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GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#7751: Sep 11th 2014 at 7:11:46 PM

Only trope page I can find is some non-English page. I guess PT is a foreign game.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#7752: Sep 11th 2014 at 7:13:08 PM

PT is the new Silent Hill game made by Kojima and Del Toro.

It's pretty damn scary

Oh really when?
Ninjaxenomorph The best and the worst. from Texas, Texas, Texas Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
The best and the worst.
#7753: Sep 11th 2014 at 7:13:17 PM

[up][up] Check [1]

edited 11th Sep '14 7:13:37 PM by Ninjaxenomorph

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GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#7755: Sep 11th 2014 at 7:46:45 PM

I'll admit, I screamed at the end. Damn, these guys are good. Both TFS and the Silent Hill guys.

Oh God! Natural light!
KSPAM PARTY PARTY PARTY I WANNA HAVE A PARTY from PARTY ROCK Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
PARTY PARTY PARTY I WANNA HAVE A PARTY
#7756: Sep 11th 2014 at 7:52:16 PM

"Worked better than I expected" sums this video up nicely. Who thought Nappa/Krillin would make a good LP combo?

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KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#7757: Sep 11th 2014 at 10:33:46 PM

I recently watched the Silent Hills teaser trailer.

Is it just me, or does the voice at the beginning sound a lot like Brad Jones?

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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#7758: Sep 14th 2014 at 9:22:51 PM

So I was thinking about how I've always kinda liked Supreme Kai BUT he gets pretty much no respect. Piccolo says in no uncertain times Supreme Kai is stronger than he is but everyone online keeps falling aLl over themselves to make dumb excuses. "Oh what he MEANT was that Supreme Kai is God of the Universe, not that he was actually more powerful." Oh shut up, the dialogue is unambiguous and it was even clarified in one of the Daizenshuus.

Anyway, I think the reason the guy gets no respect is because he spends most of the Buu Saga going "eep! Pui-Pui! Eeep, Yakon1 Eeep, Dabura!" People think he's a sniveling wimp. But you know, when Buu was actually released, Supreme Kai stood up to him best he could. he fared about as well as Gohan (ie. he lost immediately) but what's that expression about "bravery doesn't mean you aren't afraid but rather that you face what you are afraid of." Something like that. Supreme Kai did that.

Anyway, I was thinking on that and I was wondering how TFS will characterize him. I wonder if they are going to wimpify him or maybe go the complete opposite route and try to make him super-cool and badass. Or maybe just apathetic.

SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Love is Love is Love
#7759: Sep 14th 2014 at 9:28:12 PM

Well, to be blunt, being stronger than Piccolo during the Buu saga meant about as much as being stronger than Hercule. So that's why everyone laughs at him. He comes in with all this dignity and mystique, and he's fucking worthless.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#7760: Sep 15th 2014 at 1:20:50 AM

He's also kind of an idiot, but that's mostly not his fault - it's the retcons Toriyama made to make Goku the hero again. After the retcons to Boo's backstory it meant he knew a hell of a lot more than what he told the heroes, including Boo's ability to absorb people which is a pretty big deal.

I doubt Abridged will be kind to him. One, Yamcha and Kuririn won't be around much. Two, he's already got a bad reputation and Abridged will likely want to follow that. I also expect the Piccolo thing to be glossed over or ignored somehow.

TyeDyeWildebeest Unreasonably Quirky from Big Rock Candy Mountain Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: How does it feel to treat me like you do?
Unreasonably Quirky
#7761: Sep 15th 2014 at 6:05:06 AM

Then again, Tien has been just as worthless since the Saiyan saga and he's managed to avoid Butt-Monkey status.

There's also the fact that pretty much all the heroes besides Goku, Vegeta and their respective children get downgraded to jobber status by the Buu Saga.

edited 15th Sep '14 6:07:23 AM by TyeDyeWildebeest

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#7762: Sep 15th 2014 at 6:11:23 AM

Probably just because he's a much more serious/stoic/cool character, which Kaioshin certainly isn't (at least not after his initial appearance).

