History WebVideo / DragonBallDissection

* ICantBelieveImSayingThis: Despite his complaints about the back-and-forth "tennis" with Freeza and the heroes' power-ups, he still finds himself putting it above the "tennis" with Super Buu, if only because Freeza actually getting overwhelmed for the first time by Super Saiyan Goku feels much more special than Super Buu repeatedly getting overpowered, only to turn the tables via assimilation.

-->'''Lance:''' Transformations were a mistake. There, I said it.

** He isn't a fan of the OneWingedAngel transformations that become prominent around the Freeza arc. How they're applied to Freeza is his least favoured use of them, as his ability to transform at will renders his second and third forms a waste of time [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim when he could skip to his final form and curbstomp the heroes]]. Cell and Boo's transformations, which are instead triggered by absorbing certain people, are received much better by Lance.
** "[[LensmanArmsRace Power-up tennis]]", when the heroes and villains are constantly one-upping each other with overhyped power-ups and transformations. It causes fights to drag out while making the characters' time and effort feel wasted when they get power-crept out of relevance.

* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: ''The Majin Boo Arc Part 26'' is mostly a rant about the setting's increasingly large pantheon with increasingly vague roles, particularly when the Kaiōshin were redundantly given the same areas of jurisdiction as the ostensibly inferior Kaiō. It's quite telling that the most clearly defined godly role is [[JudgementOfTheDead Emma's]], which Toriyama merely gave a salaryman flair rather than making up himself.

** Villains who [[GoodThingYouCanHeal have regeneration abilities]]. He's OK with Piccolo and Metal Coola, noting that the former's regeneration went as far as limbs and still required a lot of energy, whilst the latter's could be overcome via strategy and overtaxing it. Cell and Boo's "[[FromASingleCell wanked-out]]" regeneration gets repetitive, and doesn't give much impression that progress is being made compared to villains who accumulate damage. He even gets noticeably ticked off when later arcs claim that Piccolo ''can'' regenerate the kind of wounds Cell can (for instance, regenerating his entire body from just a head), which certainly wasn't the case early on.

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** He criticizes Goku's CurbStompBattle with the Ginyu Force after arriving on Namek in part for being almost identical to his similar thrashing of Nappa after arriving back from Kaio's planet.

---> '''Lance:''' ''[[SarcasmMode Oh no!]]'' Vegeta has betrayed his allies and set into motion a chain of events culminating in the extinction of almost every living thing on the planet as well as the planet itself! ...Or, as Vegeta likes to call it: ''Tuesday.''

** SerialEscalation AKA "Power-up tennis", when the heroes and villains are constantly [[LensmanArmsRace one-upping each other]] with overhyped power-ups and transformations. It causes fights to drag out while making the characters' time and effort feel wasted when they get power-crept out of relevance.

** The Red Ribbon Army Arc isn't often well-regarded among fans, but is nonetheless ranked the highest in Lance's scores at 10/10. Conversely, the Piccolo Daimaō Arc (typically seen as the best pre-''Z'' arc) received a 2/10, the even more popular Freeza Arc got a 5/10, and the equally popular Cell Arc received a 3/10 (and it was initially going to receive the 2/10).

* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: ''The Majin Boo Arc Part 26'' is mostly a rant about the setting's increasingly large pantheon with increasingly vague roles, particularly when the Kaiōshin were redundantly given the same areas of jurisdiction as the ostensibly inferior Kaiō. It's quite telling that the most clearly defined godly role is [[JudgementOfTheDead Emma's]], which Toriyama merely gave a salaryman flair rather than making up himself.

* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: ''The Majin Boo Arc Part 26'' is mostly a rant about the setting's increasingly large pantheon with increasingly vague roles, particularly when the Kaiōshin were said to have the same areas of jurisdiction as the Kaiō. It's quite telling that the most clearly defined godly role is [[JudgementOfTheDead Emma's]], which Toriyama merely gave a salaryman flair rather than making up himself.

* CharacterDerailment[[invoked]]: Yamcha's out-of-nowhere unfaithfulness toward Blooma, when the story had only shown [[TheUnfairSex her]] lusting after other men, was deemed "character assassination" to make him unsympathetic when Blooma hooks up with Vegeta, who indirectly killed him.

* MagnumOpusDissonance[[invoked]]: The Red Ribbon Army Arc isn't often well-regarded among fans, but is nonetheless ranked the highest in Lance's scores at 10/10. Conversely, the Piccolo Daimaō Arc (typically seen as the best pre-''Z'' arc) received a 2/10, the even more popular Freeza Arc got a 5/10, and the equally popular Cell Arc received a 3/10 (and it was initially going to receive the 2/10).

