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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#23651: Jan 6th 2017 at 6:24:41 PM

Him being able to see through the Afterimage Technique is attributed to his three eyes, though, so they're good for something.

Yeah, he has better eyesight than most - he could barely see Goku when he vanished while fighting Kuririn, commenting that the others wouldn't be able to see him at all. And Kuririn points out that Ten's eyesight is better than him when he first notices Goku flying through the air in the final parts of his fight with Piccolo.

It's just not some supernatural or mystical ability some fans think it is. And it's not long after that when they need to use ki sensing because eyesight can't keep up with the battles adequately enough.

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#23652: Jan 6th 2017 at 7:29:30 PM

Basically, fandom has attributed various superpowers to Tien's third eye because they want it to actually do something, but it's a mostly cosmetic feature. What few abilities it does confer upon him are benefits of having three eyes, and have nothing to do with the inferred mystical and/or spiritual properties one typically associates with a Third Eye.

My favorite "Tien's eye power" claim is that only Tien can master the Kikoho because it takes three eyes to see through the triangular lens he forms with his hands when firing it.

edited 6th Jan '17 7:30:35 PM by TobiasDrake

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#23653: Jan 6th 2017 at 7:37:36 PM

People just don't get that Tenshinhan actually just has three eyes, just like Krillin actually just doesn't have a nose.

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#23654: Jan 6th 2017 at 7:38:10 PM

Yet he can apparently still smell things.

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#23655: Jan 6th 2017 at 7:41:36 PM

He forgets that he's not supposed to.

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#23656: Jan 6th 2017 at 7:50:34 PM

That was only once though, and back when this series was still pretty gag-heavy. Really not sure if that even counts anymore.

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#23657: Jan 6th 2017 at 7:53:28 PM

Gags always count with Toriyama. We should all know that by now.

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#23658: Jan 6th 2017 at 7:54:40 PM

If they did, then Goku would still be able to breathe in space.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#23659: Jan 6th 2017 at 8:00:54 PM

Ok then. Why the hell does he have three eyes then?

I mean, if it wasn't gonna be relevant in anyway, why did Toriyama give it to him outside of because Journey to the West had a dude with three eyes (it did have a dude with three eyes right?), because it seems like a waste to give someone something like that and now have it grant him some special abilities.

And this has been Handsome Rob's tradition bitch about a think I think is interesting not being focused on in Dragon Ball post.

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#23660: Jan 6th 2017 at 8:06:13 PM

Erlang Shen, the guy who fought to a tie with Sun Wukong, is the only guy with three eyes. He had a dog instead of a telekinetic Jiangshi though.

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#23661: Jan 6th 2017 at 8:06:29 PM

I'm not sure if anyone in Journey to the West had three eyes (especially since Dragon Ball stopped having much of anything to do with it by that point) but I'd bet Toriyama did it because he thought it looked cool.

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#23662: Jan 6th 2017 at 8:08:43 PM

Why is 10% of the population animal people? Why are there dinosaurs and hovercraft? The Dragon Ball Earth is weird, and the Earthlings living on it are just as weird. I see no problem here.

HighCrate Since: Mar, 2015
#23663: Jan 6th 2017 at 8:13:31 PM

IIRC Toriyama has said that one of Tenshinhan's distant ancestors was an alien, so slightly weird biology runs in his family. That's almost certainly a retcon, though.

edited 6th Jan '17 8:13:53 PM by HighCrate

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#23665: Jan 6th 2017 at 8:46:36 PM

Oh my god sometimes people just have three eyes, why are you so racist

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#23667: Jan 6th 2017 at 9:34:40 PM

Wonder who the analogue for Buddha would have been if Toriyama kept the Journey to the west influence?

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#23669: Jan 7th 2017 at 3:24:58 AM

Is Bulma Sanzang or Guanyin, though?

What's precedent ever done for us?
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#23670: Jan 7th 2017 at 7:12:38 AM

Sanzang, I'm fairly certain.

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#23671: Jan 7th 2017 at 7:54:17 AM

Why is 10% of the population animal people? Why are there dinosaurs and hovercraft?

Some ten-year old probably found all the Dragon Balls and that was their wish.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#23672: Jan 7th 2017 at 8:11:44 AM

I still love the part of Battle of Gods where Beerus mentions wiping out the dinosaurs, my only problem with it is that nobody ever calls him on it.

I hope TFS does get to do Battle of Gods one day, just so they can point out how Beerus actually kinda sucks.

Bonus points if they work in the Dr. Slump thing where Arale went back in time and saved the dinosaurs by throwing the meteor back into space and made the moon.

Aka, Beerus vs. Arale round 1.

...Beerus using telekinesis to throw meteors is surprisingly compelling as a concept.

edited 7th Jan '17 8:16:57 AM by unnoun

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#23673: Jan 7th 2017 at 8:17:58 AM

^^ Don't be silly. They don't have nearly enough laser guns attached to them for that to make any sense.

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#23675: Jan 7th 2017 at 12:28:38 PM

So I decided to check out Lanipator's original abridged series from before TFS, Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged, and Lani has some of the worst editing I've seen in an abridged series. About half of the time, the voice acting doesn't even match the scene. The characters will have their mouths closed and Lani will be talking, and the shots don't sync up right.

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