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by Izanagi » Fri Jun 21, 2019 10:34 am
- Bowlcut Gohan is the best version of the character, in part because Namek is the best arc in Dragon Ball. He's in an extremely dire situation, but behaves more like a brave kid and a true hero than any other time after that. He does nothing against the Androids, then he trains to fight Cell and he's all of a sudden a pacifist against it which is a downgrade from the Namek version where he seemingly never hesitated to do what he thought was right. I wish they had put him in FighterZ and promoted him more, but it's something that will never happen since people only like SS2 and Ultimate Gohan.
- I don't care for either Jiren or Super!Broly, I think both of them are fairly boring, uninteresting characters, but Jiren at least felt threatening to me. All Broly really did was beat around two Saiyans and a lizard who literally exists to get thrashed around. I was more excited when Jiren literally stopped a Genki Dama by glaring at it and punching Freeza out of his golden form and into unconsciousness with one hit.
- Piccolo deserved a "rebirth" a million times more than 17, but instead the writers (especially Toei whose director admittedly has a hard-on for) are shoving that fucker who was completely forgotten after Cell, down our throat. I'm also a little annoyed that they chose Muten Roshi for the Tournament of Power instead of Yamcha, but at least his episodes were incredible.
- The fandom chanting 17 being the "MVP" like some mantra never ceases to amuse me as Goku, Vegeta, Gohan and Freeza all had more eliminations than him, and all have eliminated more important/powerful opponents than 17 who was piggybacking off of others and getting bailed out before anyone could kick his ass.
- Goku and Vegeta are a dreadfully boring duo. Partly because Vegeta has matured, thus, he has also become boring and stale. While Goku has regressed and he gets flanderized at times in Super, but I honestly felt like his character in the Tournament of Power is the most entertaining version of the character since he was a kid and the Saiyan-Namek days (outside of that, I find Goku boring for the most part). Goku and Freeza have more interesting interactions and is a better combo than Goku and Vegeta, I'd even take Goku and Piccolo over Goku and Vegeta any day.
- Cell is incredibly boring, and I still cannot fathom the appeal of him (especially by the US fans). Once he started to absorb the Androids, he became shadow of his inferior forms, who used cunning, trickery and outright grovelling to evolve. That was interesting and a breathe of fresh air. Perfect Cell was just some boring Freeza clone who would boast, have his ass handed to him, then boast some more about how he was at X% of his true power, and proceeded to slap Vegeta, Trunks, Goku and the Z Fighters around. Super Perfect Cell was even worse, making Goku's sacrifice seem redundant. Goku's final death should have meant something. This just made me wish he died on Namek to beat Freeza.
- Namek saga Vegeta is the only cool Vegeta, and I find his character development severely overrated. Saiyan-Namek saga Vegeta was a complete and utter psychopath who gave zero fuck about his race, killed his own partner on a whim (even though Saiyans gets stronger after recuperating from a situation like that), and was generally a cunning, opportunistic little shit (leaving Goku to get killed by Ginyu just to note one example). Then comes the Android saga, where there's no trace of his cunningness and he's all about "muh Saiyajin puraido", even though Namek saga's already shown us that he's willing to fight dirty if it gets him closer to his goal.
- Toriyama's interviews and his out of universe inputs are the worst things that ever happened to Dragon Ball. The published canon was just fine without him Lucas-ing all over it.
