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TheGmGoken
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by TheGmGoken » Wed Apr 30, 2014 9:11 pm
SingleFringe&Sparks wrote:Videl being Celipa....no. I dont get why so many people suggest they're somehow related in some way. I dont see the resemblence at all besides the colour scheme. The hair style is vaguely similar Kid Pan if anything at by looks Pan resembles her in a fair comparison. Not Videl at all.
It was a joke
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by RandomGuy96 » Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:53 pm
Clearly "Rock" is Nappa's new identity after becoming a Hollywood producer. The whole criminal thing was a publicity stunt.
The Monkey King wrote:RandomGuy96 wrote: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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Freeza Soldier #156
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by Freeza Soldier #156 » Wed Apr 30, 2014 11:01 pm
SingleFringe&Sparks wrote:Videl being Celipa....no. I dont get why so many people suggest they're somehow related in some way. I dont see the resemblence at all besides the colour scheme. The hair style is vaguely similar Kid Pan if anything at by looks Pan resembles her in a fair comparison. Not Videl at all.
I'm pretty sure this whole thread was a joke. I hope so anyway. It's not like reused character models are anything new in Dragon Ball.
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by Gonstead » Wed Apr 30, 2014 11:14 pm
RandomGuy96 wrote:Clearly "Rock" is Nappa's new identity after becoming a Hollywood producer. The whole criminal thing was a publicity stunt.
Maybe Abridged Nappa really isn't too far off from regular Nappa XD
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by kei17 » Thu May 01, 2014 1:10 am
Freeza Soldier #156 wrote:I'm pretty sure this whole thread was a joke. I hope so anyway. It's not like reused character models are anything new in Dragon Ball.
The OP seems serious to me.
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by Freeza Soldier #156 » Thu May 01, 2014 10:23 am
kei17 wrote:Freeza Soldier #156 wrote:I'm pretty sure this whole thread was a joke. I hope so anyway. It's not like reused character models are anything new in Dragon Ball.
The OP seems serious to me.
If so, that's ridiculous
. It's obviously just a reused character model, which TOEI does in just about every other episode. I can't tell you how many times I've seen Bulma, Gohan, Muten Roshi, etc. look-a-likes milling around in the background. I wonder if they are all brothers, sisters, or cousins?
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by dbboxkaifan » Thu May 01, 2014 1:35 pm
Not ridiculous but it'd good for a fanfic story overall this one about Nappa and the revival of the two Red Ribbon dudes.
There's also another family relative of Nappa that appears on the Tenkaichi Tournament.
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by IgnorantFuniFan » Thu May 01, 2014 5:28 pm
I'm willing to bet TFS uses rock in some way
Let's just all get along and beat each other up
