Thank you! Your comment is very well said too!CJStriker_CBR wrote:A well Said Post TheDipDap1234, it was a Great Read.TheDipDap1234 wrote:Eh, I have to disagree with you a little on that one. Ribrianne was one of the few new characters to get promoted in this arc, a magazine even listed her as someone we should "watch out for" along with Jiren and Kale, and Liquir (The God of Universe eight) praised her in episode 108 and said Universe 2 might win with Ribrianne in their team. It was a big win for 18 in my opinion. She defeated Universe 2's strongest and most memorable fighter quite easily. Before the episode aired, barely any people thought 18 will defeat Ribrianne. Almost everyone thought 18 will get eliminated for many reasons yet she still survived. As an 18 fan, I was satisfied with her performance in this arc. She eliminated a bunch of fighters, saved Goku, Krillin and 17, got more eliminations than Gohan, lasted longer than Piccolo, almost made it to the top 10 final fighters, outlasted all the other female characters, became stronger than ever before and had some nice interactions with her brother and the person she wanted to kill in the past. The only problem I had with her is that she had to get saved a little too many times by her teammates. It made her look like a damsel in distress and it was annoying.Nickolaidas wrote: 18 *had* a supposedly WOW scene against Ribrianne, but it's not very effective because the production did everything in their power to prevent us from taking Ribrianne seriously. She was constantly treated as a gag character and it made 18's moment kinda shallow.
Indeed Ribrianne was no soft-weight, she was one of the More Serious characters to not only be promoted in this Arc but have some of the more Interesting Development outside of U7 characters. I know she is not to everyone's tastes but No character is, that does not ever = to non-importance. What made the Win for 18 so Big was that many, Me too, where not expecting 18 to win cause of the relevant power differences that seem to be between the 2 ladies and then a New Form for Brianne that was tease to get and in a way she did. While I still thing Toei slept-ed on Ribrianne somewhat by the end of her last few showings and was to a degree a victim of Toei's power scaling mess in this arc, Ribriane STILL was a force to be known. It took 18 having her own Moment of Realization of what give her True Strength to call-upon a New Power that was, LIKE BRIANNE, based on the Power~of~Love!
In this case for her Family, 18 gained a whole new level Thanks to her confrontation with Ribrianne, being beneficial to 18's character for the long-run in both development and power. It also was Benifical for Brianne too, learning of a New Form of Love for her was a Great Discovery and what Many Fans I saw Respect about Brianne after 117 was that she took her Lose not only with Classy-Grace but as a moment to grow in those regards admiring 18 and Krillian's connection threw Love. THAT is character growth and shows that while 18 or Brianne are not on the Crazy levels of Power like Goku, Vegeta and Jiren are, they are on a Nice level of personal growth, depth and strength of their own levels of crazy powerful!
Indeed I was not happy to see Brianne Go, I was sad and missed her greatly, but 18 with 17 along with her go a Clean win and in the long-run I feel after reviewing it over sometime that for the long-run it was beneficial to both ladies. Ever character IS-important to someone and I am glad for you TheDipDap1234 as a fan of 18 she go to shine in the way you where hoping and at the same time you saw Ribrianne as well as a powerful yet worthy fighter that was BIG for 18 to win over.
Like I have said before about that fight, my other main hope is that Many see Ribrianne/Brianne was a major part of 18's growth and threw the philosophy of love it helped 18 gain a new power base on love as well. That fan's found a respect in those moment for Ribrianne for being apart of that for the challenge she put up, for her beliefs and most of all for her classy character reaction to her lose to take it as a learning moment.
Also episode 118 took this and Road with it to Level 11 and showed the True Nature of Universe 2 and Brianne's importance to her Universe.
Brianne is the GODDESS and Champion of their people, a Star on a Known level threw-out her Whole Universe we never really seen before in Dragon Ball. My only = to it is IMO Superman from DC Comics, but I am sure their are other examples too. Brianne is way powerful, just like any heroe, but like any hero one eventually meets others that are stronger and in Hopes My Brianne in the future will become stronger as well.
Before I ramble on anymore, my point is with all of this is the Brianne WAS and Still IS an Important Character with great openings for character growth and interaction. I fell both 17 and 18 developed a connection to Brianne and U2 and it gives me hope and ideas cause they are all Heroes in the end that in future DB shows Toei will ride with that and place them together for character growth, development and funny hijacks with each other, U2, 17, 18 and the Krillian Family!
Watching the magical girls hang out with 17, 18 and Krillin in a future DB show would definitely be something awesome. 18 and Krillin could teach them more about love and become big friends, maybe we could see 17's wife too and Brianne could learn from them as well.