Parodies in DBZ?

Azure · Post by **Azure** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:11 am

After reading and watching the early parts of Dr Slump, and seeing a lot of the pop culture references that influenced Toriyama I've started to go back to DBZ and look for similar jokes popping up again.
For instance a lot of you will now be familar with Suppaman in Dr Slump, I'm pretty sure the start of the Saiyan saga is a direct parody of superman ( last son of a dead planet, it's a farmer who sees Goku's capsule first). There's also the secound parody of the Bruce Lee film "Game of Death" where Vegeta and Goku go down instead of up ( Buu Saga).
Any really obvious ones I'm missing?

Xyex · Post by **Xyex** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:38 am

Well. Form 3 Freeza's head looks nearly exactly like the head of the aliens in, well, Aliens. XD

A lot of people have made the rather obvious comparison between Terminator and the Android Saga. What with Time Travel and killer Androids.

Dayspring · Post by **Dayspring** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:20 am

Xyex wrote: A lot of people have made the rather obvious comparison between Terminator and the Android Saga. What with Time Travel and killer Androids.

That's because people are stupid and illiterate (gods save me from irony if I spell that wrong). Time traveling killer robots/androids/etc is a sci-fi staple.

Milton · Post by **Milton** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:08 am

The Ginyu Force and their many poses could be a knock at Super Sentai, which has been a staple of Japanese TV for a while. The same can be said of the Great Saiyaman, though I thought I read that his poses were a parody of Sailor Moon.

Jerseymilk · Post by **Jerseymilk** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:22 pm

Milton wrote:The Ginyu Force and their many poses could be a knock at Super Sentai, which has been a staple of Japanese TV for a while. The same can be said of the Great Saiyaman, though I thought I read that his poses were a parody of Sailor Moon.

The Ginyu Force was indeed a parody on sentai teams and yes Great Saiyaman was a spoof on Sailor Moon's intro.

Tatsunoboshi Horoko · Post by **Tatsunoboshi Horoko** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:14 pm

Funny...I always thought of Great Saiyaman just being a normal tokusatsu hero with funny poses.

Azure · Post by **Azure** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:38 pm

Now you come to mention it I get the whole pose thing,

Thanks for that!

Panda · Post by **Panda** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:22 pm

Is that so... I really wish I could have seen the Saiya-man/Sailor Moon parody first...

I believe in the first series around the time of the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai Kamesennin goes under cover as "Jackie Chun", and obvious Jackie Chan parody

EDIT: Now I understand why the Saiya-man thing isn't clicking for me! Sailor Moon's debut was in 1992 and Dragonballs was in 1984. That being said, it depends on when the first comic with Gohan's Saiya-Man poses were shown for this to count. Anyone?

Milton · Post by **Milton** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:03 am

Tatsunoboshi Horoko wrote:Funny...I always thought of Great Saiyaman just being a normal tokusatsu hero with funny poses.

It's funny you mention that. I was watching movie 13 the other day and chuckled to myself when Great Saiyaman #1 and #2 introduced themselves. It reminded me a lot of the original Kamen Rider series, especially the antennae on Videl's helmet.

Mystic Kami · Post by **Mystic Kami** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:16 am

more of a reference of himself, but Son Gohan's (Goku's grandfather) Mask was also worn by one of Arale's classmates in Dr. Slump.

Jerseymilk · Post by **Jerseymilk** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:56 am

Milton wrote:
Tatsunoboshi Horoko wrote:Funny...I always thought of Great Saiyaman just being a normal tokusatsu hero with funny poses.
It's funny you mention that. I was watching movie 13 the other day and chuckled to myself when Great Saiyaman #1 and #2 introduced themselves. It reminded me a lot of the original Kamen Rider series, especially the antennae on Videl's helmet.

Oh it's a play on those types of shows too, but the silly poses and stuff he does are a parody of Sailor Moon's speeches and poses whenever she appeared.

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:23 pm

Panda wrote:Is that so... I really wish I could have seen the Saiya-man/Sailor Moon parody first...

I believe in the first series around the time of the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai Kamesennin goes under cover as "Jackie Chun", and obvious Jackie Chan parody

EDIT: Now I understand why the Saiya-man thing isn't clicking for me! Sailor Moon's debut was in 1992 and Dragonballs was in 1984. That being said, it depends on when the first comic with Gohan's Saiya-Man poses were shown for this to count. Anyone?

I'm pretty sure the Great Saiyaman chapters came out in like 1994 or so. I know it was after 92 cuz the Freeza saga came out in 92.

Snail · Post by **Snail** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:52 am

This isn't really a parody, but I found it quite funny, in the dub version when Goku is making this whole speech to Frieza about he is the " light in the darkness " or something like that, it reminded me so much of Sailormoon. So yeah, not intentionally a parody of any sort, but to me it came off as a similar speech that Sailormoon recited.

DB_Fan · Post by **DB_Fan** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:53 am

Chuquita wrote:
Panda wrote:Is that so... I really wish I could have seen the Saiya-man/Sailor Moon parody first...

I believe in the first series around the time of the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai Kamesennin goes under cover as "Jackie Chun", and obvious Jackie Chan parody

EDIT: Now I understand why the Saiya-man thing isn't clicking for me! Sailor Moon's debut was in 1992 and Dragonballs was in 1984. That being said, it depends on when the first comic with Gohan's Saiya-Man poses were shown for this to count. Anyone?

I'm pretty sure the Great Saiyaman chapters came out in like 1994 or so. I know it was after 92 cuz the Freeza saga came out in 92.

The Freeza Saga came out in 1989/1990.

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