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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#7151: Jul 30th 2014 at 3:18:10 PM

Oh, another favourite line - it's neither dramatic or comedic, but...

"Wait, Yamcha? You're my friend"

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#7152: Jul 30th 2014 at 3:23:36 PM

"Th-thanks, man."

Feeeeels.

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#7153: Jul 30th 2014 at 3:30:36 PM

waii

The thing about the overtraining is that the humans still didn't do anything of importance. Though I actually wonder how Tien or Krillin would've done if they didn't get blindsided.

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#7154: Jul 30th 2014 at 4:57:11 PM

I imagine Tien could've done some real damage, albeit at the cost of his health. Krillin, I dunno.

I still think his training should've been along the lines of refining the Destructo Disc. Producing it faster, making it fly faster/control more easily, etc.

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#7155: Jul 30th 2014 at 5:13:49 PM

Remembering he has it.

I really wish more had been done with the Destructo disc. Hell, I wish more had been done to explain how it even works. Because on rewatching this series, a LOT of the tension falls apart when you realize one of the characters has an unblockable attack that can cut through ANYTHING.

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#7156: Jul 30th 2014 at 5:28:29 PM

Outside of that moment in the anime where Krillin attacks Cell with it and it just fizzles out upon touching Cell's neck and Cell just swats him aside. I think that was filler though and a total waste of a Sensu Bean.

edited 30th Jul '14 5:39:34 PM by DamascaRamza

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#7157: Jul 30th 2014 at 5:50:11 PM

How and when did he come up with it? Does it work against him?

It's odd to think that Krillin could've beaten Frieza and saved everyone a lot of trouble. "Solar Flare! Destructo Disc!" But no, as the two Kai Abridged episodes have shown, only the villains are allowed to hurt people with it.

edited 30th Jul '14 5:50:45 PM by wanderlustwarrior

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#7158: Jul 30th 2014 at 5:54:31 PM

It's a much more efficient application of ki. Focusing it into a blade instead of just blaring an over-wide beam to bathe them in heat and energy.

Death Beam is similar.

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#7159: Jul 30th 2014 at 6:14:33 PM

It would have taken a while to charge and Frieza would have survived being cut in half anyway.

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#7160: Jul 30th 2014 at 7:09:44 PM

What's really infuriating is that later in the series, he managed to get a direct hit on Kid Buu.

The one time he actually used it successfully, it was on the villain who could instantly regenerate.

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#7162: Jul 30th 2014 at 7:15:23 PM

"Just use your friggin Kienzan, Christ!"

Alright. Changed my mind.

Favorite Canon Character - Piccolo.

Favorite Abridged Character - Piccolo.

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#7163: Jul 31st 2014 at 2:48:07 AM

The whole "cut anything" thing isn't actually said anywhere though. Freeza claims his technique will cut anything, rather dubious given that he's powerful enough that most things can't resist his normal attacks anyway.

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#7164: Jul 31st 2014 at 3:13:17 AM

I'm very fond of this line from Goku. To me it encompasses so much about him.

"You know, I learned something today. In the end, Freeza was Cooler. But Cooler, was Freeza."

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#7165: Jul 31st 2014 at 11:08:10 AM

Well like someone said, a lot of the tension just falls flat when you got an attack that just slices people in two.

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#7166: Jul 31st 2014 at 12:14:13 PM

I just realized Freeza really does get the short end of being cut into pieces a lot (at least three times, unless I'm forgetting something from that one movie he showed up in (I think he just got punched and exploded into powder) and GT (blech, though I'll admit the Freeza/Cell evil bffs bit was one of the few things I liked about it)).

It's a shame Abridged didn't make that into a running gag or something. It even escalates every time.

edited 31st Jul '14 12:16:11 PM by KnownUnknown

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#7167: Jul 31st 2014 at 10:52:15 PM

I know the conversation has moved on a bit since I last posted about favorite quotes, but I just wanted to say that I can't believe I forgot Frieza's "When you see Vegeta, tell him I said: like a bitch" line, or, even better:

Frieza: Now that we're done here, it's time to send you running home to mommy.

Vegeta: My mother's dead.

Frieza: I know.

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#7168: Aug 1st 2014 at 5:46:30 AM

[up][up][up] But they also have attacks that punch holes in people and blow them up.

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#7169: Aug 1st 2014 at 6:19:06 AM

And screams that punch holes in space...

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#7170: Aug 1st 2014 at 7:49:40 AM

It's probably just me, but I really can't bring myself to watch Season 1 anymore.

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#7171: Aug 1st 2014 at 9:16:32 AM

Season one does kinda pale to the awesomeness that is the Namek saga, but I can still watch it.

It is still damn hilarious, and Nappa. That is all.

Though...I feel sorry for Vegetanumbersiforget. When he left TFS, all the voices he covered were replaced by ones, like

A thousand times better.

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#7172: Aug 1st 2014 at 9:17:56 AM

[up]Yeah, Vegeta####'s voices were my main problem with it.

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#7173: Aug 1st 2014 at 11:52:01 AM

I think of Episode 5 as the point when the show became it's own thing. Episodes 1 to 3 are more in line with other abridged series, in terms of things like canonically kind characters like Goku being snarky, fourth-wall breaking and cameos from the likes of M Night Shyamalan and that guy from Harvey Birdman. Episode 4 is a midway point between the two styles. The humour is more in line with the rest of the series, but the entire episode is a parody of something else, in this case Metal Gear Solid, which is something Team Four Star haven't really done since.

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#7174: Aug 2nd 2014 at 4:21:03 AM

TFS has an announcement about the latest DBZ movie!

Which is that they aren't abridging it yet.

alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#7175: Aug 2nd 2014 at 4:32:29 AM

was that Destroy all Saiyans?

would be good to abridge!especially since the "plot" 's like that.


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