Is it weird that Mr. Satan is the best part of Super?

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Is it weird that Mr. Satan is the best part of Super?

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:14 pm

Well... I think do...

His moments are honestly hella entertainment and unlike other comic relief softballs (Muten Roshi and Chi-Chi, for example) TOEI don't blow the comedy around him outta proportion just for a cheap laugh... probably cuz he's already comic relief.

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Re: Is it weird that Mr. Satan is the best part of Super?

Post by Chuquita » Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:41 pm

Between the three of them, I'd pick Mr. Satan's comedic relief easily. It's more versatile in the way I can totally see why Toriyama entertained the idea of doing a spin off staring him and Buu. Kamesennin's shtick is stale without his wise old teacher side to balance him. They're not handling Chi-Chi well at all either. The end of yesterday's episode broke my heart instead of making me laugh. No one should be so afraid of a family member that they hide outside having to miss dinner.

In terms of the best part of Super for me though, I think I won't really know until we get through more of this filler. Right now it's a tie for me between awkward Vegeta stuff, Gokû being cute, and Whis being Whis. Bee the dog is an honorable mention after he used those binoculars.
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Re: Is it weird that Mr. Satan is the best part of Super?

Post by SSJ God Gogeta » Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:50 pm

I'd say Whis is the best part of Super, but I understand why you say Satan is. It's never a dull moment with him, Yesterdays episode proves that much.
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Re: Is it weird that Mr. Satan is the best part of Super?

Post by precita » Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:56 pm

I wonder if Master Roshi's perverted humor is just not suitable for today's audiences. Super seems more aimed at kids than the original series.

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Re: Is it weird that Mr. Satan is the best part of Super?

Post by Scarlet Spider » Sun Oct 18, 2015 7:01 pm

I find Satan annoying. Liked him when he was befriending Buu and whatnot, but that's it. I love Whis though.

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Post by Lord Beerus » Sun Oct 18, 2015 7:06 pm

Mr Satan's shenanigans is certainly the best source of comic relief Super has to offer so far.

Until Jaco arrives. :wink:

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Re: Is it weird that Mr. Satan is the best part of Super?

Post by fadeddreams5 » Sun Oct 18, 2015 7:07 pm

Considering I pretty much just wrote in the episode 15 thread how I'm sick of his antics... can't really agree. =P

But then, I generally don't quite dig Super's comedy. Except Whis moments. Any moment with Whis automatically becomes better.
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Re: Is it weird that Mr. Satan is the best part of Super?

Post by Xeztin » Sun Oct 18, 2015 10:30 pm

I enjoyed Super episode 15, I literally laughed at Mr. Satan, and was curious as to how he was going to get himself out of this mess.
There's a time in DB when a episode need's to be serious or funny, and after the BOG arc, I thought it was the perfect time.
In My opinion episode 15 with Satan nailed it.

Edit- Now that I think about it, It may have been funny to those watching but I'm sure to Mr. Satan it was worse then Beerus. :D
I think Dragon Ball is funny when the scenes aren't trying to actually be funny, as to me most of the time it comes off as trying to hard.
Mr. Satan wasn't trying to be funny, it was just the mess that he was in, which is what made it good I think.

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Re: Is it weird that Mr. Satan is the best part of Super?

Post by Battousai » Wed Oct 21, 2015 12:33 pm

Not really, altough I don't hate Satan as character, I feel he just has too much screen time. Some support characters need more screentime, like Chaozu, 18, Yamcha...

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Re: Is it weird that Mr. Satan is the best part of Super?

Post by rereboy » Wed Oct 21, 2015 12:39 pm

Chuquita wrote: The end of yesterday's episode broke my heart instead of making me laugh. No one should be so afraid of a family member that they hide outside having to miss dinner.
Honestly, that just means that you took it way too seriously, applying real world standards and logic. To give a relevant example, no one actually thinks that hitting people with an hammer on the head is funny in the real world, but such an action, or something similar to it, is actually funny in a comedy, cartoon and so on precisely because we don't take it seriously. The moment that we take something like that seriously, the humor can't survive.

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Re: Is it weird that Mr. Satan is the best part of Super?

