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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#11651: May 15th 2015 at 1:17:30 PM

It would have allowed Krillin or anyone to just kill the androids and be done with it.

LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#11652: May 15th 2015 at 1:18:11 PM

Without the energy Cell can't transform IIRC. He needs both generators to get enough power to do it I think. Can dust off my old copy and check later.

Edit: Also that[up],[up][up]

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edited 15th May '15 1:20:50 PM by LordofLore

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#11653: May 15th 2015 at 1:26:05 PM

Yet for some reason Team Four Star has changed the "Android off button" into a detonator in dialogue. I can't see a reason for doing this as it never gets used anyway, so why change it?

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#11654: May 15th 2015 at 1:27:43 PM

To give Krillin a better excuse not to use it?

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#11655: May 15th 2015 at 1:31:30 PM

They tend to do things that seem like fixing plot holes. Like Nappa being wished back to life on a technicality or Dr. Briefs looking for New Namek.

Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#11656: May 15th 2015 at 1:32:24 PM

Maybe if there's a Team Four Star characters page?

Maybe we should create one. I mean, they do enough Let's Plays to warrant one. tongue

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#11657: May 15th 2015 at 1:33:55 PM

We aren't allowed to trope real people, so making a Team Four Star character page would be against the rules.

edited 15th May '15 1:34:33 PM by VeryMelon

Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#11658: May 15th 2015 at 1:52:42 PM

Technically we're not putting tropes about their personal lives, just their antics in their Let's Plays. tongue

Smosh Games has a "Character Page."

wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#11659: May 15th 2015 at 2:08:14 PM

Or Let's Play characters.

We could probably also list what characters each voice are.

And on the note of Remix...

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#11660: May 15th 2015 at 3:31:18 PM

I'm pretty sure they're following the dub's suit. I think the dub simplified it to "Bombs in their chests."

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#11661: May 15th 2015 at 3:35:32 PM

Well, they did have bombs in their chests.

Or, at least 16 did. His second attempt at killing Cell failed because Bulma removed his.

And I think Krillin had the dragon remove 17 and 18's bombs, when he proved incapable of undoing their cyborgification.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#11662: May 15th 2015 at 4:31:01 PM

I can see them making a joke about it when Bulma hands Krillin the detonator. She could be like: "Push this and BOOM! Android bits everywhere." Other than that I can't think of what they'd do with the change.

edited 15th May '15 5:07:55 PM by WillKeaton

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#11663: May 15th 2015 at 5:36:38 PM

I wonder what would happen if they detonated the bombs in the androids after Cell had already absorbed them?

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#11664: May 15th 2015 at 5:40:41 PM

They'd give Cell some pretty massive gas.

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#11665: May 15th 2015 at 6:12:05 PM

Yet for some reason Team Four Star has changed the "Android off button" into a detonator in dialogue. I can't see a reason for doing this as it never gets used anyway, so why change it?

It could be to avoid the Fridge Logic of why Krillin didn't just turn #18 off in order to thwart Cell, keep her from getting blown up or otherwise killed in the meantime, and then turn her power back on (or convince Bulma to do so) after Cell was defeated.

I think that was my first ever bit of Dragon Ball Fridge Logic back when I was a kid.

edited 15th May '15 6:12:40 PM by KnownUnknown

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#11666: May 15th 2015 at 6:15:26 PM

Cell's entire endgame was to fight and defeat Goku, the Cell Games itself was regardless. The fact that Cell was so quick to destroy the arena shows that. All Vegeta and Trunks provided him was an inspiration to create a "stage" for his fight.

Not just the stage, but the time. Cell only gave them 10 days when Trunks explained The Room, which only happened because Cell saw their improvement and was interested.

Which is good, because after leaving the room Goku says they haven't finished their training and will use the remaining nine days to completely master the form.

It's possible that Goku and Gohan didn't really need those nine days, but that's speculation. Whereas to make Ten seem like he did something, you have to completely change how Cell behaves.

for what its worth. Tien did save Dende and Mr Satans from Buu

sure that wasn't very consequential considering all of Buu's victims were resurrected later by the Namekian Dragon

But it did allow Satan to stick around and help out with the forming of the spiritbomb etc

Satan was a liability before he contributed, though. Goku could have saved Gohan or the children if he hadn't went for Satan and Dende out of guilt.

Satan was only needed because Goku and Vegeta went with Operation: Symbolism rather than doing anything practical. And that was still only done after they couldn't beat Boo one-on-one, so it wouldn't be needed if Gohan could be saved.

It seems like some people have an axe to grind against Tien.

Not at all. People really need to understand that pointing out a character is ineffectual is not necessary born of dislike for that character. Hell, even Toriyama writing him that way isn't a sign of dislike.

[up] Turning her off wouldn't thwart Cell. Kuririn says he'll need to destroy her after deactivating her, or Cell can still absorb her.

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#11667: May 15th 2015 at 6:20:42 PM

Hiding her would have given Trunks enough time to dust Cell, though.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#11668: May 15th 2015 at 6:22:49 PM

Kuririn wasn't aware of what else was going on, though.

And even then, that's not necessarily true since Vegeta could have gotten in the way again.

Also, unlike 18, Kuririn's ki can be sensed. She's probably worse off with him. If 16 wasn't so damaged, disabling her and making 16 carry her away (which he would almost definitely agree to) would have been the best plan.

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#11669: May 15th 2015 at 6:31:19 PM

I still think Future Trunks could have appealed to Vegeta by saying he wanted to test his new strength against Cell and used that moment to dust the bitch.

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#11670: May 15th 2015 at 6:33:20 PM

Krillin's power being high enough to sense? How cute.

Yeah, 16 would've been the best option. But he was too banged up to fly. I wonder what 18's functions are like when shut down. Does she need to breathe? Because 16 grabbing her and taking a walk might have worked.

[up] Vegeta's smart enough to know that Trunks wanted nothing more than for Cell to just die. It takes a certain amount of knowledge to so efficiently ruin everything.

edited 15th May '15 6:34:33 PM by Enlong

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#11671: May 15th 2015 at 6:34:41 PM

Only if his insides were waterproof.

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#11672: May 15th 2015 at 6:37:27 PM

Did he or 19 ever end up in water? I can't remember all of 16 and 18's attempted escape in that island chain.

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#11673: May 15th 2015 at 7:06:40 PM

I remember Piccolo and 17 fighting underwater at one point.

Unless that too was filler. :P

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#11674: May 15th 2015 at 7:08:48 PM

I think it was padding (but the good kind) and 17 didn't have a portion of his skull missing at that time.

edited 15th May '15 7:09:00 PM by Zelenal

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#11675: May 15th 2015 at 7:09:36 PM

Of course it is.

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