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#7763: Sep 15th 2014 at 11:14:51 AM

Plus, Tien doesn't really go out of his way to show off how weak in comparison he is - in fact he's barely in the plot.

Supreme Kai is trying to lead a crusade against a force that gets really out of his depth, with soldiers who are much more capable than he is. What is initially introduced as his fight against his archenemy and his ultimate weapon gets immediately hijacked by the heroes while he gets shunted to the sides, and at times it comes off as him not entirely knowing what he's doing. The fact that no matter what he still tries is something really I like about his character, but it's definitely something easy to zero in on for being a Butt-Monkey in parody.

edited 15th Sep '14 11:19:27 AM by KnownUnknown

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#7764: Sep 15th 2014 at 11:19:56 AM

Supreme Kai was the guy in the sword or the little guy that got merged with the tall guy?

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Love is Love is Love
#7765: Sep 15th 2014 at 11:20:28 AM

Little guy. The guy in the sword was old Supreme Kai.

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#7766: Sep 15th 2014 at 11:21:19 AM

The little guy. As far as I know people just call the Kai in the sword Old Kai.

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Also, it doesn't entirely help Supreme Kai's rep that the only reason he has the job in the first place is because everyone else is dead.

edited 15th Sep '14 11:24:31 AM by KnownUnknown

Handsomerob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#7767: Sep 15th 2014 at 12:48:13 PM

This is true.

I'm both looking forward to this one, and dreading it, as I've come to have a love/hate relationship with the Butt-Monkey trope as of late.

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#7768: Sep 15th 2014 at 2:14:31 PM

Yeah, I'm not expecting Team Four Star to be kind to him either.

Tien gets to avoid Butt-Monkey status by being The Straight Man; the joke of his character is that there isn't a joke. This works for Tien because, despite being no more valuable to the conflicts the cast encounters than Yamcha from Saiyans onward, Tien doesn't really call attention to it, spending most of his screentime just sort of being there while other characters are doing stuff.

He's a good sarcastic commenter because he's not actively getting his ass kicked, cowering in terror, or decimating the enemy for most of his appearances.

Kaioshin doesn't have that. He spends much of his screentime commenting on how incredible and amazing the Saiyans are, or how unstoppable a horror Majin Buu is. He's out of his league with nearly every character he interacts with; his entire role in the plot is to get the CRAZY AWESOME GUYS he could never compete with to fight the other CRAZY AWESOME GUYS he could never compete with. Team Four Star are probably going to be brutal with him.

Note that I'm not saying Kaioshin's a bad character or anything like that. Just that he is positioned perfectly to be the new Krillin/Yamcha when the Buu Saga rolls around.

edited 15th Sep '14 2:15:49 PM by TobiasDrake

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Watchtower Since: Jul, 2010
#7769: Sep 15th 2014 at 2:22:29 PM

I always though the Supreme Kai was alright, but even when I was younger it was always clear that he was incredibly out of his league. He's the guy who at the start has the most idea what the threat is but comes to the Saiyans because there's no way in hell he could ever do it himself. Then again, it always felt kind of intentional in a sense, and I may or may not be remembering details wrong.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#7770: Sep 15th 2014 at 2:38:20 PM

There's a really fun "what the hell are the most powerful beings in the galaxy all doing on this backwater planet" sense there too.

edited 15th Sep '14 2:38:34 PM by KnownUnknown

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#7771: Sep 15th 2014 at 3:37:12 PM

[up] Why does everyone call Earth a backwater planet these days? They used to think we were hot shit back in the 50's and 60's.

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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#7772: Sep 15th 2014 at 4:25:07 PM

Because we don't even have warp drives yet.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#7773: Sep 15th 2014 at 5:00:51 PM

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True, though it's not like there aren't other planets like that in the universe.

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MikeBreezy92 Storm King Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Noddin' my head like yeah
Storm King
#7774: Sep 15th 2014 at 5:06:00 PM

Warping is just changing dimensions not actually warping. tongue

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maxwellelvis Mad Scientist Wannabe from undisclosed location Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: In my bunk
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#7775: Sep 15th 2014 at 6:34:15 PM

We still think Digital Watches are a pretty neat idea.

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