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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#77251: Feb 4th 2018 at 5:24:48 AM

Everything's trivial...

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GarnetRebeller96 Since: Nov, 2015
#77252: Feb 4th 2018 at 5:57:18 AM

But that's beside the point. So we all agree that Launch needs to return, yes?

Everyone in this thread needs to agree I won't take anyone disagreeing with that settlement.

Everyone better agree or else....

Ikedatakeshi Baby dango from singapore Since: Nov, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Baby dango
#77253: Feb 4th 2018 at 6:04:02 AM

Where even is Launch anyway?

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#77254: Feb 4th 2018 at 6:08:00 AM

Lunch is best DB.

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GarnetRebeller96 Since: Nov, 2015
#77255: Feb 4th 2018 at 6:08:23 AM

Erase from existence basically. It's rather sad that Super has anime original characters from Z appear. but Launch gets nothing.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#77256: Feb 4th 2018 at 6:14:16 AM

That's not sad, that's pretty natural.

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Ikedatakeshi Baby dango from singapore Since: Nov, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Baby dango
#77257: Feb 4th 2018 at 6:14:34 AM

Considering DB's treatment of women, she'd probably be a housewife even if she returned.

GarnetRebeller96 Since: Nov, 2015
#77258: Feb 4th 2018 at 6:20:10 AM

[up][up] Filler characters having more to give than actual official character? That sounds pretty depressing to me.

[up] Housewives can be badass too, ya know.

Sigilbreaker26 Serial Procrastinator Since: Nov, 2017
Serial Procrastinator
#77259: Feb 4th 2018 at 6:21:21 AM

Not in DB. Even 18 got substantially weaker after being a housewife. It's like Gohanning yourself but on steroids.

"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"
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
#77260: Feb 4th 2018 at 6:25:53 AM

[up] Pff. Tell that to Ribrianne.

No beer?! But if there's no beer, then there's no beef or beans!
Ikedatakeshi Baby dango from singapore Since: Nov, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Baby dango
#77261: Feb 4th 2018 at 6:27:42 AM

To be a housewife, you need a husband. Give it time.

Sigilbreaker26 Serial Procrastinator Since: Nov, 2017
Serial Procrastinator
#77262: Feb 4th 2018 at 6:30:35 AM

I do think the fanbase exaggerate what happened to Chi-Chi though, because Chi-Chi was honestly never a particularly impressive martial artist. Actually, same for Videl, because Videl just never had the slightest chance of getting up to any appreciable level by the time she was introduced.

For 18 though, there's no excuse.

"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"
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
#77263: Feb 4th 2018 at 6:32:49 AM

I do think the fanbase exaggerate what happened to Chi-Chi though, because Chi-Chi was honestly never a particularly impressive martial artist.

She killed a friggin' T-rex when she was a little girl. That has to count for something.

No beer?! But if there's no beer, then there's no beef or beans!
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#77264: Feb 4th 2018 at 6:34:38 AM

When said "canon" character was a "gag" character to begin with, it's not that depressing.

But she is the best DB.

edited 4th Feb '18 6:35:01 AM by randomness4

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GarnetRebeller96 Since: Nov, 2015
#77265: Feb 4th 2018 at 6:35:09 AM

Actually, having recently finished the first tournament saga from the original series, Launch was already like a housewife in that saga. She prepared the boys & Roshi meals and even clean up the house.

On that note, out of all the DB series. Does everyone on this thread think the original series is the least flawed/best written out of all the Dragon Ball shows?

Sigilbreaker26 Serial Procrastinator Since: Nov, 2017
Serial Procrastinator
#77266: Feb 4th 2018 at 6:48:22 AM

[up] I definitely think so. There are definitely some missteps it makes (Ultra Divine Water, for instance) but on the whole I think it defies a lot of the stagnation that set in with the DBZ period mid Freeza saga.

It should be noted that the Manga is just one continuous thing, and it's more of a pre-/post- time skip deal.

edited 4th Feb '18 6:49:20 AM by Sigilbreaker26

"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"
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
#77267: Feb 4th 2018 at 6:59:57 AM

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think Makafushigi Adventure is the best theme song the series has ever had.

[down] Fair point.

edited 4th Feb '18 9:50:08 AM by TyeDyeWildebeest

No beer?! But if there's no beer, then there's no beef or beans!
Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Face me now, bitch!
#77268: Feb 4th 2018 at 8:14:48 AM

@ Tye Dye Wildebeast: Only because she had an Ultraman styled outfit on.

edited 4th Feb '18 8:15:13 AM by Demongodofchaos2

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BigBlackBangBro Time Stranger Since: Sep, 2016
Time Stranger
#77269: Feb 4th 2018 at 9:48:31 AM

I'm starting to wonder if Vegeta has a chance to win this. Reminds of that Japanese poll I read last year. It was a small sample but it says a good number fans wanted Freeza followed by Vegeta to win the To P.

35 year old white man.
SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Love is Love is Love
#77270: Feb 4th 2018 at 9:57:17 AM

So, did Gotenks actually stay fused longer in the HTC? Or was he still only fused for a real-world half hour?

My various fanfics.
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#77271: Feb 4th 2018 at 10:14:15 AM

Getting more serious though, what even was the point of having Vegeta due his whole self-destruct thing? I don't see how that was actually necessary to toss Toppo off. And, well, the explanation for how he survived it doesn't make any sense. Wasn't the entire point of that was that he was using up all of his energy and that's what killed him in the first place? Because if he's doing that again, him just being stronger shouldn't somehow let him survive blowing off all of his energy.

It's just seems like a really weird attempt to invoke emotion, that really wasn't set up right. Unlesss they were going for "Vegeta thinks of his family, so he should use that technique he used the last time he thought of his family".

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#77272: Feb 4th 2018 at 10:24:26 AM

Yeah, he shouldn't have survived what is basically a self-destruct attack.

That really sounds so doomb.

edited 4th Feb '18 10:24:55 AM by randomness4

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Sigilbreaker26 Serial Procrastinator Since: Nov, 2017
Serial Procrastinator
#77273: Feb 4th 2018 at 10:25:54 AM

Well, honestly it's no more stupid than characters surviving:

  1. Mafuba
  2. Kikoho
  3. Kaioken X 20 repeated use
  4. Blue Kaioken repeated use

"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#77274: Feb 4th 2018 at 10:27:41 AM

I mean, it is. What Vegeta did is specifically supposed to kill him, those other things aren't. Well, except the Mafuba, but we've already talked about that, and them breaking the set rules once before doesn't suddenly make it okay for them to keep doing it.

BigBlackBangBro Time Stranger Since: Sep, 2016
Time Stranger
#77275: Feb 4th 2018 at 10:27:56 AM

The point was to get Vegeta shirtless!

35 year old white man.

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