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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#25051: Sep 12th 2015 at 3:45:51 PM

I've been wondering why Namekians have teeth myself.

And I assume they also photosynthesize to a degree. Hence the green skin and living on a planet with perpetual sunlight. If you're gonna live on a planet constantly bombarded with sunlight you might as well evolve to utilize it.

Still doesn't explain where they get nutrients for body structure from, though. Unless they have nuclear fusion engines in their bellies that can synthesize carbon from water.

edited 12th Sep '15 3:46:39 PM by Anomalocaris20

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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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#25052: Sep 12th 2015 at 3:47:06 PM

Or maybe they're just magic.

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#25053: Sep 12th 2015 at 3:47:39 PM

They are the most magically intuned race we've seen. I wouldn't have any problem with their internal organs literally incorporating magic to function.

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#25054: Sep 12th 2015 at 3:49:51 PM

Namekians can regrow limbs, Sayains can turn into a giant apes thousand times their mass, Cell can literally regrow from a single cell. Trying to apply logic to DB biology is folly itself.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#25055: Sep 12th 2015 at 3:54:12 PM

All the clusterfuck that is Cell is just him applying traits from the races present in the series.

Nothing that doesn't make sense about him originated with or his unique to him.

edited 12th Sep '15 3:54:36 PM by LSBK

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#25056: Sep 12th 2015 at 3:58:59 PM

There is no conservation of mass, only Zuul.

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#25057: Sep 12th 2015 at 4:03:08 PM

himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari
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#25058: Sep 12th 2015 at 4:16:55 PM

Regrowing limbs requires KI, which was fundamental to the setting by Piccolo Jr. What's harder to buy is Cell not only regrowing from a cell but returning in his perfect state and gaining power from the ordeal. Pretty sure that was the moment my dad quit Dragon Ball, other than to mock the rest of us for reading it or playing the video games.(though he managed to sit through the Bojack movie without talking over it too much or walking off. Maybe Bojack was how he thought Cell should have ended?)

edited 12th Sep '15 4:24:39 PM by IndirectActiveTransport

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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#25059: Sep 12th 2015 at 4:18:37 PM

The energy the characters have is constantly increasing while their mass isn't. I interpreted Namekian healing getting better as they get stronger as being that they are healing the same amount of mass with the same Ki but their Ki grows.

If regenerating a lost arm costs 100 Power Level points of Ki than someone with a Power Level of 300 will be exhausted while that same someone with a Power Level of 3,000,000 will barely feel it.

Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#25060: Sep 12th 2015 at 4:38:42 PM

Cell is a Human/Saiyan/Namekian/Changeling Bio-Android. I bet his appearance is essentially what would happen if ya put all these species in a blender.

edited 12th Sep '15 4:38:56 PM by Rinsankajugin

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#25061: Sep 12th 2015 at 4:47:51 PM

So you get a creepy bug man from:

  • Two races descended from Monkeys (with one even having tails and turning into were-monkeys)

  • Slug people who are similar to plants as well

  • Lizard mutants

.......

Yeah, I'm beginning to see some sense in the DBZ biology makes no sense argument.

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#25062: Sep 12th 2015 at 4:48:26 PM

A blender full of cicadas.

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#25063: Sep 12th 2015 at 4:49:44 PM

Namek does have giant-ass fish on it, so the teeth could still be for self defense like unnoun said.

Or maybe they used to fight each other a lot in the past.

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#25064: Sep 12th 2015 at 4:54:33 PM

And now we know why the only warrior Namekian left is Nail. Because they just kept killing each other.

Namekians are dicks.

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Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#25065: Sep 12th 2015 at 4:56:54 PM

What point would there be in biting each other when they can regrow limbs?

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#25066: Sep 12th 2015 at 4:59:13 PM

Being butten still wouldn't be pleasant, even if they heal.

They could also bite each other until they overuse their regeneration and die.

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#25067: Sep 12th 2015 at 4:59:57 PM

I'm thinking fight each other. There is hardly anything living on the ground currently because storms but it probably used to be teaming with all sorts of killer birds and pterodactyls, so that too.

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#25068: Sep 12th 2015 at 5:09:27 PM

Maybe the water sometimes gets very chewy on Namek.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#25069: Sep 12th 2015 at 5:18:06 PM

You know, that thing about them fighting each other could be.....

No. No, they said it was storms, so probably not. Plus we all know the nameless Namek became evil from living on Earth.

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#25070: Sep 12th 2015 at 5:19:51 PM

Whenever I remember that I just keep imagining the Nameless Namek playing poker and falling in with the Wrong Crowd.

MyssaRei Since: Feb, 2010
#25071: Sep 12th 2015 at 11:23:58 PM

Well well now, this week's episode was a HUGE improvement over the last two, with nary a bad key frame found. Kind of too bad though that Goku spent half of the episode messing around, as he's not used to the power of being a god yet. The "revenge" neck-chop and finger-flick from Goku to Beerus were hilarious though, but yeah, apparently Beerus can just erase minor injuries from himself if he wants.

Next seems to be more in line with the movie, as Goku FINALLY uses his God fire-aura, which was missing through this episode.

edited 12th Sep '15 11:26:07 PM by MyssaRei

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#25072: Sep 13th 2015 at 5:39:07 AM

Regrowing limbs requires KI, which was fundamental to the setting by Piccolo Jr. What's harder to buy is Cell not only regrowing from a cell but returning in his perfect state and gaining power from the ordeal. Pretty sure that was the moment my dad quit Dragon Ball, other than to mock the rest of us for reading it or playing the video games.(though he managed to sit through the Bojack movie without talking over it too much or walking off. Maybe Bojack was how he thought Cell should have ended?)

By the time Cell enters the picture, Saiyan zenkais are firmly established.

Namek does have giant-ass fish on it, so the teeth could still be for self defense like unnoun said.

Or maybe they used to fight each other a lot in the past.

This. Also keep in mind that by the time we see Namek, everyone on it has been wiped out by a drought and Guru had to repopulate his race. Who's to say Namekians are the only species affected?

We're seeing the straggling survivors of an extinction event. It stands to reason that a lot of evolutionary traits won't necessarily line up with the handful of other species that survived.

edited 13th Sep '15 5:40:21 AM by TobiasDrake

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#25073: Sep 13th 2015 at 5:42:49 AM

The funniest part about Namekians is that their main occupation seems to be cabbage farming, despite the fact that they don't eat the stuff. Abriged series was right - namek is mind numblingly boring.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#25074: Sep 13th 2015 at 5:43:56 AM

Teeth are not normally the self defense weapons of choice in non-carnivorous species!

In theory they can be, but they're never actually used that way.

alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#25075: Sep 13th 2015 at 5:45:19 AM

They also have claws.

Also,ki usage.Oughta kill most threats.


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