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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#33501: Nov 6th 2018 at 4:24:57 PM

The Pirate Robot being Android 2 makes sense, considering how there's a big ol' 2 on each of its legs. I also like the idea that Metallic is either Android 6 or 7 and Cyborg Taopaipai is Android 10.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#33502: Nov 6th 2018 at 5:18:17 PM

It can't be 2 though.

It predates Gero (I think) and more to the point, why would he put a robot to guard something that the people he was working for were trying to find (as in, if they knew where it was, why not grab it already)?

I'm ok with Metallic and Tao being 7 and 10...who was 9?

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LordVatek Not really a lord of anything Since: Sep, 2014
Not really a lord of anything
#33504: Nov 6th 2018 at 5:33:53 PM

I want to see Android 1.

Like, was he not numbering them yet and it's actually just called "Android"?

This song needs more love.
fasoman1996 Google "big ears" from Argentina (A.K.A. Naziland) Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
Google "big ears"
#33505: Nov 6th 2018 at 5:36:09 PM

Their actual name is Apple.

Gero tends to have some super duper secret plan hidden away in one of his over 9000 thousand labs scattered accross the globe. Maybe Android 1 was his biggest project yet and it may appear later

Uni cat
unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#33506: Nov 6th 2018 at 5:41:47 PM

more to the point, why would he put a robot to guard something that the people he was working for were trying to find (as in, if they knew where it was, why not grab it already)?

bold of you to assume that it would do what gero wanted it to do

like, 17 and 18 didn't, in the manga Gero says 16 didn't, but then Toriyama says in an interview that 16 is actually working exactly as intended, and somehow working as intended makes him a failure, so what the fucking hell, and 19 did what Gero wanted but also sucks.

And then there's Eighter.

considering how there's a big ol' 2 on each of its legs

wait, does that mean #17 and #18 have tramp stamps?

Edited by unnoun on Nov 6th 2018 at 9:04:01 AM

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#33507: Nov 6th 2018 at 5:43:13 PM

[up]

...[lol]

Alright. Android 2 it is.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#33508: Nov 6th 2018 at 5:48:09 PM

Do we ever find out how strong Eighter actually is? Because we know he's stronger than Goku is at the time, Goku says so, but not by how much.

He gets hurt in Path to Power by Black's Battle Jacket, but. That's Path to Power. I like the animation, but like. Aside from a line about Yamcha and home runs and baseball, I don't think of it as all that reliable.

Kamiccolo Since: May, 2018
#33509: Nov 7th 2018 at 6:12:49 PM

Kaioshin can't outlive his minions if he's murdered by Dabura,
Babidi can't find Kaioshin if he doesn't want to be found, especially since Kaioshin can teleport at will.
He keeps going on after Kaioshin is dead because Buu is hungry and wants to have fun. By the time Kaioshin is presumed dead, Majin Buu is already a thing. Babidi's really just along for the ride at that point;
An irrelevant tangent. The question was Babidi's motivation; he keeps going on, controlling Buu via simple threat, because he wants universal conquest. That's why he's so mad Vegeta stranded him on Buttfuck, Nowhere by blowing up his ship.
Do we ever find out how strong Eighter actually is? Because we know he's stronger than Goku is at the time, Goku says so, but not by how much.
Bare minimum, weaker than Piccolo Daimao, since everyone on Earth was powerless to stop his very public takeover.

Edited by Kamiccolo on Nov 7th 2018 at 6:14:14 AM

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#33510: Nov 7th 2018 at 7:20:32 PM

That's why he's so mad Vegeta stranded him on Buttfuck, Nowhere by blowing up his ship.

Wait, didn't Babidi want to blow up Capsule Corp. the only place on the planet he can get a spaceship?

...Fuck me he's a dumbass.

Bare minimum, weaker than Piccolo Daimao, since everyone on Earth was powerless to stop his very public takeover.

But wasn't Eighter also a pacifist that might not have done anything?

Also, isn't Jingle Village in the buttfuck nowhere of buttfuck nowhere?

Are we sure Eighter even knew about King Piccolo?

Also, like, Arale can kick the shit out of Super Saiyan Blue Goku and Vegeta, so.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#33511: Nov 7th 2018 at 7:24:30 PM

Wait, didn't Babidi want to blow up Capsule Corp. the only place on the planet he can get a spaceship?

...Fuck me he's a dumbass.

Well, you're not wrong, but I should point out that Babidi had no way of knowing Capsule Corp could do that. I don't he considered that a ass backwards planet like Earth would have anything capable of space travel.

...But yeah, he's totally a dumbass. I'd be genuinely impressed if he could see an inch past his face.

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fasoman1996 Google "big ears" from Argentina (A.K.A. Naziland) Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
Google "big ears"
#33512: Nov 7th 2018 at 7:26:16 PM

I wonder if Babidi and Gero would get along.

Uni cat
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#33513: Nov 7th 2018 at 7:26:56 PM

[up][up]I dunno, Babidi's got big eyes.

