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MyssaRei Since: Feb, 2010
#57476: May 22nd 2017 at 1:26:51 PM

No one answered the question, but Vegeta was planning on naming her Echallotte.

Then Bulma pre-empted him, and the rest was history.

UdtheImp from Stamford, CT (Series 2) Relationship Status: The Skitty to my Wailord
#57477: May 22nd 2017 at 1:33:18 PM

To further throw salt on the wound, Bulma actually drafted legal documentation to cement the girl's name as Bra even before she was born. XD

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#57478: May 22nd 2017 at 1:36:03 PM

[up][up] Ok that kinda sounds like a good name actually.

Ya gotta feel bad for Vegeta here, he wanted to give her name to make her apart of his dying culture & Bulma just swoops in & blocks before he even had a chance.

The least she could do is make it a middle name for her or something.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
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
#57479: May 22nd 2017 at 1:57:18 PM

How could she have a middle name when she doesn't have a last name? And don't say that it's "Briefs" because it's not.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#57480: May 22nd 2017 at 1:59:49 PM

I don't know why Vegeta just doesn't call her by the name he wanted anyway. He's never wavered once on calling Goku "Kakarot".

MyssaRei Since: Feb, 2010
#57481: May 22nd 2017 at 2:04:18 PM

Saiyan Exchange program?

Let Trunks, Gohan, and Pan live with Caulifla's gang Cabba, and learn the culture? It's not exactly the same culture as in Universe 7, but it's still Saiyan culture. :P

LordVatek Not really a lord of anything Since: Sep, 2014
Not really a lord of anything
#57482: May 22nd 2017 at 2:08:18 PM

[up][up]He doesn't want to sleep on the couch?

This song needs more love.
UdtheImp from Stamford, CT (Series 2) Relationship Status: The Skitty to my Wailord
#57483: May 22nd 2017 at 2:30:23 PM

Kakarot came from a lower class Saiyan family and Vegeta refuses to call him by his given Earth out of stubborn disrespect. Bra, on the otherhand, is his own flesh and blood and, technically, royalty.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#57484: May 22nd 2017 at 2:34:35 PM

No, he does it out of pride for the Saiyan race or whatever. Vegeta dissing Earth and Goku for being low-class and sent to Earth just doesn't fit his character anymore, and yet he still insists on calling Goku "Kakarot".

Furthermore, you'd think her being Saiyan royalty would only make him more insistent, not less.

edited 22nd May '17 2:35:36 PM by LSBK

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#57485: May 22nd 2017 at 2:45:11 PM

Because obviously Bulma would yell at him until he did things her way.

Does it make sense? Nope, but that's probably how it is.

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MyssaRei Since: Feb, 2010
#57486: May 22nd 2017 at 2:47:11 PM

Probably the latter, yeah. Bulma will always get her way.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#57487: May 22nd 2017 at 2:53:31 PM

She is a spoiled brat after all.

Wow Vegeta & Goku married some pretty similar women. Explains why he didn't seem to have any problem with Chi-Chi propositioning a husband trade to Bulma.

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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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#57488: May 22nd 2017 at 2:53:57 PM

Man...

I didn't think I'd feel bad for Vegeta.

And even after writing her fairly unsympathetically for like the first dozen chapters of a fic, I didn't think I'd dislike Bulma again.

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Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#57489: May 22nd 2017 at 2:55:11 PM

I mean, you also made Dr. Brief even worse as well.

Also, don't most Doctors go by their last name?

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#57490: May 22nd 2017 at 2:55:43 PM

Yeah, but Dr. Brief barely shows up and I made him worse for the sake of black comedyt.

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#57491: May 22nd 2017 at 2:56:00 PM

I don't think Bulma was aware that Vegeta wanted to name their daughter until after the fact.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#57492: May 22nd 2017 at 3:02:27 PM

She never even considered asking really.

You're not wrong.

As for Toriyama making them so similar, that comes down to his apparent preference for Fiesty women with a bit of temperament. Videl was the same way at first.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#57493: May 22nd 2017 at 3:04:55 PM

"Briefs" is just his name, and he goes by Dr. Briefs, because, like basically everyone not named "Son [insert name]", he doesn't have a family name.

edited 22nd May '17 3:05:17 PM by LSBK

Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#57494: May 22nd 2017 at 3:05:30 PM

Have we had confirmation on that though?

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#57495: May 22nd 2017 at 3:09:33 PM

Doesn't the pope keep bringing up a manga quote...to answer that question?

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#57496: May 22nd 2017 at 3:12:56 PM

Saiyan Exchange program?

Let Trunks, Gohan, and Pan live with Caulifla's gang Cabba, and learn the culture? It's not exactly the same culture as in Universe 7, but it's still Saiyan culture.

That actually sounds like a pretty interesting plot.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#57497: May 22nd 2017 at 3:15:01 PM

[up] The fact that we haven't gotten any plot or anything really about the heroes going to Cabba's world is just a waste really.

Seriously ya think Vegeta would be a little bit curious at the very least.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
DS9guy Since: Jan, 2001
#57498: May 22nd 2017 at 3:28:53 PM

I just saw this. [lol]

I never knew I wanted a parody of magical girl transformation sequences (most obviously Toei's own Precure) from Dragon Ball but I got it and I loved every second of it. I don't know whose idea was this but it does feel like something Toriyama would have come up with.

edited 22nd May '17 3:33:27 PM by DS9guy

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#57499: May 22nd 2017 at 3:37:09 PM

Have we had confirmation on that though?

We really haven't.

It's just never said in the manga so everyone assumes it's true for the entire franchise. "Satan" and "Son" are the two exceptions and no one else can or should have a last name.

Even Dr. Briefs is just "Dr. Briefs" because apparently doctors even go by their first names in this fantasy world laden with dinosaurs and monkey-tailed children. It's not the most absurd thing I suppose.

But I like the puns involved in the "Briefs family" and their naming choices, so I continue to say "Bulma Briefs." Because just saying "Bra" and "Panty" is kind of lame.

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#57500: May 22nd 2017 at 3:47:34 PM

Satan is just a stage name. His real name is just Mark. And yeah, Videl does comment in the Buu Saga that she made the connection between Son Gohan and the champion Son Goku due to family names being very rare.


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