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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
himitsu keisatsu
#44001: Sep 25th 2016 at 6:22:30 PM

[up][up]Vegeta as Main Character would fail so hard he would underflow and roll back into success.

himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari
LOLypop1224 ...what am I even DOING here? Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
...what am I even DOING here?
#44002: Sep 25th 2016 at 7:14:07 PM

Still, I feel like there's a large portion of the fanbase that'd totally want that. Even if it's ridiculous.

The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!
Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#44003: Sep 25th 2016 at 7:17:19 PM

And still no heroism from Gohan.

Why oh why must academic achievement be separate from superhero-ing? Gohan would be the nerdiest superhero ever, and his wife was a public superhero, and his daughter is already capable of flight. Is a Saiyan version of The Incredibles too much to ask?

edited 25th Sep '16 7:19:46 PM by Soble

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#44004: Sep 25th 2016 at 7:22:24 PM

As a Gohan fan, it amazes me how much his lack of presence has irked people.

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#44005: Sep 25th 2016 at 7:22:40 PM

Gohan is also voiced by Nozawa

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#44006: Sep 25th 2016 at 7:26:33 PM

[up][up][up]Gohand and Videl would need like 2 more children for there to be a DB Incredibles.

But a functioning family cannot also be super heroes.

edited 25th Sep '16 7:27:52 PM by randomness4

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#44007: Sep 25th 2016 at 7:32:39 PM

Johan GOHAN isn't the hero because Toriyama wants to write Goku and only Goku.

I think we all just have to accept that.

One Strip! One Strip!
Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#44008: Sep 25th 2016 at 7:40:42 PM

Because the "Z" portion of the franchise built up to him being the...

...this has been discussed to death.

It's never going to stop be disappointing that the series is going on past the point in which a very poignant BAMF character is simply irrelevant. Goku is the hero every American child who isn't obssessed with Power Rangers or Pro Wrestling loves, and yes, he's a great character. But seeing his son overcome his hurtles and become the...

...this has also been discussed to death.

...

It amazes me that it doesn't irk you. I mean if Goku or Vegeta had been shafted would anyone still be watching Super? Would Dragonball still have any meaning to you? Thus, it's the characters you're attached to that really sell a show, even when you've matured past the point where that show amazed you with every episode. I'm not really watching Super because I find it intellectually stimulating or because it's prompting questions about life I want to see answered. I'm watching it because I've grown strangely aroused hearing Masako Nozawa scream things in Goku's voice and wish to hear more of it.

I mean really, imagine Dragonball Super if Goku and Vegeta weren't around, or if they'd both agreed to stop training and retired to a cabin somewhere with their wives - and maybe every 5 or 10 episodes we cut to a filler of them being lumberjacks and eating steak for dinner. That'd irk a bunch of people.

edited 25th Sep '16 7:44:29 PM by Soble

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#44009: Sep 25th 2016 at 7:54:54 PM

Not "every" American child...

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LOLypop1224 ...what am I even DOING here? Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
...what am I even DOING here?
#44010: Sep 25th 2016 at 8:06:01 PM

I mean, I've decided to not bother going doom-and-gloom on these characters. The fact that Future Trunks came back because of a suggestion by the editorial department means that honestly any fanservice-y thing can happen in this series now if somebody thinks it'll sell.

...except maybe Broly. Hopefully not Broly.

The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!
hardcorefakes coolest_guy from probably America Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
coolest_guy
#44011: Sep 26th 2016 at 12:44:49 AM

I'd rather Broly than evil Goku.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#44012: Sep 26th 2016 at 1:09:56 AM

The series has seen far worse ideas than Broly, even if his creator is nuts

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#44013: Sep 26th 2016 at 1:11:30 AM

Which evil Kakarrot...

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#44014: Sep 26th 2016 at 7:17:35 AM

Hey, Evil Goku has been great so far. Way more fleshed out than Broly at least.

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#44015: Sep 26th 2016 at 7:39:37 AM

Black has been the best evil counterpart to Goku so far in the series, up to and including Vegeta, Cell, and Tenshinhan.

