And GT, for what it's worth.
I don't think Freeza's death saucer attack is actually copied from Krillian, I think they both just happened to have designed the exact same move. Also, Vegeta used something very similar to the destructo disk to chop off Gohan's tail, I don't know if that means anything.
I was thinking about the possible reason why Bulma's device was changed from an Android "off" switch to a detonator for the bombs and I came up with one possibility. When she hands the device off to Krillian she'll probably go on at length about how it will blow Android 18 into teeny tiny little pieces "like BOOM! It'll be raining Android for days," right in front of Krillian, who still has a crush on her.
It means that while Goku IS a prolific move thief, complaints about characters stealing moves are silly because this is not one of those series where everyone has one or two Signature Moves that is theirs and only theirs and no one else can have or learn it. Techniques get passed around a lot as well as being invented by multiple sources.
edited 27th Dec '14 3:24:57 PM by TobiasDrake
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That is possible.
Goku and Krillin have both frequently demonstrated an aptitude for bending their ki attacks. They demonstrate this with curved beams, Goku's Kamehameha spheres, Krillin's Saibamen-killing umbrella attack, even the kienzan itself is just ki curved into a sawblade edge. It's not that far of a leap to start manipulating the kienzan's flight pattern.
edited 27th Dec '14 3:50:58 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.That's because that idea is unfounded. Toriyama's never actually discussed what purpose he introduced Battle Powers for, the closest is that in Shenlong Times Toriyama discusses that he tried to improve Dragon Ball's popularity in the Saiyan arc. Since Battle Powers were already pretty popular in Japan due to other series, this could have been one of the things Toriyama used to try and boost the popularity. Buuuut many things changed/introduced in the Saiyan arc (Goku's an alien, Goku dies, Piccolo's a good guy, Gohan's introduced, the battles escalate) that it's hard to say what Toriyama might have meant.
I already pointed out that this was wrong. Fat Boo wears the clothes (and takes the shape) of the weakest person he had absorbed. The only consistency that we know is with Gotenks-Boo and Gohan-Boo, which is only two people. It's not over-analysing it to say Goten/Trunks are stronger - there are so many points in their favour you have to be trying to prove Piccolo is stronger to come up with a way around it. Saying Boo's appearance can be used to measure the strongest when nothing ever actually says this is over-analysing things.
On Goku "stealing" techniques: The thing is, ki seems pretty easy to manipulate, so stuff like the Kienzan just isn't actually hard to do at all. Kuririn was more like the first person we see to do it than any real inventor, as the series goes on it seems like it's pretty easy to do stuff like that if you just try. I don't really count it as stealing techniques.
I agree with the point about Buu+Piccolo looking distinctly different from Buu + Goten, Trunks, and Piccolo. However, I thought Dai Kaioshin was stronger than South Kaioshin, but that Majin Buu's power fell as a consequence of Dai Kaioshin's pure heart and peaceful nature, not because Dai Kaioshin literally has a negative battle power.
edited 27th Dec '14 4:04:28 PM by TobiasDrake
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If Gohan hadn't been Ultimate when Super Buu absorbed him - which seemed to affect his temperament in a similar fashion as Super Saiyan 2 - could his absorption have defused Super Buu's bloodlust the same way Dai Kaioshin did for Buff Buu? I mean, I know he already has Fat Buu in him, but that's a double dosage of peaceful kindness.
edited 27th Dec '14 4:08:33 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Probably not, he wasn't really shying away from the fighting earlier in the arc. Or at any time that wasn't early Saiyan arc/the Cell Games. I'd say Ultimate didn't make him any less peaceful or kind (well, he does randomly call Boo a retard)
We don't really know how peaceful Dai Kaioshin is, but I'd say you need to be particularly hippy to affect someone as evil as the original Boo was.
edited 27th Dec '14 4:13:33 PM by Saiga
Yeah, but Ultimate Gohan seemed to revive his impulse from the first time he turned Super Saiyan 2 of "I know you can't possibly win, and you're a cunt, so I'm gonna make you suffer."
Son Gohan's a vindictive, sadistic shit, ain't he?
My various fanfics.Yeah, and I honestly don't think that trait is good thing to give him (as I was talking about earlier). Makes sense? Definitely. A good choice for his characterisation? I don't think so.
That does remind me: if Gohan was more the type to end things quickly, because he doesn't enjoy fighting, that would give so much more meaning to the line he delivers to Boo:
Gohan: Fight you? No. I want to kill you.
edited 27th Dec '14 4:17:48 PM by Saiga
That line does still work, though. That was his way of telling Buu that there was no possible way he was going to win. And he was going to kill Buu. Slowly.
My various fanfics.My question is: What would've happened if Buu managed to absorb Goku after the Vegito debacle?
That, yes.
Goku has a kind heart but he is a FAR cry from a peaceful nature. He loves him some violence.
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Wasn't Goku's being "pure of heart" the only reason he was able to ride the Nimbus? And he rode that thing until the battle with Vegeta and Nappa. Goku was also still "good enough" to keep his body, both of the times he died - and was good enough to come back to Earth for a day.
He can't be that far away on the goodness meter from Fat Kaioshin-sama.
edited 27th Dec '14 5:27:40 PM by FOFD
