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TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#11101: Apr 21st 2015 at 9:02:47 AM

Infinite stamina!

  • GERO: You are a fool like your father before you. My android body never tires! I suffer no ill effects from weariness or fatigue! You could never match my stamina!
  • GOHAN: Question.
  • GERO: Huh?
  • GOHAN: Do you know what fatigue is? Because I don't think you do.
  • GERO: Fatigue is the weakness of organic bodies that causes—
  • GOHAN: Fatigue is the wearing down of physical components caused by prolonged or repeated strain on those parts. In an organic body, muscles become weak from exertion and require periods of rest while the body repairs the damage. A limited form of self-restoration is a feature of nearly all organic lifeforms.
  • GERO: Muscle strain is your weakness. I can go forever and—
  • GOHAN: Fatigue also occurs in non-organic substances, such as wood, plastics, and metal. It is a standard principle in physics; everything wears down. The only difference is an organic body like mine can catch its breath and renew its muscles for a second wind if given enough time to rest and let the body's healing procedures work - for instance, taking a moment out of a fight to impart a physics lesson. Steel, on the other hand -
  • Gohan punches through Dr. Gero's chest
  • GOHAN: Steel just wears and wears until finally it breaks.

edited 21st Apr '15 9:03:36 AM by TobiasDrake

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#11102: Apr 21st 2015 at 9:05:52 AM

Nerd.tongue

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#11104: Apr 21st 2015 at 11:03:40 AM

That just feels like a DBZA thing. You can almost here Piccolo yelling Nerd in response.

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#11105: Apr 21st 2015 at 11:09:18 AM

The thing is, Dr. Gero is a scientist so he wouldn't be confused by what Gohan is saying. They would have likely gotten into a long conversation regarding the properties of whatever alloy the androids are made of while everyone else just looks on in shock, confusion, and/or exasperation.

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#11106: Apr 21st 2015 at 12:16:22 PM

Tobias, I feel like part of that was a quote. Was it?

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#11107: Apr 21st 2015 at 12:28:58 PM

GOHAN: Do you know what fatigue is? Because I don't think you do.

That part was a reference to Goku asking Frieza, "Do you know what a minute is? Because I don't think you do."

The rest I made up.

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#11108: Apr 21st 2015 at 12:37:52 PM

I know that, I was actually more wondering about the last line.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#11109: Apr 21st 2015 at 1:49:19 PM

In the Budokai games, there's an item called Nanomachines that the Android characters can equip.

Also, the robot Coolers in that movie Kaiser fucked if we count that and I don't so I'm not even sure why I brought it up?

As noted, we don't know how much power they actually give to the Genki-Dama.

There's also a question of how much energy was given by rocks, trees, the wind, and the sun.

edited 21st Apr '15 1:57:18 PM by unnoun

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#11110: Apr 21st 2015 at 1:56:13 PM

Piccolo: Why won't you die?!

Dr. Gero: NANOMACHINES, SON!

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#11111: Apr 21st 2015 at 1:58:56 PM

Yes. That.

Seriously, why do people forget that inanimate objects, the atmosphere, and the sun contribute to the Spirit Bomb?

Goku sang a very helpful song about it in Lord Slug!

Also, Gohan is half-Saiyan, so the amount of food he needs to consume in order to get his body's natural restorative properties to work is frankly rather excessive.

You can't restore your body if you don't have anything to restore with. Yeah, oxygen, but the thing is that the body's metabolic cycle that uses oxygen also uses broken down sugars and other materials that we get from food.

Saiyans have to eat a lot of food.

One time Goku lost to Yamcha because he hadn't eaten anything.

For all that Saiyans are mighty warriors it would be really easy to starve them out in a siege as long as you didn't give them a chance to resupply.

Probably a major advantage for the Tuffles when that war happened.

Humans or god forbid Namekians would easily outlast Saiyans in siege conditions.

I mean, Majin Buu and his progeny in Online and Xenoverse eat a lot too, but it doesn't seem like they actually have to.

So basically every single species in the universe we know of could probably defeat the Saiyans simply by starving them out.

edited 21st Apr '15 2:28:25 PM by unnoun

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#11112: Apr 21st 2015 at 2:36:14 PM

Vegeta didn't eat for days on Namek. Vegeta and Nappa didn't eat for a year when going to Earth.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#11113: Apr 21st 2015 at 2:38:57 PM

The pods seem to have a stasis function.

And we don't know what exactly he did to those Namekian villagers. They were alive, then they weren't.

edited 21st Apr '15 2:39:23 PM by unnoun

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#11114: Apr 21st 2015 at 2:39:40 PM

Also, Yamcha didn't beat Goku because he ran away before the fight was over.

But he did avoid getting his ass kicked due to Goku's hunger... well not so much avoid as delay it for a day.

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#11115: Apr 21st 2015 at 2:43:20 PM

[up][up]Vegeta ate his veggies.

Are the Namekians plant-based? They seem to subsist on water and sunlight, and they have green skin...

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#11116: Apr 21st 2015 at 2:45:10 PM

I think they're more like slug men.

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#11117: Apr 21st 2015 at 2:48:09 PM

[up][up][up] I could have sworn Goku was losing at that point.

The reason Yamcha ran away was because cooties.

edited 21st Apr '15 2:49:34 PM by unnoun

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#11118: Apr 21st 2015 at 3:39:13 PM

Goku was hungry.

Speaking of infinite android power: how much energy could 18 put into an energy ball before throwing it, if given an arbitrary amount of time in which to do so?

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#11120: Apr 21st 2015 at 5:11:47 PM

Talking about Illions is even more confusing for me

since my country uses Milliards and Billiards and such for each 000 increase (making your Trillion our Billion)

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#11121: Apr 21st 2015 at 7:45:08 PM

It was inconclusive when Yamcha ran away. His wolf fang fist knocked Goku away, and then Goku did the exact same thing with his Janken.

Then Yamcha returned to the fight and got scared off by Bulma.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#11122: Apr 22nd 2015 at 6:22:12 AM

Well, her hair color did make her the strongest heroic character in the series until Revival of F.

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#11123: Apr 22nd 2015 at 6:23:26 AM

I don't get it, how is Frieza relevant again? Like I get that he gets revived or whatever but how does he not just get swept aside like he's nothing?

Oh really when?
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#11124: Apr 22nd 2015 at 6:32:10 AM

[up]He trained. For 4 Months!

edited 22nd Apr '15 6:32:19 AM by Lionheart0

doineedaname from Eastern US Since: Nov, 2010
#11125: Apr 22nd 2015 at 6:32:11 AM

[up][up] He spent four months training to catch up and got a new form.

edited 22nd Apr '15 6:32:35 AM by doineedaname


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