Battle of Gods character profiles.

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Re: Battle of Gods character profiles.

Post by Kid Buu » Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:00 am

I think those could be done better. For example

Gohan: the strongest scholar

No.18: the strongest Android!

Bulma: Earth's strongest scientist?!

Chi Chi: the strongest female martial artist!

Mister Satan: the strongest in the public eye!

Videl: the strongest superheroine!

Yamcha: the strongest baseball player!
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Re: Battle of Gods character profiles.

Post by RandomGuy96 » Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:14 am

No.18: the strongest Android!
17's still alive.
Chiaotzu: Tenshinhan's strongest partner!

Yamcha: the strongest dude!
Oh my god, that's just rich :lol:
Puer: the strongest transformation ability!
Scissors Puar > Super Vegetto confirmed.
Bulma: Earth's strongest wife?!
Bulma > Android 18 confirmed.
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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.
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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: Battle of Gods character profiles.

Post by Kid Buu » Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:16 am

Well, its possible 18 surpassed 17 by that point, but good call.

Puar just needs to turn into a can of smelly air spray to beat Vegetto.
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Re: Battle of Gods character profiles.

Post by B » Fri Feb 07, 2014 11:54 am

It's not like we needed more confirmation that Krillin was the strongest Earthling, but how on Earth could he compare against a Dude?
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Post by Polyphase Avatron » Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:13 pm

Wait, it is saying Dr. Briefs is smarter than Bulma? I thought the opposite was true...
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Re: Battle of Gods character profiles.

Post by Kid Buu » Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:51 pm

So Yamcha can beat up this guy!

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Re: Battle of Gods character profiles.

Post by dbgtFO » Fri Feb 07, 2014 6:02 pm

Thank you for your help everyone, I didn't expect answers to appear this quickly!

Also I too was a Little bit curious about all the numbers the poster had put under the scans, but since I too couldn't see any numbers on the actual scans(except when mentioning Gotenks' fusion time fx), I thought he was making it up or that it came from some other part of the booklet.
Captain Awesome wrote:They're all from the Battle of Gods theatrical booklet.

It was a nice full colour book you could only pick up in theatres, although quite a few did crop up on ebay, I myself nabbed one.
Are these character profiles the only things in the book or are there sections in there?

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Post by SaiyaJedi » Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:32 am

dbgtFO wrote:Thank you for your help everyone, I didn't expect answers to appear this quickly!

Also I too was a Little bit curious about all the numbers the poster had put under the scans, but since I too couldn't see any numbers on the actual scans(except when mentioning Gotenks' fusion time fx), I thought he was making it up or that it came from some other part of the booklet.
Captain Awesome wrote:They're all from the Battle of Gods theatrical booklet.

It was a nice full colour book you could only pick up in theatres, although quite a few did crop up on ebay, I myself nabbed one.
Are these character profiles the only things in the book or are there sections in there?
There's a message from Akira Toriyama, plus interviews with the cast and staff. That's the meat of the thing, anyway.
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Re: Battle of Gods character profiles.

Post by dbgtFO » Sun Feb 09, 2014 7:47 am

Ok, thanks for the help.

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