* CharacterDerailment[[invoked]]: Yamaha's out-of-nowhere unfaithfulness toward Bulma, when the story had only shown [[TheUnfairSex her]] lusting after other men, was deemed "character assassination" to make him unsympathetic when Bulma hooks up with Vegeta, who indirectly killed him.

* ICantBelieveImSayingThis: Despite his complaints about the back-and-forth "tennis" with Frieza and the heroes' power-ups, he still finds himself putting it above the "tennis" with Super Buu, if only because Freeza actually getting overwhelmed for the first time by Super Saiyan Goku feels much more special than Super Buu repeatedly getting overpowered, only to turn the tables via assimilation.

* VillainDecay: Discussed in ''The Cell Arc Part 1''; Lance doesn't think Frieza suffering TheWorfEffect to Future Trunks devalues him, but merely highlights the impending threat of the Androids too powerful even for the latter. What ''does'' devalue Frieza is King Cold muddying his position, as well as his poorly handled return in ''Resurrection "F"''. In the same vein, Vegeta and Nappa treating Raditz like a weakling doesn't detract from Goku and Piccolo struggling against him at the time.

* CharacterDerailment[[invoked]]: Lance believes that Yamcha's portrayal early in the Cell Arc (cowering at Frieza's arrival, distrusting Trunks even after he defeated Frieza's army, and his out-of-nowhere unfaithfulness toward Bulma) was "character assassination" to make him unsympathetic when Bulma hooks up with Vegeta, who indirectly killed him.

* CharacterDerailment[[invoked]]: Lance believes that Yamcha's portrayal early in the Cell Arc (cowering at Frieza's arrival, distrusting Trunks even after he defeated Frieza's army, and his out-of-nowhere unfaithfulness toward Bulma) was intended to make him unsympathetic when Bulma hooks up with Vegeta, who indirectly killed him.

* CharacterDerailment[[invoked]]: Lance believes that Yamaha's portrayal early in the Cell Arc (cowering at Frieza's arrival, distrusting Trunks even after he defeated Frieza's army, and his out-of-nowhere unfaithfulness toward Bulma) was intended to make him unsympathetic when Bulma hooks up with Vegeta, who indirectly killed him.

* CharacterDerailment[[invoked]]: Lance believes that Yamaha's portrayal early in the Cell Arc (cowering at Frieza's arrival, distrusting Trunks even after he defeated Frieza's army, and his out-of-nowhere unfaithfulness toward Bulma) was intended to remove sympathy so people would more readily accept Bulma hooking up with Vegeta, who indirectly killed him.

* ViewerNameConfusion: Lance eventually made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqSDVFTqHw4 a video]] discussing the different name spellings across translations and his own choices for his series.

* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: ''The Majin Boo Arc Part 26'' is mostly a rant about the setting's increasingly large pantheon with increasingly vague roles, particularly when the Kaiōshin were said to have the same areas of jurisdiction as the Kaiō. It's quite telling that the most clearly defined godly role is Emma's, which Toriyama merely gave a salaryman flair rather than making up himself.

** Villains who [[GoodThingYouCanHeal have regeneration abilities]]. He's OK with Piccolo and Metal Coola, noting that the former's regeneration went as far as limbs and still required a lot of energy, whilst the latter's could be overcome via strategy and overtaxing it. The likes of Cell, however, don't even feel pain from wounds, making them "[[InvincibleVillain wanked-out invincible]]" in his opinion. He even gets noticeably ticked off when later arcs claim that Piccolo ''can'' regenerate the kind of wounds Cell can (for instance, regenerating his entire body from just a head), which certainly wasn't the case early on.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Lance eventually made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqSDVFTqHw4 a video]] discussing the different name spellings across translations and his own choices for his series.

* CatharticExhalation: ''The Majin Boo Arc Part 12'' ends with a sigh of relief after Lance finally lets out his rant years in the making toward "[[ItsAllAboutMe Majin]]" [[KarmaHoudini Vegeta]].

* CatharticExhalation: ''The Majin Boo Arc Part 12'' ends with a sigh of relief after Lance finally lets out years worth of frustration toward "[[ItsAllAboutMe Majin]]" [[KarmaHoudini Vegeta]].

* CatharticExhalation: ''The Majin Boo Arc Part 12'' ends with a sigh of relief after Lance finally lets out years worth of frustration toward "[[MoralEventHorizon Majin]]" [[KarmaHoudini Vegeta]].