It was needlessly gratuitous.
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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.
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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
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.....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
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does....I mean, I think that would have been breaking the rules of the tournament.
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
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.
One Strip! One Strip!
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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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
I love you, Krillin!! -struggling to breathe- I love you as well, honey........
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.
One Strip! One Strip!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.
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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After the fanbase exploded in outrage over her being told to Stay in the Kitchen in Resurrection of F, anyways.
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Just finished watching Videl vs Sppopovich. That battle, personally, feels like a worse beatdown than Vegeta vs Frieza.
I love you, Krillin!! -struggling to breathe- I love you as well, honey..