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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#15951: May 4th 2015 at 2:08:39 PM

Bulma is literally the only reason the cast is alive after the Android Saga.

Hell, she's the only reason the Android Saga could even be a thing instead of the story of Dragonball ending at The History of Trunks.

edited 4th May '15 2:08:53 PM by VeryMelon

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#15952: May 4th 2015 at 2:13:17 PM

because Holy shit, Toriyama, your protagonist cannot practice infanticide.

Krillin killed a bunch of five-minute old Saibamen.

Gohan killed Cell Jrs.

Vegeta killed planets.

Bulma shot a kid in the face.

EDIT: On the subject of Jaco the character, does he have any reaction to the fact that the Saiyan kid he failed to kill is fighting Frieza? And blue?

edited 4th May '15 2:20:49 PM by unnoun

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#15953: May 4th 2015 at 2:26:13 PM

Is it morally justified to kill Space Napolhitler before he grows up?

[up] Saiyans have black hair. Can't be him.

edited 4th May '15 2:26:45 PM by Enlong

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#15954: May 4th 2015 at 2:26:55 PM

[up]Murder can always be justified. So yes.

edited 4th May '15 2:27:08 PM by Raven666

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#15955: May 4th 2015 at 2:28:50 PM

Jaco once wiped a life from a planet by accident. That got him a slap on the wrist apparently. He also considered wiping out humanity after talking for half a hour with one human.

What I'm saying is Jaco is terrible.

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#15956: May 4th 2015 at 2:30:41 PM

I wouldn't say he's terrible, just uses genocide/planet destroying as a relaxant. Which is kinda a dick thing to do, but hey, he's an alien so maybe that's normal behavior.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#15957: May 4th 2015 at 2:32:01 PM

I mean, at least the space police are more humane than Earth police.

Topical.

edited 4th May '15 2:32:11 PM by unnoun

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#15958: May 4th 2015 at 2:32:48 PM

I was going to make a joke on that but it was incredibly racist.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#15959: May 4th 2015 at 2:34:32 PM

Just like the police.

Jaco is actually a gripping and satirical social commentary for our time.

edited 4th May '15 2:49:43 PM by unnoun

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#15960: May 4th 2015 at 2:53:02 PM

Well, doesn't Jaco also threaten to annihilate all life on Earth? I haven't actually read it (I need to! I was looking for it in Kinokuniya, but it looks like I can only get it online.)

Jaco doesn't seem like he really cares much about the stuff he's supposed to be protecting.

The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!
unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#15961: May 4th 2015 at 2:53:28 PM

Just like the police.

Sorry, I've got 30 years of bitterness over horrifically racist police brutality to work through, so I'm probably going to keep this going for as long as I can.

edited 4th May '15 2:54:53 PM by unnoun

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#15962: May 4th 2015 at 2:54:06 PM

A protagonist behaves like an asshole?! Not in mah Dragon Ball!

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#15963: May 4th 2015 at 3:03:30 PM

So, to go to another topic.

In the Broly movies, how exactly did Frieza miss Broly and Paragus? I mean, it seemed like he stayed to watch the beautiful fireworks. Did he not see the little green bubble in the debris? Or turn his scouter on to check behind himself? Cooler was in the solar system too, supposedly, so.

How did Paragus and Broly get away from that alive? Because Broly had been stabbed and they can't actually fly faster than the speed of light and I don't know how close the nearest inhabitable planet to Planet Vegeta would be, but they would both have needed medical attention and food and sleep eventually.

Yes I know the movies don't make sense. Shush. Half the fun of things that don't make sense is poking them with a stick.

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#15964: May 4th 2015 at 3:29:43 PM

Planets are huge. That little green bubble would have been completely invisible from Frieza's perspective.

edited 4th May '15 3:30:13 PM by TobiasDrake

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alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#15965: May 4th 2015 at 3:30:11 PM

plus,relativistic speeds or something.Broly's totally strong enough to warp Time-Space around him to increase his speed up to billionfolds of light speed.

edited 4th May '15 3:30:59 PM by alekos23

HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#15966: May 4th 2015 at 3:38:31 PM

I did not know Bulma literally broke time, by the way. Wow.

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#15967: May 4th 2015 at 3:59:57 PM

No, not really. Well, it is. But the amount of ki you have doesn't necessarily translate into the amounts of Genki you have. In fact, the series portrays everyone as giving the same level of Genki whenever the spirit bomb is used, so you have Joe Everyman contributing the same amount of power as one of the "Z-Fighters".

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#15969: May 4th 2015 at 4:19:21 PM

Infanticide and blowing up planets is okay in DBZ because death (And everything else horrific) is so cheap it's pretty much of no consequence.

Frieza murdering Krillin, Vegeta, and Dende was the equivalent of a playground bully knocking down your sandcastle.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#15970: May 4th 2015 at 4:21:07 PM

There's a planet full of Saiyans that say otherwise.

I don't think Jaco knew about the Dragon Balls.

And Bulma hadn't invented the Dragon Radar yet.

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#15971: May 4th 2015 at 4:25:57 PM

Even then, look at how nice the afterlife is.

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#15972: May 4th 2015 at 4:32:37 PM

Yeah. You get to be a fluffy cloud, line up behind the Great Desk of Elemental Mahogany, and then... Um.

Well, if you're important someone Goku knows, you get to sit in a field.

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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#15973: May 4th 2015 at 4:43:59 PM

I've just gotten to the Fortuneteller Baba arc and I'm a bit confused as to how the DB afterlife works myself. It's been said reincarnation's at play, but Grandpa Gohan has been in "the afterlife" since he died, so what gives?

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#15974: May 4th 2015 at 4:52:51 PM

Maybe because he's a fighter and Kami was feeling nice.

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#15975: May 4th 2015 at 4:56:02 PM

Maybe because Toriyama hadn't had enough gin that day to figure out the afterlife as it was established in DBZ yet.

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