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#15176: Nov 6th 2015 at 6:11:06 PM

Or vice versa, since Buu predates Chrono Trigger.

Kind of crazy to think about how old this series actually is.

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#15177: Nov 6th 2015 at 6:14:52 PM

[up] Barely. The first chapter with Majin Buu was released in 1994 while Chrono Trigger was released in 1995.

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#15179: Nov 6th 2015 at 6:23:49 PM

...How does the Oozaru transformation work? How do they grow all that bone and muscle and skin and hair? ...Where does it all go afterwards? I mean. How do Roshi's muscles work when he does the full power kamehameha? Somehow I don't think this series follows the law of conservation of mass. Or energy.

.......Um, well.....the answer is very simple you see......

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?

~Runs off~

Edit:

~Runs back~

Wow. I got Ninja'ed really badly here.

edited 6th Nov '15 6:25:05 PM by HandsomeRob

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#15180: Nov 6th 2015 at 6:35:59 PM

It doesn't seem that hard to comprehend. Energy/Ki can be turned into matter and vice versa, and considering the weakest Ki using characters can probably blow up moons and planets and shit, even showing off your Giant Monkey wouldn't be that hard.

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#15181: Nov 6th 2015 at 6:37:41 PM

Where does the 50x greater energy come from in Super Saiyan?

edited 6th Nov '15 6:38:03 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

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#15182: Nov 6th 2015 at 7:11:44 PM

Kind of crazy to think about how old this series actually is.

Jesus, I forget that easily. I am so used to the fact that nowadays I can watch anime almost as soon as they are on Japan, that I forget that, by the time DBZ got here, it have already ended in its original source. I feel like Dragon Ball is something from my childhood, but it is actually from before I was bornnote .

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#15183: Nov 7th 2015 at 2:27:01 AM

[up][up] My headcanon answer to that is that the Super Saiyan is actually breaking the laws of the universe and is also contributing to entropy because they're creating more power out of nothing.

Also, if we're talking about this...where does hair growth in Super Saiyan 3 come from? Or even better, where does it go when they turn back to normal?

The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!
32ndfreeze Since: Mar, 2012
#15184: Nov 7th 2015 at 4:02:05 AM

[up]Shouldn't that be negating entropy by producing energy from nothing?

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#15185: Nov 7th 2015 at 5:24:32 AM

Nope.

Well. Kinda.

edited 7th Nov '15 5:26:10 AM by unnoun

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#15186: Nov 7th 2015 at 6:55:20 AM

"Your anger has surpassed entropy. You are now a super Saiyan."

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OmegaRadiance Since: Jun, 2011
#15187: Nov 7th 2015 at 11:29:13 AM

Clearly the laws of the universe are broken easily when you're strong enough.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#15188: Nov 7th 2015 at 11:56:02 AM

So here's a question. Android 17 came back when they wished back everyone Cell killed. But 17 would presumably only have "died" when Cell self-destructed.

Do people normally come back where they died? Did a suddenly living Android 17 just show up near Snake Way?

Would they have to get Goku to take him to Earth? Was that awkward?

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#15189: Nov 7th 2015 at 11:57:23 AM

Dende could have also done it as the Guardian of Earth.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#15190: Nov 7th 2015 at 12:06:59 PM

Did 17 have to walk back along Snake Way?

...He hijacked a car, I bet.

Or Goku took him to the check-in station.

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#15191: Nov 7th 2015 at 12:13:31 PM

If he still had his cyborg parts, he could fly. It took Saiya Saga Goku a couple of hours to fly Snake Way.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#15192: Nov 7th 2015 at 12:15:49 PM

I'm sure he had his cyborg parts.

But.

17 doesn't seem to do things directly.

And I could have sworn there was this one guy driving a truck on Snake Way.

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#15193: Nov 7th 2015 at 12:21:01 PM

The truck driver whom Vegeta blew up during his fight with 18 was on Snake Way that day, and 17 finally got to fulfill his old dream.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#15194: Nov 7th 2015 at 12:34:39 PM

That wasn't a truck, that was s street sweeper. Someone has to keep up with Snake Way maintenance. I mean, could you imagine Goku having to run on a Snake Way that was dirty?

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#15195: Nov 7th 2015 at 1:44:01 PM

I figure 17 either died when Gohan annihilated Cell or was considered "dead" the moment Cell absorbed him.

The question of where 17 and 18 went after being absorbed is an odd one. I mean, Cell had half his body blown off at one point while they were both inside him. I always thought the two of them were converted into bodymass or energy or something, so if they were still "alive" (in the very technical sense) they would've been part of his very being rather than individuals still and as such they would've "survived" every injury he took.

Though that doesn't answer how 18 got reconstituted after Gohan hit him. Maybe it was just that painful a gut punch.

edited 7th Nov '15 1:47:01 PM by KnownUnknown

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#15196: Nov 7th 2015 at 2:51:48 PM

I figure 17 and 18 were just sort of there.

To me that's what Cell spitting her up implied.

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#15197: Nov 7th 2015 at 2:53:29 PM

He'd need to be twice as tall.

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Guy01 Since: Mar, 2015
#15198: Nov 7th 2015 at 2:56:13 PM

Presumably, the androids were somehow shrunken down when absorbed. It doesn't make sense, but it's about the only way to explain. Buu at least has the magic excuse.

When Gohan Falcon Punched Cell, this somehow disrupted whatever systems were being used inside of Cell to 'hold' 18 and keep her shrunken down, causing her to start rapidly growing back to full size. Cell couldn't hold her anymore, so he had to puke her out.

Ok, who let Light Yagami in here?
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#15199: Nov 7th 2015 at 3:38:50 PM

I just watched the Super 13 special. Hilarious stuff, and it raises a good question: why does it take them so long to turn Super Sayian in movies?

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#15200: Nov 7th 2015 at 3:40:41 PM

Fake tension.

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