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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#37801: Jul 21st 2020 at 9:07:38 AM

....So....are Team Four Star going to go into detail about what they might have done for the Buu Saga?

Like, they said there was a character they were going to edit out of the arc, and we were all wondering who it would be (most theories being Popo, so they wouldn't need to end his joke by having him get eaten by Buu), but we never knew for sure.

I'm rather curious as to What Could Have Been.

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FOFD Since: Apr, 2013
#37802: Jul 21st 2020 at 9:31:24 AM

I will forever wonder how Vegeta and Abridged!Goku would end up making nice.

HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#37803: Jul 21st 2020 at 9:35:07 AM

"I do this for you, Trunks. And Bulma. And yes, even you...best buddy"

Man, I get sad every time I remember we might never see that come to fruition.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#37804: Jul 21st 2020 at 9:35:10 AM

I wanted to see what they would do with Videl.

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Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#37805: Jul 21st 2020 at 9:41:36 AM

They mentioned stuff in the Kakarot Let's Play.

theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#37806: Jul 21st 2020 at 11:00:10 AM

I hope that they would have had people (maybe even Goku) call Vegeta out on how his Face–Heel Turn is so fucking stupidly PETTY.

"I'm having a midlife crisis because Kakarot won't fight me during the one day of time he has to visit Earth, guess I'll TURN EVIL."

Fedetropes Call me Blast, not Fedetropes from Doomed universe Since: Dec, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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#37807: Jul 21st 2020 at 11:02:24 AM

In their Budokai Tenkaichi 3 let's play you can see some of the jokes they where gonna do about Majin Vegeta.

Edited by Fedetropes on Jul 21st 2020 at 11:02:31 AM

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#37808: Jul 21st 2020 at 12:09:09 PM

No. Not Team Four Star LPs!

Unless they actually play the game instead of making stupid jokes and dying because they refuse to properly play the game.

I fell into that with THE ADVENTURES OF DUMPLIN!!!! It was fun until they focused so much on their jokes that they kept dying and then still kept making jokes. I watch L Ps to see people play, not fuck around.

If I want to see someone who doesn't know what they're doing when they play a video game....I'll do it myself most of the time.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#37809: Jul 21st 2020 at 12:15:58 PM

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Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#37810: Jul 21st 2020 at 12:20:24 PM

The Kakarot one was sorta decent; it helps that it is just Lani and Kaiser, and Lani had already played through the game.

Fuck the Gamer Grumps tho, they have no business being L Ps.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#37811: Jul 21st 2020 at 12:23:20 PM

In the words of Krillin: "Woah, hostile."

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#37812: Jul 21st 2020 at 12:38:10 PM

Different types of LPs...don't limit.

Edited by randomness4 on Jul 21st 2020 at 12:38:26 PM

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#37813: Jul 21st 2020 at 12:38:18 PM

In the words Goku

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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
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#37814: Jul 21st 2020 at 12:44:46 PM

@Handsome Rob: I think they said that Videl would have ended up being like Batman-esque and Saiyaman being Superman-esque. Which I still want just to hear Sarah Anne Williams try a Batman voice just once.

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#37815: Jul 21st 2020 at 1:24:15 PM

[up][up] "I know this stopped being a fight and became literal torture several minutes ago, but there's, like, rules and stuff? If you jump in to try to stop the agonizing and gratuitous brutality being inflicted in the ring right now, you could get us disqualified!" ~Goku

Like. I don't think it gets said enough that Gohan was 100% right in that scene. The announcers should have called the fight way before it got to that.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Jul 21st 2020 at 1:25:00 AM

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#37816: Jul 21st 2020 at 1:36:17 PM

I don't think calling the fight is a thing in the Tenkaichi Budokai. You win if your opponent falls out of bounds or surrenders, no other conditions apply. Videl was still stubbornly trying to keep fighting, so the fight kept going.

Besides, it's not like the Announcer hasn't seen some insane comebacks. Goku beat Piccolo and won the tournament with ALL FOUR of his limbs broken and unusable, Piccolo broke Goku's body WAY worse than Spopovich broke Videl's, and he still won that fight.

Videl also snapped Spopovich's neck easily with a kick early on, she was stronger than him, she totally still had a chance to make a comeback.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Jul 21st 2020 at 1:38:00 AM

Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
#37817: Jul 21st 2020 at 1:45:29 PM

Eh NVM

Edited by Larkmarn on Jul 21st 2020 at 4:45:57 AM

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#37818: Jul 21st 2020 at 1:51:00 PM

The Announcer wasn't really considering that a fight at that point. Goku had to remind him that Piccolo being rung out means Goku wins.

Once Piccolo blew up the arena, the entire concept of this being a professional tournament went right out the window. It was revived only by Goku's stubbornness to get that Championship title.

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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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#37819: Jul 21st 2020 at 1:56:56 PM

To be fair Goku nearly won the tournament like two times beforehand but JUST missed the mark.

I too would want to win that title no matter what.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#37820: Jul 21st 2020 at 2:31:19 PM

I can only assume that the only reason they didn't call the fight is because yeah, there's literally never been a reason to before. Fights in the tournament always ended quickly: you got knocked out one way or another, whether it be out of the ring, or unconscious.

The one time someone was out of the fight for reasons beyond that was when Tao Pai Pai pulled a knife on Tien.

Hell, despite how utterly brutal he was, Spopovitch never broke the rules. He never pulled a weapon, used a dirty move, or killed Videl (as he was clearly using only enough power to hurt but not kill). It was Videl who, though accidentally, broke the rules and seemingly killed him, and they immediately enforced it by disqualifying her up until it turned out he'd survived.

I can only assume that, up until that point, nobody had ever deliberately dragged out a fight to such a blatantly malicious extent as what Spopovitch did, and since there was no rule for it, they couldn't really do anything.

Does that mean they should have anyway? Oh yes. It wouldn't have mattered (because only Yamu could have made him stop) but there's a bad habit in Dragonball where things tend to happen more for Doylist reasons than Watsonian, I'm not surprised that they didn't.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#37821: Jul 21st 2020 at 2:32:51 PM

Do you think anyone ever died at any of the Tournaments we didn't see?

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#37822: Jul 21st 2020 at 2:33:32 PM

It's possible. Whether it was intentionally or by accident, we can't be sure though.

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ultimatepheer Since: Mar, 2011
#37823: Jul 21st 2020 at 3:32:57 PM

You know, in hindsight, do you think the whole Spopovich thing might have had some bearing on Videl giving up fighting after Z, even though during Z she seemed to like it?

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#37824: Jul 21st 2020 at 4:00:23 PM

Hard to say. Again, her doylist reason for no longer fighting is probably because she'd served the purpose Toriyama had for her.

There's also the now you're married so stay home and let the man do all the work attitude of Japan, which would be a give-in to them, especially at that time.

Far as I know, there's no Watsonian reason, and even if we could assume that her Spopovitch induced beating is the case, I can picture Toriyama giving a completely different reason for it because that's often what he does.

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