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TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#25201: Sep 18th 2015 at 3:15:40 PM

You might want to have that looked at.

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#25202: Sep 18th 2015 at 4:07:30 PM

That's one hell of a glitch we've got going around.

Oh man, I wonder what did happen to Hercule in the alternate timeline. Roshi had a submarine, Hercule must have a bunker or something - but did he target the Androids like he did Cell, did they kill him outright, maybe he saw a city get nuked and decided to be smart and hide somewhere.

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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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#25203: Sep 18th 2015 at 6:07:43 PM

He knows Cell wiped out a significant portion of the world's armed forces, he knows that Cell can literally fly through ceilings without even noticing they're there, he knows that Cell has killed hundreds of people, possibly thousands, probably hundreds of thousands...

In short, yes, he would challenge the androids anyway.

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#25204: Sep 18th 2015 at 6:19:05 PM

Pfft, those were all cheap tricks.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#25205: Sep 18th 2015 at 6:20:37 PM

He'd likely think the Androids are doing the same truthfully.

Unless he somehow witnessed them doing it like he did with Cell, I also agree he'd challenge them.

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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#25206: Sep 18th 2015 at 6:20:49 PM

I wonder if everyone thought all the weirdness at the 21st-23rd Tournaments were tricks too?

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#25207: Sep 18th 2015 at 6:23:41 PM

Maybe, maybe not.

I do suspect that after the Z-warriors dropped out of Tourneys, Hercule gains prominence by winning without such techniques and convinced people they were seeing some nifty tricks.

Some might not have bought it, but a lot of the people who showed up for later tournaments probably missed the earlier ones as well.

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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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#25208: Sep 18th 2015 at 6:27:29 PM

Well... the Z Fighters had pretty much taken over the Tournament by the 23rd, so it's likely a lot of the other skilled fighters didn't bother showing up, incorrectly assuming that they'd just get taken out by the absurdly strong monsters that were the students of the Turtle Hermit and the reincarnation of the guy who conquered the world once.

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#25209: Sep 18th 2015 at 9:07:38 PM

Public awareness of ki techniques, flight, ect. faded after Dragon Ball. Apparently Mr. Satan pushed the idea that they were all just tricks.

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#25210: Sep 18th 2015 at 9:10:13 PM

Remember that Mr. Hercule Satan popularized the Tenkaichi Budokai. The number of people attending the tournament in Dragon Ball were far, far less than the number of people watching after Hercule Satan 'defeated' Cell.

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#25211: Sep 18th 2015 at 10:29:37 PM

But the whole reason Marky Mark was able to do that was that Piccolo blew up the old ring, forcing them to get a bigger one.

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#25212: Sep 18th 2015 at 11:30:50 PM

Along with the entire island.

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#25213: Sep 18th 2015 at 11:58:40 PM

They got a new island? Must have been a big budget.

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#25214: Sep 19th 2015 at 12:35:53 AM

Well, Piccolo did level the entire island.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#25215: Sep 19th 2015 at 12:51:29 AM

The tournament island? It spread far...that far?

edited 19th Sep '15 12:52:28 AM by randomness4

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#25216: Sep 19th 2015 at 4:51:28 AM

There most likely were free islands to relocate the tournament to. Hell, it's likely that someone actually set out to revive the World Martial Arts Tournament and make it a bigger spectacle to make money out of it.

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#25217: Sep 19th 2015 at 5:46:33 AM

[up][up] Unless I was imagining things, yes. Yes it did. The attack was apparently called the Full Power Shock Wave.

Hell, the manga chapter in question is called "Piccolo Destroys Everything!".

edited 19th Sep '15 5:48:14 AM by Zelenal

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#25218: Sep 19th 2015 at 5:51:13 AM

Oh, there's a picture there...with water, I see.

Blunt naming, I like it.

I guess it has been a long time, I didn't remember that scene.

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#25221: Sep 19th 2015 at 8:51:55 AM

I like how Vegeta admits he might not have been able to take a punch from him too.

But he never went Super Saiyan, so we can't know for sure.

I'm surprised they went with Vegeta and not Goku. He'd have loved it even more.

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#25223: Sep 19th 2015 at 9:56:40 AM

Not bad.

And Satan's kindness shines through as well.

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JonnasN from Porto, Portugal Since: Jul, 2012
#25225: Sep 19th 2015 at 11:49:27 AM

I should really get to reading One Punch Man. Sounds hilarious.

[up]Wait, that joke in DBZA was a dub reference? Always finding something new.


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