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Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#15802: Nov 30th 2015 at 7:02:55 PM

How did they get Toriel to say that, anyway? Was it just some fancy editing?

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alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#15803: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:27:43 AM

Oh wow,Teen Gohan's cleavage is quite impressive in Raging Blast.

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#15804: Dec 1st 2015 at 2:57:49 AM

[up]A Rare Sentence.

Seriously, though, it's a gi with no shirt underneath. It kinda comes with the territory.

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#15807: Dec 1st 2015 at 3:29:52 AM

I just realized that Gohan aged a lot faster than Goku.

I mean, Goku looked 5 when he was 12. Canonically, it's because Saiyans mature slower, but I didn't think that was applied anywhere except to avoid drawing Goku and Vegeta as old men, which would just be depressing.

Subtle hybrid biological differences. Not sure if intentional, but nice.

edited 1st Dec '15 3:31:23 AM by BaffleBlend

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Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#15808: Dec 1st 2015 at 4:56:38 AM

Saiyans seem to be quite stable: They are runts, then huge growth spur, then they remain youthful until quite old (but seem to have humanlike natural lifespans).

Remember, the canonical end of Vegeta and Goku involves them leaving Earth for a final battle when the former notices age will be catching up to him soon.

...

Ah, that expanded universe tibdibs we've been getting since Online are great; I hope we get more of Freeza's race after Xenoverse.

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#15809: Dec 1st 2015 at 5:07:50 AM

With quite a few people wanting to see more of Percel, and the seeming expansion of Resurrection F in DBS (which I'm expecting to have at least one unexpected — or unplanned, knowing ToriyamaChekovs Gun for later in the series), I wouldn't be surprised if we got just that.

edited 1st Dec '15 5:08:04 AM by BaffleBlend

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#15810: Dec 1st 2015 at 5:33:23 AM

No joke; Percel's story sounds cooler than what I got to do in Xenoverse's main story.

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Watchtower Since: Jul, 2010
#15811: Dec 1st 2015 at 5:59:29 AM

Anybody explain who Percel is?

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#15812: Dec 1st 2015 at 6:04:56 AM

[up]He's an NPC in Xenoverse, a member of Frieza's race with his own alternate timeline problems to deal with; King Piccolo has forcefully absorbed Kami, and he and his spawn are fighting the Red Ribbon Army's androids. And then Babidi shows up. He's dealing with a three-way war that's ripping the Earth apart... and it's only discussed in dialog.

edited 1st Dec '15 6:05:15 AM by BaffleBlend

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#15813: Dec 1st 2015 at 6:06:51 AM

IIRC from TFS playing Xenoverse, he's the Hero of Another Story, with that another story happening to be unusually cool and detailed, but only discussed rather than shown on screen.

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edited 1st Dec '15 6:07:04 AM by TheWanderer

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Watchtower Since: Jul, 2010
#15814: Dec 1st 2015 at 6:34:16 AM

[up][up] By the Androids I take it we're referring to 17 and 18 and not, say, Eighter, right?

Yup, that certainly sounds like shenanigans. Is it related to the whole Towa/Demigra debacle, or is it it's own thing?

...And wait, what's Parcel doing around Earth, anyway? Assignment?

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#15815: Dec 1st 2015 at 6:45:14 AM

Assumedly, it's another distortion caused by the Time Breakers, yeah.

Probably 17 and 18, though the timeline seems to be such that Red Ribbon was never broken by Goku, so there's probably more than just them.

And Percel's a Time Patroller, so that time period is just part of his assignment, yeah.

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God_of_Awesome Since: Jan, 2001
#15816: Dec 1st 2015 at 7:10:56 AM

Would the movies being canon explain why Goku puts so much faith into the Spirit Bomb?

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#15817: Dec 1st 2015 at 7:21:40 AM

I just wish Frieza's race had a name.

[up]Sunk Costs fallacy. He wasted so much time learning specific techniques that didn't work out for him that half his friends died, that he needed to find some sort of benefit somewhere.

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#15818: Dec 1st 2015 at 7:26:16 AM

Let's be fair, Kaio Ken and Spirit Bomb wound up being instrumental in stopping Vegeta.

They didn't single-handedly win the fight, but Vegeta would've won if he didn't have them.

He should still use the Kaio Ken while Super Saiyan, though.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#15819: Dec 1st 2015 at 7:31:07 AM

I think that might make Goku's heart explode.

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#15820: Dec 1st 2015 at 7:35:04 AM

[up]x3: I still go with "arcosians", because it's the closest thing we have to something official. Yeah, it's Funimation dub-only, but every other version gives us even less.

[up][up]I think he actually did that once, against Pikkon. He quickly regretted it.

edited 1st Dec '15 7:35:40 AM by BaffleBlend

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#15821: Dec 1st 2015 at 7:35:22 AM

At what point does Goku put "so much faith" in the Genki-Dama? He uses it twice as a Desperation Move that fails to kill his opponent both times, then never touches the thing again until Vegeta brings it up in the Buu arc. It's Awesome, but Impractical; as Abridged Piccolo pointed out, a five-minute startup time is pretty atrocious in terms of usability in battle.

edited 1st Dec '15 7:37:12 AM by TobiasDrake

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EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#15822: Dec 1st 2015 at 7:46:46 AM

Like his special beam cannon?

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#15823: Dec 1st 2015 at 7:53:17 AM

At the time, he was one-armed and low on KI. It fires faster later in the series.

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#15824: Dec 1st 2015 at 10:10:37 AM

Yeah, that's a special case.

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#15825: Dec 1st 2015 at 10:24:18 AM

He still only used one arm in every instance of using it. The power up time was probably akin to Goku's powering up SSJ 3 vs kid Buu.


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