Oh right, the Saiga balls turn to stone for one whole year before they can be used again.
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I need to rewatch that fight, I don't think it was as bad as you're saying. But then, my memory of that fight is stymied by watching too much Dragonball Abridged.
I mean, if you want to be overly critical, the whole fight was unnecessary, because Frieza should've been smart and gone Final Form right away (which made that scene in Xenoverse all the greater) - not that he even needed to. He didn't even need to win the battles, he could've just blown up the planet. His sole objective was gone for all he knew.
But then we wouldn't have the glorious "Vegeta gets his shit kicked in" scene.
edited 29th Jun '15 7:20:52 AM by Soble
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!Frieza didn't want to win right away. Vegeta and his weird alien pets he must have picked up on some excursion or another had denied him immortality. After a few blissful days of knowing that even time would never be a hindrance to him, Vegeta just killed him by ensuring Frieza would not escape the inevitability of age and death.
Additionally, with the Dragon Balls gone, it was no longer a race. There was no longer any sense of urgency to the events. It didn't matter how long Frieza took killing the people who killed him on an exterminated world in some corner of space. One might argue that he had a business to run, but in the immediate aftermath of losing one's only hope at forever denying death his due, it's hard to care about the office.
On top of that, as the most powerful being in the universe entirely by right of birth, Frieza is unaccustomed to being defied in any meaningful way. This might actually be the first time in his life that Frieza wanted something and was given a definitive, "No."
The result of all of this is that Frieza was too angry to just transform and slaughter everyone in five seconds. He didn't want to just snuff Vegeta and his crew's lives. He wanted to hold their lives in his hands, to roll them around in his palms and savor the feel of them, to build the anticipation and savor the hopelessness and futility on their faces as they come to realize exactly who it is they just crossed.
He wanted them to cry and recant their terrible choices, to hear them beg for their lives so that he could deny them the same way he, himself, was just denied.
All in all, to die quickly and abruptly would be a greater mercy than Frieza was capable of giving them just then.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Plus, Freeza had seen what was the biggest, baddest, most dangerous shit in the universe, and it was a frikkin' purple cat, not a Saiyan.
edited 29th Jun '15 10:00:52 AM by IAmNotCreativeEnough
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari
I stopped the moment I saw what the fused form looked like.
Kill it.
With as much fire as possible.
One Strip! One Strip!
x4 What is it with Videl receiving brutal beat downs?
She had no potential to be relevant and to think otherwise is being delusional, to be honest. She was just a regular human and the characters were all completely out of her league.
Without stuffing her in a fridge and adding more emotional baggage onto Gohan, there's not much she could do at that stage in the story.
"If you weren't so crazy I'd think you were insane."She had potential as a character but not as a fighter.
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!I'd like to point out that Chi-Chi only appeared all of once before confronting Goku in the 23rd Tenkaichi Budoukai about the marriage thing.
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!

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Not even the Nyoi-bo is long enough to make me touch either of those comments.
I curse you both. You, and your children, and your children's children.
edited 29th Jun '15 6:13:00 AM by HandsomeRob
One Strip! One Strip!