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TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#37901: Apr 20th 2016 at 10:38:45 AM

Sapan!

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#37902: Apr 20th 2016 at 10:59:18 AM

I don't think I would go that far.

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#37903: Apr 20th 2016 at 11:09:55 AM

It's a perfect name. And when s/he transforms, s/he will be a Super Saipan.

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#37904: Apr 20th 2016 at 11:10:28 AM

You can cut their hair all you like.

It'll grow back into its old shape sooner or later. You could also presumably style it with hair gel or the like. Their hair is still hair after all.

Their hair doesn't behave all that differently from yours or mine, it's just that it has a set in stone shape it returns to when it is not being styled or affected by an outside force.

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#37905: Apr 20th 2016 at 11:13:43 AM

[up][up]It's a good pun.

But Sapan ain't the sexiest man in the world.

I didn't realize that was a fusion name...until :Edit.

edited 20th Apr '16 11:18:23 AM by randomness4

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#37906: Apr 20th 2016 at 11:31:05 AM

Yeah, I've been musing on Mr. Satan/Pan fusion names since Unnoun brought it up last page. <.<

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#37907: Apr 20th 2016 at 12:14:09 PM

I'd like to point out Vegeta holding his breath in space probably wouldn't work.

Sure, it works for Superman, so maybe it would work for saiyans too, but I've already posted twice about Superman's powers tending to not make sense and space isn't like water. If water adds pressure and space takes it away, therefor the thing to do would be to exhale to prevent internal pressure used to pushing against something from popping you. By definition you can't exhale as long as you can hold it, super human strength or not.

Now, I could see someone maybe developing a space envelope technique like Wonder Woman/Green Lantern/Magneto(and Magneto is still bullshit because even if it fixes the pressure issues, even if it fixes the radiation issues because magnetism, it doesn't change the fact he needs to breathe and is not magical or using sufficiently advanced technology) do but at this point I'm just going with the surfaces of both the Earth and moon are habitable, as is the space between them, save for the lack of solid mass to habitat.

edited 20th Apr '16 12:14:43 PM by IndirectActiveTransport

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#37908: Apr 20th 2016 at 12:19:43 PM

[up]I don't think Superman actually needs to breathe air though.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#37909: Apr 20th 2016 at 12:22:04 PM

You'd have to inhale at a pretty moderate pace in order to keep it up for however long, but you'll stop eventually.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#37910: Apr 20th 2016 at 1:55:00 PM

Maybe Vegeta's ego has enough mass it can maintain an atmosphere. tongue

Anyway, I seem to recall Goku passing out in space. While fighting Beerus. He didn't last very long up there.

Also, I mean, how do spaceships not pop given the pressure inside them is greater than zero. Not a physicist so I dunno.

I can imagine Super Saiyan muscle standing up to steel.

Also, on the subject of Saiyan hair, why does it stand up and change color when they transform? Would all of their hair do that?

Their hair is still hair after all.

...Is it, though? Because hair doesn't act like Goku's or Vegeta's.

edited 20th Apr '16 2:08:08 PM by unnoun

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#37911: Apr 20th 2016 at 2:04:11 PM

I assume all their hair does that. A Saiyan with a super-hairy chest would probably have blond chesthair as a Super Saiyan.

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#37912: Apr 20th 2016 at 2:07:37 PM

But would it stand up and be spiky?

Could you hurt someone with it? How hard and sharp is Super Saiyan hair?

Also, why does Super Saiyan 3 make the eyebrows go away? And how do they come back afterwards?

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#37913: Apr 20th 2016 at 3:14:43 PM

Spaceships don't have human shape or chemical makeup, most obviously they are not 55-60%+water. They're built for the environment, just like space suits. To simplify, submarines don't crush in the ocean depths that will be the end of a person, suits can be made to increase human diving capability.

I think they should just address it. Have Goku mention the times he went out of the atmosphere, exactly where he had to go before it started getting hard on him and develop a prolonged deep space survival technique, some independent of Whis's barrier, as he and Beerus don't actually seem to need it. Better yet, introduce an enemy who has it, have the characters gradually learn it after fighting them, the way everyone gradually learned to fly.

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#37914: Apr 20th 2016 at 3:28:11 PM

You're thinking about it too hard.

This is a world where dinosaurs remain in existence, where the moon can be destroyed and not wreck the planet, and where human beings can channel energy with enough destructive force to destroy entire planets.

Goku sodomizing Ninja Murasaki with the Power Pole should have flat-out killed him, not just extreme pain.

Mercenary Tao can throw pillars like missiles and then jump on top of them before they've left the vicinity.

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edited 20th Apr '16 3:30:42 PM by Soble

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#37915: Apr 20th 2016 at 3:38:02 PM

Also, I mean, how do spaceships not pop given the pressure inside them is greater than zero. Not a physicist so I dunno.

Humans don't pop in space either. Explosive Decompression is a myth (at least for humans... dolphins, on the other hand...).

I mean, the air would get yanked out through your throat, and your skin might expand with the lack of pressure, but you wouldn't explode. Your body is tougher than that.

And if a human body won't pop in space I'm sure you can understand why a metal spaceship wouldn't pop either.

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#37916: Apr 20th 2016 at 3:42:15 PM

Yeah, humans iirc can withstand 10 times normal gravity before we're crushed under our own weight.

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#37917: Apr 20th 2016 at 3:42:51 PM

You're just assuming that they'd be exposed to the harshness of Space... when they wouldn't, because they can create energy barriers. And no, I'm not saying this because of the Broly movie, but because Vegetto did it against Buu, which makes it likely that both Goku and Vegeta can do it as well.

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#37918: Apr 20th 2016 at 3:43:42 PM

Honestly, that entire sequence of events feels like it was made on drugs.

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#37919: Apr 20th 2016 at 5:05:19 PM

Weren't Goku and Beerus still technically in Earth's atmosphere though? They weren't fighting in the "true" vacuum of space.

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#37920: Apr 20th 2016 at 5:06:25 PM

I'm pretty sure that they were in space by that point, if everything from that fight in Super is anything to go by.

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#37921: Apr 20th 2016 at 5:16:09 PM

Maybe, but I forget how far our atmosphere actually extends to.

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#37922: Apr 20th 2016 at 5:25:35 PM

Okay, Vegeta wouldn't pop, he'd just lose all his air as his blood boils and his body is assailed by unguarded radiation. His body would probably still be visible, but no one probably saw it because it was launched away at a planet destroying velocity, leading back to the needle in the vastness of space analogy and I'm thinking too hard about this anyway.

...Maybe the eyebrows disappear in super saiyan 3 because the transformation is drawing all hair towards the top of the head?

edited 20th Apr '16 7:54:01 PM by IndirectActiveTransport

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#37923: Apr 20th 2016 at 5:54:29 PM

No, the eyebrows disappear because they don't fit the aesthetic of primitive-ness that Toriyama was going for with the forehead.

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#37924: Apr 20th 2016 at 6:53:48 PM

I assume it's due to his eyebrow muscles getting so swole that his eyebrow outgrows his eyebrow hair.

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#37925: Apr 20th 2016 at 7:09:36 PM

That's that part of the skull extended.

Also that doesn't make sense.

edited 20th Apr '16 7:10:08 PM by randomness4

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