Post your funny old DBZ beliefs

Saiyajin no Tatsujin · Post by **Saiyajin no Tatsujin** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:11 pm

Blade wrote:
Saiyajin no Tatsujin wrote:I used to think Dragon Ball: Final Bout was a good game. And I felt so lucky to have it when I bought it back in 1999.
Ah yes, I can confess to this also. Back in 2001 I yearned for a Dragonball Z video game with good graphics, so being the intrepid little fan-boy I was, I used to hop around the internet downloading the various Dragonball-based NES, SNES, GB and Megadrive roms

I did this as well. Even though the ROMs didn't play 100% smooth, I was still hooked on them for a good while. Shortly after I made the decision to start collecting Dragon Ball video games.

Back then the game was well and truely out of print in English markets, and second-hand copies of the USA release would sell for hundreds of dollars on Ebay. Eventually I actually imported all three of the Playstation Games from Japan, and was massively dissapointed with Final Bout and Ultimate Battle 22. Legends still remains probably my favourite Dragonball-based game released thus far, though.

I actually bought all three imports at a local game shop that used to be near me. I just walked in one day and saw all three for sale behind the counter. I was in shock. I HAD to have them no matter what. So I bought a 1st edition PSX, an action replay/gameshark unit and all three Dragon Ball games. I played those games for months. Legends also remains one of my favorites.

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:28 pm

I too, thought Final Bout was awesome when I played it back in 2001. Then I played it a few years later and wondered what the fuck I was thinking.

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:03 pm

I played Final Bout when I was 13 or 14. I thought I was just bad at it, but as it turns it was just a stupid, unintuitive game. Also, having only watched the first half of Dragon Ball at the time, I really had no idea who any of the characters were. I mostly just used Kid Goku because he was the only character I recognized.

russ869 · Post by **russ869** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:41 pm

Saiyajin no Tatsujin wrote:
Blade wrote:Ah yes, I can confess to this also. Back in 2001 I yearned for a Dragonball Z video game with good graphics, so being the intrepid little fan-boy I was, I used to hop around the internet downloading the various Dragonball-based NES, SNES, GB and Megadrive roms
I did this as well. Even though the ROMs didn't play 100% smooth, I was still hooked on them for a good while. Shortly after I made the decision to start collecting Dragon Ball video games.

It's kind of embarassing to say this, but I think I actually first learned about certain parts of plot of the Cell and Buu arcs from playing DBZ Gameboy (Advance?) ROMs on my computer.

I probably had no idea that it was Gohan who killed Cell before I played that game.

TriforceCaptre · Post by **TriforceCaptre** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:07 pm

I used to think Vegetto killed Buu.
The reason for this was an AMV I saw using Korn's song "Let's get this party started". It started with Freeza fighting Goku up to when Freeza gets cut in half. It then goes to Cell fighting SSJ2 Gohan up to Cell getting disintegrated. It then goes to Vegetto fighting Buu and ends with Buu getting engulfed by this wave that Vegetto shoots from his palm.
So seeing the pattern in the video I always assumed that was how Buu was defeated.

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:23 pm

And also, thanks to Final Bout's weird naming conventions to separate Z characters from GT characters, I thought there were two forms of Saiyan transformation - Super Saiyan, and just plain Super.

Thanos · Post by **Thanos** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:13 pm

Before I knew about GT, I saw the Super Battle Collection action figure of kid Goku and Pan, and they spelled it 'Gokou', so I thought "Gokou" and Pan were Goku's kids.

I remember being told about Vegetto by a friend, and we had just discovered this new amazing thing in DBZ called fusion.

I used to think Zarbon was a girl.

I also seem to remember having an image in my head of Mr. Buu being waaay bigger than he actually is.

I saw a picture in a magazine of Mystic Gohan in the kai uniform, and I thought that meant Gohan had fused with Kaioshin.

For the longest time, I thought Saiyaman's name was 'Super Saiyaman'

For the longest time, I thought Tenshinhan's name was 'Tenechia'

My friend told me (and I believed him), that one of the villains kicked Chaozu, who went flying, and was never seen again.

I used to think transforming into a Super Saiyajin actually made the character significantly taller.

For a while, I remember having "figured out" GT. I had convinced myself that the series revolved around Goten & Trunks (which is what I decided GT stood for), and that they were the last good guys left. I pictured a post-apocalyptic, Mad Max-type of scenario centered around those two.

caejones · Post by **caejones** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:05 pm

Thanos wrote: I remember being told about Vegetto by a friend, and we had just discovered this new amazing thing in DBZ called fusion.

