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- Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:07 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
- Replies: 349
- Views: 22830
Re: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
So that's what it feels like to have the blood drain for your face while standing, and be stuck motionless for the minute it takes your heart and brain to reboot and make it through their security handshakes. Way back in 9th grade English, one of our writing assignments was to write a letter to a fa...
- Wed Dec 25, 2019 11:01 am
- Forum: Fan-Created Works
- Topic: MistareFusion's Dragon Ball Dissection! (Updated 4/1/24!)
- Replies: 2581
- Views: 521888
Re: MistareFusion's Dragon Ball Dissection! (Updated 12/25/19!)
I, too, dislike the term "Z Warriors". For basically the reasons you listed. This series has given me many ideas for if I go back in time to when I wrote fanfiction, starting with Freeza filler. Aside from Goku's space-training, it feels like that spark behind Saiyan filler faded. A handfu...
- Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:05 am
- Forum: In-Universe Discussion
- Topic: Vampires... How do they work?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1410
Vampires... How do they work?
(If only they knew this was secretly part of my plot to make Chaozu suck slightly less! ... You can have inner monologues on the internet, right?) So, we see roughly three types of Vampires in Dragonball: Draculaman's comical take on the Werebat version, with a weakness to Garlic and Crosses (Dracul...
- Sat Jan 13, 2018 6:31 am
- Forum: In-Universe Discussion
- Topic: Movie Canon
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4897
Re: Movie Canon
It seems to me that the Z movies are all "What if everything in the story was resolved right here, without any lasting consequences?". For a series like DB, where there is no status quo, this consistently results in gaping plotholes. So, I consider it might be better to treat them as alter...
- Wed Dec 27, 2017 2:54 am
- Forum: Fan-Created Works
- Topic: MistareFusion's Dragon Ball Dissection! (Updated 4/1/24!)
- Replies: 2581
- Views: 521888
Re: MistareFusion's Dragon Ball Dissection! (Updated 12/25/17!)
Re: Yajirobe. Wasn't he in the previous movie? He didn't really do anything, but he was there when Goku and Kuririn came to after getting Slugslapped out of the plot for a few minutes. I think he gave them senzu or did CPR or something.
- Sat Sep 23, 2017 11:18 am
- Forum: Fan-Created Works
- Topic: MistareFusion's Dragon Ball Dissection! (Updated 4/1/24!)
- Replies: 2581
- Views: 521888
Re: MistareFusion's Dragon Ball Dissection! (Updated 9/18/17!)
All these Namek and Freeza shenanigans have put a bunch of silly ideas in my head: Goku is a Megazord in this arc. The reason Megazords work is because they are piloted by a team of the actual protagonists. While I'm not suggesting that Kuririn and Gohan ride around on Goku's shoulders and pilot him...
- Thu Nov 19, 2015 10:36 am
- Forum: Fan-Created Works
- Topic: What would you wish for?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7926
Re: What would you wish for?
As tempting as it is to wish for everyone to have Elven-style immortality (old age and disease don't kill you, you're more resilient than mortals, but not unkillable if you turn into Hitler / decide you want to die), I'd probably wind up wishing for something a bit more selfish, just so I don't have...
- Wed Nov 18, 2015 5:21 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Cell saga, last arc where every character is well utilized?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 8099
Re: Cell saga, last arc where every character is well utiliz
Re: Chaozu. I don't think he was poorly utilized, so much as kicked out of the main cast between arcs, exactly like Oolong and Puar. The three of them should go do some kinda street performances in a city for cash. Shapeshifting plus telekinesis are apparently useless in combat (somehow), but as spe...
- Sun Nov 08, 2015 9:21 pm
- Forum: In-Universe Discussion
- Topic: Toriyama is terrible at writing intelligent characters.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5752
Re: Toriyama is terrible at writing intelligent characters.
While I agree with most of this (Why even have a remote? He could just build it into his cybernetics! Have it automatically trigger if #17 or #18 is in proximity when his chassy is broken!), I'm going to speculate that Gero was probably not willing regarding the publication of the rough location of ...
- Sun Nov 08, 2015 9:01 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Chaozu being completely pointless after his debut
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9407
Re: Chaozu being completely pointless after his debut
One might wonder what would have happened had the movies continued in the same continuity as the first 3 DB movies. Would movie 4 have included Piccolo killing Chaozu to take control over the Mifan empire, and that summing up Ten's motivation during the whole thing? Compare Chaozu to Puar or Oolong....
