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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#16852: Dec 17th 2015 at 3:12:08 PM

..."white-haired"?

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stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#16853: Dec 17th 2015 at 3:14:06 PM

Well, in 98% of depictions I've seen of Trunks, his hair is pretty light grey. If it's purple it's very, very desaturated. Someone seeing it as white is understandable.

edited 17th Dec '15 3:14:29 PM by stingerbrg

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#16854: Dec 17th 2015 at 3:44:28 PM

Yeah , I never really thought of Future Trunks as purple-haired.

edited 17th Dec '15 6:12:33 PM by KarkatTheDalek

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#16855: Dec 17th 2015 at 3:46:13 PM

I'm sure there's a trope for unconsciously substituting fantastical colors for 'normal' colors in cartoons (mostly for hair).

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#16856: Dec 17th 2015 at 3:50:04 PM

Hair Color Dissonance?

Anyway, Trunks' hair strikes me as being pale lavendar.

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wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#16857: Dec 17th 2015 at 3:57:35 PM

Umm... I never had any idea Trunks' hair color was up for debate. If you're not getting technical, it's "purple". If you are getting technical, it's "lavender-purple".

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#16858: Dec 17th 2015 at 4:01:43 PM

It's the same color Bluma's hair is supposed to be (and is, in Path to Power and the manga).

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#16859: Dec 17th 2015 at 4:07:24 PM

I always saw it as white or very, very light blue-purple-ish.

but HOW?
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#16860: Dec 17th 2015 at 4:09:46 PM

It's quite lavender.

Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#16861: Dec 17th 2015 at 6:35:54 PM

It's lavender.

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#16862: Dec 17th 2015 at 6:53:14 PM

I feel like Dead Zone is the last time we see people dodge. I feel like after that, it begins the whole Beam Spam thing where people dodge via Flash Step (conveniently saving animation budget).

Yeah, there was a lot of really good choreography in the fight scenes in both Dead Zone and World's Strongest. I can imagine why the TFS guys are so high on those movies.

Tree of Might was definitely the first DBZ movie that felt distinctly DB Zish.

edited 17th Dec '15 6:53:56 PM by Lionheart0

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#16863: Dec 17th 2015 at 7:40:58 PM

Yeah, thinking back on it, Dead Zone was actually really well-animated.

And there were some pretty cool things in it, too.

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#16864: Dec 17th 2015 at 8:55:50 PM

To the very least, Dead Zone has the best animation of the original Pre-Bo G movies, bar-none.

Well... I'd argue World's Strongest has the best fight in the entire franchise (with Goku vs Beerus as a close second). Right at 4 minutes and 10 seconds into this clip, you can feel Goku taking those hits.

Yeah, there was a lot of really good choreography in the fight scenes in both Dead Zone and World's Strongest.

Goku even clotheslines some poor bastard. The only other two times that's happened in Dragonball to my knowledge were Cooler doing it to Goku, and Broly doing it to Gohan and Trunks.

[down]Oh, the pain train, right. Three times.

edited 17th Dec '15 9:06:33 PM by Soble

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#16865: Dec 17th 2015 at 9:00:04 PM

And Garlic Jr doing it to Piccolo and Goku.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#16866: Dec 17th 2015 at 9:01:47 PM

I believe he even did it twice. I'd have to check that fight again.

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#16867: Dec 17th 2015 at 9:03:17 PM

Yeah, it was one and then the other.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#16868: Dec 17th 2015 at 9:06:14 PM

Now that I think about it, the second one was some kind of crazy reverse clotheslines, which you can't even do in actual Wrestling.

Man, as much as the greater power of DBZ has it's high points, I miss the time of later Dragonball. I actually think the Piccolo Arc / early Saiyan Arc is when things were at their best.

Now, there are some things I admit I'd miss if they never happened, like Vegito running with Super Buu's energy ball and the like, but I really sometimes wish the Power Levels hadn't gotten so insane.....

Y'all are gonna have to forgive me for bringing up Power Levels again.

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#16869: Dec 17th 2015 at 9:10:36 PM

It's okay.

Freeza brought them up more, anyway. :P

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#16870: Dec 17th 2015 at 9:12:30 PM

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Heh. I'm gonna let that one slide, cause it's funny and true.

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#16871: Dec 17th 2015 at 9:16:47 PM

I don't know why, but that made me realize something.

Dragonball has some serious tail focus.

Each major villain had one - Raditz's and Vegeta's were weak points, Frieza got his cut off, Cell used his as a straw, Buu's "headtail" let him turn people into chocolate. Beerus and Champa are cats.

The Namekian frog Ginyu switched places with had an enormous tail.

Wheelo gave his robot a tail IIRC. Cooler kept his, even when he turned into a machine-alien-thing. Hirudegarn, Janemba, even Broly's clone all had tails. Turles was able to "stomp out" Gohan's tail, and was the last time, prior to GT, that Toei used Saiyan tails as a plot device.

edited 18th Dec '15 8:29:49 AM by Soble

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#16872: Dec 17th 2015 at 9:26:55 PM

[up][up]Thanks. cool

[up]Not only that, a lot of them connected from the middle of the back, which was weird.

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#16873: Dec 17th 2015 at 9:33:14 PM

If Spore has taught me anything, it's that bipedal creatures with normally positioned tails look weird, especially if they stand up straight without being stooped over like raptors or something.

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#16874: Dec 17th 2015 at 10:18:03 PM

Yeah, if an animal has a long, thick tail, it's usually used for counterbalance.

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Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#16875: Dec 18th 2015 at 6:02:55 AM

Humans have vertical spines, and the only other animals to have vertical spines are other apes in their standard brachiating stance.

Tails in that kind of creatures have to have a 90 degrees bend at the base to not drop to the ground, otherwise they don't work.


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