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Cortez from Parts Unknown (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#33176: Jan 20th 2016 at 11:15:18 PM

Anywho, since the Saiyans never conquered Planet Plant in universe 6, i wonder if that means that the Tuffles are still around as well.

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#33178: Jan 21st 2016 at 3:46:52 AM

Seriously, we get the word straight from the horse's mouth in a completely unambiguous way and people still get it wrong. I don't understand the Dragon Ball fandom at all.

Know what you're talking about before you say others are wrong:

Do you make any use of such fan opinions in the original work?

I do, in the sense of “betraying the fans’ expectations”. For instance, when I got a lot of, “Don’t kill Vegeta,” I deliberately killed him. (laughs)

Source.

So he's both claimed to spare Vegeta and kill Vegeta due to fan requests to spare him.

alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#33179: Jan 21st 2016 at 4:02:54 AM

The joy of having magic balls.

Cortez from Parts Unknown (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#33180: Jan 21st 2016 at 4:14:10 AM

So it a case of having your cake and eating it?

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#33181: Jan 21st 2016 at 4:16:40 AM

Toriyama can have his cake and eat it too thanks to the Dragon Balls.

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#33183: Jan 21st 2016 at 7:44:40 AM

So he's both claimed to spare Vegeta and kill Vegeta due to fan requests to spare him.

Neither of which contradicts the other.

He claims to have invented Frieza because he was convinced by Vegeta's popularity not to kill him off. This would have to have happened at the end of the Saiyan arc.

He also claims to have killed Vegeta in response to repeated outcry not to kill Vegeta. This happens at the end of Namek, long after the decision to spare Vegeta and invent Frieza was made, and was short-lived.

So basically, the story goes like this: Vegeta was going to be the villain on Namek but he was so popular with the fans that Toriyama invented Frieza to replace him and made Vegeta into an antihero Deuteragonist for the duration of the arc. As the fight with Frieza heated up, fans were terrified for Vegeta and kept pestering Toriyama to spare him, so he decided to troll the fandom by having Vegeta die for five minutes.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#33184: Jan 21st 2016 at 8:03:18 AM

Seems logical.

I do hate Trolling Creator though.

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#33185: Jan 21st 2016 at 8:10:29 AM

In one of the secret missions of DBHGM 6, you can have a secret ending:

edited 21st Jan '16 8:10:38 AM by Rinsankajugin

A_Common_Username_Guy Parfait Party from The Capitol Wasteland Since: Nov, 2015
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#33186: Jan 21st 2016 at 9:13:12 AM

Don't know if this is the right place to talk about this, but does anyone play DBZ Dokken Battle?

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#33187: Jan 21st 2016 at 3:07:02 PM

I used to play it, but now my phone has an error every time the game tries to update. So I literally can't play it anymore.

The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!
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#33188: Jan 22nd 2016 at 3:06:50 AM

@Tobias I know, I wasn't saying that. I was talking about how Toriyama has said it both ways, so fans who say it either way are not wrong.

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#33189: Jan 22nd 2016 at 7:07:00 AM

I know. I was just expanding on that.

Pointless exposition is what I do.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#33190: Jan 22nd 2016 at 10:09:01 AM

This is some pointless info I want to share for no reason.

Butt...having a "reason" to watch the original Dragon Ball anime, English dub with translated Japanese subtitles, I'm reminded about how people sometimes complained about adding pointless dialogue where there wasn't.

I find that this dub did do that but also had none where there were...and that was just interesting to me.

Also Goku's description of how he thought he lost Cloud potatoes the first time...

"...but it broke and died."

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#33191: Jan 22nd 2016 at 10:36:03 AM

There's a trope for that.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#33192: Jan 22nd 2016 at 10:54:10 AM

It wasn't too bad with that, sometimes characters making unnecessary groans or sounds in general did go a bit overboard...luckily that stopped after the first tournament.

Jap. Goku was also very blunt about saying he was gonna kill someone.

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#33193: Jan 22nd 2016 at 1:25:37 PM

Goku was always kind of a dick.

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Deadpoolrocks Since: Sep, 2010
#33194: Jan 22nd 2016 at 7:48:03 PM

so I just read some about the people from the other universe... have we been following the evil universe this whole time?

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#33195: Jan 22nd 2016 at 8:25:50 PM

[up]Maaaybe.

Also: something that isn't canon, but probably should be. (and kind of is, I guess, in a way?)

edited 22nd Jan '16 8:31:33 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

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#33196: Jan 22nd 2016 at 8:28:05 PM

That's not canon?

Huh.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#33197: Jan 22nd 2016 at 8:33:12 PM

Nope. In the the manga, Chi-Chi never shows up again after her appearance in the Fire Mountain arc until the Tournament in the Piccolo Daimou arc.

And even then, Goku was always either training with someone or in battle, so there was never any time for him to meet her again.

Plus, he's in his blue Gi in that scene, which he never wore again after the first arc. There was no moment when it could have happened.

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#33198: Jan 22nd 2016 at 8:40:44 PM

It's so great though that Goku's first thought is to fight her and she plays along and ends up having a blast. If tweaked, the scene could easily take place at some point during the Fire Mountain debacle.

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#33199: Jan 22nd 2016 at 8:41:28 PM

It's a shame that's not canon, because that was kind of cute.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#33200: Jan 22nd 2016 at 8:59:46 PM

She never shows up again until the third tournament in the read?

I think I like that she showed up two more times...what's suppose to be filler I guess.

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