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#3126: Feb 6th 2013 at 2:18:10 PM

If they choose, then where do the albinos come from?

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#3127: Feb 6th 2013 at 2:37:48 PM

[up] The albinos are only in the Abridged Series, and haven't been on-screen only referenced.

And they haven't done an abridged series of the original Dragon Ball so that plot point hasn't come up.

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#3129: Feb 6th 2013 at 3:30:26 PM

The Albinos could be mutants. Of course they're non-canon, but we're also discussing the Abridged version.

And yeah, not to sound like Frieza, but if they can choose their offspring's appearance then how come they all "look the %@#$ing same!"? Conformity? Unimaginative?

edited 6th Feb '13 3:31:28 PM by Anomalocaris20

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#3130: Feb 6th 2013 at 3:41:17 PM

I'm going to say that it doesn't really matter to them. They don't even have genders or anything, they don't mate, so physical appearance shouldn't be important to them. I guess maybe the warrior-types are deliberately born to look more warrior-ish so they can look imposing, but that'd be it.

Oh, and Piccolo didn't stop being a demon when it was revealed he was an alien. He's just both.

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#3131: Feb 6th 2013 at 3:45:51 PM

You'd think they'd at least want more visual diversity for the sake of identification. Though I guess they can tell each other and themselves apart much more easily than humans can.

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#3132: Feb 6th 2013 at 6:09:04 PM

Maybe they only look the same to us, and it's like a racist thing to say they all look the same.

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#3133: Feb 6th 2013 at 6:11:04 PM

That's what I'd assume. Can you really tell the difference between fish of the same species? Or tell the difference between two raccoons? We're trained to spot the differences between individuals of our own species, less so for others. I'd assume the Namekians would be the same in that regard.

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#3134: Feb 7th 2013 at 12:02:09 AM

Aren't they all children of Guru? Maybe Guru just didn't really see a reason to diversify them overmuch.

Regarding Piccolo being a demon: I might be wrong here, but my understanding was that Piccolo was the embodiment of evil, as it pertains to one guy. That guy being the Nameless Namekian who expelled all of his evil in order to become Kami. So Piccolo is an evil Demon King, born of pure evil. He just happens to be a Namekian evil Demon King born of pure evil, rather than a human one.

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#3136: Feb 7th 2013 at 5:44:10 AM

Well, thanks for all those answers. Guess that explains a bunch. Also, really weird news.

Obviously the only important part is Mr. Satan being there. Hm, I wonder, will the Abridged version go with Satan or Hercule? They've been sorta 50/50 on name choices so far.

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#3137: Feb 7th 2013 at 5:49:18 AM

I always liked the Mr Hercule Satan compromise.

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#3138: Feb 7th 2013 at 6:25:47 AM

Mark Satan, but Nappa prefers Hercule.

edited 7th Feb '13 6:28:50 AM by CobraPrime

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#3139: Feb 7th 2013 at 7:19:01 AM

A new crossover, eh?

...I still kind of wish Cross Epoch would get animated.

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#3140: Feb 7th 2013 at 7:29:47 AM

Not allowed in this country apparently because of copyrights, please emb the video on this forum right now tongue

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#3141: Feb 7th 2013 at 9:05:10 AM

Mr. Hercule Satan is a good compromise. I think Toriyama has stated that Satan is just a stage name, anyway, right?

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#3142: Feb 7th 2013 at 9:11:51 AM

I could gave sworn Hercule was the stage name, and his given name was actually Mr. Satan.

edited 7th Feb '13 9:12:10 AM by unnoun

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#3143: Feb 7th 2013 at 9:11:58 AM

[up][up]Yeah, his real name is Mark. Hence the Nappa line above..

edited 7th Feb '13 9:12:11 AM by CobraPrime

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#3144: Feb 7th 2013 at 9:23:18 AM

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#3145: Feb 7th 2013 at 4:30:30 PM

[up][up][up] Mark is his real name, Mr. Satan his stage name, Hercule his dub name and stage name and first name. The dub portrays it a tad inconsistently, depending on the version.

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#3146: Feb 8th 2013 at 11:01:14 PM

So a while back we were talking about techniques. Multiform never appeared again after Nappa, did it? Unless maybe that's what the Cell Jr's were based off of?

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#3147: Feb 8th 2013 at 11:04:22 PM

In the manga, it didn't appear after Goku pointed out how shit a technique it was (which was the first appearance of it). In the anime, I remember it showing up as late as Goku vs Cell (where Cell uses it).

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#3148: Feb 8th 2013 at 11:05:20 PM

I'm pretty sure both Piccolo and Tien did the multiform later on in filler, I have no idea if it ever appeared anywhere else, however.

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#3149: Feb 9th 2013 at 2:37:49 AM

Krillin did it as well against Nappah as filler

and Picollo during the Garlic JR saga

dont know why everyone and their uncle could suddenly use it

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#3150: Feb 9th 2013 at 7:09:13 AM

Well, these guys tend to copy techniques. Remember when flight was strictly Crane style?

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