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wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Role Model
#5801: Feb 16th 2014 at 9:11:03 PM

Spring Onion. Also, Saiyans confirmed for Spartan pederasts.

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#5802: Feb 16th 2014 at 9:48:23 PM

Why were Androids 17 and 18 so much more powerful than 19?

Wouldn't it make sense that a later model is stronger/more advanced?

"I know there's an advantage to building a fat robot, but for the life of me, I can't see it."

edited 16th Feb '14 9:48:36 PM by BaconManiac5000

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
TheEvilDrBolty Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
#5803: Feb 16th 2014 at 10:23:13 PM

19 was weaker so he would be easier to control. Gero's body was weaker because...good question. Maybe he didn't have enough materials left over for another infinite energy engine.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#5804: Feb 16th 2014 at 10:24:29 PM

[up][up][up][up] Not particularly, it just means Saiyans don't have to be Always Chaotic Evil and how good/nice she is has yet to be seen (but she is appearing in a special chapter of the Jaco volume soon to be released). If she hasn't got a problem with Bardock or the rest of the Saiyan race, she's not very good even if she's gentle herself.

[up] 17's comments imply that it's the same reason for Gero himself. It's also said that 19 is the first Android he considered a success, and since he made himself immediately after I guess he just went with what works.

edited 16th Feb '14 10:27:15 PM by Saiga

minespatch Since: Sep, 2009
#5805: Feb 16th 2014 at 10:44:51 PM

We saw female saiyans in the Bardock special, didn't we?

Pucker Since: Feb, 2014
#5806: Feb 16th 2014 at 11:11:35 PM

[up][up]Vegeta is the baseline for how very little good you have to have in order to be a part of the Super Saiyan God form. If only 6 Saiyans who were less of a complete psycho than Vegeta existed at any one simultaneous point in the Saiyans history, that should have been enough to create a Super Saiyan God and completely destabilize the power dynamic of the entire universe, giving birth to a power 180X more powerful than final form Frieza.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#5807: Feb 16th 2014 at 11:20:48 PM

The important question is not "Why is Dr. Gero's android body weaker than 17 and 18?", it's "Why is Dr. Gero's android body still a shriveled old man instead of some handsome supermodel appearance?"

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
Pucker Since: Feb, 2014
#5808: Feb 16th 2014 at 11:41:13 PM

He doesn't have a penis, why the hell would he need to bother making himself handsome?

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#5809: Feb 16th 2014 at 11:53:35 PM

[up][up][up] Post Boo Vegeta is a good guy though, unlike the Saiyans. And I have no idea what that and Super Saiyan God has to do with anything.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#5810: Feb 17th 2014 at 1:10:29 AM

[up][up]Wish fulfillment? Bragging?

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
Pucker Since: Feb, 2014
#5811: Feb 17th 2014 at 1:12:03 AM

All it takes for Super Saiyan God is for 6 pure hearted (semi-)Saiyans to join hands. If it was normal for pure hearted Saiyans to exist on planet Vegeta, it makes no sense that it wouldn't have come out way the hell sooner.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#5812: Feb 17th 2014 at 1:53:49 AM

Pure hearted Saiyans apparently aren't normal on Planet Vegeta. As it is we've got two Saiyan purebloods on Earth, one of whom with brain damage, three half breeds, and one the further hybridized offspring of a halfbreed.

Pucker Since: Feb, 2014
#5813: Feb 17th 2014 at 2:05:32 AM

Toriyama said Goku's mother was pure hearted, and that it wasn't that rare. Hence the problem.

biznizz Since: Jan, 2001
#5814: Feb 17th 2014 at 3:39:20 AM

Haven't seen Battle Of Gods yet, but wouldn't you need to at least get the first level of Super Saiyan to even think about getting to God form?

Sometimes life just sucks. You have to learn to take the good with the bad. Why should you expect anything different in the mediums?
Pucker Since: Feb, 2014
#5815: Feb 17th 2014 at 3:51:38 AM

One of them was a fetus. So, no.

biznizz Since: Jan, 2001
#5816: Feb 17th 2014 at 3:52:39 AM

No, I mean the one who becomes the Super Saiyan God has to have at least been SSJ 1.

Sometimes life just sucks. You have to learn to take the good with the bad. Why should you expect anything different in the mediums?
Pucker Since: Feb, 2014
#5817: Feb 17th 2014 at 4:06:14 AM

Not likely. It looks the exact opposite to all the other Super Saiyan forms (he gets skinnier and has less hair), is spawned by the exact opposite emotional state (tranquil calm as opposed to burning fury), is spawned in a completely unrelated manner, and generally shares no elements in common with the other Super Saiyan forms apart from being done with Saiyans.

Watchtower Since: Jul, 2010
#5818: Feb 17th 2014 at 6:28:53 AM

Not to be the guy who goes "ANIME ISN'T CANON DOESN'T COUNT", but just how "canonical" is SSJ God Form, anyway? Like, how involved was Toriyama, does it fit well in the already established "canon", etc.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#5819: Feb 17th 2014 at 9:11:04 AM

Toriyama designed the damn thing. And Beers.

stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#5820: Feb 17th 2014 at 9:13:25 AM

Given what the form actually looks like, Toriyama could have had zero involvement and saying he designed it would still be accurate.

Saya1 Werefox from Multiverse Since: Oct, 2011
Werefox
#5821: Feb 17th 2014 at 9:29:41 AM

[up][up][up]He said it was canon.

You look happy, I can change that if you want.
unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#5822: Feb 17th 2014 at 9:32:39 AM

Apparently the director of the movie told Toriyama that he thought that Super Saiyan God should have a cape. Toriyama got really mad and came up with the actual design.

Sounds like some major reverse psychology or something.

alEKos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#5823: Feb 17th 2014 at 9:35:07 AM

mmm.power manifested clothes.delicious.

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#5824: Feb 17th 2014 at 9:39:44 AM

CLOTHES BEAM!

I have a message from another time...
alEKos23 Since: Mar, 2013

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