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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#36801: Dec 26th 2019 at 12:30:30 PM

You know. I'm kind of surprised they haven't done a Top 12 Goku Screams or something. There have to be enough of them at this point.

Edited by Soble on Dec 26th 2019 at 12:37:33 PM

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#36802: Dec 26th 2019 at 1:05:38 PM

I'm not sure how you measure the quality of screams.

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#36803: Dec 26th 2019 at 1:39:36 PM

Mostly a thought (and because Kamen Ride Drive) but, considering Goten's a Christmas baby in Shortz, I wonder if he might feel a bit Grinchy around the Holidays due to Christmas and his birthday consolidated as one.

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#36805: Dec 26th 2019 at 3:24:12 PM

[up][up][up] Same way you measure the quality of anything subjective - how much you like it

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#36806: Dec 26th 2019 at 3:30:36 PM

My favorite scream is a toss up between between Gohan turning SSJ 2 during the Cell Games and Vegeta sacrificing himself against Buu.

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#36807: Dec 26th 2019 at 4:04:29 PM

https://twitter.com/teamfourstar/status/1210343910670770177

14 sec. of Cell v. Bobby Hill.

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#36809: Dec 26th 2019 at 4:29:19 PM

Yeah, but by what criteria? Prolongnedess? Impressiveness of Ki aura that accompanied it? Emotional feeling in it?

Edited by fredhot16 on Dec 26th 2019 at 4:45:36 AM

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#36810: Dec 26th 2019 at 4:38:38 PM

Krillin was glad to not be allergic to Senzu Beans.

But what if you are allergic to Senzu Beans? I mean, they're bloody magic beans, so if you're allergic... they still heal you, but you develop a serious rash, but then wouldn't it simultaneously cure the rash.

And what if it closed up your throat or if you had some other severe, allergic reaction - wouldn't it simultaneously cure that too? Anaphylaxis, yo. The bean keeps working to heal you but who knows how long it takes for that bean to digest and work its way out of your system. The Senzu magic would destroy and heal you repeatedly until that happens.

So yeah, Krillin's right, thank god no one's allergic to those.

Edited by Soble on Dec 26th 2019 at 4:42:58 AM

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#36811: Dec 26th 2019 at 6:52:47 PM

[up]x4 The only time I can recall someone ever going for a groin attack in Dragonball was when Kami fought Yamcha while inhabiting that Hero guy.

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#36812: Dec 26th 2019 at 6:54:17 PM

There's also Cooler kicking Vegeta's dick and Android 13 punching Goku in the crotch.

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#36813: Dec 26th 2019 at 7:04:56 PM

Oh, and there's that time in Super when Gotenks hit Tagoma there, just before Ginyu stole his body.

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#36814: Dec 26th 2019 at 7:55:07 PM

More like he flew headfirst into Tagoma's crotch

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#36815: Dec 27th 2019 at 6:34:05 AM

Does Trunks cutting Zamasu in half from the dick up counts as going for the groin?

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#36816: Dec 27th 2019 at 6:37:05 AM

I know it's been a year and it's beating a dead horse at this point but 16 speech still doesn't make a lick of sense to me.

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#36817: Dec 27th 2019 at 7:23:17 AM

I don't know about y'all but Plan to Eradicate Christmas is still my favorite Christmas movie ever. [lol] Since they released it in 2017, this is the film I watch multiple times whenever the holiday season arrives.

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#36818: Dec 27th 2019 at 8:23:59 AM

I just want more Cooler...

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#36819: Dec 27th 2019 at 8:29:51 AM

I personally wish that they would abridge Fighter Z

And more Cooler? YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

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#36820: Dec 27th 2019 at 9:07:23 AM

The funniest thing about Cooler is that he's supposed to be Frieza's bigger, stronger, much more badass brother. The next step of escalation beyond Frieza. But because Toei is Toei....

When Base Goku fought Frieza, Frieza dominated the battle pretty much completely. Because of course he did. He was literally 40x stronger than Goku, and was playing around at 50% strength. The sole exception being Goku's unexpected Kaioken x20 Kamehameha; for one brief moment, Goku and Frieza were equals, so Frieza just upped his percentage a bit more.

Cooler, on the other hand, legit struggles with Goku. Due to Toei favoring cool fight choreography over power level wanking, Goku's 3 million BP lets him fight pretty much on-par with Cooler up until he unveils his new transformation.

This is supposed to be a big moment. Cooler reveals that he has surpassed Frieza by unlocking a new bonus transformation far beyond Frieza's Final Form. This new super transformation gives him the power to... proceed to get utterly shitstomped by Super Saiyan Goku just like Frieza did.

So base Cooler is about equal to base Goku, but he has a new super-ultra power-boosting transformation that is strong enough to put him roughly in Frieza's ballpark.

This is not how you escalation-shill a new character. [lol]

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#36821: Dec 27th 2019 at 9:12:15 AM

Some people thought Goku was using the Invisible Kaioken to overwhelm him.

But considering how in Toei's world, Base Forms reach absurd levels of power, I doubt it (plus he did use the Kaioken later)

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#36822: Dec 27th 2019 at 9:16:13 AM

Cooler's official Power Level in his 5th Form is 470,000,000 (according to some databook somewhere), which means that Goku must have been WAY beyond his level when fighting Freeza in order to curbstomp him in SS1. Assuming the power difference is about the same, Goku's base strength in the movie was around 12 million, 600 million in SS1.

I think the idea is that Goku got a Zenkai during the course of the film after recovering from Cooler shooting him in the back, and that was what made him so much stronger than he was when fighting Freeza. It's weird that it goes unmentioned, though, and Goku being that strong in that time frame doesn't really line up with some other statements.

Of course, there is the fan-theory that the Cooler movie takes place in an alternate universe where Goku killed Freeza on Namek.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Dec 27th 2019 at 10:18:50 AM

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#36823: Dec 27th 2019 at 9:23:15 AM

One thing that always bugged me about the Cooler movie is that Gohan had his tail back, and they don't really do much with it. He gets grabbed by the tail at one point, but that was done by Salza (I think) and he could easily overwhelm Gohan without resorting to tail grabbing. You could easily remove the tail and change nothing, because Gohan never uses it to transform into a great ape.

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#36824: Dec 27th 2019 at 9:24:54 AM

@Tobias: I love how that plays into the fanon interpretations of Cooler having a gigantic inferiority complex to his brother.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#36825: Dec 28th 2019 at 3:56:38 PM

Heh. I just realized what Nappa's turn of phrase when Vegeta yells at Baby Trunks was referencing...

Vegeta: Nobody outscreams Vegeta.

Nappa: silver medal once agaaaain...

Edited by Soble on Dec 28th 2019 at 3:57:54 AM

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