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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#56601: May 5th 2017 at 5:49:58 PM

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Oh right. I misread your thing. Apologies.

Anyway, the tail should have stayed. Toriyama should have sucked it up.

edited 5th May '17 5:50:09 PM by HandsomeRob

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Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Arashi Shigehito
#56602: May 5th 2017 at 5:50:18 PM

And even then Goku trained away that weakness...when he was like 13. Seriously, how pathetic is Raditz that even in his potential early to late 30s he still has that weakness?

Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#56603: May 5th 2017 at 5:50:36 PM

There's another source code leak. This time of a U4 fighter named Damon. He's a cicada-like insect fighter, who specializes in dodging attacks and leaving behind his shed skin as a kind of decoy while he attacks from the sky or from underground. The wording's a bit odd, but I think he can also self-destruct those shed husks.

edited 5th May '17 5:54:37 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#56604: May 5th 2017 at 5:51:14 PM

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Well, I think it's gonna be a good thing that Yamcha missed this fight.tongue

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#56605: May 5th 2017 at 5:51:28 PM

[up][up][up] Well its Raditz.

Not sure what else to say there. tongue

[up] He better not look like what I think he looks like then.

edited 5th May '17 5:52:27 PM by slimcoder

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#56606: May 5th 2017 at 5:55:20 PM

Well its Raditz. Not sure what else to say there.

That he utterly wrecked Goku and Piccolo, the two strongest warriors on Earth at the time...with ease.

And they only won because Goku's four year old son literally Deus ex Machina'ed a higher power level at the eleventh hour?

Cause that's exactly what happened.

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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
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#56607: May 5th 2017 at 5:55:43 PM

Apparently, people think you can see him in the opening, in the first shot of the other fighters, opposite Magetta.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#56608: May 5th 2017 at 5:56:29 PM

I know that Goku was able to train it... that doesn't matter. Toriyama's quote specifically said that the Saiyan body decided tails were an unnecessary trait.

The weakness may be something that Saiyans can train to over come, but it's still unnecessary when you get so strong. So they're not going to specifically regenerate what they don't need.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#56609: May 5th 2017 at 5:56:59 PM

I feel like that was less supposed to be a "Raditz sucks" thing and more a "Vegeta and Nappa are elites, and Goku is better than he should be for his class" thing.

edited 5th May '17 5:57:19 PM by LSBK

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#56610: May 5th 2017 at 5:58:03 PM

It's also potentially a question of knowing it's possible. Like, Nappa and Vegeta did it, but would they have ever told Raditz? Goku didn't even attempt it until the second time he'd lost his tail, and he'd already been advised to do so by Gohan.

MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
Mr. Clueless
#56611: May 5th 2017 at 6:00:45 PM

@Damon: That's certainly a more interesting version of the Afterimage ability.

@Raditz: I don't quite get all this talk of Raditz being pathetic. When he showed up, he was so strong the main hero had to commit assisted suicide to bring him down. It's like saying Frieza was a nobody because he wasn't as powerful as Majin Buu.

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#56612: May 5th 2017 at 6:03:43 PM

Well he is a memetic loser so I figured it be a good moment to make fun of him. tongue

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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
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#56613: May 5th 2017 at 7:53:32 PM

It occurs to me that, if Damon is the insectoid figure in the upper left corner of the first shot of fighters in the opening, we know the names and/or home universes of almost all of the revealed fighters from the other universes. The ones we still don't know anything about are all from the first shot, since the second shot is just the Pride Troopers and Kale: the fat tutu-wearing clown lady who fights Vegeta in the opening, the smug looking grey fox guy who's in the lower right corner of that shot, and the female fighter in-between Magetta and Basil wearing a visor.

MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
Mr. Clueless
#56614: May 5th 2017 at 7:55:26 PM

Even if no more (named) characters are introduced, I think we have enough for a satisfying tournament arc.

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Cortez from Parts Unknown (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#56615: May 6th 2017 at 1:07:41 AM

I actually like SSG and Blue, they aren't overly complicated.

Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#56616: May 6th 2017 at 1:39:49 AM

I like SSG and SSGSS and think SS4 is dumb.

edited 6th May '17 1:40:12 AM by Zeromaeus

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#56617: May 6th 2017 at 2:52:42 AM

[up][up]Being recolors is overly complicated...

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Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#56618: May 6th 2017 at 3:52:16 AM

Anyway, the tail should have stayed. Toriyama should have sucked it up.

Well the whole Super Saiyan blonde hair was the fault of Toriyama being lazy and not wanting to ink in hair. Laziness does lead to creativity.

The original plan was what we see in Lord Slug and seems damn close to the whole 'Saiyan beyond God' form hinted in the new OP.

edited 6th May '17 3:53:52 AM by Memers

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#56619: May 6th 2017 at 3:59:27 AM

The original plan was what we see in Lord Slug

Oh my god, when will these unsourced rumours end?

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#56620: May 6th 2017 at 4:03:59 AM

Its funny how a lot of the series iconic moments & best parts have some kind of a humorous origin.

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#56621: May 6th 2017 at 4:13:00 AM

Cortez, Zeromaeus, no one was taking about that.

And I think saying Toriyama should have kept drawing the tails just because you don't like why he stopped is kinda unemphatic. It doesn't hurt anyone if they aren't there anymore.

edited 6th May '17 4:13:25 AM by VeryMelon

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#56622: May 6th 2017 at 4:15:33 AM

although if we are talking about it I think both are dumb

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#56623: May 6th 2017 at 4:44:45 AM

All SSJ forms are pretty negative...

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Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#56624: May 6th 2017 at 4:47:47 AM

You were talking about it a bit back, but I didn't have a chance to chime in.

So boom. My 2¢.
SS4. Super dumb.

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#56625: May 6th 2017 at 5:03:43 AM

Well since we're talking about now, I think 4 and Blue look far better than God.


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