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Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#30201: Dec 3rd 2015 at 5:33:38 AM

All this talk of GT makes me want to link this:

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BaffleBlend Hey there! Having fun? from Somewhere Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: LET'S HAVE A ZILLION BABIES
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#30202: Dec 3rd 2015 at 5:48:55 AM

I've wondered for a while: what would happen if someone gathered the dragon balls and said something to the effect of, "I wish... for your freedom, Shenron!"

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#30203: Dec 3rd 2015 at 5:50:43 AM

Well, the latest chapter of DBH Victory Mission finally gave names to the Supreme Kai's.

  • SK Hero = Zen
  • SK Elite = Fen
  • SK Berserker = Wairu

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#30205: Dec 3rd 2015 at 6:02:05 AM

[up][up][up]I think that would just be a logic bomb, since he unlike a Genie gains nothing by being free.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#30206: Dec 3rd 2015 at 6:12:41 AM

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See. this makes me wish Toriyama hadn't decided that the fans forgot about Launch. This potential for some hilarious interactions her, as the comic shows with her and 18.

As for the Nappa Punch, as I re-call, before he punched Tien's arm off, Tien blocked an earlier attack that seemed to burn him arm or something. That may have weakened it enough to make the injury possible. Also, Nappa was surrounded in an Aura as well, so maybe it made the punch like a heat rod that cut through quickly.

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Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
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#30207: Dec 3rd 2015 at 6:18:35 AM

Tien arms are just weak, as if they were made from paper mache... or Raditz.

zsmg Since: Jul, 2011
#30208: Dec 3rd 2015 at 6:23:56 AM

Someone contact Toei I want to see that Launch comic animated in Super.

Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#30209: Dec 3rd 2015 at 6:42:16 AM

Lazuli and Launch would be besties, wouldn't they?

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#30210: Dec 3rd 2015 at 6:48:09 AM

[up]x3: While I know you were making a TFS reference, it bears mentioning that Tien actually WAS stronger than Raditz at that point. He would have fared no better.note 

But yeah. that was messed up. Even when I knew what was coming, it still shocked me.

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#30211: Dec 3rd 2015 at 8:22:15 AM

I never realized that Base GT Goku was as powerful as Super Saiyan 3 Buu Saga Goku. Yikes that explains a lot.

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#30212: Dec 3rd 2015 at 8:37:08 AM

And yet somehow SS 4 GT Goku is only = Buu Saga Vegetto.

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#30213: Dec 3rd 2015 at 12:11:48 PM

I didn't get the joke in the comic with Launch...what happened to 18?

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Piando 18's Glomp OF DOOM Since: Jun, 2015
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#30214: Dec 3rd 2015 at 12:16:39 PM

Yamcha got kidnapped and was forced to give advice. 18 probably just went home. The comic ends with him lamenting that no girl likes him enough for a romantic relationship, still tied up.

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#30215: Dec 3rd 2015 at 1:01:26 PM

I didn't understand the whole "oh now you act like a robot" thing.

My sense of humor might be off today.

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#30216: Dec 3rd 2015 at 1:23:49 PM

I never realized that Base GT Goku was as powerful as Super Saiyan 3 Buu Saga Goku. Yikes that explains a lot

Wait, what? When was this?

He lost power in his child form, this was stated when he fought Baby, even turning into a SS 3 wasn't good enough. I thought the whole point of Goku being a kid again was to provide tangible threats. Up until Super, the only 3 people that could challenge Goku were Vegeta, Gohan, and Uub.

Yeah, there was that scene when Goku backhanded energy blasts from Gohan, but, Good!Future Gohan kind of sucks in every depiction we've seen him in.

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#30217: Dec 3rd 2015 at 1:37:53 PM

Goku was beating General Rild who in his weakest form is stronger that Buu. Then there's him effortlessly toying with powered-up Cell. He then powered up considerably between Baby and Super 17 sagas, going from being weaker than Majin Uub as SSJ3 to being stronger than him as SSJ1.

Goku might have lost power after being turned into a child, but that only means his adult form was even more ridiculously powerful. GT power levels were all out of wack.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#30218: Dec 3rd 2015 at 1:45:56 PM

Goku was beating General Rild who in his weakest form is stronger that Buu. Then there's him effortlessly toying with powered-up Cell. He then powered up considerably between Baby and Super 17 sagas, going from being weaker than Majin Uub as SSJ 3 to being stronger than him as SSJ 1.

Goku was already ridiculously stronger than Cell in the Buu Saga, by lieu of being a SS 2 and a SS 3.

Yeah, he ends up being stronger than Majin Uub, but Maj'Uub was kicking Baby's ass until Baby reversed the Candy Beam on him. (#statements you never thought you'd type) Every major battle Goku fought in GT against a main antagonist, he turned into a SS 4, it seems logical he'd be a lot stronger than Majin Uub. In which battle did he fight as a SS 1?

As for Goku saying Rildo was stronger, I take that with a grain of salt, because later on Goku reacts to Omega destroying a city as if it's the most incredible feat of destruction he's ever witnessed.

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#30219: Dec 3rd 2015 at 1:54:03 PM

But he wasn't ridiculously stronger than Cell without even transforming into Super Sayian like in GT.

Sigh... that's why I said he went from weaker than Majin Uub as SSJ3 to stronger than him as SSJ1 in between arc. Goku does better against Super 17 as SSJ1 than the entire group earlier -including Uub- did.

You can't just disregard statements that don't fit with your opinion like that. Goku said it, and there's no reason to think he'd lie.

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#30220: Dec 3rd 2015 at 2:02:15 PM

That comic with Launch was pretty funny, imo.

I need to find some Dragon Ball to watch now...

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#30221: Dec 3rd 2015 at 3:48:30 PM

I still didn't get the joke in that comic...

I mean, I got the Yamcha joke, and the bit at the end with Tien. But everything else I didn't get.

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#30222: Dec 3rd 2015 at 3:51:19 PM

Well, there were a few things I didn't get, but I'm assuming that's because I don't know as much about the franchise as the average fan.

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#30223: Dec 3rd 2015 at 4:01:41 PM

I do know that Launch is fixated on Tien and that Tien is oblivious/doesn't care.

Of course, I'm kind of surprised Launch never came back into focus in the manga. Toriyama clearly had enough recollection of her to mention her in the first chapter of the Saiyan arc, but beyond that...is he really that forgetful?

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#30224: Dec 3rd 2015 at 4:02:53 PM

[up] Once he did remember, he thought her signature sneeze, turn blonde and badass schtick would confuse people with Super Saiyans.

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#30225: Dec 3rd 2015 at 4:03:09 PM

Seems so.

And I feel like bringing Launch back in to do stuff would have some pretty cool possibilities for stories based on side characters.

But oh well...

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