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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#34926: Mar 29th 2019 at 7:47:51 AM

I guess Gero's spy bugs didn't have audio...or any way to note an increase in power.

That's a pretty huge miscalculation....though it wouldn't have mattered if he'd been willing to use 16, or if he'd been able to control 17 and 18.

Edited by HandsomeRob on Mar 29th 2019 at 8:48:02 AM

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ultimatepheer Since: Mar, 2011
#34927: Mar 29th 2019 at 7:51:43 AM

You know, if he hadn't kidnapped 17 and 18 and just found two random homeless kids and offered to give them a place to stay in exchange for agreeing to become unstoppable murderbots he PROBABLY would have had way fewer problems getting them to not want to murder him.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#34928: Mar 29th 2019 at 8:05:38 AM

True. It didn't even have to be too random kids. He could have found old Red Ribbon Army vets looking for revenge like him.

I guess he's just not a people person.

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TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#34929: Mar 29th 2019 at 9:07:01 AM

Given how quick, like, every single member of the Frieza Force other than Ginyu and Frieza who know better are to assume that Scouters just f*cking glitch out all the time, Gero may have just made the same assumption. We have precedent for characters interpreting changes in battle power.

"Hmm, the scan said that Goku was at 500 Geros and Nappa was at 20,000 Geros, but then Goku beat up Nappa and now it's saying Goku is at 50,000 Geros. Ugh, I must not have calibrated it correctly."

If highly-experienced battle-hardened warriors can't figure out that the Earthlings are suppressing their powers and releasing them in bursts, then good luck to some dickweed in a lab coat that's never been in a fistfight in his life.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Mar 29th 2019 at 10:08:42 AM

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#34930: Mar 29th 2019 at 4:42:10 PM

[up][up][up][up] Yeah, but Kuririn and Gohan knew about powering up and still couldn't understand Goku's powering up on Namek. That's how much they improved it, so it makes sense to me that Gero also didn't know about it the first time he saw it.

There also wasn't a huge amount of suppressing and powering up prior to the Namek arc. Like, Goku suppressed himself to 5,000 and his full power was just over 8,000 (prior to Kaio-ken). Kuririn was 1,083 suppressed and 1,770 at full power etc.

wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#34931: Mar 29th 2019 at 5:07:33 PM

Buu, in particular, Evil Fat Buu, had and used game-breaker magic, at least.

Like, it sounds cool on paper. "You may be five times more powerful than me, but so long as I can survive 20 minutes in grappling range of you, I can become your peer! While you are wailing on my face for that entire time!'

I mean, that's pretty much the plot of Super Broly.

terumokou Pitiable and Illegally Dumped Object from In a bamboo forest full of bunnies, California Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Mu
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#34932: Mar 30th 2019 at 6:47:30 PM

Kai 3 on Monday 6 PM CST (and no Kaiser clarified it's NOT an April Fool's cause it's the only day Taka can show up) and other stuff (Sake-ro streams on Thursday now, Renegade, Lvl.Up con).

Edited by terumokou on Mar 30th 2019 at 6:48:44 AM

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alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#34933: Mar 31st 2019 at 4:08:08 AM

did I mishear a part 1 there?

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#34934: Mar 31st 2019 at 10:57:40 AM

No, it's going to be two parts.

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#34935: Mar 31st 2019 at 11:19:34 AM

Typically, when they have a two or three part episode, they upload the second part a week after the first. Not sure if this is going to be the case here.

Also, remember back in Season One where Nappa told Vegeta that Trix were for kids? Well the official Dragonball Super dub also made a Trix reference.

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#34936: Mar 31st 2019 at 7:53:31 PM

This is why I like Funimation.

terumokou Pitiable and Illegally Dumped Object from In a bamboo forest full of bunnies, California Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Mu
Pitiable and Illegally Dumped Object
#34938: Apr 1st 2019 at 4:21:10 PM

LEARN! LEARN! LEARN!

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#34940: Apr 1st 2019 at 4:27:28 PM

Kinda Stuff.

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JRads47 Since: Nov, 2014
fasoman1996 Google "big ears" from Argentina (A.K.A. Naziland) Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
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#34942: Apr 1st 2019 at 4:38:17 PM

I don't know what did i expect

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terumokou Pitiable and Illegally Dumped Object from In a bamboo forest full of bunnies, California Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Mu
Pitiable and Illegally Dumped Object
#34943: Apr 1st 2019 at 4:52:04 PM

Well the last thing I expected was them doing Garlic Jr. Saga for real.

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Fedetropes Call me Blast, not Fedetropes from Doomed universe Since: Dec, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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#34944: Apr 1st 2019 at 4:53:25 PM

We got bambozzled

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#34945: Apr 1st 2019 at 4:54:06 PM

Wow Chi-Chi has finally fucking lost it.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#34946: Apr 1st 2019 at 5:12:16 PM

That teacher guy's voice was on point.

Also, is this the first time they've said "Fuck" without censoring it?

JRads47 Since: Nov, 2014
#34947: Apr 1st 2019 at 5:15:47 PM

"Wait... where's your condom?"

"The fuck's a condom?"

Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#34948: Apr 1st 2019 at 5:17:33 PM

Whatever that was...

That was amazing.

ultimatepheer Since: Mar, 2011
#34949: Apr 1st 2019 at 5:18:30 PM

Well, it's something at least.

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#34950: Apr 1st 2019 at 5:21:43 PM

That was amazing.

This was totally an April Fool's Joke and it's glorious.

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