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Medigo0 Since: Jun, 2012
#3426: Feb 16th 2013 at 7:30:43 AM

Fusion is not the first thing that comes to mind with that movie......

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#3427: Feb 16th 2013 at 8:20:48 AM

[up]Bigger Buu is the first thing that comes to mind to me. (I know he has a name, but let's get real, that's all he really is) Him and his zombified villains.

Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great
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#3428: Feb 16th 2013 at 8:26:08 AM

And Hitler, ermm, I mean "Fuhrer".

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Medigo0 Since: Jun, 2012
#3429: Feb 16th 2013 at 8:47:51 AM

I quite liked the movies villain too

if only for how many weird attacks he kept inventing

hass Since: Nov, 2013
#3430: Feb 16th 2013 at 9:14:29 AM

I'll pass on Fusion Reborn. Conceptually, fusion's kinda cool, but in practice it's kinda bleh. Also, DBZ proper has lost basically all of its luster for me.

Well the thing is, the fusion only shows up for the last two minutes. Actually, that kinda sums up most of the latter movies. The only relevant parts are the last 10 or so minutes and the rest is kinda...filler.

MajorTom Since: Dec, 2009
#3431: Feb 17th 2013 at 7:35:38 AM

Did y'all just spend 17 pages talking about Dragonball GT? Cuz I just read all of that and yes it does.

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#3432: Feb 17th 2013 at 7:51:45 AM

This is how Dragon Ball inspired Bobobobo Bo Bobo.

[down]Glad we're not letting that grammar slide. Alright, I'll join in. [up]"Did you just spend one post pointing out the obvious? Because I just read it, and yes it does."

edited 17th Feb '13 8:07:49 AM by wanderlustwarrior

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#3433: Feb 17th 2013 at 7:59:26 AM

[up][up]Yes it does what?

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#3435: Feb 17th 2013 at 8:08:25 AM

Well, can't argue that.

Poor GT. It's like the Yamcha of Dragon Ball.

edited 17th Feb '13 8:08:47 AM by Anomalocaris20

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#3436: Feb 17th 2013 at 8:11:39 AM

I could have sworn that Yamcha was the Yamcha of Dragon Ball.

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#3437: Feb 17th 2013 at 8:12:47 AM

I thought Yamcha was the Raditz of Earth

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#3438: Feb 17th 2013 at 8:12:50 AM

No, Yamcha is the Raditz of Dragon Ball.

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#3439: Feb 17th 2013 at 8:19:15 AM

Come on, leave poor Raditz alone.

Dragon Ball is like the Master Roshi of the franchise. It's old and better at making people laugh than fighting, and is pretty strong, but overshadowed later. Nevertheless it's the root.

Z is like the Goku of the franchise. It rather quickly overshadowed its mentor and is the most well-known, but it wouldn't have gotten as powerful as it did without Master Roshi/Dragon Ball.

GT is like the Yamcha of the franchise. It sucked from the moment of its birth and sucked until it ended. Okay, maybe it had a few good moments, just like Yamcha had a few good... wait, he didn't. Never mind, analogy broken.

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GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#3440: Feb 17th 2013 at 8:22:55 AM

Yamcha defeated Goku in a fight. Granted, Goku was 9. And hungry. And caught off guard. And it was dumb luck.

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#3441: Feb 17th 2013 at 8:31:44 AM

What about that time he beat a mummy-guardian in Baba's castle?

...Wait, or was his fight against the invisible man?

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#3442: Feb 17th 2013 at 8:35:35 AM

In reality, Mr. Satan defeated them for him.

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#3443: Feb 17th 2013 at 8:36:44 AM

With the power of tomato soup!

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#3444: Feb 17th 2013 at 2:49:49 PM

@Geth He tied with Goku.tongue

Then immediately got his tooth knocked out in the rematch.

[up][up][up] He got the shit kicked out of him by the mummy. He beat the invisible man thanks to Kuririn's quick thinking.

edited 17th Feb '13 2:50:39 PM by Saiga

Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#3445: Feb 17th 2013 at 3:43:42 PM

Isn't that the bit where they pulled off Bulma's shirt and aimed Roshi's head so that his nose bleed would make the invisible man visible?
This series used to be so crazy.

edited 17th Feb '13 3:44:08 PM by Zeromaeus

hass Since: Nov, 2013
#3446: Feb 17th 2013 at 5:13:07 PM

You know, speaking of GT, everyone shoulda just sicked Devilman on the evil dragons. Problem solved. Then again, I keep suggesting this idea even though I know how pointless that'd be with the regenerating villains.

So I've been watching a lot of games recently and one of them had the voices actors constantly switching between Z and Kai(sometimes mid-sentence), and woah does Freeza sound different (and nearly schizophrenic). I was kinda wondering where they chose that voice for Abridged, since that one sounds so much more like the one from Kai. And Gohan no longer being insanely raspy is such an improvement too.

edited 17th Feb '13 5:19:46 PM by hass

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#3447: Feb 17th 2013 at 5:13:44 PM

Abridged Frieza is voiced by Little Kuribo.

And yeah, smooth-cold-businessman-Frieza is better than 67-year-old-chain-smoking-homeless-lady Frieza.

edited 17th Feb '13 5:15:21 PM by Anomalocaris20

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#3448: Feb 17th 2013 at 5:15:17 PM

[up][up][up] Yup.

Of course, I didn't learn that until a year or two later, when I was reading the manga itself. When it ran on Toonami, they whipped up some hastily-edited weirdness involving tomato soup.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#3449: Feb 17th 2013 at 5:20:13 PM

[up][up][up] I'm guessing that was Ultimate Tenkaichi?

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#3450: Feb 17th 2013 at 5:24:41 PM

I'd like future games to stick with the Kai voices (Not that they have a choice in some cases).

Really, from what I've seen of Kai, it's superior in every way to the original dub except I really don't like the music score (Yamamoto's Kai score was good, but plagiarism issues means they took it out and put the old score in. I'm glad Abridged at least uses the Yamamoto score rather than the original one). That and Cell's death scene is pretty lame in Kai compared to the original, not helped by the music again.

The best is Youtube videos that reinsert either the Yamamoto score or Faulconer score.

edited 17th Feb '13 5:25:45 PM by Anomalocaris20

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