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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by Kaboom » Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:24 pm

Maybe just have Broly go 100% mental patient when he goes LSSj.

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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by RandomGuy96 » Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:41 pm

Kaboom wrote:Maybe just have Broly go 100% mental patient when he goes LSSj.

Paragus: "Now, Vegeta, behold, and cower in fear of the strongest Saiyan in history!"
Broly: "I LIKE MITTENS"
This is the most likely scenario. For most characters, it seems that DBZA likes to exaggerate their actual personalities rather than invent new ones. I also find that it works better, except in one particularly obvious case... and even that COULD be considered an exaggeration.
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dbgtFO wrote: Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
It was actually Beerus disguised as Zarbon #StayWoke
Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.
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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by dbzfan7 » Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:16 pm

RandomGuy96 wrote:
Kaboom wrote:Maybe just have Broly go 100% mental patient when he goes LSSj.

Paragus: "Now, Vegeta, behold, and cower in fear of the strongest Saiyan in history!"
Broly: "I LIKE MITTENS"
This is the most likely scenario. For most characters, it seems that DBZA likes to exaggerate their actual personalities rather than invent new ones. I also find that it works better, except in one particularly obvious case... and even that COULD be considered an exaggeration.
I can see him confusing Gohan for Goku in this scenario. For some reason he goes after Gohan instead of him.
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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by RandomGuy96 » Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:17 pm

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Kaboom wrote:Maybe just have Broly go 100% mental patient when he goes LSSj.

Paragus: "Now, Vegeta, behold, and cower in fear of the strongest Saiyan in history!"
Broly: "I LIKE MITTENS"
This is the most likely scenario. For most characters, it seems that DBZA likes to exaggerate their actual personalities rather than invent new ones. I also find that it works better, except in one particularly obvious case... and even that COULD be considered an exaggeration.
I can see him confusing Gohan for Goku in this scenario. For some reason he goes after Gohan instead of him.
That wouldn't be character exaggeration, though.
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dbgtFO wrote: Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
It was actually Beerus disguised as Zarbon #StayWoke
Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.
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Post by dbzfan7 » Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:18 pm

RandomGuy96 wrote: That wouldn't be character exaggeration, though.
Broly's insanity makes him think Gohan is Goku? Seems like an exaggeration to me.
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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by RandomGuy96 » Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:19 pm

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RandomGuy96 wrote: That wouldn't be character exaggeration, though.
Broly's insanity makes him think Gohan is Goku? Seems like an exaggeration to me.
...he thought Goten was Goku. At least if I'm remembering it right.
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dbgtFO wrote: Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
It was actually Beerus disguised as Zarbon #StayWoke
Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.
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Post by dbzfan7 » Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:25 pm

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RandomGuy96 wrote: That wouldn't be character exaggeration, though.
Broly's insanity makes him think Gohan is Goku? Seems like an exaggeration to me.
...he thought Goten was Goku. At least if I'm remembering it right.
Yes he did in movie 10. In movie 8 he learn how he hates Goku, but for some reason he keeps targeting Gohan. You'd think like Vegeta he would only care about Goku, but for some reason he attacks Gohan a lot.
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Post by jjgp1112 » Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:26 am

He only attacked Gohan like once in Movie 8, and he was doing it to piss Goku off.
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Post by TonyTheTiger » Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:52 am

This is why I think maybe we're thinking about it the wrong way. There's not much to really do with Broly that isn't super predictable or a cheap joke that will wear thin after five minutes. Broly probably can't be directly funny. But he can be indirectly so because of everything else. Like Vegeta's breakdown.
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Post by hleV » Fri Aug 30, 2013 11:22 am

The problem is that you people are thinking of various scenarios that could follow instead of waiting for a surprise.
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Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Fri Aug 30, 2013 11:26 am

hleV wrote:The problem is that you people are thinking of various scenarios that could follow instead of waiting for a surprise.
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Post by dbzfan7 » Fri Aug 30, 2013 2:44 pm

jjgp1112 wrote:He only attacked Gohan like once in Movie 8, and he was doing it to piss Goku off.
It was a few times actually. Hell you would think he would focus only on Goku but for some reason he goes for Gohan before finishing Goku.
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Post by Gyt Kaliba » Fri Aug 30, 2013 4:23 pm

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jjgp1112 wrote:He only attacked Gohan like once in Movie 8, and he was doing it to piss Goku off.
It was a few times actually. Hell you would think he would focus only on Goku but for some reason he goes for Gohan before finishing Goku.
Probably because he figures it would traumatize Goku all the more if he made him realize his son was just killed because he was too weak to save him. Broly's smart enough to come up with a diabolical plan that simple at least.

...Well, movie 8 Broly's smart enough to come up with that anyway.
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Post by Jackal puFF » Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:58 pm

Man, I am so stoked to see episode 37. I've watched the whole series + movies twice now in anticipation.
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Post by Dr. Machismo » Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:19 pm

TonyTheTiger wrote:Gotta be honest, I'm not into the gentleman Broly thing. It's too...easy? Obvious? Seems like the best jokes come from flanderizing characters' actual personalities. Of course this poses a challenge since Broly doesn't actually have a personality to flanderize. He's more like a force of nature. Maybe an angle like that could work, though. Instead of flanderizing Broly, flanderize the seriousness of the threat as a whole. Forget the jokes entirely. Make it a drama. Comically serious in an Airplane! kind of way.
Flanderizing personalities is what's too obvious, IMO. For an example, exaggerating on Goku's stupidity. Exaggerating on Vegeta's arrogance and douchebaggery. Exaggerating on Gohan's prodigious intelligence. Exaggerating on Chi-Chi supermama thing. Exaggerating on Krillin's pessimism. All too obvious.

and a lot of the jokes here with goku being stupid are so corny. not even all that funny really
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Post by KentalSSJ6 » Sat Aug 31, 2013 3:32 am

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TonyTheTiger wrote:Gotta be honest, I'm not into the gentleman Broly thing. It's too...easy? Obvious? Seems like the best jokes come from flanderizing characters' actual personalities. Of course this poses a challenge since Broly doesn't actually have a personality to flanderize. He's more like a force of nature. Maybe an angle like that could work, though. Instead of flanderizing Broly, flanderize the seriousness of the threat as a whole. Forget the jokes entirely. Make it a drama. Comically serious in an Airplane! kind of way.
Flanderizing personalities is what's too obvious, IMO. For an example, exaggerating on Goku's stupidity. Exaggerating on Vegeta's arrogance and douchebaggery. Exaggerating on Gohan's prodigious intelligence. Exaggerating on Chi-Chi supermama thing. Exaggerating on Krillin's pessimism. All too obvious.

and a lot of the jokes here with goku being stupid are so corny. not even all that funny really
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Post by Zephyr » Sat Aug 31, 2013 8:53 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScinG3p8KUQ

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Post by Chuquita » Sat Aug 31, 2013 9:55 pm

Nail gun. X3
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Post by Jackal puFF » Sat Aug 31, 2013 11:10 pm

Chuquita wrote:Nail gun. X3
That is good.
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Post by TheMightyOzaru » Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:51 am

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