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Thanks for the fan comic suggestions in the OP. Who Wants to be a Hero? is hilarious. It's too bad some of the images for it appear broken, though.
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Metal Loaf posted:The most beautiful - and fertile - woman on her home planet. Until Freeza blew it up. The real question is, of all the planets, why did Freeza allow Freeza Planet 419 to stay?
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Feb 2, 2014 21:05
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bowmore posted:Well she is supposed to be a teenager, they are not usually very overtly sexual. Have you ever met/been a teenager?
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Feb 5, 2014 03:42
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bowmore posted:I meant in public Fair enough. I'm just... saiyan.
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Feb 5, 2014 03:50
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Sex_Ferguson posted:After Lord Slug the movies basically follow the same pattern. Plot -> Villain Shows Up -> Hero either evens villain or gets dominated by him -> Power up, beat up villain, kill minions if they are in it -> Villain powers up -> Villain dominates -> Insert Spirit Bomb or Power combining here This is why I loved the most recent movie. It was all about silliness for a long stretch, which ruled, then when they finally get down to the requisite fight, Goku just admits he got stomped and the villain's all "Ok cool, let's fight again some time." The fight was kind of dumb, very paint-by-numbers, but Bills being so off-model at the end made up for it. It also paints a bright picture for Goku, finally having a contemporary that loves to fight as much as he does without any desires for conquest or genocide. Sure, Bills may blow up planets, but that is his job. When he threatens to blow up Earth, it's either out of anger or just a means to get Goku to have a fight.
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Feb 6, 2014 05:29
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Stairmaster posted:I'm pretty sure that hasn't been a valid excuse since 1946. To be fair SS officers can't vaporize your planet in the bat of their eye.
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Feb 6, 2014 06:51
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Any moment where Gohan flips the hell out during a fight rules. I wish they made him a bit more useful before the Cell Games though.
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Feb 8, 2014 20:36
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Namtab posted:I don't think he was mentioned at all after the frieza saga. Dende still calls Piccolo Nail, and Piccolo doesn't seem to give a poo poo. That's all the mention he ever gets, though, similar to how Popo still calls him Kami. Though I guess he doesn't even call himself Piccolo at that point. He's worse than Prince, honestly.
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Feb 11, 2014 15:59
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Vintimus Prime posted:I hadn't realized it was THAT blatant, drat. Yeah sometimes it's just a few oddly similar chords that you can ignore but other times it is basically note for note. Dunno how he thought he'd get away with some of it.
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Feb 18, 2014 20:10
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Mister Roboto posted:The movies generally are just copies of the last 40 or so episodes of when they were made. That, and Vegeta sorta does that a lot. He acts like the biggest badass in the world until poo poo gets real and he suddenly realizes what a loving moron he is (even if he needs to get wrecked to have it better illustrated for him).
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Feb 19, 2014 11:08
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Squallege posted:New Abridged episode is up! Yajirobe and Korin's relationship is turning from a simple running gag to actually kind of sweet. 
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Mar 8, 2014 02:54
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WickedHate posted:So, on the tonal shift, parody is protected speech but if it gets too serious and literally becomes decompressed DBZ at times, then could it count as copyright infringement? I have no idea, but I doubt this is going to last long. Kami is just a naturally serious character, so when he doesn't have a total goof to play against the scene is going to have more of a dramatic sense to it. Fortunately, Nail will complement his straight man routine well. NikkolasKing posted:It definitely is. Probably the best way to do it would be to get past it quickly and have Krillin comment about how loving gross it was. Arsonist Daria fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Mar 8, 2014 |
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Mar 8, 2014 08:14
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WhiffleballDude posted:None of the stuff 17 and 18 are saying sounds "out of character," but obviously they'd never actually say a lot of it in the real version. I really like their interpretation of them as irresponsible teens with superpowers just out to have a good time. Which, now that I type it out, isn't exactly super far from the canonical versions, but it doesn't come across nearly as well in DBZ proper, I feel like. Yeah this is my favorite thing about the Android saga so far. I wonder how they plan to address how loving serious and evil they are in Trunks' timeline, though. I mean, the show certainly did a poo poo job of it but TFS usually finds a way to tell a great joke in spaces like that.
