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Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#35501: Aug 14th 2019 at 7:11:11 AM

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Okay, just remembered, they were teleporting into the fucking afterlife. Gohan and co. would make it there anyway.

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#35502: Aug 14th 2019 at 7:12:15 AM

Yeah, but they would have come as souls without bodies, and they would have been at the end of a very long line consisting of every human who died on Earth over the course of the arc.

Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#35503: Aug 14th 2019 at 7:15:13 AM

Kami knew how to rebuild bodies, Kami is Piccolo now. Or, the Supreme Kai is around and can move anywhere he desires, and, as a goddamn creation deity, he'd be able to rebuild their bodies and have them battle ready.

As always, the Buu saga makes sense if you don't stop to think. Oh well, opportunities for humor then.

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#35504: Aug 14th 2019 at 7:23:43 AM

God also knew how to make Dragon Balls but that didn't mean Piccolo could do it back in the Cell arc. Piccolo is not God. Piccolo ate God. God isn't a factor now.

We don't know if Kaioshin can bestow people's bodies to them. We do know King Enma can do it, 'cause of Vegeta. But time is also a factor, especially in the manga.

The anime gives the protagonists breathing room to figure out a plan of attack, so "Give Gohan his body and bring Halo Gohan here to fight" might actually have been an option there. But in the manga, it's basically

  • Vegeta: Kakarot, you suck!
  • Kaioshin: What do we do now?
  • Pure Buu: (teleporting in) CONTINUE FIGHTING ME, THAT'S WHAT!!!
  • Kaioshin: HOLY SHIT WHY
  • Pure Buu: A HAHA HAHAHA!!!

Anime Pure Buu goes on a rampage across the universe and afterlife until they do a thing to draw him to Kaioshin's world. But Manga Pure Buu just feels out where his opponents escaped to and goes straight there once he's done destroying the Earth.

It's a much smaller time window for any kind of shenanigans. They basically only have enough time to dumbf*ckedly break the Potara like assholes before Buu's upon them.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 14th 2019 at 8:28:27 AM

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Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#35506: Aug 14th 2019 at 7:32:06 AM

[up][up] And, once again, Kaioshin is a moron for, upon leaving Buu to Goku and Vegeta, foregoing going to grab Gohan from the queue and get him up to shape; he wouldn't be a worse choice than having Vegeta around the battlefield after all.

HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#35507: Aug 14th 2019 at 7:36:00 AM

We don't know how his teleportation technique works, do we?

Maybe he can only teleport people around a certain area and he prioritized Goku.

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#35508: Aug 14th 2019 at 7:36:27 AM

Eh, the Spirit Bomb worked, didn't it? There's no use complaining that they didn't use one of the two other methods that would have worked when they already used a method that worked. If the Spirit Bomb didn't work, then I would understand complaining about not bring Gotenks or Gohan, but the Spirit Bomb did work, so they weren't needed. They even bring up Gohan as a viable alternative to the Spirit Bomb plan, but Vegeta wanted the people of Earth to pull some damn weight for a change, and it's not like they couldn't have just gone to get Gohan if the Spirit Bomb did end up failing.

Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#35509: Aug 14th 2019 at 7:42:40 AM

It is the Kai Kai. It has no restrictions.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#35510: Aug 14th 2019 at 8:54:08 AM

Supreme Kai's version of teleportation is superior to Goku's in everyway. He can go wherever he wants, whenever he wants, instantly.

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#35511: Aug 14th 2019 at 9:00:50 AM

Which also has a weird effect of making it superior to Whis's version too. We see in both the Super anime and manga that Whis's transit power takes time.

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alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#35512: Aug 14th 2019 at 11:53:02 AM

Position powers are weird. Like Supreme Kai Subordinate healing.

Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#35513: Aug 14th 2019 at 12:29:50 PM

...

So, I just realized a theoretical Dragon Ball OG Abridged would likely mean a cover of Mezase Tenkaichi, among general goodness.

I really hope TFS entertain the idea once they finish Z.

HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#35514: Aug 14th 2019 at 12:32:15 PM

I think Kaiser once said that's the most likely direction they would take if they went beyond just Z, most of the team liking neither Super nor GT.

Thebrawlbro Since: Aug, 2013
#35515: Aug 14th 2019 at 12:43:03 PM

They've said that once DBZA and FFMA are done, they are done with abridging. It's always possible for them to change their mind, but it's unlikely.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#35516: Aug 14th 2019 at 1:13:50 PM

Amusingly, this means that teleporting is literally the only thing we ever see a Supreme Kai do that anyone else couldn’t do just as well or better.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Aug 14th 2019 at 1:14:48 AM

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#35517: Aug 14th 2019 at 1:29:01 PM

I was about to joke that "they powered up a supervillain" but... no. No they didn't. Buu actually became less dangerous by absorbing the Supreme Kais.

Edited by Soble on Aug 14th 2019 at 1:29:56 AM

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#35518: Aug 14th 2019 at 2:17:54 PM

By absorbing the Grand Supreme Kai to be specific.

When he absorbed South Supreme Kai, he get swole as hell and was even more powerful.

Edited by HandsomeRob on Aug 14th 2019 at 3:18:50 AM

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#35519: Aug 14th 2019 at 3:26:15 PM

Good ol' Daikaioshin.

I still love the fact that the English translators turned the gods' titles into names. They started it when they left "Kami", meaning God, untranslated and just said he's a dude named Kami and he's the Guardian of Earth.

Then they partially translated only the "o" from Kaio, "The King of the World", into "King Kai". "Kai" became his species or some shit, and he's a King-level Kai, alongside "Grand Kai" Daikaio and "Supreme Kai" Kaioshin.

But my number one favorite is "Daikaioh", the English name for the Grand Supreme Kai, Daikaioshin. They couldn't just call him "Grand Supreme Kai", following suit from the other Kaio translations, they had to make a name out of it. And they cut off the "shin" entirely while doing so, resulting in him just being Daikaio with a random h at the end.

Man, Beerus is lucky that Toriyama gave him an actual name. Otherwise, the English translation would have probably said his name was Hakai or something. And then how cool could he be? Nobody wants to be Hawkeye.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 14th 2019 at 4:26:41 AM

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#35521: Aug 14th 2019 at 3:53:14 PM

[up]

Did you?

I question your claim of having little control over the situation. I think you had more willpower than you're willing to admit, and just refused to make use of it.

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JRads47 Since: Nov, 2014
#35522: Aug 14th 2019 at 4:13:55 PM

Nah, I didn't have too but I didn't want to miss an opportunity to shit on Infinite again.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#35523: Aug 14th 2019 at 4:21:41 PM

How many times can you shit on something before it piles up?

Especially when no one cares about it anymore?

After a while all that's left is the smell and you wonder even if this thing deserved it, was it worth that stink?

.....getting back to the point of this thread (since I kinda derailed it)....

....um....wen...Bojack...?

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#35524: Aug 14th 2019 at 4:25:15 PM

[up]Says the guy who can't let go of his grudge over Peter Quill. tongue

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#35525: Aug 14th 2019 at 5:00:45 PM

I'm well aware that I'm not one to talk.

That's why all of you must be better than me.

But not more handsome. That's impossible. It's literally in my name.

But seriously, do we know when Bojack Abridged is dropping?

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