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Alecoene Since: Jun, 2013
#87676: Oct 4th 2018 at 12:47:14 PM

Hey, are the Pendulum Room Saiyans canon at all? I know they're anime exclusive, but they are named by the Daizenshuu.
The Daizenshuu have informations about even non-canon content such as the movie. And even if that filler episode was for some reason canon, they are only illusions and thus would still not exist.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#87677: Oct 4th 2018 at 12:48:13 PM

Sending him off to maybe die as opposed to staying and definitely dying isn't quite what I'd call a nesting instinct.

Sorta the opposite, really.

Also, I didn't think it was just Man of Steel?

I seem to remember the Reeves movies doing it too. Could be wrong.

Also, for context, the trailer with subs.

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#87678: Oct 4th 2018 at 12:48:23 PM

[up][up][up]So...Broly Broly:Broly?

TFS predicted the new Broly

Ok I misread it, I thought it said Broly three times

Edited by Fedetropes on Oct 4th 2018 at 4:53:50 PM

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#87679: Oct 4th 2018 at 12:50:48 PM

What I love is how the trailer seems to give zero shits about Raditz.

Like, Vegeta Sr. not caring about Tarble makes sense, but.

The disrespect is real.

Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#87680: Oct 4th 2018 at 12:57:34 PM

One of the scenes in the trailer (the one where Kid Vegeta is next to a dead body) seems to match a similar scene in the Minus manga where he's talking to Raditz, so maybe he's confirmed?

Alecoene Since: Jun, 2013
#87681: Oct 4th 2018 at 12:58:32 PM

[up] Man of Steel added the Jesus metaphors because Snyder has a hard-on for allegorys.
Unless Snyder also directed the 1975 movies, that is very unlikely. Superman's arrival on Earth hasn't been about simple survival for a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ujuOikKgAE&t=179s

Edited by Alecoene on Oct 4th 2018 at 10:06:59 AM

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#87682: Oct 4th 2018 at 1:00:00 PM

Except I'm pretty sure Raditz is supposed to be in the shot, I could have sworn he is in the panel.

It's like Raditz is just rotobrushed out.

That's the best fucking thing.

"Three Saiyans and their three sons" the trailer says, when two of those Saiyans had two sons.

It's fantastic.

Alecoene Since: Jun, 2013
#87683: Oct 4th 2018 at 1:02:00 PM

In Minus, he was with Vegeta. They both ignored Frieza's gathering of the saiyan.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#87684: Oct 4th 2018 at 1:03:36 PM

Yeah, I know.

They're also standing next to each other, but in the trailer, in a recreation of that scene, Raditz is nowhere to be seen.

Guys what if Raditz is non-canon now.

Think about it.

Think about how the series would make no fucking sense.

Did Piccolo just special beam cannon Goku for no reason?

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#87685: Oct 4th 2018 at 1:05:36 PM

I mean, he invented the technique to kill Goku anyway.

Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#87686: Oct 4th 2018 at 1:05:59 PM

What if Broly had a brother too, and this movie will just introduce them and then instantly fling them to the side. tongue

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#87687: Oct 4th 2018 at 1:07:52 PM

What if there's a flashback to Goku's first death and he's giving a Full-Nelson to empty space.

I want an HD reanimated version of every scene with Raditz where he's just not there.

Alecoene Since: Jun, 2013
#87688: Oct 4th 2018 at 1:08:33 PM

Nah, Raditz is replaced by a Saibaman.

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#87690: Oct 4th 2018 at 1:26:45 PM

I found the video I was looking for...

But apparently Kakkarot does not compliment Veggie for the reasons I thought.

He looks perfectly fine with it though.

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Alecoene Since: Jun, 2013
#87691: Oct 4th 2018 at 1:34:57 PM

I mean, no former bad guy in Dragon Ball ever show remorse for their past actions. Yamcha probably killed plenty of innocents, and yet nobody cares.

Edited by Alecoene on Oct 4th 2018 at 10:37:29 AM

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#87692: Oct 4th 2018 at 1:46:49 PM

I mean, there's also the fact that in the Saiyan Saga, Vegeta was an evil bastard even by Saiyan standards.

