Dragon Ball Z Abridged

When Ultimate Tenkaichi came out I named my Saiyan Korin (corn)

That was my point, yes. Therefore, it's the wrong name category for a Saiyan.

edited 27th Mar '15 6:09:59 PM by Iaculus

That's already a cat.

...I should have made a Saiyan named Squash.

That's a great Saiyan name.

What, you would prefer I named him Letus?

...Letus is pretty good too, actually.

Kale is a pretty decent hero name.

~I WILL NOT KALE!~

I had the perfect name for a Saiyan in my head. But when I got to the character creation screen I got a sensory overload and couldn't remember the name. I panicked trying to remember a vegetable and then every one that came to mind had already been used... except "Cabbage". So I named my guy "Bacage," which is an awful name. And the kicker is, immediately after doing that I remembered that "Nappa" is a pun on a Chinese cabbage.

GG Xenoverse, you beat me that time.

Call her Butarega.

edited 27th Mar '15 6:40:34 PM by WillKeaton

Zuchi.

This was already awkward.

That Butarega scene is the one scene that made me decide to give this series a shot.

I was thinking Kale might be the name of a female Saiyan, who was too basic to go Super Saiyan.

They are wearing the exact same clothes.

Well, not the exact same clothes, but similar enough. How did I never notice that?

@Unnoun: Squash is a fruit.

The difference between fruits and vegetables is entirely culinary. There's no actual biological distinction.

Well, no, there is a biological one- a fruit is the ovary of a plant, a vegetable is any other part of the plant.

It's a fairly arbitrary distinction to classify plant parts by if you ignore culinary applications, but it definitely can be quantified.

edited 27th Mar '15 10:36:18 PM by Anomalocaris20

Actually, some fruits, including squashes, are classed as vegetables.

There's no such thing as a vegetable in biology.

Vegetable is not, in any sense, a scientific term. Purely a culinary one.

Cucumbers are also classified as vegetables in culinary terms but are fruits scientifically.

Vegetable has to do with how something is prepared.

Fruits are sweet and are typically served with breakfast and dessert. Vegetables are usually served with lunch and dinner.

Tomatoes are vegetables in culinary use and for tariff purposes.

The only time scientists try to use "vegetable" for some botanical purpose is when we're being extremely petty and trying to start shit, usually about things we consider fruits botanically. Because some of us never actually learned that sometimes words can mean different things in different contexts.

edited 28th Mar '15 4:46:44 AM by unnoun

Being all technical about the naming of a Saiyan kills the point, no?

It has to be a vegetable.

There was one Saiyan named after the Japanese word for pumpkin.

Someone in Bardock's crew.

Also, Bardock's friend Toma. As in, "tomato".

Appule is one of Frieza's guys though. Apple.

And Nabana and Raspberry and Orlen.

Yeah the naming thing is quite real, it's one of Akira Toriyama's quirks. Every group of family has a theme for their names, with a few exceptions and those are typically named by someone else.

edited 28th Mar '15 6:04:56 AM by Memers

I mean being technical in the sense that "well, you know X thing can be scientifically labeled a 'vegetable' even though everyone considers it a fruit". That defeats the whole point of the name scheme when you just go out to find technicalities to abuse.

Edit: Guys. Guys. Of course I know about the naming themes. Come on, I may not be here as much as Saiga, but when I do show up it's usually to answer questions.

edited 28th Mar '15 6:11:52 AM by Cruherrx

Nothing can be scientifically labeled a vegetable!

It's not actually a scientific thing!

Argh!

edited 28th Mar '15 6:19:36 AM by unnoun

Today, we have learned about Toriyama's propensity for naming themes. In other news, Dragon Ball is a shonen manga, Goku really loves food, and Frieza is a jerk.

i wonder if Freeza's mooks taste like fruit.