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SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#30001: Nov 30th 2015 at 2:44:03 PM

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

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#30002: Nov 30th 2015 at 2:44:52 PM

Why won't you just leave me alone!

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#30003: Nov 30th 2015 at 2:45:53 PM

Honestly, we're lucky that Toriyama is just milquetoast as far as Japanese creators go, instead of a fucking nutbar like Suda51 or Idagaki.

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#30004: Nov 30th 2015 at 2:47:41 PM

Who?

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#30005: Nov 30th 2015 at 2:49:39 PM

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#30006: Nov 30th 2015 at 2:51:06 PM

So Japanese Hunter S. Thompson?

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#30007: Nov 30th 2015 at 3:12:35 PM

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.

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#30008: Nov 30th 2015 at 3:14:37 PM

Android also means robot but that never disqualified 17 and 18.

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#30009: Nov 30th 2015 at 3:25:59 PM

And Cell is technically Android 21.

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#30010: Nov 30th 2015 at 3:28:35 PM

[up][up]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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#30011: Nov 30th 2015 at 3:35:32 PM

I think it's "artificial human" or something.

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#30012: Nov 30th 2015 at 3:38:41 PM

Which means they are humans made with great care and skill.

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#30013: Nov 30th 2015 at 3:41:33 PM

I'm pretty sure 'Android' isn't being used for the correct terminology (because that would completely disqualify 18 from being one; technically, she's a gynoid) but is instead being used as a designation model for Gero.

[down]Um.

edited 30th Nov '15 3:42:45 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

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#30014: Nov 30th 2015 at 3:41:36 PM

18 would be a gynoid anyway how come no one ever points that out huh!

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#30015: Nov 30th 2015 at 3:45:31 PM

Gyborg?

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#30016: Nov 30th 2015 at 3:54:26 PM

Cell does look roughly human, in his perfect state. More human than pirate robot anyway.

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#30017: Nov 30th 2015 at 4:55:33 PM

[up][up]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

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#30018: Nov 30th 2015 at 4:59:30 PM

Future 17 and 18 were still 17 and 18.

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#30019: Nov 30th 2015 at 5:00:58 PM

Why did Future 17 and 18 turn out so much worse than their present counterparts?

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#30020: Nov 30th 2015 at 5:02:01 PM

Something about Gero messed up their programming trying to make them more obedient.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#30021: Nov 30th 2015 at 5:06:50 PM

Present 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

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#30022: Nov 30th 2015 at 5:12:41 PM

Well, I mean, even before they got eaten, the worst they did was steal a truck.

Future 17 and 18 started out by murdering the entire cast.

Present 17 and 18 could have done that, too, but didn't.

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#30023: Nov 30th 2015 at 5:16:08 PM

As Unnoun pointed out, Present 17 and 18 still had a Goku to kill; in other words, they had something to preoccupy them.

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#30024: Nov 30th 2015 at 5:16:12 PM

I 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

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#30025: Nov 30th 2015 at 5:17:47 PM

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.

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