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SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#3951: Dec 4th 2013 at 9:35:39 PM

[up]Vegeta is Macho Man, the guy who was too cool to be evil, but not a guy who could ever be trusted with the spotlight.

Cell is Mr. Perfect, for obvious reasons

Buu is...Zeus, an insane, unhurtable, unkillable death machine who was only defeated through an act of desperation by the heroes, and who everyone agreed after the fact was kinda dumb.

Frieza is Mr. Mc Mahon, the ultimate evil, the heartless sociopath obsessed with his own greed and power, against whom all other villains are judged.

The Ginyu Force is the Spirit Squad.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#3952: Dec 4th 2013 at 9:37:37 PM

Oh you're right, the Janken was made by Gohan.

The Saruken and Kyouken he showed, however, were not.cool

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#3953: Dec 5th 2013 at 7:02:39 AM

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Well I didn't mention those, so that's ok.

You still lose, but points for trying.tongue

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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#3954: Dec 5th 2013 at 7:25:06 AM

Not a pro wrestler but Mercenary Tao is Master Pain.

No wait, my bad. He's Betty

Seriously though, Kent Williams (Father in FMAB, Dr. Gero in Z, Tao in DB) is one of teh best voices in the series and I love that he made Tao sound like a villain from an old Kung Fu dub.

I just thought of something though after watching that. Did Toriyama not think of the Crane/Tao connection yet? It's weird he didn't comment on Goku using the Kamehameha.

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#3955: Dec 5th 2013 at 7:28:58 AM

Why would he comment on it? He's a professional in the middle of performing an assassination. What's there to say?

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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#3956: Dec 5th 2013 at 7:45:52 AM

There is one person in the world known to use that technique (I sincerely doubt he watched the 21st Tournament. Well....obviously he didn't. lol) and that person is the sworn enemy of his brother. You wouldn't reflect upon who this mysterious kid could be who happens to use a move mastered by a known super badass?

edited 5th Dec '13 7:47:20 AM by Nikkolas

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#3957: Dec 5th 2013 at 9:17:02 AM

In Tao's position, with Tao's personality and role? Maybe after I finished killing him, I might muse on it to myself but wouldn't care enough to follow up on it. Keeping stock of my targets' personal lives isn't my business.

edited 5th Dec '13 9:18:21 AM by TobiasDrake

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SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#3958: Dec 5th 2013 at 10:58:53 AM

"Eh. He can use the kamehameha. That's weird. I guess that Turtle Hermit's moved onto pedophilia. Oh, well. Back to Child Murder!"

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#3959: Dec 8th 2013 at 2:43:11 PM

Goku vs Mercenary Tao... ah, the days of Dragon Ball. I'm still waiting for Toei Animation remaster the whole anime with new animation because if any Dragon Ball related show deserved to be truly remastered, it's gotta be the old school days of Dragon Ball.

edited 8th Dec '13 2:47:23 PM by FireShadow

Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#3960: Dec 8th 2013 at 6:20:59 PM

And of course we'd get it. I'd love a new dub release of DB. I want them to include the insert songs this time.

Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#3961: Dec 9th 2013 at 10:14:31 AM

Quite frankly, the upcoming Blu Ray release of DBZ annoys me. If they can BR DBZ and Yu Yu Hakusho, why not the original Dragon Ball?

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#3962: Dec 10th 2013 at 12:33:15 AM

The simplest explanation is that they don't believe it will generate enough revenue to be worth it. Hell, they didn't complete the Level Blu-Ray sets of Dragon Ball Z for that reason, and that sells better than the first anime.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#3963: Dec 10th 2013 at 4:22:19 AM

Double post for great justice!

So as I've just graduated University, and finally completed my collection of the manga some time ago, I'm going to read through the manga from start to finish as I planned and I've decided that I'm going to do a liveblog reviewing (for a very casual definition of review) the manga volume-by-volume in a similar manner to MistareFusion's Dragon Ball Dissection series (although our viewpoints will probably be opposites on a lot of issuestongue).

