Who is this Bills you speak of? Are you talking about Beers/Beerus?
Which is effin' stupid and yet another reason this film doesn't chronologically fit into the main story line (unlike Movies 5, 9, and 13, and to a lesser extent Movie 1).
It's as canon as everything else, as a result of Dragon Ball having no official canon.
Yep. Pan was incredibly powerful from what little we saw of her though, so her SS would also be incredibly powerful. Bardock, on the other hand, was only a little under 10,000 when he was sent back in time; he may have become stronger than that from a near death boost, but it can't possibly have been by that much. So take his level, which is probably a small amount over 10,000 and multiply by fifty to get his SS level.
By contrast, Goku's base form when he first went Super Saiyan was 3 million. Every saiyan in the Buu arc is many times stronger than Namek Goku, and even Namek Goku can absolutely crush Super Saiyan Bardock in base, since he'd only be 500,000-1,000,000.
edited 1st Feb '14 4:03:39 PM by sockpuppet1
That's why, when someone did Super Saiyan Bardock vs. Frieza, Frieza went to second form and murdered him.
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Not at all. Those are some of the least workable ones.
In Movie 2, Goku knows the kaio-ken, but only up to x4, and Piccolo is still around despite there being a flashback in the movie of Nappa killing him. Completely unfitting anywhere in the timeline.
In Movie 3, everyone is alive, yet Goku knows kaio-ken x10 (but not Super Saiyan) and Piccolo is an ally. Goku is also given a power level of 30,000, while Gohan is 10,000 and Piccolo is 18,000. There is no point in the series where this could happen at all.
A likely outcome.
edited 1st Feb '14 4:03:18 PM by sockpuppet1
I haven't watched them in a while so I forgot those parts. I remember hearing that the best spot to put them is in the time skip between Trunk's arrival and the Androids popping up but it wouldn't make sense with those numbers. They'd probably fit better if the Frieza saga had been finished by then. I believe some of the inconsistencies came from the writers not knowing what power levels and such would be after that.
Really, it's best to picture it in divergent timeline.
In the Garlic Jr. Timeline, they killed Vegeta and discovered some bullshit method of resurrecting Piccolo that allowed them to resurrect everyone else, and Frieza isn't a thing yet.
In the Tree of Might Timeline, Goku got home in time to stop Nappa from murdering EVERYONE, has a greater understanding of Kaioken, and they hadn't yet traveled to Namek.
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The lack of Trunks' having a tail is brought up when the baby Trunks is first seen. Kuririn notices the lack of a tail and asks Bulma if it was cut off but she doesn't respond.
Also there's Toriyama confirming that they don't have tails in an interview.
Vegeta training Trunks in the early Boo arc was something that only started happening recently, according to Bulma.
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That's not official though.
edited 1st Feb '14 4:12:15 PM by Saiga
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Nah, it doesn't seem like there was any effort made to fit them at all; basic stuff like Piccolo and Krillin being alive in those films render them impossible to fit anywhere, and the Freeza arc hadn't even been concluded by this point. Then there's just weird stuff, like Piccolo's death against Nappa being referenced in Movie 2, where he's alive, or Movie 4 (another unworkable one) referencing Freeza, indicating the Namek arc must have happened some time in that timeline whereas the Saiyan arc must have happened in Movie 2's as well.
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Err, that's never stated or implied anywhere. Unless you're mistaking a fan work for an official one.
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Actually, officially Garlic Jr's movie is set before Raditz's arrival, in the main timeline. There's just one small plothole going against that.
Going by his feats (pushing Gohan out of the way of an attack Piccolo couldn't see) and his confidence in fighting Freeza's final form after sensing the ki of his previous three forms, Vegeta was around 2 million or a little bit higher when Freeza killed him. However, power isn't all it takes to become a Super Saiyan. When Goku explains that he became a Super Saiyan because of his tranquil heart being awakened by intense rage, Freeza chuckles and remarks that Vegeta didn't have a tranquil heart, and so wasn't able to become a Super Saiyan no matter how hard he tried.
edited 1st Feb '14 4:14:44 PM by sockpuppet1
sockpuppet: I know Frieza wasn't beaten by then. I'm saying that it's possible the writers intended the events of these movies to happen after it but didn't know what the status quo would be so they just made stuff up. Of course alternate timelines make far more sense for most of them. Even some of the movies that explicitly define when they take place(I'm looking at you 6-8) don't make sense in that spot.
edit: Damn, I didn't think Vegeta got that powerful. Too bad he didn't know the Kaioken. If both he and Goku did a X20 together they might have had a shot without going Super Saiyan.
edited 1st Feb '14 4:16:29 PM by Kostya

And don't forget Bills>>>>>Goku. Rendering every conflict in the entire series hilariously miniscule, as Bills could have been woken up at any time and crushed them all.
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