WhatTheDarn wrote:Sorry to throw a wrench into your work, but there's something that deserves mention. When discussing physical ages, shouldn't we take into account bodies that were destroyed? Sometimes characters just get fatally wounded and are healed when they are revived, like Vegeta getting shot through the heart on Namek; on other occasions, though, they are completely annihilated, like Kuririn on Namek, and granted a brand new physical body upon being revived. In fact, this would mean that Goku was not physically 12 years older than Gohan at the end of Z; they were both physically the same age: 10! And Kuririn and Chaotzu have had something like 5 separate bodies each!
But it seems that their new bodies are as physically as old as their original bodies each time, so it doesn't really matter. For instance, both Bulma and Kuririn have their bodies completely destroyed by Buu (them being eaten and all) and are then brought back to life, but they're not any younger, and 10 years later they both look at least as old as two people around 50 should.
Another thing like that I was thinking of is the year Vegeta and Nappa spend in hibernation as they approach Earth. Would they age in hibernation? Nothing is said about them not, and it's not neccessarily true that they wouldn't (bears age when they hibernate, and you age when you sleep), so I just assumed they didn't. Being dead with a body in the afterlife is the only thing in the series where it's explicitly said that you don't age, so that's the only thing I counted as making someone phyiscally younger than their age indicates.
Although at the moment I haven't counted the time Tenshinhan and co. spent at Kaio's. Piccolo was there for only about two months, so that's not too much of a difference. Kuririn and Yamcha are there for half a year, and Tenshinhan and Chaozu are there for 10 months.