After first being told that Vegetto was Goku + Vegeta, the person that told me this later "corrected" himself and said it was Vegeta and Piccolo ("Why would two saiyans fuse?")...

I used to think transforming into a Super Saiyajin actually made the character significantly taller.

Ur, so did I...
... But I have an excuse~!

For a while, I remember having "figured out" GT. I had convinced myself that the series revolved around Goten & Trunks (which is what I decided GT stood for), and that they were the last good guys left. I pictured a post-apocalyptic, Mad Max-type of scenario centered around those two.

... That would be awesome. Can you magic it into existence?

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:43 pm

caejones wrote:
For a while, I remember having "figured out" GT. I had convinced myself that the series revolved around Goten & Trunks (which is what I decided GT stood for), and that they were the last good guys left. I pictured a post-apocalyptic, Mad Max-type of scenario centered around those two.
... That would be awesome. Can you magic it into existence?

gallagtor · Post by **gallagtor** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:46 pm

I used to think Yamcha was a Saiyan.

Duo · Post by **Duo** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:18 pm

Rofl @ Rocketman.

I actually just remembered a GT-related misconception. In one of those old magazines...Pojo or Becket, I remember reading up on the Shadow Dragons and Goku being a kid in GT, and seeing a screenshot of Janemba somewhere in there...

So I pieced it together that Janemba was the final Shadow Dragon, and that Goku became an adult again somehow in order to use the "Final Spirit Bomb" or whatever they called it.

Not that far off considering Janemba does look like the Dragons to an extent. Not sure where the Goku part came from though.

SingleFringe&Sparks · Post by **SingleFringe&Sparks** » Sat May 03, 2014 6:36 pm

I had a friend who thought the Dragonballs themselves were called "Dragon Ball Zs" as in, the Suffix was apart of the object itself. Conversations got real weird after that.

Kuwabara · Post by **Kuwabara** » Sat May 03, 2014 6:53 pm

I thought Dragon Ball Z was the best anime ever.

thatdbzguy · Post by **thatdbzguy** » Sat May 03, 2014 6:57 pm

Kuwabara wrote:I thought Dragon Ball Z was the best anime ever.

Same.

Those were dark times.

Hellspawn28 · Post by **Hellspawn28** » Sat May 03, 2014 6:58 pm

Holy crap I totally forgot about this thread even exist. This was in late 2009, nearly five years ago.

thatdbzguy · Post by **thatdbzguy** » Sat May 03, 2014 7:06 pm

I guess I'll add on to my previous post by admitting that I used to think that DBZ was good.

As far as misguided thoughts involving the lore of DB, none come to mind at the moment.

ABED · Post by **ABED** » Sat May 03, 2014 7:22 pm

Back when DBZ was in syndication, they played Tree of Might during the middle of the Freeza arc, and I thought I missed something because clearly they were on Earth.
I thought Jeice was the fastest member of the Ginyu Special Corp, and Reacoom was stronger than Ginyu. Keep in mind I had yet to see those episodes yet.
Finally, I own the game DBZ Legends, and for some reason I thought the final battle took place on New Namek.

I guess I'll add on to my previous post by admitting that I used to think that DBZ was good.

If you can't say something positive, please don't say anything at all.

DragonBoxZTheMovies · Post by **DragonBoxZTheMovies** » Sat May 03, 2014 7:36 pm

2009? Wow, that takes me back. That was one of the best times to be a Dragon Ball fan.

Funny old DBZ beliefs? Um, I can't think of any that I haven't already posted in similar threads. My brother use to think you could make Future Trunks fight with his sword in Budokai 2.

Of course, he was confusing it with Budokai 3.

thatdbzguy wrote:I guess I'll add on to my previous post by admitting that I used to think that DBZ was good.

I think we gathered that from the previous post you'd made...and the hundreds of others you've made on this forum relating to the subject.

DonZ · Post by **DonZ** » Sat May 03, 2014 7:40 pm

Scarz wrote:I thought Freeza was a gay alien. No I'm not joking this time I really believed that Freeza was an openly gay super villain because of his demeanor. I just thought "Hey it's Japanese cartoon they could have flamboyant characters. They have one in every anime now, right? A gay bad guy?"

DEAD.

ABED · Post by **ABED** » Sat May 03, 2014 7:40 pm

One that everyone seemed to have, but never made sense to me, was the idea that Tapion gave Future Trunks his sword.

Kanzenshuu

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