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#15826: Dec 1st 2015 at 10:25:36 AM

Only in filler. The technique only ever appeared again one more time in the manga, where he used both hands to fire it at Nappa.

Toei, however, apparently really liked the image of him charging it with one hand so they used that in all of its filler appearances, including when they gave the move to Cell.

edited 1st Dec '15 10:27:15 AM by TobiasDrake

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#15827: Dec 1st 2015 at 10:50:17 AM

Just like how Goku could teleport as freely as he wanted at first

But eventually he used the twofinger on the forehead sign to even cross visible distances

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#15828: Dec 1st 2015 at 10:58:10 AM

Except for the warp wind wave.

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#15829: Dec 1st 2015 at 11:29:16 AM

And the sequence in BoG where Goku starts teleporting around the cave.

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#15830: Dec 1st 2015 at 11:34:46 AM

Well I would say there's a difference between Instant Transmission and "moving really fast".

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#15831: Dec 1st 2015 at 11:44:26 AM

There is but we know IT is being used based on a number of factors. For starts, charging a beam attack always roots you in place. We've never seen someone move while charging one without using IT. Second, Perfect Cell and Beerus were both much stronger than Goku and thus much faster than him. They didn't see him move and were surprised when he just appeared elsewhere thus he had to have been using IT. The finger thing is only needed when Goku's doing it over long distances and, even then, it's probably not actually needed and is just a gesture he uses to help concentrate.

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#15832: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:09:08 PM

There's a visual cue to teleporting as well. When characters move really fast, they'll sort of shift out of existence in the direction they're moving, but teleporting has more of a "disrupted into nothingness" vanish.

Between Zanzokens, super-speed motion, and teleporting, Toei had to get really good at animating distinctly different ways for a person to suddenly not be there.

edited 1st Dec '15 12:11:03 PM by TobiasDrake

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#15833: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:12:55 PM

I can think of exactly one example of someone moving while firing a Kamehameha, but you're not going to like it.

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#15834: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:27:31 PM

[up] THAT NEVER HAPPENED AND YOU KNOW IT.

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#15835: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:28:21 PM

That was just a visual inversion of what happened at the end of the King Piccolo arc, with Goku firing at the ground to launch himself like a cannonball.

DBE just made the beam go all suctiony because they wanted the beam itself to be the star of the show.

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#15836: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:30:42 PM

You mean the airbending?

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#15838: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:41:13 PM

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Episode of Bardock is definitely a Wall Banger

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#15839: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:46:37 PM

[up][up][up] NEVER HAPPENED

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#15840: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:47:21 PM

Kaiser: "NO GT!"

I love the petty spite towards GT.

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#15841: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:49:04 PM

What did GT do anyways? I don't remember anything from it.

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#15842: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:50:47 PM

...I mean, I sorta imagine that Episode of Bardock is related to Online or Xenoverse somehow.

I like the idea that Mira and Towa sent Bardock back in time. And then they picked him up afterwards to screw around with his head. For funsies.

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#15843: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:52:38 PM

Too much Goku focus, older Trunks as a confusingly wimpy not-quite-right cross between young trunks and future trunks, powers being forgotten, Pan not getting to go super Saiyan, no Gotenks, attempts at one-upping Buu with random villains, The Baby The Baby, and occasionally breakneck pacing.

[up] I am... Annoyed that Xenoverse had Bardock vanish into a wormhole as Freeza launched his supernova ball... and wind up on Namek. So he's not a Super Saiyan by the time he fights Broly.

That game had an opportunity to have Legendary Super Saiyan vs Legendary Super Saiyan, and it completely dropped the ball.

edited 1st Dec '15 12:55:08 PM by Enlong

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#15844: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:53:21 PM

...The sad thing is that GT had better animation than Super.

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#15845: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:55:04 PM

[up][up][up][up] Lazy writing, made it all about Goku, had some of the stupidest decisions ever made, had some of the worst power level incontinence in Goku somehow struggling against enemies in Super Saiyan 4 and yet easily beating them in Kid form, speaking of which him being turned into a kid was stupid, Pan was annoying, Vegeta had a mustache, and most importantly: SO MANY GOOD IDEAS WERE THERE BUT THEY FUCKED IT ALL UP WITH THEIR SHITTY EXECUTION!

Okay, I got that all out of my chest.

edited 1st Dec '15 12:56:11 PM by AdricDePsycho

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#15846: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:55:12 PM

[up][up]Occasionally, but Super has had MUCH better animation on average.

edited 1st Dec '15 12:55:58 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

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#15847: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:55:52 PM

Dude. Restrain your exclamation points. You're going full-on Opera Ghost.

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#15848: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:56:31 PM

I edited my post to remove that, sorry.

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#15849: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:57:04 PM

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#15850: Dec 1st 2015 at 1:00:10 PM

How canon is Episode of Bardock? I ask because Bardock was probably relatively weak to have gone Super Saiyan... it makes me wonder why Gohan didn't go SS when Krillin was killed on Namek. Or any of the times he thought Krillin was killed.

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