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Cortez from Parts Unknown (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#55426: Apr 7th 2017 at 6:32:27 PM

Some of the newer solicits also mention that Tien has opened his own Dojo and Roshi is visiting.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#55427: Apr 7th 2017 at 6:35:45 PM

What we instead have is guns that are stronger than their user, and able to hurt beings stronger than the user because that gun is stronger than normal.

Careful Saiga. People might use that one against you the next time the Super Saiyan Blue slaying laser ring comes up.tongue

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#55428: Apr 7th 2017 at 6:37:28 PM

That'd be pretty stupid, though, given the magnitude of difference between the two scenes.

Which only means people will definitely do it.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#55429: Apr 7th 2017 at 6:38:25 PM

Randomness was gonna bring it up...

Ready and willing, but decided against it...

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#55430: Apr 7th 2017 at 6:41:50 PM

DBS 86: Goku vs 17 duh, but 17 turns him down for some reason.

DBS 87: A mysterious space ship appears and Goku wants to help 17 against poachers.

DBS 88: Gohan and Piccolo train for an entire episode!

DBS 89: Goku wants to recruit Roshi, but he's at Tien's dojo trying to meet a mysterious new girl named "Yurin".

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#55431: Apr 7th 2017 at 6:59:14 PM

That'd be pretty stupid, though, given the magnitude of difference between the two scenes.

Indeed.

Which only means people will definitely do it.

Eh. It's the internet. What'chu gun do?

To be honest, I'll probably do it at some point. Fair warning and all.

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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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#55432: Apr 7th 2017 at 7:00:28 PM

The laser thing was just insanely stupid.

Because someone made a laser gun that can kill Gods. Ring. Whatever.

edited 7th Apr '17 7:00:39 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#55433: Apr 7th 2017 at 7:02:36 PM

Eh. You act as though killing gods isn't a thing in anime.tongue

...though I never considered that part. Well, I'm finally convinced it's kinda dumb now.

Go figure.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#55434: Apr 7th 2017 at 7:04:19 PM

And the same person who wielded that ring thought that pre-training Freeza was more valuable.

RJ-19-CLOVIS-93 from New Zealand (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#55435: Apr 7th 2017 at 7:04:40 PM

So at least according to the official wiki Universe 1 is best universe. Meaning the most competent God of Destruction is Iwen, a guy who looks something out of Where the Wild Things Are. How do you guys feel about that? I think he's a sort of wise elder archetype

Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#55436: Apr 7th 2017 at 7:06:12 PM

I mean, Kami and King Kai are also gods; you have to remember there's a massive scale to god power.

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
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#55437: Apr 7th 2017 at 7:06:54 PM

Well with the laser the logic is as always, if you let your guard down then so does your durability.

So Tien has opened up his own dojo, cool beans. Good for him to make use of his skills to benefit the world.

Now if only Chi-Chi could see this. I always get pissed when she shits on martial arts & says it useless & will never get you anywhere in life & not suitable for finding jobs. I really want to tell her that the problem isn't martial arts but the fact that her husband just has no intention, desire or ambition to use his skills for well near anything. Goku's the strongest man on the planet, theirs plenty of things he can do.

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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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#55438: Apr 7th 2017 at 7:15:56 PM

[up][up]They're nowhere near close to being the same kind of thing as Beerus or the Super Saiyan God are.

[up]'Letting your guard down means durability drops' was invented for that scene.

Actually relaxing would mean that they're not actively suppressing their power.

edited 7th Apr '17 7:16:43 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

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Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#55439: Apr 7th 2017 at 7:48:21 PM

They're still gods though.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#55440: Apr 7th 2017 at 7:49:51 PM

[up][up]To be slightly fair, it's not the first scene like that; Krillin hurting a sleeping Super Saiyan Goku with a rock, anyone? Most people just assume that's how it would work, so that's how Toei does it, apparently.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#55441: Apr 7th 2017 at 7:52:21 PM

And the same person who wielded that ring thought that pre-training Freeza was more valuable.

Well, with Goku having no reason to leave Earth and Majin Buu dead REINCARNATED / split off into a good side, he wasn't wrong. They could have basically roflstomped their way back to the top if Frieza hadn't gone to Earth screaming REVENGE!!!!!

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#55442: Apr 7th 2017 at 8:09:40 PM

but again

god slaying ring

much better than freeza

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#55443: Apr 7th 2017 at 8:11:31 PM

...

They'd probably still have an army if they'd just massive produced it and jacked up the size.

...bringing back Frieza was dumb.

edited 7th Apr '17 8:11:41 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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#55445: Apr 8th 2017 at 4:50:49 AM

@LSBK

That scene was filler, but at least it made some degree of sense then - Goku was deliberately trying to train his Super Saiyan form to keep power consumption down as low as it could go - it's likely he's trying to find a way to both relax and suppress his power at the same time, and being Goku, he's likely succeeding.

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#55446: Apr 8th 2017 at 9:24:09 AM

Holy crap he really did become a park ranger...

Right, that Tori-interview. It's been so long I'd forgotten and thought TFS just came up with it as a joke.

[up]'Letting your guard down means durability drops' was invented for that scene.

Roshi and Chi-Chi's head boomerang.

Krillin and Frieza's tail.

This series is constantly undermining it's own rules and showing how absolute defense/control aren't a thing - Whis lectured Goku and Vegeta about instincts and then stepped in a pile of poo.

The ring might be better than Freeza but so to is instant ramen. With instant ramen you can basically bait Whis and Beerus, the two most powerful beings in Universe 7, into doing whatever you want.

edited 8th Apr '17 9:29:38 AM by Soble

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#55447: Apr 8th 2017 at 9:49:48 AM

Roshi and Chi-Chi's head boomerang.

That's different. It's a joke scene from the early series, and the blade was too sharp to block and too fast to dodge.

As for the thing with the Destructo Disk and Frieza's tail, the disk had been implied to be able to cut stronger opponents. Note that Frieza still had to dodge it.

...In fact... lets think of all the times bladed weapons have worked and all the times they've failed. I never thought of it, but it's possible that cutting power surpasses that of other attacks and can somewhat bypass normal defences (Truck cut Frieza to pieces after all).

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#55448: Apr 8th 2017 at 9:53:19 AM

Goku got hit on the head with an ax early in the series and axe shattered.

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#55449: Apr 8th 2017 at 9:55:18 AM

And he was not expecting it.

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