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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#24576: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:02:06 PM

Because they look and sound like guys.

Technically they're neither guys nor girls.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#24577: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:02:18 PM

I think technically they're genderless.

But I think it's just easier that way because Toriyama drew them male.

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edited 6th Sep '15 6:02:41 PM by LSBK

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#24578: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:02:42 PM

Same reason Gems in Steven Universe are considered female when they're genderless rocks.

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#24579: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:03:56 PM

[up]Yeah, like that.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#24580: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:04:39 PM

There's lots of technically sexless aliens that present as male.

The gems are a rare exception.

...The Asari from Mass Effect are not technically sexless, they just have the one, as well as only one gender identity.

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#24581: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:05:57 PM

I am in favor of the answer that would cause Vegeta the most suffering. Both of his kids ending up with Kakarot's descendants would be that.

So Pan/Bra and Goten/Trunks?

  • VEGETA: That's not how you repopulate our species! For multiple reasons!

edited 6th Sep '15 6:06:38 PM by TobiasDrake

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#24582: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:10:07 PM

He'd be the first Saiyan to die of a heart attack.....

....that we know of, since I admit that it's possible other Saiyans died of Heart Attacks.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#24583: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:17:12 PM

I like to think that Vegeta isn't homophobic but really really hates the idea of his glorious offspring consorting with Goku's third-rate genetic backwash.

...And Pan/Trunks and Goten/Bra would be weird because creepy age difference.

Which, given Pan is being aged up, might actually still be the case with Pan/Bra.

edited 6th Sep '15 6:18:43 PM by unnoun

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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#24584: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:19:24 PM

Trunks: Dad, I'm gay.

Vegeta: So?

Trunks: With Goten.

Vegeta: You're disowned.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#24585: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:19:46 PM

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I can believe that. Saiyan society was ruled by the strong, so I can imagine that if they you were strong enough to defend your choice, nobody gave a shit about your sexual preferences.

[up]I can see that actually happening.

I doubt Toriyama has given it much thought though.

edited 6th Sep '15 6:20:14 PM by HandsomeRob

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#24586: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:21:49 PM

  • VEGETA: So help me, if this ends in someone making a wish on a magical dragon for M-Preg, I will kill everyone on this planet. Then I will travel to New Namek and use their Dragon Balls to resurrect everyone on the planet so that I can kill them all again.
  • GOKU: Why don't we just make more babies?
  • KRILLIN: Okay, who wants to try and explain menopause to Goku?
  • GOHAN: ...it's going to be me, isn't it?
  • VEGETA: GOHAN! You are our last hope as a species. For the sake of the Saiyan race, you must bang your wife! BANG YOUR WIFE FOR US, GOHAN!!!

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#24587: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:22:43 PM

That sounds like an Abridged convo......

I approve. I'm already hearing it in their voices.

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Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#24588: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:31:44 PM

The saiyans are a dead race. Really, their descendants getting together would at least slow that down a little.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#24589: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:33:00 PM

[up][up][up] I mean, technically Bulma could teach her daughter and daughter in law about sperm banks.

Or tell her son and son-in-law to donate to one.

...Oh dear god that's a horrifying thought.

edited 6th Sep '15 6:34:00 PM by unnoun

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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#24590: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:34:10 PM

[up]Yeah, why not just do a ton of that?

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#24591: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:34:31 PM

Today, Unnoun figured out why everyone in the world can become Super Saiyans in, like, two centuries: mass Super-Sperm donations.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#24592: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:34:59 PM

The saiyans are what you'd call functionally extinct. There are only three pure bloods left, and I'd assume by Vegeta's standards, it dies with them.

NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#24593: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:36:05 PM

Same reason Gems in Steven Universe are considered female when they're genderless rocks.

The Gems do consider themselves female, so that's why the story treats them as such.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#24595: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:37:01 PM

They accept female pronouns. So that's a thing, at least.

I also like to imagine Vegeta gets really confused sometimes.

edited 6th Sep '15 6:42:58 PM by unnoun

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#24596: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:45:01 PM

You could theoretically save the Saiyan race through a breeding program. I mean, we the human race have managed to keep the Panda from going extinct, and that's a species that's trying it's very hardest to die out. Shouldn't be too difficult to get Goku and Vegeta to donate a gazillion sperm samples to impregnate a bunch of women with. Problem is, you run into the problem of having a very high amount of inbreeding past a few generations, and the only solution involves spreading the Saiyan genes so thin that you have to seriously hope that they're dominant to the point of ridiculousness.

Which they are, mind you. Goku Jr. and Vegeta Jr. prove as much.

So yeah, you can even go and have a wide enough gene pool to prevent issues with inbreeding...

But they're not gonna do that, so the Saiyan Race is f*cked.

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#24597: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:45:18 PM

  • BULMA: So, I solved your problem. Because I'm awesome like that and you guys should appreciate me more.
  • GOKU: We had a problem?
  • KRILLIN: We're still looking for someone to explain that.
  • BULMA: I caught Vegeta gathering the Dragon Balls to reverse menopause. After graphically explaining what I would do to him if he made that wish, I went the easy route and just wished for every human except me to be half-Saiyan.
  • GOKU: Shenron can do that?
  • BULMA: For any of us less powerful than him, yeah. The rest got a choice. Yamcha actually cried, he was so happy.
  • GOKU: Well, that solves that. Why not you, though?
  • BULMA: Let's be real here. If I didn't exclude myself from that wish, Vegeta would insist on making me a Super Saiyan. I wanted to nip that in the bud right now.

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NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#24598: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:45:29 PM

[up][up][up]They outright refer to each other using feminine pronouns.

edited 6th Sep '15 6:45:51 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#24599: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:46:21 PM

[up][up][up]Actually, it's believed that wild panda populations are increasing. That whole thing about them "trying" to go extinct never made sense, even in proper context.

[up]Word of God is that's for convenience sake (I'd assume for the viewers, non gems, and possibly themselves) but they do not view themselves as male or female but just as Gems. Which, frankly, makes more sense. Though isn't exactly to my liking.

edited 6th Sep '15 10:03:32 PM by LSBK

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#24600: Sep 6th 2015 at 6:48:18 PM

If that's the case, it's weird how the Homeworld Gems do it too though.

edited 6th Sep '15 6:50:47 PM by unnoun


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