Kanzenshuu

I'm with this. I'm not against diversity but Dragon Ball has historically handled it in such a bigoted way that I dread it happening with any future characters. Well, for what little it might be worth, in the Super Hero movie we seem to have gotten a non-racist-caricature black character in the for...

Orange Piccolo and Beast Gohan have funny designs, and the hatred people have for them only make them funnier.

They were practicing on Earth at the beginning of Broly.

As I said earlier: the only DC Universe character that I'm aware of who utilizes Qigong/Ki control to supernatural/superpowered degrees is the "Chinese Superman" Kong Kenan: and he acquired those abilities not through training or diligence, but simply because he was given some of Superman...

Also, I cannot imagine for the love of my life seeing Child Goku, who I consider to be a much smarter character, doing this in his confrontation with Piccolo, Tao Pai Pai, or any of the other many innocent-life-threatening foes, really. "Oh, okay. I'm satisfied, because your spirit is broken o...

Muten Roshi could destroy the moon. Piccolo is MAGNITUDES stronger than him. Further, as Piccolo flies away, Goku watches and thinks to himself "Train hard, Piccolo! Get as strong as you can..." Goku let people go for a VERY specific reason - to fight them again. It's really just Freeza t...

This wasn't much of a problem with Piccolo, who could destroy continents (?), but that would make him known and give the heroes a chance to fight back. My problem with Vegeta, and every other villain that comes after Piccolo, is that If they ever came back one day, hid their Ki, and blew up the pla...

Dunno about DC, but Marvel has Iron Fist, which is basically wuxia film-style chi distilled into an American comic book. Yeah I knew about Iron Fist, which made me wonder if DC had an equivalent. And it apparently has multiple! Also worth noting that a lot of DC characters who are very martial arts...

In DC, there is Karate Kid, a human from the future who has mastered every conceivable martial art(including alien ones) and was able to actually physically tangle with Superboy in sparring matches. I do believe that this is the concept of Chi/Ki in DC's universe, allowing even an ordinary human to...

This actually has me thinking. I'm not well versed in deeper metaphysical and cosmic fabric of the DC universe. Is there anything resembling "qi/chi/ki" in the sense that East Asian mythology shows martial artists as being able to tap into and weaponize for superhuman feats? Are there any ...

The question in the title is tricky because Dragon Ball is a fantasy martial arts story pulling from East Asian mythology, in which the "powers" are simply high level martial arts. From the Wuxia Thread : ...the martial arts skills detailed and displayed in Wuxia fiction is ANYTHING but ro...

Forget Broli, Vegetto, Bra, and whoever else. This comic's real main characters are Bojack and his gang.

Some of you have argued that something else would have filled the void left by DB. For some people this would have been the case, but for others it wouldn't, as not everything resonates in the same way. If the show helped a single person turn their life around who otherwise wouldn't have, then it w...

If you say your life would be absolutely no different without DB I'll take your word for it. Maybe it really hasn't impacted you that much, but again there are no end of stories of people turning their lives around after becoming fans. Obviously these people would be worse off without it. There's n...

Doesn't Goku still do all of those things in the anime?

Victims of this behavior do not need to go the extra mile of accomodating weird, immature assholes when talking about cartoons on the internet. No, they don't, but some do anyway. Some stick around in shitty spaces hostile to them. There are, for instance, women, queer people, and people of color w...

If 'hecklers' are going to contribute to an atmosphere where someone is called a 'fake fan', that is inevitably going to lead to people feeling pushed out of fandom spaces. It's a very common tactic for 'gatekeeping' women or queer people from fandom spaces, for example. Agreed, but indirectly disc...

I'm confused. What "gatekeeping" is occurring by some fans idling fantasizing about trading some aspects of fandom for high quality releases? What are these "gatekeepers" limiting access to in the first place through their "gatekeeping"? Did this thread's existence trip...

I think the speculation came about because a lot of people expected/wanted things to go down similarly to the 25th Tenkaichi Budokai, where the tournament was just a set up to get subverted and derailed by the actual plot and story.

In the wise words of Stan Lee- "So one Question I'm always asked. Who would win in a fight? Who would win in a fight if Galactus fought The Hulk, or if Thor fought Iron Man? And there's one answer to all of that. It's so simple, anyone should know this. The person who'd win in a fight is the p...