Manga/Dragon Ball

Bardock's visions are definitely important to the plot of the story, and make a lot of sense from the point of view that he's unable to change the future he saw (which is why stories about him defying that are bullshit).

I do find it questionable that he had such a high battle power from zenkai, and I could have done without it, but that's one unnecessary line. Everything he actually did could have been done with a lower battle power anyway.

I don't think Minus' version of the wipeout really fixes anything. Freeza controlled the Saiyans, so he'd know who was deployed (as evidenced by the fact that Raditz knew Goku was sent to Earth). If he knew that only four Saiyans were deployed, then it's a perfect opportunity to destroy the planet and lie about what happened.

Freeza calling everyone back, then not waiting for everyone to get back, and then pretending a meteor destroyed the planet at that exact time most of them arrive is just silly. I prefer the idea that he took advantage of a good opportunity, and the ones who slipped through the cracks did so because there was such a small number of them.

Minus also contradicts the idea that Freeza deliberately spared Vegeta, as he was also given the order to return to the planet but chose to ignore it of his own volition.

Edited by Saiga on Jul 20th 2018 at 10:02:07 PM

Important detail from the trailer.

When Broly goes for the attack, he goes straight for Vegeta first.

This means that Broly appears to no longer have his violent obsession with Kakarot anymore.

Or he doesn't realize who Kakarot is yet.

Why did Freeza even need to lie about destroying the planet?

No surviving Saiyan was a threat to him. And I guess he kept getting work out of the survivors but that was three people. One of which was on the level of his red shirts.

Even for a paranoid fuck Frieza’s fear of the Saiyan’s power was an extreme overreaction.

Especially with the knowledge that they can actually stop getting Zenkai boosts meaning Saiyan’s can in fact have a level cap.

Because he likes to pretend he's reasonable and polite.

Same reason he runs a planet-brokering business even though he has no use for the economy?

Was it ever mentioned who the Hell are his buyers?

It's a very good question isn't it?

If we lived in a world where planets could be bought and sold, you can be dang sure that rich people would buy them just to say they did.

Edited by LordVatek on Jul 20th 2018 at 12:05:54 PM

Yeah, but then someone who's richer would probably buy that planet and kill the first group of guys.

And before you think, ''Frieza wouldn't do that because that would be screwing over his previous clients, remember that in the Dragonball universe, you can do whatever you want if you are powerful enough, and Frieza was the biggest dog in the yard.

If someone offered him enough money for a planet he'd sold to someone else, of course he'd repossess it from the latter group, because he can.

Also there's only twenty some habitable planets or something?

Well, at least they stayed in circulation right?

Fair enough I guess

Technically, I think Supreme Kai said there were 28 planets "with intelligent life" on them. I don't know that he said those were the only habitable worlds in the universe.

I'm no astronomer, but that's still an absurdly low number. Doesn't take a genius to know that considering how huge the universe is.

If there are only 28 planets with intelligent life on them, then Freeza's business isn't doing too good.

More and more this idea of the planet selling organization just does not gel with anything else in the setting.

Even though it still wouldn't make sense on a universal scale, Frieza, Beerus, and maybe Buu have all destroyed a lot of populated planets. So there's that, the number has to have been reduced over time.

Edited by LSBK on Jul 21st 2018 at 2:16:18 PM

beerus was destroying planets just because he didnt like the cuisine. so yeah presumably buu, beerus, and freiza/sayains fucked things up.

Guess the planet selling business was just for fun cause why else would Frieza sell stuff for money when he could just take it all?

Remember that Freiza is also very lazy. He managed to equal SSB in four months with no indication of difficult training, and he sits around in a floating pod all day instead of flying or even walking and still manage to be the strongest being alive in the universe pre-Namek, instead of growing weaker like Gohan.

His power level never changed after he was born, so he's the equivalent of those guys from Wall-E(as in having the motor abilities of a baby), yet for him that still enough to kick the ass of everyone else.

Dragonballs universe has only 4 galaxies though, 28 seems like a fair amount considering that.

And I realize that the 4 galaxies is mostly a filler thing but I don't want a Dragonball where Grand Kai and the otherworld tournament aren't canon at some level.

Even a single galaxy has billions of earth-like planets in the livable zone of stars.

It's more plausible to say Shin is that awful at his job that he severely miscounted

Viz has posted Chapter 38's translation. Let's just say this one tests how much you'd enjoy the battle royale concept, among other traits.