If Pearl Jam existed in the Dragon Ball universe, what characters would be a fan of the band’s music?

[Zephyr]

Also: Vegeta's only a year older than Bulma, but yeah I'd see Heavy Metal being more his thing. Big late 80s Metallica energy from him.

Vegeta still can't get over Metallica 'selling out' with The Black Album, and insists that "Megadeth was always better anyway".

[MasenkoHA]

Also: Vegeta's only a year older than Bulma, but yeah I'd see Heavy Metal being more his thing. Big late 80s Metallica energy from him.

Vegeta still can't get over Metallica 'selling out' with The Black Album, and insists that "Megadeth was always better anyway".

Vegeta would be that guy. Gatekeeping short King

[DLJL731980]

Vegeta would also be a HUGE fan of Creed…but feel very embarrassed, dorky and insecure and he’d try to convince himself he is not a fan of them when he really is.

Okay…I’m projecting my own interests on Dragon Ball characters…but I could totally see With Arms Wide Open being his bop and him relating to it a little after first having a son in Trunks.

[Kunzait_83]

Vegeta would also be a HUGE fan of Creed…but feel very embarrassed, dorky and insecure and he’d try to convince himself he is not a fan of them when he really is.

Okay…I’m projecting my own interests on Dragon Ball characters…but I could totally see With Arms Wide Open being his bop and him relating to it a little after first having a son in Trunks.

...yeah, I'm gonna go with a hard "no" on this. I'm not sure I can think of any DB characters who'd be marks for a band like Creed. *MAYBE* Mr. Satan? Anything vaguely "inspirational" or training montage-ish that might fit into a Rocky soundtrack is what I'd imagine probably dominates much of his playlist, and Creed certainly taps into some of that at times (if on the sappier side of it). But even that feels like somewhat of a stretch. Creed is basically a Christian rock band with the serial numbers filed off. And I don't really get "Christian rock" vibes from basically anyone in the DB cast, whatsoever.

But yeah, literally everything about Vegeta paints him very solidly in the completely humorless metalhead camp. Almost guaranteed he'd be rocking a steady diet Slayer, Sabbath, Maiden, Megadeth, Motorhead, Anthrax, etc. Probably a fair amount of crossover thrash as well (Discharge, Prong, Nuclear Assault, The Exploited, and so forth. A song like Beat the Bastards may as well be practically his theme song).

Even basic hair metal he'd probably see as far too "pussy" for him, much less pseudo Christian rock schlock like Creed. Suicidal Tendencies are as close to a vaguely non-self serious, tongue-in-cheek band as I could ever see a character like Vegeta ever getting into. Nothing about him even remotely registers as a mark for a band like Creed's brand of schmaltzy stealth-Christ ballads.

Also: Vegeta's only a year older than Bulma, but yeah I'd see Heavy Metal being more his thing. Big late 80s Metallica energy from him.

Vegeta still can't get over Metallica 'selling out' with The Black Album, and insists that "Megadeth was always better anyway".

Vegeta would be that guy. Gatekeeping short King

100% cosigning onto literally all of this.

[DLJL731980]

Vegeta would also be a HUGE fan of Creed…but feel very embarrassed, dorky and insecure and he’d try to convince himself he is not a fan of them when he really is.

Okay…I’m projecting my own interests on Dragon Ball characters…but I could totally see With Arms Wide Open being his bop and him relating to it a little after first having a son in Trunks.

...yeah, I'm gonna go with a hard "no" on this. I'm not sure I can think of any DB characters who'd be marks for a band like Creed. *MAYBE* Mr. Satan? Anything vaguely "inspirational" or training montage-ish that might fit into a Rocky soundtrack is what I'd imagine probably dominates much of his playlist, and Creed certainly taps into some of that at times (if on the sappier side of it). But even that feels like somewhat of a stretch. Creed is basically a Christian rock band with the serial numbers filed off. And I don't really get "Christian rock" vibes from basically anyone in the DB cast, whatsoever.

