Have your favorite characters in DB-DBZ changed as you've gotten older?

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Have your favorite characters in DB-DBZ changed as you've gotten older?

Post by kinisking » Sun Sep 04, 2016 2:48 pm

Not counting changes to your favorite characters because of Super because that's new material. Have you changed your opinion on certain characters during the years? I definitely have.
My top 5 when I first got into dragonball:
1. Gohan (Cell saga was my favorite).
2. Goku
3. Future Trunks
4. Gotenks
5. Gogeta

My top 5 now:
1. Gohan (Boo saga is my favorite version)
2. Future Trunks
3. Vegeta
4. Tien
5. Krillin or Gotenks
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Re: Have your favorite characters in DB-DBZ changed as you've gotten older?

Post by Lunatic Fringe » Sun Sep 04, 2016 2:59 pm

Yep. I didn't have a concrete fave five but Vegeta was #1, Kuririn and Bulma were nowhere near it, and Pure Buu was the only villain in it. Now, Vegeta's not in the Top 5, Freeza is the only villain in it, and Kuririn and. Bulma sit at #4 and #5 respectively. Also, Piccolo is my new #1 with Goku trailing behind.

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Re: Have your favorite characters in DB-DBZ changed as you've gotten older?

Post by sintzu » Sun Sep 04, 2016 4:30 pm

I've been a fan for over 10 years and Vegeta was my #1 the minute he was introduced and he still is (I'm sure I've made this crystal clear by now :lol: ) .

Goku has always been a close 2nd for me.

Based on Super it looks like I picked the right characters to be a fan of cause if I was a Gohan and/or Piccolo fan then I'm not sure how I'd enjoy Super or even GT.
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Post by omaro34 » Sun Sep 04, 2016 5:11 pm

sintzu wrote:I've been a fan for over 10 years and Vegeta was my #1 the minute he was introduced and he still is (I'm sure I've made this crystal clear by now :lol: ) .

Goku has always been a close 2nd for me.

Based on Super it looks like I picked the right characters to be a fan of cause if I was a Gohan and/or Piccolo fan then I'm not sure how I'd enjoy Super or even GT.
I can still enjoy Super despite being a Piccolo fan. Who's your top 5 though?

Mine hasn't really changed. Beerus is now in my top 5.

1) Piccolo
2) Bardock
3) Tenshinhan
4) Vegeta
5) Beerus

Future Trunks would definitely be my 6th, followed by Gohan then Goku.
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Post by Doctor. » Sun Sep 04, 2016 5:15 pm

Not really, I started when I was about 13 and my favorites were Goku and Vegeta and they're still Goku and Vegeta.

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Post by ekrolo2 » Sun Sep 04, 2016 5:19 pm

I've realized the entire cast are either incompetent or just kind of assholes so yeah, I'd say my view on everyone, not just my favorites like Piccolo and Vegeta, have changed quite a bit.
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Post by nickzambuto » Sun Sep 04, 2016 5:22 pm

Honestly Yamcha of all people has started slowly creeping into my favorite characters list recently. The older and smarter I got, the more I started having a fascination with him and his uniqueness and his struggles and his immense potential as a deep character, and then the Elsewhere fanmanga solidified him as a badass for following up on all of that potential.

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Post by kinisking » Sun Sep 04, 2016 6:44 pm

omaro34 wrote:
sintzu wrote:I've been a fan for over 10 years and Vegeta was my #1 the minute he was introduced and he still is (I'm sure I've made this crystal clear by now :lol: ) .

Goku has always been a close 2nd for me.

Based on Super it looks like I picked the right characters to be a fan of cause if I was a Gohan and/or Piccolo fan then I'm not sure how I'd enjoy Super or even GT.
I can still enjoy Super despite being a Piccolo fan. Who's your top 5 though?

Mine hasn't really changed. Beerus is now in my top 5.

1) Piccolo
2) Bardock
3) Tenshinhan
4) Vegeta
5) Beerus

Future Trunks would definitely be my 6th, followed by Gohan then Goku.
I said to not include any changes that Super has brought :P
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Post by Neo-Makaiōshin » Sun Sep 04, 2016 7:14 pm

The top 2 spots (Goku & Vegeta) remains the same but the N° 3,4 and 5 spot have changed in the last 10 years for me.

