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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#12726: Mar 26th 2015 at 10:32:34 PM

If Gero hadn't wanted his revenge so obsessively, it's likely he never would've come up with it at all.

Personally, I say Bulma should be trying to find a way to harness the energy that Ki Blasts put out, like how Gero's energy-absorbing models absorbed it. If only because the idea of Vegeta charging a battery by using Final Flash on it is hilarious.

edited 26th Mar '15 10:33:51 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

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#12728: Mar 26th 2015 at 10:38:29 PM

I wanna see Super Saiyan 3 Raditz still.

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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#12729: Mar 26th 2015 at 10:38:53 PM

I wonder if SSJ 3 makes you even meaner than SSJ 2 if you can't really control yourself.

I mean, Gohan lost control and became ridiculously cruel in an instant when he transformed into SSJ 2. I can only imagine what he'd be like if he were to go even further beyond.

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#12730: Mar 26th 2015 at 10:43:14 PM

He'd be the Hulk if he went SSJ3 that early. Pretty much a tiny Broly, if you will.

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#12731: Mar 26th 2015 at 10:49:22 PM

Gohan smash effeminate android! Gohan strongest there is!

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alioth Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#12732: Mar 26th 2015 at 11:38:25 PM

1 Supreme Kai 2 Piccolo 3 Android #18 4 Gohan 5 Cell 6 Trunks 7 Kami 8 Goku 9 Piccolo Daimao 10 Android #17 11 Majin Buu 12 Dabura 13 Freeza 14 Dende 15 Mr. Popo 16 Dr. Gero 17 Android #16 18 Beerus 19 Vegeta 20 Krillin

Pretty accurate, I guess.

alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#12733: Mar 27th 2015 at 1:20:32 AM

oh yeah,is Cell a cyborg?he did get some mechanical bits from 17 and 18.

GT's 17 2.0 was an actual android,wasn't he?

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#12734: Mar 27th 2015 at 1:22:42 AM

Starting that character sorter.

"Goku vs Vegeta"

Well fuck off to a hard start I guess.

"Supreme Kai vs Kibito Kai"

SAME FUCKING GUY

actually damn this is really hard for the most part.

Satan vs Daimao. THIS IS TORMENT

I am now completely walled by Yamcha vs Tenshinhan

Well, my top ten: Gohan, Boo, Vegeta, Goku, Beerus, Dabra, Satan, Daimao, Trunks & Goten. Turned out pretty accurate, having only one version of multiple characters (like Boo) made it a little harder for me though.

Shout out to the bottom two, Roshi and Oolong. Really not a fan of sexual predators.

edited 27th Mar '15 2:35:45 AM by Saiga

Cortez from Parts Unknown (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#12735: Mar 27th 2015 at 3:49:35 AM

So i learned two things. Super Vegeta 2 + Final Shine is hella cheap and that Mr.Popo's clothes look pretty good on a female Majin.

edited 27th Mar '15 7:03:31 AM by Cortez

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#12736: Mar 27th 2015 at 4:31:30 AM

[up] There is a joke in that second one but I don't know what it is.

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#12737: Mar 27th 2015 at 6:49:37 AM

So Super Saiyan 3 increases a Saiyan's base Power Level by a factor of 400.

Holy shit.

Yep! That's the Good News.

The Bad News is that, much like Frieza's 100%, it is a terrible transformation that bleeds power horrendously. If you can't win within the first few exchanges, you can't win as a Super Saiyan 3.

But then, if you can't win within the first few exchanges at 400x your battle power, you probably couldn't have won anyway.

Well it was a pervert teacher who taught Goku and Krillin.

Doesn't mean they didn't learn anything good. Same for Tien.

Goku taught himself the Kamehameha by imitating Kame-sennin. The latter invented the technique and Krillin learned it from him, but Goku was just all, "Oh, that's cool, Imma do it too!" and then did. Same thing with Afterimages. Strength training and never getting complacent were all Kame-sennin formally taught him.

Tobias Drake has gone over the problems you're talking about with Gero, as well as with Cell, many times. He can describe it better than anyone else can.

