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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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#9926: Mar 3rd 2015 at 7:09:54 AM

Can we call female Goten "Gotina"?

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#9927: Mar 3rd 2015 at 7:20:03 AM

It would also prompt a lot of Mandy's Law fanfics.

  • TRUNKS: Well, that was an interesting fusion WHY AM I STILL A GIRL?
  • FEMALE GOTEN: Oops! Some of my gender must of have rubbed off on you!
  • GOKU: That's not how that works!

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#9928: Mar 3rd 2015 at 9:38:14 AM

I would have loved to see what Piccolo and Goku would have looked like fused. Was there a reason given for why their Fusion Dance demonstration didn't work?

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#9930: Mar 3rd 2015 at 9:47:57 AM

IRC the heights of the fighters need to be the same for fusion to work.

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#9931: Mar 3rd 2015 at 9:49:24 AM

Do they? Then how did Vegeta fuse with Goku? He's such a short ass.

Maybe Goku shrunk or something.

Oh really when?
stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#9932: Mar 3rd 2015 at 9:52:19 AM

I'd say "filler," but it seems as though not everyone here likes that.

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#9933: Mar 3rd 2015 at 9:58:46 AM

I like to imagine Vegeta hovering slightly in order to maintain the same center of gravity as Goku. And it infuriating him to no end.

I assumed Piccolo and Goku couldn't fuse because they were different races. But their power differential might also be key. However, Goku was in base. Is he really that much more powerful?

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#9934: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:01:44 AM

I don't think that demonstration they did was actually an attempt at fusing.

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#9935: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:02:40 AM

In the manga, it was stated that there are certain requirements to the Fusion Dance as opposed to the Potara Earring fusion, such as the mergers need to have equal power and roughly similar height, but in recent interview, Akira Toriyama said that it is possible to merge no matter the conditions, as long as it all goes well and it is even possible for a larger number of people to merge.
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#9936: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:05:10 AM

Huh. Alright then. Krillin and Tien can fuse, to make a super-bald guy with spider eyes.

Wait wait, what? More than 2 people fusing at once?
Okay, now you're just fucking with me, Toriyama.

edited 3rd Mar '15 10:05:51 AM by wanderlustwarrior

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#9937: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:07:12 AM

How would the dance go with more than two people?

Oh really when?
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#9938: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:07:12 AM

I assumed Piccolo and Goku couldn't fuse because they were different races. But their power differential might also be key. However, Goku was in base. Is he really that much more powerful?

No, actually, the opposite is true. Piccolo is substantially more powerful than Base Goku, having a Battle Power roughly equivalent to Androids 17 and 18, who were each much more powerful than Super Saiyan Vegeta circa the Android Saga. Goku, meanwhile, never surpassed Frieza in Base by the end of the series, which means he isn't even close to the much higher battle powers of Piccolo and the Androids.

Once Goku transformed into a Super Saiyan, the power differential would flip the other way, but in Base, Piccolo is the one that would be too powerful if they were attempting a genuine fusion.

edited 3rd Mar '15 10:09:51 AM by TobiasDrake

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#9939: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:11:07 AM

Wait wait, what? More than 2 people fusing at once? Okay, now you're just fucking with me, Toriyama.

Well I can see his logic. Imagine if Tien and Yamcha fused into Tiencha. Then Tiencha fused with, say, Goku in order to make Yagoti. That would be a 3-person fusion.

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#9940: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:12:48 AM

[up][up]Wait so if we take Super Saiyans out of the equation does that mean Piccolo is the strongest guy in the series?

Oh really when?
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#9941: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:14:00 AM

Chain fusing. Cool.

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#9942: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:14:29 AM

No, that would still be Mystic Gohan.

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#9943: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:15:01 AM

No, Ultimate Gohan is.

Discounting Super Saiyans, Ultimate Gohan, and the villains, I believe the "strongest" title would go to Piccolo, Android 18, and Android 17, with the Androids taking the edge due to their limitless stamina, unless I'm forgetting someone.

EDIT: Oh! Android 16 is stronger too, but he's perma-dead, so I don't know if he counts.

So, there's a lot stronger than Piccolo, but he's still massively powerful. Compared to the other upper-tier fighters, Goku and Vegeta aren't actually that exceptionally strong; they just have REALLY good multipliers.

edited 3rd Mar '15 10:17:40 AM by TobiasDrake

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#9944: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:17:35 AM

Actually I'd say Piccolo would be the strongest, not tied with the Androids. When he came out of the HBTC he was around as powerful as Semi-Perfect Cell, for example. Android 18 never showed an increase in strength when the Buu saga started.

edited 3rd Mar '15 10:18:15 AM by VeryMelon

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#9945: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:17:38 AM

Oh yeah, forgot Ultimate Gohan was a thing.

Still, good for Piccolo.

edited 3rd Mar '15 10:17:54 AM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
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#9946: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:18:20 AM

Oh, that's true. I forgot about Piccolo's time in the RoSaT. That does put him above the Androids.

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#9947: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:44:58 AM

Y'know where I remember fusing multiple people from? A fucking DBZ/Ed, Edd, and Eddy fan fic from middle school.

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#9948: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:52:39 AM

[up]That's exactly the kind of thing that you remember ten years later and wonder "Why do I still keep this in my brain?"

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#9949: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:55:45 AM

What Kayeka said. We all do it.

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#9950: Mar 3rd 2015 at 11:16:07 AM

I remember wondering if chain fusion would only be a potara thing, because what happens when a chain fusion that involves the Fusion Dance wears off?


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