Raditz kept trying to give Goku opportunities to join them, the moment Nappa hears Raditz died he wants to use the Dragon Balls to bring him back at first, he keeps calling Kakarot a traitor, and seems legitimately upset by that betrayal, and when Vegeta kills him Nappa is sincerely shocked and horified.

Bardock might have been rare among Saiyans for saving his comrades, but there's still a difference between not saving them and killing them while they're down.

If Gine and Tarble are at one far tail end of the bell curve, and if Bardock is on their slope of it, then Vegeta was on the other side entirely.

Edited by unnoun on Oct 4th 2018 at 4:51:01 AM

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#87693: Oct 4th 2018 at 1:54:22 PM

Bardock is an OG.

Could do to imrpove his personal life but he's a good enough soldier.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#87694: Oct 4th 2018 at 2:05:11 PM

The fact that Nappa actually wanted to resurrect Raditz, who was literally as strong as a Saibaman, says something to me.

And for whatever he's worth, Raditz did try to get his baby brother to prove himself worthy of joining them. Gave Goku plenty of opportunities and second chances to correct his "mistake" on Earth.

Like, yeah, the Saiyans were murderous genocidal planet thieves. But there was seemingly a certain level of Saiyan kinship.

Except for Vegeta, who could not have cared less.

Edited by unnoun on Oct 4th 2018 at 5:13:19 AM

Alecoene Since: Jun, 2013
#87695: Oct 4th 2018 at 2:08:32 PM

And he was appalled when Vegeta killed an actual saibaman.

He even sincerely encouraged the next one.

Edited by Alecoene on Oct 4th 2018 at 11:08:11 AM

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#87696: Oct 4th 2018 at 2:19:59 PM

It's hard to understate the fact that, by all accounts, when we first meet him, Vegeta is the absolute single worst, most evil Saiyan of all the Saiyans we meet in the manga.

And somehow he ends up the one who gets to live and have a hot rich wife and two kids.

On the bright side, Nappa and Raditz didn't have to do this:

Karma in Dragon Ball is a strange thing.

...Although, to be completely fair, it was a stroke of luck and rushed wording that brought Vegeta back to life on Namek and then sent him to Earth. I don't think King Kai intended it.

LordVatek Not really a lord of anything Since: Sep, 2014
Not really a lord of anything
#87697: Oct 4th 2018 at 2:28:08 PM

...Although, to be completely fair, it was a stroke of luck and rushed wording that brought Vegeta back to life on Namek and then sent him to Earth. I don't think King Kai intended it.

...Hold up. Didn't Frieza kill a few of his own men? Wouldn't they have been brought back and then subsequently sent to Earth?

Can... can we get an "Orlen's Adventures on Earth" spin-off?

This song needs more love.
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#87698: Oct 4th 2018 at 2:38:28 PM

Vegeta has certainly be punished to be the eternal Dragon Ball Jobber. I think that's an appropriate karmic punishment

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#87699: Oct 4th 2018 at 2:39:32 PM

...I looked it up, and I'm so disappointed to find out that Orlen is an anime-only character.

In the manga, Appule is the one who finds the village Vegeta destroyed, and does not get killed by Freeza. Instead Vegeta kills him.

...Also, in this translation Freeza calls him "Mr. Appule" and tells him to call the Ginyu force to come and bring scooters.

I'm surprised Freeza knows Appule's name and respects him enough to call him "Mr."

Like, I guess Freeza is always polite, but.

Huh. I'm trying to go through the manga and I cannot find Freeza killing any of his own goons on Namek.

He threatens it a bunch, sure, but never actually does it on panel.

Honestly, I'm disapointed in Toei. They decided they wanted to have Orlen, it's their responsibility to feed him and water him and take him out for walks and give him a hundred thousand hours of filler.

Edited by unnoun on Oct 4th 2018 at 5:48:37 AM

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#87700: Oct 4th 2018 at 2:54:04 PM

[up][up][up][up]And thus Vegeta invented whatever the opposite of a Death Glare is. XD

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!

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