LordVatek Not really a lord of anything Since: Sep, 2014
Not really a lord of anything
#44016: Sep 26th 2016 at 8:24:12 AM

Not gonna lie, I would love for Broly to be in the series and made canon just to see the collective meltdown that would occur.

This song needs more love.
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#44017: Sep 26th 2016 at 8:30:44 AM

I can guarantee you that I would be one of the centerpoints in said meltdown.

Cortez from Parts Unknown (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#44018: Sep 26th 2016 at 10:47:19 AM

Black Goku is way cooler than Broly though.

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#44019: Sep 26th 2016 at 11:14:09 AM

I wouldn't care about Broly becoming canon unless he doesn't receive a personality.

GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#44020: Sep 26th 2016 at 1:05:01 PM

[up] Although I heard about it as a thing, I never actually understood why Broly is reviled and a source of mockery in the community. Some Broly fans can be annoying and they do overexaggerate his strength but he isn't that bad and he does have some potential to be good.

"Mai waifu."
BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#44021: Sep 26th 2016 at 1:11:06 PM

Broly's basically a 13 year old's Original Character made official; he has a transformation never seen before with a pretentious name "LEGENDARY SUPER SAIYAN", has some connection to the established main characters, one of said characters is scared absolutely shit-less of him when he's normally known to fight opponents until he's physically incapable. Demolishes said main characters rather effortlessly. Wolverine Publicity, (notice how he's the only movie character to be the antagonist of three films, though technically the last time was a clone and not the genuine thing but still...)

They gave him Super Saiyan 3 and 4 for whatever reason etc etc, and then you have fan projects like Dragon Ball Multiverse wanking him even more.

Its not hard to understand why he's not particularly well-liked for basically embodying everything terrible about DB fanon in general.

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#44022: Sep 26th 2016 at 1:19:08 PM

Reasons why I, personally, hate Broly: he isn't canon, and follows the trend of non-canon characters having a shit character design, simply due to not being designed by Toriyama. He hates Goku due to Goku crying while they were babies, which is the stupidest character motivation ever conceived in fiction. His creator is a huge fanboy of him. He's just generically evil, until the second movie where he's literally brain-dead. Also, this:

*flashbacks to some kid in Sunday School desperately trying to convince me that Broly was a good character and justified in his hatred of Goku because, according to him, Goku was actually pampered and given all sorts of stuff that Broly didn't get, meanwhile, I'm just confused because I didn't even know what Dragon Ball was at the time, and I didn't learn who Broly was properly until years after reading the manga*

[up]And all that.

edited 26th Sep '16 1:20:29 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
King of Burgers
#44023: Sep 26th 2016 at 1:19:30 PM

"All those other Super Sayians aren't actually the real Super sayians from legend. Broly is the true Legendary super sayian which is different because, uh... HIS POWER IS MAXIMUM!"

Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Arashi Shigehito
#44024: Sep 26th 2016 at 1:42:21 PM

Hey, I like Broly; I also always figured that his Super Saiyan 3 and 4 forms look like that because the mutated genes he has that caused the Legendary Super Saiyan form in the first place ended up affecting every form he had past that.

Also, his creator is not a fanboy of him; here's what the wiki said about it.

According to Takao Koyama, the writer for the first thirteen Dragon Ball Z films, Broly is the most powerful of the movie antagonists that preceded him. However, Koyama went on to state that Broly was a pushover compared to Beerus. A misconception based on Koyama's words is that Broly is the most powerful of all of the first thirteen movie villains, but this is likely not the case. Takao Koyama said about Broly "In handling the scripts for the films, what I always worried about each time was the problem of what to do about the opponent Goku fights against. That’s because, at the very least, they had to be stronger than [the ones from] the previous movie."

edited 26th Sep '16 1:44:14 PM by Ssj3Gojira

Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!
hardcorefakes coolest_guy from probably America Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
coolest_guy
#44025: Sep 26th 2016 at 1:46:46 PM

[up]x7

Broly is the Brock Lesnar of Dragon Ball though.

What has Black done to compare, aside from take forever to kill off some humans, and flee from some smoke grenades?

edited 26th Sep '16 1:47:01 PM by hardcorefakes


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