I don’t hate Brolli. I’ve NEVER hated Brolli. The specific kind of fanbase he's developed over the past few years that people here are talking about never swayed my opinion on the character or his movies any, probably for the simple reason that I saw movie 8 and had already long since liked both the movie and the character many, many years before the kind of fanbase people associate with this particular character ever existed.
Do I particularly LOVE Brolli as a favorite character of some sort? Not really. He’s pretty cool for what he is. Nothing more, nothing less. The motive for his hatred for Son Goku is… ridiculously bizarre (though I suppose fittingly animalistic considering the Saiya-jin race). But aside from that, all the back story with Paragus and King Vegeta is perfectly cool with me (and it gave us the image of a shadowed silhouette of an infant getting knifed in Dragon Ball, which makes it impossible for me to hate it all the more).
And I like Brolli’s design a lot, primarily for his clothing, which coupled with his physique lends a very “titan”-ish flavor to his appearance which makes him stand out as visually unique in the series for me in spite of his being yet
another SSJ character. And his manner of fighting never bothered me either, nor do I see it as detracting from the “martial arts” aspect of Dragon Ball in any way; quite the opposite actually.
Brolli is essentially Dragon Ball’s Bolo Yeung-type of character. And honestly, how can ANYONE hate Bolo Yeung or anything that remotely resembles him?
No long running, martial arts epic is complete without a brutish “Bolo” fighter of some sort (a warrior who’s less axed on traditional martial arts finesse and acts more as a walking tank, preferring block attacks with his grin, shatter bones, tear ligaments, and puncture vital organs), and Brolli fits that bill nicely. Hell, even his name sounds vaguely similar enough to “Bolo”.
In short, I’ve nothing against Brolli himself or his movies. The particular specific “type” of fanbase people on here are speaking about? Yeah, THEY’RE fucking annoying. No question.
But they don’t ruin my enjoyment of Brolli or movies 8 and 10 for a very simple reason: I liked the character and the movies a good many years before they were ever a factor. It’s the same exact reason why I’m still a fan of the Dragon Ball franchise itself, and why the dub and it’s particular fan-culture has never driven me away: it was already a much loved piece of my childhood way before they ever entered into the picture. Too long a time spent being a fan, hence much too late for any of them or any other online fanboy bullshit to spoil any of it for me.
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Kunzait's Wuxia Thread
Journey to the West, chapter 26 wrote:The strong man will meet someone stronger still:
Come to naught at last he surely will!
Zephyr wrote:And that's to say nothing of how pretty much impossible it is to capture what made the original run of the series so great. I'm in the generation of fans that started with Toonami, so I totally empathize with the feeling of having "missed the party", experiencing disappointment, and wanting to experience it myself. But I can't, that's how life is. Time is a bitch. The party is over. Kageyama, Kikuchi, and Maeda are off the sauce now; Yanami almost OD'd; Yamamoto got arrested; Toriyama's not going to light trash cans on fire and hang from the chandelier anymore. We can't get the band back together, and even if we could, everyone's either old, in poor health, or calmed way the fuck down. Best we're going to get, and are getting, is a party that's almost entirely devoid of the magic that made the original one so awesome that we even want more.
Kamiccolo9 wrote:It grinds my gears that people get "outraged" over any of this stuff. It's a fucking cartoon. If you are that determined to be angry about something, get off the internet and make a stand for something that actually matters.
Rocketman wrote:"Shonen" basically means "stupid sentimental shit" anyway, so it's ok to be anti-shonen.
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