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Well, yeah, but he did that all for one purpose: kill the hell out of Son Goku. He completely failed at that, despite accidentally creating multiple fighters capable of doing so even with a lack of critical information (on Super Saiyan).
He succeeds in spite of everything (failing to make androids that are either strong enough or loyal enough, Cell taking too long, etc etc), and even then, Goku only dies because he puts himself in a position where Cell kills him, and Cell wasn't even trying to kill him specifically.
The guy is great at doing things that have nothing to do with his main goal.
One Strip! One Strip!That is fair enough.
As for 8 and Metallic.
The latter roughed Goku up pretty well, and was still attacking even without a head. I wanted to re-watch a clip of it to get a feeling of how he really did, but there don't seem to be any good clips of that fight on Youtube. Whatever the case, he took a Kamehameha to the face, lost his head, and kept going, still giving Goku a good fight.
8 only has one instance of power, and against someone already much weaker then Goku, but considering Gero's pattern of his most powerful bots being the ones he can never control, I'm more then willing to believe that, at the time they first met, 8 would have absolutely rekt Goku if he'd actually been the killing machine he was meant to be.
One Strip! One Strip!Gero didn't just create a bunch of robots that were significantly more powerful than the strongest Mortals in the universe for a time, he created at least one Robot that could have taken over the universe.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariHe is an amoral Mad Scientist.
He could just, y'know, use those same Apocalyptically Powerful robots to steal whatever he needs or wants. I don't think he went beyond what he found absolutely necessary, but that's probably how he got resources after whatever he had left from his RRA days ran out.
edited 28th Dec '16 1:38:55 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariOr he was already rich before hand.
Bulma recognized him on sight, so he must have been pretty well known, which means some of his tech might have hefted him a pretty penny before he joined the Red Ribbon Army.
I assume he just stole whatever he needed afterwards.
One Strip! One Strip!I guess he just stole everything he needed.
Either that or he came back to Red Ribbon HQ after Goku was done rofl stomping it and looted what he could.
Or he did both.
One Strip! One Strip!I wonder how the Z-Fighters would get along with their abridged counterparts?
I guess he would.
Classic Gohan would probably be shocked at how bitter his younger abridged version is towards his dad.
One Strip! One Strip!...Would there be any difference between the two Vegetas?
I mean, really?
Like, every other character is distinctly different between their "official" and "abridged" version, but.
At least, for Vegeta. There feels like there's more overlap.
I mean, maybe it's because sometimes I picture Lani's Vegeta instead of Chris Sabat's.
edited 28th Dec '16 5:33:55 PM by unnoun
And Goku would have the right to ask that after answering WHEN HE'S KISSED HIS DAMN WIFE!
One Strip! One Strip!Canon Dende would be utterly baffled at his abridged counterpart...and more then a little freaked out to be honest.
One Strip! One Strip!

And there is Android 16 who somehow is a "failure" despite Gero designing him to have peaceful personality.
"Mai waifu."