"Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread

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Post by Jigurashi » Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:11 pm

BlueBasilisk wrote:
Ki Breaker wrote:Superman, Batman..
Last I checked a skirmish between them did not end well..
The twist is that Jiren' grandpa was also named Gohan.
That'd be hilarious

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Post by thegamer23 » Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:12 pm

Maybe it's El Hermano's story, not Jiren's! :D

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Post by Hugo Boss » Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:25 pm

I smell some backstory from Jiren. Perhaps that crowd is his home planet’s people and his wish is to revive them.

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Post by Lord Beerus » Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:31 pm

Nice to see Jiren is getting a backstory. Stuff like this in Dragon Ball is quite rare in reality, especially for an antagonist.

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Post by Kenneth La Torre » Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:36 pm

Hugo Boss wrote:I smell some backstory from Jiren. Perhaps that crowd is his home planet’s people and his wish is to revive them.
The people’s ears don’t match jiren, instead they match toppos. So maybe toppo and his race raised jiren?

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Post by The gr » Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:42 pm

Nice to see Jiren possible origins, maybe it will be similar to Superman with a mix of Batman.
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Post by Chuquita » Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:45 pm

An antagonist backstory flashback?! How modern. :shock:
One Piece does and Naruto did those all the time. Interesting to see Dragon Ball give it a shot.
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Post by Jigurashi » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:00 pm

Probably will be a minute at most but anything will be better. Actually getting some info on his past is so surprising given this is DB.

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Post by Kanassa » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:02 pm

Jigurashi wrote:Probably will be a minute at most but anything will be better. Actually getting some info on his past is so surprising given this is DB.
In DB I think King Piccolo, Cell and Buu were the only ones we got any actual backstory on, at least while they were villains. And even then it was rather vauge aside from a key event or two.
When Super apparently shoves Goku down our throats:

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Post by OverHeaven » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:04 pm

pacz360 wrote:Let's look in this thread what been said
Boring
No personality
Honestly at this point nothing but pointless buzzwords from this fucking fanbase :lol:
He was boring with little to no personality though, that was true and just because they'll show him as a baby now doesn't automatically change all his past interactions to be interesting or something special. Backstories for Dragon Ball antagonists is something very rare and there was no hint for this, it was impossible for anyone to see this coming it just came out of nowhere. So don't try to use this now against people who criticised the Jiren prior to this episode like all they said was pointless or based on nothing. We can't see the future, or predict things that had zero foreshadowing. Even more, extremely rare for DB antagonists.

Anyway, this is one of the instances where we should be happy that we were wrong, I doubt anyone here would be bothered by it just because he's been wrong and someone might make fun of him/her or something. so it's pointless lol
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Post by Professor Freeza » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:04 pm

Kanassa wrote:
Jigurashi wrote:Probably will be a minute at most but anything will be better. Actually getting some info on his past is so surprising given this is DB.
In DB I think King Piccolo, Cell and Buu were the only ones we got any actual backstory on, at least while they were villains. And even then it was rather vauge aside from a key event or two.

We got the whole Zamasu turning Evil in Super. What are u talking about?

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Post by SirTorra » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:19 pm

Professor Freeza wrote:
Kanassa wrote:
Jigurashi wrote:Probably will be a minute at most but anything will be better. Actually getting some info on his past is so surprising given this is DB.
In DB I think King Piccolo, Cell and Buu were the only ones we got any actual backstory on, at least while they were villains. And even then it was rather vauge aside from a key event or two.

We got the whole Zamasu turning Evil in Super. What are u talking about?
Zamas backstory was not only bland but hardly fleshed out.

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Post by TheShadowEmperor8055 » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:27 pm

Grimlock wrote:Child Jiren! :lol: Hopefully this means he'll get some character development and, what every character should have... PERSONALITY.

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Whoa, wtf. This is for real?! :)

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Post by Jigurashi » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:36 pm

Kanassa wrote:
Jigurashi wrote:Probably will be a minute at most but anything will be better. Actually getting some info on his past is so surprising given this is DB.
In DB I think King Piccolo, Cell and Buu were the only ones we got any actual backstory on, at least while they were villains. And even then it was rather vauge aside from a key event or two.
Indeed. I'm happy enough that Jiren is getting something considering they just as easily could have given him nothing

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Post by prince212 » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:45 pm

Looks like Jiren background happening it’s for real, it’s a nice surprise
Yes , db is being always lacking on showing backgrounds unlike other series that dedicate full chapters for those matters, but it’s part of the essence . For example To get to know more of piccolo we had namek arc , so future arcs instead flashbacks backgrounds is a tool that dragon ball use instead of remembering old times out of the present time .
And looks like to get to know more about the Saiyan s we will have a movie... and that’s my point .... my bet is that the movie will be connected with the present somehow , and not a backstory .. to keep that essence .
Well , it’s truth that episode of bardok was in the past ...
Can’t wait to see that little bit of Jiren past
It was as if a whole lot of people ...were screaming in pain....

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Post by emperior » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:47 pm

Wow, Jiren's backstory. Please, please make it good and don't wrap it up in 30 seconds. Now I'm hyped for this episode.
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Post by Kenneth La Torre » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:51 pm

Grimlock wrote:Child Jiren

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Has anyone here played the binding of Isaac?
Jiren here looks exactly like the main character for that game :lol:

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Post by FortuneSSJ » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:52 pm

What's this?! A backstory for the antagonist in my Dragon Ball?!
I'm surprised. I don't expect anything long, but I also didn't anything at all. The boring Jiren may actually become less boring.
A world without Dragon Ball is just meh.

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Post by Spider-Man » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:55 pm

It's nice that Jiren has a backstory I hope it's a good one.

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Post by The gr » Sat Feb 10, 2018 2:07 pm

FortuneSSJ wrote:What's this?! A backstory for the antagonist in my Dragon Ball?!
I'm surprised. I don't expect anything long, but I also didn't anything at all. The boring Jiren may actually become less boring.
Inb4 this flashback last 30 seconds
Why do you thinkink Jiren is still boring,he had an interesting scene recently.
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