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Mar 8, 2014 08:31
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crankdatbatman posted:In reply to the fan base giving Vegeta a lot of poo poo for allowing Cell to achieve his perfect form, I always made the argument that Goku would probably have done the same thing if he were in Vegeta's shoes. It was basically exactly what happened in the Freeza fight, with the exception that Goku could still take on 100% Freeza. It would fit in his "addicted to fighting" personality, although maybe he wouldn't since he cares more about others than Vegeta did at the time. Considering he gave Perfect Cell a senzu bean after knowing full well his horrible capacity for destruction and their desperate situation, yeah, Goku would totally loving let Cell transform. Hell, he'd probably help look for 18.
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Mar 9, 2014 15:52
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Orgia Carnaval posted:Goku is one of the dumbest adults I have ever seen in fiction and it's because he never needed to actually grow up given he's a super strong man and might have brain damage. I'm Goku. I'm insane. From Earth.
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Mar 9, 2014 15:57
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NikkolasKing posted:Which is why I hate the fact he's had such a negative influence on shounen. So many Goku clones like Naruto or Luffy or Natsu, when we really should be getting more Kenshin's or, hell, even Yusuke's. Personally I wouldn't want Luffy any other way. He must be a blast to write; infinitely childish, infinitely stupid.
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Mar 9, 2014 20:24
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Honest Thief posted:Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad, I don't care about sutpid dragon ball! Nice try, but every kid loves dragon ball
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Mar 11, 2014 11:53
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Namtab posted:Well with goku and gohan there's that one bit of hair over the forehead that's a p.obvious visual cue, but there's nothing for Vegeta at all. Nah, Vegeta's way easier. He gets more and more smug.
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Mar 12, 2014 22:11
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Namtab posted:You'd be smug too if you were prince of all saiyans All five of them, over half not pure Saiyans. 
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Mar 12, 2014 22:40
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Best part is that it'll get you past some of the worst episodes of the series (though Nappa and Vegeta is where it really clicked for me). bladeworksmaster posted:I'm a fan of The Scream Heard Round the Universe myself. Yes, that's drat near the best moment of the entire series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCOxVaQQrbk
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Mar 14, 2014 19:22
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Yes, Nappa. Yes I do. 
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Mar 19, 2014 10:06
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PiedPiper posted:So if Piccolo and Kami joined sooner, they'd pretty much curbstomp both Nappa and Vegeta? Also no more Dragon Balls, meaning Goku would be poo poo out of luck.
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Mar 19, 2014 20:11
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Squallege posted:Skip the two pointless Namek specials that are still going. Honestly I kinda like the current Namek special; it's an interesting "what-if" that isn't just "What if this super crazy thing happened?" It's taking out one domino from way back and exploring the way it could change things.
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Mar 24, 2014 01:36
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Darko posted:Nail says he's a lot stronger, that's why his personality has no effect on Piccolo when they fuse, but almost just literally works as a boost. I really wish Piccolo stayed relevant for longer, his bullshit excuse for "training" always made him seem like such a badass.
