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Piando 18's Glomp OF DOOM Since: Jun, 2015
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#27776: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:09:46 PM

Just finished watching Videl vs Sppopovich. That battle, personally, feels like a worse beatdown than Vegeta vs Frieza.

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#27777: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:10:39 PM

It was needlessly gratuitous.

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#27778: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:12:18 PM

I know we like talk shit about him a lot, but Sasuske is more of a Base Breaker than an all out Scrappy; whether we like it or not, he does have his fans.

Let's remember that Vegeta still had his fans back when he was still a selfish asshole too. And no, not in the "haha, look at him get beat up" like we like to do, but the type of fans who wanted to him to succeed.

[up][up] Probably because its a grown man brutalizing a teenage girl, and ya know, not an alien beating up on another alien. It also kind helps Vegeta had his beatdown coming while Videl was just kind of in the wrong place at the wrong time.

edited 10th Nov '15 12:13:59 PM by BlackYakuzu94

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#27779: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:13:21 PM

Did it take two chapters in the manga for that beatdown?

I mean, damn, how did that conversation go between Videl and Gohan? I had to let him beat the tar out of you Videl, we needed to find out where Babidi was!

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Piando 18's Glomp OF DOOM Since: Jun, 2015
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#27780: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:14:27 PM

I loved how 4 people stronger than Frieza and Goku on Namek did absolutely nothing there. (Goku Gohan, Vegeta, and Krillin)

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#27781: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:16:54 PM

edited 10th Nov '15 12:17:07 PM by VeryMelon

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#27782: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:17:16 PM

Wait what? They couldn't do anything. Vegeta was already stronger than Piccolo, Krillin or Gohan at that point so those three jumping in wouldn't have solved anything aside from getting them killed.

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Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#27783: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:17:16 PM

Since when was Krillin stronger than Frieza?

Piando 18's Glomp OF DOOM Since: Jun, 2015
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#27784: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:18:12 PM

I meant Goten, Present Trunks, and Android 18.

Since when was Sppopovich stronger than a base Super Saiyan.

edited 10th Nov '15 12:19:00 PM by Piando

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#27785: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:19:15 PM

No one did anything at first because as warriors, they refused to step in someone else's fight.

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#27786: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:19:44 PM

....What are you talking about? Present Trunks, Goten or 18 never went to Namek...

EDIT: oohh, the spopovich fight. Well they didn't know something was up at the time, and Gohan was going to step in before Spopo ringed her out.

edited 10th Nov '15 12:20:46 PM by BlackYakuzu94

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#27787: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:20:31 PM

He only said they were stronger than the cast was during the Namek Saga.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#27788: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:25:35 PM

Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, Krillin, 18, most of the cast could've stepped in and punched Spopovich in the head. They chose not to because the Supreme Kai told them not to, and since his power was in a whole 'nother dimension, they listened.

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#27789: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:29:35 PM

You mean whole other dimension of uselessness, right?

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#27790: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:29:36 PM

...I mean, I think that would have been breaking the rules of the tournament.

I wonder if Vegeta would have just wandered around the earth if he didn't hijack Bulma's spaceship.

Wanna know something funny? Vegeta only steals Bulma's spaceship in the anime. Seriously. Vegeta stealing Bulma's spaceship is filler.

When Tien sees Vegeta when they all gather to watch Trunks kill Frieza, Tien is surprised that Vegeta's still on the planet because Tien hasn't sensed Vegeta the entire time.

So, if you assume that Vegeta didn't steal the ship. That means he's just been bumming around with Yamcha and Bulma at Capsule Corporation. For a year. And his power level hasn't even raised the entire time.

And he's still wearing the "Bad Man" shirt.

edited 10th Nov '15 12:30:22 PM by unnoun

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#27791: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:30:19 PM

Yeah. That was the excuse for why those guys did nothing, and even then, Gohan almost said fuck that shit.

There's little excuse for no one stopping the match. True, Spopovitch hadn't actually broken any rules since there was nothing saying you couldn't drag the battle out like that, but he was clearly torturing her at that point.

Though I also get the feeling people were so shocked at this blatant brutality that they were just in disbelief.

I wonder if Abridged will just have the ref call the match instead of that bullshit.

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#27792: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:31:34 PM

No, but they will add hilarious squeaky sound to every hit Videl receives. grin

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#27793: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:31:59 PM

[nja]

No one stepped in because they were at a tournament. Spopovich didn't jump Videl in an alleyway, they were an official match-up. IIRC Gohan was close to saying, "F*ck this," and jumping in anyway, which is why Spopovich ended it where he did.

edited 10th Nov '15 12:32:14 PM by TobiasDrake

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Piando 18's Glomp OF DOOM Since: Jun, 2015
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#27794: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:32:00 PM

[up] It's the only beatdown that's hard to watch. That and the death of Future Gohan. Also he only stopped because Yamu told him to finish things and not kill her.

edited 10th Nov '15 12:32:39 PM by Piando

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#27795: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:32:30 PM

......

That might actually work.

I can't wait to see how they handle his head being turned around though.

I expect a lot of people in the audience to lampshade that shit.

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#27796: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:32:37 PM

Maybe the Abridged version will have people doing that gag from one of Linkara's reviews (I forget which one) where he says "We should do something!" "Should we do something?" "We should do something!"

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#27797: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:33:28 PM

Really, the moment Sayians got their hands on space travel, of course they are going to go in space to find people they can punch.

I mean, as a whole Saiyans seem to prefer it when people can punch back.

Like, yeah, you're right that Saiyans would go looking for fights and probably wreck the neighborhood.

But I imagine most planet purges would have involved killing people that wouldn't put up much of a challenge. Which, given what I've seen of the Saiyans, probably wouldn't be all that fun.

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#27798: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:36:00 PM

And then, with her fighting spirit successfully broken into a million pieces, Videl never had another fight scene again and settled in to just be Gohan's peppy wife and Pan's doting mother. That'll learn her for being a woman and daring to be a combatant.

edited 10th Nov '15 12:37:17 PM by TobiasDrake

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Piando 18's Glomp OF DOOM Since: Jun, 2015
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#27799: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:37:12 PM

[up] Happened to 18 with Cell too. And Chi-Chi fighting Goku.

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#27800: Nov 10th 2015 at 12:39:04 PM

At least 18 got to fight Beerus in Dragon Ball Super.

After the fanbase exploded in outrage over her being told to Stay in the Kitchen in Resurrection of F, anyways.

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