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Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
King of Burgers
#58451: Jun 6th 2017 at 4:22:09 PM

slimcoder claimed that Darkseid is the top dog, which pissed everyone off, and rightly so, because really that guy once got owned by stairs. tongue

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#58452: Jun 6th 2017 at 4:22:29 PM

I hit the kill-switch by mentioning Darkseid killing them right?

[up] Yup I knew it, if I didn't start it then I just worsened it. Should I feel bad?

edited 6th Jun '17 4:23:24 PM by slimcoder

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Arashi Shigehito
#58453: Jun 6th 2017 at 4:23:30 PM

And let's not forget the time Thanos was taken in by the police, or the time Magneto was beaten by a wooden gun.

Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!
VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#58454: Jun 6th 2017 at 4:23:48 PM

[up][up][up]That's nothing. Meet the thugs who mugged Darkseid.

edited 6th Jun '17 4:24:14 PM by VeryMelon

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#58455: Jun 6th 2017 at 4:26:17 PM

Wait I just thought of someone.

What about Mr. Mxyzptlk?

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
King of Burgers
#58456: Jun 6th 2017 at 4:26:40 PM

Bastards! Darkseid been flipping burgers all day to buy that hat!

edited 6th Jun '17 4:27:02 PM by Shlugo_the_great

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#58457: Jun 6th 2017 at 4:28:50 PM

...Wow. Darkseid has done some weird shit.

...Isn't this a dragon ball thread?

One Strip! One Strip!
slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#58458: Jun 6th 2017 at 4:29:55 PM

[up] He also likes to sit in other peoples chairs like a boss.

And why yes this is a DB thread, what's the problem?

edited 6th Jun '17 4:30:07 PM by slimcoder

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Hobgoblin Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#58459: Jun 6th 2017 at 4:41:49 PM

Oh no. I just realized that because Frieza joined so late, we didn't get to see him in a business suit on April Fool's.

TheMageofFire Since: May, 2012
#58460: Jun 6th 2017 at 5:05:29 PM

Though on the subject of broken characters, I can't believe I almost forgot-!

(User has been arrested from trying to pull a stupid promotion move)

GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#58461: Jun 6th 2017 at 5:08:41 PM

No, Golden Experience Requiem can destroy.....you know what this getting redundant.

"Mai waifu."
slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#58462: Jun 6th 2017 at 5:10:10 PM

[up][up][up] Huh, that is a tragedy.

I just thought of this but I think this inane conversation is a little bit of fridge brilliance cause were actually talking about Power Levels here, in a DB thread.

Isn't that fitting even if most of the characters mentioned aren't from DB?

edited 6th Jun '17 5:10:21 PM by slimcoder

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Arashi Shigehito
#58463: Jun 6th 2017 at 5:13:35 PM

[up][up] No, The World Overheaven could negate that, as well as Tusk 4's effect.

Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!
Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
King of Burgers
#58464: Jun 7th 2017 at 5:01:45 AM

On another note the writer of DBS apparently confirmed that 17 is the third strongest on the team. This was before the Freeza reveal tho.

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#58465: Jun 7th 2017 at 5:13:45 AM

So Gohan is what? 6th place.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#58466: Jun 7th 2017 at 5:16:21 AM

They just keep digging themselves deeper.

I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!
GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#58467: Jun 7th 2017 at 5:17:14 AM

It is official Android 17 is John Cena. tongue

"Mai waifu."
MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
Mr. Clueless
#58468: Jun 7th 2017 at 5:22:34 AM

@Shlugo: Sauce, pls?

De Romanīs, lingua Latina gloriosa non fuī.
Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#58469: Jun 7th 2017 at 5:28:03 AM

At this point they might as well bring Raditz back.

Why didn't they bring him back? That would have made a small amount of sense since he's had years longer than Frieza to train in Hell and become a Super Saiyan 3.

I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!
TyeDyeWildebeest Unreasonably Quirky from Big Rock Candy Mountain Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: How does it feel to treat me like you do?
Unreasonably Quirky
#58470: Jun 7th 2017 at 6:27:06 AM

On another note the writer of DBS apparently confirmed that 17 is the third strongest on the team. This was before the Freeza reveal tho.

