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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#17726: May 29th 2015 at 8:03:16 AM

Think people are once again, just tired of the supporting characters being reduced to punching bags that need to be saved.

But we've been down this road: Saiyans>Humans, the latter have been vastly inferior to the former since near the end of Dragon Ball, Nappa killing them really shouldn't be much of a surprise.

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#17727: May 29th 2015 at 8:12:17 AM

The latter have been vastly inferior to the former since the beginning of Dragon Ball. The absolute best warriors humanity had to offer were able to feign relevancy for a while because the only Saiyan they had to compete with was a small child with garbage genes.

Goku impaled the Devil on his fist before he was legally old enough to drive. It really should come as no surprise that "Adult Gokus with lots of battle experience" are an insurmountable threat for the planet Earth!

edited 29th May '15 8:16:43 AM by TobiasDrake

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#17728: May 29th 2015 at 9:08:14 AM

Vegeta and the power of love.

I mean. Yeah. The only person in the group that's never tried to kill Goku is Krillin.

I doubt Vegeta would be like that in Super, but it'd be funny if he was.

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#17729: May 29th 2015 at 9:13:18 AM

Yeah, that's why Vegeta and Piccolo are my favorite characters.

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#17730: May 29th 2015 at 10:19:01 AM

Let's start taking a drink every time unnoun posts a link to that tumblr page.

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#17732: May 29th 2015 at 10:39:55 AM

I won't! I'm an American. Our beer has the word "ROOT" poorly edited into the scene and kind of hovering around from frame to frame above it.

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#17733: May 29th 2015 at 10:52:07 AM

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What part of I'm invincible do you not understand.

As Long as There Is Evil, I can never be vanquished.

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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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#17734: May 29th 2015 at 11:00:14 AM

How much stronger was Nappa than Piccolo?

I think it was, IIRC, a 500 point difference? Certainly far less than the difference there was between Piccolo and Raditz (which was ~1100 and change, IIRC).

Saiga has the numbers memorized, I'm sure.

Anyway, the point is, the difference between Nappa and the Z fighters in terms of power was not super gigantic. The fact remains that Nappa was basically a villain with all of the same traits that made Goku an excellent fighter.

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#17735: May 29th 2015 at 11:02:38 AM

Well, Piccolo was significantly stronger than the others there, minus Gohan when he got mad.

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#17736: May 29th 2015 at 11:05:05 AM

I think piccolo was somewhere between 2000 to 3000, and Nappa was a solid 4000

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#17737: May 29th 2015 at 11:05:18 AM

I remember Nappa saying Piccolo was at 1500 with his power suppressed.

In contrast, suppressed Krillin was 1100.

That being said, full power Piccolo was likely much more powerful.

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#17741: May 29th 2015 at 11:48:40 AM

  • Vegeta - 18,000
  • Goku - >8,000
  • Nappa - 4,000
  • Piccolo - 3,500
  • Enraged Gohan firing Masenko - >2,800
  • Tien - 1,830
  • Krillin - 1,770
  • Yamcha - 1,480
  • Saibamen - 1,200
  • Yajirobe - 970
  • Chiaotzu - 610

edited 29th May '15 11:50:59 AM by TobiasDrake

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#17742: May 29th 2015 at 11:49:54 AM

Goku was somewhere above 8000, though. Vegeta says as much.

Either that or he has OVER NINE THOUSAND balls.

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#17743: May 29th 2015 at 11:51:03 AM

Corrected.

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#17744: May 29th 2015 at 12:03:26 PM

Incidentally this marks the last time Tien was stronger than Krillin.

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#17745: May 29th 2015 at 12:08:55 PM

Its pretty absurd how Nappa was twice as strong as everyone but Piccolo, and then Goku twice as strong as him, and then Vegeta is over twice as strong as Goku.

Power Levels yo.

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#17746: May 29th 2015 at 12:09:36 PM

No, what's absurd is that Goku had to use the Kaioken to drop Nappa as quickly and efficiently as he did despite being twice as strong as him.

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#17747: May 29th 2015 at 12:14:45 PM

Which I chalk up to Nappa being seriously fucking skilled, to the point he got way more out of his 4000 than Goku did his 8000.

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#17749: May 29th 2015 at 12:19:27 PM

He was also willing to accept mercy and probably smart enough to remember he would get massively stronger after recovering from being crippled in a healing pod, which means he could probably have handed Goku his ass on a platter later on.

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#17750: May 29th 2015 at 12:20:48 PM

Nappa was awesome.

But he has to be dead forever while Vegeta kicks back at the Briefs household because sometimes life just isn't fair.

edited 29th May '15 12:21:08 PM by TobiasDrake

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