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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#23401: Aug 20th 2015 at 5:59:25 PM

[up] And that was one of the best episodes so point for me.

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#23402: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:00:18 PM

That was quite a good episode.

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#23403: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:00:48 PM

Because shonen anime rarely operates on a Monster of the Week system.

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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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#23404: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:01:06 PM

Yeah, Krillin's a martial artist. He likes fighting(not quite as much as Saiyans do but he still does), if a bunch of aliens showed up on Earth and were about even with each of the humans and right before they have an insanely epic team death match Goku one-shots all the aliens with one Ki blast, do you have any idea what a colossal DICK MOVE that would be?!

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#23405: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:01:40 PM

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Me too, but it won't ever happen.

They don't do that. They won't do it.

I'm not sure if it's that the writers think people only want to see Goku and Vegeta (we know Toriyama felt Goku was a better hero), or if the fans really do only care about Goku and Vegeta, but that's not gonna happen.

edited 20th Aug '15 6:02:07 PM by HandsomeRob

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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#23406: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:02:40 PM

[up][up] But given Goku's personality I don't think he'd interfere with that.

edited 20th Aug '15 6:02:48 PM by HamburgerTime

Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#23407: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:03:22 PM

FMA kind of had a episodic formula at the very start there.

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#23408: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:03:27 PM

It wouldn't be a dick move, it'd be Goku doing the sensible thing.

Also, such a fight would have zero tension because, even if did lose, there are seven other people far stronger than he is who'll just swoop in and kill the villain. Then they'll just use Namek's Dragon Balls to revive him.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#23409: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:04:20 PM

He's only pulled a kill stealing stunt a grand total of once and it was pretty damned justified so I agree.

edited 20th Aug '15 6:05:44 PM by HandsomeRob

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#23410: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:04:25 PM

Exactly, Goku wouldn't interfere with that fight because it'd be hugely out-of-character if he did!

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#23411: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:05:38 PM

There are still zero stakes if Goku's just standing offscreen ready to vaporize the villain if Krillin can't hack it. The only thing that will be lost if he fails is a bit of pride.

edited 20th Aug '15 6:06:01 PM by TobiasDrake

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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#23412: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:06:14 PM

Isn't that basically what happened with Gohan vs Dabura?

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#23413: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:07:23 PM

[up][up]Pretty much.

And he wouldn't be busy fighting someone else, because he'd probably take those guys out right away.

People seemed to dislike when everyone fought against Frieza's army in Resurrection-F as well, so having an excuse for Goku to not be there doesn't work.

Though the problem with that is that they came up with excuses to keep the stronger members out of the fighting (and poor excuses at that).

edited 20th Aug '15 6:07:43 PM by HandsomeRob

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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#23414: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:08:05 PM

I don't see what's wrong with excuses. Again, Booster Gold episode.

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#23415: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:08:41 PM

Why does there need to be stakes in order for there to be an awesome battle? Why can't we just have fighting for the sake of fighting? Especially when Goku himself live and breathes 'fighting for its own sake' so he would definitely understand if the humans want to cut loose.

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#23416: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:08:45 PM

Neither do I, but it doesn't change the fact that they are excuses.

And most don't seem to want that.

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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#23417: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:09:25 PM

There was also the episode with all the non-powered League members fighting the superpwered general.

Problems arise here though in that JLU were well-written while DBZ....isn't.

edited 20th Aug '15 6:10:16 PM by Nikkolas

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#23418: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:09:44 PM

Krillin has basically never been able to accomplish anything. Why do people think that should change?

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#23420: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:12:27 PM

Even in Revenge of F Frieza pointed out how all of them being their was pointless because Gohan alone could have easily taken his entire army out and done it faster.

[up][up]Nostalgia. The same reason they act like Tien's little bout against Cell makes him the awesomest thing to ever awesome.

edited 20th Aug '15 6:13:16 PM by LSBK

Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#23421: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:12:27 PM

SO GOHAN YOU SPENT THE LAST FOREVER GETTING HYPED FOR THIS POWERUP BY THE GODS OF THE UNIVERSE, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO NOW?

Well I think I'm gonna get absorbed and let my dad and his bestest buddy genocidal Napoleon be the heroes.

Spectacular writing indeed.

edited 20th Aug '15 6:13:04 PM by Nikkolas

DS9guy Since: Jan, 2001
#23422: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:14:32 PM

Every time someone posts something about Power Levels with numbers and everything, I think of this.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#23423: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:16:17 PM

As funny as I still find that to be, they really aren't.

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#23424: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:18:04 PM

[up][up] I think wanting your favorite character to actually contribute something meaningful rather than just be treated like cannon fodder doesn't really constitute nostalgia.

Like really, most of the time it feels like its wrong to want non-Goku & Vegeta characters to do something for a change instead of be moving scenery.

But moving from that tangent...anyone else wondering why Champa is looking for Namek's dragon balls?

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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#23425: Aug 20th 2015 at 6:18:16 PM

People take that line out of context. He's talking about how Goku and Piccolo went up several orders of magnitude when the plot demanded they be that strong, even though they remained relatively at the same level for years on end.

Well he's only talking about Piccolo in that instance but the overall idea applies to Goku more than anyone else.

edited 20th Aug '15 6:19:16 PM by Nikkolas


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