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alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#14626: Apr 13th 2015 at 2:57:38 PM

he tinkered with them?is that a good word?

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#14627: Apr 13th 2015 at 2:58:42 PM

dat classic Toilet Humor...good times. Remember when Bulma was practically a 16 year old slut.

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#14628: Apr 13th 2015 at 3:00:11 PM

No. She was practically a 16-year-old prostitute. There's a difference.

She was expecting payment every time.

edited 13th Apr '15 3:02:09 PM by TobiasDrake

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#14629: Apr 13th 2015 at 3:01:57 PM

Porunga's balls are bigger, and have a much faster recovery period.

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#14630: Apr 13th 2015 at 3:02:22 PM

Remember when Krillin sexually assaulted Bulma so that Yamcha could win a fight?

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#14631: Apr 13th 2015 at 3:15:17 PM

Piccolo was much higher than 1,000,000 when he fused with God. He was able to beat up Android 20 even after losing energy.

And to someone saying Piccolo should have just been special: he already was. The original nameless Namek was a prodigy, and was said that only a Super Saiyan could have killed him if not for the split.

Also, Nail attributes the fusions' power to both he and Piccolo being fighting types. So fusing with the other Namekians won't help much, as Nail is the only fighter Guru produced.

As for the fusion with God, who is not a fighter, that isn't even the regular Namekian fusion. That is two separated halves rejoining again, so it's restoring what was lost instead of any kind of fixed multiplier.

Which is why I think it was a bad idea to give a racial fusion ability to a character who would go on to do a different kind of fusion with another member of the same race. Makes things needlessly confusing.

Revival of F doesn't fix a damn thing because Goku was anticipating he might lose to Oob before any training and only decided to train Oob when he saw he couldn't control his power yet. Boo was also never called a prodigy, having a high battle power isn't really the same thing.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#14632: Apr 13th 2015 at 3:20:45 PM

[up]I meant him being special is likely the explanation, I didn't mean to imply he wasn't.

JonnasN from Porto, Portugal Since: Jul, 2012
#14633: Apr 13th 2015 at 3:25:01 PM

[up][up][up] Not gonna lie, that's one of my favourite Dragon Ball moments. Yamcha finally won a fight, with the help of, like, 3 different people. And it was glorious.

edited 13th Apr '15 3:25:15 PM by JonnasN

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#14634: Apr 13th 2015 at 3:26:21 PM

Yeah okay. Insane power level inflation that makes me hate numbers more than all the physics courses I ever took is perhaps a considerably better state of affairs than we used to have.

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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#14635: Apr 13th 2015 at 3:27:34 PM

So now that we know 17 became a family man, I really want to read a fanfic about Krillin and 18 having an awkward visit with the in-laws.

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#14636: Apr 13th 2015 at 3:38:44 PM

Will the awkwardness stem from the fact that 17, arguably the douchier, more bloodthirsty of the two, has the more stable family life ?

edited 13th Apr '15 3:38:49 PM by SonOfSharknado

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#14637: Apr 13th 2015 at 3:42:47 PM

Considering power levels seem to be going crazy here, what with Piccolo being taken down by someone Zarbon level, and Master Roshi somehow being of use while Yamcha and Chiaotzu are simultaneously not, I wouldn't be surprised if Krillin really has surpassed 18 in power. If we're just ignoring things that make sense why not?

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#14638: Apr 13th 2015 at 3:44:03 PM

So who's the bigger pervert, Roshi or Oolong?

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#14639: Apr 13th 2015 at 3:44:25 PM

Maybe he is to Zarbon what Freeza is to Freeza circa Namek.

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TheMageofFire Since: May, 2012
#14640: Apr 13th 2015 at 3:44:42 PM

wild mass guessThe power scaling in the series has gotten so out of hand that it has created a power level black hole that is constantly flipping around who is stronger or weaker at any given moment...Except Yamcha, cause he's an anomaly.wild mass guess

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#14641: Apr 13th 2015 at 3:52:32 PM

That or they're just using a different power level scale so that their scouters aren't constantly blowing up in their faces.

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#14642: Apr 13th 2015 at 3:53:02 PM

So I have a very serious question.

What in the world made Gohan decide he didn't want to fight anymore during the Cell Games?

