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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#53326: Feb 28th 2017 at 1:39:21 PM

To change it up...like that?

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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
himitsu keisatsu
#53327: Feb 28th 2017 at 1:40:04 PM

Thing is, the purple hair was actually accurate to the manga. For some reason, Bulma had blue hair instead of purple hair like she was supposed to in the anime.

himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari
Cortez from Parts Unknown (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#53328: Mar 1st 2017 at 1:59:39 AM

@Slimcoder

Why, she's adorable. It's still canon anyway and she is being used a lot now.

Anyway, i always figured the Blue hair was a sign of him getting older.

edited 1st Mar '17 2:00:30 AM by Cortez

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#53329: Mar 1st 2017 at 2:09:30 AM

[up] You mean Gine?

Well then its because she's adorable. I always believed Goku's mom was just an ordinary Saiyan, a ferocious savage battle-monger & that she didn't have much of a relationship with Bardock aside from producing Goku. Like they were apart of a breeding program & after producing Goku they went there separate ways or things went by as normal with no romantic attachments.

I thought of her as a warrior & a space pirate like the rest of em. I thought of her like Vegeta, Nappa, Raditz or Bardock, in short I thought of her as a "Saiyan" not there Goddamn white-sheep. Not as some reject who is apparently one of the few kind-hearted Saiyans alive who works as fucking meat processor cause she couldn't cut it out on the battlefield cause of an aversion to violence & is actually making Bardock softer.

edited 1st Mar '17 2:14:38 AM by slimcoder

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Hobgoblin Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#53330: Mar 1st 2017 at 3:37:33 AM

Not sure I like that about Gine, to be honest. Nothing gave any indication that Raditz was a good person, even though he would've been raised by Gine. And Bardock certainly wasn't a good person in Bardock, the Father of Goku. He destroys other races for a living and the climax of the film is him trying to keep his own race from being destroyed and failing. He's not a hero; he just happens to be in opposition to one of the big DBZ villains.

Unfortunately, most mediums nowadays tend to forget that, so now we have Dindu Nuffin Bardock, the Super Saiyan hero. Also, he somehow lost that future sight ability of his.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#53331: Mar 1st 2017 at 3:46:41 AM

I mean, Bardock and Raditz weren't "good" people, but they at least had concepts of bonds with squadmates and family.

Like, Raditz was only there because he wanted his baby brother.

He wanted his baby brother to kill a bunch of people so he could have job experience to make it in the rough galaxy.

He seemingly expected Vegeta and Nappa to avenge him, and Nappa was going to wish to bring him back.

Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#53332: Mar 1st 2017 at 5:34:49 AM

Are there Saiyans out there similar to Gine and Tarble?

hardcorefakes coolest_guy from probably America Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
coolest_guy
#53333: Mar 1st 2017 at 7:07:36 AM

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Raditz tried to murder his little brother....after he had kidnapped his son...

Very loving family man, Raditz is.

Hobgoblin Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#53334: Mar 1st 2017 at 7:21:27 AM

Didn't even show up at Gohan's wedding. What a jerk.

hardcorefakes coolest_guy from probably America Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
coolest_guy
#53335: Mar 1st 2017 at 7:45:02 AM

At least he had the excuse of being dead for Gohan's, he didn't even bother showing up to Goku's while he was alive.

alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#53336: Mar 1st 2017 at 8:10:34 AM

Fusions has a bunch of silly Saiyans.

BigBlackBangBro Time Stranger Since: Sep, 2016
Time Stranger
#53337: Mar 1st 2017 at 8:54:17 AM

Maybe Vegeta had a really nice mother.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#53338: Mar 1st 2017 at 10:31:28 AM

Another long video from Masako, this time on Gohan and his character:

I think they cover a lot of stuff that we've mentioned before.

One thing they hit upon is Toriyama's by the seat of his pants style. I think, when it comes to what he did with Gohan, it definitely worked against him. With a little time to think about things ahead of time, he could have realized sooner that he didn't think Gohan was right for the role of hero, instead of building him up and then just tossing him out.

