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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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#82601: Apr 1st 2018 at 3:10:45 AM

By the way, if anyone is wondering about the third One Piece crossover and Astro Boy crossover, you'd probably get a kick out of this:

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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#82602: Apr 1st 2018 at 4:06:21 AM

Apparently, it has a sequel that I never knew about, too.

Dragon Ball's crossed over with a lot of seemingly random shit over the years. Here's a 30 minute video detailing all of them:

hardcorefakes coolest_guy from probably America Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
coolest_guy
#82603: Apr 1st 2018 at 5:31:35 AM

>Luffy going Gear 3rd and attacking a SS Goku

Seems realistic

Sigilbreaker26 Serial Procrastinator Since: Nov, 2017
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#82604: Apr 1st 2018 at 7:23:53 AM

It's a crossover, not Death Battle. Of course it's not going to be realistic.

"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"
hardcorefakes coolest_guy from probably America Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
coolest_guy
#82605: Apr 1st 2018 at 7:27:42 AM

I want everything to be realistic, 100% of the time dammit.

/s

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#82607: Apr 1st 2018 at 7:45:29 AM

Dr. Gero is in a pretty small position, are you sure it changed much?

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#82608: Apr 1st 2018 at 7:47:37 AM

Is Dr. Gero the biggest winner of all time?

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
Ikedatakeshi Baby dango from singapore Since: Nov, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Baby dango
#82609: Apr 1st 2018 at 7:48:48 AM

He's dead, and Goku isn't, while his killer wins the multiverse tournament.

hardcorefakes coolest_guy from probably America Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
coolest_guy
#82610: Apr 1st 2018 at 7:55:58 AM

He designed that killer himself though.

Still doesn't help much, but it's something.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#82611: Apr 1st 2018 at 7:58:47 AM

He's kind of in a real Dr Wily position

His robot didn't do what it was supposed to but it still ended up pretty impressive

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#82612: Apr 1st 2018 at 8:31:31 AM

...HHAH, so 17 was Zero this whole time

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#82613: Apr 1st 2018 at 8:43:19 AM

Sounds legit. Maybe he should steal Trunks' sword.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#82614: Apr 1st 2018 at 9:28:40 AM

Yeah, swords are only as strong as its user...

So, it'd work out just fine...

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#82615: Apr 1st 2018 at 9:46:41 AM

Makes me wonder who'd win in a fight between the Super versions of Gohan, 17, and Future Trunks.

Darthwyn leader of Inherit from The void Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#82616: Apr 1st 2018 at 10:06:38 AM

So if Android 17 is Zero does that mean Gohan is X?

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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#82617: Apr 1st 2018 at 10:15:06 AM

Speaking of Androids, I had A Thought the other day as to why Androids > Frieza is hard for a lot of people to swallow. The audacity of some guy building robots stronger than planet-busting aliens IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS! is part of it, but I also feel like the Androids have a rather low feats-to-hype ratio. We're told, they're stronger than Frieza, we see them fight evenly with people we're told are stronger than Frieza, but they don't really do anything comparably impressive, mostly just using physical attacks and rather basic looking ki techniques, certainly nothing on the level of Frieza's laser whip or the death ball. 16 in particular is bad about this - he's supposedly the strongest of them all apart from Cell, but all he really does on-panel is... punch stuff and try to unsuccessfully blow himself up. So maybe it's a personal physical strength vs. raw destructive capacity deal, with the Androids having the advantage in the former and Frieza in the latter?

edited 1st Apr '18 10:15:37 AM by HamburgerTime

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Ghost '11
#82618: Apr 1st 2018 at 10:15:40 AM

Cell saga Gohand...maybe.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#82619: Apr 1st 2018 at 10:20:23 AM

The audacity of some guy building robots stronger than planet-busting aliens IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS! is part of it

I think it's also the fact that he did it by complete accident as well. Remember, Gero never even knew about Frieza, and in fact had no way of doing so. He didn't even know about Super Saiyan and still accidentally created three Androids that surpassed it in power. It's pretty ridiculous.

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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#82620: Apr 1st 2018 at 10:22:52 AM

[up] He did actually know about Frieza and Super Saiyans - his probe was watching the SS Trunks vs. Frieza/Cold battle.

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#82621: Apr 1st 2018 at 10:23:31 AM

I too unironically want a Pretty Cure Dragon Ball crossover to happen.

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#82622: Apr 1st 2018 at 10:26:24 AM

[up][up]No, there were at least two drone bugs Gero had. One that monitored stuff. It didn't go to Namek or see any Super Saiyans, which was why Gero was caught off-guard by Goku going Super Saiyan. The other's job was to take DNA samples for Cell, which is why Cell had Freeza and King Cold's cells.

edited 1st Apr '18 10:26:43 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

Sigilbreaker26 Serial Procrastinator Since: Nov, 2017
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#82623: Apr 1st 2018 at 10:38:34 AM

[up]x6 It's an interesting theory, certainly. We could say the same for King Cold, who does absolutely nothing in his screentime.

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#82624: Apr 1st 2018 at 10:40:27 AM

He's a plot device to make Trunks look even more impressive which makes the androids look even more impressive.

Trunks can beat up two Freezas so clearly these bad future androids are bad news.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#82625: Apr 1st 2018 at 10:44:36 AM

Going "they didn't look as impressive" seems like a pretty shitty thing to get upset about when it is established via actually fighting that they are indeed stronger than Frieza and people stronger than him.

You might as well complain that Goku doesn't seem stronger than Frieza because he never actually blew up a planet but Frieza did. He clearly has the ability to do so, and context and actual dialogue makes that obvious. The same goes for the Androids.


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