The All-Purpose "What-If " Thread

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Re: General What-If thread

Post by Sailor Haumea » Sun Oct 30, 2016 2:18 am

Another what-if!

The unthinkable happens. General Blue kills Arale and Goku.

Can anyone stop the RRA?
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Re: General What-If thread

Post by TheUltimateNinja » Sun Oct 30, 2016 2:34 am

Sailor Haumea wrote:Another what-if!

The unthinkable happens. General Blue kills Arale and Goku.

Can anyone stop the RRA?
Roshi.

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Re: General What-If thread

Post by Sailor Haumea » Sun Oct 30, 2016 2:37 am

TheUltimateNinja wrote:
Sailor Haumea wrote:Another what-if!

The unthinkable happens. General Blue kills Arale and Goku.

Can anyone stop the RRA?
Roshi.
Do Goku and Arale get revived by the Dragon Balls afterward?

Does Red get his wish to become taller?
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Re: General What-If thread

Post by TheUltimateNinja » Sun Oct 30, 2016 2:40 am

Sailor Haumea wrote:
TheUltimateNinja wrote:
Sailor Haumea wrote:Another what-if!

The unthinkable happens. General Blue kills Arale and Goku.

Can anyone stop the RRA?
Roshi.
Do Goku and Arale get revived by the Dragon Balls afterward?

Does Red get his wish to become taller?
They get revived, Red probably gets betrayed and killed before he can.

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Re: General What-If thread

Post by Sailor Haumea » Sun Oct 30, 2016 2:42 am

TheUltimateNinja wrote:
Sailor Haumea wrote:
TheUltimateNinja wrote: Roshi.
Do Goku and Arale get revived by the Dragon Balls afterward?

Does Red get his wish to become taller?
They get revived, Red probably gets betrayed and killed before he can.
I assume Blue gets to live because Tao never is called in to take care of things?
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Re: General What-If thread

Post by TheUltimateNinja » Sun Oct 30, 2016 2:44 am

Sailor Haumea wrote:
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Sailor Haumea wrote: Do Goku and Arale get revived by the Dragon Balls afterward?

Does Red get his wish to become taller?
They get revived, Red probably gets betrayed and killed before he can.
I assume Blue gets to live because Tao never is called in to take care of things?
Yeah.

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Re: General What-If thread

Post by Nejishiki » Sun Oct 30, 2016 4:08 am

The thing is, King Cold was injured to the point he couldn't hurt anyone. He was begging for his life and couldn't fight back at that point.
That falls back to Future Trunks preserving history. He needs events to remain the same, aside from Goku's survival, so that he can recover relevant intelligence.

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Re: General What-If thread

Post by Sailor Haumea » Sun Oct 30, 2016 4:58 am

Nejishiki wrote:
The thing is, King Cold was injured to the point he couldn't hurt anyone. He was begging for his life and couldn't fight back at that point.
That falls back to Future Trunks preserving history. He needs events to remain the same, aside from Goku's survival, so that he can recover relevant intelligence.
So even if Cold was since, he couldn't spare the guy?

That's...really depressing.
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Re: General What-If thread

Post by Nejishiki » Sun Oct 30, 2016 5:01 am

I personally wouldn't see it as depressing. It's responsibility.
Hellspawn28 wrote:If Cell went back to the Saiyan saga, he could just go around absorbing people to become stronger and go to Dr. Gero's lab. He could just wait there until #17 and #18 are compete. Once he absorbs them, him and Dr. Gero could probably rule the world. I doubt Cell would kill Dr. Gero after he becomes perfect since he would likely be loyal to him similar to how Freeza was to King Cold.
It's funny you should say that. In Supersonic Warriors, Cell kills Gero in dispute of their future plans. The sequel reverses the situation and has Gero send Cell to the distant future in paranoia. It appears they only get along for a limited amount of time!

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Re: General What-If thread

Post by Sailor Haumea » Sun Oct 30, 2016 5:18 am

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Steven Bloodriver wrote: 1) What would you have done if one of the characters from Dragon Ball Z came into our world?