But yeah, literally everything about Vegeta's paints him very solidly in the completely humorless metalhead camp. Almost guaranteed he'd be rocking a steady diet Slayer, Sabbath, Maiden, Megadeth, Motorhead, Anthrax, etc. Probably a fair amount of crossover thrash as well (Discharge, Prong, Nuclear Assault, The Exploited, and so forth. A song like Beat the Bastards may as well be practically his theme song).

Even basic hair metal he'd probably see as far too "pussy" for him, much less pseudo Christian rock schlock like Creed. Suicidal Tendencies are as close to a vaguely non-self serious, tongue-in-cheek band as I could ever see a character like Vegeta ever getting into. Nothing about him even remotely registers as a mark for a band like Creed's brand of schmaltzy stealth-Christ ballads.

Vegeta still can't get over Metallica 'selling out' with The Black Album, and insists that "Megadeth was always better anyway".

Vegeta would be that guy. Gatekeeping short King

100% cosigning onto literally all of this.

I was talking about Christopher Sabat’s Vegeta here…but none the less……………………….

Clearly, you have never listened to ANY of Creed’s songs other than the hits. You telling me songs like What If, My Own Prison, Ode, Signs, Freedom Fighter, Unforgiven are “sissy” songs that aren’t heavy and angry and don’t suit Vegeta’s style and attitude???

And Creed ISN’T a Christian Rock Band. Bands like Switchfoot, Lifehouse and Owl City are Christian rock bands. Creed is a Christian Hard Rock band. Get it right.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Owl City are electronic/synth pop, probably something more for the typical city types and tech savvy. Bra might like them, and any other radio friendly stuff. Vegeta would definitely be more into rock and metal and trash all the stuff Bra likes.

[Kunzait_83]

Also going by Dr. Slump time, me and Gohan are the exact same age ('92) which would put him as a young millenial. Big Linkin Park energy from Gohan.

But if you're being more accurate to DB's time period though, Gohan is either Xennial/Elder millenial like you said.

I get where you might be coming from with that, but while teenage Gohan is certainly angsty enough for Linkin Park... he's also a massive academic nerd of pocket protector proportions. I'm certainly not saying that Linkin Park is solely for stupid people (and I say that despite my own abject visceral loathing of Hybrid Theory ), but they're almost certainly what one might classify more charitably and politely as "basic". And there's a reason I almost instinctually went right to early 1st wave proto-Emo stuff for a character like Gohan.

Early proto-Emo fulfills the criteria of being angsty and cathartic as fuck for a post-Cell Games Gohan trying to figure his shit out, as well as being nerdily intellectual and naval gazey enough to tap into his more scholarly, bookworm side which might be more consumed with things like musical theory minutia (hence anything with overlap and ties to Math Rock, like a whole lot of 1st wave Emo tends to be). And he's literally going to high school right smack dab during the prime years of those kinds of bands (mid 90s or so). If he had a poster for the album cover of Diary up in his room during the Great Saiyaman era, I would not even bat an eye.

And in case anyone might be thinking or assuming this, no I'm not in any way projecting my own musical tastes onto Gohan (or any of the other characters for that matter), since I've certainly never been much fond of even this nascent early stage of emo myself (though it does admittedly have some razor thin, tenuous connective roots into some of my own corners of hardcore punk growing up, but that's entirely beside the point and almost purely coincidental).

I'm just going off of A) the characters' personalities and B) what was actually big in the more Gen X-dominant youth zeitgeist during the time of DB/Z's original run (since I'm apparently one of the few folks here with living, cognizant memories of actively following that stuff during that time) amongst the equivalent personality-types of people back then. If I were to project my own personal musical biases onto the cast, I'd just make everyone into Riot Grrrl, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Butthole Surfers, Nine Inch Nails, Mr. Bungle, and Oxbow superfans and call it a day.

