Discussion, generally of an in-universe nature, regarding any aspect of the franchise (including movies, spin-offs, etc.) such as: techniques, character relationships, internal back-history, its universe, and more.
DBZAOTA482 wrote:Tenshinhan (Boo Saga) vs. Vegeta (Freeza Saga; Post-Zenkai)
Chaozu (Boo Saga) vs…. Nappa
Gohan (Resurrection F) vs. SPC
- Tien wins
- Chaozu takes this
- SPC crushes Gohan
Spoiler:
Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
Angelus wrote:SSJ3 Gotien (Buu Saga Goku + Tenshinhan Potara Fusion) VS SSJ3 Gotenks (Post-ROSAT)
Gotenks has the upper hand till he defuses.
fadeddreams5 wrote:
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
jjgp1112 wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:31 am
I'm just about done with the concept of reboots and making shows that were products of their time and impactful "new and sexy" and in line with modern tastes and sensibilities. Let stuff stay in their era and give today's kids their own shit to watch.
I always side eye the people who say "Now my kids/today's kids can experience what I did as a child!" Nigga, who gives a fuck about your childhood? You're an adult now and it was at least 15 years ago. Let the kids have their own experience instead of picking at a corpse.
Angelus wrote:SSJ3 Gotien (Buu Saga Goku + Tenshinhan Potara Fusion) VS SSJ3 Gotenks (Post-ROSAT)
SSJ3 Gotenks wrecks SSJ3 Gotien.
Spoiler:
Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
Dyno wrote:Bills (Movie 15) vs Kakarot and Vegeta beyond Gods (the very end of Z).
When you say beyond gods do you mean their powererd up base? 5 years of training is a lot of time though so maybe they surpass Beerus individually at that point, together they'd win. SSJGSS's would definitely win individually IMO.
Dyno wrote:Bills (Movie 15) vs Kakarot and Vegeta beyond Gods (the very end of Z).
When you say beyond gods do you mean their powererd up base? 5 years of training is a lot of time though so maybe they surpass Beerus individually at that point, together they'd win. SSJGSS's would definitely win individually IMO.
They were still so weak that an unpowered sleepy ki blast was supposed to be enough to kill them, and 7 years of probably near 24/7 training in the Other World did no more than like, double Goku's power bar SSJ3. I don't see them ever surpassing Beerus, which IMO is the best way to have things.
I have already explained what is "Saiyan beyond God" (you add "Saiyan" when you don't put any name) in this very topic:
Dyno wrote:"Saiyan beyond God" is a state, kind of the Ultimate/Mystic of Son Gohan. It is a state a Saiyan achieves after absorbing Super Saiyan God powers and somehow can master it, thus allowing you to use the Super Saiyan God powers in base form. In Dragon Ball Heroes it was treated as a transformation for Kakarot, but in the actual movie, it seems that it is Kakarot's and Vegeta's regular base forms from now on.
"Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan" is a transformation, like Super Saiyan but using this "godly power". When you transform into the regular Super Saiyan while using Super Saiyan God powers, the hair becomes blue green-ish and it seems that rule of "Super Saiyan increases your power by 50%" no longer exists.
So basically, yes.
singsing wrote:They were still so weak that an unpowered sleepy ki blast was supposed to be enough to kill them, and 7 years of probably near 24/7 training in the Other World did no more than like, double Goku's power bar SSJ3. I don't see them ever surpassing Beerus, which IMO is the best way to have things.
Please remember that I specifically said "end of Z", not them in the actual movie.
Please remember that I specifically said "end of Z", not them in the actual movie.
Yes, which is why I provided context for my argument. 7 years of training didn't do much for Goku and Vegeta. I don't see why 5 would let them bridge that huge gap between themselves and Beerus.
Kaioshin and Kibito vs. Yakon and Pui-Pui
Chi-Chi (23rd Budokai) vs. Tambourine
Kaioshin solos in less than 10 seconds.
Tambourine wins with difficulty.
Tenshinhan (Boo Saga) vs. Vegeta (Freeza Saga; Post-Zenkai)
Chaozu (Boo Saga) vs…. Nappa
Gohan (Resurrection F) vs. SPC
Is this Vegeta when he fought True Form Freeza? If so Vegeta wins with difficulty.
Chaoz finger flicks.
Gohan gives one hell of a fight but Cell has the advantage, he wins.
singsing wrote:Yes, which is why I provided context for my argument. 7 years of training didn't do much for Goku and Vegeta. I don't see why 5 would let them bridge that huge gap between themselves and Beerus.
Well, seven years gave Kakarot both Super Saiyan 2 and Super Saiyan 3, while it gave to Vegeta the Super Saiyan 2... I'm not saying they would "gain" another form, but...
Well if Shisami is slightly stronger than Piccolo, who hasn't been shown to have lost any strength, Shisami could be around Cell Jr level. Since Gohan one shotted (he did right?) he could be around his SSJ2 kid self. So he should win SPC IMO.
Not that I disagree with you, but couldn't Cell do the same thing to a Cell Jr.? I guess「F」' Gohan still have a slightly edge in power, but Cell is clever enough to make this fight very difficult.
Please remember that I specifically said "end of Z", not them in the actual movie.
Yes, which is why I provided context for my argument. 7 years of training didn't do much for Goku and Vegeta. I don't see why 5 would let them bridge that huge gap between themselves and Beerus.
Because they had gotten to their limit at that point. Their potential now is seemingly limitless.
moochfloatjr wrote:Beerus + Whis Potara fusion (Beris? Wheerus?) vs SSGSS Vegetto, Golden Freeza, and Mystic/Ultimate Gohan all at once.
Not sure if Whis and Beerus are that compatible. If they get a fusion that was as benefitial as Vegetto's, then Whisrus should win. If they get something like Kibitoshin, then the boost they get is not as large as you'd think. Golden Freeza and especially Ultimate Gohan are complete non factors in this battle.
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.
moochfloatjr wrote:Beerus + Whis Potara fusion (Beris? Wheerus?) vs SSGSS Vegetto, Golden Freeza, and Mystic/Ultimate Gohan all at once.
Beeris with some effort. Both Vegeta and Goku, the components of Vegito are far weaker than even just Whis. Even with a rival boost, it's not nearly enough. Golden Freeza and Gohan won't be able to do any significant damage.
End of Z Krillin VS Androids Saga Yamcha, Chiaotzu, and Tien (Multiform split to 4)-- No tribeam, paralysis, or solar flare
moochfloatjr wrote:Beerus + Whis Potara fusion (Beris? Wheerus?) vs SSGSS Vegetto, Golden Freeza, and Mystic/Ultimate Gohan all at once.
Beerus/Whis crush everyone in their path.
Angelus wrote:End of Z Krillin VS Androids Saga Yamcha, Chiaotzu, and Tenshinhan (Multiform split to 4)-- No tribeam, paralysis, or solar flare
Krillin takes out all the clones like how he destroyed all those Saibamen. Yamcha, Chiaotzu, and Tenshinhan having their power split 1/4 fractions just makes the job easier for Krillin.
Spoiler:
Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.