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#17826: Feb 2nd 2016 at 5:45:08 PM

Um...what makes you think he hates them? He doesn't like Vegeta, and that's about it. I'm pretty sure despite mostly just hanging out with Chiaoutzu, he still considers all of them friends.

I agree "hate" is a strong word, but Tenshinhan is definitively not friends with the gang. It is not just one or other instance, he consistently never hangs out with any of them except when there is an important thing going on. He thinks of them as mostly friendly acquaintances.

Piccolo is similar, except he is close to Gohan, which at last gives him a connection to the group that Tenshinhan doesn't really have.

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#17827: Feb 2nd 2016 at 8:03:14 PM

He drives cars with Goku.

Honestly, who is this "group" if it doesn't include Piccolo and Tien? Goku/Gohan, Krillin, Bulma and their families, pretty much.

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#17828: Feb 2nd 2016 at 8:05:15 PM

You forgo'...Yamucha and Roshi...and Oolong and Puar.

Oolong is a real word?

edited 2nd Feb '16 8:06:25 PM by randomness4

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#17829: Feb 2nd 2016 at 8:07:29 PM

It's a kind of tea.

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#17830: Feb 2nd 2016 at 8:09:04 PM

I feel stupoid now, that should've come to mind immediately.

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#17831: Feb 2nd 2016 at 8:11:02 PM

Oh right, Kame House. Joking about me forgetting Yamcha is to easy (though I did), Roshi kinda sucks even worse, not just as a fighter but as a human being (and I forgot him), and I legit did forget Oolong and Puar, so apologies to them. Even if they're barely there.

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#17832: Feb 2nd 2016 at 8:13:30 PM

Roshi is less perverted in the manga than in the anime. Hell, the whole thing of him groping 18 didn't happen in the manga.

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#17833: Feb 2nd 2016 at 8:28:08 PM

Honestly, who is this "group" if it doesn't include Piccolo and Tien? Goku/Gohan, Krillin, Bulma and their families, pretty much.

Funny thing is, if we're going this direction even back in Dragon Ball while Goku certainly cared for his friends he'd legit spend years traveling on his own making no contact with them. It wasn't until he actually got hitched with Chi Chi that he finally, for the time being anyway, settled down.

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#17834: Feb 2nd 2016 at 8:34:37 PM

[up]Goku's kinda a dick to his friends.

At the present point in Super, who is Goku's "closest friend"? Krillin, Bulma, Chi Chi, Piccolo? Beerus? Vegeta?

edited 2nd Feb '16 8:34:56 PM by wanderlustwarrior

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#17835: Feb 2nd 2016 at 8:38:01 PM

Krillin has the whole "old friend who stays close to the heart even though we don't see each other as much any more" vibe, and Vegeta's the current best buddy who you do everything together with.

I like that Super's been (re)emphasizing Bulma friendship with him and role in the dynamic more, though. That always kind of bugged me.

Either way, though, there's a lot of "friends of friends" in Goku's circle.

edited 2nd Feb '16 8:39:26 PM by KnownUnknown

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#17836: Feb 2nd 2016 at 9:51:43 PM

[up][up][up][up] Maybe in Z, but some of the stuff he gets up to in Dragonball is kinda vile. Though occasionally inadvertent, but sometimes very... advertent.

...how is "inadvertent" a word, but "advertent" isn't?

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#17837: Feb 2nd 2016 at 10:09:16 PM

It is. Your spellcheck just doesn't recognize it due to it not being commonly used when compared to its antonym.

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#17838: Feb 2nd 2016 at 10:16:11 PM

[up][up]

Depends on how much of that behavior is anime only. I've seen talk on the main DB thread that shows he wasn't as sexually voracious as in the anime.

Of course, his first appearance still had Bulma flashing him.

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#17839: Feb 2nd 2016 at 10:20:42 PM

His demanded payment for extinguishing Mount Frypan is the same I both, for example.

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#17840: Feb 3rd 2016 at 1:57:13 AM

Read the manga, then tell me that Kamesennin isn't the Trope Codifier for Old Master in Anime and Manga. If you do tell me he isn't, fight me in Real Life.

edited 3rd Feb '16 1:59:04 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

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#17841: Feb 3rd 2016 at 3:59:11 AM

Maybe in Z, but some of the stuff he gets up to in Dragonball is kinda vile. Though occasionally inadvertent, but sometimes very... advertent.

The key is less perverted, not that he wasn't perverted. In the manga he's certainly a vile piece of shit, the anime just takes it Up To Eleven.

Yes, the biggest difference is that as the series moved on Toriyama stopped using him for pervert gags and Toei didn't. But Toei also made him do worse things than he ever did in the manga.

edited 3rd Feb '16 4:01:35 AM by Saiga

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#17842: Feb 3rd 2016 at 5:58:07 AM

What did Mutenroshi do in the anime that was so bad? I honestly don't remember. I guess it wasn't a thing I paid attention as a kid.

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#17843: Feb 3rd 2016 at 6:16:57 AM

[up][up][up] yes, but it also means we have him to blame for characters like Jiraiya or Yulyana, who take after his worst traits.

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#17844: Feb 3rd 2016 at 6:50:37 AM

[up][up]

Launch was K Oed by Goku once and Roshi tried to cop a feel.

And, as I stated earlier, he tried to grope 18 and got the shit kicked out of him.

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#17845: Feb 3rd 2016 at 7:24:42 AM

Read the manga, then tell me that Kamesennin isn't the Trope Codifier for Old Master in Anime and Manga. If you do tell me he isn't, fight me in Real Life.

Ok, he isn't the trope codifier. Now I'll let you pick: do you want me to use karate, boxing, muay thai, aikido, or good old fashioned Brooklyn street fighting when we fight? cool

(Yes, this post is thoroughly tongue in cheek, and I'm only a fan of or have only done the basics in most of those styles.)

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#17846: Feb 3rd 2016 at 9:58:23 AM

Black Belt in Taekwondo. Fight me scrublord I'm ripped.

edited 3rd Feb '16 12:03:04 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

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#17847: Feb 3rd 2016 at 10:00:17 AM

I Know Mortal Kombat.

And that's Not Hyperbole, MK is actually my fighting game.

edited 3rd Feb '16 10:00:45 AM by TobiasDrake

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#17848: Feb 3rd 2016 at 11:56:44 AM

Black Belt in Teakwondo.

Just make sure your style doesn't get too wooden and it's all good. wink tongue

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#17849: Feb 3rd 2016 at 12:03:47 PM

Dang-it I always get that E and A confused!

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#17850: Feb 3rd 2016 at 1:28:09 PM

What did Mutenroshi do in the anime that was so bad? I honestly don't remember. I guess it wasn't a thing I paid attention as a kid.

Launch was K Oed by Goku once and Roshi tried to cop a feel.

And, as I stated earlier, he tried to grope 18 and got the shit kicked out of him.

He's also tried to motorboat both Bulma and Chi-Chi.


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