(Though kidding aside, I can actually genuinely see at least #18 being very much into a lot of Riot Grrrl or Riot Grrrl adjacent bands: Bikini Kill, Babes in Toyland, and L7 have her name written all over them. Plus her and #17 would probably bicker and squabble a lot over who's better between Nirvana and Hole.)

On the subject of Goten and Trunks. Goten is listening to whatever Kidz Bop or Glee cds Chi Chi will buy for him and Trunks is on YouTube listening to popular music before his time commenting “I’m only 8 but I listen to this. I wish I lived in this generation my generation sucks they don’t make music like this”

Oh god, I can TOTALLY see 7 year old Goten cheerfully clapping along to Kidz Bop so fucking easily, and that horrifies and disgusts me and fuck you for now putting that nauseatingly revolting mental image into my brain where it will now never, ever leave.

And the Trunks comment made me think of something equally cringe-worthy: I can actually quite easily see GT Trunks, in all his college-aged millennial rich kid trappings (while being somewhat angsty about his ascending the corporate ladder and being gifted a multinational corporation by his mega-rich grandparents), being a super big cardigan-clad, twee-as-fuck indie folk hipster.

So yeah, that means lots of Arcade Fire, Mumford & Sons, Bon Iver, The Decemberists, The Shins, Modest Mouse, the Garden State soundtrack, and any other band of Pitchfork-approved pretentious snobs rocking lo-fi minimalist instrumentation, thrift store ponchos, and faux-profundity circa the mid to late 2000s would dominate much of Trunks' musical rotation throughout the duration of the whole Grand Tour period. He basically already has almost every signifier for it, minus only an impossibly stupid looking "ironic" moustache.

Though that said, the whole "I was born in the wrong generation" Youtuber persona you gave Boo-era kid Trunks actually gives a pretty solidly logical basis for Future Trunks traveling back in time 20 years from the future, yet dressing/acting/carrying himself essentially like a textbook Gen X'er more so than most any other character does in the whole series (seriously, he's ONLY missing a flannel shirt tied around his waist). That's so spot on, I might just adopt that as personal headcanon.

[DLJL731980]

Also going by Dr. Slump time, me and Gohan are the exact same age ('92) which would put him as a young millenial. Big Linkin Park energy from Gohan.

But if you're being more accurate to DB's time period though, Gohan is either Xennial/Elder millenial like you said.

I get where you might be coming from with that, but while teenage Gohan is certainly angsty enough for Linkin Park... he's also a massive academic nerd of pocket protector proportions. I'm certainly not saying that Linkin Park is solely for stupid people (and I say that despite my own abject visceral loathing of Hybrid Theory ), but they're almost certainly what one might classify more charitably and politely as "basic". And there's a reason I almost instinctually went right to early 1st wave proto-Emo stuff for a character like Gohan.

Early proto-Emo fulfills the criteria of being angsty and cathartic as fuck for a post-Cell Games Gohan trying to figure his shit out, as well as being nerdily intellectual and naval gazey enough to tap into his more scholarly, bookworm side which might be more consumed with things like musical theory minutia (hence anything with overlap and ties to Math Rock, like a whole lot of 1st wave Emo tends to be). And he's literally going to high school right smack dab during the prime years of those kinds of bands (mid 90s or so). If he had a poster for the album cover of Diary up in his room during the Great Saiyaman era, I would not even bat an eye.

And in case anyone might be thinking or assuming this, no I'm not in any way projecting my own musical tastes onto Gohan (or any of the other characters for that matter), since I've certainly never been much fond of even this nascent early stage of emo myself (though it does admittedly have some razor thin, tenuous connective roots into some of my own corners of hardcore punk growing up, but that's entirely beside the point and almost purely coincidental).

I'm just going off of A) the characters' personalities and B) what was actually big in the more Gen X-dominant youth zeitgeist during the time of DB/Z's original run (since I'm apparently one of the few folks here with living, cognizant memories of actively following that stuff during that time) amongst the equivalent personality-types of people back then. If I were to project my own personal musical biases onto the cast, I'd just make everyone into Riot Grrrl, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Butthole Surfers, Nine Inch Nails, Mr. Bungle, and Oxbow superfans and call it a day.