[up]Nah, they'd hate each other for how similar they are.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Nov 7th 2018 at 8:27:30 AM

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#33514: Nov 7th 2018 at 7:30:06 PM

Why didn't Arale stop:

Monster Carrot,

The Entire Red Ribbon Army besides Blue, who she didnt even kill,

Tao Pai Pai,

King Piccolo,

Raditz,

Nappa,

Vegeta

Frieza,

King Cold,

17, 18, Gero and 19,

Cell,

Dabura,

Buu,

Golden Frieza,

Zamasu,

or

Hit?

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
fasoman1996 Google "big ears" from Argentina (A.K.A. Naziland) Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
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#33516: Nov 7th 2018 at 7:33:06 PM

She was having tea with Launch and Android 17

Besides, she stands no chance against Monster Carrot

Uni cat
unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#33517: Nov 7th 2018 at 7:33:19 PM

I mean, so was Goku when he took a rabbit to the moon.

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#33518: Nov 7th 2018 at 7:33:59 PM

Goku wasn't a cameo character, though. Obviously, Arale can solve problems in Dr. Slump.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Nov 7th 2018 at 8:34:35 AM

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#33519: Nov 7th 2018 at 7:35:13 PM

wild mass guessThe Dragonball and Dr. Slump universes only converge once every 30 years.wild mass guess

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#33520: Nov 7th 2018 at 7:38:28 PM

Also, serious question, why didnt going to the moon make Goku go Oozaru?

Or, if we go by GT, why wouldn't looking back and seeing the Earth from the Moon do it?

EDIT: real talk, i want monster carrot to show up again and just still be on the moon, and for someone to point out that makes no sense because it's been destroyed twice and for that to be ignored.

Edited by unnoun on Nov 7th 2018 at 10:42:45 AM

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#33521: Nov 7th 2018 at 7:57:09 PM

I would love for a filler episode all about the return of Boss Rabbit (I never liked the name Monster Carrot, he's a mafia boss who's a rabbit, saying that he's a monster carrot is both misleading and spoiling his ability).

By the way, I highly recommend Dr. Slump for anyone interested. The writing and comedy are peak Toriyama, and I mean peak. The only unfortunate bit is that it has the same kind of weird karmic perversion humor that early Dragon Ball had, just amplified due to coming out earlier.

As an example, one of the early chapters has Senbei Norimaki learning that Arale is getting questions from her female classmates on why she doesn't have a hole down there. Norimaki has never actually seen a vagina before (though this is a kid's comic, so they never refer to vagina by name), so he has no idea what one looks like. The rest of the chapter is Norimaki devising more and more elaborate Rube Goldberg Devices in an attempt to see the a vaginas of random women on the street, purely for scientific reasons, mind you. He fails and gets beat up every single time, and the punchline is that Arale was referring to a belly button the whole time.

Thankfully, these kinds of chapters aren't too common at the start and get less and less common as the series goes on. Norimaki also starts as the protagonist (hence the series being named after the Doctor in a Slump, not the goofy robot child that he made), but he's replaced by Arale reasonably quickly. This is actually a sticking point for Norimaki, and he complains to Toriyama about how he's supposed to be the main character. When he is the main character, though, Norimaki is very much an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Nov 7th 2018 at 10:42:18 AM

Kamiccolo Since: May, 2018
#33522: Nov 7th 2018 at 10:58:19 PM

But wasn't Eighter also a pacifist that might not have done anything?
He doesn't like fighting, but he will not abide evil, hence why he attacks White.
Why didn't Arale stop:
Probably because she was incapable of doing so. Toei fanfiction where anyone can fight anyone aside (seriously base Goku was beating up Ultimate Gohan in their version of the Buu arc), nothing in her own series or in DB puts her on the level of someone who can point at a planet and make it explode. Which even Raditz can do.

Also Buu might have triggered PTSD from that time she got beaten up by the Chabin Majin.

I'd bet on Raditz against Caramel Man 7 too.

I wonder if Babidi and Gero would get along.
Babidi seems physically incapable of getting along with anyone (probably a side effect of how his mind control abilities means that everyone in his life is a subservient minion or an enemy). He'd probably make Gero's head explode within seconds of meeting him.

Edited by Kamiccolo on Nov 7th 2018 at 11:04:30 AM

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#33523: Nov 7th 2018 at 11:25:17 PM

nothing in her own series or in DB puts her on the level of someone who can point at a planet and make it explode. Which even Raditz can do.

Doesn't that "crack the planet in half" gag from that Super crossover come straight from Dr. Slump? That's what I heard at least.

Kamiccolo Since: May, 2018
#33524: Nov 7th 2018 at 11:28:02 PM

Yeah, but it's not remotely on the same level as flat-out mass-scattering the planet.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#33525: Nov 8th 2018 at 2:21:32 AM

It's not entirely clear that anyone in the series can punch a planet into breaking, rather than using ki blasts though.

...Like, sure, you can vaporize Arale maybe, but that doesnt mean she can't hit much harder than you.


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