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nomuru2d Gamer-turning-maker from Port Saint Lucie, FL Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Longing for Dulcinea
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#3151: Aug 18th 2013 at 3:42:36 PM

... Anom, did you forget math? A negative divided by a positive is still a negative.

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#3152: Aug 18th 2013 at 3:55:48 PM

I don't care if they can fight the villains or not. Krillin is who kept Gohan alive on Namek, and the humans contributed a lot in Cell Arc. Fighting is not the only way characters can stay relevant.

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#3153: Aug 18th 2013 at 4:20:16 PM

No, the destruct failure scenes were filler. The point is the Krillen's moves are just as good as Tien's in canon but filler (and movies) shat on Krillen making him seem less effective while Tien was pretty much untouched by them, and in some cases made to look better than he was. (Tien managed to make Trunks turn Super in the Bojack movie despite not having trained in the time chamber)

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#3154: Aug 18th 2013 at 5:23:39 PM

[up][up][up]It's still an increase. -12 divided by 6 is -2, for example.

-2 > -12

edited 18th Aug '13 5:25:15 PM by Anomalocaris20

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#3155: Aug 18th 2013 at 10:42:53 PM

It devalues the entire point of them training under King Kai. That entire plot point is completely wasted, because nothing ever comes of it. Nobody got any stronger, nobody learned a new technique, nothing changed. They might as well never have gone.

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#3156: Aug 19th 2013 at 12:55:40 PM

Best thing ever?

King Kai himself hasn't mastered the Kaioken. So the humans will in the few months they were there? Goku has set a precedent for learning techniques extremely quickly.

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#3157: Aug 19th 2013 at 3:53:44 PM

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Fuck yeah it's the best thing ever!!!evil grin

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#3158: Aug 19th 2013 at 11:29:48 PM

[up][up] Then why even send them there to begin with? Narratively, what purpose was served by having them train under King Kai?

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#3159: Aug 20th 2013 at 4:12:22 AM

So they were in a place we could recognize and communicate with Goku and their friends?

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#3160: Aug 20th 2013 at 7:21:47 AM

You know who really should have got the Kaioken? Piccolo, figured out just from watching Goku do it. He could have pulled it out against Cell and fought alongside #16.

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#3161: Aug 20th 2013 at 11:51:06 AM

[up]Why and How???

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#3162: Aug 20th 2013 at 7:09:38 PM

I thought it was commonly accepted fanon that all the non-Saiyans were using Kaioken after the Namek arc, but you just couldn't tell the same way they couldn't tell when Goku was using it against Frieza.

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#3163: Aug 20th 2013 at 8:50:19 PM

I don't acknowledge anything "fanon" related in any series that I have interest in. Its not in my mentality to accept it.

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#3164: Aug 20th 2013 at 11:14:38 PM

Piccolo wouldn't even have to self-train it. He also went to King Kai's planet. King Kai could have taught it to him.

Seriously. That whole plot point is completely wasted.

edited 20th Aug '13 11:14:57 PM by TobiasDrake

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#3165: Aug 20th 2013 at 11:15:40 PM

But Piccolo was too proud to do training any way but his own.

From what I gather of King Kai's methods, you have to be willing AND able to withstand the technique in order to use it. Normal humans wouldn't stand a chance.

edited 20th Aug '13 11:16:33 PM by nomuru2d

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#3166: Aug 20th 2013 at 11:18:27 PM

If Piccolo was too proud to train under King Kai, then why did he even go there in the first place? Because he was lonely and everybody else was doing it?

edited 20th Aug '13 11:18:48 PM by TobiasDrake

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#3167: Aug 21st 2013 at 5:02:58 AM

Probably because he refused to chase Bubbles the monkey or play cricket with a cricket once he learned that was what King kai's training entailed. I just got that joke.

Normal humans they were not, Tien, Chaozu and Yamcha were all stronger than Goku was when he arrived on King Kai's planet.

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#3168: Aug 21st 2013 at 8:03:05 AM

That's true. None of them were affected by the planet's gravity.

....So right, let's have it. I know you all want to make a joke about him. So get on with it.

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#3169: Aug 21st 2013 at 1:29:54 PM

Gravity was lulling Yamcha into a false sense of security so it could own him while he's alone later.

The funny part is, the gravity training function wasn't even on.

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#3170: Aug 21st 2013 at 1:36:51 PM

Oh that scene... waii

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#3171: Aug 22nd 2013 at 4:45:30 AM

"An error occured, please try again later"

man, not even youtube like yamcha.

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#3172: Aug 22nd 2013 at 9:02:30 AM

...I'm not gonna fix that. It's funnier that way.

What's funny is that the name of the person who uploaded that... is Krillin.

edited 22nd Aug '13 9:02:42 AM by Anomalocaris20

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#3173: Aug 22nd 2013 at 5:24:09 PM

Even gravity beats Yamcha.

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#3174: Aug 22nd 2013 at 5:31:36 PM

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I'd say Gravity often beats everyone (there are levels that no amount of training can overcome), but I'm sure that there is a snarky comment about how it beats Yamcha much more thoroughly, so it's a waste to bother.

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#3175: Aug 22nd 2013 at 5:33:50 PM

I still think Mr. Satan is actually stronger than Yamcha. :3


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