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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#6101: Mar 10th 2014 at 6:44:53 PM

Still got some suppressed rage towards Goku.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#6102: Mar 10th 2014 at 6:54:56 PM

I only hit you harder than Trunks because I still have pent up aggression towards your father. Take that.

minespatch Since: Sep, 2009
#6103: Mar 10th 2014 at 7:26:42 PM

I'm amazed how good the editing is on this series. I hope Team Four Star could do Doctor Slump someday.

Sockpuppet1 Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#6104: Mar 10th 2014 at 9:26:28 PM

I'm most looking forward to Buu just straight up no-selling it, completing Vegeta's humiliation, and everyone's reaction after the fact.

Ghost Nappa: "Hahaha. Pointless."

edited 10th Mar '14 9:26:52 PM by Sockpuppet1

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#6105: Mar 10th 2014 at 9:29:16 PM

I kinda hope that scene gets played straight. And then after the credits, various people in the afterlife laugh at Vegeta.

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#6106: Mar 10th 2014 at 9:33:28 PM

Not Ghost Nappa anymore. Just Nappa.

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Sockpuppet1 Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#6107: Mar 10th 2014 at 10:27:40 PM

No wait, scratch that. What I'm most looking forward to in the Buu Saga is Popo getting killed by Super Buu. Also, how they will deal with the surprisingly large number of dark and deathly serious moments (Vegeta dying, the old couple getting shot, Fat Buu splitting and then remerging under Evil Buu, Super Buu doing... anything).

edited 10th Mar '14 10:32:19 PM by Sockpuppet1

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#6108: Mar 10th 2014 at 10:29:39 PM

Yeah, Buu saga is weird. There's several moments where the show takes the piss out of itself, but just as many where there is clearly no fucking around to be had.

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Pucker Since: Feb, 2014
#6109: Mar 10th 2014 at 10:32:53 PM

I will remind you all, there is a fight scene involving a piece of candy.

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#6110: Mar 10th 2014 at 10:39:06 PM

There' also a scene where a bad guy shoot a puppy and Buu makes him EXPLODE from the inside out.

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sockpuppet1 Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#6111: Mar 10th 2014 at 10:43:00 PM

He later murders a kid's mother in front of him before killing billions of people in seconds on a sadistic whim. He then consumes said kid and beats Gohan near death, where he's lying in a puddle of his own blood and can't even move, all while taunting him about how he couldn't save his little brother.

There's also all of the stuff Babidi does, like making that guy's head explode. And those two gunmen who murder an old couple, with one surviving just long enough to scream over the other's death before dropping dead.

edited 10th Mar '14 10:46:14 PM by sockpuppet1

stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#6112: Mar 10th 2014 at 10:44:28 PM

He then later rips a hole between dimensions because he can't get anymore candy.

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#6113: Mar 10th 2014 at 10:46:09 PM

And, with the fate of the universe at stake, Goku and Vegeta play Roshambo.

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#6114: Mar 10th 2014 at 10:53:32 PM

For Buu killing Popo, if we are to believe that Mr. Popo really is the strongest being in the Abridged series, then he'll probably just leave on his own accord rather than be killed by Buu, leaving everyone else to be devoured because he's a jerk.

Oh, and he'll probably kick Dende off the lookout before Buu even threatens them, because booty call.

edited 10th Mar '14 10:53:44 PM by Anomalocaris20

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Sockpuppet1 Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#6115: Mar 10th 2014 at 11:01:48 PM

If they do that, it'll be total bullshit. Enough of this "all powerful Popo" crap, I wanna see him get killed and devoured.

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#6116: Mar 10th 2014 at 11:07:45 PM

Question: If you're tired of the jokes and want things to go exactly as they did in the original, why are you watching this instead of the original anime?

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sockpuppet1 Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#6117: Mar 10th 2014 at 11:18:41 PM

I'm not tired of "the jokes", I'm tired of this one specific joke, and would laugh if Popo was killed, thus enhancing the comedy factor. If anything, I think they need to add more jokes. The last few episodes have been quite sparse.

And it's supposed to be a parody, it makes no sense to just change major events like that.

edited 10th Mar '14 11:22:31 PM by sockpuppet1

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#6118: Mar 11th 2014 at 12:40:48 AM

I think they may wind up having characters catch up to Popo right around the time they catch up to Cell, in order to make certain things workable.

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#6119: Mar 11th 2014 at 8:14:46 AM

The all-powerful Popo gag is based on the fact that Popo, despite what official sources say about his power level, is apparently powerful enough to parry two Super Saiyans simultaneously in a scene during the Buu Saga where Goten and Trunks wake up on the Lookout.

Compared to the powers of the cast during the early parts of Z, yes, Popo is an eldritch being of unfathomable power that could bite Frieza's head off while demolishing Goku and Vegeta simultaneously. But by the standards of Buu Saga, Goten and Trunks are the weakest Super Saiyans in the cast; there is no reason to assume Popo will still be untouchably omnipotent at that point.

Abridged Popo doesn't have a power level of infinity, he's just much higher on the Sorting Algorithm of Evil than the protagonists are capable of handling in the show up to this point. At least, that seems to be how they're playing it, and Popo's been sliding further away from soul-sucking horror and into comedy as the characters get closer to him.

edited 11th Mar '14 8:18:55 AM by TobiasDrake

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nairoxev Since: Nov, 2011
#6120: Mar 11th 2014 at 8:26:04 AM

Let's just assume that Popo currently has as much power as Buu, which is stronger than almost everyone introduced so far. But Buu will defeat him and absorb him and it will work as a way to establish Buu's strength.

Do we know they will even abridge the Buu arc though?

edited 11th Mar '14 8:27:37 AM by nairoxev

Sockpuppet1 Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#6122: Mar 11th 2014 at 9:37:40 AM

Buu doesn't absorb Popo. He eats him, just like the other chumps on the the Lookout.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#6123: Mar 11th 2014 at 9:38:50 AM

Wasn't there a thing where Buu can also absorb things he eats?

Like, Evil Buu turned Good Buu into chocolate and Vegeta and Goku found Good Buu in there.

Medigo03 Since: Sep, 2013
#6124: Mar 11th 2014 at 9:53:05 AM

He made a special exception for Fat Buu

the rest of the time he absorbs people by throwing his pink goo around them

stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#6125: Mar 11th 2014 at 10:39:00 AM

The people he absorbs end up in those cocoons. If you don't see them in a cocoon they didn't get absorbed.


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