What if Goku existed in real life!

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Re: What if Goku existed in real life!

Post by Protege » Sun Apr 17, 2016 9:09 pm

Polyphase Avatron wrote:When you say he wouldn't have any super powers, do you mean he would be human, or a Saiyan with no Saiyan abilities? Would he have a tail? Would his DNA be different from humans? If he went to a doctor to be examined would they be able to tell he wasn't human? Because if so, that would be a huge deal - the various governments of the world would be going "Holy shit, aliens exist and there's one here on Earth!"
No he would be a Saiyan just without any super powers and the same durability and strength like an average human. But his DNA would be different than from humans.

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Re: What if Goku existed in real life!

Post by Polyphase Avatron » Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:12 am

Well then what I said applies. If anyone found out various government labs would probably want to dissect him or something.
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Re: What if Goku existed in real life!

Post by RandomGuy96 » Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:37 am

He has no formal education, no useful job skills, no citizenship for any country, etc. What do you think happens? I mean, even if he was thrown into, say, a random U.S. city without any of these things, he could scrape out a good living if he played his cards right... but he wouldn't. He's completely unfit for modern society, too dysfunctional to live here. He'll get thrown in jail for his love of fighting leading to street fights within a week.
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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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Re: What if Goku existed in real life!

Post by Kamiccolo9 » Mon Apr 18, 2016 7:40 am

RandomGuy96 wrote:He has no formal education, no useful job skills, no citizenship for any country, etc. What do you think happens? I mean, even if he was thrown into, say, a random U.S. city without any of these things, he could scrape out a good living if he played his cards right... but he wouldn't. He's completely unfit for modern society, too dysfunctional to live here. He'll get thrown in jail for his love of fighting leading to street fights within a week.
You're assuming he even gets that far. If his origin sf ass mostly the same, he dies a feral kid in the woods.
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Re: What if Goku existed in real life!

Post by z_cherub » Mon Apr 18, 2016 8:45 am

Well, we know his favorite hobbies are reading and sports :)

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Re: What if Goku existed in real life!

Post by RandomGuy96 » Mon Apr 18, 2016 11:51 am

Kamiccolo9 wrote:
RandomGuy96 wrote:He has no formal education, no useful job skills, no citizenship for any country, etc. What do you think happens? I mean, even if he was thrown into, say, a random U.S. city without any of these things, he could scrape out a good living if he played his cards right... but he wouldn't. He's completely unfit for modern society, too dysfunctional to live here. He'll get thrown in jail for his love of fighting leading to street fights within a week.
You're assuming he even gets that far. If his origin sf ass mostly the same, he dies a feral kid in the woods.
The OP says it's the adult Goku from the Buu arc.
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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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