No, he didn't. For simplicity's sake, he just gets to look like his head during his Hell sequence so that we can easily identify him. It's still not his body, as demonstrated when he's resurrected.
Someone who is resurrected with their body loses their halo but remains where they are. Frieza's soul, however, was whisked away from Hell and stuffed back into the giblets that are his actual body, unvaporized by Shenron.
This
◊ is not Frieza's body. It's just an easy artistic trick to make him identifiable. Like all other spirit wisps, he's still a powerless ball of helpless sentenced to his final fate: having the evil in his soul purged before he can be reincarnated. He will never be blowing up Hell with his bestie Cell.
This
is Frieza's body. Shenron fixes the killing damage, the vaporization, and returns the chunks to life because a revival wish only fixes what actually killed you and the giblets were still alive.
edited 18th Mar '17 1:16:05 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.It's pretty obvious that he's trapped inside of that cocoon-like object to torment him. I don't get how you think this means he doesn't have a soul/body. The whole point of this was to torment him by surrounding him with super nice and happy things and leave him powerless to destroy any of it. It's literally part of his rant about all the mushy nice stuff he was forced to endure.
I donpt know why you think being blown to chunks would affect his soul because his body and soul are separate things.
Admittedly I might be confused by the whole normal souls appear as clouds. While named characters have humanoid form as souls.
edited 18th Mar '17 1:24:05 PM by OmegaRadiance
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.I honestly prefer the filler version of Hell, even if it doesn't make sense, almost exclusively for Freeza and Cell being bash bros.
My various fanfics.I feel like the distinction between "this person has a body in the afterlife" and "this person doesn't have a body; just a temporary form used during their punishment in Hell that looks like their body and has senses and stuff" is small enough to be academic.
The other explanation of "what we're seeing isn't actually what's happening" is one that makes me think "well you could use that to try and explain anything.
I have a message from another time...This isn't complicated. Your body is more than just your physical appearance. The same effect is done with this bit
in which Bulma, Chi-Chi, Videl, and Dabura are depicted in the afterlife. They resemble their bodies so that we, the audience, can easily identify who they are. But they don't actually have their bodies. They're still just soul wisps.
Keeping your body is a very special dispensation and it means more than just getting your form. It means you keep your f*cking body. The body you lived in. You take it with you. It disappears from the mortal world, the damage inflicted on it is healed, and your soul is returned in it. You travel the afterlife occupying it with a little halo over your head to mark you as still dead. If you are resurrected, you revive on the spot in your body instead of being returned to your body in the mortal world. Because your body is on your person, being worn by you.
Keeping your body means literally keeping your body. It's not a flowery way of saying that you get to look like you. It is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, and it has a profound effect on just about every way you and the afterlife interact with each other.
edited 18th Mar '17 4:30:09 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.And again, you're assuming Toriyama still remembers this at all. This is the same guy who completely remade the Supreme Kai hierarchy so that a) only three of them exist at any one time, b) only two of them are active at any one time, and c) the third one grows on the planet like a plant if one of them dies; this was then retconned again to be only one Supreme Kai and assistant exist per universe, with both making Shin's entire backstory nonsensical because there were five at one time. Between that and the one hour time limit to the Potara Fusion when a Kai isn't involved, which is starting to look more and more like something Toriyama himself came up with since Merged Zamasu shows up in the manga as well, then I really wouldn't be surprised that he just forgot about it, especially since the one time we see anyone dead in the afterlife who isn't King Kai, it's Frieza, who has a body.
Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!Toriyama having changed other things doesn't mean he changed this thing.
If Frieza had his body perfectly reconstructed in hell him being brought back to life as chunks doesn't make any sense. Unless you're going to say he remembered the "you get brought back in the condition your body is" rule, but not the "you don't have a body after you die unless special circumstances" rule.
Uh...no? Because it didn't happen? And thus doesn't count?
Some filler material's more harmless than others. Don't think I've ever heard anyone complain about Maron, for instance. Or that time Goku and Piccolo went to go drive cars. But some of it actively undermines the canon due to the complete lack of f*cks Toei gives about the universe's metaphysics and the characters' relative power.
edited 18th Mar '17 5:38:00 PM by TobiasDrake
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The anime included several filler sequence where Cell and Frieza become Bash Bros in Hell, but these have no basis in the manga and actively contradict the way the afterlife works, in which you only get to keep your body if you're granted special dispensation.
Toei has never really understood how this mechanic works, and thus undermine it in filler all the time.
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