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Re: Most useless character ever!

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:50 am

shonenhikada wrote:Didn't Chiaotzu help defeat one of the ginyu force members, took down one of the cell jr, and even help hold back Super Buu (Gotenks absorbed) long enough before goku got here ?
Chaozu defeating one of the Ginyu force members didn't help in processing the story in anyway, he didn't even show up to the Cell Games, and it was Tenshinhan that did the last one.
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DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
jjgp1112 wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:31 am I'm just about done with the concept of reboots and making shows that were products of their time and impactful "new and sexy" and in line with modern tastes and sensibilities. Let stuff stay in their era and give today's kids their own shit to watch.

I always side eye the people who say "Now my kids/today's kids can experience what I did as a child!" Nigga, who gives a fuck about your childhood? You're an adult now and it was at least 15 years ago. Let the kids have their own experience instead of picking at a corpse.

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Re: Most useless character ever!

Post by Piccolo Daimao » Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:23 am

DBZAOTA482 wrote:
shonenhikada wrote:Didn't Chiaotzu help defeat one of the ginyu force members, took down one of the cell jr, and even help hold back Super Buu (Gotenks absorbed) long enough before goku got here ?
Chaozu defeating one of the Ginyu force members didn't help in processing the story in anyway, he didn't even show up to the Cell Games, and it was Tenshinhan that did the last one.
And the former was filler anyway.
Holden Caulfield in [b][i]The Catcher in the Rye[/i][/b] wrote:I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

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Re: Most useless character ever!

Post by shonenhikada » Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:53 am

DBZAOTA482 wrote:
shonenhikada wrote:Didn't Chiaotzu help defeat one of the ginyu force members, took down one of the cell jr, and even help hold back Super Buu (Gotenks absorbed) long enough before goku got here ?
Chaozu defeating one of the Ginyu force members didn't help in processing the story in anyway, he didn't even show up to the Cell Games, and it was Tenshinhan that did the last one.
lol i was joking dude. :lol:

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Re: Most useless character ever!

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:56 am

shonenhikada wrote:
DBZAOTA482 wrote:
shonenhikada wrote:Didn't Chiaotzu help defeat one of the ginyu force members, took down one of the cell jr, and even help hold back Super Buu (Gotenks absorbed) long enough before goku got here ?
Chaozu defeating one of the Ginyu force members didn't help in processing the story in anyway, he didn't even show up to the Cell Games, and it was Tenshinhan that did the last one.
lol i was joking dude. :lol:
Sorry bro but that wasn't even remotely funny.
fadeddreams5 wrote:
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
jjgp1112 wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:31 am I'm just about done with the concept of reboots and making shows that were products of their time and impactful "new and sexy" and in line with modern tastes and sensibilities. Let stuff stay in their era and give today's kids their own shit to watch.

I always side eye the people who say "Now my kids/today's kids can experience what I did as a child!" Nigga, who gives a fuck about your childhood? You're an adult now and it was at least 15 years ago. Let the kids have their own experience instead of picking at a corpse.

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Re: Most useless character ever!

Post by LiamKav » Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:00 pm

Piccolo Daimao wrote:
LiamKav wrote:Anyway... Pu'ar is useless in terms of DragonBall being a fighting series, but he was introduced when it was a comedy series, so it's not really fair. The manga outgrew Pu-ur.
Except, even when it was a comedy series, he didn't do much of any worth. He mainly existed as Yamcha's cheerleader.
He cut off Goku's tail, thus stopping everyone from being stomped to death after only a handful of episodes. He is single handedly responsible for the entire series!

(Unless it was Oolong who did that. I forget.)

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Re: Most useless character ever!

Post by Piccolo Daimao » Thu Aug 16, 2012 6:47 am

LiamKav wrote:
Piccolo Daimao wrote:
LiamKav wrote:Anyway... Pu'ar is useless in terms of DragonBall being a fighting series, but he was introduced when it was a comedy series, so it's not really fair. The manga outgrew Pu-ur.
Except, even when it was a comedy series, he didn't do much of any worth. He mainly existed as Yamcha's cheerleader.
He cut off Goku's tail, thus stopping everyone from being stomped to death after only a handful of episodes. He is single handedly responsible for the entire series!

(Unless it was Oolong who did that. I forget.)
No, it was Pu-erh. Yeah, he cut off Gokuu's tail...and that's it. It's not as if Oolong couldn't do that, or Blooma or Yamcha could just pop out a capsule with a sword in it or something.
Holden Caulfield in [b][i]The Catcher in the Rye[/i][/b] wrote:I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

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Re: Most useless character ever!

Post by Saiga » Thu Aug 16, 2012 6:50 am

Or they could've just waited until morning.
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Re: Most useless character ever!

Post by LiamKav » Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:29 am

Saiga wrote:Or they could've just waited until morning.
That's easier said than done when a giant monkey is crushing everything in sight.

I will grant that Yamcha maybe could have cut off his tail. He could have just as easily been killed by Goku. Anyway, he didn't. The little boy/girl cat-type-shapeshifting-thingie did. So, once again, yay for Puar!

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Re: Most useless character ever!

Post by Saiga » Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:38 am

LiamKav wrote:
Saiga wrote:Or they could've just waited until morning.
That's easier said than done when a giant monkey is crushing everything in sight.

I will grant that Yamcha maybe could have cut off his tail. He could have just as easily been killed by Goku. Anyway, he didn't. The little boy/girl cat-type-shapeshifting-thingie did. So, once again, yay for Puar!
But Goku was stunned when Yamcha grabbed his tail. So yeah, they could have just waited.
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Re: Most useless character ever!

Post by LiamKav » Thu Aug 16, 2012 8:37 am

Pretty dull episode though, just sitting around for 8 hours while Yamcha held Goku's tail.

(Also, how sad is it for Pu'er that the guys who could steal his one moment of usefulness are Yamcha and Oolong?)

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Re: Most useless character ever!

Post by Piccolo Daimao » Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:02 am

LiamKav wrote:(Also, how sad is it for Pu'er that the guys who could steal his one moment of usefulness are Yamcha and Oolong?)
Not that sad; Pu-erh was a sad character anyway. His best friend is "Lord Yamcha".
Holden Caulfield in [b][i]The Catcher in the Rye[/i][/b] wrote:I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

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Re: Most useless character ever!

Post by LiamKav » Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:06 am

Piccolo Daimao wrote:Not that sad; Pu-erh was a sad character anyway. His best friend is "Lord Yamcha".
Well, exactly. The guy is below Yamcha.

Yamcha.

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