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#19226: May 6th 2016 at 11:48:25 PM

The issue (that they make fun of in the abridged series) is that in canon, the Spirit Bomb almost never is what actually finishes the foe.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#19227: May 6th 2016 at 11:50:33 PM

What's the problem with changing the source material on one of the movies?

It's not like they matter, really...and there was a neat joke out of it.

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Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#19228: May 6th 2016 at 11:54:03 PM

The problem with changing the source material is that you have to put in your own which can easily end up pretty stupid. The last few minutes were just silly. And not in a good way.

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#19229: May 6th 2016 at 11:54:51 PM

Forgive me if I disagree. I found the altered ending hilarious (And a pretty good way to end a more sympathetic portrayal of Wheelo).

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#19230: May 7th 2016 at 12:07:18 AM

Yeah, I liked the new ending.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#19231: May 7th 2016 at 12:10:49 AM

Yeah, I thought it worked well but I get why others might not. Like, this movie was apparently highly anticipated. Making such big changes might be understandably off putting for some.

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#19232: May 7th 2016 at 12:33:28 AM

I have no connection to this movie. It just seems odd to me that they'd build up how much they love this movie, then change it significantly.

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#19233: May 7th 2016 at 12:43:20 AM

For anyone who doesn't know, in the original Dr. Wheelo wants to use a heat laser to scorch the planet's atmosphere.

Funnily enough, in DBZA, Turtle is like 3 times older than Roshi while in canon, Roshi raised him from birth.

I liked the black comedy of Yamcha showing up to help, only to be exploded and than completely forgotten about by everyone else, as well as Blub-Blub crying in terror as he dies.

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#19234: May 7th 2016 at 12:44:10 AM

Well, I'm sure part of it is because they already abridged it before. They decided to go in a different direction instead of just remastering their previous version.

I still love the fact that Kochin has a gatling gun arm, even if it doesn't do him much good. It's just so out-of-nowhere, especially since sophisticated cybernetics like Gero's later creations hadn't been introduced yet.

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#19235: May 7th 2016 at 12:46:44 AM

In the original, Krillin is terrified of the gatling gun arm and spends a good while running from the bullets until Roshi saves him. A good change, that, though we missed Krillin running on the wall.

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#19236: May 7th 2016 at 12:53:33 AM

They changed Roshi's age in Abridged?

Or Turtle's age?

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#19237: May 7th 2016 at 12:54:11 AM

Turtle.

He's 999 or 1000 years old in Abridged.

edited 7th May '16 12:54:19 AM by Anomalocaris20

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#19238: May 7th 2016 at 12:58:12 AM

I think this is the first time they've straight up changed the events of the original content.

Dodoria being a woman? Popo eating Garlic Jr.? Nappa being alive, making movies, and training Hercule?

Vegeta killing Ginyu before the events of Super?

edited 7th May '16 12:58:30 AM by Hobgoblin

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#19239: May 7th 2016 at 1:09:48 AM

[up][up]They might haps just taken that from the Dub, or just actually did take it from the Funimation Dub.

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Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#19240: May 7th 2016 at 1:20:38 AM

I didn't even know this movie existed, so I can't be mad at them changing the ending because I'm a huge fan of it.

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#19242: May 7th 2016 at 2:00:02 AM

The ending's not great. Goku throws the world's slowest Spirit Bomb and Wheelo explodes. Personally, I don't think the original movie's as good as some people say it is; the new character designs are atrocious, the color pallet is way too dark and ugly, Roshi fighting again is neat but the original Dragon Ball has plenty of that, Krillin is somehow even more useless than usual in the movies, Piccolo doesn't do anything whatsoever and the movie would be exactly the same without him, Wheelo's mech character design makes me want to claw my eyes out, and Wheelo's evil plan is extremely generic and boring.

edited 7th May '16 2:01:40 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#19243: May 7th 2016 at 2:17:17 AM

I think it might be the most nonsensical in terms of timeline.

Dead Zone would make sense as being pre-Raditz post-Tournament if not for Krillin being there.

I literally don't understand when World's Strongest is meant to be.

Gohan has trained with Piccolo but is at home with Chichi and Goku's alive and still using Kaioken and Spirit Bomb.

There is no point in the series where all of those things are true.

Which isn't a criticism, but. Still kinda weird?

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#19244: May 7th 2016 at 2:21:57 AM

I think World's Strongest is supposed to take place in a world where Vegeta and Nappa were defeated with no casualties and everything went back to normal. Aside from everyone being as strong as they were at the beginning of Z because that's the only way Roshi being in any way relevant makes sense.

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#19245: May 7th 2016 at 2:28:19 AM

I was under the impression that the movies making sense in the timeline was the exception, not the rule?

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#19246: May 7th 2016 at 2:32:54 AM

TFS tries to make the movies fit in that canon crevice, but they really, really can't do it here.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#19247: May 7th 2016 at 2:47:02 AM

Again, it wasn't a criticism. Then not fitting is par for the course.

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#19248: May 7th 2016 at 3:20:18 AM

[up][up] "This is so non-canon it hurts"

They don't try.

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#19249: May 7th 2016 at 3:25:37 AM

They try "sometimes"...or only twice with Deadzone and Super Android 13.

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#19250: May 7th 2016 at 4:19:37 AM

My point was that you had to have seen the original movie to be annoyed by the changes, only that because this one was apparently so highly anticipated that I could see that being a fairly major thing.


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