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TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#25926: Mar 24th 2017 at 6:00:18 PM

Satan's students were the assholes in the helicopter.

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#25927: Mar 24th 2017 at 6:07:14 PM

Yeah, that was nice to see. Lani even sad they died because they could be cut with no consequences. Going by the pacing I think:

58: Cell vs. Goku
59: Cell vs. Gohan
60: Cell vs. Super Saiyan 2 Gohan (split into a 3-part movie format).
Will be the plan.

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#25928: Mar 24th 2017 at 6:09:34 PM

Nice.

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#25929: Mar 24th 2017 at 6:14:54 PM

I love Cell regretting making the tournament an open invite. Everyone he cares to fight is already showing up anyways. There really was no point to even making it a tournament. I mean, it's kind of not. Everyone fighting Cell one-by-one is not a tournament structure at all.

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#25930: Mar 24th 2017 at 6:18:27 PM

From the sounds of things, it didn't seem like they were Satan's students here.

I actually forgot about the three part final episode structure they have.

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#25931: Mar 24th 2017 at 6:19:25 PM

Everyone fighting Cell one-by-one is not a tournament structure at all.

Tell that to Shang Tsung.

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#25932: Mar 24th 2017 at 6:23:37 PM

Nothing about that precludes it being a tournament. It's a single elimination group tournament. Cell is group A, Earth is group B.

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#25933: Mar 24th 2017 at 6:24:53 PM

[up][up]Eh, I've always been under the impression with early-generation fighting game tournaments that you're supposed to pretend there are other competitors besides the playable characters. They're just always fighting the other people and always lose.

So, like, if you're playing Ryu, then while you're fighting E. Honda, Blanka is fighting some asshole from Kentucky and Guile is wrecking the shit out of some dude from Korea. The playable characters aren't the only people competing; just the only ones with any shot at winning.

edited 24th Mar '17 6:25:55 PM by TobiasDrake

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#25934: Mar 24th 2017 at 6:31:19 PM

Really, no mention of Satan going "It was an empty cargo ship!"

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#25935: Mar 24th 2017 at 6:32:18 PM

[up][up]Mortal Kombat is even stranger because you end up fighting people your on the same side as in arcade mode.

edited 24th Mar '17 6:33:42 PM by Darthwyn

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#25936: Mar 24th 2017 at 6:32:42 PM

Eh, it was a repeated joke, so it wasn't quite as punchy as the rest of the gags in the episode.

"They destroyed the cargo robot! AND THE CARGO WAS PEOPLE!!!"

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#25937: Mar 24th 2017 at 6:55:14 PM

Huh. It really was wasn't it?

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#25938: Mar 24th 2017 at 7:31:50 PM

That was a funny episode.

Also kind of poignant. I can see where all this "Everyone is worried and concerned and Goku doesn't get it at all" stuff is leading up to, and it should be interesting. Also, was that Chrono Trigger music on the lookout?

I don't think Mark is dead. The blood trail was definitely less of a proof of death than, you know, what happened just prior. It read to me as comedic emphasis. Besides, someone's gonna have to throw that head later.

Gotta say, the #Cellgames videos really helped this episode's main joke land. Really shouldn't have made this open-invite, P.C.

edited 24th Mar '17 7:32:18 PM by Enlong

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#25939: Mar 24th 2017 at 7:34:30 PM

Piccolo's concerning line was the best of the episode to me at least, followed closely by Cell taunting Vegeta when he first arrived.

Gonna say it, not in love with Hercule's voice, I'm kind of hoping they're going to do a Kayfabe and non-Kayfabe angle with him. Granted he's currently not in this anywhere near enough for it to be that much of a difference maker.

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#25940: Mar 24th 2017 at 7:36:42 PM

So, does Tien's third eye move independently from his other two eyes or not?

Because sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't and that kinda bugs me.

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#25941: Mar 24th 2017 at 7:41:49 PM

Probably it's like two-eyes, where you can move them independently, but it's difficult and not really where your muscle memory lies.

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#25942: Mar 24th 2017 at 8:04:49 PM

His third eye isn't suppose to move, as it never does in Z, they're just editing it to move...

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#25943: Mar 24th 2017 at 8:28:55 PM

I don't know if I can stand Mr. Satan's voice for an entire season.

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#25944: Mar 24th 2017 at 8:45:21 PM

I'm really gonna miss Android 16 when he's gone. I hope Remix gets to voice more characters besides Kami.

Maybe have him voice Pikkon using his Weekly Tube Show Piccolo voice?

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#25945: Mar 24th 2017 at 8:52:40 PM

I bet when not in Macho Man Mr. Satan mode, Mark sounds like a normal man.

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#25946: Mar 24th 2017 at 9:38:24 PM

It should be noted that Vegeta only had two lines in the whole episode and they were still among the best.

Oh man, yea, the Cell Game videos definitely made this episode a lot more worth it. Loved how they just killed Satan's students like that, and the ambiguity on if he's dead or not...come to think of it, they revive all of Cell's victims at the end iirc and Satan doesn't actually contribute much beyond throwing 16's head...so he can easily be written out of this arc and then be revived for the next.

edited 24th Mar '17 9:46:43 PM by BlackYakuzu94

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#25947: Mar 24th 2017 at 9:49:40 PM

60: Cell vs. Super Saiyan 2 Gohan (split into a 3-part movie format).

I actually see SS 2 Gohan vs Cell being two parts, with the third part being Trunks returning to the future to kill the Androids and Cell.

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#25948: Mar 24th 2017 at 10:03:30 PM

Tenshinhan's third eye moves all the time. Whether or not it moves in tandem with the other two is pretty inconsistent, though the new Dragon Ball Super opening has him opening all three simultaneously.

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#25949: Mar 24th 2017 at 11:35:23 PM

Kudos to them for turning Jimmy Firecracker into a likeable character and making it work, given that in the original he was a total Hate Sink.

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#25950: Mar 24th 2017 at 11:36:59 PM

Wait, that's actually his name? I thought TFS just made it up and the reporter was originally nameless.


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