Honestly, we're lucky that Toriyama is just milquetoast as far as Japanese creators go, instead of a fucking nutbar like Suda51 or Idagaki.
My various fanfics.Video Game developers known for being wackos. Idagaki once showed up drunk to a press conference with a bottle of tequila in one hand and swinging a katana.
My various fanfics.The pirate robots is not an android. Android means "designed to look human". The pirate robot had a Skull for a Head! Furthermore, the pirate robots are a separate enemy type from the androids in Dragon Ball Online.
Buldogue's lawyerAndroid also means robot but that never disqualified 17 and 18.
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Those two are still mostly human, though. They're mostly called "android" to make it perfectly clear that they're in the same line as Android 8.
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Nah, Cyborg is unisex.
Also, if Cell is Android 21, does that mean that Present Timeline Cell is Android 23? 'Cause Trunks' Timeline Cell would be 22... Unless you count present timeline first, so the others would be 22 and 23...
edited 30th Nov '15 4:56:16 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariPresent 17 and 18 still had a Goku to kill.
And then Vegeta, Piccolo and Gohan got stronger than them.
Also 16.
16 happened.
...Cell too, actually, come to think of it.
Terrorizing the world probably seems less appealing when dealing with the trauma of a bug man eating you.
edited 30th Nov '15 5:08:13 PM by unnoun
As Unnoun pointed out, Present 17 and 18 still had a Goku to kill; in other words, they had something to preoccupy them.
"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — UltimatepheerI don't get the sense they killed everyone on the first day.
I got the impression it took them like. A week. Maybe a month. A year even possibly.
That they let the cast go the first few times because they wanted someone to play with.
Same as they did with Gohan and Trunks. They killed Gohan eventually, but. They weren't in a hurry about it.
In the present, they didn't have that many opportunities, and Goku was still alive so they had an actual goal to accomplish.
edited 30th Nov '15 5:16:44 PM by unnoun
To be fair, Future 17 and 18 probably also stole a truck at some point.
Also, I would say it's the lack of consequences for their actions. Humans can get really, really freaking evil when you take away their fear of the consequences of their actions.
Ever read one of those dumbass powertrip fanfics that feature amoral monsters as protagonists? Just like that, basically.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari

Toriyama: I don't remember. Leave me alone.
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