Dragon Ball references in other media

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Re: Dragon Ball references in other media

Post by MCDaveG » Thu Feb 27, 2025 7:29 pm

My wife was recently watching the last season of Love Is Blind and there was this guy with animated shows sleeve on his leg, with Dragon Ball and Vegeta being kinda prominent and he says: "What do you think about my anime tattoos? But it's reference to the childhood shows, I don't watch these anymore."

And I am telling to my wife "Yeah that dude, he's totally lying. Like a teen kid being embarassed watching X-Men as all the talk is girls and supposedly manly stuff around him" And pointed out that Vegeta head sticking like a sore thumb,
as my wife always laughs when I watch the show and he's there, because she finds the name dumb and hilarious :lol:

You have to read the name with Czech pronounciation (Veg-get-ah), which is basically 90% the same as Spanish pronounciation of written words and what most people will think of is this:
I guess my wife would marry me even with Vegeta tattoo anyway, it just won't work in some kind of situations :lol:
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Post by Hellspawn28 » Fri Mar 14, 2025 9:26 pm

Disgaea RPG features Great Demon Fist Lieze, sporting a design that's inspired by Super Saiyan 3.

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Post by Saiya6Cit » Fri Mar 14, 2025 11:11 pm

SaiyanGod117 wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2017 1:28 am The DB Wikia has a whole list of pop culture references for Dragon Ball.
And I bet you they don't have this one of Goku being at the "Usurpadora" mexican Telenovela (It would be my next wacky and mexican DB if my PC wasn't dead...)
https://youtu.be/dci8fu7iOZM?si=q25gcn8jvH5O4x_G

The deadpool one was unexpected.
The little pony one was amazig
The one from batman's universe... I don:'t think I would ever realize of it on my own LOL

Thank you for sharing.

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Post by coola » Sun Mar 30, 2025 10:54 am

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Post by Hellspawn28 » Sun Mar 30, 2025 6:38 pm

Speaking of Disgaea, they even had a DBZ parody in their next episode preview in Disgaea 3. It's amusing that Vic Mignogna and Johnny Yong Bosch provide the voices for Mao and Almaz in the English version, especially since they both also voice Broli.
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Re: Dragon Ball references in other media

Post by M16U3L2015 » Mon May 19, 2025 10:57 pm

Reference to Tenshinhan's “Kikōhō” in the new Dan Da Dan trailer: https://youtu.be/uXr9Ha9qRHE?si=HBpjuD33E3JUl563&t=88
The official subtitles even localized it with the English name of Funimation, Tri-Beam.

Also in the manga, a technique of a character, Jiji, is basically a Kamehameha, he even almost called it that before he changed its name.

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Re: Dragon Ball references in other media

Post by Peach » Tue May 20, 2025 1:46 am

A pretty big one that people never seem to talk about or notice:


https://youtu.be/HC3hvtKl3_Q?si=BcfJInxkaYtHjee8&t=75

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Re: Dragon Ball references in other media

Post by Hellspawn28 » Wed May 21, 2025 2:01 pm

Peach wrote: Tue May 20, 2025 1:46 am A pretty big one that people never seem to talk about or notice:


https://youtu.be/HC3hvtKl3_Q?si=BcfJInxkaYtHjee8&t=75

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