticing Goku/Vegeta and Vegeta pulling Boo's pod, which made him lose control.
Here he has had plenty of time, and should easily be able to do so. He can rearrange his body into an arena, should be able to attach a few pods.
On the other hand he should also be able to kill Goku effortlessly and go on with his day, so everything comes down to dicking around.
If he can absorb Vegeta, a conscious person capable of struggling, there's no reason why he hasn't just reabsorbed a handful of people who are still comatose and already wrapped in Buu-flesh.
In canon, they were pretty much all disconnected at the same time. Here, he absorbed Vegeta right before he could free Mr. Buu, so there's quite a bit of delay giving ample time for reabsorption.
He absorbed VEGETA. You know, the king of bad decisions.
Vegeta's mistakes are more famous but not really worse than half the cast.
I don't really care about the rationalization though, knowing the inevitable result just makes the dicking around even more pointless to watch.
To be fair, between letting Frieza power up to prove how powerful he turned out not to be, and then letting Cell absorb 18 for the exact same reason, then playing into Babadi's hands and waking up Buu because he wanted to be stronger than Goku without thinking beyond a few seconds after the battle (shame on Goku for not going SSJ 3 and nipping that in the bud but I guess he didn't want to hurt Vegeta's pride anymore than he already had), yeah, I'd say that Vegeta is the master of bad decisions.
Only when you ignore how all the other characters do the same thing just as often.
Vegeta let Freeza transform? So did Piccolo. Goku let him reach 100%. Gohan let Cell power up. Goku and Gohan were still stronger, but that doesn't make their decisions better. They had just as much chance of getting screwed over, not knowing how strong their opponents were.
Vegeta let Cell absorb 18? Kuririn could have stopped that as well, but didn't because he thought with his dick. Then Cell pushes Gohan to get him to become stronger in the exact same way, and there's still the examples above. There's also Cell allowing Trunks to power up - he didn't know Trunks would kill his own speed.
Vegeta lets Boo get released because he's being selfish? So does Goku. He stops Vegeta from interfering with Gohan's fight with Dabra, despite that giving Dabra a chance to get energy for Boo. Then he holds back Super Saiyan 3, which lets Vegeta do enough damage to fill the energy meter.
He also continues keeping Super Saiyan 3 a secret while everyone is trying to come up with ways to beat Boo. Then he only reveals it once it's decided the boys will try to use fusion, and still deliberately spares Boo.
Then there are other terrible decisions, like Goku sparring Vegeta when he saw he couldn't beat Vegeta or Piccolo picking a fight with the Androids... I could really go on.
Vegeta's not really abnormal for it. The master would most likely be Goku, but he doesn't get punished for it which is why it doesn't stick out so much.
edited 31st Mar '15 7:50:49 PM by Saiga
It is mostly a Saiyan thing, and Vegeta is the one that does it more frequently and out of sheer overconfidence more often than not. Buu knows he is stronger than Goku and Goku cannot get stronger now.
Goku and Piccolo are just as frequent offenders.
The thing is, Goku does that when he knows he is stronger. Vegeta does that when he THINKS he is stronger. And Vegeta doesn't have the luxury of infantile brain damage to fall back on.
Piccolo underestimated Freeza, as they were evenly matched, he took out his weights, and assumed the same would happen. Vegeta managed to not be blown apart by his first form, acted arrogant as fuck, cue despair. Gets a power boost, becomes all arrogant once again, cue curbstop.
Piccolo picks a fight with the Androids because him destroying at least one of them is feasible and would decrease the threat level of Cell (but the massive powering up getting Cell's attention wasn't a good move). And, in any case, there is no talking 17 out; if 18 was absorbed first, 17 would still try to take Cell head-on, because he is that way; the androids became cooperative once he was eaten (and he wanted to finish Cell off, despite having been horribly mauled before).
Vegeta, well, he fights his son because he wants the omnicidal maniac to get stronger so he can get a better fight.
Piccolo makes slight miscalculations when fighting for something else. Vegeta makes miscalculations when appealing his ego (and so does Goku, but Goku tends to fare better than Vegeta). Cell has both Vegeta and Freeza in his build, OF COURSE he would make the mistake he made.
And a Buu running on just Vegeta would do just what this one is doing. Perfectly in-character.
Goku doesn't know shit. He's not omnipotent, and when he let Freeza power up he was in a situation where winning wouldn't matter if he wasn't fast enough. So he sat by and waited for his opponent to power up, and that power up would make things longer even if he was stronger.
That didn't happen. Piccolo took off his weights and didn't fight Freeza until Freeza transformed, while he just sat there. Both underestimated Freeza in the same way, assumed they had the upper hand when they didn't. Only Vegeta showed an actual plan, and he was relying on Gohan and Kuririn as well.
Piccolo didn't think about destroying one of them until he realized 17 was going to fight one-on-one. If it hadn't been for that, he would have gotten steamrolled. Your comments also assume Piccolo knew a lot more about each Android than he did. He knew jack shit, and didn't try to learn anything about them. He just went for the punchy-punchy immediately.
Piccolo constantly makes massive blunders all over the place. It's pretty much all he does from his introduction. His fight with Goku basically all just Goku throwing his stupid ideas back in his face, then he tries to pick a fight with Raditz, then he goes to Goku to do the same despite not really having a reason to besides wounded pride, then he gloats about the Dragon Balls to Raditz, then he relies on Gohan in the Nappa fight after seeing that Gohan chokes under the pressure, then he comes up with a good reason to be revived first, so they'll have the Earth Dragon Balls... only to immediately ruin it by demanding he be wished to Namek to fight Freeza, who he is woefully unprepared for. Then Nail tells him he'll just get his dumb ass killed, so Piccolo agrees to the fusion, goes and lets Freeza transform, forward to Trunks introduction and he is in camp "let's fight the Androids instead of stopping them before they're built" and tries to pick a fight with Vegeta, after that he apparently deliberately gets shot to set up a plan he never executes, throws a tantrum when the Androids beat him, demand to fuse with God even after God says it isn't important, comes up with a legitimate plan to fool Cell... before ruining it by showing off his regeneration in front of Cell, once again picks that fight with 17, somehow thinks base Gotenks will defeat Boo, forgets how the Room of Spirit and Time works and has to be corrected by Gohan, and then he's out of commission for the rest of the series.
Piccolo is just as full of bad moments as Goku and Vegeeta. Goku's got to be the king of it, though.
And no, Cell's behaviour isn't justified by Freeza or Vegeta's cells because Freeza didn't behave like that and Cell should know better than to fall for the same tactic he himself has used. That is just next level stupidity, so while Cell doesn't have the quantity of stupid moments he certainly makes up for it in quality.
And I'm not even talking about this being in-character for Boo or not. It's just pointless because this is one thing where we already knew the result so adding this fight, which already took utterly stupid reasoning to actually happen, was pretty damn dumb. There's so much we don't know about U4 Boo and we're just treated to what we already do know.
edited 1st Apr '15 3:09:49 AM by Saiga
Piccolo probably doesn't get as much flak as Vegeta because Vegeta fights mostly to stroke his own ego, a fact that he announces proudly. At least Piccolo has better intentions behind his own fuck-ups.
A lot of those times Goku wasn't necessarily stronger. He just got lucky. It's not like Freeza and Cell got curb stomped. Each fight he barely won, and if just one thing went wrong, he would've lost. Which is pretty much the premise of DBM, and why all these universes were created each from just one event changing the fight.
That makes no sense. Typing with a crap font takes as much effort as typing with a good font. It's just a setting on a program.