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#39151: May 20th 2016 at 12:19:19 PM

I actually wouldn't be surprised to see Super Saiyan Pan show up in Super at some point. Super Saiyan Videl gave me hope.

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#39152: May 20th 2016 at 12:20:45 PM

Oh yeah. She even got to be a Legendary Super Gohan's Baby Basket for a second.

edited 20th May '16 12:20:56 PM by Zeromaeus

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#39153: May 20th 2016 at 12:22:34 PM

And now 18 does nothing.

She was left out of the frieza battle for really poor reasons, while being literally told to Stay in the Kitchen.

That being said, her little arc in the World Tournament in the Buu saga was kinda cool.

I'm still annoyed she's had so few fights, but since as many have claimed, she has little interest in that, it kinda makes sense, but it doesn't make me any less annoyed.

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#39154: May 20th 2016 at 12:55:59 PM

Pan got an entire episode dedicated to her. She's already doing better than Gohan is in Super.

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#39155: May 20th 2016 at 1:04:59 PM

It feels like Gohan gets made fun of a lot.

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#39159: May 20th 2016 at 1:41:27 PM

Humor isn't justice, it's not about deserving it or not. We make fun of Gohan because it's funny.

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#39160: May 20th 2016 at 1:59:31 PM

(`~`): Funny = Positive...he must deserve it then.

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#39161: May 20th 2016 at 2:07:23 PM

[up][up]I meant in the show actually. It kind of feels like Gohan lost the position of coolness he once had.

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#39162: May 20th 2016 at 3:01:15 PM

He never really had a position of 'coolness'. He had a position of 'living breathing Deus ex Machina' at one point, a position of "okay this time we're abusing the Deus ex Machina" at another and finally, he reminded everyone of how much of a dork he is by failing to win a fight he had in the bag.

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#39163: May 20th 2016 at 4:51:06 PM

What about when he beat up Cell? That was pretty cool.

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#39164: May 20th 2016 at 5:31:45 PM

It's because he married that slut whore Videl and gave up fighting.

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#39166: May 20th 2016 at 5:33:48 PM

This week's Weekly Jump Xenoverse scan.

Apparently we can transfer our first game's save and we can change the timeline.

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#39168: May 20th 2016 at 5:43:50 PM

People making fun of Gohan is the result of him being the most powerful character at a number of points in DBZ, only for him to have now fallen so far behind that it seems like he can't even access a fraction of the abilities he once had.

Sure, he wants to be a scholar, but I don't think the narrative is exactly praising him for that when guys like Beerus and Frieza are slapping him around all the time.

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#39169: May 20th 2016 at 5:47:09 PM

I mean.

They could do a thing where they show the future of Online and how because of the book he wrote the Earth is now strong enough collectively to defend itself.

Vindicated by history.

I mean.

If they do a time travel plot.

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#39170: May 20th 2016 at 6:16:19 PM

Oh, another point about "Online", I'm not sure the game ever got around to revealing that Towa was Dabura's sister. It said she was from the demon world yes, but I don't remember much more than her being a brilliant scientist who betrayed it. And Mira's time shenanigans were the result of an unhealthy obsession he had with Goku, who he wanted to take control of. (hence masked Bardock) The avenging Dabura's death thing is another thing I think they never got around to(which again, makes sense, the time travel parts never got past the Android saga)

So, yes, not having a lot of interaction with Dabura is acceptable at this point because it's new information. Though I wonder how much of Xenoverse is stuff Online never got around to and how much is new ideas. The seal on the demon world is an anime only plot and Online rejected all of the anime's innovations(or the developers didn't have the rights at the time, either way, it doesn't sound like something that would have happened)

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#39171: May 20th 2016 at 7:34:14 PM

Goku: trains all the time, made fun of for being a bad father and not having a job.

Gohan: focuses on his family and his career, made fun of for not training and getting stronger.

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#39172: May 20th 2016 at 7:37:28 PM

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#39173: May 20th 2016 at 7:39:27 PM

It's not just that.

It's also that Gohan some how degraded so much, that he can barely maintain Super Saiyan (which is the only way he can come close to his original power).

In addition to the the fact that he's messed up a lot (not killing Cell when he had the chance; letting his power degrade so much he struggled with Dabura; fucking around with Super Buu which allowed him to absorb Gotenks; not training again, which lead to the thing with Frieza above).

Of course, this is because Toriyama wrote him this way, and then promptly decided he no longer wanted Gohan in the spotlight. That's annoying enough, but depowering Gohan has always frustrated me because it wasn't necessary.

Golden Frieza was clearly stronger than Mystic Gohan anyway, so I can't help but wonder why Gohan had to be weaker then he was in order to up the threat of someone that would have surpassed him anyway.

To say nothing of Super Saiyan Blue Vegeta and Goku being stronger anyway. Why is Gohan the only one who gets depowered when it's never happened to anyone else?

edited 20th May '16 7:39:46 PM by HandsomeRob

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#39174: May 20th 2016 at 7:43:15 PM

Hell, Yamcha probably hasn't trained in years, and he's still at the level he was at during the Android Saga, same as Krillin.

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#39175: May 20th 2016 at 7:44:28 PM

Because unlike everyone else, Gohan could actually be relevant if he tried. But it's just not his personality to work to tap that potential of his and harness it into something great. But the potential is there.

Gohan is a character who has a massive inherent advantage that he is incredibly unsuited for. It's kind of an interesting concept, compared to the usual shonen fare of heroes having incredibly massive inherent advantages that they're perfectly suited for.

[up]That's likely wrong. For both Yamcha and Krillin, training is a part of their lifestyle. Even if they gave up fighting, it's unlikely they wouldn't still train every day to maintain their strength. Unlike Gohan, they actually like the martial arts.

edited 20th May '16 7:45:25 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

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