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#28901: Dec 25th 2017 at 2:57:03 PM

My favorite part of the special is Piccolo pointing out that he sort of is the Holy Trinity.

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#28902: Dec 25th 2017 at 5:03:00 PM

Vegeta mentioned shooting at Santa multiple times - "every Christmas eve" was the beginning of the story; he acknowledges he only knew about one hit, but Bad Santa states that one of the others hit.

Piccolo's overreaction was a callback to his annoyance in Broly that no one remembered the Namekian villain.

edited 25th Dec '17 5:04:18 PM by wanderlustwarrior

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#28903: Dec 25th 2017 at 5:54:06 PM

Why did the OVA have all the Ki techniques colored differently?

Like a blue Final Flash despite Vegeta sprouting yellow Ki all over his body.

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#28904: Dec 25th 2017 at 6:04:10 PM

I think it's my favourite of the Freeza Day specials, but that's not saying much. Much like with Broly, the early parts were great but the actual fight was fairly dull. In this case it just turns into a bunch of puns

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#28905: Dec 25th 2017 at 6:16:25 PM

[up][up] So that they could have a fully blue team attack.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#28906: Dec 25th 2017 at 6:27:01 PM

Then why didn't they have them do non-descript ki blast then?

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#28907: Dec 25th 2017 at 6:40:53 PM

Because then fans would complain about them not using their cool signature attacks.

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#28908: Dec 25th 2017 at 7:13:45 PM

Was nice to see Frieza and Cooler together.

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#28909: Dec 25th 2017 at 7:33:06 PM

He's such a prick though.

Frieza, I mean.

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#28910: Dec 25th 2017 at 7:36:13 PM

I loved Cooler still calling it Christmas while Frieza insists that it's Frieza Day.

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#28911: Dec 25th 2017 at 7:56:41 PM

He's right, though. Punchline was just being self-important.

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#28912: Dec 25th 2017 at 8:08:50 PM

Reminded me of how Freeza's species in Xenoverse and other games is just "Freeza clan", with the common headcanon being that Freeza literally changed the name of his own species to name them after himself.

It's like if Donald Trump changed Humans to Trump People.

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#28913: Dec 25th 2017 at 8:34:14 PM

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I could picture that happening...the Trump people part that is.

You know, I think this is most friendly we've ever seen Vegeta. Which is a pretty big accomplishment for him considering he still a raging asshole.

I love how the villains were just in complete disbelief at Bulma coming out of nowhere and screwing things up. And of course, actually seeing Coola and Frieza interact was great.

The Christmas jokes got a little ludicrous after a while, but not in a way that made me dislike the whole thing. All in all, t'was pretty fun.

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#28914: Dec 25th 2017 at 8:38:05 PM

I liked "Pa-rum-pum-pum-pounded".

edited 25th Dec '17 8:39:00 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

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#28915: Dec 25th 2017 at 8:47:28 PM

See, that's one of the ones I thought was too much.

But what do I know?

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#28916: Dec 25th 2017 at 8:51:48 PM

I can't get enough of bad puns so it didn't wear thin for me.

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#28917: Dec 25th 2017 at 8:52:27 PM

I liked it because it was Goku making the pun in his thoughts, and it felt like he was doing it because Santa was making so many Christmas puns that Goku couldn't help but make one, even in his own mind.

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#28918: Dec 25th 2017 at 8:56:59 PM

I honestly thought that joke was going to be that he was Krampus [lol]

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#28919: Dec 25th 2017 at 8:57:29 PM

The Santa puns were too much, Karrot's were fine.

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#28920: Dec 25th 2017 at 9:44:48 PM

I got a kick out of most of the puns. While it wasn't the most inspired one, I especially liked "Feliz Navidead" for being a Christmas themed Post-Mortem One-Liner.

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#28921: Dec 26th 2017 at 1:11:12 AM

Really my only problems with this one were that the Santa plotline meant no tuffle backstories in abridged, ever (since they're likely never going to do GT) and no joke around revenge on the Saiyans somehow includes piccolo as a target and Turles as an ally. Neither point really damaged my enjoyment of it, though. Plus they gave the perfect explanation as to why Vegeta didn't help in the fight (Which the original special could have solved by adding in Broly or 13 for trunks to fight or keeping the Frieza fight a 2 on one.) Tarble reference is good but kind of complicates Vegetas line at the beginning of the cell arc where I'm pretty sure he counts Tarble when correcting Bulma on how many Saiyans he is the Prince of. Then again they keep the movies within their own pocket of continuity, so probably shouldn't worry about it. I was also a little bothered that they took out Goku instant transmissioning back to capsule corp considering how Vegeta (or trunks, one of the two) plops to the ground in that shot would have been great material for comedy.

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#28922: Dec 26th 2017 at 1:22:15 AM

It doesn't really complicate anything even still...no body, no confirmation seems to be the go to logic point.

Veggie's only assuming he's dead now, when he wasn't before.

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#28923: Dec 26th 2017 at 1:50:48 AM

The only problem I have with this is that Santa's characterization doesn't make sense after his appearance in Christmas Tree of Might

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#28924: Dec 26th 2017 at 2:01:45 AM

Accumulated hatred in the years since...

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#28925: Dec 26th 2017 at 7:04:25 AM

Vegeta uses Tarble as Schrodinger's Saiyan. He's alive when his existence can be used to puff up Vegeta's ego, and he's dead when it's funny.

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