Yep. Short version is, Dr. Gero was the victim of multiple retcons introduced into the story - including the fact that he even exists in the first place - over the course of the Cell Saga ultimately rendering his entire character and motivation into pure gibberish.

Starting that character sorter.

"Goku vs Vegeta"

Well fuck off to a hard start I guess.

"Supreme Kai vs Kibito Kai"

SAME FUCKING GUY

actually damn this is really hard for the most part.

Satan vs Daimao. THIS IS TORMENT

I am now completely walled by Yamcha vs Tenshinhan

I feel your pain, man.

Shout out to the bottom two, Roshi and Oolong. Really not a fan of sexual predators.

Yeah, the bottom of the list is just as accurate as the top. I got Dr. Gero and Cell at the bottom of mine, to nobody's surprise at all.

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#12738: Mar 27th 2015 at 7:10:24 AM

I'll forever be surprised over the fact that Roshi somehow survived having 18 living in his house.

You'd think she'd put him in traction the first time he did his usual things.

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#12739: Mar 27th 2015 at 7:20:52 AM

Maybe he knows better.

Kame-sennin's typical targets are women who aren't a threat to him. He generally kept his hands and comments to himself whenever Lunch was blonde.

edited 27th Mar '15 7:22:16 AM by TobiasDrake

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#12740: Mar 27th 2015 at 7:22:15 AM

I'd say he would have enough self preservation to not try anything with someone who could crack his skull like an egg and his wife who could do even worse and nearly blew up his house once before.

But I think that's ascribing to him more intelligence than he has.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#12741: Mar 27th 2015 at 7:24:38 AM

Like Krillin would ever do anything to Roshi, not debating he could just saying he never actually would.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#12742: Mar 27th 2015 at 7:46:09 AM

No, even with Ranfan he waited until she was passed out to molest her.

He likes his women completely helpless.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#12743: Mar 27th 2015 at 7:51:06 AM

......

I guess that implication was always there, but still, you guys ruin everything.sad

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#12744: Mar 27th 2015 at 7:53:46 AM

What's to ruin? His first appearance ever involved the prostitution of a 16-year-old girl.

He traded underage cooch for a Dragon Ball.

edited 27th Mar '15 7:54:22 AM by TobiasDrake

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#12745: Mar 27th 2015 at 7:57:19 AM

I try and think less of that and more of his wisdom as a Martial Artist, who beat Goku through genuine cleverness.....

Even if said cleverness got him kicked in the face.

Edit: And the first time he did a Kamehameha. Oh fuck, I know there have been bigger power stunts since them, but that was incredible!

It just came out of nowhere, with him suddenly bulking up and blowing up a mountain, back at a time when lifting a large rock was the biggest display of power in the show.

edited 27th Mar '15 7:58:34 AM by HandsomeRob

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#12746: Mar 27th 2015 at 8:00:42 AM

Which he did in exchange for feeling up Bulma.

Well, Oolong transformed into Bulma, anyway.

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Cortez from Parts Unknown (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#12747: Mar 27th 2015 at 8:01:46 AM

Wait, so it was only in the anime he was like that around 18?

JonnasN from Porto, Portugal Since: Jul, 2012
#12748: Mar 27th 2015 at 8:42:47 AM

The beginning of Dragon Ball was a simpler time. A time where dirty old men being creeps was considered acceptable comedy. The fact that Roshi's comeuppance has included getting his head sliced open, being shot by a machinegun and getting flushed down his own sewage system should attest to that.

I forget, did Oolong ever return all the girls he kidnapped?

HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#12749: Mar 27th 2015 at 8:54:38 AM

Wanna know something weird? I was never actually bothered by pervert jokes in anime until the real-life implications of the characters' actions were flat-out pointed out to me. What I find especially odd is that I'm a big fan of crime dramas, and I've seen several episodes to the effect of "Catch the peeping tom/groper before he graduates into a rapist," yet I never realized that dangerous crime drama pervs and funny anime pervs are the exact same people, just portrayed differently. tongue

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#12750: Mar 27th 2015 at 9:21:20 AM

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I believe he did. But i think there was some sort of twist.


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