It's probably a combination of the fact they exist at all, along with the fact that they really do make sense.
I think I'd buy it much more if surnames weren't a thing at all. But they are. So it's weird they wouldn't be widespread.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.That's just modern thinking. Surnames haven't always been commonplace. In fact, the idea that every single person has a surname has only been around for less than a thousand years.
In Japan, the idea is less than 300 years old.
Throughout history, it's commonly been the case that even having a surname at all marks a family as special. It's a privilege typically reserved for aristocracy.
edited 10th Feb '16 8:52:23 AM by TobiasDrake
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They're not a special family. They're a family of special people, but they're commoners.
edited 10th Feb '16 8:53:28 AM by Larkmarn
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Again, the only reason Goku and his family have surnames is because Goku is based off of Sun Wukong and Son Gokuu is the Japanese name for Sun Wukong. There is no in universe explanation for this but, in this case, there doesn't have to be.
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!The in-universe explanation is that he inherited it from Son Gohan I. That Gohan had a surname raises interesting questions about his heritage that are never answered because we know so little about Son Gohan.
It implies that Son Gohan has blood ties to nobility either existing or past, which raises questions about how long the one-world nation has been such and whether nobility exists within it or if Son Gohan's aristocratic surname predates the World Domination wish.
It's a question with no official answer but not one that would be impossible to explain if a writer wanted to address it.
edited 10th Feb '16 9:15:38 AM by TobiasDrake
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Like, you have North City, South City, East City and West City. Central City is where King Furry is. There's Orange Star/Satan City.
You have Nicky Town and Ginger Town. I don't remember what the city where they hold the Tenkaichi budokai is called.
Ox King is the king of Frypan Mountain, and a village there. I assume he and his kingdom are vassals to King Furry. Kings being subservient to other kings after being conquered isn't entirely unheard of.
I dunno who King Chappa was a king of.
It seems like Emperor Pilaf's only servants are Mai and Shu, but. When we first meet them they have a big castle in the middle of the desert, and it seems kinda old, and I don't think the two of them are capable of building it themselves. Pilaf has a lot of machines and it seems like he has a lot of Zeni to fund them all. So. I mean, maybe he's some kind of prince or something? Maybe he's the last scion of some dynasty of kings that heard of how King Furry's ancestor started and wants to put himself and his line at the top instead?
Additionally. I mean, a wish to Shenron to become king of the world, which seems to be how the Furry dynasty began, would not, necessarily, in and of itself put an end to and depose all other monarchies. It depends on how the wish was implemented.
Yes, politics, the one topic that sparks very little controversy!
"This is what happens when you elect a dog as king!"
I hadn't watched Dragonball in a long time, and Abridged totally reminded me that, yes, the world is run by a talking dog named King Furry. And I love that.
Earth's run by a dog, space is ruled by by an alien that wears lipstick, and the universe fears an Egyptian cat.
edited 10th Feb '16 11:11:33 AM by Soble
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!King Chappa might be a stage name, like Mr. Satan. He was supposed to be impressive before he was immediately punched out by Goku in the preliminaries, so it could just mean he's King of the Ring or something.
Yeah. Frieza's more like the CEO of an interstellar real-estate agency with shady business practices.
edited 10th Feb '16 11:20:14 AM by TobiasDrake
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I would love to see some Adaptation Expansion of the Planet Trade Organization. Who are their clients? Do they advertise the genocide or just the conveniently empty yet habitable worlds? What's life like for the day-to-day grunt?
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Yeah, apparently Chappa won a Tenkaichi Budoukai without anyone hitting him once the entire tournament.
My various fanfics.Wait.
They wished back everyone killed by Cell. Right? Or. I mean, they will in the abridged version, presumably.
But in the original.
They erased everyone's memories of Buu. But they didn't erase everyone's memory of Cell.
Like. How exactly does Mr. Satan manage to convince everyone that Cell was just a "trick" when people come back to life remember being liquefied and a bug monster drinking them?
When people remember dying and standing before King Yemma?
Erasing people's memory of Buu wasn't about keeping them from knowing they were revived. It was done so that Mr. Buu could ease into society without problem.
Consequentially, they don't think the bug monster drinking people was a trick. But they don't have to worry about that because Mr. Satan, in his infinite capabilities, defeated the bug monster and saved the world. And also resurrected people somehow, because he's Jesus.
They think the golden-haired flying monkeys shooting giant energy beams that blew up huge swathes of wasteland were tricks.
edited 10th Feb '16 11:30:44 AM by TobiasDrake
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If two god-aliens showed up, blew up a random wasteland in the middle of their deathmatch, and then disappeared from the face of the earth, would we accept that there's actually some race of super-beings out there? That'd create panic.
Combined with Hercule stealing all the credit and having no opposition except maybe his film crew, I don't think any government would want the people to accept that Cell actually existed.
The liquefied victims just have to deal with the memories.
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!Best. Day. Ever.
I really do find it funny that is pretty much the only time that the reset button never got mashed, and no one ever comments on it.
Nappa's the most successful killer of earthlings in the show.
edited 10th Feb '16 11:39:56 AM by Larkmarn
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.I guess from the "ruling the galaxy" standpoint Freeza's like Space Lex Luthor or something (whereas from a execution standpoint he's along the lines of someone like Mongul). He's technically a businessman/crime boss, but everyone knows he practically runs everything and has the power to destroy anyone - even actual rulers. And he wants ultimate power, hence the occasional villainous plot.
I would say Space Ultraman (that is, DC's Ultraman), but I'm not familiar enough with the character to know if Justice League Crisis On Two Earths' take is typical of him.
edited 10th Feb '16 1:10:22 PM by KnownUnknown

It strikes me as weird that there's so much opposition to the idea that surnames aren't common on a planet ruled by a dog.
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