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UdtheImp from Stamford, CT (Series 2) Relationship Status: The Skitty to my Wailord
#53701: Mar 6th 2017 at 1:06:55 PM

[up]How do you explain the smartphones?

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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#53702: Mar 6th 2017 at 1:11:43 PM

Bulma.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#53703: Mar 6th 2017 at 1:16:48 PM

The Dragon World has always had some features that would be anachronistic to our world, and other features that are way more advanced then anything we could hope to achieve any time soon.

MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
Mr. Clueless
#53704: Mar 6th 2017 at 1:30:27 PM

I finally watched episode 81. Goku excitedly saying that he didn't hold back was the second-biggest "are you kidding me?" moment. The biggest was seeing the Kaioken translated as "King Kai Fist".

Halfway through the fight, I thought, "Oh, I see. Goku's trying to make him so big he can't fit on the arena". Did anyone else think that?

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UdtheImp from Stamford, CT (Series 2) Relationship Status: The Skitty to my Wailord
#53705: Mar 6th 2017 at 1:36:46 PM

[up]I did. Then I realized ring outs were not possible in the exhibition.

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DarkHunter from New Mexico Since: Jan, 2001
#53706: Mar 6th 2017 at 3:39:11 PM

The biggest was seeing the Kaioken translated as "King Kai Fist".

To be fair, that is the translation of "Kaioken". Not the first time that Super's official subs have done that either.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#53707: Mar 6th 2017 at 3:40:43 PM

Holy shit that's what Kaioken means?

Huh, I did not know that.

edited 6th Mar '17 3:40:58 PM by slimcoder

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DarkHunter from New Mexico Since: Jan, 2001
#53708: Mar 6th 2017 at 3:42:58 PM

Well, I think the completely literal translation is "World(s)-King Fist", but the English translations have never translated "Kai", so it comes out that way.

edited 6th Mar '17 3:47:19 PM by DarkHunter

Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#53709: Mar 6th 2017 at 4:04:43 PM

Likewise, Kaioushin (Supreme Kai) translates as World King God.

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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#53710: Mar 6th 2017 at 5:43:56 PM

Incidentally, that makes Supreme Kai translate to Supreme World.

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Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#53711: Mar 6th 2017 at 6:17:56 PM

Oh, I just realized that ring-outs being mandatory in the Universe Survival Tournament defangs Botamo pretty hard.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#53712: Mar 6th 2017 at 6:20:53 PM

Botamo?

He's the sentient heater, right?

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TyeDyeWildebeest Unreasonably Quirky from Big Rock Candy Mountain Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: How does it feel to treat me like you do?
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#53713: Mar 6th 2017 at 6:23:02 PM

[up] No, he's the fat yellow bear with the dimensional shield thingy.

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MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
Mr. Clueless
#53714: Mar 6th 2017 at 6:27:45 PM

Right now, I'm imagining Botamo as Homer Simpson from that one episode where he becomes a champion boxer by letting his opponents punch him until they get so exhausted he can just push them over.

What am saying is that Botamo should hope that his opponents are incredibly stupid.

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#53715: Mar 6th 2017 at 6:31:11 PM

I mean this a team effort since its a battle royale.

What if U6 comes up with a strategy or something. How many days till the actual tournament start? They could come up with a plan.

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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#53716: Mar 6th 2017 at 6:33:14 PM

[up][up]He is in the right series for that...

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#53717: Mar 6th 2017 at 6:37:07 PM

Hit's Time skip alone gives them a huge advantage over everyone but Goku and Universe 7.

We've seen him make it so that others besides himself are unaffected, so if he can extend that to his entire team, that's a lot of easy eliminations right off the bat in theory.

If we take some members of Universe 7 into account, we have three members who can split themselves up into multiple bodies: Tenshihan, Piccolo, and (under certain circumstances) Buu. This would theoretically let them cover a wide range of battles.

Piccolo can fill the arena with his Hellzone Grenade. Hard to dodge when there are so many around don't you think.

Solar Flare is gonna catch a lot of people too, and with so many in the way, Tri Beam would be hard to dodge as well if Tien plays his cards right.

Man, this is gonna be crazy.

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#53718: Mar 6th 2017 at 6:41:25 PM

It be better crazy.

I mean I'm an optimist but there's this nagging feeling that there gonna drop the ball somehow.

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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#53719: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:01:28 PM

I'm calling it.

Tournament gets interrupted somehow.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#53720: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:10:36 PM

But this is Dragon Ball...

When has a tournament ever been interrupted in this series?

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#53721: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:20:49 PM

That's true.

Even when a villain actually did show up at the tournament, it still kept going.

You can't stop a fucking Tenkaichi Budokai. Even if Freeza destroying the Earth in Resurrection F has stuck, they'd probably still find a way to hold on.

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Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
The Cat Knows Where It's At
#53722: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:20:53 PM

25th Tenkaichi Budoukai. The Boo Saga one.

Also, technically the Cell Games.

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GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
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#53723: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:21:32 PM

What about when Goku and the others left to find Bibidi in the Buu arc?

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#53724: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:21:47 PM

[up][up]and[up]

The 25th kept going after many of the fighters left.

As the Cell games, it was barely a tournament really.

edited 6th Mar '17 7:21:59 PM by HandsomeRob

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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#53725: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:36:06 PM

Don't you see it? That's exactly what Toriyama wants, he designed his villains with the intention of having them subvert your expectations, the least-likely looking guy to be the Big Bad is the Big Bad, or the God-Killing Abomination that is an obese pink manchild, or the useless Supreme God of the Universe, or the God of Destruction everyone's scared shitless about being just a lazy cat!

He will now do it to the tournament! It's the long con, a years long gambit that finally pays off! Like Brian Clevinger's 8-Bit Theater!

edited 6th Mar '17 7:36:38 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

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