(Though kidding aside, I can actually genuinely see at least #18 being very much into a lot of Riot Grrrl or Riot Grrrl adjacent bands: Bikini Kill, Babes in Toyland, and L7 have her name written all over them. Plus her and #17 would probably bicker and squabble a lot over who's better between Nirvana and Hole.)

On the subject of Goten and Trunks. Goten is listening to whatever Kidz Bop or Glee cds Chi Chi will buy for him and Trunks is on YouTube listening to popular music before his time commenting “I’m only 8 but I listen to this. I wish I lived in this generation my generation sucks they don’t make music like this”

Oh god, I can TOTALLY see 7 year old Goten cheerfully clapping along to Kidz Bop so fucking easily, and that horrifies and disgusts me and fuck you for now putting that nauseatingly revolting mental image into my brain where it will now never, ever leave.

And the Trunks comment made me think of something equally cringe-worthy: I can actually quite easily see GT Trunks, in all his college-aged millennial rich kid trappings (while being somewhat angsty about his ascending the corporate ladder and being gifted a multinational corporation by his mega-rich grandparents), being a super big cardigan-clad, twee-as-fuck indie folk hipster.

So yeah, that means lots of Arcade Fire, Mumford & Sons, Bon Iver, The Decemberists, The Shins, Modest Mouse, the Garden State soundtrack, and any other band of Pitchfork-approved pretentious snobs rocking lo-fi minimalist instrumentation, thrift store ponchos, and faux-profundity circa the mid to late 2000s would dominate much of Trunks' musical rotation throughout the duration of the whole Grand Tour period. He basically already has almost every signifier for it, minus only an impossibly stupid looking "ironic" moustache.

Though that said, the whole "I was born in the wrong generation" Youtuber persona you gave Boo-era kid Trunks actually gives a pretty solidly logical basis for Future Trunks traveling back in time 20 years from the future, yet dressing/acting/carrying himself essentially like a textbook Gen X'er more so than most any other character does in the whole series (seriously, he's ONLY missing a flannel shirt tied around his waist). That's so spot on, I might just adopt that as personal headcanon.

Are you going to respond to my comment…or you just going to just ignore me completely???

And could you quit cursing so much??? It makes you look incredibly ghetto or it makes you look like a dumb uneducated redneck.

[JulieYBM]

The concept of swear words being offensive was invented to sell more offense.

[goku the krump dancer]

Would Amon Amarth sell out a concert on Planet Vegeta?

[Kunzait_83]

Are you going to respond to my comment…or you just going to just ignore me completely???

Wasn't ignoring you, I did read it: I just didn't have much to say about it and I got caught up in other responses. Judging by your response, I'm going to assume that you're probably still just a kid, so I'm not going to be harsh about this: but you aren't "owed" responses on an internet forum. People will either reply to you or they won't, depending on whether or not that have anything to say about your post. That's just how it goes.

And could you quit cursing so much??? It makes you look incredibly ghetto or it makes you look like a dumb uneducated redneck.

Believe it or not, I actually did very much grow up in an actual "ghetto" for real. No, seriously. As did most all of my closest friends growing up. So uh... yeah, I don't take very kindly to the insinuation about folks like myself or others who lived in areas like that as being "lesser than" or whatever. I'll leave it as politely at that as I can, since once again, I'm getting strong "12 to 14 year old kid" vibes from you right now.

Some of the smartest, brightest, most compassionate and wonderful people I've ever known in my life cursed like sailors, and some of the most ignorant, nasty, spiteful, pea-brained sacks of human waste I've ever met were incredibly uptight conservative and "proper" in their language. And vice versa as well.

Though my cursing has less to do with my IRL background, and much more to do with the fact that... I'm a grown adult, this is very much a casual/informal environment, and there's no rules whatsoever against cursing on this site. So don't be a goddamned stick-up-the-ass, uptight fucking cumrag about it.

