Lord Beerus wrote:
I don't really see why that's an issue. He's basically re-affirming a goal of his. That's something Vegeta does in nearly every arc he's prominent in.
You don't see how repeating the same plot point 5 times is an issue?
How would it feel if Goku gave the same "For all the Saiyans and Namekians you've killed, I'm going to beat you" speech every episode in the Namek arc?
It's no worse than Vegeta saying he was going to become a SSJ countless times on Namek, constantly reminding everyone that he will defeat Cell, or his endless bitching about wanting to fight Goku in the Majin Boo arc.
On Namek and the Boo arc it got a pay off with Vegeta tragically failing and needing Goku to carry on for him. While the Boo arc used it to show how he developed, instances Super has tried 5 times to ape in 10 episodes and falling flat on its ass spectacularly.
There's also the fact they didn't all jappen right next to another the way this shit has.
When someone tells you, "Don't present your opinion as fact," what they're actually saying is, "Don't present your opinion with any conviction. Because I don't like your opinion, and I want to be able to dismiss it as easily as possible." Don't fall for it.
How the Black Arc Should End (by Lightbing!):
Spoiler:
Absolute Zamasu(my name for their fusion) wins. He fulfils his utopia and dwells in his loneliness(x amount of time for this to happen). He starts to doubt of his achievements, Goku's body influences him to seek out challenges but there's nothing. Perfection becomes a curse. Absolute Zamasu starts to dread his existence and presents himself to the Omni-King, detailing on his actions.
Using his powers the Omni-King restores everything to the moment before Goku and Vegeta perish, humanity's last barrier. Zamasu concedes. He ask for forgiveness(mainly to Goku, Gowasu and Trunks) and understands that his justice isn't justice at all. He asks for judgement and the Omni-King delivers.
Trunks is forced never to travel in time ever again, all the time-machines are destroyed.
GodVegetto91 wrote:
Right. Because you were expecting BASE Vegeta to put up a good fight against Jiren?
Of course not. Why does he need to stay in base form throughout the fight? Energy has never been important in DBS, it's not hard to make him have any kind of rage boost at the end thinking of Bulma.
But all the flashbacks were useless at all
Kenneth La Torre wrote:OMFG. Vegeta fans can’t be pleased. It’s just better to ignore them.
Would you be satisfied if the last episode of a character you liked was so ridiculous?
Vegeta was eliminated in the middle of the episode, did absolutely nothing against Jiren and all the flashbacks were useless. No matter his participation in the tournament, I'm specifically talking about this episode and in that episode he was pathetic
Zamasu55 wrote:
For once, Toei didn't screw things up and they still complain. Pathetic.
TOEI did not screw things up?
What did Vegeta do in this episode?
Oh please. Cry me a river. All you want from vegeta seems to be where he scales in strength. That’s not all to a character. Today’s episode wasn’t about vegeta shining in power, but it was about character development, and to make it emotional (which they did). Vegeta was great this episode, and as a fan, I’m happy that he lasted this long. And I’m terms of power, he defeated a freaking hakaishin. Not complaining in that.
And you're wrong.
I've never spoken here that I wanted Vegeta to become the strongest, to awaken the UI and defeat Jiren. All I wanted was decent participation, not just strength.
You call that participation decent? Vegeta did absolutely nothing in this episode.
All his flashbacks were useless, and he did not even have half the episode.
And the episode was focused on him.
Stop generalizing. I'm not talking about all his involvement in the tournament, but about this episode.
And it was pathetic
Cetra wrote:I am an absolute Vegeta fan. How one cannot be pleased with him in this saga, no, the entire Super series is beyond me. I guess if it is not Vegeta defeating Jiren with ease and having the same personality one appreciates - like Teen Gohan for all Gohan fans - Vegeta is garbage.
Not for me.
I think most Vegeta fans are happy with his performance in Super. (Key is "I think", as Vegeta is one of the biggest characters of a franchise with a humongous casual following. We will never be able to ask "most Vegeta fans".) Honestly I see far more posts and comments complaining about these "rabid Vegeta fanboys" (referring to an older thread here) than I see posts and comments from them themselves.
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Doctor. wrote:
You think that making the same boring speech over, and over, and over again is the best Vegeta has ever been handled?
What "boring speech" are you referring to?
