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by ABED
Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:47 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Non-thread-worthy discussions
Replies: 4635
Views: 600897

Re: Non-thread-worthy discussions

Yes, but didn't Vegeta highlight specially the calm and no intent to kill there? Should that tell him he hadn't that SSJ trait? What is the issue you are trying to point out here? I don't honestly get it. Are you saying there's a contradiction or bad writing bc a character in the heat of the moment...
by ABED
Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:39 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?
Replies: 271
Views: 11461

Re: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?

You all keep bringing up JK Rowling but it's still the same issue - don't be an asshole. Doesn't matter if you are successful or not. It's not fundamentally different when you are dealing with one person or a mass audience.
by ABED
Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:48 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Non-thread-worthy discussions
Replies: 4635
Views: 600897

Re: Non-thread-worthy discussions

Yes, but didn't Vegeta highlight specially the calm and no intent to kill there? Should that tell him he hadn't that SSJ trait? What is the issue you are trying to point out here? I don't honestly get it. Are you saying there's a contradiction or bad writing bc a character in the heat of the moment...
by ABED
Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:34 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?
Replies: 271
Views: 11461

Re: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?

Yeah, that's actually correct, yes. How much power and reach you have directly dictates and is directly proportional to how much responsibility you have. Just like a little kid on the playground has WAY less responsibility than a Senator or President does. When you're writing fanfiction online, you...
by ABED
Thu Jan 11, 2024 8:45 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Non-thread-worthy discussions
Replies: 4635
Views: 600897

Re: Non-thread-worthy discussions

Chapter: 279 (DBZ 85), P14.1 Context: as Goku prepares to fight Recoom Vegeta: “Th-this really is strange…He’s oddly calm…Doesn’t he know his opponent’s true strength?...I can’t feel any desire to kill from him at all…” Right after this, Vegeta wonders if Goku is the SSJ!!! If he felt no desire to ...
by ABED
Thu Jan 11, 2024 6:42 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 11238

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

That's simply untrue. Over the course of the series Raj becomes more and more confident, Howard is the first to get into a long term loving relationship (one that sticks through the end of the series), Penny matures into an independent adult, and Sheldon also gets better with social cues. It's like ...
by ABED
Wed Jan 10, 2024 6:15 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?
Replies: 271
Views: 11461

Re: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?

I'd like to see 18 become a bigger part of the cast. I find a character like her really interesting. She's seemingly cold and dethatched but there's a heart in there. And as far as fighting, she has the eternal energy thing as well as not having detectible ki, which could be employed strategically i...
by ABED
Wed Jan 10, 2024 6:08 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Non-thread-worthy discussions
Replies: 4635
Views: 600897

Re: Non-thread-worthy discussions

You know something I was wondering these days by seeing this title page from the original manga. Did Goku really trained with Gohan and Piccolo as a SSJ? I mean it made sense for him in anime filler do to so in Base since that would even things out a bit, but as a SSJ is a strech and that could eve...
by ABED
Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:12 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Non-thread-worthy discussions
Replies: 4635
Views: 600897

Re: Non-thread-worthy discussions

I don't know how that happened but I was quoting lukmendes
by ABED
Sat Jan 06, 2024 5:20 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Non-thread-worthy discussions
Replies: 4635
Views: 600897

Re: Non-thread-worthy discussions

Basaku wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 3:07 pm when Goku tried that against king Piccolo back in vanilla DB
What are you getting at with this comment? I'm referring to the use of "vanilla" specifically.
And I think nearly everyone hated the Whis Ex Machina
I honestly didn't have an issue with it.
by ABED
Tue Jan 02, 2024 9:04 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: The Cell Saga is the most existential in the series
Replies: 14
Views: 1238

Re: The Cell Saga is the most existential in the series

This sounds more impressive than it actually is, sad to say. Piccolo softens a bit, but the reunion with Kami offers little except for a power up. And Gohan's crisis was a last minute addition to milk the drama.
by ABED
Sat Dec 30, 2023 4:17 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 11238

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

I don't know about you, but complaining about being with people she hates, then complaining that the people she hates are leaving her alone even if to do more important things, rinse and repeat, was not funny to me. Not really as she doesn't hate them. She spends the entire time pissed and complain...
by ABED
Sat Dec 30, 2023 4:06 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 11238

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

I don't know about you, but complaining about being with people she hates, then complaining that the people she hates are leaving her alone even if to do more important things, rinse and repeat, was not funny to me. Not really as she doesn't hate them. As for the ship, the Namekian ship seems to ne...
by ABED
Sat Dec 30, 2023 3:58 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 11238

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

She also pilots the craft. her technical skill is important even if only at the beginning. I get your point but Bulma is a fun character, though some people's mileage may vary; And she never has a scene where she actively likes Vegeta in the Freeza arc and certainly not midway through. The issue wit...
by ABED
Sat Dec 30, 2023 2:36 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 11238

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

I have no clue what you are talking about. DB has some of the most well defined characters bc they are simple and to the point. Goku is there to save the day or least give his allies a fighting chance. Goku doesn't really have an arc. He doesn't have to. There's no rule in fiction saying that's the ...
by ABED
Fri Dec 29, 2023 7:16 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 11238

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

I think the Ginyuu are fun personalities, but in a remake setting I think that they're extraneous and any development that they provide for characters could be transferred over to Zarbon or Dodoria to better flesh them out. Kuririn and Gohan teaming up to defeat Dodoria after Dodoria kills Dende's ...
by ABED
Fri Dec 29, 2023 6:41 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 11238

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

That's just plot stuff and not necessary to tell the story. Freeza doesn't have to be that overwhelmingly more powerful than any of his subordinates. The plot doesn't even need the Ginyu Force by that point. The good guys have the Dragon Balls at that point. The Ginyu Force mostly serves as one more...
by ABED
Fri Dec 29, 2023 6:04 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 11238

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

I think it would take more than 20 minutes to establish Genkai and make her death matter. This is my issue with the filler debate in general. It went beyond a term to denote material added to adaptations to now meaning anything that's not "on plot". Stories are more than plot points and ev...
by ABED
Fri Dec 29, 2023 2:42 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 11238

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

Has anyone brought up the Yu Yu Hakusho live action show? I enjoyed it for what it was, but if that is an indication of what we could get with DB, then no thanks. It took 64 episodes and condensed it to 5. So much was cut out that much of the emotion is gone. It's all plot, plot, plot, but very litt...
by ABED
Sun Dec 24, 2023 10:49 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 11238

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

The reveal of this remake, while we get that Chibi Special, makes me question everything. I get that OP is the golden goose, been so for 2 decades, and looks to be so 2 decades more with this remake. But Dragonball is profitable too...right? Surely a remake would break bank......right? Dragonball i...