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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#68226: Nov 9th 2017 at 9:40:28 PM

And ya know, Super is still currently airing and close to having double the length of GT's run.

It's kind of more popular by default by virtue of being what's currently relevant and that it's still airing.

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#68227: Nov 9th 2017 at 9:48:26 PM

I'm still hoping Super eventually cribs some of GT's ideas like Baby, a Supa Android & the Shadow Dragons.

edited 9th Nov '17 9:48:38 PM by slimcoder

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#68229: Nov 9th 2017 at 10:41:26 PM

I know one of the students at the library I work at is a massive GT fanboy and really wanted Goku to go Super Saiyan 4 in the TOP. tongue

[up][up] Same. To the very least, I'd like Super to go beyond the epilogue of Z.

edited 9th Nov '17 10:42:25 PM by Lionheart0

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#68230: Nov 9th 2017 at 11:00:02 PM

Hit mah man, you're in the wrong series saying things like this.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#68231: Nov 10th 2017 at 3:29:42 AM

Man, to be able to match me in skill!

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#68232: Nov 10th 2017 at 6:15:32 AM

See, Super Saiyan 4 means Toriyama would have to remember that tails and the Oozaru's exist :V

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#68233: Nov 10th 2017 at 6:37:40 AM

It's not even that he forgot.

He just didn't like having to draw the tails, so he got rid of them, as this interview reveals

Note: Click on the link in that post to go to the full interview.

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MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#68235: Nov 10th 2017 at 6:50:00 AM

[up]

But when he first came up with the idea, he wanted Goku to be an actual monkey too, rather than a kid with a Monkey's tail.

Apparently, if Masako X's one video is anything to go on, he's still bitter about having to make that change.

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Fedetropes Call me Blast, not Fedetropes from Doomed universe Since: Dec, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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#68236: Nov 10th 2017 at 7:05:33 AM

Kinda wish they kept the tails

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#68237: Nov 10th 2017 at 7:30:49 AM

With GT, I liked concepts more than characters. With Super, I can actually say I liked some of the characters.

So in that regard, I like Super more than GT.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#68238: Nov 10th 2017 at 7:35:35 AM

[up][up]But it's awkward...

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#68240: Nov 10th 2017 at 7:52:24 AM

Krillen is a vastly superior martial artist compared to Goku. Goku has a god-tier strength advantage. If they were ever equalized in strength somehow, Krillen would absolutely wipe the floor with him.

What is this, I don't even... is this for real?

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#68241: Nov 10th 2017 at 7:56:36 AM

It just sounds like another "well, the humans might not have strength but they have something" person. Although that example is laughable either way.

I still don't get why people act like there's some strength or skill dichotomy, though.

MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
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#68242: Nov 10th 2017 at 8:03:11 AM

[up]It's because Dragon Ball fans are total nerds, so they love the idea of people winning by being smart.

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LordVatek Not really a lord of anything Since: Sep, 2014
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#68243: Nov 10th 2017 at 8:04:39 AM

It's the only way people can rationalize humans ever being relevant again.

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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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#68244: Nov 10th 2017 at 8:38:04 AM

[up] Well, keep in mind that they don't necessarily have to be relevant fighters in order to be relevant to the plot. Mr. Satan played a huge role in the Buu saga, and the series as we know it never would have happened if Bulma never met Goku in the woods.

In regards to the Reddit post, the idea of a Majin Krillin does kind of intrigue me. In fact, it reminds me of another "what-if" scenario I thought of; what if the Watagash possessed Mercenary Tao?

Like, the Watagash's power is proportional to the evilness of its host, right? Well, if it could turn some random Jerkass scrub like Barry Kahn into that monster, imagine what it could do to someone as powerful and as evil as Tao.

edited 10th Nov '17 8:47:52 AM by TyeDyeWildebeest

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#68245: Nov 10th 2017 at 9:06:46 AM

Human fans will never cease to entertain me.

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#68246: Nov 10th 2017 at 9:10:13 AM

Watagashi is one of those concepts that are too intriguing for Super to handle, isn't?

Now I'm curious how a Watagashi Tao would be like.

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#68247: Nov 10th 2017 at 10:16:27 AM

What is this, I don't even... is this for real?

Sometimes when I read stuff like that, I wonder if they even watched the original Dragon Ball. Even before the Power Creep got absurd, Goku was straight up styling on all the humans.

Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#68248: Nov 10th 2017 at 10:25:36 AM

Goku was leaps and bounds ahead of the humans, but the humans were leaps and bounds ahead of anybody else. They weren't muggles in any sense of the word, they just couldn't catch up to Goku, but they were consistently as strong as Goku in the previous arc.

Then again, I'd have Tien/Piccolo defeat Drum/Nappa, only to be utterly defeated by Piccolo/Vegeta, so, opinions on narrative.

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#68249: Nov 10th 2017 at 10:35:18 AM

But why though?

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Fedetropes Call me Blast, not Fedetropes from Doomed universe Since: Dec, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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#68250: Nov 10th 2017 at 10:36:17 AM

I used to believe that the humans where useful in original dragon ball...silly old me.

edited 10th Nov '17 10:37:09 AM by Fedetropes

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