Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by mAcChaos » Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:56 pm

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mystic trunks wrote:Wait a second... didn't super Buu beg Vegeta not to pull Buu from the pod?....
I'm going by Funimation Dub with this but, Super Buu begged to not remove the pod because he wouldn't be himself anymore. That was his "humane" part of him speaking in order to prevent himself from going senseless. With that pod removed he would become Kid Buu with no sense of humanity or good.
Yeah, it's different because Freeza was just beaten and Buu didn't want to lose who he was.
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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by Cold Skin » Thu Jan 14, 2010 11:22 am

I think Boo was the ultimate villain, being kind of an "upgraded" version of Cell.

Cell could regenerate his oart of his body was still intact (from where the missing parts could re-grow) or - in the case his whole body was gone - if he still had his main brain cell intact.
Boo can regenerate as long as ANY molecule remains intact.

Cell couldn't recover from his wounds despite his regeneration process (getting his ass kicked by several characters depending on the moment).
As long as you don't keep attacking Boo, he will simply "erase" the wounds by reforming his body.

Finally, Cell could absorb the cyborgs to get his perfect body and had DNA from some of the Dragon Team members.
Boo can absorb anybody (including any Dragon Team member, which is very dangerous) and as many people as he wants.

So basically, it was like "we had an enemy able to regenerate and able to own the possibilities of the Dragon Team, let's take that to the extreme: an enemy which endlessly regenerates if you don't pulverise him completely and who can absorb anybody and use the power and moves of anybody".
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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by rereboy » Thu Jan 14, 2010 11:26 am

And buu can also reshape his body any way he wants to (Cell can`t) and he can also do magic and transform stuff (Cell can´t).

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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by mystic trunks » Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:17 pm

mAcChaos wrote:
Khalid Shahin wrote:
mystic trunks wrote:Wait a second... didn't super Buu beg Vegeta not to pull Buu from the pod?....
I'm going by Funimation Dub with this but, Super Buu begged to not remove the pod because he wouldn't be himself anymore. That was his "humane" part of him speaking in order to prevent himself from going senseless. With that pod removed he would become Kid Buu with no sense of humanity or good.
Yeah, it's different because Freeza was just beaten and Buu didn't want to lose who he was.
Oh, now we're just splitting hairs. Anyway, It's more pathetic to beg because "You'll lose who you are " than to beg because you are about to DIE!

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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by Big Momma » Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:23 pm

mystic trunks wrote: like watching flying Looney Toons battle it out.
Am I the only one who doesn't see this as a bad thing?
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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by Drayenko » Thu Jan 14, 2010 2:26 pm

Big Momma wrote:
mystic trunks wrote: like watching flying Looney Toons battle it out.
Am I the only one who doesn't see this as a bad thing?
No, I love the Buu saga, and Buu too :mrgreen:

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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by LilKokuLink » Thu Jan 14, 2010 2:44 pm

Drayenko wrote:No, I love the Buu saga, and Buu too :mrgreen:
You know what? Same here! No matter how long it was extended to... INCLUDING the saiyaman stuff, it is truly the best arc I've ever seen out of the show.
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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by Drayenko » Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:53 pm

Yeap, and in my opinion, thanks to it, Dragon Ball is even more famous, I mean who in the world doesn't know Buu? :mrgreen: He's pretty famous.

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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by LilKokuLink » Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:02 pm

Drayenko wrote:Yeap, and in my opinion, thanks to it, Dragon Ball is even more famous, I mean who in the world doesn't know Buu? :mrgreen: He's pretty famous.
Exactly! I mean... the whole arc just pushed all the characters to a completely different level, and I personally find that spectacular. We got fusion, super saiyan 3, "THE DARK PRINCE RETURNS", a kind of love story between Gohan & Videl, and a fantastic involvement with the other world. Not to mention the tenkaichi budokai being reintroduced for a bit! It's great! I remember I started watching it at around late 2004/beginning 2005! Amazing!
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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by Xyex » Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:05 pm

I love the Saiyaman arc, myself. It's great. And Kid Buu is my favorite villain.
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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by mystic trunks » Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:40 pm

Drayenko wrote:Yeap, and in my opinion, thanks to it, Dragon Ball is even more famous, I mean who in the world doesn't know Buu? :mrgreen: He's pretty famous.
The Buu saga is why a lot of the people I Know stopped watching the show (Including myself initially).

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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by Gaffer Tape » Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:44 pm

Big Momma wrote:
mystic trunks wrote: like watching flying Looney Toons battle it out.
Am I the only one who doesn't see this as a bad thing?
I only see this as a bad thing because it's Looney Tunes, not Looney Toons, a pretty common mistake. Other than that, I'm generally okay with the Buu Saga, as I'm more of a fan of early DB anyway.
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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by Kaboom » Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:03 pm

The Majin Boo arc: Extraneous? Yeah, probably. Worth it? Totally.
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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by Gaffer Tape » Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:33 pm

I only fault it for bringing an abrupt end to Gohan's life as a teenaged superhero. He could have done so much more with that as the anime shows!
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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by Ultimate_DB_Fan » Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:02 pm

I don't think Boo was the worst villain, as I feel that all the baddies of the series were cool in their own way. My favorite form of the character is Super Boo.
As for the arc itself, I love it because it kept you guessing, and something new was happening all the time; Spopovich and Yamu, Shin and Kibito, Dabura, Babidi's space ship, the fusions, all the Boos, and the secret past of Kid Boo finally being revealed.

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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by mystic trunks » Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:59 pm

I'm not sure why some people are acting like I said the Buu saga was the worst. I said buu was the worst villain. I think there were interesting things that happened, like ssj3.

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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by Drayenko » Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:01 pm

mystic trunks wrote:
Drayenko wrote:Yeap, and in my opinion, thanks to it, Dragon Ball is even more famous, I mean who in the world doesn't know Buu? :mrgreen: He's pretty famous.
The Buu saga is why a lot of the people I Know stopped watching the show (Including myself initially).
Everybody has a different point of view, some people haven't even watched Dragon Ball after the first chapter/episode, and that doesn't mean it's not good, so...
Ultimate_DB_Fan wrote:I don't think Boo was the worst villain, as I feel that all the baddies of the series were cool in their own way. My favorite form of the character is Super Boo.
As for the arc itself, I love it because it kept you guessing, and something new was happening all the time; Spopovich and Yamu, Shin and Kibito, Dabura, Babidi's space ship, the fusions, all the Boos, and the secret past of Kid Boo finally being revealed.
Yes, it has a lot of mysteries!

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mystic trunks wrote:I'm not sure why some people are acting like I said the Buu saga was the worst. I said buu was the worst villain. I think there were interesting things that happened, like ssj3.
Ok, sorry, I made my own conclusion...

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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by Godo » Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:58 am

I think that Buu is one of the greatest villains. Why? Because of that he actually extincted the whole human race, and there was nothing ~GOKU~ could do about it!

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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by Savage68 » Fri Jan 15, 2010 10:51 am

mystic trunks wrote:I'm not sure why some people are acting like I said the Buu saga was the worst. I said buu was the worst villain. I think there were interesting things that happened, like ssj3.
...But it quite clearly is the worst, though.

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Re: Why Majin Buu is the worst villain in DBZ

Post by Godo » Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:33 am

It seems like most of the people that think that Buu saga is the worst started watching Dragonball Z, and those who like it started with Dragonball.
Just a conclusion I have made out of posts written in Daizex forums during the years.

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