Who is the most useless DB character?

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Who is the most useless DB character?

Post by AnzuMazaki » Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:28 pm

Who do you think is the most useless DB character?

Come one spill it out, it could be Oolong, It could be Vegeta, or it could be the humans.

Just say who you think are the most useless characters.

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Post by Kaboom » Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:32 pm

Everyone, run for your lives! Rocketman's charging this way at full speed!
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Post by Rocketman » Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:32 pm

Gohan. :mrgreen:

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SSj Kaboom wrote:That was awfully anticlimatic.
Anticlimactic? You mean like how the big reveal after the seven year gap when the supposed protector of Earth and strongest being in the universe is a dumbass high schooler with greasy cheeto-stained fingers from watching reruns of The View all day instead of going out and training to protect the people who are his responsibility like someone in his position is supposed to do? And then how he gets a LITERAL deus ex machina so he can suddenly be the big fat hero again, and tens of thousands of poster masturbate for hours over this because he's bulmafucking Gohan and is thus somehow exempt of all the regular ways of gaining some power that DB/Z heros have to do as long as people can fap to him being a pansy-ass candymunching softboiled piece of technicolor crap with HIDDEN POWAHS of POWEH HIDDENNESS and POTENTIASLSDFSJSJNC
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Post by Kaboom » Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:32 pm

Rocketman wrote:Gohan. :mrgreen:
That was awfully anticlimatic.
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Post by SaiyamanMS » Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:17 am

Chaozu.

Not that I have anything against the little guy, but he never really accomplished anything. He fought Krillin at the tournament and lost, he paralysed Goku a few times during the 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai finals, which after Tenshinhan discovered, he allowed Goku a few free hits to make them even, he got killed by Piccolo Daimao when he tried to stop him from making his wish and finally he committed suicide trying to take Nappa with him... and failed.

Even a character like Yajirobe was more use than Chaozu. And all Yajirobe ever did was kill (and eat) Cymbal, take Goku to Korin Tower, eat Korin's Senzu Beans and cut off Vegeta's tail. (Who's willing to bet that he ate the tail too? :P)

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Post by Kaboom » Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:26 am

Rocketman wrote:Gohan. :mrgreen:

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SSj Kaboom wrote:That was awfully anticlimatic.
Anticlimactic? You mean like how the big reveal after the seven year gap when the supposed protector of Earth and strongest being in the universe is a dumbass high schooler with greasy cheeto-stained fingers from watching reruns of The View all day instead of going out and training to protect the people who are his responsibility like someone in his position is supposed to do? And then how he gets a LITERAL deus ex machina so he can suddenly be the big fat hero again, and tens of thousands of posters masturbate for hours over this because he's bulmafucking Gohan and is thus somehow exempt of all the regular ways of gaining some power that DB/Z heros have to do as long as people can fap to him being a pansy-ass candymunching softboiled piece of technicolor crap with HIDDEN POWAHS of POWEH HIDDENNESS and POTENTIASLSDFSJSJNC
Thaaaat's better. Thank you.
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Post by Thanos6 » Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:31 am

I much prefer Buu saga Gohan to whiny, annoying Cell saga Gohan.
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Post by The Tori-bot » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:33 am

I was originally going to say Buu's dog (Bee, Bay, whatever you want to call him), but he got shot, causing Buu to split, so I'll say Gyu-Mao. Other than the first few chapters he appeared, he does absolutely nothing throught DB, Z and GT. He just stands there and cheers when the bad guy dies. :P
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Post by Supa Saiya-Jin Tullece » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:39 am

That guy that Goku almost KO's in one hit in the capital when he goes to see Bulma.

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Post by The Tori-bot » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:41 am

Supa Saiya-Jin Tullece wrote:That guy that Goku almost KO's in one hit in the capital when he goes to see Bulma.
But he gave Goku the money with which he could ask that woman where a policeman was, who would then take him to Bulma's house and keep the Red Ribbon arc going until the 22nd Budokai.

So nyah. :P
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Post by caejones » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:47 am

Yamu. What did he actually do that Babidi couldn't have done telepathically?
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Post by Toniofalcon » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:50 am

Rocketman wrote:
Anticlimactic? You mean like how the big reveal after the seven year gap when the supposed protector of Earth and strongest being in the universe is a dumbass high schooler with greasy cheeto-stained fingers from watching reruns of The View all day instead of going out and training to protect the people who are his responsibility like someone in his position is supposed to do? And then how he gets a LITERAL deus ex machina so he can suddenly be the big fat hero again, and tens of thousands of poster masturbate for hours over this because he's bulmafucking Gohan and is thus somehow exempt of all the regular ways of gaining some power that DB/Z heros have to do as long as people can fap to him being a pansy-ass candymunching softboiled piece of technicolor crap with HIDDEN POWAHS of POWEH HIDDENNESS and POTENTIASLSDFSJSJNC
That's my biggest complaint of the entire series. Gohan SJJ2 was my favorite character. It showed that Gohan could change, it brought hope that maybe he'd step up. But he pussed out and stopped straining for 7 years and now he's nothing. Mystic Gohan was a damned joke. He pissed away all that " hidden power" when he decided to stop training and not even try to control it.

Oh, most useless character? Maron. Maybe she was useful...maybe she "helped" Krillin out and give him " motivation". And while we're on things that aren't cannon.... most everyone who isn't Goku, Vegeta, Pan, and Trunks in GT are pretty much useless.

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Post by TheJoo87 » Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:34 pm

Chaotzu

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Paur
Oolong

They seem to be little sidekicks to Tien, Yamcha, and Bulma to an extent.
And I never liked them. Plus it gets weird later in the Boo saga when there's no animal people at all and you see a talking pig and cat thing walking around. Toriyama has this knack of keeping useless characters around and it's pointless.
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Post by Toniofalcon » Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:45 pm

Had to make more room for Goku.

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Post by ssorcd » Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:47 pm

I tend to disregard stuff from GT due to the sheer awefulness however Giru by far is a more useless and annoying character than any other from DB and DBZ.

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Post by Raki » Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:24 pm

I can't pick anyone. All of them serve some sort of purpose at one point or another in the series.

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Post by Contra Deus » Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:34 pm

What about Colonel Violet from the Red Ribbon arc? WTF did she even do other than run off with the RRA's treasure? Whatever happened to her anyway?

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Post by Rocketman » Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:41 pm

Contra Deus wrote:What about Colonel Violet from the Red Ribbon arc? WTF did she even do other than run off with the RRA's treasure? Whatever happened to her anyway?
She didn't even do that in the manga. :lol:

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Post by caejones » Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:45 am

Her purose: showing that the RRA has female officers and that some didn't die. o.o
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