You know, about fulfilling his promise, and beating Jiren with his own hands, those lines we've been hearing for 5 episodes now.
People keep saying it was the same speech, but he gave a different one each time
122 was about his arrogance and his pride
123 was about keeping his promise
126 was about him being nothing like Toppo
TheSaiyanGod wrote:
Of course not. Why does he need to stay in base form throughout the fight? Energy has never been important in DBS, it's not hard to make him have any kind of rage boost at the end thinking of Bulma.
But all the flashbacks were useless at all
Would you be satisfied if the last episode of a character you liked was so ridiculous?
Vegeta was eliminated in the middle of the episode, did absolutely nothing against Jiren and all the flashbacks were useless. No matter his participation in the tournament, I'm specifically talking about this episode and in that episode he was pathetic
TOEI did not screw things up?
What did Vegeta do in this episode?
Oh please. Cry me a river. All you want from vegeta seems to be where he scales in strength. That’s not all to a character. Today’s episode wasn’t about vegeta shining in power, but it was about character development, and to make it emotional (which they did). Vegeta was great this episode, and as a fan, I’m happy that he lasted this long. And I’m terms of power, he defeated a freaking hakaishin. Not complaining in that.
And you're wrong.
I've never spoken here that I wanted Vegeta to become the strongest, to awaken the UI and defeat Jiren. All I wanted was decent participation, not just strength.
You call that participation decent? Vegeta did absolutely nothing in this episode.
All his flashbacks were useless, and he did not even have half the episode.
And the episode was focused on him.
Stop generalizing. I'm not talking about all his involvement in the tournament, but about this episode.
And it was pathetic
You can get butthurt all you want, doesn’t change the fact that the one whose wrong here is you. Pathetic? No, emotional? Yes, great vegeta moment? Absolutely.
So since Super's gonna end at the end of March and the ToP is coming to a close, that means somebody else will be the final antagonist of the anime. Could be either Frieza because of his desire for the Super Dragon Balls, or the Grand Priest because of his suspiciousness and/or he is the top fighter of the multiverse.
Akira Toriyama wrote:If anyone. ANYONE AT TOEI! Makes a movie about old and weak major villains returning, or making recolored versions of Super Saiyan, I'ma come to yo company and evict you from doing Dragon Ball ever again! Only I do those things, because people love me, and they despise you....derp!
Marco Polo wrote:Goku Black is a fan of DBZ who hates Super and has taken the form of a younger Goku (thinner shape, softer hair) to avenge the original series by destroying the new.
Kenneth La Torre wrote:
Oh please. Cry me a river. All you want from vegeta seems to be where he scales in strength. That’s not all to a character. Today’s episode wasn’t about vegeta shining in power, but it was about character development, and to make it emotional (which they did). Vegeta was great this episode, and as a fan, I’m happy that he lasted this long. And I’m terms of power, he defeated a freaking hakaishin. Not complaining in that.
And you're wrong.
I've never spoken here that I wanted Vegeta to become the strongest, to awaken the UI and defeat Jiren. All I wanted was decent participation, not just strength.
You call that participation decent? Vegeta did absolutely nothing in this episode.
All his flashbacks were useless, and he did not even have half the episode.
And the episode was focused on him.
Stop generalizing. I'm not talking about all his involvement in the tournament, but about this episode.
And it was pathetic
You can get butthurt all you want, doesn’t change the fact that the one whose wrong here is you. Pathetic? No, emotional? Yes, great vegeta moment? Absolutely.
No, you're wrong when you spoke (without any basis) that I only care about Vegeta's strength.
Show me what Vegeta did in this episode besides being beaten up and thinking about your family without being able to do anything
Yeap , I’m only reading vegetas haters having fun here , it’s ok , enjoy it . But please don’t generalize about the people who his favorite character is vegeta , all that happened in last chapters is not really a big surprise, I wasn’t expecting a bigger thing .
My crunchyroll is blocked .. I had to read the summary here ,glad that vegeta donate some energy to Goku although that’s not a surprise again .. I don’t want freeza to be a big part of u7 victory please
It was as if a whole lot of people ...were screaming in pain....
Zamasu55 wrote:Hats off, Toei did a good job this time. I could've sworn Base weakened Vegeta would've put a fight against Jiren, but it didn't happen. Goku got slaughtered too.
