Kanzenshuu

Given that he's a naturally super powered human, why on Earth didn't he tried his luck as a Police Officer prior?
Because he'd get shot and die as almost happened in Super. He sucks.

Or even thought of getting a job in unrelated field of occupation instead of living off his earnings from the ...

I unironically love that Toriyama's last contribution as an artist was shitting all over the very idea of a strict canon for his most famous work in every way possible. Followed by dismantling a series worth of foreshadowing for a cheap gag, capped off by a farcical but upbeat ending. It's very ...

Moreover than this, this was still during the height of an – and I cannot possibly stress this enough – an incredibly bro-douchey period in U.S. popculture that defined most of the very late-most 90s and early to mid 2000s. Which is largely the same zeitgeist of U.S. culture that influenced ...

Oh look, Goku chose to fight a guy he knows is stronger than his base form in his base form, actually did okay, and then somehow still had trouble with the same guy after he transformed into a Super Saiyan, implying his base form was "doing okay" against someone dozens of times stronger.

It's ...

Why would you assume Toriyama purposefully wrote it so everyone got weaker, to Namek arc levels - even though Gohan is the only one referenced to have gotten weaker - and not that he simply did not realize how strong the characters were?

The end result may be the same but one implies authorial ...

I will note again that Piccolo is explicitly weaker than Zarbon in Resurrection F and also gets tired out fighting soldiers that Jaco can beat. And in the same movie Gohan is unsure if he can even turn Super Saiyan and then drops it after one punch.

Stop fighting it with headcanon and accept it ...

I will note again that Piccolo is explicitly weaker than Zarbon in Resurrection F and also gets tired out fighting soldiers that Jaco can beat. And in the same movie Gohan is unsure if he can even turn Super Saiyan and then drops it after one punch.

Stop fighting it with headcanon and accept it. A ...

Check the scan you posted. 17 does call bullshit on Piccolo's claim. It's later that 17 brings up stamina, and it's to say "We might be even, but I don't get tired".

Piccolo even concedes 17 is the faster one, so that evens it out between them. Not to mention this difference is because of their ...

This never happens. They have trouble in base because of being overwhelmed by numbers but immediately start one shotting people when they turned Super Saiyan. The Trio de Danger are hopeless against them until they charge their ultimate attack. They can't even hit them once.
They get overwhelmed ...

I'm sorry but this is nonsense. Putting aside the literal months he trains with Whis and the 3 years he trains with Vegeta in the RoSaT, we have this fight just before the ToP:
And this is a stronger Boo.

It's a friendly sparring match (and again, base Saiyans doing improbably well against ...

Not exactly.

In both mediums he regains his Boo arc power but reaches SSB level by fighting stronger foes. In the anime he trains with Piccolo between episodes 88 and 90 and matches SS2 Goku when they fight 1 to 1. He then adapts to SSB level by the end of their fight.

In the manga he just ...

I think everyone's forgetting that Goku fighting even-ish in base with characters he has trouble defeating as a Super Saiyan is one of the most common things that ever happens in animated Dragon Ball, pretty much since as soon as that form has existed up to the Broly movie.

Even in Toriyama's manga ...

The difference in power between Piccolo and 17 was unnoticeable, they were matching each other blow for blow.
Piccolo claimed that 17 didn't punch as hard as him, a claim that the notoriously cocky 17 never disputed. Instead, he played up his stamina versus Piccolo's.

On the other hand, while ...

Random ass question:

Is there any indication that anyone in the 22nd Budokai arc besides the two finalists and Roshi have surpassed Tao Paipai? Knowing that Tao was about on par with (but slightly inferior to) end-of-arc RRA Goku. I'd think Crane Hermit (power level of 120 given in Weekly Jump ...

Kid Piccolo hurts himself and gets a bloody nose flying into a small tree (without breaking the tree), Goku asks that the king's soldiers not use guns against him, characters have trouble flying at all, planes are back to being relevant forms of travel for the strongest characters, and in general ...

A random note on Android arc scaling:

Chapter: 355 (DBZ 161), P8.5
Trunks: “They’re also somewhat different from the androids I know…They weren’t as outrageously strong as this…Even I could fight them fairly well…”

Chapter: 353 (DBZ 159), P1.1-3
Context: after Trunks, Piccolo, Tenshinhan, and ...

Is it just me, or has this topic been posted like 5 times this year already? I swear somebody asked this question only a couple of weeks ago.

The focus of the thread was more so supposed to be "misconceptions you had about the premise of the series when you first discovered it", with the "how ...

My first impression was with the first Shin Budokai game when I was a child. My English knowledge either wasn't the best, or I skipped through the dialogue, so I thought ultimate Gohan was Goku's father for the longest time. I remember I was super confused a few months later once I actually ...

Recently I was listening to some old discussion videos with Herms in them, thinking he'd have some interesting trivia to share. In one of them (can't even remember which) he offhandedly mentioned that he was first introduced to the series by filler episodes of Goku traveling to Namek and dealing ...

It's unsettling to be reminded yet again that you can be healthy and (relatively) young and still die just because you seemingly-randomly bumped your head one day (at least, I'm assuming that's why a healthy-looking sexagenarian died of a hematoma).

RIP. It's a shame he never got to see the ...