Dragon Ball Z Abridged

No, Soble is to blame.

Whelp I'm calling Not It on who's at fault, just in case someone points a finger at me.

E'ryone is to blame.

We keep making these haiku.

But is that so bad?

We can express our

Creative minds with either

Praise or boo- fuck it.

I've lost my damn mind

Counting syllables for this.

And now I am stuck.

Let us return to

Talking 'bout DBZA.

So, Wen Bojack, guys?

edited 28th Mar '17 2:33:53 PM by WillDeRegio

• The Cell Games begin
• First up is Mr. Satan
• Oh, that poor orphan

edited 28th Mar '17 3:13:46 PM by TobiasDrake

How do you think they'll handle Videl?

That's a damn good question.

I figure she'll be a breath of massive common sense and all due to not growing up with all the weirdness the others have.

They'll probably regulate her fight with Spopovitch offscreen as well.

You know, before this

I had no clue Mr. Satan

Had students. Poor kids.

As for Mark Satan,

Looks like it's time for Krillin's

Catchphrase: "SENZU BEAN!"

There aren't enough Senzu beans in the world to heal that burn Cell gave him.

They can heal the body.

But that ego is gonna need

Duct tape. All of it.

Not sure how I would feel if they did that. On one hand, I would totally understand their reasons for doing so but on the other hand, it is ripe for riffing.

I don't see why they would do that.

The joke is that she's gets beat up offscreen kinda like what happened with Nappa against Goku.

Also, it's a good excuse to not show one female character getting beat on for twenty minutes.

Either that, or they just reveals that there's a rule that prevents you from dragging the battle out and Spopovitch will be disqualified if he continues to torture an opponent who's clearly beaten.

...Actually, I like that much more. It's kinda bullshit that no one was able to do anything at all. Someone should have forced him to stop beside Yamu. There really should have been a rule against what he was doing.

Why would there be a rule against the beat down? Besides the point we're he kept her from going out of the ring nothing he did was outside the usual scope.

What twenty minutes? We're talking about the abridged here. I get that fight makes people uncomfortable, but skipping it would just seem jarring and awkward.

Because it's a massive dick move. He had that fight won, and everyone knew it. At that point, he was just needlessly making her suffer, and the fact it was technically within the rules was a cheap ploy to keep everyone from just stopping it.

In fact, I finally figured out what should happen. Time Limit. Just have their be a time limit on how long a fight can go.

The dick move is kind of the point. A time limit would serve no benefit normally, because what happened here was very clearly out of the norm; most people actually care about winning, he clearly didn't.

edited 28th Mar '17 4:43:31 PM by LSBK

I thought there was a time limit, it's just that it was 30 minutes, so it wouldn't have been much help.

This is true. I recall a discussion we've had about it before in the main thread:

This was clearly the fist time a fighter had ever done what Spopovitch did. Hell, even in situations where it's clear certain fighters might dislike, I imagine most fights end in a few punches due to the other guy being weaker one way or another.

This was the first time someone had both the reason, and the level of control to keep a fight going past the point where it should have.

They'll add an Obvious Rule Patch next World Martial Arts Tournament. Because you don't expect sadist bastards to take part in a tournament where a genocidal, size-changing alien demon king once showed up.

Wait.

edited 28th Mar '17 5:47:02 PM by WillDeRegio

In fairness to the tournament committee, having aliens and demons flying around shooting lasers at each other was kind of a fluke. They'd had three tournaments out of twenty-four go down that road prior to the Buu arc.

edited 28th Mar '17 5:49:04 PM by TobiasDrake

I mean, Goku flat-out won the Tenkaichi Budokai while being more heavily injured than Videl was, so.

I love how Krillin, Tien, and Yamcha couldn't possibly have done anything to Piccolo, yet a practically crippled Goku was able to knock him for a loop via headbutt.

Only because he kept his eye on the prize, though. Goku had to remind the announcer that Piccolo's ringout means he won.

I mean, at that point it seemed like Goku was the only one who actually gave a shit about the tournament aspect of that fight.

He literally was. Kami offered to jump in and help. Not only did Goku refuse and say he didn't want to lose the tournament, but he then let Piccolo get a free shot (since Kami had blocked the one he was going to get).

I guess he was determined to actually win it this time.

As for Tien, Yamcha and Krillin being swatted away despite Piccolo having nearly nothing in the tank...

KI ATTACKS SON!

I wonder if Goku ever wonders whatever happened to that Jackie Chun fella.