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EpicBleye drunk bunny from her bed being very eepy Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
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#74601: Jan 6th 2018 at 12:59:51 AM

What exactly makes her work as a parody without her being fat as the butt of a joke?

The parody should be of how the magical girl genre has cutesy girls with ridiculous destructive power through relatively inane means. This is seen effectively when she does her ultimate love attack, as well as when the three dudes due the black hole version of the attack. Her being fat is merely a joke being tacked on to that parody- seen at it's worst when Vegeta doesn't punch her because of how fat and ugly she is. They don't work well together since they contradict each other on how seriously you're supposed to take Magical Girls as an opppnent (where the former is 'you need to take this silly concept seriously' and the latter is 'this silly concept is made sillier')

"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-Mae
Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#74602: Jan 6th 2018 at 1:07:52 AM

Given her base form is a stereotypically attractive girl, I am pretty sure that joke would always be there even if no-one commented on it.

It's clearly why she was designed the way that she was, so I think it's a pretty inseparable part of the joke unless you go out of your way to make sure her appearance doesn't come across as a joke and that goes against the parody nature.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#74603: Jan 6th 2018 at 1:09:52 AM

There's also how her transformation involves a greater change than her 2 teammates.

Its very odd especially when the bug guy just gets the dress.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
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#74604: Jan 6th 2018 at 1:10:48 AM

@randomeness I already caught all of them aside from Krillin kicking Nappa in the same way and the last three. Holy crap, that last one is a good catch!

edited 6th Jan '18 1:11:09 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

EpicBleye drunk bunny from her bed being very eepy Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
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#74605: Jan 6th 2018 at 1:13:44 AM

[up][up][up]Er, it really isn't inseperable? If you remove references to her being fat as a joke then she'd become a lot more consistent power wise, as well as removing a noticeable double standard for body weight.

I get that the joke is that she becomes unattractive when transforming, but it isnt particularly funny nor is it actually important other than some jokes at the expense of overweight people.

I guess what I'm saying is make Ribrianne's transformed form stereotypically attractive for a magical girl show or don't mention ot at all since the joke that she's fat harms the execution.

I know why she was designed the way she was, I'm just saying it shouldn't have been like that in the first place.

edited 6th Jan '18 1:17:49 AM by EpicBleye

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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
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#74606: Jan 6th 2018 at 1:15:57 AM

Technically, the joke was that all the Kamikaze Fireballs were more attractive before they transformed, as indicated by Krillin (though he's one to talk, she Ribrianne herself pointed out).

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#74607: Jan 6th 2018 at 1:17:38 AM

[up][up] What I'm saying is that if you don't deliberately play it off that way, it's still going to seem like a joke - that the parody of a magical girl is also physically unattractive isn't going to be missed.

Yeah, it'd be fixed if Ribrianne stayed attractive I guess, but that is a loss in itself.

EpicBleye drunk bunny from her bed being very eepy Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
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#74608: Jan 6th 2018 at 1:19:38 AM

Sometimes losing a joke isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially when it wasn't funny in the first place.

edited 6th Jan '18 1:20:14 AM by EpicBleye

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#74609: Jan 6th 2018 at 1:20:41 AM

Considering how a lot of the cast is a joke we wouldn't be losing much.

There is a thing in too much humor.

edited 6th Jan '18 1:46:23 AM by slimcoder

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#74610: Jan 6th 2018 at 1:40:08 AM

Too much of anything is bad.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#74611: Jan 6th 2018 at 1:42:08 AM

That's not really true...

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
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#74612: Jan 6th 2018 at 1:51:24 AM

Too much water gives you water poisoning, too much sun gives you radiation poisoning, too much food gives an eating disorder, too much television can fuck up your eyes, too much loud music can fuck up your ears, too much medicine can give you an addiction..... etc. etc.

So yeah too much of anything is a bad thing.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#74613: Jan 6th 2018 at 2:22:04 AM

[up]x5 I'm not worried about losing the joke, I'm worried about losing the design

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#74614: Jan 6th 2018 at 2:32:27 AM

[up][up]Too much consumption...pretty much.

edited 6th Jan '18 2:32:51 AM by randomness4

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Sigilbreaker26 Serial Procrastinator Since: Nov, 2017
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#74615: Jan 6th 2018 at 2:59:20 AM

My God that last easter egg is amazing.

"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"
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#74616: Jan 6th 2018 at 3:15:13 AM

Yeah, seriously, the last three are incredibly subtle and really well-done.

Sigilbreaker26 Serial Procrastinator Since: Nov, 2017
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#74617: Jan 6th 2018 at 3:21:44 AM

I really think those sorts of moments are the sort of thing Dragonball Super does best.

"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"
Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#74618: Jan 6th 2018 at 3:23:56 AM

Well, it doesn't do much else well.

I liked number one, for being a nice call back and down subtlety. A lot of the other references don't make sense except as references.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#74619: Jan 6th 2018 at 3:25:34 AM

Always nice to know that Goku really does cares about other stuff than just fighting & eating.

edited 6th Jan '18 3:25:45 AM by slimcoder

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#74620: Jan 6th 2018 at 3:32:06 AM

It's still a fight though, a sentimental one, but still a fight...

[up][up]Having Kakarrot doing that thing Radish did to the Farmer with the Shotgun makes the least amount of sense...

edited 6th Jan '18 3:33:14 AM by randomness4

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#74621: Jan 6th 2018 at 3:40:20 AM

(For anybody lurking, no, don't worry. None of us have any idea what they're talking about either. Sometimes tropers just post things without context and we assume people in the know will get it.)

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#74622: Jan 6th 2018 at 3:41:19 AM

What, you can't be bothered reading the thread to understand the thread?

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#74623: Jan 6th 2018 at 3:44:49 AM

I pay people for that.

No, one person said, "my god that last easter egg is amazing." And despite combing back through the last page there's no way that sentence connected to the discussion of Ribrianne. If it did, I'll eat my keyboard.

[down] Ohhhh.

[down][down] Minimum wage, but the job is literally reading forum threads and explaining their content to me.

edited 6th Jan '18 3:50:31 AM by Soble

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Sigilbreaker26 Serial Procrastinator Since: Nov, 2017
Serial Procrastinator
#74624: Jan 6th 2018 at 3:44:58 AM

[up][up][up] It's a youtube video that was just posted last page.

edited 6th Jan '18 3:45:06 AM by Sigilbreaker26

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#74625: Jan 6th 2018 at 3:46:20 AM

[up][up] How much do you pay them?

That Easter egg comment was about the video posted last page.

edited 6th Jan '18 3:47:07 AM by slimcoder

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