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#15451: Nov 19th 2015 at 6:48:29 PM

Speaking of impossible things, TFS finished Piccolo's story in supersonic warriors, in which he becomes the main character we all deserve.

Next up is Krillin

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#15452: Nov 19th 2015 at 7:04:12 PM

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#15453: Nov 19th 2015 at 7:18:51 PM

Vegeta says (paraphrased) "you need to bring me to the brink of death so that I can get the power to defeat Freeza. It won't work if I do it myself"

Both Goku and Cell had successfully self-inflicted zenkai, and what Vegeta says won't work isn't specific. He could have meant that he'd botch the injury attempt.

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#15454: Nov 19th 2015 at 7:26:29 PM

Yeah, either he'd overshoot and straight up murder himself or he'd be the one Saiyan in a billion with a scrap of self-preservation and the wound wouldn't be mortal enough to be worth a zenkai.

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#15455: Nov 19th 2015 at 7:33:19 PM

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#15456: Nov 19th 2015 at 9:01:15 PM

I'd still just like to see Super Cell God Cell.

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#15457: Nov 19th 2015 at 10:16:17 PM

Been a while since I've seen that part of Z. Does Vegeta actually punch himself to test if he's alive?

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#15458: Nov 19th 2015 at 10:19:00 PM

He has to...they didn't make that animation themselves.

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#15459: Nov 20th 2015 at 12:05:08 AM

I'd still just like to see Super Cell God Cell.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#15460: Nov 20th 2015 at 3:36:40 AM

He has to...they didn't make that animation themselves.

I'm not sure of that.

I don't think I want to doubt what Kaiser is capable of.

EDIT: I don't know the context of this, but it should have been in one of the episodes. It's basically where the Great Saiyaman comes from.

That and Gohan watching Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills.

edited 20th Nov '15 7:23:22 AM by unnoun

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#15461: Nov 20th 2015 at 8:04:39 AM

This is a few pages back but Vegeta wasn't wrong when he said "pretty sure that makes eight" Androids 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, and 13 make eight.

And it doesn't seem like they were treating Cell as a thing they knew about yet.

edited 20th Nov '15 8:05:31 AM by LSBK

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#15462: Nov 20th 2015 at 8:13:03 AM

Re Saiyaman

This is only barely related, but I'm embarrassed that I didn't realize the joke behind the name "Saiyaman" until I saw some of the Malaysian dub.

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#15463: Nov 20th 2015 at 8:21:50 AM

I hope the Saiyaman coverage in DBZA has a bunch of Silver Age Of Comic Books references, because that's what he's always reminded me of.

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#15464: Nov 20th 2015 at 8:25:25 AM

[up][up][up]He was counting cell. 17 and 18 were the ones he was talking about; they can't have been the ones he "missed".

[up][up][up][up]That was a real show?
EDIT: That had this scene in it?

edited 20th Nov '15 8:44:54 AM by wanderlustwarrior

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#15465: Nov 20th 2015 at 8:30:06 AM

"Pretty sure that makes 8" confused me at first, since Vegeta had previously only been counting androids trunks missed, which would only be six in the movie, if they don't know about Cell yet.

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#15466: Nov 20th 2015 at 8:38:06 AM

Both Goku and Cell had successfully self-inflicted zenkai, and what Vegeta says won't work isn't specific. He could have meant that he'd botch the injury attempt.

This. He might just not know how to injure himself like that. It's probably never come up before.

Cell had a self-destruct feature and Goku was curving Kamehamehas into his own chest with the added help of intense gravity. Vegeta doesn't have a self-destruct or intense gravity.

Captain Ginyu would probably be a master of self-inflicting zenkais if he'd gotten to keep Goku's body and had some of the pertinent info for using it.

edited 20th Nov '15 8:39:07 AM by TobiasDrake

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#15467: Nov 20th 2015 at 8:42:47 AM

Vegeta has a preservation instinct, a very strong one considering how often he just tries to run.

Hell that's something Vegeta has over Goku, a brain capable of realizing he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day. Meanwhile Goku is for the most part "Dragon Balls! BRING ME BACK TO LIFE!"

I think it's also like hitting yourself, you never do it as hard as how you could to someone else. So Vegeta botching it is highly likely.

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#15468: Nov 20th 2015 at 9:11:15 AM

I'm just thinking back to all of Vegeta's fights and how he just kept fighting superior opponents until he either got knocked out or died. I can only think of one instance where he ran away.

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#15469: Nov 20th 2015 at 9:12:39 AM

Said preservation instinct goes out when he's high on Ego.

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#15470: Nov 20th 2015 at 9:25:54 AM

But Vegeta's always high on ego.

Seriously, aside from the first fight we see him in, when does Vegeta ever run away?

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#15471: Nov 20th 2015 at 9:31:24 AM

[up] He attempted to run when faced with Frieza's 2nd form, but failed miserably.

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#15472: Nov 20th 2015 at 9:33:34 AM

He went out of his way to avoid directly confronting Frieza a few times. Frieza was the chink in his ego. He very clearly understood his position on the food chain compared to Frieza.

He also wanted to attain immortality before the Ginyus arrived because he knew he couldn't take them either.

Vegeta rarely actually attempts to run but I think that's more of a survival instinct than anything else. When he's backed into a corner, he doubles-down on his ego and tries to bullshit his way through on pride alone. It's a defense mechanism I like to call "Caging".

edited 20th Nov '15 9:53:11 AM by TobiasDrake

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#15473: Nov 20th 2015 at 9:43:24 AM

He was counting cell. 17 and 18 were the ones he was talking about; they can't have been the ones he "missed".

He wasn't counting ones Trunks missed, he was counting androids total. And the way Cell is addressed, both indirectly and directly, implies the good guys don't know about him.

edited 20th Nov '15 9:43:57 AM by LSBK

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#15474: Nov 20th 2015 at 9:52:15 AM

[up][up]How sad.

[up]Except for the count, I think Cell hasn't revealed himself in this movie yet.

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edited 20th Nov '15 9:56:29 AM by wanderlustwarrior

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#15475: Nov 20th 2015 at 10:13:56 AM

I both love and hate this. I love it because the idea is brilliant. I hate it because that kid is a sad commentary on America today.

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