Dragon Ball Z Abridged

Also remember, Hitler exists in Dragon Ball

Don't you mean The dictator

Edited by sgamer82 on Dec 24th 2020 at 1:52:08 AM

Actually it was getting beat up by his grandfather.

No that came after, and had a vampire in between.

X6

That's also a good point. I really gotta remember that he probably didn't think it through that far.

The Red Ribbon being so strong because the world nation never needed an army (due to being an entire world nation) makes sense....

....except the real reason they're that strong is because that way it's more impressive when Goku completely destroys them on his own.

Edited by HandsomeRob on Dec 24th 2020 at 3:20:32 AM

and then along came Doctor Gero..

It came before since that was still part of Baba's tourney.

Goku trashed the Red Ribbon Army, but Pilaf had the last Dragon Ball and it was being secured in a way that shielded it from the Dragon Radar. Goku and his friends went to Baba's place and competed in Baba's tournament in order to use Baba's magic insight to find out where the final Dragon Ball was. From there, Goku confronted Pilaf and rocked out with his cock out.

Shokugeki no Saiyajin

The idea of Gine being the Erina Nakiri of Saiyans is hilarious to me.

Ah, for some reason I was thinking he confronted Pilaf for the next-to-last Dragon Ball. My bad, though my point about it still being comedy/adventure still stands as that's the fight that concluded the arc if not the one that led into it.

Goku going to fight Pilaf after beating the RRA just reminds me of how Abridged!Goku treats Pilaf as his archnemesis.

Still waiting for the day when they animate that cut scene from the Broly movie with PTSD Pilaf.

Merry Frieza Day, everyone!

Do I even need to say it at this point?

Ah I knew it would be Launch's sneeze transformation. It was so obvious when they left it off the Honorable Mentions.

What if they literally just brought Launch back and retconned that she was going Super Saiyan all along?

So is it hitting anybody else how more time passes, more weirder word "race" sounds.

Like I was half expecting an offensive joke to be incoming when Lani is talking about pinnacle of the [Goku's] race when his hair is turning blond

One of the reasons for the Super Saiyan transformation was because Toriyama didn't want his assistant to have to ink Goku's hair anymore? That's. That's kind of amazing. No wonder the form became so prolific.

So wen Super Saiyan Yamcha?

Also: man, I remember when I was a kid, watching Dragon Ball Z on Toonami. I kept seeing promotional materials of Goku with blond hair and I was like, "Okay, but why is he blond? Is this an error? Did they not know he has black hair? GOKU DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THIS."

I eventually found out that this is what Goku looks like as a Super Saiyan and I was like, "Okay but what the fuck's a Super Saiyan?! Goku becomes a Super Saiyan?!" And then I was just waiting for that moment.

Goku's training with Kaio and he's going to become the Super Saiyan to beat the Saiyans!

Vegeta turned into the Oozaru but Goku's going to become the Super Saiyan to overpower him!

Goku's training in space and he's going to show up on Namek as the Super Saiyan and it'll be wicked!

Etc. etc. Every time Goku started training or got pushed, I was like, "THIS time. This is going to be when he becomes the Super Saiyan."

I had a similar experience waiting for Goku to achieve Super Saiyan 4. I was genuinely really surprised when Z ended and Goku never became Super Saiyan 4. I was like, "Did. Did marketers just make up Super Saiyan 4?"

And then GT arrived and it was "THIS time is when he becomes Super Saiyan 4" all over again.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Dec 25th 2020 at 9:24:25 AM

I've always thought that was weird. Humans, Saiyans, Namekians, Freeza, etc are referred to as "races", when they're not even in the same species. Humans are apes and Saiyans are monkeys, they're not even in the same genetic family. Meanwhile, Namekians seem to be some sort of vertebrate gastropod, which is completely different. And Freeza... I think is some sort of lizard.

Same goes for most high-fantasy settings. No, humans, dwarves, orcs, and elves are not different "races" of the same species. It would be sort of neat if they were, but that's clearly not the intention there, they're clearly different species.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Dec 25th 2020 at 10:45:43 AM

Apes are monkeys, there are plenty of tailless non-ape monkeys as well. Genetic family is a construct that is used in pop culture trying to sound technical, but lacks any meaning. And, in fact, an alien that looks like a monkey WOULDN'T be a monkey biologically. A tree would be closer evolutively to a monkey than a monkeylike alien.

Race is used as "species" in pretty much every setting that includes multiple sapient creatures. I guess it is granfathered by Dn D or something like that.

Don't forget that time when a composite of monkey, gastropod, and lizard genetics were used to create a hybrid creature and it came out as an insect.

We should have gotten a giant Namekian vs Ozaru fight at some point.

The Heroes team are a bunch of cowards for never giving us Golden Great Ape Great Namekian Super Saiyan Blue Cell.

Still watching the Honorable Mentions video in pieces here and there. Important note: Kaiser, Lani, and Kirran admit that they were a bit hasty in disallowing Fusion and that although the Dance is a technique, Potara should have counted as a transformation.

It's too late to do anything about it now, but if they had considered that when putting the list together, Potara would have been up there. Probably #2, like Fusion on the Techniques list.

So, in essence, Potara has been officially stated to be Transformation #1.5 on the Top Twelve list.