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Mullon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#24026: Jan 14th 2017 at 8:40:05 PM

Wait, did Chi-Chi take Gohan on college interviews right before the Cell games? Isn't that bad prioritizing?

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HighCrate Since: Mar, 2015
#24027: Jan 14th 2017 at 9:05:18 PM

Given how much time her loved ones spend on other planets or dead or dead on other planets, I imagine she schedules these things whenever she sees the slightest opening.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#24028: Jan 14th 2017 at 9:23:05 PM

She literally said the world being destroyed is less important than Gohan's education.

wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#24029: Jan 14th 2017 at 9:24:38 PM

I mean, Dragon Balls, so...

Also, it wasn't college interviews, it was middle/high school.

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#24030: Jan 14th 2017 at 9:29:36 PM

Well hey, it works both ways, if Dragonballs can make you king of the earth they can probably get you into college.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#24031: Jan 14th 2017 at 9:49:34 PM

[up][up]It's college in the Abridged version...

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#24032: Jan 14th 2017 at 9:57:09 PM

[up] (2) Not even wish magic can save you from college debt.

edited 14th Jan '17 10:05:33 PM by Soble

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#24033: Jan 14th 2017 at 11:29:49 PM

[up][up][up][up] Yeah... look at Future Trunks' world for that.

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#24034: Jan 15th 2017 at 3:26:10 AM

[up] What world?

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Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#24035: Jan 15th 2017 at 3:33:34 AM

Japan has college-like interviews for even fucking preschool.

They are like the Vegeta of education; constant, soul breaking training, and then Finland with the opposite approach outperforms them.

Anyway, Gohan spent a year kidnapped by Piccolo, but, other than that? Namek took less than two months, the androids were about 2 weeks, and Buu happened in the span of 3 days. On the other hand, he spent 4 years of pre-Z as a relatively normal child, 4 years between Namek and the androids in relative peace, and 7 years between the androids and Buu as a normal teenager. In fact, the most abnormal part of Gohan was that he was a bit sheltered.

Hell, even Goku ends up quite even: 5 years of normal marriage pre-Z, and 3 years of training at home for the androids, versus 8 years dead and a year learning to control his alien transformation in space.

And then we have the almost year of quality father-son time/training in the time chamber.

JonnasN from Porto, Portugal Since: Jul, 2012
#24036: Jan 15th 2017 at 4:34:06 AM

[up][up][up]I mean... No amount of raw training saved that world. On the other hand, academic research (for the virus cure) and a genius inventor allowed another timeline to be saved, as well as allowing Trunks to defeat the Androids (coincidentally, also borne of a scientist).

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#24037: Jan 15th 2017 at 4:43:30 AM

Except for the amount Trunks did.

But that completely missed the point - "Dragon Balls" is not an adequete reason for Chichi to prioritize Gohan's education over the destruction of the world.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#24038: Jan 15th 2017 at 5:33:12 AM

None of Trunks' training was actually useful until the time chamber.

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#24039: Jan 15th 2017 at 6:10:41 AM

Given Chi-Chi's concerns, it's a bit misguided that she's trying to rush him to college at 11. If she really wants Gohan to not be a man-child, then she really needs to get him to interact with normal people his own age and going to college at age 11 is basically the opposite of that.

JonnasN from Porto, Portugal Since: Jul, 2012
#24040: Jan 15th 2017 at 6:18:08 AM

[up][up][up]That's not "raw" training, that's training made possible by the existence of a time machine and the cure to a heart virus (after all, no cure, no one to reveal that the ROSAT exists).

I'm not addressing the "Dragon Balls" point, anyway. I don't think the characters would make that point, either. Trunks' future exists pretty much because Piccolo risks his life every time he fights and nobody tries to stop him, anyway (funnily enough, if Future!Piccolo had been the sort of role model that Chi-Chi approved of, the Dragon Balls would still be around).

edited 15th Jan '17 6:18:33 AM by JonnasN

superboy313 Since: May, 2015
#24041: Jan 15th 2017 at 2:52:11 PM

Guys, I just learned that in the original Broly movie, there was some guy named Krang; who created Broly's mind control ring.

Why didn't TFS spoof him?

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#24042: Jan 15th 2017 at 3:04:47 PM

They didn't go with the mind control angle...

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#24043: Jan 15th 2017 at 3:15:09 PM

[up] (2) Why not him? Maybe a lack of ideas, maybe a lack of time.

They inserted/skipped a couple of things:

  • Yajirobe and Korin weren't there at all (ah doy) and we don't actually hear any conversation between King Kai and the South Kai.
  • Goku and the gang actually spend the night there and Broly attacks them in his regular SSJ form.
  • Gohan, Trunks, and Krillin discover the Shamosans and treat them to a meal that same night... actually I can't remember if this happened before or after Goku arrived, or why they didn't tell Vegeta sooner.
  • Rather than have Paragus's speech, there's a flashback that same night where Paragus recounts how he and Broly survived.
  • Krang is removed - "you could remove this character and nothing about the plot would change." The only thing that changes is that Paragus appears to be less of a dick. So I guess they figured the Shamosans were good enough and Krang would just require additional scripting.
    • [up]The mind control is removed. Originally Broly's chestpiece was part of a hypno-collar Paragus had to use to calm him down whenever he was "triggered." Probably the decision to remove Krang is why they cut out the earlier fight scene.
  • Goku is already inside of the spaceship that Vegeta and the others arrived in... for some reason right before Vegeta was about to leave.
  • They cut the portion of the fight prior to everyone going Super Saiyan - because Rule of Drama annoys people so I'm coming to gather, and it doesn't make sense for them to not do that really.
  • Vegeta's fight scene was reduced to an even shorter Curb-Stomp Battle. Which was actually hysterical.

Come to think of it I don't think the movie ever explains how Paragus gathered the soldiers for his ruse, or what happened to them or if any of them escaped the planet's destruction.

edited 15th Jan '17 3:20:47 PM by Soble

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#24044: Jan 15th 2017 at 4:30:00 PM

For those of you who are only subscribed to this thread and not the main Dragonball one, (like me,) the first couple episodes of Dragonball Super have been dubbed into English.

Gohan grew up to be a scholar, just like his mom wanted. I think he even mentioned research one time. So what kind of scholar is he? Like, what is his area of expertise? What does he research?

edited 15th Jan '17 4:46:12 PM by WillKeaton

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#24045: Jan 15th 2017 at 5:16:15 PM

I'm not sure what Super says, but if Dragonball Online still is anything, storywise, he eventually researches Ki as a science. Which becomes something of a Mass Empowering Event for humanity.

edited 15th Jan '17 5:17:57 PM by Enlong

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#24046: Jan 15th 2017 at 5:29:28 PM

[up] So far Heroes and Xenoverse have been borrowing plot elements from Online, so it's probably only a matter of time before Super eventually does as well.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#24047: Jan 15th 2017 at 5:43:29 PM

Not if the original finale of Z is anything to go by.

By the time Pan is born, the people of Earth are still pretty weak.

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#24048: Jan 15th 2017 at 5:51:04 PM

:] Did you see the way that those robbers went all "Villainous Mode" in the last episode of Super?

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#24049: Jan 15th 2017 at 6:01:40 PM

Well, Watagash is essentially a living breathing villainous mode/Babidi's mind control.

I shudder to think what he'd have been capable of if he'd possessed someone who had real power (like Early Buu Saga Vegeta).

Or someone like Frost.

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#24050: Jan 15th 2017 at 6:07:14 PM

Pah.

They're just lucky it didn't infect Hercule.

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