This. Making casual adjustments to one's battle power is a rare and obscure ability in the Planet Trade. It's not completely unheard of, but it's uncommon enough to take even members of the Ginyu Force by surprise.
As such, the Scouters were not designed to handle a person's battle power suddenly becoming 20x higher in seconds.
Both good work for these guys. Seriously, jokes aside, even Yamcha is more powerful than nearly anything that exists on Earth. Any career that lets him take advantage of his proficiency for super-battle is perfect.
When all's said and done, in their final moments, they share one last laugh. A laugh from the thrill of battle. A laugh from how their lives had gone. A laugh from the acceptance that this is how they'll die.
If they destroy the planet they're fighting on and even the nearby star, they're going to be hard-pressed to laugh from the vacuum of space.
edited 19th Aug '15 7:05:59 AM by TobiasDrake
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Anyway, I wonder why Yamcha didn't stick with Baseball? More prestige, and possibly more money too.
One Strip! One Strip!That seems rather spiteful.
.....Bulma is has a bad temper, but I don't think she'd do that.
One Strip! One Strip!I was under the impression that while it was something the writers added for the anime, Toriyama gave them the idea for it.
Or something along those lines.
One Strip! One Strip!Baseball was filler, which is why he didn't stick with it.
It went the same way that Frieza and Cell being Bash Brothers in Hell did, just with less prejudice since it didn't contradict anything from the source material.
edited 19th Aug '15 10:49:56 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Vegeta knows #17 is an Android and the twin of the Android who beat the shit out of him. #17 knows that Vegeta is the Prince Of All Saiyans and an egotistical douche who doesn't care about anyone but himself and his own ego. The fact that they never interacted would make them meeting each other even more awkwardly hilarious because all either of them would know about the other would be their own pre-existing stereotypes regarding each others personalities.
Vegeta surpassed 17 and 18 and he knows it, so he's got nothing to hold against them. The only grudge he holds is against Goku and that's because Goku didn't just beat him one time. In fact, Goku has technically never beaten him; that first victory was a team effort and their second fight was interrupted. They've never had a fight that ended with Goku standing unambiguously triumphant and Vegeta flat on his back in defeat.
Vegeta's grudge is about the fact that Goku surpassed him, not any specific victory in battle. It's that he persists at being an unachievable goal. Every time Vegeta thinks he's finally surpassed Goku, Goku shows up stronger than ever and Vegeta's back at square one. Goku's never defeated Vegeta unambiguously in a fight, but he never had to; from the moment he bested the Ginyu Force, Vegeta's known who was stronger and has never been able to close that distance for long.
edited 19th Aug '15 3:28:17 PM by TobiasDrake
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Well, it's no different from some series that have differences between Demons, Devils, and Fallen Angels really.
Also:
So yeah, while the Yamcha baseball thing was filler, Toriyama did come up with it, but I had no idea he did the same with Gregory as well. Also, it's interesting to note that he apparently watched the anime regularly. I often thought Manga writers don't get to do that.
It's possible that there are multiple demon realms, and multiple races of demons, kind like there are humans with different skin colours.
One Strip! One Strip!Again, it would not be any different for Vegeta to meeting anybody else. Vegeta not care.
Toriyama wrote by the seat of his pants and had to rush a lot of his work because he was usually doing things not conducive to work.
Like playing Dragon Quest. IINM, he did that a lot.
edited 19th Aug '15 5:00:59 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariI know about the writing by the seat of his pants thing, but do we have confirmation of the playing Dragon Quest thing?
Cause that explains a lot.
One Strip! One Strip!This sounds way too close to what Beerus is. I wonder if the similarities to Nekomajin were intentional.
I think it actually came about in an interview while talking about his work in character design, but I can't remember if it was Toriyama himself who said it or the interviewer making a joke (since the release dates of Dragon Quest games are a national holiday in Japan).
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariWhy wouldn't Vegeta care about meeting Lapis ranging a park with a wife and kids? Vegeta is a well-documented asshole who doesn't like the vast majority of intelligent life in the universe, much less someone who he knows is an Android and the brother of #18, who beat him up, and has a cocky, smarmy attitude. Vegeta doesn't know Lapis but he undeniably has a low opinion of him and Lapis having a family would be surprising.

"HELLO YOUNG KAMI!"