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Monaghan posted:I still laugh at goku's "ally to good" speech to frieza in the original dub. i thought it was sick and showed that he was a true hero
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:02 |
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tbp posted:he likes to fight but is a hero as well. hes not a gag character IMO. Nah he isn't a gag character. He may have started out as one, but he that was abandoned really, really early in DB. The dude likes gags, so sometimes the show/manga will have gags in it, that is all it means.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:03 |
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ImpAtom posted:Gag characters can be heroes you know. A lot of the classic gag manga characters are still heroes. ya sure but i dont think goku is a gag character.. hes funny at times but vs. vegeta, vs freeza and vs. kid buu hes pretty darn serious and those are his big fights of the series i think
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:03 |
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I thought it was dumb as gently caress that he let Frieza go after being madder than he's ever been in his whole life but killed a fuckton of people who weren't nearly as evil before that.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:03 |
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Amorphous Blob posted:I thought it was dumb as gently caress that he let Frieza go after being madder than he's ever been in his whole life but killed a fuckton of people who weren't nearly as evil before that. he matured
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:05 |
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I thought he tried to kill Frieza again though when he deflected that blast back at him and went all "YOU FOOL!".
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:05 |
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I like DBZ because it makes people care enough to discuss stuff like this.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:05 |
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to me it was honorable that goku had gotten mature to the point where he could spare the worst enemy ever
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:05 |
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Kindly African American man who offers you the dragonballs and also literally the world: blow him up Genocidal alien warlord who killed your dad and best friend: okay you get ONE more chance
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:05 |
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Raxivace posted:I thought he tried to kill Frieza again though when he deflected that blast back at him and went all "YOU FOOL!". he did but before that he gave him his energy
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:06 |
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Raxivace posted:I thought he tried to kill Frieza again though when he deflected that blast back at him and went all "YOU FOOL!". He didn't expect Freeza to survive being spaced missing his lower body, arm and half of his head. Who the hell would? I still find it funny that he can survive being diced, too.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:07 |
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Rudoku posted:He didn't expect Freeza to survive being spaced missing his lower body, arm and half of his head. Who the hell would? I still find it funny that he can survive being diced, too. yeah he did which is why he told him to reflect on his actions or whatever.. he even tried to save him when he was going to get hit by his own discs. goku showed true depth of character there - what a guy.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:07 |
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Goku can be a lot of different things depending on the circumstances and it's pretty disingenuous to ignore how serious the guy can be when he's pissed off. If someone likes the Japanese voice more, whatever works for you, but if you ask me Schemmel is much better at demonstrating Goku's emotional range.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:08 |
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I least I finally understand way there are a million and one Dragonball AMVs set to Linkin Park.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:08 |
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There are a million and one any AMVs set to Linkin Park.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:10 |
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Amorphous Blob posted:I thought it was dumb as gently caress that he let Frieza go after being madder than he's ever been in his whole life but killed a fuckton of people who weren't nearly as evil before that. To be fair, at that point the last guy he killed was king piccolo. Goku had a pretty good no kill streak going.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:10 |
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tbp posted:to me it was honorable that goku had gotten mature to the point where he could spare the worst enemy ever goku spared raditz and got his poo poo kicked in so he learned from it and we got the full nelson special beam canon scene which owned. goku sparing frieza only exists as a scene so that frieza can later come undone by his own hubris.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:10 |
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Amorphous Blob posted:goku spared raditz and got his poo poo kicked in so he learned from it and we got the full nelson special beam canon scene which owned. i think its bc goku grew to have a kind soul, unsuited for killing of any sort, after having a son, gohan
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:13 |
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Goku was insightful enough to know that for somebody like Frieza getting completely bodied by a Saiyan no less and left to drift the stars, dwelling on how you aren't good enough is worse than death.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:16 |
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more like goku became a big bitch and now everyone else has to clean up his messes
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:16 |
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Amorphous Blob posted:more like goku became a big bitch and now everyone else has to clean up his messes if this is the message you took from this incident, i fear that you have not understood our hero at all. as well, in the proper timeline he beats frieza again anyway.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:17 |
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Goku can be a lot of different things depending on the circumstances and it's pretty disingenuous to ignore how serious the guy can be when he's pissed off. If someone likes the Japanese voice more, whatever works for you, but if you ask me Schemmel is much better at demonstrating Goku's emotional range. Feels like he finally got the memo that Goku is actually kind of naive sounding when Kai came around, too.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:18 |
