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#18501: Feb 22nd 2016 at 11:19:07 AM

She spent a lot of offscreen time training her lungs on a mountain.

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#18502: Feb 22nd 2016 at 11:21:29 AM

Teenage Goku was running laps around the Lookout. He didn't notice the thin air until he started training his muscles to get past Popo to meet God - training that, itself, came after Goku's first failed attempts to defeat Popo - and discovered he ran out of breath surprisingly fast.

Neither Bulma nor the infant Trunks has performed strenuous physical activity while up there.

edited 22nd Feb '16 11:22:25 AM by TobiasDrake

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#18503: Feb 22nd 2016 at 11:24:39 AM

The thin air was brought up back when he was training with Karin. Bulma and infant Trunks should barely be able to breathe on the Lookout.

edited 22nd Feb '16 11:40:34 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

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#18504: Feb 22nd 2016 at 11:26:43 AM

Well, Trunks is Half-Saiyan and Bulma is a Bulma.

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#18505: Feb 22nd 2016 at 11:27:30 AM

And shouldn't Tien be in the hospital due to those tumors that his muscles are turning into?

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#18506: Feb 22nd 2016 at 11:35:21 AM

That's why he doesn't go to the doctor anymore.

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#18507: Feb 22nd 2016 at 11:37:40 AM

(checks manga)

PMC's right, Karin did bring up the thin atmosphere during Goku's training. He just needed it explained to him again by Popo after his laps exerted him surprisingly fast because...he's an idiot, I guess.

Still, both instances were only after extensive physical activity. Bulma hasn't been fighting anybody.

edited 22nd Feb '16 11:38:21 AM by TobiasDrake

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#18508: Feb 22nd 2016 at 11:43:02 AM

Once it becomes a common location for the main characters to visit...you tend to forget those small details.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#18509: Feb 22nd 2016 at 3:19:34 PM

And Bulma's a smoker on top of that. At least, she was seen smoking on screen that one time. And also, she knows how to speak Namekian. How many people actually remember that? I mean, it wouldn't come up that often, but she's still able to speak it.

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#18510: Feb 22nd 2016 at 3:32:57 PM

Didn't she only know enough words to work the ship?

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#18511: Feb 22nd 2016 at 3:36:44 PM

IT WOULD'VE BEEN SO MUCH COOLER FOR BULMA TO SUMMON PORUNGA BECAUSE SHE CAN SPEAK NAMEKIAN. BULMA WOULD'VE BEEN USEFUL ON NAMEK!

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#18512: Feb 22nd 2016 at 3:48:05 PM

Yes...Bulma could've summoned the Duragon...

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#18513: Feb 22nd 2016 at 4:00:00 PM

Dende stays with Guru, Bulma summons Porunga and wishes for Piccolo to be revived and put on Namek at his request, Piccolo ending up far away is attributed to Bulma's inexperience with the language. Guru dies but, with his dying breath, tells Dende to help the Humans with his healing abilities. Bulma nopes out of there the second Vegeta shows up, and Dende arrives around when Freeza transforms to his second form. Dende stays hidden until Krillin needs healing from horn impalement.

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#18514: Feb 22nd 2016 at 4:27:55 PM

You know what? That I think that (or something similar would have worked).

It seemed Toriyama had no plans for Bulma beyond flying the ship when it came to Namek.

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JonnasN from Porto, Portugal Since: Jul, 2012
#18515: Feb 22nd 2016 at 5:17:24 PM

It seemed Toriyama had no plans

This is accurate enough, no need for the rest of the sentence tongue

I remember Saiga theorising that Toriyama liked to have secondary characters at the ready just in case he wanted to use them (hence why Bulma was on Namek and the humans+Piccolo went to Kaioh). Makes sense, and I feel that explains how Dragon Ball came to have such a large cast by the end: Toriyama just kept around a bunch of characters he liked.

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#18516: Feb 22nd 2016 at 5:53:19 PM

I find it hilarious that neither Frieza nor Vegeta could ever have gotten their wish for immortality granted.

If the Earthlings had never gone to Namek, Vegeta would have gotten himself killed wrestling with Frieza for the Dragon Balls, Frieza would get the Dragon Balls, and they would never respond to him. He might even kill Guru out of ignorance and ended the Balls. Then he'd be forced to return to the PTO embittered that he wasted so much time on this ridiculous nonsense and go about his business.

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#18517: Feb 22nd 2016 at 10:04:05 PM

And then all those people who died because of Vegeta would stay dead...unless they found Gurus's soul in heaven and had Baba revive him.

Would that have worked?

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#18518: Feb 22nd 2016 at 10:14:52 PM

Weren't they still dead when Baba let them visit?

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#18519: Feb 22nd 2016 at 10:31:27 PM

Yeah but if he visited he would probably be able to transfer the dragonball powers or something.

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#18520: Feb 23rd 2016 at 7:33:06 AM

Transfer the powers to who? In this hypothetical, with Namek wiped out and Piccolo still dead, there isn't a Namekian left to create and sustain Dragon Balls. They're extinct.

That's the biggest stake of the Frieza arc. Frieza's immortality was never on the table, but Frieza - in his elitist egotism and sadistic cruelty - would have ignorantly brought about the end of the Dragon Balls forever. And then he'd go home, miffed that he ever bought into this stupid bullshit nonsense in the first place; consoling himself in the fact that, obviously, the Dragon Balls didn't work, because he had them all and nothing happened.

edited 23rd Feb '16 7:37:03 AM by TobiasDrake

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#18521: Feb 23rd 2016 at 10:02:32 AM

Clearly the only possible option is a set of afterlife dragon balls. That summon the Eternally Dead Dragon, who's just a Shenlong skeleton.

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#18522: Feb 23rd 2016 at 10:44:06 AM

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#18523: Feb 23rd 2016 at 10:45:04 AM

Eternal Dead Dragon sounds metal as fuck.

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#18524: Feb 23rd 2016 at 10:46:12 AM

Draw it and stick it on a Metal Cover.

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#18525: Feb 23rd 2016 at 11:19:51 AM

He brings people back from being alive.


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