- Fri Nov 06, 2015 9:55 pm
- Forum: Fan-Created Works
- Topic: Does anyone have Yamucha Densetsu content?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1018
Does anyone have Yamucha Densetsu content?
Did anyone happen to save anything from this site, and is anyone willing to share any of said saves? I went looking for the Legend of Shenlong review on Yamucha Densetsu, and found that the domain has expired, and the internet archive doesn't have everything (though it has a few versions of the main...
- Fri Nov 06, 2015 9:41 pm
- Forum: In-Universe Discussion
- Topic: So didn't Ginyu die for good when Buu blew up the Earth?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2522
Re: So didn't Ginyu die for good when Buu blew up the Earth?
I was always under the impression that the frog in the "Gohan's Birthday" filler episode was Ginyu, exhausted after his lengthy search for Goku's house. I suppose the question comes down to: was Ginyu an evil frog? The Filler that showed him at Capsule Corp made it seem like he was trying ...
- Fri Nov 06, 2015 9:18 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Why don't they have two opposing villains appear at once?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2785
Re: Why don't they have two opposing villains appear at once
I'm probably never going to do anything with this idea, so: "It seems that Cell and this spiky-haired fighter have both disappeared, leaving the battlefield eerily qui--What's this? It seems these two new fighters just ambushed the tired boy that was, moments earlier, holding his own against Ce...
- Fri Nov 06, 2015 8:59 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Frieza is the Protagonist of Resurrection F
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4950
Re: Freeza is the Protagonist of Resurrection F
Was Freeza the protagonist? Sure, I can buy that. After all, the plot was driven largely by his character. Even the plot to resurrect him came from the memory of his charisma and leadership and all-around badassery. The fighting happened because he actively refused to listen to reason. He lost becau...
- Fri Nov 07, 2014 8:27 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Broli: A Character Discussion in Fandom Context
- Replies: 61
- Views: 10095
Re: Broli: A Character Discussion in Fandom Context
It's impressive how this topic was started with the expectation that it would be controvercial and require people to curb their tempers... then everyone has pretty much the exact same opinions. About Broli's psychosis: an idea floating around a few years back (I think it originated with Xyex?) is th...
- Sat Jan 25, 2014 5:40 am
- Forum: In-Universe Discussion
- Topic: Saiyan Saga plot hole?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5930
Re: Saiyan Saga plot hole?
Regarding "They didn't know the saiyans would be traveling at the time": Wasn't this wish made within 30 hours of the Saiyans' arrival? The argument still applies, but the likelyhood of the wish happening while they weren't in transit goes way down, so close to the deadline. The "Just...
- Thu Jan 23, 2014 11:04 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: What If Eiichiro Oda wrote Dragon Ball?
- Replies: 161
- Views: 22791
Re: What If Eiichiro Oda wrote Dragon Ball?
Since no one else is going to do it: If Oda wrote Dragonball: All the anime filler prior to the fight with Freeza (and possibly some therein) would probably be in the manga. (Justification: most of it's world building/references/explanations, which Oda seems to like.) Dr. Frappe would either not exi...
- Thu Jan 02, 2014 7:10 am
- Forum: In-Universe Discussion
- Topic: Why are Goku & Chi-Chi the only flawed parents of the show??
- Replies: 102
- Views: 16103
Re: Why are Goku & Chi-Chi the only flawed parents of the sh
The last few posts have really hit the nail on the head (then ripped its arm off). I'm having a hard time thinking of any better parents in the series, other than Gohan and Videl (and we just assume they're good parents from what little we see of them as parents combined with their premarital person...
- Thu Jan 02, 2014 6:47 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: If You Could Change The Previous Villains.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5808
Re: If You Could Change The Previous Villains.
I vaguely like the idea of Mecha Freeza's tech being relevant to the strength of Gero's creations. Superperfect Cell feels like a cheap move to add a dramatic final showdown, possibly to prevent the arc from ending on a depressing note ("Gohan is the strongest in the universe, but fails as a he...
- Sun Dec 22, 2013 12:47 pm
- Forum: In-Universe Discussion
- Topic: Why didn't Fut. Bulma tell Fut. Trunks about Gero's Lab?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 8463
Re: Why didn't Fut. Bulma tell Fut. Trunks about Gero's Lab?
Yeah, I've just been assuming that she looked it up after they got the warning, and that this wasn't an option by the time Bulma built her time machine in the doomed timeline. Makes me wonder, though... her dad's science magazines seem like they'd come in real handy when figuring out how to kick tim...