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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#21801: Dec 4th 2016 at 4:29:41 PM

Back spikes that also electrocute you...at that point it was just overkill.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#21802: Dec 4th 2016 at 4:40:55 PM

Again.

Shot in the heart, but didn't die for minutes afterwards.

Vegeta doesn't just give love a bad name, he makes death look like he's lazy.tongue

No such thing as overkill with a dude like that.

One Strip! One Strip!
Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Arashi Shigehito
#21803: Dec 4th 2016 at 4:55:34 PM

You say that, but Frieza survived way worse than that, up to being cut into chunks; he didn't actually die until the vaporization happened.

Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#21804: Dec 4th 2016 at 4:59:34 PM

It's no secret, DB characters can take some incredible punishment...

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#21805: Dec 4th 2016 at 5:17:51 PM

Freeza's race can evidently survive some pretty crazy things, just in general. In Super he spends some time in literally dozens of pieces, and just seems pissed off.

That and being able to survive just fine in a vacuum makes me wonder what they have in the way of internal organs. They clearly have blood, at any rate.

edited 4th Dec '16 5:19:30 PM by KnownUnknown

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#21806: Dec 4th 2016 at 6:13:04 PM

As far as the weaker characters showing up just to stand around goes, I was watching Kai on Toonami yesterday and there was some filler where during Gohan and Cell's final beam clash, the cast decides that if they're going to die anyway, they might as well try to help Gohan. Cell pretty much defeats them by flexing, but it was nice that it was portrayed as motivating Gohan to push forward and win, as well as humiliating Vegeta out of his funk to do his part.

Unrelated: Dragon Fist is really cool.

Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Face me now, bitch!
#21807: Dec 4th 2016 at 6:26:58 PM

Definitely very brutal of what Omega did to Vegeta.

But then I read Baki The Grappler and Omege's attack doesn't even make me flinch anymore.

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#21808: Dec 4th 2016 at 7:53:59 PM

[up][up]I like this one.

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
TyeDyeWildebeest Unreasonably Quirky from Big Rock Candy Mountain Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: How does it feel to treat me like you do?
Unreasonably Quirky
#21809: Dec 4th 2016 at 8:44:20 PM

As far as the weaker characters showing up just to stand around goes, I was watching Kai on Toonami yesterday and there was some filler where during Gohan and Cell's final beam clash, the cast decides that if they're going to die anyway, they might as well try to help Gohan. Cell pretty much defeats them by flexing, but it was nice that it was portrayed as motivating Gohan to push forward and win, as well as humiliating Vegeta out of his funk to do his part.

I have to disagree; that scene really rubbed me the wrong way. It just seemed like the writers were going out of their way to show how inferior the non-saiyan fighters were.

What I did like was the part when each of them started talking about what Goku and Gohan mean to them. Tien says that it was always his dream to surpass Goku as a martial artist, Piccolo says that Gohan taught him what it meant to have a friend, Krillin credits Goku for turning him from a Bratty Half-Pint into a genuinely nice guy...

...but then you get to Yamcha, and all he says is, "You've got a great kid, Goku! Like father like son!"

...like, seriously? That's all he has to say? FFS, he's known Goku longer than anyone else there!...longer than anyone else in the world, barring Bulma and Oolong! And he just has nothing to say about all their adventures together? Emperor Pilaf? The 21st World Tournament? Meeting Fortuneteller Baba? The 22nd World Tournament?

edited 4th Dec '16 8:46:35 PM by TyeDyeWildebeest

No beer?! But if there's no beer, then there's no beef or beans!
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#21810: Dec 4th 2016 at 8:52:57 PM

Just a bunch of humiliation after humiliation...it's no wonder he doesn't bring that stuff up.

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Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#21811: Dec 4th 2016 at 9:01:06 PM

I'm just a sucker for "the odds are hopeless but you keep on trying anyway" type stuff.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#21812: Dec 4th 2016 at 9:10:59 PM

It's better that they try than just keep standing there...or Cell just shrugging off the damage entirely.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#21813: Dec 4th 2016 at 9:21:15 PM

Speaking of Cell, could someone help me out: in ep 47 he says that 17 and 18 should join him in a "blissful world of pure perfection" or something with a creepy song playing with 18 telling him to stop it.

I'm sure that's a reference to something but I have no idea what. Does anyone get it?

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#21814: Dec 4th 2016 at 9:25:14 PM

Willy Wonka's first song in the Wilder movie.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#21817: Dec 4th 2016 at 9:36:28 PM

No. Cell's just perverting an innocent song.

Like with turning Mr. Sandman into a creepy entrance, or killing radio hosts to Video Killed the Radio Star.

edited 4th Dec '16 9:36:56 PM by Anomalocaris20

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Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#21818: Dec 4th 2016 at 9:37:18 PM

Well, I guess Yamcha and Goku were never really that close then. Friend of a friend and all.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#21819: Dec 4th 2016 at 9:39:14 PM

I wonder how they're going to cover that scene. I can't image they'll leave it out.

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#21820: Dec 4th 2016 at 9:40:42 PM

Goku and Yamcha hardly had any meaningful interactions at all, so I doubt Yamcha can even say anything about him beyond "He's a cool guy I guess."

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#21821: Dec 4th 2016 at 9:45:00 PM

Yamucha could say that Karrot was the first person to be nice to him...there's always that.

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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#21822: Dec 4th 2016 at 9:49:16 PM

Yamcha spent the entire first arc being that one enemy who fights against you and tries to foil your plans, but also fights alongside you when someone else tries to beat you. He was, almost exactly, a more comedic version of Vegeta on Namek.

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#21823: Dec 4th 2016 at 9:51:50 PM

Except Vegeta was actually a threat and competent at what he did :V

edited 4th Dec '16 9:52:09 PM by BlackYakuzu94

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#21824: Dec 4th 2016 at 9:53:12 PM

He did specify more comedic version.

Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#21825: Dec 4th 2016 at 9:54:13 PM

longer than anyone else in the world, barring Bulma and Oolong!

And Roshi and Turtle! :-P


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