Like him I'll probably rate the arcs as part of the reason I want to read it all at once is to see for myself what my exact preferences are, but it won't be an x/10 because I likely won't be dividing the arcs into 10 and my list won't be a cardinal list, but an ordinal one.

There are also two other main reasons for re-reading the series (aside from the joy of it, of course) which is to examine the possible plot holes and also revise my own Battle Powers lists. I am unsure if either of these would be interesting to readers so I don't know whether to include any thoughts I have on either topic as I'm reading. I think that the plot holes might be a good thing to go into as I plan on comparing them by arc, discussing whether they are actually a plot hole and offering explanations for the ones that truly are contradictory.

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#3964: Dec 10th 2013 at 8:16:24 AM

Saiga, if anyone's qualified to explain Dragon Ball's plot holes, it's you.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#3965: Dec 10th 2013 at 1:43:33 PM

I'll agree to that.

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#3966: Dec 10th 2013 at 7:06:22 PM

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Good luck to you, and congratulations.

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My favorite fights from the films.

Goku and Piccolo vs Garlic Jr.

Goku and Vegeta vs Meta Cooler.

Dat teamwork.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#3967: Dec 10th 2013 at 7:10:40 PM

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The latter battle was my first ever exposure to Dragon Ball Z ever.

This was in total Japanese back then mind you, so I had no idea what they were saying.

Man, those were the days:

  • Goku was the guy who could make his hair blonde.

  • Gohan was the kid who used to have a monkey tail.

  • Krillin was the little bald kid (his voice made me assume he was a kid).

  • Roshi was the old man (behold, my incredible nicknaming skills).

  • Yajirobe was the Fat-Ass.evil grin

  • Piccolo was the Green alien dude.

  • Oolong was the talking pig.

  • And Vegeta was the other dude who could make his hair blonde; I also called him the Space cop(his armour did give a very Space Cop-ish look).

……wow. I'm awful at nicknames.

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#3968: Dec 10th 2013 at 7:11:50 PM

My favorite is Trunks, Vegeta, and Goku vs. Androids 13-15.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#3969: Dec 10th 2013 at 7:14:08 PM

Since it holds a special place in my heart, I'll bring up Krillin, Gohan and Piccolo vs Metal-Coola's robots.

Again, first ever exposure to Dragon Ball Z, so Nostalgia is in place.

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#3970: Dec 10th 2013 at 7:18:13 PM

I do like the idea of the Saiyans being cops a lot more than I do "random genocide machines."

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#3971: Dec 10th 2013 at 7:36:34 PM

Saiyan space police officers? Fund it.

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#3972: Dec 11th 2013 at 4:47:42 AM

I'd like it more if Saiyans simply subjugated planets than cleansed them. I mean, leaving population relatively intact (for future servitude) after the conquest is far cheaper than resettling even for spacefaring civilizations.

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#3973: Dec 11th 2013 at 9:04:19 AM

If I recall correctly, aren't they scouring the planets of life so that they can sell them? A race that's purchasing a world isn't going to want to deal with angry native uprisings when they get there, especially when those natives are sitting on land that the buyer paid good money for, consuming resources that are supposed to be included in the purchase. Genocide creates a more appealing product.

EDIT: The issue with uprisings is especially poignant, because let's look at, say, Kanassa. For someone who wants to buy Kanassa, if they had the ability to exterminate the Kanassans in bloody war, they wouldn't need to pay the Saiyans to do it in the first place.

edited 11th Dec '13 9:06:58 AM by TobiasDrake

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#3974: Dec 14th 2013 at 6:17:23 AM

[up] Yeah, that's correct.

Also, finally got around to making my blog. And all I did was the introduction, just a longer version of what I already said here!waii

edited 14th Dec '13 6:17:34 AM by Saiga

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#3975: Dec 14th 2013 at 7:51:32 AM

...does this mean that Frieza is not a galactic emperor or other ruler-type official, and is actually just a highly-aggressive real estate broker?

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