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Since Freeza's empire is so reliant on power levels as a metric of fighting ability, a really cool what-if would be "What if the Namekians weren't nearly wiped out before Freeza went to get the Dragon Balls?" Namekians are naturals at ki manipulation and can be trained to be super tough fighters, after all. Imagine if 99% of their species wasn't dedicated to planting trees. Nail was only trained as a warrior to defend the Elder, and the worst they were worried about was probably some farmers getting pissed off. If there were an actual warrior class and other fighters to train against, Freeza's army would have been wiped the hell out the second he got a little too snarky.crankdatbatman posted:We agree overall but I still contend that the power levels just got stupid and sloppy when it came to time to fight Freeza. Which they did. No level of 'power levels were meant to be bullshit all along!' hand waving will erase how that part of the Freeza saga was sloppily done. I think part of it was that everyone got better at ki manipulation after the Saiyans attacked. Their range of power levels is way wider than it was before that. It would make sense, too; the guys on Earth trained that way in case Vegeta came back, and Vegeta did it to get the drop on Freeza's elite fighters. This would also lead in to how, during the Android saga, they mention how the non-Saiyans got tougher by training themselves to cause their energy to spike way more intensely each time they attacked (or however they explained it). Arsonist Daria fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Mar 24, 2014 |
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Kild posted:You still have Chiaotzu suicide bombing Nappa to no effect. Chiaotzu just sucks.
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Mar 25, 2014 19:38
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Captain Quack posted:Since I have some free time in my hands, and I like graphics, I decide to illustrate my hypothesis on how power levels work. This is bullshit, we all know Turtle is the strongest of all.
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Mar 25, 2014 23:27
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Cozz posted:Wasn't Master Roshi scanned in his normal state, without increasing his KI? Goku went from 400 something to nearly 900 when fighting Raditz, certainly Roshi charging a Kamehameha would be enough to destroy the moon. Not to mention Roshi can transform into a super buff guy apparently.
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Mar 26, 2014 00:01
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I never even liked Dragon Ball, I'm just posting in this thread ironically.
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Mar 27, 2014 19:18
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Mister Roboto posted:Battle of Gods is getting a US release. I'm super excited to watch Battle of the Gods again. I'd love to see it with some friends who aren't into subs but love DBZ; I eagerly anticipate my arguments with them about whether Vegeta being a dork rules or sucks.
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Mar 28, 2014 11:36
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Stairmaster posted:and the third to last was 100% filler. Months after the manga had finished. The Spirit Bomb was always the worst because it took forever and didn't loving work.
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Apr 6, 2014 04:06
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Stairmaster posted:It had an 90%~ success rate in the movies, though. This only proves that the movies are not canon.
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Apr 6, 2014 04:25
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ConanThe3rd posted:I could live in a world with a meme where huge guys in anime call shotgun incorrectly. Gamagoori takes up every seat, so shotgun is always relevant for him.
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Apr 7, 2014 08:22
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RickoniX posted:This didn't get posted here, did it? This is what Mugen was made for. Everything up to now was just a beta test.
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Dred Cosmonaut posted:No mexibeams and no SSJ7 gogeta, not my mugen The secret boss will be Rare Akuma, don't worry.
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So I know this thread is only obliquely related to TFS, but I really wish Hellsing Ultimate Abridged came out more often than once a year. I know it's not exactly a long series, but it's like if Archer was a goddamn vampire king. I think I rewatch it once a month.
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Apr 8, 2014 13:23
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Spiritus Nox posted:I really like the recent bit where Alternate Tien tried to seal Alternate Super Buu with the Mafuba in their match, ala King Piccolo. It probably won't work, but it's a fun idea. I love how Goku is all "Oh wow, why did we forget about that technique?"
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Apr 9, 2014 19:04
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maou shoujo posted:I may not know who it was, but I can say for sure that it is what led me to this thread and inspired me to start watching DBZ Kai. Yeah, the original cut of DBZ was loving glacial. The manga is also pretty fast, maybe even moreso than Kai. I've never read it past Freeza, though. The only problem with Kai is, while a lot of the filler sucked, the ones where Goku and crew just goofed off were pretty good.
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Pierson posted:After escaping justice for his many murders, 17 moved to Montana and became a But I don't think he actually killed anyone in that timeline?
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Squallege posted:In the anime he held some dude up at gunpoint to force him to give energy. This is so awesome, I wish I watched the anime that far now.
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