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Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
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#24651: Feb 4th 2017 at 5:45:40 AM

Why was Goku magicked into a kid in GT anyway? I mean the out-of-show reason.

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Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#24652: Feb 4th 2017 at 5:52:17 AM

"It will endear the female demographic, as he is a cute kid".

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#24653: Feb 4th 2017 at 5:54:13 AM

I think it was also a (rather poor) attempt at capturing some of the original Dragonball Spirit.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#24654: Feb 4th 2017 at 5:55:42 AM

"Why would they do something so dumb? (There must be an objective reason for it)!"

What, you want an honest answer?

My guess is that it's because the whole show was trying to get back to "Dragonball" both in tone and aesthetic. Goku's back to being a kid, has to find the Dragonballs again, is aided by a young teenage female who acts as the voice of reason, and the first few arcs are a series of weird comedic antics until they reach Myuu's planet and things get serious. When you consider how they brought back 17 and used the wishes from earlier in the series, nostalgia is the most likely reason.

Another reason is that someone saw Goku getting too powerful (imagine that) and turning him into a child once more was a way to hamper his abilities and provide tension without making gods and deities who could just steamroll over everyone.

[up] (2) Then there's that.

edited 4th Feb '17 5:58:03 AM by Soble

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EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#24655: Feb 4th 2017 at 6:17:59 AM

I didn't know the new Cell Games video was animated by Dasboschitt!

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#24656: Feb 4th 2017 at 6:31:57 AM

[up][up] Then Toriyama made that moot by making said gods and deities and forcing Goku to power up to obscene levels that dwarfed even SSJ 4, but ended up making Beerus and Whis two of the most compelling antagonists in DB history, and paved the way for other compelling characters in the Champa arc and beyond, so that sorta evened itself out.

[up] Wait, really? Huh. I guess it must've been in Gmod rather than SFM.

edited 4th Feb '17 6:33:10 AM by Cronosonic

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#24657: Feb 4th 2017 at 6:36:09 AM

He's good with Gmod. Like real good. I'm just happy to see him making a video.

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#24658: Feb 4th 2017 at 8:39:30 AM

Is it just me, or does it seem like they don't like Street Fighter that much.

I mean, yeah, Ken and Ryu stand no chance, but they were played much more for total jokes than Yugi, Yusuke and Kuwabara were.

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#24659: Feb 4th 2017 at 8:54:50 AM

Yeah, that was the weakest Cell Games Presented By HETAP short we've seen thus far. I think they just didn't have a lot of material to work with on this one.

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SonicWind from North Carolina Since: Nov, 2011
#24660: Feb 4th 2017 at 11:12:00 AM

Regardless, it was still funny.

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#24661: Feb 4th 2017 at 11:55:44 AM
KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#24662: Feb 4th 2017 at 3:15:07 PM

I felt the same way. There is very little to it beyond "they get beat up," which is atypical for these shorts so far, and I got the impression they weren't as familiar with Street Fighter as they were with the other series they've been using and so couldn't back it up with character humor - like they did with the YYH short.

TheMageofFire Since: May, 2012
#24663: Feb 4th 2017 at 3:16:24 PM

I do hope at least one person gets a hit in on Cell to at least change things up for these shorts.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#24664: Feb 4th 2017 at 4:47:28 PM

Who would you want it to be.

It'd work best if it was someone who is powerful enough in their own series that it would work in context...

Or if it was someone who has no right being able to so much as scratch Cell, so as to make it funnier.

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Jedi1113 Since: Jun, 2009
#24665: Feb 4th 2017 at 4:54:48 PM

I want Sailor Moon to momentarily beat up Cell.

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#24666: Feb 4th 2017 at 5:37:53 PM

I got the feeling they weren't that familiar with Street Fighter too. The YYH and Yu-Gi-Oh entrants were hilarious because they had so much familiarity with the show. That's to be expected since two of the people on Team Four Star did abridged series of those shows.

They should probably stick to that. Write what they know.

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#24667: Feb 4th 2017 at 5:43:00 PM

Seconded. Just keep referencing the team's past Abridged Series.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#24668: Feb 4th 2017 at 5:45:29 PM

Yeah, this wasn't bad but it wasn't as good. Though, I don't know much about Street Fighter so maybe that's why.

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#24669: Feb 4th 2017 at 5:46:12 PM

You don't need to know much. They were mocking the gameplay more than the story.

It's as shallow as the traditional Dragon Ball parody of two guys with golden hair screaming for five minutes and then having a beam struggle.

edited 4th Feb '17 5:46:52 PM by TobiasDrake

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#24670: Feb 4th 2017 at 5:57:55 PM

Why not make a Precure team confront cell? He'd be surprised:

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#24671: Feb 4th 2017 at 6:05:44 PM

[up] I have no idea what was going on but it was pretty great.

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#24672: Feb 4th 2017 at 6:41:21 PM

I sort of want to see a Cell vs Mortal Kombat #Cell Games, just so we can have this exchange

Scorpion: GET OVER HERE!

Cell: No.

edited 4th Feb '17 6:41:38 PM by thok

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#24673: Feb 4th 2017 at 6:45:23 PM

In fairness, Scorpion can drag Cell into Hell. He'd still get slaughtered even on his home turf, but Cell would be stuck in Hell.

Unless he's already learned Teleportation from watching Goku do it a bunch of times coming to talk to him at the arena.

edited 4th Feb '17 6:46:02 PM by TobiasDrake

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#24674: Feb 4th 2017 at 9:10:40 PM

@Zelenal: Precure is basically Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball having a baby. The original was directed by by Daisuke Nishio, the same guy who directed the Dragon Ball anime from the original series through Z.

In fact, have the original Pretty Cure team fight Cell:

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#24675: Feb 4th 2017 at 9:39:46 PM

So with the episode of Kai that just aired on Toonami, I wanna see them make a joke about Gohan finally learning how to dodge when he's training with Goten.

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