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Craziest rumors you've ever heard?

Post by Gogeta 00 » Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:52 pm

I have been a fan of Dragon Ball for over 14 years now; some of my earliest memories involve the series. In that time, I've heard a lot of insane rumors. Some have been widespread and well known (such as DBAF), whilst others seem to have only existed between me and my childhood friends. Some have had proper grounds for speculation, others have come from out of nowhere and were based off of nothing. We've all heard plenty of them, but some stand out above the rest. I am quite interested in hearing about what everyone thinks are the craziest of the crazy. Also, I'm looking forward to hearing about some of the lesser known (but equally wacky) stories that other people have heard.

Some of mine are:

-Toriyama died of a heart attack (how did this even start?).

-Goku and Vegeta are brothers.

-Obviously the legend of Dragon Ball AF.

-The dots on Kuririn's forehead are a curse mark, or indication of some type of possession. (A very strange idea that some of my friends used to talk about, don't remember the exact details, but it was ridiculous.)
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Re: Craziest rumors you've ever heard?

Post by gotensottile » Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:54 pm

Broli gathered the DragonBalls and wished back Raditz and Nappa to kill Goku.

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Re: Craziest rumors you've ever heard?

Post by Gogeta 00 » Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:55 pm

gotensottile wrote:Broli gathered the DragonBalls and wished back Raditz and Nappa to kill Goku.
Am I crazy, or was this a fanfic that Mike had conceived at one point in time?
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Post by Hellspawn28 » Sat Oct 30, 2010 2:52 pm

A lot of crazy crap about GT before it cameout in the states before I was told it was wrong thanks to the Internet. For example:

- Babidi was the one who turn Goku into a kid

- Cell and Freeza become good guys

- Broly and Lord Slug escapes out of Hell in the Super 17 saga

- Goku was not the only one who turn into a kid but the rest of the people on Earth because of some bomb

- GT was lot darker and more muture then DBZ

- Syn Shenron was a new form of Cooler
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Post by StarRot » Sat Oct 30, 2010 4:39 pm

Ohoho, well played.

Anyway, there were a lot of stupid rumours around the playground about DB when I was a kid, can't really remember many, but one does stick out:
That Tenshinhan was a mutated human, experimented on by aliens. I ... have no idea who came up with that one or why.

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Post by Gogeta 00 » Sat Oct 30, 2010 4:55 pm

I knew someone was going to post this xD

Yeah, some of the GT rumors were pretty asinine. I remember people boasting claims of SSJ 10, which had glowing red hair & eyes, fangs & claws, and the transformation could apparently only be held for 10 minutes, after that, the entire world exploded. Another one I vividly remember was that there was an entire empire of artificial humans, each with unbelievable power. I got excited about that one after finding pictures of Super 17 online, so I actually believed it for quite a while.
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Post by Super Sonic » Sat Oct 30, 2010 4:58 pm

Remember hearing something about Gohan being older and was going to be voiced by Freddie Prinze Jr.

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Post by Hellspawn28 » Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:26 pm

I remember that Vegito was a new character, and was Vegeta's brother.
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Post by caejones » Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:35 pm

Hellspawn28 wrote:I remember that Vegito was a new character, and was Vegeta's brother.
My initial belief was that Vegetto was a completely different character. (Ur, you know what I mean, Rocketman. :P ), but I didn't put any thought into his background to try and come up with anything like him being connected to Vegeta...
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Post by goku the krump dancer » Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:35 pm

After being killed by Cell's explosion a devil jumps in side Goku's corpse, possessing him and calling himself Devil Goku and he has blueish brown Super Saiyan hair.
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Post by Bardo117 » Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:04 pm

Linkin Park was recording the theme song for Budokai.
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Post by Nazi Cola » Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:07 pm

I heard that one as well.^^
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Post by Goku100xKamehameha » Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:18 pm

AF was real.
Damn you! I was going post that. :P

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Post by Godo » Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:41 pm

That Gotenks and Vegetto were new Saiya-jins that would join our heroes. Their clothing differed because of that they had lived in different planets in the galaxy until they found Goku and his friends.
Of course, there was no question regarding how Gotenks wasn't even born when planet Vegeta exploded, so that would make it an impossibility.
And Vegetto was stronger than Goku and Vegeta and so was Gotenks. They were super Super Saiya-jins, if you could call them that.
Then I found out about a thing called fusion.

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Post by The Time Traveller » Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:54 pm

Bardo117 wrote:Linkin Park was recording the theme song for Budokai.
I heard they did the theme song to DBZ too.

I bet if I downloaded a shitty old P2P program I'd find "Linkin Park - Rock the Dragon"...

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Post by Puto » Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:38 pm

That every dub of DBZ other than the FUNimation one was accurate. Yeah, right.
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Post by Castor Troy » Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:46 pm

Toriyama wanted to end the series at Freeza. :roll:

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Post by Kendamu » Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:48 pm

I once saw a caption under the following image that said: "The blond guys are Goku's cousins."

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Re: Craziest rumors you've ever heard?

Post by Turtle Marked Stone » Sat Oct 30, 2010 10:31 pm

You can play as Pilaf in Final Bout, I...don't even know why someone would think this.

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