THIS makes sense. Not that bullshit from the latter two episodes.
How? By the logical sense considering Jiren was at his full power, Base Goku and Vegeta are ants compared to him, one finger flick each should be enough to ring out them both.
Power levels are not just big numbers:
Spoiler:
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
I've never spoken here that I wanted Vegeta to become the strongest, to awaken the UI and defeat Jiren. All I wanted was decent participation, not just strength.
You call that participation decent? Vegeta did absolutely nothing in this episode.
All his flashbacks were useless, and he did not even have half the episode.
And the episode was focused on him.
Stop generalizing. I'm not talking about all his involvement in the tournament, but about this episode.
And it was pathetic
You can get butthurt all you want, doesn’t change the fact that the one whose wrong here is you. Pathetic? No, emotional? Yes, great vegeta moment? Absolutely.
No, you're wrong when you spoke (without any basis) that I only care about Vegeta's strength.
Show me what Vegeta did in this episode besides being beaten up and thinking about your family without being able to do anything
You sound unbelievably ignorant as hell. What did he do besides getting beat up and think of his family? THATS EXACTLY WHAT WAS GOOD ABOUT THE EPISODE. Are you sure you care about more than just his power? Cause you brought up him getting beat up very fast. Something that everyone knows will happen if you fight jiren.
ekrolo2 wrote:On Namek and the Boo arc it got a pay off with Vegeta tragically failing and needing Goku to carry on for him. While the Boo arc used it to show how he developed, instances Super has tried 5 times to ape in 10 episodes and falling flat on its ass spectacularly.
There's also the fact they didn't all jappen right next to another the way this shit has.
Doctor. wrote:Yes, that was all annoying, but he didn't phrase his ambition in the same way every time. Not to mention they took course over the span of a large number of episodes.
Can you actually point out the five times in the last ten episodes the Vegeta give the same speech, because I really don't remember that being the case.
Spoiler:
Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
prince212 wrote:Yeap , I’m only reading vegetas haters having fun here , it’s ok , enjoy it . But please don’t generalize about the people who his favorite character is vegeta , all that happened in last chapters is not really a big surprise, I wasn’t expecting a bigger thing .
My crunchyroll is blocked .. I had to read the summary here ,glad that vegeta donate some energy to Goku although that’s not a surprise again .. I don’t want freeza to be a big part of u7 victory please
There's plenty of reasons to dislike Vegeta and how forced he felt this arc with his repetitive speeches. The writing did him no favors. It was pandering. Plain and simple.
Kenneth La Torre wrote:
You can get butthurt all you want, doesn’t change the fact that the one whose wrong here is you. Pathetic? No, emotional? Yes, great vegeta moment? Absolutely.
No, you're wrong when you spoke (without any basis) that I only care about Vegeta's strength.
Show me what Vegeta did in this episode besides being beaten up and thinking about your family without being able to do anything
You sound unbelievably ignorant as hell. What did he do besides getting beat up and think of his family? THATS EXACTLY WHAT WAS GOOD ABOUT THE EPISODE. Are you sure you care about more than just his power? Cause you brought up him getting beat up very fast. Something that everyone knows will happen if you fight jiren.
That is exactly what is so humiliating in this episode. Vegeta has one of the best motivations in this tournament, but he is so helpless about everything. About your family, your promise, Kyabe ...
It's like he fails again, even though he has so many things to protect.
In fact, he always failed
The flashbacks did nothing to motivate Vegeta enough for him to actually get a moment like the Beerus fight.
And then, Vegeta's participation is simply forgotten by everyone. It's again '' Goku, that awesome Saiyajin '', something that has already been spoken countless times
So yeah, his participation was humiliating in this episode
TheSaiyanGod wrote:
No, you're wrong when you spoke (without any basis) that I only care about Vegeta's strength.
Show me what Vegeta did in this episode besides being beaten up and thinking about your family without being able to do anything
You sound unbelievably ignorant as hell. What did he do besides getting beat up and think of his family? THATS EXACTLY WHAT WAS GOOD ABOUT THE EPISODE. Are you sure you care about more than just his power? Cause you brought up him getting beat up very fast. Something that everyone knows will happen if you fight jiren.
