Official On-Going DBZ 2013 Movie Thread: "Battle of Gods"

[TheDevilsCorpse]

I was listening closely to the trailer and noticed that Mr. Satan said "bakeneko" (cat monster) instead of "baka neko" (dumb cat).

Awwww, I liked the latter better... lol

[DBZGTKOSDH]

So i'm guessing the movie will be GT again. GT= Goku Time.

Please let the others do things.

Of course it's gonna be Goku's time again. He is the main character of the franchise. He is what Luffy is to One Piece, what Naruto is to Naruto, what Arale is to Dr. Slump, what Jack Sparrow is to The Pirates of the Caribbean, etc. Sure he was replaced by Gohan, and almost additionally by Goten &Trunks, but still Toriyama decided that ultimately, Goku is the main character of the series. And that's how it will always will be, like it or not. Because Goku is a better hero compared Gohan, Goten, or Trunks, and most importantly, Goku sells better. And they obviously want this to sell a lot, so experimenting with new main characters like Pan, Oob, Goku Jr. & Vegeta Jr., Beet, or the main character in DBO wouldn't be a very good idea.

Goku being the main character is different from Goku being the only character that gets to have any importance.

But we did saw more characters in action, so...

And wow, awesome new trailer!

[AnimeMaakuo]

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[Saiga]

But we did saw more characters in action, so...

So nothing, they'll probably all get their asses kicked and contribute nothing.

[bleed0range]

How long do you guys think the movie will really be? The DBZ movies started averaging at about 50 minutes towards the end of their run back in the day and I was looking at recent one piece films and they range anywhere from 60 minutes to about 115.

I would really like to think it'll be more in the 60-115 range. Preferably 115 minutes.

[dbboxkaifan]

Seen the trailer and it looks promising. I'm now beginning to get somewhat excited.

If the 2013 DBZ yearly game is based on this film, I hope NB doesn't disappoint its fans. Enough of trying to revive the franchise with old games.

[bleed0range]

Seen the trailer and it looks promising. I'm now beginning to get somewhat excited.

If the 2013 DBZ yearly game is based on this film, I hope NB doesn't disappoint its fans. Enough of trying to revive the franchise with old games.

Ooooo... I didn't even think about a new game based on this movie. That's an exciting prospect!

[penguintruth]

Pretty much every DB video game is designed to disappoint. And yet people still get excited for new ones. If anything, a game based on the movie will be even worse than one not based on it.

[omegalucas]

And yeah, as we can see in the trailer (in the DB/shocked gang scene), Gohan is really wearing glasses... yellow glasses.
Roshi's glasses are white.

[Saiga]

I don't think making a video game based off the movie would work out very well. There wouldn't be enough content to make a whole game out of.

Now, including the characters in next years annual video game would be a much better idea.

[JeffJarrett]

By the way, I noticed that there's an Egyptian goddess named Sekhmet, who has a lion face and was believed to cause diseases. You know, lions belong to the cat family, and disease can be associated with virus.

I noticed this when the fans around the internet started talking about Bils' design being "based" on Anubis. Also, Sekhmet and Bils have the same position, Sekhmet is the Egyptian Goddess of Destruction: http://www.thaliatook.com/AMGG/sekhmet.html

[DBZGTKOSDH]

But we did saw more characters in action, so...

So nothing, they'll probably all get their asses kicked and contribute nothing.

But that's what happens in Dragon Ball all the time.

[Saiga]

But that's what happens in Dragon Ball all the time.

In movies/Goku Time yes, and the manga to a lesser extent. But that doesn't mean people couldn't have expected better from this movie, or be unhappy with it for continuing the trend.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

But that's what happens in Dragon Ball all the time.

In movies/Goku Time yes, and the manga to a lesser extent. But that doesn't mean people couldn't have expected better from this movie, or be unhappy with it for continuing the trend.

Goku fought alone in the three Tenkaichi Budokai, the whole Red Ribbon, Piccolo Daimao, Freeza & Boo (with help from others for the Genki Dama), he fought alone Vegeta and lost, and Gohan defeated Cell alone.

[Saiga]

But that's what happens in Dragon Ball all the time.

In movies/Goku Time yes, and the manga to a lesser extent. But that doesn't mean people couldn't have expected better from this movie, or be unhappy with it for continuing the trend.

Goku fought alone in the three Tenkaichi Budokai, the whole Red Ribbon, Piccolo Daimao, Freeza & Boo (with help from others for the Genki Dama), he fought alone Vegeta and lost, and Gohan defeated Cell alone.

The Tenkaichi Budokai are tournaments, that's obviously an unfair example. And even during them, other characters got to shine like Kuririn vs Piccolo. Piccolo got to put up a fight against second-form Freeza, Gohan defeating Cell is a subversion from Goku doing everything, Goku needed Vegeta to stall against Pure Boo, not to mention Gotenks and Gohan fought Evil Boo and Vegeta fused with Goku... plenty examples in the manga of other characters getting to be important (although early Dragon Ball was pretty bad with this).

[Michsi]

Goku fought alone in the three Tenkaichi Budokai, the whole Red Ribbon, Piccolo Daimao, Freeza & Boo (with help from others for the Genki Dama), he fought alone Vegeta and lost, and Gohan defeated Cell alone.
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The Tenkaichi Budokai gave other characters the opportunity to shine a bit in the spot light (like Krillin vs Jackie Chun, Krillin vs Piccolo , Ten vs Tao Pai Pai) and so did the Saiyan, Freeza and Buu Arc. Even if in the end it was Goku that dealt the final and most important blow, other characters contributed to those stories with more than simply just "trying and failing" (even if they did fail ).

[Sani]

Maybe, this is is a crazy idea, but what if, the third hidden figure and the "Is there nobody on Earth more worthy to destroy…?" guy, is the God of the Creation? (aka the creator of the Dragon World, not Toriyama )

If it's true, this will be the Battle of Gods.

[Titan]

I'm starting to think that Piccolo, Tenshinhan and A-18 are getting koed by Bils with the usual single shot.
If it is the case, it will be disappointing, but, it happened all the time in the manga, therefore, this scene can be reminiscent of A-17 handling Piccolo, Tenshinhan and Trunks.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

The Tenkaichi Budokai are tournaments, that's obviously an unfair example. And even during them, other characters got to shine like Kuririn vs Piccolo. Piccolo got to put up a fight against second-form Freeza, Gohan defeating Cell is a subversion from Goku doing everything, Goku needed Vegeta to stall against Pure Boo, not to mention Gotenks and Gohan fought Evil Boo and Vegeta fused with Goku... plenty examples in the manga of other characters getting to be important (although early Dragon Ball was pretty bad with this).

Still, all of them failed, eventually. Same thing happens in the movies too. The problem with the movies is though that the secondary characters don't have enough time to shine & fail at the same time, so they just fail.

[Big Momma]

The would love for the final silhouette to be Tori-bot. And he ends up being the fabled "God of Creation."