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Grahf Since: Jan, 2001
#4951: Nov 4th 2013 at 5:08:51 PM

It's from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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#4953: Nov 4th 2013 at 6:15:18 PM

Hah! The return of Movie Producer Nappa.

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#4954: Nov 4th 2013 at 6:27:56 PM

I don't care how much trouble it may put me in. I will find a way to say "oh my shit" at least in one point in my life.

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#4955: Nov 4th 2013 at 7:28:12 PM

Those were some great mooks.

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#4956: Nov 4th 2013 at 7:30:00 PM

This episode reminded me of something. Was it ever explained what Garlic's super form was? Like did he always have it or was it a product of his immortality?

edited 4th Nov '13 7:30:07 PM by Spirit

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#4957: Nov 4th 2013 at 7:43:21 PM

Fuck, this special was great. Really liked Garlic Junior, almost upset they didn't do the Garlic Jnr arc proper.tongue

Also just in regards to this, Goku at least cares. When Oob tells him about how he needed to win the tournament for his village, Goku tells Oob that Satan will take care of his village financially. Also, Satan's apparently richer than Bulma.

And the Dragon Balls were already used to create world peace before the series began, that's why they have a world king. The only way to make it more peaceful would be to rob everyone of their free will, but then the evil people weren't brought back to life after the Boo arc anyway.

So the only question is why they didn't use the Dragon Balls to solve world hunger, which is a legitimate question, and the answer is the fandom would toss a hissy fit over the heroes using the Dragon Balls for good.

[up] His minions do the same thing, it's just a thing his race has.

edited 4th Nov '13 7:43:54 PM by Saiga

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#4958: Nov 4th 2013 at 9:33:06 PM

"I wish to end world hunger" is unusably vague at best, and dangerously vague at worst, though.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#4959: Nov 4th 2013 at 9:34:30 PM

Yeah, but Shenron's not really into the Jackass Genie thing. See: Not fucking up Piccolo's vague wish for "youth".

Well, ignoring Battle of Gods, where Shenron fucks up the exact same wish.

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#4960: Nov 4th 2013 at 9:35:02 PM

Also, as I mentioned in the Hellsing thread, they're working on a new project. They aired the still-rough pilot in the 18+ panel after airing HA #4.

It's their own Attack on Titan Abridged.

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#4961: Nov 4th 2013 at 9:36:23 PM

^^ That's not a Continuity Snarl. That's nepotism.

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#4962: Nov 4th 2013 at 9:38:09 PM

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Right, he wouln't be the one to interpret it maliciously, but that sort of wish needs to get more specific so that Shenron has anything to go on. Do you want him to make a lot of food, rework people to need less food, increse the capacity of plants to grow food, fix some of the planet's economic structure to get food to the people who need it, etc..

That's what I meant by "unusably" vague.

edited 4th Nov '13 9:38:22 PM by Enlong

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#4963: Nov 4th 2013 at 9:38:36 PM

If anything, Daimao would be the one person he'd want to fuck up for. Would have saved his life.

[up] What I'm saying is, that ignoring Bo G's plothole, Shenron doesn't need specific.

edited 4th Nov '13 9:40:02 PM by Saiga

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#4964: Nov 4th 2013 at 9:39:54 PM

Garlic Jr. really is an idiot, isn't he? Uses the one thing that can screw up an immortal.

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#4965: Nov 4th 2013 at 9:45:14 PM

In his defence, someone had to come up with a way to defeat him if the only other plans going on were suicide and in-fighting.

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#4966: Nov 4th 2013 at 10:13:35 PM

Just got around to watching this, since I've been busy literally all day.

It was great. I'm glad they decided to redo this one (Though I do like the nod to the original, with "What a douchebag..."). I guess we'll be getting the second movie as well at some point.

Garlic and his minions were great. Especially Ginger.

And I loved Nappa's "You're gonna go far in this business!"

edited 4th Nov '13 10:14:16 PM by Anomalocaris20

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#4967: Nov 5th 2013 at 9:50:49 AM

You guys ever think that as long as a planet has one Namekian on it, they could just make more sets of dragon balls?

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#4968: Nov 5th 2013 at 10:12:13 AM

No, 'cause I think it was specifically mentioned that only Namekians from a certain clan had the power to make Dragon balls.

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#4969: Nov 5th 2013 at 1:45:01 PM

To be fair, while it's true that Garlic Jr. must have been a raging idiot to summon the only thing that could defeat him, we already knew he was an idiot from his plan.

  • Step one: Murder Kami.
  • Step two: use the Dragon Balls.

The stupidity of this plan is even called out in the Abridged Movie.

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#4970: Nov 5th 2013 at 1:51:02 PM

"Wow, good thing we're incompetent."

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#4971: Nov 5th 2013 at 1:54:19 PM

Not to mention that they kidnapped Gohan. Did they even have a reason for this in the original movie?

edited 5th Nov '13 1:54:40 PM by Zarastro

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#4972: Nov 5th 2013 at 2:22:34 PM

I guess they figured taking the kid was easier than taking his hat.

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#4973: Nov 5th 2013 at 2:32:16 PM

Make more Namekians of that clan. Simple as that.

Get Dende some poon, stat!

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#4974: Nov 5th 2013 at 3:57:41 PM

That's true, but making Dragon Balls from scratch is apparently difficult. Both Dende and Muuri took over an existing set because it takes... a long time (can't remember the exact figure) to create a new set.

You know, every time I see Namekian/Whatever OCs in fanfiction I have to wonder if the Namekian parent gave the other parent a blowjob. It'd almost make sense.

edited 5th Nov '13 3:59:03 PM by Saiga

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#4975: Nov 5th 2013 at 3:59:28 PM

Why not just use the existing dragon to wish for a new set of Dragon Balls rather than wait all that time?

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