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BigMadDraco Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#2052: Jul 4th 2012 at 6:45:23 PM

Guldo's name is based on the japanese word for yogurt.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#2053: Jul 4th 2012 at 8:21:53 PM

@Enlong The Saiyans aren't gone, Trunks is still around sending you on quests and you go back in time to when the Saiyans were still around.

Also the humans have pretty much been turned into the Saiyans, because the developers realized that humans can't be useful without Saiyan blood. So yeah. Every human is part Saiyan.

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#2054: Jul 4th 2012 at 8:36:01 PM

[up]Wait, you go back in time, but every human is part sayian? ...ow! Time paradox.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#2055: Jul 4th 2012 at 8:38:43 PM

[up] Oh, no. Normally the game is set 200 years after the end of the manga, and the human players are all part Saiyan. And you can go back in time to when Goku, Vegeta and whatnot are hanging around.

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#2056: Jul 4th 2012 at 8:42:56 PM

[up]So, it's the distant future set in the past which is technically the present? At least it makes sense.tongue

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#2057: Jul 4th 2012 at 8:44:00 PM

Blame Trunks and his time machine.

Which I guess sits two people now or something. OhGodIHopeI'mNotMeantToSitOnHisLap

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#2058: Jul 4th 2012 at 8:47:30 PM

Wait, isn't what Trunks doing pointless? Whatever time the player is sent back to won't change his future (as stated in the android saga).

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#2059: Jul 4th 2012 at 8:57:38 PM

He's not doing it for his future, he's doing that because the Big Bad of DBO, Miira, is a threat to all timelines and Trunks has to stop him from fucking around with them.

So for instance, you go back in time and prevent Miira from messing with Goku's battle with Nappa.

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#2060: Jul 4th 2012 at 10:45:21 PM

It always had room for two.

Also, it's not like it's out of character for Trunks to save one timeline that he'll never see just so that there can be a timeline totally free of whatever evil he's currently fighting.

Remember that bit where Trunks and Krillin warped to the past, and blew up Cell's gestation tank before he ever matured? Didn't do a thing to stop Cell in either of their times, but at least there's a timeline where Cell never did anything.

also: all humans have trace amounts of Saiyan blood? How did Goku's and and Vegeta's lineages spread that far in a span of 200 years? Though, I suppose it makes a bit of sense to make that move, since the other two races are Namekians and Majins. Of course, how the other two races can be balanced with a race of Majin Buu is anyone's guess.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#2061: Jul 4th 2012 at 10:48:34 PM

I don't think it did, because Cell couldn't even fit in the pod by himself in his first form and he wasn't that much bigger than a normal person.

And the idea is that their aren't thousands of player characters running around in story. Also the Majins are substantially weaker than Boo was because Boo created them by dividing himself over and over again.

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#2062: Jul 4th 2012 at 10:51:08 PM

...So it's literally a race of Majin Buu. That's weird. Buu is weird.

And the pod managed to carry two during that scene I mentioned where Trunks and Krillin go back in time to blow up a fetal Cell.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#2063: Jul 4th 2012 at 10:55:33 PM

No, they don't. They're still in the "main" timeline when they do that.tongue

DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
#2064: Jul 4th 2012 at 10:57:39 PM

[up] To clarify, they blow up the Cell in the current timeline. The one who absorbs the Androids is from a different timeline who warped back to the past.

If I remember correctly, Word of God states that there are four timelines. One is Trunks' future where there is no time traveling, one is the main timeline where the story takes place, the third is the timeline where Trunks goes back to the future, gets killed by Cell, and the Cell egg goes back, and the fourth is where Trunks goes back to the future and kills his time's Cell.

edited 4th Jul '12 10:59:05 PM by DarkConfidant

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#2065: Jul 4th 2012 at 11:00:15 PM

Didn't they? I admit that all I remember of the scene is the moment where Krillin blows up the tank. I suppose it makes sense that they didn't feel the need to use the time machine, since Cell matured the first time by taking The Slow Path and then taking the machine back.

Either way, Trunks is definitely the kind of guy to save a timeline, even if it's not the one he's going back to.

Wait, but which timeline is the one where Krillin blew up Cell's gestation tank? It being the main timeline, that means that Cell didn't mature, but they still got attacked by a time-hopping Cell from the third timeline? geez. How doees the machine even decide which timeline it hops to?

edited 4th Jul '12 11:02:17 PM by Enlong

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DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
#2066: Jul 4th 2012 at 11:01:32 PM

Nope. After Kamiccolo's encounter with Imperfect Cell, he reveals the information to Trunks and Krillin, who go back to the ruins of Gero's lab and find the incubating Cell. They also find the blueprints to 18 and something about a nuclear powered toaster while they're there, which Bulma uses to build the emergency shut-off switch.

edited 4th Jul '12 11:01:58 PM by DarkConfidant

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#2067: Jul 4th 2012 at 11:04:56 PM

Clearly Gohan raised his son to be the ultimate player.

Trunks is just that petty that he'd kill androids for fun. I think he gets a high off of it.

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#2068: Jul 4th 2012 at 11:11:37 PM

While I wouldn't be surprised if he got a kick out of killing androids after what 17 and 18 did, it makes sense that he'd go after the gestating Cell so that at least one timeline would be free of him (after the Cell Games, anyway).

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#2069: Jul 4th 2012 at 11:14:49 PM

Well, it just means that timeline won't have to deal with him later if they forget about him.

But given that Goten or Trunks could beat first form Cell, it's not like they had anything to worry about.

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#2070: Jul 4th 2012 at 11:43:08 PM

Well, if he was allowed to gestate, and then nicked the time machine again somehow, that would be a whole different kettle of worms.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#2071: Jul 4th 2012 at 11:53:52 PM

They don't have a time machine in their timeline.

Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#2072: Jul 5th 2012 at 5:42:10 AM

Guys, this thread is for Dragon Ball Abridged. If you want to talk about the parent series, make a thread for it.

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#2073: Jul 5th 2012 at 1:59:07 PM

There is already a thread for the parent series. Incidentally it was made because of that exact complaint.tongue

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#2075: Jul 5th 2012 at 2:40:58 PM

Yeah, we've demanded it a lot.


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