2) Then following Super Piccolo destroying Imperfect Cell, an insanely jealous Vegeta would have been the next threat to the Earth.
If Future Trunks, I'd warn him of Goku Black.
But he would be stuck in our Universe.
Then I'd hug him and assure him everything would be all right. The kid's been through hell.

Then I'd be giving him dirty looks for a very long time...
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Re: General What-If thread

Post by TheUltimateNinja » Sun Oct 30, 2016 8:24 am

What if Gotenks was actually as strong as he's made out to be by certain fans?

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Re: General What-If thread

Post by nickzambuto » Sun Oct 30, 2016 8:52 am

TheUltimateNinja wrote:What if Gotenks was actually as strong as he's made out to be by certain fans?
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Re: General What-If thread

Post by ekrolo2 » Sun Oct 30, 2016 9:09 am

What if Future Gohan & Trunks learned the Mafuba and used it on #17 and #18?
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Re: General What-If thread

Post by TheUltimateNinja » Sun Oct 30, 2016 9:11 am

ekrolo2 wrote:What if Future Gohan & Trunks learned the Mafuba and used it on #17 and #18?
They would get one, but would get killed by the other.

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Re: General What-If thread

Post by ekrolo2 » Sun Oct 30, 2016 9:12 am

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ekrolo2 wrote:What if Future Gohan & Trunks learned the Mafuba and used it on #17 and #18?
They would get one, but would get killed by the other.
I meant more that they each had a jar for both Androids :P
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Re: General What-If thread

Post by FoolsGil » Sun Oct 30, 2016 9:15 am

TheUltimateNinja wrote:
ekrolo2 wrote:What if Future Gohan & Trunks learned the Mafuba and used it on #17 and #18?
They would get one, but would get killed by the other.
Not necessarily. Alternatively, they capture both of them, and they're in one jar, or two separate jars. Trunks, Gohan, and Bulma would work on restoring Earth. Things might be looking up, except for the unexplained disappearances of people, leaving their clothes on the ground as if they been raptured. Trunks and Gohan may or may not investigate, but if they do, they likely won't survive against Cell.

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Re: General What-If thread

Post by TheUltimateNinja » Sun Oct 30, 2016 9:19 am

The androids are vastly superior to Trunks and Gohan in power, if something strange happened to one of them there's no way the other would just let it slide. Even if they tried to get both at the same time, the best they'd manage would be one.

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Re: General What-If thread

Post by ekrolo2 » Sun Oct 30, 2016 9:38 am

TheUltimateNinja wrote:The androids are vastly superior to Trunks and Gohan in power, if something strange happened to one of them there's no way the other would just let it slide. Even if they tried to get both at the same time, the best they'd manage would be one.
Power doesn't really mean much if you're not aware of how the Mafuba works and don't know how to counter it which #17 and #18 wouldn't. They'd probably just stand around like a bunch of cocky punks and let Gohan & Trunks do their thing and only realize they screwed the pooch too late.
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Re: General What-If thread

Post by TheUltimateNinja » Sun Oct 30, 2016 9:46 am

ekrolo2 wrote:
TheUltimateNinja wrote:The androids are vastly superior to Trunks and Gohan in power, if something strange happened to one of them there's no way the other would just let it slide. Even if they tried to get both at the same time, the best they'd manage would be one.
Power doesn't really mean much if you're not aware of how the Mafuba works and don't know how to counter it which #17 and #18 wouldn't. They'd probably just stand around like a bunch of cocky punks and let Gohan & Trunks do their thing and only realize they screwed the pooch too late.
I guess if Gohan and Trunks managed to get 17 & 18 stand still for a prolonged period of time while they both perform the Mafuba at the exact same time it could work, but it's unlikely.

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Re: General What-If thread

Post by ekrolo2 » Sun Oct 30, 2016 9:53 am

TheUltimateNinja wrote:I guess if Gohan and Trunks managed to get 17 & 18 stand still for a prolonged period of time while they both perform the Mafuba at the exact same time it could work, but it's unlikely.
Not really, Dragon Ball villains love to stand around and talk shit, its not out of character at all for them to see Gohan and Trunks with some dumb jars and try to act cocky before getting sucked in.

But if that's too hard to swallow, they can also blind them with Taiyoken and take them that way while they're distracted.
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