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TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#7051: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:25:39 PM

  • Kakarot = Carrot
  • Raditz = Radish
  • Nappa = Napa, a chinese cabbage.
  • Vegeta = Half of the word Vegetable.
  • Bardock = Burdock Root
  • Turles = Bizarre romanization of Tullece, which is a play on lettuce.
  • Broly = Broccoli
  • Tarble = The other half of the word Vegetable.

  • Cui = Kiwi
  • Zarbon = Zabon, meaning pomelo fruit.
  • Dodoria = Dorian, meaning durian fruit.

  • Guldo = Gurudo, meaning yogurt.
  • Recoome = Rikumu, meaning cream.
  • Jeice = Jisu, meaning cheese.
  • Burter = Butter
  • Ginyu = Gyunyu, meaning milk.

  • Frieza = The "freezer" or refridgerator in which all this food is stored.

edited 29th Jun '14 5:29:40 PM by TobiasDrake

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#7052: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:27:57 PM

Great, bottompaged; also, cool.

Do we know what Frieza's race is called?

edited 29th Jun '14 5:28:27 PM by BaconManiac5000

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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#7053: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:29:12 PM

I miss the days of Piccolo, Piano, Tambourine and Drum. They were themes I knew.

Actually I probably knew of the character Piccolo before the instrument....

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#7054: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:30:20 PM

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  • Paragus: Asparagus

  • Appule: Apple

edited 29th Jun '14 5:31:09 PM by Anomalocaris20

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#7055: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:31:12 PM

Sorry about that; caught two of those in editing, missed the other two.

edited 29th Jun '14 5:31:23 PM by TobiasDrake

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#7056: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:31:13 PM

Bulma (Bloomers) Briefs, Trunks, Bra, Tights.

Mrs. Briefs never got a name, but Toriyama said it would probably have been "Panchy". Panty. Haha.

edited 29th Jun '14 5:31:38 PM by unnoun

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#7057: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:32:07 PM

Frost Demons, apparently, bacon.

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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#7058: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:32:10 PM

Also Freeza's race has no name. It's just Freeza's race.

Also the Red Ribbon Army with Commander Red, Adjutant Black, Colonel Silver and Violet, General Blue and White...they were all nice and simple too.

edited 29th Jun '14 5:33:38 PM by Nikkolas

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#7059: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:34:59 PM

We may some day get a name for them if they ever become a prominent aspect of the franchise but, as it stands, outside of Dragon Ball Heroes - which has a FANTASTIC amount of out-of-continuity content but is sadly Japan-exclusive - the only members of their race we've ever seen are Frieza, King Cold, and Film-Exclusive Cooler, all of whom are mutants and are not indicative of their actual race.

So it's never really come up.

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#7060: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:35:36 PM

[up][up][up]So Piccolo and Frieza are both demons?

[up]Huh.

Mutant what I wonder.

edited 29th Jun '14 5:36:04 PM by BaconManiac5000

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#7061: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:36:14 PM

I could have sworn there was a member of Frieza's army named Banan.

So that one's obvious.

EDIT: I think I've only heard "Frost Demons" in fanfic.

edited 29th Jun '14 5:36:40 PM by unnoun

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#7062: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:36:50 PM

And why were 17 and 18 so much stronger than 19 and 20/Gero?

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#7063: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:38:26 PM

...I still don't get why Gero didn't make himself the Infinite Energy model.

Also, I mean, couldn't there have been a way to combine the Energy Absorption and Infinite Energy designs?

Then there's 16.

edited 29th Jun '14 5:38:40 PM by unnoun

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#7064: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:41:06 PM

Yeah, 16 seemed to be invincible, and was put on ice for nebulous reasons.

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#7065: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:42:04 PM

Dr. Gero had a crippling fear of success. Every time he finished an android, he went, "Wait, this is too strong. It might actually kill Goku. I'd better mothball it and build something MUCH shittier."

It's the same rationale that led him to design a computer that would work on constructing an android that would not be complete until long after its existence ceased to be relevant, and who could only attain its ultimate power by absorbing two androids who, by that point in time, have either already accomplished the mission that is the entire reason for its existence - rendering its Perfect Form completely superfluous and pointless - or have failed to do so and are now destroyed - rendering its Perfect Form forever unattainable. Cell, as constructed, can only achieve Perfect Form if there is no longer a reason to do so.

The repeated revisions that Toriyama kept making to appease a friend who didn't like the arc ultimately resulted in Dr. Gero making senile, nonsensical decisions at a fairly constant rate.

edited 29th Jun '14 5:43:45 PM by TobiasDrake

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#7066: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:43:26 PM

Maybe he thought one of the Briefs would make a time machine at some point.

Or he knew about that guy working on time travel in Jaco.

edited 29th Jun '14 5:45:32 PM by unnoun

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#7067: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:52:13 PM

For what it's worth, apparently Cell wasn't created specifically to kill Goku, just to be a big middle finger to life as a whole.

And also for what it's worth, Super 17 from GT is a combination of the infinite-energy and energy-absorption models.

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
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#7068: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:53:17 PM

Sorry for asking so many questions, but why is the name "Big Getty Star" so funny?

edited 29th Jun '14 5:53:46 PM by BaconManiac5000

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#7069: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:55:15 PM

Because it's so stupid.

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#7070: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:56:03 PM

Oh, I thought it was some Double Entendre that I didn't get. :/

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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#7071: Jun 29th 2014 at 5:57:38 PM

I have no idea if this is dub only, and maybe it's just because Super Perfect Cell is a tad unstable, but he goes on a whole rant about how he at last understood what Gero truly wanted and why he created Cell in the first place.

It's also one of the coolest lines ever uttered by Cell. "I AM THE UNIVERSE'S END!!!"

edited 29th Jun '14 5:58:30 PM by Nikkolas

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#7072: Jun 29th 2014 at 6:01:19 PM

It also makes sense in regard to recent interviews shedding some light on Dr. Gero.

edited 29th Jun '14 6:04:19 PM by Anomalocaris20

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
Nexus Since: Jan, 2001
#7073: Jun 29th 2014 at 6:25:09 PM

[up][up][up][up][up]Tbh, I thought they were saying "Big Gay Star!"

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#7074: Jun 29th 2014 at 6:27:23 PM

[up][up] Man, Dr Gero's back story is really sad and is literally begging to be expanded on in fan fiction to turn him in to unreasonably sympathetic character. But it back stories like that of Dr Gero's that make me sad that we will never see a Dragon Ball reboot because if such a thing were to happen Dr Gero could literally get a whole arc worth of character development in light of new information of his background. But it will never happen... sad

edited 29th Jun '14 6:33:41 PM by FireShadow

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#7075: Jun 29th 2014 at 6:39:17 PM

[up][up]That would be more ridiculous, but I'm pretty sure I heard t's in that word.

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