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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#50651: Jan 28th 2017 at 9:48:12 PM

Goku's scared of Hit.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#50652: Jan 28th 2017 at 9:51:06 PM

[up]That seems to be an anime thing.

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Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Arashi Shigehito
#50653: Jan 28th 2017 at 9:51:14 PM

Throw Yog-Soggoth at him. >.>

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Jedi1113 Since: Jun, 2009
#50654: Jan 28th 2017 at 9:51:24 PM

I wonder how long before some game, probably Heroes, has some zen Krillin form, with the white aura and glowing hands.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#50655: Jan 28th 2017 at 9:52:20 PM

Is he? Theirs may have been a battle that's so dangerous that it made him tremble, but is he really afraid of Hit? This is, after all, the guy who intentionally hired Hit to try and kill him, just for the sake of testing his own strength.

This bit worked with Krillin not specifically because he's afraid of Tambourine, or Freeza, or Buu, but because he's haunted by the trauma in his past in general. Goku isn't haunted by the times he's been overwhelmed in battle. On the flipside, he's excited by those moments.

wild mass guess Wow, this thread moves fast when it wants to.

edited 28th Jan '17 9:54:39 PM by KnownUnknown

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#50656: Jan 28th 2017 at 9:54:19 PM

Wasn't Goku afraid enough of Super Buu that he wasn't even willing to fight him because he knew he'd lose?

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#50657: Jan 28th 2017 at 9:55:47 PM

I recall it being more along the lines of him thinking it would be pointless, rather than being afraid to fight, but it's been a while since I've seen those episodes.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#50659: Jan 29th 2017 at 12:13:24 AM

A'ight, that was a fun episode, but I gotta ask... Did Krillin just unlock a new, human-based transformation?

That's not a normal looking aura, it almost looks like God/Blue/Rose/Rage but white.

GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
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#50660: Jan 29th 2017 at 12:18:02 AM

Goku is the Fearless Fool, he has *nothing* to fear as he is a pure as pure can be.

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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#50661: Jan 29th 2017 at 12:33:01 AM

Could be a form of Enlightenment Superpower. Time will tell.

edited 29th Jan '17 12:33:38 AM by Enlong

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#50662: Jan 29th 2017 at 12:42:23 AM

[up][up]Purity isn't an escape from fear...

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#50663: Jan 29th 2017 at 12:59:28 AM

I'm curious about that too. It could be anywhere from him unlocking his potential (again) and getting back on the track he was before he started letting himself go, to his newly cleared mind changing and improving the manner in which he uses his ki. The latter of which is shounen shorthand for "about to improve by leaps and bounds."

This episode (and, arguably, Krillin's whole arc in Super) puts a lot on Krillin not just becoming a martial artist again, but actually being on the path to becoming stronger, which leaves me thinking "to what end?" Across the series it's a plot I really like, but they still have yet to establish or introduce a means in which it will matter. The power difference is an enormous elephant in the room (Krillin even points it out it in the first episode of the two parter).

Either way, we'll just have to see where the next arc goes for him from here.

edited 29th Jan '17 1:01:44 AM by KnownUnknown

GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
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#50664: Jan 29th 2017 at 1:01:50 AM

Purity isn't an escape from fear...

It isn't? I guess Goku is just the Fearless Fool .

"Mai waifu."
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#50665: Jan 29th 2017 at 1:03:49 AM

His fear priority is skewed...he's not fearless.

Or a piercing pain is just worse than blunt pain.

edited 29th Jan '17 1:04:46 AM by randomness4

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#50666: Jan 29th 2017 at 1:12:15 AM

He's not fearless. He's been afraid plenty of times in the series and has admitted as such.

[up][up][up] We can't even guarantee if this will be brought up again, given that it's only happened in the anime so far. It wouldn't be the first thing brought up in the anime that was discarded.

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#50667: Jan 29th 2017 at 1:24:32 AM

Super's continuity is quite the thing. Quite a shift to go from manga first to anime first.

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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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#50668: Jan 29th 2017 at 1:44:11 AM

Jesus this moves fast.

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Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Arashi Shigehito
#50670: Jan 29th 2017 at 2:06:27 AM

Did he just Goomba Stomp him into a broken neck?

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
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#50672: Jan 29th 2017 at 2:11:02 AM

Whether "white effects aura around the body with spiky aura around the hands" is an actual transformative state in Super remains to be seen, but if it's canonized as a transformation anywhere else, it'll definitely be in Heroes.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#50673: Jan 29th 2017 at 2:12:26 AM

It turned from a kick into a goomba stomp?

It didn't even look like he landed that hard.

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alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#50674: Jan 29th 2017 at 2:20:04 AM

"Oh my Uncle,I killed him!I'm so sorry man!"

JonnasN from Porto, Portugal Since: Jul, 2012
#50675: Jan 29th 2017 at 3:03:00 AM

...What do you mean, first time? The Tambourine stomp was there in the original Dragon Ball, too.


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