Did some heavy editing to this image with Paint only:
I went and created a hypothetical SSJ God Pan, why make her one? She was one of the Saiyans that help Goku reach it, she'd probably like the form better than Goku (he pretty said 'Screw this form', I didn't earn it), and it would actually give her some use as a fighter since along with most in GT. She got thrown to the wayside like almost any non-Goku fighter. I would've drawn an aura, but I'm awful at those.
Gave her the orange-ish colors to represent the fact that before GT she was supposed to be 'The next Goku', personality-wise. So, I went with a Goku-like color that wasn't used for his SSJ God. I also spiked up her hair a bit, and all of the small like stray hair became full bangs.
Ryo Horikawa likes the blue Vegeta best when I showed him these pictures at the e-manga panel.
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
Spoiler:
Doctor. wrote:I've explained before, I'll just paraphrase myself.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
Spoiler:
Doctor. wrote:I've explained before, I'll just paraphrase myself.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
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The first one is more recent, but the other three are older, obviously the SSJ god one isn't THAT old but the last two are quite old, as I've made the transition into inking and scanning since then lol. Still need to clean a couple of these up a bit, but they'll do. Just a few of my favorite pieces to introduce you all to my work.
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Huh...for some reason, Pan's outfit on Pan looks like a punk outfit, but on Bra it...looks very redneck-ish. I dunno why. Still a cool idea for a picture though, nice find.
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Gyt Kaliba wrote:Huh...for some reason, Pan's outfit on Pan looks like a punk outfit, but on Bra it...looks very redneck-ish. I dunno why. Still a cool idea for a picture though, nice find.
I think part of it is the missing punk-ish elements; Bra doesn't have the chain on the pocket or the gloves. Would still look hick-ish though, as Bra's proportions make the clothes look too short/small, while on Pan they look too long...at least the pants anyway.
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Gyt Kaliba wrote:Huh...for some reason, Pan's outfit on Pan looks like a punk outfit, but on Bra it...looks very redneck-ish. I dunno why. Still a cool idea for a picture though, nice find.
I think part of it is the missing punk-ish elements; Bra doesn't have the chain on the pocket or the gloves. Would still look hick-ish though, as Bra's proportions make the clothes look too short/small, while on Pan they look too long...at least the pants anyway.
Oh yeah, I think you're right. For some reason I didn't even notice the missing gloves or the pocket chain. Weird how big of a difference those make.
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