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wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#7526: Aug 30th 2014 at 7:29:35 PM

There's always the possibility that that Special Beam Cannon sent his spirit back in time and he becomes a Super Saiyan...

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#7527: Aug 30th 2014 at 7:33:43 PM

There's always the possibility that that Yama Lock sent his spirit back in time and he becomes a Super Saiyan...

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wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#7528: Aug 30th 2014 at 7:35:55 PM

He could've died in the past as a Super Saiyan, then his spirit came through in the present.

There's also the possibility that his spirit in HFIL trips, falls, and lands in the past.

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#7529: Aug 30th 2014 at 7:42:46 PM

Chi Chi was trying to murder him when she came back after her six year break. He was all 'lady, I have no idea who you, can you please tell why you're trying to break my legs?' And Chi Chi explained and the response was 'Oh, okay. Let's get married then.'

She was his opponent in the Tenkaichi Budokai; she was supposed to try and break his legs. She was angry, but her anger extended just to not telling him her name and getting huffy that he didn't recognize her, so she challenged him that if he could beat her, she'd tell him who she is.

Then this conversation basically happened.

  • GOKU: I promised to do what?
  • CHI CHI: You were supposed to come back and marry me!
  • GOKU: What's this now? It sounds tasty.
  • KRILLIN: It basically means living together.
  • GOKU: Oh, sure, I could do that, I guess.

EDIT: You guys are now making me picture Super Saiyans Bardock and Raditz traveling through time as a Father-Son duo, solving crimes, causing crimes, and enjoying life.

edited 30th Aug '14 7:44:31 PM by TobiasDrake

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#7530: Aug 30th 2014 at 8:06:53 PM

[up] Do they have an 80's theme song?

[up][up][up][up][up] Yeah, Toriyama totally wasted Raditz, but meh. Since he did such a good job setting him up as inconsequential, I find it more of an odd decision than too much of a shame or anything.

edited 30th Aug '14 10:35:58 PM by KnownUnknown

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#7531: Aug 30th 2014 at 9:13:29 PM

His whole reason for existing was to go "Goku was an alien the whole time and that explains everything", so by default he was wasted.

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#7532: Aug 31st 2014 at 2:27:06 AM

I don't feel he was wasted. Being Goku's brother shouldn't mean a whole lot when Goku gives zero fucks about his previous life.

940131 Since: Feb, 2014
#7533: Aug 31st 2014 at 2:38:51 AM

Goku doesn't care about most things.

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#7534: Aug 31st 2014 at 5:41:45 AM

I just feel "wasted" in the sense that he only existed to serve a plot point and nothing more. Hell, they could have just had Vegeta show up and nothing would be lost.

Correction: Ok, he did serve the purpose of killing off Goku so that he could get stronger. So, they could have had any Sajin.

edited 31st Aug '14 5:48:00 AM by GethKnight

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#7535: Aug 31st 2014 at 5:53:26 AM

Which would make that Saiyan wasted as well?

Honestly, the only thing that makes him different than any other character that could've been used there is being Goku's brother. And I don't think that's something that needed to be expanded upon.

Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#7536: Aug 31st 2014 at 5:58:21 AM

I dunno, it's a very personal, intimate connection with our hero's old culture that no other Saiyan could match. They could have had some really interesting family dynamics. Hell, having Raditz, his low-caste brother steeped in his race's warrior culture, as the hero's true-Saiyan buddy rather than Vegeta could have gone in some very promising directions.

edited 31st Aug '14 6:00:10 AM by Iaculus

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#7537: Aug 31st 2014 at 6:04:35 AM

"It was my partner who shot the owners. And I failed to kill the cops when they showed up. I mean, is attempted murder a crime?"

Why am I imagining Vegeta would say something exactly like that?

edited 31st Aug '14 6:07:30 AM by BaffleBlend

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#7538: Aug 31st 2014 at 7:02:07 AM

If he cared about the situation.

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#7540: Aug 31st 2014 at 7:37:11 AM

That actually sounds "Exactly" like something he'd say.

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#7541: Aug 31st 2014 at 6:57:27 PM

Not sure if already discussed, but Little Kuriboh is going to be hosting his videos on Team Four Star's website now:

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#7546: Aug 31st 2014 at 8:22:31 PM

[up]Blip is during their purge tomorrow so all of his videos on his actual website will become unavailable.

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#7547: Aug 31st 2014 at 8:38:31 PM

That's really nice of Team Four Star to let him host stuff on their website. Plus LittleKuriboh's joking that he's selling out and stuff like that is always funny.

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#7548: Aug 31st 2014 at 9:00:05 PM

Well, he is part of their crew and he's in need. I guess what this says about Team Four Star is that they take care of their own.

Good on them.

edited 31st Aug '14 9:00:13 PM by TobiasDrake

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#7549: Aug 31st 2014 at 9:11:42 PM

Considering Littlekuriboh more or less made/popularized the abridged series medium TFS kinda owes it to help him.

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wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#7550: Aug 31st 2014 at 9:30:37 PM

...Little Kuriboh still makes videos?

I sorta kid, but I really was just wondering when was the last time he put something out.


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