That is exactly what is so humiliating in this episode. Vegeta has one of the best motivations in this tournament, but he is so helpless about everything. About your family, your promise, Kyabe ...
It's like he fails again, even though he has so many things to protect.
In fact, he always failed
The flashbacks did nothing to motivate Vegeta enough for him to actually get a moment like the Beerus fight.
And then, Vegeta's participation is simply forgotten by everyone. It's again '' Goku, that awesome Saiyajin '', something that has already been spoken countless times
So yeah, his participation was humiliating in this episode
Because Vegeta was just an appetizer and UI Goku is the main course. That's exactly how Toei and most of the audience viewed it. Vegeta will always be the second fiddle and will continue to be treated as such. Why do you continue to be in denial about this and why are you so upset when we knew it was going to end like this the whole time?
ekrolo2 wrote:On Namek and the Boo arc it got a pay off with Vegeta tragically failing and needing Goku to carry on for him. While the Boo arc used it to show how he developed, instances Super has tried 5 times to ape in 10 episodes and falling flat on its ass spectacularly.
There's also the fact they didn't all jappen right next to another the way this shit has.
Doctor. wrote:Yes, that was all annoying, but he didn't phrase his ambition in the same way every time. Not to mention they took course over the span of a large number of episodes.
Can you actually point out the five times in the last ten episodes the Vegeta give the same speech, because I really don't remember that being the case.
Episode 122: "I can never throw away what I am. Kakarot can have his Ultra Instinct. I'll defeat you in my own way, Jiren!"
Episode 123: "I have to keep my promise to him! I'll surpass my limits in my own way! And Jiren, I'll beat you!"
Episode 126: "I'm not like you! I cast aside nothing!"
Episode 128: "You wouldn't understand what it's like to protect something!"
Though today's speech wasn't exactly the same as the other ones, it was retreading the same ground. We fucking get it. Vegeta stays true to himself and gains great power through the bonds he has. We don't need the same narrative beat hammered down our heads four times. They even use the same theme every time.
ekrolo2 wrote:On Namek and the Boo arc it got a pay off with Vegeta tragically failing and needing Goku to carry on for him. While the Boo arc used it to show how he developed, instances Super has tried 5 times to ape in 10 episodes and falling flat on its ass spectacularly.
There's also the fact they didn't all jappen right next to another the way this shit has.
Doctor. wrote:Yes, that was all annoying, but he didn't phrase his ambition in the same way every time. Not to mention they took course over the span of a large number of episodes.
Can you actually point out the five times in the last ten episodes the Vegeta give the same speech, because I really don't remember that being the case.
Episode 122: "I can never throw away what I am. Kakarot can have his Ultra Instinct. I'll defeat you in my own way, Jiren!"
Episode 123: "I have to keep my promise to him! I'll surpass my limits in my own way! And Jiren, I'll beat you!"
Episode 126: "I'm not like you! I cast aside nothing!"
Episode 128: "You wouldn't understand what it's like to protect something!"
Though today's speech wasn't exactly the same as the other ones, it was retreading the same ground. We fucking get it. Vegeta stays true to himself and gains great power through the bonds he has. We don't need the same narrative beat hammered down our heads four times. They even use the same theme every time.
Lord Beerus wrote:
Can you actually point out the five times in the last ten episodes the Vegeta give the same speech, because I really don't remember that being the case.
Episode 122: "I can never throw away what I am. Kakarot can have his Ultra Instinct. I'll defeat you in my own way, Jiren!"
Episode 123: "I have to keep my promise to him! I'll surpass my limits in my own way! And Jiren, I'll beat you!"
Episode 126: "I'm not like you! I cast aside nothing!"
Episode 128: "You wouldn't understand what it's like to protect something!"
Though today's speech wasn't exactly the same as the other ones, it was retreading the same ground. We fucking get it. Vegeta stays true to himself and gains great power through the bonds he has. We don't need the same narrative beat hammered down our heads four times. They even use the same theme every time.
Yep, different dialogue is each one.
"I'll defeat you in my own way, Jiren"
"I'll surpass my limits in my own way! And Jiren, I'll beat you"
"I can never throw away what I am!"
"I'm not like you! I cast aside nothing!"
How are they different? They all serve the exact same purpose. They're redundant.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.