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BaffleBlend Hey there! Having fun? from Somewhere Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: LET'S HAVE A ZILLION BABIES
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#17151: Dec 25th 2015 at 6:06:37 PM

I think that might be exactly the problem I have with Abridged Cell, really.

Compare Abridged Frieza, who's pretty much a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain in how openly evil he is. There was a certain charm to him. Abridged Cell is too cold, too sociopathic, and too realistic to be funny to me. Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped, yeah, but even those can get unbearably heavy when they're unwanted.

edited 25th Dec '15 6:10:40 PM by BaffleBlend

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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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#17152: Dec 25th 2015 at 6:07:56 PM

I like that Vegeta felt pride in someone else for the first time in his life, only for that to be eclipsed by his sheer, blinding rage. Pretty much exactly what happened in canon, too.

edited 25th Dec '15 6:08:42 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#17153: Dec 25th 2015 at 6:09:37 PM

[up][up] "Space NapoleHitler".

edited 25th Dec '15 6:09:48 PM by unnoun

wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#17154: Dec 25th 2015 at 6:11:19 PM

Thing is, even without the detonator, Krillin's still gonna destroy 18...

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#17155: Dec 25th 2015 at 6:17:32 PM

^Get out.

edited 25th Dec '15 6:18:09 PM by LSBK

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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#17156: Dec 25th 2015 at 6:20:25 PM

[up][up]Get back here.

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#17157: Dec 25th 2015 at 6:24:38 PM

I don't feel uncomfortable about how Team Four Star is handling the Android Saga. It's all been consistently funny to me.

EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#17158: Dec 25th 2015 at 6:29:19 PM

I just like that Imperfect Cell is rough Alucard. Perfect Cell is crisp and clear Alucard voice.

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#17159: Dec 25th 2015 at 6:31:40 PM

Well yes. He'd have to destroy her. Probbly blow her up or something.

Wait, could Cell still become perfect if she was deactivated? What if she was dead but still intact? What is necessary?


I think the increased darkness is related to the series itself getting darker around this point. Like, the bit where Cell absorbs that rich guy is perhaps the most disturbing bit in the whole series.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#17160: Dec 25th 2015 at 6:33:24 PM

I find Super Saiyan 2 Gohan pretty scary too.

EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#17161: Dec 25th 2015 at 6:35:14 PM

Wasn't there a prediction that Perfect Cell would be basically be Alucard voice?

I am glad it is real.

I also like how 18 and Krillin treat each other, and I was kind of hoping the call back to Tien would mean that Cell would Kikoho his problem.

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#17162: Dec 25th 2015 at 6:36:36 PM

We kind of knew his perfect form voice 2 or 3 years ago.

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#17163: Dec 25th 2015 at 6:37:32 PM

[up][up]I don't think he ever uses that, so you know.

edited 25th Dec '15 6:37:53 PM by randomness4

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#17164: Dec 25th 2015 at 6:38:51 PM

Krillin's gonna get laaaiiiid :D

So yea, this episode was perfect and nothing more really needs to be said.

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#17165: Dec 25th 2015 at 7:15:30 PM

Not sure if anyone caught it but during the "Semi-Perfect" joke, Vegeta said "you're only perfect or you're not me."

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#17166: Dec 25th 2015 at 7:17:29 PM

It was "Either you're perfect or not me" but, yeah, I caught that and pointed out how much I loved it a couple of pages ago.

edited 25th Dec '15 7:17:51 PM by LSBK

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#17167: Dec 25th 2015 at 8:35:31 PM

I like a lot of 18's dialogue in this episode in general. Like how she's outright appalled that Vegeta would let someone be murdered just for his own amusement, and shocked that 16 asks if she would. Or how she actually thought keeping around her detonator just in case was actually a good idea. And she's practically the only other person (in Abridged anyway) besides Gohan who appreciates it when Krillin gives his help even though he's too weak to do much.

Canon 17 and 18 turned out to be pretty decent people, in a Mr. Vice Guy sense, but TFS really surprised me with how almost good the both of them turned out in Abridged. Right before being absorbed, of course, but still.

I wonder if they're going to do a joke about how the dub screwed up the whole thing with 17 getting brought back. Now that's a Take That! to the dub I can get behind.

edited 25th Dec '15 8:41:26 PM by KnownUnknown

Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#17168: Dec 25th 2015 at 8:38:35 PM

[up] Tien in his own Jerkass way appreciated Krillin. tongue

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#17169: Dec 25th 2015 at 8:45:24 PM

Though Krillin got him well pissed in this episode. For good reason, though. He and Vegeta pissed away a golden opportunity.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#17170: Dec 25th 2015 at 9:11:39 PM

Krillin pissed off everyone in this episode.

I really think this is gonna end with Trunks having a massive Broken Pedestal for the entire group.

I mean, they've mostly been a bunch of morons, with a few exceptions. This incident is really gonna have him looking at all of them very differently. Not just his dad.

edited 25th Dec '15 9:11:49 PM by HandsomeRob

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#17171: Dec 25th 2015 at 9:24:40 PM

...I kinda wanna know his reaction to Marron. Existing.

Like. Future Trunks never learns about that.

But to know that 18 and 17 both get married and have kids and one of them ranges a park.

Like.

...I wish Xenoverse had some of that, what with 18 being a mentor.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#17172: Dec 25th 2015 at 9:36:17 PM

I imagine it would freak him out a little, but by this point he understands that his timeline and the one he's in have completely changed, and that the Android 17 and 18 of his world are not the same ones in this world.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#17173: Dec 25th 2015 at 9:37:35 PM

It'd be way funnier if he snapped and killed them though.

Future Trunks could so easily turn batshit insane.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#17174: Dec 25th 2015 at 9:40:19 PM

[up]

Could happen, but it's unlikely.

More likely, he's take out his frustration on the more deserving future versions.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#17175: Dec 25th 2015 at 9:46:25 PM

I mean, his job is to fix the timeline, not fuck it up more.


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