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Yes. She commented she memorized the last World Tournament champion's name because it was unusual for someone to have a surname, and used that to deduce he was Gohan's father.
If I remember correctly she didn't say no one have a surname, just that it is rare. So, there might are probably people other than the Son family who have surnames, they just never appeared in the manga.
Me too.
I mean, it just kinda makes sense to me.
It's amazing how many little things Toriyama just doesn't bother with:
- Refusing to name Frieza's race
- Not bothering to name Bulma's mom
- .....I was sure there was some other stuff, but now I'm drawing blanks.
Das cooool, mang.
More new minds are welcome.
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Toriyama's refusal to name Frieza's race makes perfect sense to me. As far as he's concerned, because Frieza and his father are mutants, they're basically unique entities. Whatever species on whatever asscrack planet somewhere in the universe spawned them is not now, nor will it probably ever be relevant to the story. Fleshing them out would just be world-building for its own sake, contributing nothing to the plot.
And because Frieza and Cold are mutants, there's no guarantee that anything people might find interesting about them would even fit. "They have an average power level of 80 million!" No, they don't. "They can all transform a bunch of times!" Probably not. "They're masters of ki!" Maybe, but no promises.
They might not even exist, given that - by definition - Frieza and Cold's homeworld would have been the first planet the pair ever interacted with.
In the end, Toriyama wants Frieza and Cold to be considered unique and special snowflakes, not representative of any species.
edited 16th Mar '16 7:34:18 AM by TobiasDrake
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Honestly I think Frost is more damning, both because he's canon and he's from another universe. There are plenty of alternate versions of races, but no examples of an Alternate Self.
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Tien Shinhan is how is name was spelled in the dub. It's only one name in the original Japanese, Tenshinhan.
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