Manga/Dragon Ball

and

......

Not even the Nyoi-bo is long enough to make me touch either of those comments.

I curse you both. You, and your children, and your children's children.

edited 29th Jun '15 6:13:00 AM by HandsomeRob

Oh right, the Saiga balls turn to stone for one whole year before they can be used again.

I need to rewatch that fight, I don't think it was as bad as you're saying. But then, my memory of that fight is stymied by watching too much Dragonball Abridged.

I mean, if you want to be overly critical, the whole fight was unnecessary, because Frieza should've been smart and gone Final Form right away (which made that scene in Xenoverse all the greater) - not that he even needed to. He didn't even need to win the battles, he could've just blown up the planet. His sole objective was gone for all he knew.

But then we wouldn't have the glorious "Vegeta gets his shit kicked in" scene.

edited 29th Jun '15 7:20:52 AM by Soble

Frieza didn't want to win right away. Vegeta and his weird alien pets he must have picked up on some excursion or another had denied him immortality. After a few blissful days of knowing that even time would never be a hindrance to him, Vegeta just killed him by ensuring Frieza would not escape the inevitability of age and death.

Additionally, with the Dragon Balls gone, it was no longer a race. There was no longer any sense of urgency to the events. It didn't matter how long Frieza took killing the people who killed him on an exterminated world in some corner of space. One might argue that he had a business to run, but in the immediate aftermath of losing one's only hope at forever denying death his due, it's hard to care about the office.

On top of that, as the most powerful being in the universe entirely by right of birth, Frieza is unaccustomed to being defied in any meaningful way. This might actually be the first time in his life that Frieza wanted something and was given a definitive, "No."

The result of all of this is that Frieza was too angry to just transform and slaughter everyone in five seconds. He didn't want to just snuff Vegeta and his crew's lives. He wanted to hold their lives in his hands, to roll them around in his palms and savor the feel of them, to build the anticipation and savor the hopelessness and futility on their faces as they come to realize exactly who it is they just crossed.

He wanted them to cry and recant their terrible choices, to hear them beg for their lives so that he could deny them the same way he, himself, was just denied.

All in all, to die quickly and abruptly would be a greater mercy than Frieza was capable of giving them just then.

That's... a compelling argument. Normally I'd vote that the villain shouldn't waste any time trying to kill the protagonists without an explicit reason.

Yeah, and it's not like he risked anything but dragging things out. He's Freeza the strongest in the universe. For him to lose it would some kind of mythical super-warrior would have to show up then and there.

And what are the chances of that happening?

I mean, if you got all of this power, why not play around hmm?

Plus, Freeza had seen what was the biggest, baddest, most dangerous shit in the universe, and it was a frikkin' purple cat, not a Saiyan.

edited 29th Jun '15 10:00:52 AM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

Mr. Popo (and Bropo) vs Team Saiyaman:

I stopped the moment I saw what the fused form looked like.

Kill it.

With as much fire as possible.

But Bropo has a planet destroying bazooka, ya just can't defeat what is pure maximum!

edited 29th Jun '15 4:11:10 PM by Rinsankajugin

Broly is to Popo what Yamcha is to everything else.

Fusing with him should make Popo infinitely weaker.

x4 What is it with Videl receiving brutal beat downs?

From guys with unnatural skin colors, on top of that.

I believe it has to do with the fact that she has a very punchable face, but I wouldn't know.

It's a shame, she had a lot of potential as a character.

The same could be said about a lot of characters.

Yep.

-sigh-

In a lot of series.

She had no potential to be relevant and to think otherwise is being delusional, to be honest. She was just a regular human and the characters were all completely out of her league.

Without stuffing her in a fridge and adding more emotional baggage onto Gohan, there's not much she could do at that stage in the story.

She had potential as a character but not as a fighter.

Am I the only one that thinks Chi-Chi should've gotten to fight more? Of course if she did she would've became useless with the other humans.

I'd like to point out that Chi-Chi only appeared all of once before confronting Goku in the 23rd Tenkaichi Budoukai about the marriage thing.

She beat up a bunch of other people on her way to do that.

Those aren't always mutually exclusive in this series ya know.

Its a Shonen series, an old school one at that, you expected a woman to amount to anything as much as the men? pfffft.

Kill La Kill, Yu Yu Hakusho, Naruto, One... Blea... Hunter Hun... Ruroni Ken...

Ugh.