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projecthalaxy posted:Goku was insightful enough to know that for somebody like Frieza getting completely bodied by a Saiyan no less and left to drift the stars, dwelling on how you aren't good enough is worse than death. He was competently wrong though.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:18 |
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It's absurd to say Goku is anything close to a gag character. It's very clear that he's drawn in two very different ways depending on if it's a serious moment or not; his facial expression is completely different. These are [completely not] coincidentally, the instances where Sean Schemmel uses his non-serious (generally higher pitched with an uptick at the end of the line) and serious voices (more deadpan) respectively.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:20 |
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I'm actually pretty okay with Vegeta sounding like the Overmind from Starcraft Also I get what makes the Japanese dub good, but I grew up on the Funi English one and Japanese DBZ always just feels off to me in some way I can't put my finger on. Even hearing Hercule called Mr. Satan in the uncut dub kinda makes me do a double-take.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:25 |
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They say that to this day fans are still trying to decode the rich tapestry of the character of Son Goku
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:27 |
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Ruggington posted:They say that to this day fans are still trying to decode the rich tapestry of the character of Son Goku hes likes to eat and punch
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:28 |
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Amorphous Blob posted:hes likes to eat and punch Got any evidence before you throw out crazy theories like this
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:30 |
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I was looking at other dubs and the Malaysian one is fantastic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wG84efH4sw
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:33 |
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Is shonen heroes having a huge appetite actually something that was started with DB or is Goku just the most well known incarnation of the trope?
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:33 |
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Amorphous Blob posted:hes likes to eat and punch Ruggington posted:Got any evidence before you throw out crazy theories like this Looks like it checks out! e X posted:Is shonen heroes having a huge appetite actually something that was started with DB or is Goku just the most well known incarnation of the trope? You know, thats a good question!
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:34 |
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Ruggington posted:Got any evidence before you throw out crazy theories like this heres goku eating a lot unfortunately i couldnt find any pictures of him punching so youll have to take my word for it lol look at his fat face
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:35 |
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The Oozaru Fist and Super Dragon Fist were developed because Goku could not punch enough normally.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:37 |
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Momomo posted:Feels like he finally got the memo that Goku is actually kind of naive sounding when Kai came around, too. Yeah, big reason why I defend Schemmel is because he's a lot better at normal old Goku now.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:38 |
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Even among all the other stuff, Goku eating is easily one of the most iconic images of the series. Just him among a giant mountain of dirty dishes, gulping down noddles like a machine.
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:40 |
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Going with Drowning Rabbit post about looking at the Irwin figures, I ended up looking at a database of figures and statues that were released for Cell and Android 18. Most are general ones and such, and then I found this and I just really creep out that there exist a vore statue of the two. http://i.imgur.com/9HREV1P.png
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:48 |
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Amorphous Blob posted:heres goku eating a lot Rirse posted:Going with Drowning Rabbit post about looking at the Irwin figures, I ended up looking at a database of figures and statues that were released for Cell and Android 18. Most are general ones and such, and then I found this and I just really creep out that there exist a vore statue of the two. Just because some weirdos get turn on by strange stuff doesn't mean you have to NMS it, man. Then again, it's true that the purpose of that collection was to make the most disgusting DB figurines ever apparently:
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:59 |
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Once you know Piccolo is supposed to be n alien it's hard to see anything else, but his design does actually work for a demon lord pretty well.
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# ? May 4, 2015 23:07 |
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Brony Hunter posted:We got the Ocean dub here in the UK, although I think we may have got the Funi dub later? I keep mentioning it in this thread but nobody seems to remember exactly: I tihnk we had a run of everything at least once each with the Ocean dub and the Funimation dub, and the Big green dub for some of the movies when they rarely aired. I think we started with Ocean, switched to Funimation on one of the resets, switched back to Ocean, and when we got to new material we switched to Funimation again. When the whole thing finished it switched back to Ocean. I'm pretty certain of this because I remember hearing Faulconer's score the first time round from Frieza to Kid Buu, but I also remember elements of Ocean, and |i was too young to understand that there were two dubs and was wondering why the music was changing and oh boy did this person always sound like this they must have done I'm just a dumb kid doop doop doop I'm gonna go on the internet and look five sagas ahead because I'm a rebel. Seriously, we'd be in school and get hyped knowing that Super Saiyan 2 was gonna debut any day now.
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# ? May 4, 2015 23:08 |
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Hey this figure is just a homage to the source material.
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