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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#5326: Dec 22nd 2013 at 5:52:14 AM

Wait, minor error, Cell always refers to it as "my nucleus" specifically.

You know, I wonder if that's actually meant to be a pun. If every cell has a nucleus, then Cell has his nucleus as well.

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#5328: Dec 22nd 2013 at 6:39:04 AM

Also, why does Krillin keep forgetting Destructo Disc is a thing he can do?

Toriyama apparently has a personal, spiritual duty to make sure nobody besides Goku is useful in a fight.

This really becomes obvious near the end of the cell games...

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#5329: Dec 22nd 2013 at 6:56:12 AM

[up]More a publisher's mandate. "More Goku" was thrown back at him so many times he started to believe it himself.

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Mullon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#5330: Dec 22nd 2013 at 7:39:12 AM

I was hoping for the start of the 18/Krillin relationship. Some comment somewhere, I want to see how they play that out.

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#5331: Dec 22nd 2013 at 8:28:27 AM

On Zenkai becoming insignificant: perhaps that means it grants a flat power boost, which becomes less impressive the stronger you are?

Like, something granting 1000 points (just as an example) is insane if you yourself are at 500. But if you're at, say 1000000, it becomes decidedly less helpful.

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stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#5332: Dec 22nd 2013 at 8:31:15 AM

It's not a flat boost though, else the stuff they do with them on Namek wouldn't work. I've seen one theory that by becoming a Super Saiyan they stop happening.

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#5333: Dec 22nd 2013 at 9:11:24 AM

It's explicitly seen as being "Strong as They Need to Be" embodied. It's a writer's crutch that was fortunately abandoned, though in doing so Toriyama has raised plot holes.

edited 22nd Dec '13 9:12:00 AM by wanderlustwarrior

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#5334: Dec 22nd 2013 at 9:31:58 AM

In-universe, I'm more of the mind that it's got a percentage based diminishing return. Like the first time you get it, most likely in childhood, it'll boost your power level by say 80%. But by the umpteenth time you get it your body is worn from so many near death experiences that zenkai only gives a paltry 5% boost.

edited 22nd Dec '13 9:32:17 AM by Spirit

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#5335: Dec 22nd 2013 at 3:45:57 PM

Again, that contradicts what actually happens in the series. The boosts start out modest but Goku, Gohan and Vegeta all get huge ones for their final Zenkai.

@Shirow That's really unfair. Toriyama had other characters be plenty useful throughout the series - Goku would've been killed by Vegeta if Kuririn and Gohan didn't help him, for instance. Even at the Cell Games, Gohan is the one to kill Cell and Vegeta gave him the opening to do so.

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#5336: Dec 22nd 2013 at 3:49:00 PM

"I really need that remote back, uh, it was my mother's."

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#5337: Dec 22nd 2013 at 3:50:06 PM

I'm going to miss Gero. He was hilarious.

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#5338: Dec 22nd 2013 at 4:27:27 PM

[up]And so delightfully British.

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#5339: Dec 22nd 2013 at 4:32:57 PM

What are you talking about? All his lines were just the words "kill me" over and over again. Not a very engaging characer.

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Prime_of_Perfection Where force fails, cunning prevails Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#5340: Dec 22nd 2013 at 5:00:44 PM

You clearly were missing the delivery of each kill me. The sheer range of emotion he portrayed each time he spoke those two words was simply astonishing.

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Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#5341: Dec 22nd 2013 at 9:10:40 PM

"Sorry Doc. Just following orders."

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#5342: Dec 22nd 2013 at 9:31:06 PM

God, that moment reminded me of...well, just about every word that came out of Frieza's mouth. Abridged 17 is delightfully terrifying despite existing in a comedy show, and can even manage to get some nice jokes in while still being completely terrifying.

edited 22nd Dec '13 9:31:34 PM by TobiasDrake

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#5343: Dec 22nd 2013 at 10:06:07 PM

It was pretty Frieza, wasn't it? And Gero reminded me of an incompetent Cooler-type.

KBSL Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
#5344: Dec 22nd 2013 at 11:49:39 PM

I'm bewildered by the fact that everyone in the comment sections thinks they discovered something great by pointing out the animation error with Gero's hand over and over again.

And though some people (correctly) pointed out the Jan Valentine voice, my first thought was Eren Yeager.

Psyclone Since: Jan, 2001
#5345: Dec 23rd 2013 at 5:32:02 AM

I never watched the original series so is Gero's name actually pronounced "Geraux"? All this time I've been reading it at "Geh-row".

"Geraux" just sounds French. Which might have been the point of giving him a British accent.

Medigo03 Since: Sep, 2013
#5346: Dec 23rd 2013 at 5:38:23 AM

It was pronounced that way in my dub (which was the ocean UK dub, but still)

no clue about the US dub, but I assume so

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#5347: Dec 23rd 2013 at 5:59:36 AM

I always thought it was like "Gereaux".

stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#5348: Dec 23rd 2013 at 6:36:21 AM

The way TFS pronounced it is the same as I've always heard it pronounced.

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#5349: Dec 23rd 2013 at 7:23:21 AM

Same. The only time I've ever heard it pronounced differently was in a spectacularly terrible Toonami commercial that named him, "Doctor GEAR-ROW!"

It always amuses me when advertisers fail to do the research on something as simple as pronouncing the names of the characters right.

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