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#29976: Feb 14th 2018 at 9:03:46 PM

To be fair, at that point in time, if anyone knows about Vegeta's quick firing problems or recovery time, it's Bulma...

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#29977: Feb 14th 2018 at 9:07:32 PM

I mean, if my husband was Vegeta and he suddenly showed up wearing an evil mark on his face, boasting about how evil he is, and then blew up a bunch of people, I'd check with Goku about WTF before I raced off to go revive people prematurely. Because I'd feel like some shit was probably going down right now. At the very least, I'd be concerned that Vegeta had gone back to his evil ways and might kill some more people, and think that maybe I should wait until Goku gives me the all clear. Like. Did Bulma think he was just having a bad day? He accidentally muscle spasmed and killed countless people but it's cool now?

That's a pretty sound idea, except that they have no way of getting in contact with Goku (doesn't carry a cell phone), and King Kai is hard to reach unless he's talking to them (or Goku is).

Not saying you're not wrong, though I suspect that if they did have a way to contact Goku, it would get broken so that they couldn't run things by him as you suggested.

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#29978: Feb 15th 2018 at 1:01:03 AM

Maybe murdering loads of people is just something Vegeta does on occasion.

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#29979: Feb 15th 2018 at 3:56:19 AM

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#29980: Feb 15th 2018 at 4:53:23 AM

Back to DBZA for a bit : is there a story/context behind the "Gojira, Gojira! Gojira. Gojira?" gag when they summon Porunga in the city? Why do these people suddenly calm down when a police officer just repeat the monster's name over and over?

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#29981: Feb 15th 2018 at 4:55:40 AM

I don't think there's anything more to the gag than pointing out that people say Gojira a lot in the Godzilla movies. The people calming down is just absurdism.

edited 15th Feb '18 7:16:22 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

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#29982: Feb 15th 2018 at 5:10:30 AM

[up]x4 "I WILL KILL AS MANY PEOPLE AS I HAVE TO AS LONG AS YOU'RE ONE OF THEM!"

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#29983: Feb 15th 2018 at 7:14:52 AM

I thought it might be a play on the way Gojira is either the hero or villain of a movie depending entirely on which Gojira movie you're watching. If Gojira is alone in the movie, he's the monster and you should be afraid of him. If there's another monster, Gojira is the hero and he's going to save us all from the other monster.

Thus, entirely through Gojiras, the officer convinced the people that this was Gojira, and not the terrifying    GOJIRA   .

But that might be stretching. I honestly have no idea.

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#29984: Feb 15th 2018 at 7:32:40 AM

Gojira is generally a force of nature rather then a clear cut hero or villain with a few exceptions.

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#29985: Feb 15th 2018 at 9:17:21 AM

The way I took it was "Holy shit a giant monster!" "It's Godzilla" "Oh, Godzilla, that's nothing special. He shows up here every other week. False alarm."

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#29986: Feb 15th 2018 at 9:32:22 AM

With the exception of Mothra who when fight Gojira is generally the hero of the film.

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#29987: Feb 15th 2018 at 11:03:06 AM

Has Mothra ever been the villain? I think she's pretty consistently the Big Good.

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#29988: Feb 15th 2018 at 11:23:50 AM

I don't think so. Ghidorah's been a good guy more often than Mothra a villain.

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#29989: Feb 15th 2018 at 12:01:50 PM

Mothra has Battra as the Anti-Hero counterpart.

edited 15th Feb '18 12:47:40 PM by Demongodofchaos2

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#29990: Feb 15th 2018 at 12:11:36 PM

Which even with Battra it turned out he was supposed to stop an astroid from destroying the earth sometime in the future.

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#29991: Feb 15th 2018 at 1:01:34 PM

I assumed the Gojira gag was just taking the Godzilla films' tendency to say "Gojira!" a lot to its logical conclusion: Making it Groot-speak where "Gojira" is the only word anybody can say yet they still manage to have conversations.

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edited 15th Feb '18 1:02:08 PM by Anomalocaris20

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#29992: Feb 15th 2018 at 2:06:47 PM

Godzilla movies have a plot beyond monsters breaking stuff? The monsters have personalities?

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#29993: Feb 15th 2018 at 2:07:22 PM

...yeah? It's...kind of a thing in some of them?

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#29995: Feb 15th 2018 at 2:17:55 PM

Old-fashioned Japanese Kaijiu movies are basically soap operas, except with monsters breaking stuff.

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#29996: Feb 15th 2018 at 2:20:58 PM

Do any of the monsters have evil pregnant twins that came back from the dead?

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#29997: Feb 15th 2018 at 2:23:48 PM

I mean there was that one time a scientist's dead daughter came back as a rose-Godzilla hybrid monster.

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#29998: Feb 15th 2018 at 2:24:35 PM

It's like how a disaster movie tries to make you invested in the victims' lives so that you actually care about whether they survive the disaster or not. It's just that in a kaiju film, the disaster is a sentient Square-Cube Law-violating mass of atomic fire breath rather than an earthquake, or a volcano, or a sharknado.

Of course, most audiencegoers just want to get to the kaiju rampage, hence the trope name.

edited 15th Feb '18 2:26:27 PM by Anomalocaris20

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#29999: Feb 15th 2018 at 2:29:14 PM

Do any of the monsters have evil pregnant twins that came back from the dead?
Not that I know of, but that's definitely the level of plot we're talking about here.

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#30000: Feb 15th 2018 at 2:41:55 PM

I think Battra kinda comes back from the dead in a sense, but it might just be him waking up from a long slumber and having to start over as a larva state. I guess like cell in a sense.

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