One thing we can say about Super is that, since there's an actual long term outline of what's going to happen (as opposed to Toriyama just doing what he feels like at the moment) there can be better build up towards things. We won't see any last second shifts like during the Cell Saga with the changing villains, or the Buu Saga with it's changing hero.

But anyway, check out the video yourselves and see what you think.

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#53339: Mar 1st 2017 at 10:41:02 AM

Remember when I mentioned that one crack ship involving Beerus? BOO-YAH!! XD (WARNING: Slightly NSFW due to language, suggestive themes, and tumblr background)

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Cortez from Parts Unknown (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#53340: Mar 1st 2017 at 1:32:50 PM

@Slimcoder

Except it was already canon that not all Saiyans were savages. Besides, considering how much Saiyans love their meat, you can't say the job she did have wasn't important. It's also logical that not every Saiyan would be a warrior and that some would have a support role.

As for Raditz, he was a child when he was last with his mother, but spent most of his life serving Freeza.

Even then, he seemed to have put more stock in his relationship with Nappa and Vegeta than they did to him, so clearly a little bit of her did rub off.

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Raditz only tried to kill him after Goku rejected his offer to join him.

edited 1st Mar '17 1:37:45 PM by Cortez

RJ-19-CLOVIS-93 from New Zealand (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#53341: Mar 1st 2017 at 2:52:34 PM

Raditz had a very Category Traitor view on his brother. Rather ironic that, in part due to him, Goku would take down the tyrant who destroyed the Saiyans and become one of the strongest beings in the universe, let alone the Saiyans. Doubly ironic that if Goku had remembered his mission from the start Master Roshi would've probably dealt with him

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#53342: Mar 1st 2017 at 3:18:39 PM

Except it was already canon that not all Saiyans were savages.

How so? I mean, there was Tarble, but Toriyama now seems to be trying hard to forget him (well ok, there's no evidence he wasn't just a Toei creation from the get go). Pretty much everything everyone said about Saiyans (other saiyans included) is that they liked fighting and being assholes every chance they got, and that the only reason Goku was different was due to having a head butting contest with a rock.

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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
himitsu keisatsu
#53343: Mar 1st 2017 at 3:27:50 PM

Goku is Not So Different.

Saiyans not being assholes per se was a thing - they're just a race of Blood Knight-types.

himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari
Cortez from Parts Unknown (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#53344: Mar 1st 2017 at 5:23:55 PM

Plus for practical reasons, some of them would need to take on none combat roles.

Probably the ones with the lowest power levels.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#53345: Mar 1st 2017 at 5:29:47 PM

Well then I just don't like her in general.

I mean honestly now that I think about it she's a very inconsequential character. Minus was less then 15 pages she didn't really have a lot of screen time but still there's not much too her either way. All she is, is just to show who Goku's mom was & yes Bardock was happily married or whatever is the Saiyan equivalent to it.

That's literally the only reason to bother to remember her, that she was Goku's mom, nothing more, nothing less.

edited 1st Mar '17 5:31:52 PM by slimcoder

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GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#53346: Mar 1st 2017 at 5:44:53 PM

[up] That is for all intents and purposes her appeal, Gine isn't very interesting on her own and Minus seems like a reference to Superman origins. It also raises up plot holes as to how Raditz knew how to find Goku if the mission itself wasn't sanctioned by Frieza.

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Demetrios Making darkness adorable since 1999 from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Making darkness adorable since 1999
#53347: Mar 1st 2017 at 7:02:42 PM

Which professional wrestler is Mr. Satan a spoof of?

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#53348: Mar 1st 2017 at 7:08:07 PM

I think Bob Sapp, but was he a wrestler?

LordVatek Not really a lord of anything Since: Sep, 2014
Not really a lord of anything
#53349: Mar 1st 2017 at 7:09:53 PM

I'm tempted to say all of them.

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The Cat Knows Where It's At
#53350: Mar 1st 2017 at 7:13:01 PM

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