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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#7926: Oct 2nd 2014 at 6:03:51 PM

[up][up] That is really high on my list of most anticipated scenes.

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
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#7927: Oct 2nd 2014 at 6:04:51 PM

Umm...the people killed by Cell. Did they ever wish them back?

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#7929: Oct 2nd 2014 at 6:12:50 PM

It's how they brought 17 back after Cell blew him up. And himself. Then regenerated like a bastard. Which 17 couldn't do.

Goku wasn't brought back by that wish because the Earth dragon balls couldn't bring back someone back multiple times and going to Namek (again) would have been a bitch. Especially without instant transmission, which only Goku knew how to do.

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#7930: Oct 2nd 2014 at 6:15:09 PM
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#7931: Oct 2nd 2014 at 6:39:23 PM

They wished back everyone killed by Cell with the first wish and were going to use the second wish to go to Namek and use their Dragon Balls to revive Goku, but Goku butts in and is all "Yeah bad guys come to Earth because of me, going to stay dead because Gohan's powerful enough to fight bad guys. Bye now." and everyone accepted that.

Second wish was then used to remove the bomb from Android 18 at Krillin's request, since they couldn't turn the Androids human again.

edited 2nd Oct '14 6:40:16 PM by DamascaRamza

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#7932: Oct 2nd 2014 at 6:42:29 PM

[up] Why couldn't they do that last bit?

Also, was there a third wish?

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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#7933: Oct 2nd 2014 at 6:55:12 PM

@Karkat

It all started with a little forgotten thing called Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged. That was how I first heard about Lanipator. He was by far the best, most accurate abridged voice I had ever heard. He was a dead ringer for both Justin Cook and Christopher Sabat.

Sadly, nobody remembers the humble beginnings. Nobody remembers hbi2k's Gantz Abridged, which I loved to pieces.

edited 2nd Oct '14 6:56:23 PM by Nikkolas

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#7934: Oct 2nd 2014 at 6:59:13 PM

[up][up]Dende was only able to take it to Two wishes with the new Dragon.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#7935: Oct 2nd 2014 at 7:50:55 PM

Why couldn't they do that last bit?

"Dammit Krillin, I'm an eternal wish granting diety not an engineer!"

I'm paraphrasing a bit. But basically, their inner workings were too complex and Shenron couldn't alter them to the extent of restoring them. And he wasn't about to get multiple Ph.D's on the fly just so Krillin could get his mack daddy on.

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#7936: Oct 2nd 2014 at 7:56:03 PM

[up] "All-powerful wish-dragon", my ass.

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DamascaRamza (Ancient one)
#7937: Oct 2nd 2014 at 8:15:59 PM

It was beyond Shenron's power or something like that. But sadly it didn't really matter overall, because Android 18 stopped being relevant immediately afterwards.

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#7938: Oct 2nd 2014 at 8:25:01 PM

And by "stopped being relevant", you mean " was allowed to live a life of her own, marry someone she loved, and had a kid", right?

You know, at some point, Goku really should've taught Instant Transmission to someone. Like Piccolo, so he could go to his home planet, or Gohan, so he could truly be his successor, or Krillin, becase... that'd be a nice gift for your best friend, right?

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#7939: Oct 2nd 2014 at 8:25:06 PM

Wait, if the dragons need their creator to be stronger than the person they're affecting, how did Porunga move Piccolo to Namek?

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#7940: Oct 2nd 2014 at 8:45:33 PM

I think it's just "against their will". Piccolo was fine with being moved, because he was the one that wanted to go. Though that doesn't really hold up for Abridged.

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#7941: Oct 2nd 2014 at 9:34:46 PM

I'm pretty sure he couldn't turn them human again for the same reason he couldn't kill Vegeta and Nappa – they were just too strong.

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#7942: Oct 3rd 2014 at 7:25:06 AM

Yeah, it was Piccolo's idea to go to Namek in the original, not a problem.

We also see Porunga can't move Goku when Goku doesn't consent to it (on two occasions, the second being implied but the first he flat out refused).

Medigo03 Since: Sep, 2013
#7943: Oct 3rd 2014 at 8:40:10 AM

also I dont think Nappa's victims are ever brought back to life

allthough who knows what happened in between Frieza and Metal Frieza

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#7944: Oct 3rd 2014 at 8:44:53 AM

No, Nappa's victims were never brought back. The only way they could have been is if Nappa was included under the umbrella of bringing back everyone Frieza and his henchmen killed, the wish that restored Porunga and made it possible to transport everyone off Namek.

However, we know for a fact that he was not included under that umbrella, because if he were, Yamcha and Tien would have also been revived by it. It also would have been impossible to make that wish afterward, because it would take one year for Shenron to become available again, which by definition puts their revivals outside the one-year maximum for mass resurrection; every person Nappa killed would have to be revived individually, which would take forever.

Just like that one Namekian Village that Vegeta wiped out instead of Frieza, Nappa's victims are still dead, and are never coming back.

edited 3rd Oct '14 8:53:24 AM by TobiasDrake

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#7945: Oct 3rd 2014 at 10:33:44 AM

I remember hearing about a story in the manga, though it could've been a doujin, about the family member of one of those killed in the Nappa attack coming after the Z fighters for revenge for not reviving those people. Did that actually happen?

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#7946: Oct 3rd 2014 at 10:35:21 AM

I mean, there's no reason it couldn't have happened. It didn't in the manga or anime though.

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#7947: Oct 3rd 2014 at 11:58:07 AM

They'd be horribly outclassed, too. Post-series, even Yamcha could kill a random human civilian by breathing too hard at them.

edited 3rd Oct '14 11:58:15 AM by TobiasDrake

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#7948: Oct 3rd 2014 at 11:59:28 AM

[up][up][up]I remember that Doujin! She turned into a Super Human or some bullshit. And Trunks lost all his strength somehow? It was stupid and lame. But Vegeta made a giant snowman, so that was cool.

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#7949: Oct 3rd 2014 at 12:07:00 PM

Okay, so it was a doujin then. I thought I'd seen images. This might've been before my friends and I knew what a doujin was.

Didn't she have some sort of rabbit costume, or something? At least I was right about her being female and there being snow.

Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#7950: Oct 3rd 2014 at 12:47:57 PM

Nobody remembers hbi2k's Gantz Abridged, which I loved to pieces.

Actually, he did Berserk abridged before that. And Escaflowne after it, which is my favorite of his three solo projects.

Lani started with Yu Yu Hakusho abridged, Masako and Vegeta did Naruto, and Gan did Avatar.

Lani, Masako, and Vegeta also did a couple of the DBZ movies together before starting TFS, specifically Dead Zone and World's Strongest. The TFS version of Dead Zone has a couple callbacks to the older version.


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