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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#24851: Feb 17th 2017 at 8:39:29 AM

Saitama's later fight against Garou is also an interesting approach (major webcomic spoilers): basically, despite being physically stronger than everyone else in the setting at the time, Garou is Weak, but Skilled compared to Saitama, and he only makes it as far as he does due to his martial arts mastery allowing him to dodge Saitama's attacks before they happen by reading his body language. Later on in the fight, Garou transforms into progressively more powerful and monstrous forms out of frustration, but, despite getting stronger, these forms only make Garou do worse against Saitama because he loses the skill advantage in his blind, feral rage, and the gap between them is so incomprehensibly large that no increase on Garou's part even came close to closing it.

edited 17th Feb '17 8:42:03 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

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#24852: Feb 17th 2017 at 8:48:33 AM

General rule of thumb: Never get bigger in a Japanese work or one inspired by one. It is not an advantage. No matter how much physical strength you may gain from it, you will get f*cking wrecked.

That immediately made me think of Resident Evil 5. Wesker spends the entire game, like his previous appearances, being an unstoppable, untouchable murderhouse that dodges bullets and Flash Steps around the field like nobody's business. In order to defeat him, protagonist Chris Redfield deliberately doses him into mutating into a larger, more powerful form - because doing so slows him down to manageable speeds.

edited 17th Feb '17 8:49:24 AM by TobiasDrake

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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#24853: Feb 17th 2017 at 9:05:01 AM

Oh, the rules of Duel Monsters can be learned. Kaiba did so in order to set up his battle city tournament. It shocked everyone, but he pulled it off.

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GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#24854: Feb 17th 2017 at 9:37:58 AM

Considering that and Cell's perfect recollection of events including those on Namek, Cell could probably go full-Bobobo in these shorts and write Saitama out of the episode.

Cell vs Bobobo. That's a fight that would be odd to see.

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#24855: Feb 17th 2017 at 9:58:37 AM

Gen fights bobobo. The fight is nearly impenetrably silly and involves Bobobo pulling a bunch of minions and sight gags out of his Afro (perhaps including Yami Yugi, who gets rebuffed again when he tries to summon the executive producer). It ends strangely and ambiguously, and Cell is left wondering what happened.

And then he muses that pulling minions out of his body would be a useful trick to have up his sleeve.

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KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#24857: Feb 17th 2017 at 2:03:33 PM

Kenshiro it is!

Edit: Also, ewwwwwwwwwww...

edited 17th Feb '17 2:06:03 PM by KarkatTheDalek

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#24858: Feb 17th 2017 at 2:03:39 PM

Curses. [nja]'d by six seconds!

edited 17th Feb '17 2:04:18 PM by WillKeaton

AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#24859: Feb 17th 2017 at 2:13:26 PM

Oh god, this was hilarious. Bloody hilarious.

Wait, Remix has done Dub of the North Star for a while, right?

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#24860: Feb 17th 2017 at 2:15:01 PM

Well or those who were sick of Cell one-upping everyone, this was certainly cathartic. [lol]

purplefishman Misanthrope Supreme from Ganzir Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#24861: Feb 17th 2017 at 2:16:34 PM

Holy shit. Kenshiro actually beat Cell. Twice. I mean, sure, he's gonna regenerate and we don't actually see if he retaliates, but holy shit.

TheMageofFire Since: May, 2012
#24862: Feb 17th 2017 at 2:17:01 PM

That was just the catharsis I needed, thank you TFS for not repeating the same joke over and over for once.

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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#24864: Feb 17th 2017 at 2:27:17 PM

Isn't Kenshiro's whole 'hit you in just the right places to make you explode' thing based on knowledge of pressure points? ...How the hell did Kenshiro know where Cell's pressure points were?

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#24865: Feb 17th 2017 at 2:29:47 PM

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!

Well, we were all wondering who'd get one up on him, and now we have our answer.

I'm legitimately surprised that worked though. We have a precedence for situations where if the body is too weird, pressure points won't work (Mr Heart and his Kev Lard body, so I'd figure Cell's Made of Iron body would, by comparison be the same.

Still, funny as hell though.evil grin

[up] Pretty sure Ken just made use of one of the most powerful rules in fiction.

edited 17th Feb '17 2:30:29 PM by HandsomeRob

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#24866: Feb 17th 2017 at 2:31:13 PM

I wouldn't have cared if he lost, but this in and of itself counts as a good joke after the other videos.

Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#24867: Feb 17th 2017 at 2:33:59 PM

Well that and the fact there's hundreds of pressure points on the body, so you could probably get lucky by just hitting everywhere.

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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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#24868: Feb 17th 2017 at 2:36:59 PM

Cell has an exoskeleton, with very few holes in it, most of which are located in the joints. One can only assume that his pressure points are drastically different from a Human's. Damnit, now I want to see a hypothetical scenario where Hit is hired to kill Cell or Buu.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#24869: Feb 17th 2017 at 2:39:55 PM

Is it really beating someone when they recover all damage suffered from it immediately and without end?

No. No it is not.

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#24870: Feb 17th 2017 at 2:48:54 PM

Man, I think this might be my favorite one thus far.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#24871: Feb 17th 2017 at 2:51:32 PM

[up][up]He wasn't unconscious?

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#24873: Feb 17th 2017 at 2:57:04 PM

That oddly enough makes me want to watch Fist of the North Star.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#24874: Feb 17th 2017 at 3:08:48 PM

Is it really beating someone when they recover all damage suffered from it immediately and without end? No. No it is not.

Does that stop it from being funny?

No. No it does not.

Plus, for someone of his level, the fact that Kenshiro did anything at all to Cell is still impressive. He's far above anything Ken has fought in his own series, so it's pretty cool, and extremely hilarious.

Sure, we all know Cell is gonna turn him into paste eventually, but seeing someone get one up on him (before Gohan goes on to completely wreck him) is still pretty awesome.

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Darthwyn leader of Inherit from The void Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#24875: Feb 17th 2017 at 3:12:46 PM

Indeed probably kenshiro died later, but he did what so far many failed to accomplish.

edited 17th Feb '17 3:13:34 PM by Darthwyn

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