The concept of swear words being offensive was invented to sell more offense.

Heart-warmingly ironic, considering one of our very first interactions on this site oh so many years ago was you taking very grave offense to and clutching pearls over my using a curse word, not too dissimilar to the person in question here (random collection of letters and numbers guy). Pretty sure my response then to you was not too dissimilar to my response to it here in this very post to boot.

Deja Vu all over again!

[DLJL731980]

It’s times like this I’m really considering changing my gender and plan on becoming a woman and becoming a transgender.

[MasenkoHA]

It’s times like this I’m really considering changing my gender and plan on becoming a woman and becoming a transgender.

Not sure what inspired this comment buuuuuut you live your best life girl.

[Kunzait_83]

It’s times like this I’m really considering changing my gender and plan on becoming a woman and becoming a transgender.

Oh shit, did someone clone Julie? Is this like a transgendered nerd version of that whole 90s Superman & Superboy situation?

[Soppa Saia People]

gohan strikes me more as a fan of like, 70s big star power pop influenced alt rock, like the replacements and that type of stuff. bonus points if it's about suburban life.

yamcha is definitely a Ramones Core punk fan, unfortunately.

[Super Sonic]

Funny enough, when cosplaying Mr. Satan, there have been a few times where I did poses like a disco dancer, or someone still enjoying Disco with an embarrassed Videl holding her head in shame.

[DLJL731980]

What Dragon Ball character do you think would like Fiona Apple or Norah Jones???

Or Cher???

[JulieYBM]

It’s times like this I’m really considering changing my gender and plan on becoming a woman and becoming a transgender.

Babes do it youd make such a cute girl zomg here's an informed consent map if you live in the US. Just tell your doctor that you wanna take HRT! Then just find a local place that does electrolysis if you wanna get rid of your facial hair and body hair beneath your eyebrows!! It's totally worth it, trust me! Once those facial features soften up and your skin gets all nice an smooth you'll feel like a whole new girl trust me


HRT + electrolysis took off twenty years from my face it's soooooooo goood gurl zomg


JULIE

The concept of swear words being offensive was invented to sell more offense.

Heart-warmingly ironic, considering one of our very first interactions on this site oh so many years ago was you taking very grave offense to and clutching pearls over my using a curse word, not too dissimilar to the person in question here (random collection of letters and numbers guy). Pretty sure my response then to you was not too dissimilar to my response to it here in this very post to boot.

Deja Vu all over again!

I used to get upset by being called a weeb. Then I started getting called actual slurs and realized that was mega mcfuckin' ass-shittingly dumb.

[jjgp1112]

Are you going to respond to my comment…or you just going to just ignore me completely???

And could you quit cursing so much??? It makes you look incredibly ghetto or it makes you look like a dumb uneducated redneck.

Ghetto, huh?

Wonder why that has such a negative connotation

(I'm fairly certain DLJL is now just shitposting to try derailing this thread)

[Kunzait_83]

Ghetto, huh?

Wonder why that has such a negative connotation

Yup.

To be fair, he did also throw in a "dumb redneck" stereotype immediately thereafter. Not like that's much better here either obviously, but I guess its possibly some misguided attempt at being "racially balanced" with his insults? Or something? I dunno. I'm probably being far, far too charitable with that. Again though, obviously that was a cringe-fest and stupid/ignorant as shit; but he's also probably like 11 or 12 or thereabouts if I had to guess, so I'm not going to go especially over the top in ripping him a new one for it.

(Watch him turn out to be like 28 or 45 or something)

[PSA] Kids, don't use "ghetto" as an insult or especially as a stand-in for "unintelligent". You're just perpetuating grotesque racist stereotypes, and then the only person who ends up looking like a fucking idiot asshole is you. [/PSA]

I'm fairly certain DLJL is now just shitposting to try derailing this thread)

Which is especially funny since its his own thread. And it was already plenty ridiculous and shitposty as it was!