He showed absolutely no hesitance to fight during the Freeza Saga and even went back to fight Freeza when it seemed like Goku had died even though he knew he had no hope of winning (at least in the anime). When Freeza was coming to Earth, he went there to challenge him without any hesitation. He had no problems with Goku and Piccolo training him for three years to fight the androids and even insisted that they keep going when they considered taking a break for him. When 19 and 20 arrived, he refused to go home because he had trained all this time for the fight and didn't want to be left out. When Piccolo was getting his ass kicked by Semi-Perfect Cell, he wanted to go there and try to save him. When training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, he called Goku out on being too soft and demanded that Goku go all out against him. He stated during both training segments that he wanted to become as strong as Goku. His Super Saiyan transformation was even triggered by him hating how he's always been useless whenever his friends needed him the most. Then, come the Cell Games, he suddenly doesn't want to fight anymore. Not even when Goku and Piccolo are getting their asses kicked.

The fuck.

Am I missing something?

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SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#14643: Apr 13th 2015 at 4:02:13 PM

The same shitty plot device that constantly makes Gohan think he should never train again.

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alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#14644: Apr 13th 2015 at 4:04:53 PM

Gohan's exhausted from keeping God Videl at bay.

TheMageofFire Since: May, 2012
#14645: Apr 13th 2015 at 4:11:51 PM

"I WILL NOT LET YOU DESTROY MY WOOOOOOOOOORLLLLLLDDDD!"

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#14646: Apr 13th 2015 at 4:17:02 PM

You know, even if Revival "F" sucks, we still have Battle of Gods and that movie is every kind of awesome.

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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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#14647: Apr 13th 2015 at 4:22:09 PM

Gohan is not sure he can actually beat Cell, and knows that the surefire way to win is getting insanely pissed. Do you think he wants to experience something so traumatic it sends him into berserker rage and unlocks his hidden power? He's asking Cell to surrender, knowing that ultimately he's gonna win anyway, in an effort to not have to go through traumatic events.

edited 13th Apr '15 4:22:51 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#14648: Apr 13th 2015 at 4:25:16 PM

That would make sense but I don't think Gohan is supposed to be stupid/naive enough to not realize how pointless that is.

He's fought Frieza, whom Cell has DNA from, he should realize there are some people you can't reason with, and people who make a point of slaughtering innocent people to see the looks of terror on their faces for fun, aren't those kind of people.

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#14649: Apr 13th 2015 at 4:29:30 PM

Gohan is an optimist and a very young boy still. You can't blame him for trying to go for the better overall solution.

At that point, Cell hadn't done anything Piccolo or Vegeta hadn't done. If Cell had gone "Well, fuck this, I'm out. We had a good run everybody, it was fun, but I've decided to retire from villainy", the heroes would've readily accepted him amongst their ranks. He'd eaten people, yeah, but it's really no different from killing people, and Piccolo and Vegeta did a lot of that themselves.

And if you say "oh, but he did it just because he enjoyed it", I will gladly point you at the fact that there was nothing that forced Vegeta to slaughter that Namekian village, or anything that forced Piccolo to murder the family that took him in when he hatched. Yes, anime, but that was actually kinda funny.

edited 13th Apr '15 4:31:51 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#14650: Apr 13th 2015 at 4:39:17 PM

I don't recall if Piccolo Jr. actually killed anyone and we've already been over how easy Vegeta got off but that's not the point I'm making.

They turned over their new leaves (or at least stopped being murderous) after they were beaten. Cell had murdered millions, expressed his intention to kill everyone else, and glee in doing so, and did not believe and had no reason to believe he could be stopped. Gohan doesn't strike me as naive enough to believe just asking him to stop will change this situation at all.

If they were on Namek against Frieza, who Cell very closely resembles, I very much doubt he ever would have thought this would work.

His age doesn't work as an excuse to me, in situations like this, he's grown up far more than he ever should have had to.

But beyond that, it's not that he just made the proposition, it's that for awhile there he seemed to just stop fighting. If he had made the proposition after showing Cell he could kill him or started fighting again when Cell turned it down that would be one thing but the scenario as it went down just makes no sense.

edited 13th Apr '15 4:45:02 PM by LSBK


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