If you saw Man of Steel, and Dragon Ball Z didn't cross your mind at least once during the battle scenes (especially the last one) then you need you watch it again.
But if you don't feel like watching it, perhaps this video can help you out.
Not sure if you guys have seen this video yet, but I just found it, and had to share it.
Anyways, this is the last battle in Man Of Steel, Superman VS General Zod, with music and sound effects from DBZ. The results are ...surprisingly good. Enjoy
Yeah, the "long echoing punch" and some of the explosions got a bit repetitive at times. And I hope it wasn't just me who felt that the music toward the end when Zod's trapped in a headlock and threatening to heat-vision some people to death really didn't fit the scene at all.
Kaboom wrote:The big difference, of course, is that Goku makes it a point to lead his enemies AWAY from populated areas before fighting them.
That's interesting, because while it did irk me how Superman just kept fighting as if not caring to the damages he and Zod were causing to the city, there's something to be said about Dragon Ball as well. Even as a kid, there was a point were I started to question why would every single enemy simply agree with Goku to move the fight to a unpopulated area.
Still, the fights in Man of Steel did remind me of DBZ quite often, and this video was fun to watch. Of course, it could be made much better, which begs the question, how would a video like this be, if someone took the time to make it really good with all sorts of DB OST and sound effects?
Yes, Goku visited me once. He turned to me while I was still speechless, and said, "You've drank too much"...
Kaboom wrote:The big difference, of course, is that Goku makes it a point to lead his enemies AWAY from populated areas before fighting them.
This whole thing reminds me of a Newgrounds "DBZ in a nutshell" parody I saw once, where they say something like "Now we're going to leave the city and fight in some huge deserted empty desert with no one around that goes on for miles and miles and miles and there's no such place like this anywhere in the whole world and it's right over there."
Kaboom wrote:The big difference, of course, is that Goku makes it a point to lead his enemies AWAY from populated areas before fighting them.
This whole thing reminds me of a Newgrounds "DBZ in a nutshell" parody I saw once, where they say something like "Now we're going to leave the city and fight in some huge deserted empty desert with no one around that goes on for miles and miles and miles and there's no such place like this anywhere in the whole world and it's right over there."
I much prefer not leaving the city. Since one, it makes more sense (since its not like Zod was just screwing around) and two its just a way better stage for a fight. Oh and Goku doesn't always take the fight away from the city. He pretty much said screw everybody in this city when he fought Fat Buu and he didn't even try to stop Freeza from blowing up Namek.
mAcChaos wrote:Namek was already deserted. And you must have forgotten when he explicitly tried to lead Fat Buu away.
Doesn't matter if its deserted, they brought the Namekians back. And Goku sure didn't try all that hard to lead Buu away, not to mention he held back just to give the boys a shot at Buu.
Kaboom wrote:Maybe, in this regard. At least more so than THIS version of Superman.
But I was mostly trying to crack a super-obvious joke before anyone beat me to it.
I dunno about that. We're talking about the same guy who refused to stop the Cyborgs before they were born and thus putting the people of earth at risk into sharing the same fate as the hellish future Trunks talked about.
Though out of universe, if Toriyama didn't have a problem drawing buildings he'd probably have Goku fight in the city
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.
Kaboom wrote:Maybe, in this regard. At least more so than THIS version of Superman.
But I was mostly trying to crack a super-obvious joke before anyone beat me to it.
I dunno about that. We're talking about the same guy who refused to stop the Cyborgs before they were born and thus putting the people of earth at risk into sharing the same fate as the hellish future Trunks talked about.
Though out of universe, if Toriyama didn't have a problem drawing buildings he'd probably have Goku fight in the city
Does nobody remember his fight with Fat Buu where he kicks Buu straight into a skyscraper, bringing it down to the ground in the middle of a populated city? Are we really gonna believe that building was empty or nobody was in the vicinity of it?
Kaboom wrote:The big difference, of course, is that Goku makes it a point to lead his enemies AWAY from populated areas before fighting them.
That's interesting, because while it did irk me how Superman just kept fighting as if not caring to the damages he and Zod were causing to the city, there's something to be said about Dragon Ball as well. Even as a kid, there was a point were I started to question why would every single enemy simply agree with Goku to move the fight to a unpopulated area.
Still, the fights in Man of Steel did remind me of DBZ quite often, and this video was fun to watch. Of course, it could be made much better, which begs the question, how would a video like this be, if someone took the time to make it really good with all sorts of DB OST and sound effects?
Most of the bad guys were either:
a) honorable enough to want to focus on a duel rather than causing random damage, or
b) arrogant enough to grant Goku his request, since hey, he's going to lose anyway.
[i]"I have yet to show you, young warrior, what I'm truly capable of."[/i] - Cell
Kaboom wrote:Maybe, in this regard. At least more so than THIS version of Superman.
But I was mostly trying to crack a super-obvious joke before anyone beat me to it.
I dunno about that. We're talking about the same guy who refused to stop the Cyborgs before they were born and thus putting the people of earth at risk into sharing the same fate as the hellish future Trunks talked about.
Though out of universe, if Toriyama didn't have a problem drawing buildings he'd probably have Goku fight in the city
Does nobody remember his fight with Fat Buu where he kicks Buu straight into a skyscraper, bringing it down to the ground in the middle of a populated city? Are we really gonna believe that building was empty or nobody was in the vicinity of it?
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