So... Goku, then Vegeta, then 17, then Piccolo, then Gohan, then Buu, then 18, then Krillin, then Roshi, then Tien?

No beer?! But if there's no beer, then there's no beef or beans!
Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#58471: Jun 7th 2017 at 6:41:40 AM

Toei writters have no sense of scale, and suck at consistence. Judge the finished work. (Also, remember that Toriyama is credited as the manga writter).

Anyway, I can understand Freeza, to a degree. Repentance involves letting your memories and personality go so you may be reincarnated. Yeah, voluntarily letting what makes you yourself is not something egocentric supreme would do (hell, not many people would do that). Voluntary Cesation Of Existance? Ew.

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
#58472: Jun 7th 2017 at 6:58:17 AM

I just realized something. It's interesting that Frieza is hellbent on staying a bad guy, when he got mad that Bulma called him a scumbag in Resurrection F. tongue

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#58473: Jun 7th 2017 at 7:03:45 AM

Toei writters have no sense of scale,

Why. Why. Why.

Master Roshi. Blew up. The Moon. The Moon.

Goku took a rabbit to the same moon with his magical extending pole.

Beerus showed up and opens the door to twelve others universes all run by a toddler with the power to obliterate them all.

Bulma wanted to wish for a mountain of strawberries, or a boyfriend, pick your dub. She wanted to waste a wish on a boyfriend and this girl is supposed to be a scientist. And just about everything else she does in the show backs that up, but still. A boyfriend. A rich, white (?), teenage genius wanted to waste a virtually unlimited wish on arm candy. What the frack Japan?

Frieza tried to blow up a planet and missed.

Cell threatened to blow up the solar system. With a laser beam. Fired from the third planet from the sun. And not necessarily facing the sun or any sort of large cosmic lynchpin or Soul King or what have you. He just said he would do it.

So unless all of those things were specifically inventions of the anime and someone can prove that then I find it hard to believe this is exclusively a "Toei" thing.

edited 7th Jun '17 7:10:48 AM by Soble

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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
#58474: Jun 7th 2017 at 7:12:48 AM

I don't know why you're blaming Bulma's wish on Japan when that was purely her character and was unrelated to Japanese culture.

Freeza didn't miss, he underestimated how much energy it'd take to blow up Namek. That's why he extends the time limit until Namek blows up to seven minutes a bit into the fight.

Also, that's the wrong kind of scale. Not real world physics scale but in-universe power scale.

edited 7th Jun '17 7:15:40 AM by Zelenal

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#58475: Jun 7th 2017 at 7:57:52 AM

Frieza missed

Saying he "missed" was facetious. I should have complained about him intending to blow up a planet and somehow only managing to "slowly blow up a planet." I'm no physicist but having just enough explosive yield to "slowly" blow up a planet but not instantly blow up the planet sounds weird, and Frieza is an unlucky bastard to hit that threshold but not surpass it, despite being in a form in which he reportedly has precious little self-control and having more charge time than either of the other two times he blew up a planet and firing straight down but failing in that instance - unless Namek is bigger/denser than Earth or Planet Vegeta.

I seem to remember a dub line from Raditz or Vegeta claiming that Saiyans are born/raised/trained in a gravity much higher than that of Earth's so that can't be true for Planet Vegeta at least. Frieza blew up that planet with his index finger and while in his first form from farther away.

Frieza's blowing up planets pushed the need for later villains to be even more powerful/dastardly than that, which leads to Super's problem with Beerus and Goku almost blowing up the universe and Black and Zamasu needing to top even that. Granted, that's not the issue of scale being discussed and I'm just being conceited at the moment.

blaming Bulma's wish on Japan

Because it's a Japanese series created with Japanese ideals, stereotypes, and traditions in mind and the concept was presumably written in by Toriyama himself or influenced by an editor/partner. Someone in the chain of command said, "She's a scientist who wants a boyfriend."

edited 7th Jun '17 8:17:49 AM by Soble

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