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Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#23376: Dec 31st 2016 at 10:44:53 AM

If Goku and Vegeta can't stop Kid Buu you get the same exact scenario you're defending, but worse.

I don't see what that has anything to do with anything. After all, they'd have to fight Kid Buu eventually to stop his rampage either way. Buu actually pulling off some permanent no way out of it damage before they defeat him is a much scarier possibility than them just beating Buu normally.

You're the one making the assumption that Otherworld wouldn't be on his radar/he wouldn't care about it.

Because Buu never shows that he knows Otherworld exists and that he knows how to get there originally. Sure there's no reason to think he can't in the manga, but I'm not going to give him points for it if it isn't addressed as a threat. After all, Cell could theoretically have done it too, but thinking of possibilities in retrospect doesn't make his threat have more impact in the moment. Coula shoulda woulda. He didn't, and that's what matters.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#23377: Dec 31st 2016 at 10:52:41 AM

This argument has gone on long enough.

Why don't we just agree to disagree?

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Thebrawlbro Since: Aug, 2013
#23378: Dec 31st 2016 at 10:53:06 AM

Doubt we are getting it that quick, since according to Kaiser we are getting Hellsing either today or tommorow.

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#23379: Dec 31st 2016 at 10:58:50 AM

Let me interject here: Kid Buu destroying everything everywhere wasn't going to happen anyways, since apparently he's existed since time inmemoriam, destroying things on a rampage until he ran out of juice and went into hibernation, kind of like Beerus-lite, except with no way to be reasoned with.

AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#23380: Dec 31st 2016 at 2:05:47 PM

Hellsing Ultimate Abridged Episode 7 just got uploaded, link is in the thread for that series.

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Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#23381: Dec 31st 2016 at 2:39:25 PM

@Tobias It's like you have no knowledge on how the cosmology of Dragon Ball even works. There are two sections of the macroverse, the Living World and the Afterlife. The Living World is basically our universe, and is split into four quadrants called Areas (they were erroneously referred to as Galaxies for a long time). The Afterlife is made out of the Check-in Station, the four planets of the Kais, Grand Kai's Planet, and Heaven, which is a planet comparable in size to a galactic cluster at the very least. Hell lies between the two realms as a sort of filling, the Demon Realm is located at the very bottom tip of the macroverse, and the Sacred World of the Kais is located in its own separate sphere that seems to orbit the macroverse sphere. The home planet of the Shinjin is presumably either in the Afterlife, or is a separate planet in the sphere the Supreme Kai reside in.

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AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#23382: Dec 31st 2016 at 2:43:39 PM

Can we please just drop it? This conversation is going nowhere.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#23383: Dec 31st 2016 at 2:46:09 PM

I mean, I like how the Dragon Ball Universe is shaped.

It's a weird but fun detail.

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#23384: Dec 31st 2016 at 2:50:24 PM

I wish I could read that.

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#23385: Dec 31st 2016 at 2:53:00 PM

Okay, so apparently we aren't affiliated with wikia, so I can't just upload it here.

edited 31st Dec '16 2:53:31 PM by unnoun

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#23386: Dec 31st 2016 at 2:56:59 PM

I mean, the problem is that it's too small, not that I can't access the link.

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Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#23387: Dec 31st 2016 at 3:00:02 PM

Can we please just drop it? This conversation is going nowhere.

Yeah sorry. I kind of kept the conversation going longer than it should have because I was assuming Broly 2 would get uploaded today to interrupt it, not Hellsing. I should have agreed to disagree a while ago.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#23388: Dec 31st 2016 at 3:01:18 PM

I like how the Otherworld has its own separate sun.

And it's huge.

And Supreme Kai's planet has like. Ten suns.

edited 31st Dec '16 3:01:50 PM by unnoun

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#23389: Dec 31st 2016 at 3:12:41 PM

That is "biased" the worst place to live...

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#23390: Dec 31st 2016 at 3:14:47 PM

The shape of the Dragon Ball universe is probably one of my favorite details of the setting.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#23391: Dec 31st 2016 at 3:24:40 PM

Is this version of the image better?

EDIT: FUCK

Or this?

edited 31st Dec '16 3:26:03 PM by unnoun

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
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#23393: Dec 31st 2016 at 3:33:21 PM

since apparently he's existed since time inmemoriam, destroying things on a rampage until he ran out of juice and went into hibernation, kind of like Beerus-lite, except with no way to be reasoned with.

...-continues to loath new Dragonball Canon with a passion-

Bardock the Rogue > Bardock-El

Kid Buu as Babidi's pet project > immortal monster from eternity punked by a pair of mortals and blown the f'ck up

Bibidi having an actual son > Babidi being a clone

-

The only thing I accept are the names Lapis and Lazuli. Because Abridged Krillin's reaction to them was hilarious.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#23394: Dec 31st 2016 at 3:35:29 PM

I wonder how many of the changes are actually deliberate on Toriyama's part and how much is him forgetting what he actually wrote in the manga and just making shit up on the spot.

Not going to lie, it's what I'd do.

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#23395: Dec 31st 2016 at 3:39:03 PM

Hey, it's either Buu's backstory is Beerus-lite or Cell-lite, and he's already got more than enough Cell-lite in his Super Buu formes, so I'll take the Beerus-lite, thank you very much.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#23396: Dec 31st 2016 at 4:01:13 PM

He's better as an ancient genie evil...

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#23397: Dec 31st 2016 at 4:06:33 PM

Wait, where did it say that Babidi was Bibidi's clone? Also he's not a very good clone if he looks nothing like his dad.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#23399: Dec 31st 2016 at 4:09:35 PM

[up][up] Bibidi's appearance was exclusive to the anime, so it's not a contradiction there.

I don't like the new changes anyway, they seem completely unnecessary and add nothing. Boo being a magical accident is way more fitting for his nature.

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#23400: Dec 31st 2016 at 4:18:06 PM

I actually think that Bibidi finding some ancient primal evil and giving it a body explains away how Buu was so stupid powerful. But a lot of Toriyama's changes are just thing he thought up years after the fact and don't really make any sense. Although giving names to 17 and 18 is pretty harmless, and I do like that Gero had a son in the Red Ribbon Army. It make his revenge against Goku much more personal.

I just thought of yet another reason Babidi being a clone of Bibidi doesn't make any sense. The way Toriyama described it, it's basically mitotic division, where one cell, or in this case, evil galaxy conquering magician, splits into two identical evil galaxy conquering magicians. One would assume that they both had Bibidi'a memories. However when Buu first appeared Babidi was surprised by his appearance and childish behaviour. If he was a clone of Bibidi then he ought to know exactly what Buu looked like.

edited 31st Dec '16 6:15:55 PM by WillKeaton


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