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#15926: May 4th 2015 at 9:01:52 AM

Question: is it possible to do a double fusion?

You know, like a fusion between Gotenks and Vegito.

Is this a Jo Jo reference?
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#15927: May 4th 2015 at 9:27:56 AM

[up] The example you listed is impossible since they're not around the same height or power.

That aside, I have no idea. That would be really crazy.

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#15928: May 4th 2015 at 9:32:46 AM

If anything could surpass Beerus and Whis, it'd probably be something like that.

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#15929: May 4th 2015 at 9:43:32 AM

But we have seen people put everything they've got into KI blasts (or claim to, anyway).

Of course, even if that doesn't work, there's always the Spirit Bomb route, which seemingly can pack an arbitrary amount of energy, so long as you have enough to gather.

And before anyone says 18 can't contribute from the ki engine (or whatever it's called) because it's inorganic: Android 8. Also, the sun.

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#15930: May 4th 2015 at 9:58:48 AM

Also, Android 17.

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#15931: May 4th 2015 at 10:01:57 AM

I don't like this implication that the weaker characters in the series should be the ones learning the techniques that don't rely on the user's battle power! It makes too much sense!

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#15932: May 4th 2015 at 12:16:19 PM

The Spirit Bomb doesn't use energy/ki; it uses genki, which is something completely different.

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#15933: May 4th 2015 at 12:17:27 PM

It's what powers high-school girls right?

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#15934: May 4th 2015 at 12:19:14 PM

Yep. It's also what powers your average moeblob and motorcycle sidecars.

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#15935: May 4th 2015 at 12:24:59 PM

I think it could have been dramatically interesting if Chichi had stayed a fighter and tried to fight in the hopes that by fighting herself she could keep Gohan out of it. She probably wouldn't have been especially successful on that front, but.

Or, y'know, if they had done anything at all with the fact that she's a princess and heir apparent to a kingdom.

edited 4th May '15 12:25:19 PM by unnoun

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#15936: May 4th 2015 at 12:27:16 PM

That actually could have been an interesting angle. Chi-Chi wants to keep Gohan out of the fighting so she tries to fight in his place, but her efforts are undermined by the fact that the half-Saiyan brat is far more valuable in a combat zone than Chi-Chi could ever hope to be.

He surpassed the best human fighters before puberty.

edited 4th May '15 12:27:49 PM by TobiasDrake

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#15937: May 4th 2015 at 12:32:42 PM

Chi-Chi was taken out by the stiff breeze from Goku's punch at the end of Dragon Ball. I think if Nappa breathed on her, she would have exploded.

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#15938: May 4th 2015 at 12:42:28 PM

I think there's a legitimate question of why exactly Chichi and Ox King weren't at that little reunion at Kame House.

Goku doesn't ever actually explain that in the manga. I mean, in the manga, after the start of Z it seems like Chichi doesn't like Goku's friends, and that gets exaggerated in the anime because of course, but there doesn't seem to be an actual reason for it. I mean. Her own dad was one of Master Roshi's students. Her dad taught her how to fight, so she has a lot of second-generation aspects of the Turtle School style. Master Roshi is sorta kinda like family.

I can see her being against Gohan training just because of his age. She might want him to learn a little self defense when he gets older but she didn't anticipate him needing it then.

I could see her and Goku maybe training off and on a little those five years. Getting off that baby weight. Maybe wearing weighted clothing.

I could see her bum rushing her brother-in-law in a rage.

...I feel like, in a lot of ways her character traits are frequently at odds with earlier established aspects of her personality.

She's stubborn and short-tempered. That's a thing. But the things she directs her energy towards don't always make sense.

[up] In all fairness, she was almost completely self-taught at the time barring informal lessons from her dad, and didn't seemingly know weight training was even a thing. And she was almost as strong as Roshi, barring knowledge of ki-based techniques.

And over the course of a year Krillin went from being weaker than King Piccolo to stronger than Raditz, so.

...And at that point in the series Goku and Piccolo were basically the single strongest fighters there.

edited 4th May '15 1:02:55 PM by unnoun

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#15939: May 4th 2015 at 1:08:11 PM

The Spirit Bomb doesn't use energy/ki; it uses genki, which is something completely different.

Without knowing what genki is, or its properties, that doesn't really tell me how it interacts with anything, up to and including 17 and 18's generators.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#15940: May 4th 2015 at 1:08:51 PM

The sun, atmosphere, inanimate objects, and Androids 8 and 17 have Genki.

EDIT: Y'know, Goku can make it so that Shenron can't take him home, but technically Chichi and Gohan could have wished to be taken to where Goku was.

A nice family vacation on Yardrat. With Goku smashing mountains in half because he can't control his Super Saiyan transformation yet. Fun times.

I could have sworn Chichi mentioned Gohan using his studies to become an astronaut or an astrophysicist.

...The Garlic Jr. Saga without Gohan but with Vegeta could have been fun. He would have no idea what was going on and he wouldn't have cared either.

edited 4th May '15 1:12:41 PM by unnoun

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#15941: May 4th 2015 at 1:12:01 PM

…Genki is one of the components of Ki.

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#15942: May 4th 2015 at 1:12:33 PM

"Genki" (元気) is Japanese for "energy, spirit, courage, stamina" or anything of that nature.

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#15943: May 4th 2015 at 1:13:25 PM

Because when I think of something that has a lot of courage and stamina, I think of clouds.

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#15944: May 4th 2015 at 1:26:36 PM

Okay, so the Arabic dub called the Spirit bomb the Inevitable Death. That's pretty cool.

Meanwhile, the Big Green dub calls it the Kamehameha.

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#15945: May 4th 2015 at 1:26:45 PM

"Spirit of the world" *waves hands*

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#15946: May 4th 2015 at 1:53:25 PM

Bulma could probably have become a fighter with a giant robot or a death laser or something.

I mean.

So, according to Jaco The Galactic Patrolman, making a time machine is impossible and a violation of the laws of the Dragon Ball universe.

Also according to Jaco the Galactic Patrolman, there was one time Bulma repaired a spaceship by herself when she was three.

According to Dragon Ball Xenoverse, the very first distortion in history was the events of the Android and Cell sagas, and the main reason time travel wasn't a mortal sin was that it had never been done before and the Supreme Kai of Time hadn't thought it was possible.

Bulma broke the universe and science. In a ruined timeline. With a box of scraps.

She could literally do anything probably if she felt like it.

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#15947: May 4th 2015 at 2:04:32 PM

Also according to Jaco the Galactic Patrolman, it is super okay to murder babies.

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#15948: May 4th 2015 at 2:05:46 PM

That's the character. I was talking about the manga, hence the italics.

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#15949: May 4th 2015 at 2:07:30 PM

I know. I just have to bring that up every time someone mentions Jaco the Galactic Patrolman, because Holy shit, Toriyama, your protagonist cannot practice infanticide.

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#15950: May 4th 2015 at 2:07:48 PM

[up][up][up][up]Can she discover why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch?

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edited 4th May '15 2:09:42 PM by TheAirman

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