Post by Chuquita » Wed Oct 21, 2015 12:51 pm

That's your opinion. That last scene really bothered me. It's the failure of the scenario writer if they intend to get across a humorous scene that comes out looking depressing instead.

Maybe next episode things will be better for Gokû.
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Re: Is it weird that Mr. Satan is the best part of Super?

Post by irreality » Wed Oct 21, 2015 12:55 pm

rereboy wrote: Honestly, that just means that you took it way too seriously, applying real world standards and logic. To give a relevant example, no one actually thinks that hitting people with an hammer on the head is funny in the real world, but such an action, or something similar to it, is actually funny in a comedy, cartoon and so on precisely because we don't take it seriously. The moment that we take something like that seriously, the humor can't survive.
No, I agree with Chuquita on this one. Goku and Chichi I always thought at one of those couples that can hit or scream at each other and laugh it off. Goku is only "scared" of Chichi in the sense that they like each other and he knows she has his best interests at heart when she screams at him. And Chichi is only mildly annoyed at being slapped through a wall in jest, because she knows Goku isn't trying to hurt her. The scene should always end sort of carefree for the humor to work. But here he didn't seemed to be tiptoeing around and meekly being chastized -- he was just outside without any resolution. I'm not saying the scene could not have worked: it was just executed in a way that was too "real" in a sense, and broke the jest. Especially since it was due to a misunderstanding: Goku was really trying to get the tractor fixed -- a screaming resolution would have been more humorous and less sad.

The only way I can reconcile the scene is the time Goku was left without dinner at Roshi's when Krillin cheated him out of a training exercise. He was also left without dinner then. (but everyone else got food poisoning, so you know, it balanced, karmically). So if it references that scene, I feel less bad about it -- but I still think this Goku/Chichi scene was not sufficiently played for laughs to work without seeming abusive.

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Re: Is it weird that Mr. Satan is the best part of Super?

Post by rereboy » Wed Oct 21, 2015 12:58 pm

Chuquita wrote:That's your opinion. That last scene really bothered me. It's the failure of the scenario writer if they intend to get across a humorous scene that comes out looking depressing instead.
It's my opinion that people watch things like clowns hitting each other with tools like hammers and people find it funny, but they don't find funny a person that uses a hammer to hit a person on the street?

There's a difference between simply not finding something funny, and not finding the humor in it because it reminds us too much of actual serious issues of the real world. That difference is simply how seriously we are taking the humor. I merely pointed that out.

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Re: Is it weird that Mr. Satan is the best part of Super?

Post by irreality » Wed Oct 21, 2015 1:09 pm

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Chuquita wrote:That's your opinion. That last scene really bothered me. It's the failure of the scenario writer if they intend to get across a humorous scene that comes out looking depressing instead.
It's my opinion that people watch things like clowns hitting each other with tools like hammers and people find it funny, but they don't find funny a person that uses a hammer to hit a person on the street?

There's a difference between simply not finding something funny, and not finding the humor in it because it reminds us too much of actual serious issues of the real world. That difference is simply how seriously we are taking the humor. I merely pointed that out.
The thing is that it is not just a matter or "not seeing the humor": it is whether the humor was readable to the audience or whether they needed to make a leap of inference to see it. If the clowns cease to wear their makeup and hit each other with hammers, it might be hard to still read the scene as humor instead of violence, and it is not the fault of the audience. You can say, "Well, we know they are meant to be clowns!" but that doesn't negate the fact that the costume department may have failed to convey the right tone in the scene.

There are normally artistic cues to read a scene as humorous or serious. We can discuss whether DBS omitted those in this scene or not without assuming it is an error of interpretation on the part of the audience.

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Re: Is it weird that Mr. Satan is the best part of Super?

Post by Scott » Thu Oct 22, 2015 6:20 pm

I have always found him to be a bit annoying, even in Dragon Ball Z. He's constantly loud and irritating. His moments with Buu in DBZ was probably his best parts. In Super he has been even worse, his character design is espeically bad.

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Re: Is it weird that Mr. Satan is the best part of Super?

Post by KonohaKillas » Thu Oct 22, 2015 8:07 pm

I love Mr.Satan because he is a perfect example of later Dragon Ball humor done right, an instant classic.

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