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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#22526: Dec 16th 2016 at 6:56:28 PM

Yeah, they make a big deal about Dende not understanding. It's a bit weird he didn't though; why else would they want him if not to be right there with them?

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#22527: Dec 16th 2016 at 7:13:23 PM

When you're panicking, you tend to make decisions that seem asinine in hindsight.

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#22528: Dec 16th 2016 at 7:26:24 PM

He makes it clear that he has no idea why they're wishing Piccolo to Namek to begin with ("really?!")

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#22529: Dec 16th 2016 at 7:32:36 PM

Not knowing is a reason to ask why they want him on Namek. Assuming they want him there for something else is a reason to drop him in the middle of nowhere.

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#22530: Dec 16th 2016 at 7:33:30 PM

[up][up]A reasonable response...considering the situation.

Maybe it was a conscious decision to place him far away from them.

[up]That's rational, but not productive...again, considering the situation.

edited 16th Dec '16 7:34:39 PM by randomness4

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#22531: Dec 16th 2016 at 9:31:12 PM

To be fair, since Piccolo ended up coming across Nail, that might've worked out. Had Piccolo appeared right there, Gohan, Krillin, Piccolo and Vegeta might not have lived long enough for Goku to heal and make the save.

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#22532: Dec 16th 2016 at 10:07:31 PM

Although Porunga did seem to be a bit nicer when he recreated Krillin's body and clothing when he revived him, enough that he even commented that it was 'my treat', which led to Bulma hitting on Porunga, which was just weird.

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#22533: Dec 16th 2016 at 10:52:55 PM

Women, amirite guys?

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#22534: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:09:51 PM

Good guy Shenron.

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#22535: Dec 17th 2016 at 8:28:20 AM

Bulma does not have the best taste in men. She had to use a magical dragon as a matchmaker, and when that failed, she hooked up with a bandit, hit on her future son, and then the man who killed all of her friends in cold blood.

With Yamcha being a bandit, Vegeta being a space bandit, Trunks being a time bandit according to Beerus, and Oolong snatching up children, she clearly has some kind of addiction to criminals.

edited 17th Dec '16 9:05:44 AM by Soble

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#22536: Dec 17th 2016 at 8:51:04 AM

The only person Vegeta killed was Nappa. Nappa was the one who killed everyone else.

Except for that one scrub who got wrecked by a Saibaman.

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#22537: Dec 17th 2016 at 8:58:05 AM

Not for lack of trying, mind. Attempted murder's a crime too.

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#22538: Dec 17th 2016 at 10:36:58 AM

Number 8. It's not Android 8.

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#22539: Dec 17th 2016 at 10:57:34 AM

Close enough.

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Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#22540: Dec 17th 2016 at 11:08:49 AM

Oh my sides with Kaiser calling Lani 'a f***in Weeb'...

edited 17th Dec '16 11:08:59 AM by Memers

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#22541: Dec 17th 2016 at 11:28:00 AM

Like Ghilz mentioned, the random placing of Piccolo "on Namek" worked out for the best, really. I can understand Dende's confusion. Even if he knew Piccolo, he'd still be confused. There really was no good reason to bring Piccolo to Namek in the first place. His resurrection restores Earth's Dragon Balls, and now they're recklessly endangering them at a time when Namek's are about to go up in smoke too.

Piccolo stumbling across Nail on his way to the battlefield was a necessary wacky happenstance. Without the power-up he got from that merger, Frieza would have ripped out everyone's lungs long before Goku finished healing in his tank. Everyone dies and there are no Dragon Balls left on either planet so nobody ever comes back.

Frieza returns to his empire pissed that he never got his wish and goes back to running his enterprise. Years later, the Androids murder Earth and nobody ever stops them. The end.

edited 17th Dec '16 11:31:32 AM by TobiasDrake

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#22542: Dec 17th 2016 at 11:31:16 AM

Well, they at least acknowledge it was stupid to bring him to Namek. That was just him being reckless and wanting to try out his new power, added bonus on the guy who kind of almost wiped out his entire race.

It's too bad we never found out how far he actually came before the Nail fusion.

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#22543: Dec 17th 2016 at 11:33:23 AM

Yeah. But I love that TFS depicts it as a mistake eagerly decided on-the-spot by Krillin, rather than a terribly suicidal plan that Piccolo embarks on which nearly destroys everything they f*cking went to Namek to achieve in the first place.

Bringing Piccolo to Namek is the stupidest decision anyone in the arc makes. It's the "Goku and Vegeta destroy the Potara" of the Frieza arc. Having it be a dumb impulse by one of the people making the wish, rather than a plan Piccolo comes up with that Gohan and Krillin promptly accept, works better for me.

  • Piccolo: Now that you have a brief window in which I can be revived and Earth's Dragon Balls can be restored, I want to use that time to get myself dumbf*ckedly killed so that nobody can ever be wished back again.
  • Krillin: This sounds like a perfect, reasonable plan to which I have no objections.
  • Gohan: I, too, see nothing wrong with the idea of putting Piccolo's life in danger when the only reason we even came here is because he was killed.
  • Dende: The hell are you people on? We're all probably going to get murdered right after Vegeta finds out we're doing this, so Imma put him as far away from the impending slaughter as possible.

edited 17th Dec '16 11:35:20 AM by TobiasDrake

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#22544: Dec 17th 2016 at 11:42:35 AM

Years later, the Androids murder Earth and nobody ever stops them. The end.

More likely that Gero tears apart a city or two before realizing that Goku got killed while he was off-planet. He retires to his lab and builds a gundam or something with his spare time. 16-18 are never brought online.

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#22545: Dec 17th 2016 at 12:36:22 PM

...

He's right.

If Goku isn't on Earth, then it's just everyone else fighting Gero unprepared, and he never has a reason to release 17 and 18 because barring Trunks' warning, they're caught completely off guard.

In fact, since Goku never leaves Namek, Trunks might not even come back unless it's far earlier in the story then he did in canon. He'd have to either go to Namek, or kind some way to help Goku get back to his ship in time.

edited 17th Dec '16 12:36:45 PM by HandsomeRob

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#22546: Dec 17th 2016 at 12:40:03 PM

There's not really anyone to fight Gero unprepared.

If Goku, Vegeta, Krillin, Gohan, and Piccolo all die on Namek and Yamcha, Tien, and Chiaotzu are still dead from Nappa, who would fight Gero in the first place? Yajirobe?

And Trunks doesn't come back because he needs Vegeta and Bulma to survive Namek in order to exist.

Piccolo getting killed by Frieza, followed shortly by everyone else, because they wished him to Namek and he didn't arrive half a planet away is basically a worst-case scenario. Rocks fall, everyone dies, the villains win forever.

edited 17th Dec '16 12:41:00 PM by TobiasDrake

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#22547: Dec 17th 2016 at 12:49:04 PM

Presumably Tights could call Jaco for ....

No, I can't seriously finish that sentence. At some point, Beerus just mercy kills the Earth.

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#22548: Dec 17th 2016 at 12:54:31 PM

That or zamasu shows up and kills everyone.

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#22549: Dec 17th 2016 at 12:58:53 PM

But Zamasu doesn't go Omnicidal Maniac without seeing Goku using Super Saiyan God powers.

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#22550: Dec 17th 2016 at 12:59:34 PM

Isn't his major malfunction the specific thing of mortals casually interacting with the gods? With Goku and everyone dead, and them never meeting Kaioshin during the Buu saga or Beerus after he wakes up, he's got no reason to target Earth specifically.

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