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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#17527: May 26th 2015 at 1:21:17 PM

Get hype!

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#17528: May 26th 2015 at 1:51:43 PM

@[1]

Wait, so Uub happens after Beerus?

I was wondering why I hadn't seen him.

Also, that timeline is pretty cool.

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#17529: May 26th 2015 at 1:53:51 PM

Battle of Gods and Revival of F happen before Goku vs. Uub. This was made clear when we find out Pan hasn't been born yet in Battle of Gods and Pan is only a baby in Revival of F.

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#17530: May 26th 2015 at 1:55:55 PM

I need to watch the Buu saga again.

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#17531: May 26th 2015 at 1:57:02 PM

You don't need to do that. Just watch the final episode of Z.

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#17532: May 26th 2015 at 2:00:38 PM

The final episode takes place after a 10-year timeskip. Goten and Trunks are now teenagers, Gohan and Videl are married with precocious daughter Pan, and Vegeta and Bulma have their second child Bra.

Meanwhile, Battle of Gods features Videl informing Gohan that she's pregnant with Pan, only one Briefs child, and Goten and Trunks still being excitable prepubescent kids. Uub exists but he's not going to meet Goku and the others at the Tenkaichi Budokai for a few more years yet.

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#17533: May 26th 2015 at 2:02:18 PM

Wait

Are all the female characters named after women's underwear?

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#17534: May 26th 2015 at 2:03:02 PM

[up] No but everyone in the Briefs family is.

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#17535: May 26th 2015 at 2:05:54 PM

Oh, Briefs.

Ah ha ha.

Still, it seems like Pan would represent panties.

edited 26th May '15 2:06:15 PM by BaconManiac5000

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LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#17536: May 26th 2015 at 2:10:38 PM

Going by the wiki(this we can "trust" because it's just a name but otherwise never trust the wiki!):

Pan's name may come from "pan", which means bread in Japanese and other languages, continuing the food-based names of Gohan's family. Pan may also refer to the Pan of Greek mythology, which is consistent with the religion-based names of Videl's family. There is also a type of instrument called the pan flute, which may imply that she was named to honor Piccolo, Gohan's first mentor and one of his closest friends. Her name might also be a reference to her Saiyan heritage, as the genus of the Chimpanzee species is called "Pan". Pan may also be an abbreviation of panties or pants, in honor of the clothing-based names of Bulma's family.

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#17537: May 26th 2015 at 2:12:54 PM

So she's named after like, thirty things, then.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#17539: May 26th 2015 at 2:15:09 PM

@1 And 1996 was also when most Americans were first introduced to DBZ.

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#17540: May 26th 2015 at 2:15:36 PM

Yeah, all Briefs family members are named for underwear, a running joke that's been part of the series ever since we met Bloomers/Bulma.

Naming people after things is one of Toriyama's favorite gags, which is why most of the humans are foods, the Red Ribbon Army are colors, Saiyans are vegetables, assorted Frieza servants are fruits, the Ginyu Force are dairy products, Frieza himself is the freezer the food is stored in, etc.

And, of course, the Bibidi Babidi Buu gag.

And now we have Beerus and Whiskey.

Toriyama loves this joke.

edited 26th May '15 2:16:19 PM by TobiasDrake

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#17541: May 26th 2015 at 2:15:42 PM

[up][up][up]So she's a Pokemon. :P

[up][up]Cool.

[up]I wonder if he's seen Batman And Robin?

edited 26th May '15 2:16:24 PM by BaconManiac5000

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#17542: May 26th 2015 at 3:11:39 PM

Oob was not obsolete on arrival. Being able to injure base Goku, without formal training, shows potential. And we already know he could reach Pure Boo's level someday, which is why Goku trains him.

alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#17543: May 26th 2015 at 3:32:49 PM

Is there a Hidden Potential trope?There's Time To Unlock More Potential ,but it's not exactly the same.Unless it's the Child Prodigy trope.

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#17545: May 26th 2015 at 3:40:26 PM

I like it as a trope tongue

Especially when they have to train it,like Gohan,some of the time.Others it's just getting patted on the head or sitting still for a while.

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#17546: May 26th 2015 at 3:42:11 PM

Did you understand what I said?

alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#17547: May 26th 2015 at 3:48:10 PM

Yes,yes.

Any news on what's scheduled next for Xenoverse?

Cruherrx I say things. from my own little world Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
I say things.
#17548: May 26th 2015 at 8:07:54 PM

Yes. The movie pack.

"If you weren't so crazy I'd think you were insane."
TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#17550: May 27th 2015 at 12:03:35 PM

  • TRUNKS: You never talk about dad.
  • BULMA: He was...a loner? Had a lot of trouble making friends....
  • TRUNKS: Am I anything like him?
  • BULMA: ...you have his gender.
  • ~Team Four Star

Bulma's side of the relationship always made sense to me. Vegeta is literally a prince, and she was lamenting missing the boat on Goku not long before inviting Vegeta and the Namekians to crash at her place. Jumping into bed with the man sleeping on her couch who is like Goku but a PRINCE was inevitable.

Vegeta, on the other hand, seems like a really hard guy to tie down. Because he is. He knocked up Bulma and then flew off to go do his training, and was apathetic at best and downright malicious at worst to both her and Trunks throughout the Cell Saga. If his relationship with Future Trunks hadn't taught him to value his family, Vegeta would be the one receiving all the "shittiest dad" jokes.

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