My old top 5 characters:

1. Goku
2. Vegeta
3. Son Gohan (SSJ2 Cell Arc)
4. Future Trunks
5. Gogeta

My new and current top 5 characters:

1. Goku
2. Vegeta
3. Beerus
4. Whis
5. Future Trunks
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Post by B » Sun Sep 04, 2016 7:20 pm

Not particularly; if anything the reasons why they're my favorites have changed the most. I liked Yamcha as a kid for fairly superficial reasons -- his Cell arc haircut and his defining scar. Nowadays I'm a lot more interested in his eternal role as the punching bag, despite dub fans taking it to possibly a heavy extreme, or interpreting it wrong altogether. I also appreciate the humorous minor characters a lot more. Lunch, Turtle, and Mai 4lyfe.

As far as the main cast goes, I was always and still am very into Goku, Kuririn, and Tenshinhan for more or less the same reasons all these years.
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Post by Lord Beerus » Sun Sep 04, 2016 7:39 pm

The only real major change is that Beerus is my number 1 character with everyone else going down one place. So now it's:

Beerus
Goku
Vegeta
Piccolo
Future Trunks

And before it was:

Goku
Vegeta
Piccolo
Future Trunks
Krillin

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Post by nite_jay » Sun Sep 04, 2016 7:51 pm

My top 3 has always been pretty solid; These have been my favirites since forever.


1. Goku
2. Roshi
3. Tao Pai Pai

Gohan and Future Trunks made a bit of a resurgence though.

4. Kid Gohan (Not SSJ2 Gohan)
5. Future Trunks

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Post by sintzu » Sun Sep 04, 2016 11:43 pm

omaro34 wrote:I can still enjoy Super despite being a Piccolo fan. Who's your top 5 though?
Vegeta
Goku
Piccolo
Gohan
Future Trunks

I guess 3 out of 5 characters being relevant isn't a bad deal.
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Post by Soppa Saia People » Sun Sep 04, 2016 11:50 pm

Yeah,it used to be
1. (future) Trunks
2. Gohan
3. Bardock
4. Kuririn
5. Future Gohan
Now it's
1. Gokuu
2. Kuririn
3. Piccolo
4. Roshi
5. Gohan
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Post by Saikyo no Senshi » Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:28 am

Nope. Gokuu was, is and will always be #1 no matter what. My top 5 in fact my top 10 hasn't changed at all.

1. Son Gokuu

2. Piccolo

3. Freeza

4. Tenshinhan

5. Muten Roshi

6. Kuririn

7. Piccolo Daimao

8. Mirai Trunks

9. Tao Pai Pai

10. Mr. Satan

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Post by floofychan333 » Mon Sep 05, 2016 3:01 pm

Since I've only been into Dragon Ball since summer 2015 my favourites haven't changed as I've gotten older but rather as I've watched more and more. Currently my top 5 are Buu saga Gohan, Piccolo, King Kai, Master Roshi, and Goku.
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Post by SaiyanZ » Mon Sep 05, 2016 7:28 pm

I don't think I had rankings when I was a kid, but as I got older, my understanding of how the characters actually are grew, and when I liked certain characters changed as well. Vegeta is my 2nd favorite, but he only became that after I finished going through the Buu arc a couple times when I was a little older and out of high school. Before that, he was still my 2nd fav, but only just because.
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Post by Anime Kitten » Tue Sep 06, 2016 5:35 pm

Here's my thread for you guys' favorites. :P

I used to love Cell for some reason. Not sure about the others, besides Frieza being #2 IIRC.
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Post by Soppa Saia People » Tue Sep 06, 2016 5:39 pm

Anime Kitten wrote:Here's my thread for you guys' favorites. :P

I used to love Cell for some reason. Not sure about the others, besides Frieza being #2 IIRC.
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Post by Anime Kitten » Tue Sep 06, 2016 8:10 pm

Soppa Saia People wrote:Theres already been multiple "Favorite character" threads. Once I post in one, I feel no need to post in another.
I created the thread because there's no current one of the like, so it's good to post in there to have an up-to-date record of what could potentially be every user's favorites.
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