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Big Momma · Post by **Big Momma** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:02 am

CURSE YOU INTERNET AND YOUR UNREADABLE UNDERTONES!!!

On-Topic, I really love the whole scene where Freeza has Kuririn impaled in the dub. The whole "Yee-haw! Ride em cowboy!" line just feels so....evil.

NeptuneKai · Post by **NeptuneKai** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:25 am

Big Momma wrote: On-Topic, I really love the whole scene where Freeza has Kuririn impaled in the dub. The whole "Yee-haw! Ride em cowboy!" line just feels so....evil.

That's what you kids are calling it nowadays?

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:31 am

How would an evil tyrant with mind boggling power be familiar with a pop culture trope of a planet he's never been to?

SparkyPantsMcGee · Post by **SparkyPantsMcGee** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:34 am

Innagadadavida wrote:How would an evil tyrant with mind boggling power be familiar with a pop culture trope of a planet he's never been to?

Even when I was nine, I thought the same thing. It was that joke and the toaster joke Vegeta made during his fight with 18(that one is my favorite) that made me wounder how these beings from outer space knew about our way of life and pop culture phrases.

...You have to love them, they are so fun.

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:54 am

Innagadadavida wrote:How would an evil tyrant with mind boggling power be familiar with a pop culture trope of a planet he's never been to?

The same way he knows Earth's language and what a 'minute' is.

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 2:34 am

Rocketman wrote:The same way he knows Earth's language and what a 'minute' is.

It could be argued that Freeza has no idea what the length of a minute really is though.

verto · Post by **verto** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 2:47 am

Innagadadavida wrote:
Rocketman wrote:The same way he knows Earth's language and what a 'minute' is.
It could be argued that Freeza has no idea what the length of a minute really is though.

Raditz had the year pretty exact.

Onikage725 · Post by **Onikage725** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 2:50 am

Innagadadavida wrote:
Rocketman wrote:The same way he knows Earth's language and what a 'minute' is.
It could be argued that Freeza has no idea what the length of a minute really is though.

I've always personally fanwakned around the 5 minute thing by just assuming a Freeza-crew standard minute =/= 60 seconds of Earth time. There's no way they break down their days based on Earth's lunar cycle. As for language, well clearly everyone speaks Galactic Basic (or Common). And clearly when anthros and triclops' and the like were walking Earth, they taught normal homo sapiens the language of the stars. Yeah.

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 2:55 am

Well if you go with the babel fish theory, then all measurements would be translated appropriately based on what each organism understands. But that's a different series.

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:05 am

Onikage725 wrote:I've always personally fanwakned around the 5 minute thing by just assuming a Freeza-crew standard minute =/= 60 seconds of Earth time. There's no way they break down their days based on Earth's lunar cycle.

The minute comes from Earth's day-night cycle.

NeptuneKai · Post by **NeptuneKai** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:02 am

I was just playing Raging Blast in English today and I noticed a lot of improvements in some of the minor character's voices. The voice actors for Nappa and Dodoria really toned things down a few notches. Whoever was imitating Clark's Cell did a good job I thought. It sounds to me like Young's Freeza has been getting more and more raspy and deep which...is a kind of good thing?

penguintruth · Post by **penguintruth** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:36 am

Look, Freeza just never learned how to estimate time right. He's very sensitive about the matter. Coola teased him enough about it as a child.

Can't you all be a little kinder to a mass-murdering sociopath?

Big Momma · Post by **Big Momma** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 2:58 pm

Rocketman wrote:
Innagadadavida wrote:How would an evil tyrant with mind boggling power be familiar with a pop culture trope of a planet he's never been to?
The same way he knows Earth's language and what a 'minute' is.

That...and sometimes we forget it's just a cartoon.

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:01 pm

verto wrote:
Innagadadavida wrote:
Rocketman wrote:The same way he knows Earth's language and what a 'minute' is.
It could be argued that Freeza has no idea what the length of a minute really is though.
Raditz had the year pretty exact.

And Vegeta knew when a full Moon was going to be.

IncompetentOverlord · Post by **IncompetentOverlord** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:52 pm

Big Momma wrote:
Rocketman wrote:
Innagadadavida wrote:How would an evil tyrant with mind boggling power be familiar with a pop culture trope of a planet he's never been to?
The same way he knows Earth's language and what a 'minute' is.
That...and sometimes we forget it's just a cartoon.

Yes, but it's a cartoon popular with nerds like us Daizexers. It's in our nature to try and make sense of things that were never meant to make sense, and to participate in the futile exercise of trying to align fiction to our own sense of reality.

Onikage725 · Post by **Onikage725** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:17 pm

Rocketman wrote: And Vegeta knew when a full Moon was going to be.

I thought he just knew that if he flew high enough and far enough there ought to be a full moon somewhere. It isn't like it was night when they were fighting. He just started looking around.

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:45 pm

Onikage725 wrote:I thought he just knew that if he flew high enough and far enough there ought to be a full moon somewhere.

While true, 'far enough' would be something like 200,000 miles, depending on where the Moon was in its orbit.

Thanos6 · Post by **Thanos6** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 10:34 pm

I swear I saw somewhere that Vegeta specifically timed their landing so that, on the incredible off chance they were getting their asses handed to them, they could use the full moon.

Onikage725 · Post by **Onikage725** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:21 pm

Maybe so, but it doesnt make sense. It would imply an advanced knowledge of earth. ure, maybe they scanned it while deciding to target it. But then, how could they plot a course with the moon's location in mind and NOT notice the utter lack of a moon?

Thanos6 · Post by **Thanos6** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:27 pm

They could if they plotted the course right after Raditz died, i.e., when there was a moon...

Kanzenshuu

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