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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#8802: Dec 24th 2014 at 6:09:49 PM

[up][up][up][up] You might want to look into something called "a sense of humour".

Maybe you'll get one for the holidays.

edited 25th Dec '14 5:52:44 AM by unnoun

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#8803: Dec 24th 2014 at 6:15:17 PM

[up]NVM.

edited 24th Dec '14 6:31:54 PM by LSBK

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#8804: Dec 24th 2014 at 6:30:07 PM

[up]I'm not sure if it's on purpose or not, but that's technically aimed at Saiga going by the arrows, not you.

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#8805: Dec 24th 2014 at 6:32:21 PM

[up]Thanks for pointing that out.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#8806: Dec 24th 2014 at 6:34:00 PM

Aaand I'm pretty sure Rob wasn't joking about that being one of Yamcha's better fights, or looking like he standed a chance. Rob is fairly generous to Yamcha.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#8807: Dec 24th 2014 at 6:45:17 PM

I like Yamcha, Tien, and Chiaotzu too, probably more than Vegeta and Piccolo and possibly Goku. It's too bad none of them could stay relevant because I found their moves sets more interesting than what became the standard.

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#8808: Dec 24th 2014 at 6:53:03 PM

I'm mostly indifferent to them. Yamcha lost his most interesting trait after the first arc, Ten and Chaozu never really had any, and none of them were good fighters.

I think Chaozu should have never reformed and just gone his separate ways. His psychic powers are a clear example of Antagonist Abilities, there are only so many ways they can be used, and he's a Satellite Character to Ten. He was fine in the 22nd Budokai but after that contributed nothing to the plot, character development, or battles. I'd also thought that maybe he and Ten could have just stayed dead after Namek and got some character resolution by staying with Kaio to train, since that's all they seem to do anyway.

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#8809: Dec 24th 2014 at 7:23:51 PM

.....

I really thought he was doing well in that fight.

I mean, compared to his fights with Roshi as Jackie Chun, and Kami as Shen?

The latter one had him getting head butted in the balls while doing a flying kick. You can't get more embarrassing than that.

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#8810: Dec 24th 2014 at 7:26:09 PM

His decent fight was the early one against a hungry Goku.

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#8811: Dec 24th 2014 at 7:29:52 PM

Chaotzu should've beaten Buu.

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#8812: Dec 24th 2014 at 7:35:31 PM

Tien got his character resolution when he surpassed Tao Pai Pai in the 23rd Budokai. That, in and of itself, is the problem with Tien: his story ended and he had nowhere to go and nothing to do, so he just sort of lingered as part of the group with no real aim or motive. He had a pretty cool redemption plot, but wound up overstaying the story's need of him as a character.

Yamcha's uselessness is more glaring because he peaked in the Pilaf arc. He spent even more time than Tien wandering aimlessly around the set trying to figure out why the director still needs him.

Having nothing personal to accomplish but just being an able body to lend a hand works out for characters in nakama anime, I suppose, but Dragon Ball was never really one of those. It's the story of Goku and whoever happens to be able to contribute to Goku's journey at a given moment.

edited 24th Dec '14 7:37:50 PM by TobiasDrake

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#8813: Dec 24th 2014 at 8:28:32 PM

I really thought he was doing well in that fight. I mean, compared to his fights with Roshi as Jackie Chun, and Kami as Shen?

I mean, on paper it was the most impressive of his three tournament fights, but the Tien fight quickly went south when Tien revealed he was trolling him the entire time and proceeded to Curbstomp him.

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#8814: Dec 24th 2014 at 8:29:43 PM

It was essentially revealed that everything Yamcha did was because Ten allowed it. R That's not a fight.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#8815: Dec 24th 2014 at 9:04:34 PM

Huh, I don't remember that part, but it fits.

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#8816: Dec 24th 2014 at 9:12:01 PM

Although the same thing happened to Kuririn when he fought Goku and Piccolo. It just wasn't revealed until later fights.

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#8817: Dec 24th 2014 at 10:27:33 PM

Toriyama has an unhealthy obsession with I Am Not Left-Handed.

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#8818: Dec 24th 2014 at 10:44:55 PM

He's also infamous for being incredibly lazy and doing everything at the last second.

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#8819: Dec 24th 2014 at 11:07:56 PM

Well yeah, but who among us isn't?
(he says, as he further postpones wrapping recently bought Christmas presents...)

edited 24th Dec '14 11:08:25 PM by wanderlustwarrior

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#8820: Dec 24th 2014 at 11:08:18 PM

Looking at that trope it seems unneccessary to me that Bleach has it's own folder.

Edit: Yep, looking over the examples in that folder, I'd say a fair number of them don't actually qualify as the trope. Uryu vs. Mayuri or Yamamoto resorting to hand-to-hand combat stick out to me.

edited 24th Dec '14 11:10:45 PM by LSBK

DamascaRamza (Ancient one)
#8821: Dec 25th 2014 at 1:59:10 AM

http://teamfourstar.com/video/dragonball-z-abridged-episode-46-percussive-maintenance/ Episode 46 is up.

Pretty funny episode. Whoever it was called how it would end in the past few weeks was perfectly right. Kudos to you.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#8822: Dec 25th 2014 at 4:55:30 AM

...So did they just draw a parallel between Piccolo and the Androids?

And Gero and King Piccolo?

Neat. I genuinely like little character beats like that.

Also, Merry Christmas.

DamascaRamza (Ancient one)
#8823: Dec 25th 2014 at 5:36:17 AM

Merry Christmas to you too.

And it was a fantastic episode, it had the right level of abridged action and comedy, ending was predicted well in advance, but it was still very effective.

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#8824: Dec 25th 2014 at 6:06:42 AM

"It means 'God'. Now bow."

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#8825: Dec 25th 2014 at 6:11:07 AM

Dragonball Abridged for Christmas?

Yay.


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