Line #22 FanFic/RealMenDontMakeSandwiches


1	''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9662477/1/Real-Men-Don-t-Make-Sandwiches Real Men Don't Make Sandwiches]]'' by An English Education is a Manga/DragonBall fan fiction featuring Vegeta, Krillin, and a whole lot of sandwiches. A week after Trunks warns everyone about the Androids, Vegeta is searching for one of the Briefs' cooks and finds Krillin instead. Krillin ends up making the best sandwich Vegeta has ever tasted, and Vegeta somehow gets roped into answering Krillin's questions to keep eat them.
2
3	What occurs is a series of hilarious meals between the two that give a surprising amount of world building and depth to both characters.
4
5	The series can also be found on ''Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn'' [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12654849/chapters/28841031 here]].
6
7	----
8	!!The tropes appearing in ''Real Men Don't Make Sandwiches'' are:
9
10	* AmbiguousSituation: Discussed in regard to the 'Last Man's Meal', with Krillin questioning whether or not any of the survivors of such situations actually went through with the ritual.
11	* AngerBornOfWorry: Bulma expresses this towards both Vegeta and Krillin.
12	* AvengingTheVillain: {{Averted}} due to PragmaticVillainy. Vegeta mentally observes that [[Anime/DragonBallZCoolersRevenge Cooler]] is ''extremely'' unlikely to come after them, as he'll be too focused on continuing to run their empire in his fallen father's place.
13	* AxCrazy: Can definitely be used to describe Vegeta, who thinks about killing people ''a lot''
14	* BerserkButton: Any mention of Goku seems to be one for Vegeta. Vegeta also seems to be triggered by the training chamber's gravity simulator.
15	* BigEater: Vegeta. He eats ''at least'' six sandwiches a sitting, if not more.
16	* BullyingTheDragon: Krillin's starting not to become all that afraid of insulting Vegeta.
17	* ButtMonkey: Both Krillin and Vegeta seem to be the universe's butt monkeys.
18	* ChildSoldier: Vegeta.
19	* DidntThinkThisThrough:
20	** When Vegeta left the kitchen with the sandwiches after Krillin suggested the trade of sandwiches for answers. Vegeta now feels honor bound to answer them.
21	** Krillin also '''severely''' underestimated the impact of his decision to [[spoiler:go off the grid for a while]].
22	* DarkComedy: The fic draws its humor from some pretty morbid sources, including [[spoiler:cannibalism and casual murder]].
23	* ExactWords:
24	** The terms of their deal is that Krillin makes sandwiches for Vegeta, then can ask him questions while he eats. When ''Vegeta'' has questions for ''Krillin'', he's reminded that that was what they agreed on. [[spoiler:So Vegeta drags Krillin to a pizzeria and attempts to make him a sandwich so he ''has'' to talk.]]
25	** After learning just what's been going on with him, Vegeta then insists that [[ThePromise he promised not to tell anyone]] that he was [[spoiler:''there'']], not that he wouldn't say ''anything at all'' about him.
26	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Krillin's been living on an empty stomach for two weeks despite living with the richest people on the planet, he mentions how easy it is to leave the place without anyone noticing, does his shopping early in the morning, and Bulma never mentions him. [[spoiler:Krillin is actually squatting at Capsule Corp without Bulma's knowledge or consent.]]
27	* LackOfEmpathy: Vegeta doesn't realize anything's wrong with Krillin even though the narration has pointed out... something is wrong several times.
28	* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Krillin attempts to declare following their disastrous night out.
29	* LiteralMinded: When Krillin comments on saving [[spoiler:the favor Vegeta owes him]] for a rainy day, Vegeta blankly wonders why it would have to be raining.
30	* LostInTranslation:
31	** Vegeta's universal translator chip causes some confusion here and there. For instance, when Krillin tries to explain the meaning of DeusExMachina, Vegeta gets annoyed at how he's apparently repeating himself.
32	** Vegeta also gets hung up on the literal meaning of the word 'affair' as in 'an event', leading to Krillin [[SpitTake spitting out his coffee]] when he keeps insisting that ''yes, they had an affair last night''.
33	* MathematiciansAnswer: After Vegeta answers several questions with "Terrible. Next.", Krillin questions whether 'Terrible' is his actual answer, or if he's calling the ''questions'' terrible. Vegeta, naturally, replies "Yes."
34	* MeatgrinderSurgery: Vegeta seems to believe that ''all'' surgery is like this, and clearly barbaric and outdated compared to the clean efficiency of healing pods.
35	* MistakenForGay: When the two try going out for a night on the town, they get mistaken for a couple. Vegeta's attempt to clear matters up by insisting Krillin is his ''pet'' instead doesn't help.
36	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's eventually revealed that the whole reason Krillin's there in the first place is [[spoiler:Goku broke the water main at the Kame House]]. Why? Because [[spoiler:he's afraid of his best friend potentially dying again and is trying to force him to move closer to him... and give up fighting for good. Rather than deal with that, Krillin ran away, and has been trying to avoid the others ever since]].
37	* OffWithHisHead: Krillin observes that Vegeta tends to make a habit of this.
38	* OverlyLongName: Vegeta's full name and title is 'Cucurbita Paaya Vegeta of Tribe Un Ookairani, Two-Hundred-and-Second of His Name; High Prince of All Saiyans; Heir to the Gut Blood of Rikaa the Destroyer; The Untrodden; Low Prince of the Cold Empire; and The Last Saiyan Son.' When Krillin comments on this being longer than he expected, Vegeta adds that Frieza and Cold's full titles each took at least twenty minutes to get through.
39	* PlanetOfHats: Following some FurryConfusion, Vegeta comes to the conclusion that Earth must be a Planet of ''Pets'', with the softhearted Kakarot having adopted the whole lot of them.
40	* ProudWarriorRace: The Saiyans, at least as Vegeta describes them.
41	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Krillin's the sensitive guy; Vegeta's the manly man.
42	* VitriolicBestBuds: The two seem to be developing this.
43	* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Part Two opens with Krillin waking up in a bed he doesn't recognize. Though he quickly recalls the events of the previous evening, he desperately wants to forget. Vegeta's literal-mindedness regarding the whole affair doesn't help...
44	* YouDoNotWantToKnow: Krillin warns Vegeta of this when he asked what kind of wishes Bulma made - or wanted to make - on the Dragon Balls. He repeats this when Vegeta then expands that to what people in general have attempted to wish for.
45

Context FanFic / RealMenDontMakeSandwiches