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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#49426: Jan 11th 2017 at 7:07:52 AM

Bulma and co. found the Dragonballs in a few hours offscreen during the Buu saga, iirc. Granted, we don't know how many of them they started with or in what way they tracked them down - unless you go by the anime which I assume Saiga would not.

edited 11th Jan '17 7:08:08 AM by KnownUnknown

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#49427: Jan 11th 2017 at 7:13:50 AM

In the manga, Kuririn explains that Bulma already had the Dragon Balls. So she had them prior to the tournament.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#49428: Jan 11th 2017 at 7:24:43 AM

She always just seems have the Dragon Balls now...

Selfish Bimbo brand bread.

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#49429: Jan 11th 2017 at 9:15:09 AM

It would only be selfish if she was constantly gathering for personal gain. Keeping on hand seem like the safest and smartest move.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#49430: Jan 11th 2017 at 9:16:53 AM

She's keeping the balls from all the people who don't know about them.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#49431: Jan 11th 2017 at 9:59:25 AM

She's also arguably keeping them from assholes like Pilaf and the Red Ribbon army.

I mean, there are people who would use that power for very bad shit. It is true that she's keeping them from people who might have more benevolent wishes however.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#49432: Jan 11th 2017 at 10:10:45 AM

The RRA doesn't exist.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#49433: Jan 11th 2017 at 10:36:19 AM

Well no. Not any more.

But if someone who didn't know the Z Warriors were around formed their own army and tried to gather the balls, then Bulma would be keeping them out of their hands.

At least until said army accidentally got in Goku's way.

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Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
King of Burgers
#49434: Jan 11th 2017 at 10:39:18 AM

Makes sense. When they left the Dragon Balls just lying around Freeza was resurrected.

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#49435: Jan 11th 2017 at 1:31:00 PM

Man, it's Bulma; she just keeps them around so she can get any wish she wants.

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#49436: Jan 11th 2017 at 1:42:41 PM

Except for when she wanted to build a time machine.

Plus, if that was the case, they could have wished King Kai back easily.

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#49437: Jan 11th 2017 at 2:03:59 PM

Why would she do something as unimportant as wishing back King Kai.

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#49438: Jan 11th 2017 at 2:11:16 PM

Why would she want that? It's unpleasant.

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#49439: Jan 11th 2017 at 2:12:21 PM

I want to see the story of a young child who's travelling around the world in search of the mythical Dragon Balls to save her dying and poor family and bring prosperity to them, only to come up short because Bulma has all of them sitting around in her house just in case she needs them.

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#49441: Jan 11th 2017 at 2:16:02 PM

[up][up]Well that kid's like, super dead.

The world of Dragon Ball has fucking dinosaurs roaming the countryside and giant boarmen bandits. It's not a safe place.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#49442: Jan 11th 2017 at 2:19:19 PM

Yet a person like Nam made it to the World Martial Arts tournament with no trouble at all...and a blind kid made it all on his own.

edited 11th Jan '17 2:20:16 PM by randomness4

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#49443: Jan 11th 2017 at 2:25:02 PM

Maybe the kid's good at martial arts, because most protagonists of Chinese adventure mythology are.

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
himitsu keisatsu
#49444: Jan 11th 2017 at 2:44:19 PM

Then all she'd need to do in order to get the Dragon Balls from Bulma is to ask for them. She's kind of a selfish bitch, but she's not that bad.

edited 11th Jan '17 2:44:48 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

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GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#49445: Jan 11th 2017 at 3:27:56 PM

I know Dragon ball is not really realistic but do you think the Trunks special was realistic?

edited 11th Jan '17 3:28:24 PM by GAP

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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
#49446: Jan 11th 2017 at 3:37:04 PM

Two half aliens who can shoot laser beams from their hands and change their hair color at will fight two cybernetically enhanced teenagers who have commited several counts of genocide through their hand lasers.

Totally realistic.

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Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
King of Burgers
#49447: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:01:41 PM

Grimmdark =/= realistic.

GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#49448: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:06:51 PM

I guess it is realistic as far as Dragon Ball goes....

"Mai waifu."
IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
himitsu keisatsu
#49449: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:07:20 PM

It's not even grimdark - Trunks even writes down the theme of the whole thing on his time machine, it's about hope, not about hopelessness, it has a sense of optimism about itself that says "things are bleak but are gonna get better", so it's definitely a dark story, but it's not grimderp.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#49450: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:07:33 PM

I mean. There's emotional/social realism. Having people respond and act. Well. Realistically. For lack of a better term.


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