Characters with the Most Unexplored Potential

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Re: Characters with the Most Unexplored Potential

Post by batistabus » Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:23 pm

Bura wrote:
Rory wrote:
Bura wrote:Bra of course. Half Saiyajin, daughter of two major characters. They could've done so much with her...
But it's just Trunks.. but a chick.
Right. Just like Goten is Gohan, only with different hair.
Your comment makes no sense. It's pretty obvious that Bra has a completely different personality than her brother.
I agree with you, but her personality isn't something I'd like to see more of. If they kept her personality and made her strong, she'd be better suited for Neko Majin Z as an Onio type character. Maybe if she was more like DBM Bra...

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Re: Characters with the Most Unexplored Potential

Post by Rory » Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:09 pm

I'm saying potential wise, (I'm assuming this is in terms of power) Bra is the same as Trunks, except the gender is different.

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Re: Characters with the Most Unexplored Potential

Post by Zephyr » Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:19 pm

I prefer to think of her has having the potential to be a female Vegeta. That would make her a horrifyingly destructive, chaotic, and unpredictable fighter. But alas, she was reduced to a cliched teen-girl archetype instead.

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Re: Characters with the Most Unexplored Potential

Post by Ussj Future Trunks » Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:42 am

DBM Bra seems like a mix of Goku and Vegeta, meshing quite nicely. But she doesn't have their experience as of yet, and that might be a problem later. She is most like Kid Gohan right now (young and inexperienced but has a huge power burning inside). As long as they explore her character adequately and doesn't get absorbed or something for no reason, then she won't be wasted.
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Re: Characters with the Most Unexplored Potential

Post by caejones » Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:19 am

I don't think of character potential and fighting potential as being at all the same, even in a series that focuses on fighting like DB/Z (Bulma remained important up to the Cell Games, and Mark proves important from then on... heck, he practically replaces her. :P ).

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Re: Characters with the Most Unexplored Potential

Post by Piccolo Daimao » Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:56 pm

Bura wrote:Bra of course. Half Saiyajin, daughter of two major characters. They could've done so much with her...
Must...resist...urge...to make...innuendo... :x

On a more serious note, I'd like to see more of #17 and #18's backstory. All we know is that they are "delinquent teenagers" (where did that come from anyway?). In the Android Arc, they are just short-lived secondary villains who beat up the Z-Warriors once and then get absorbed by Cell. That's it. And in the Boo Arc, #18 does nothing. I want to know what happened to them before they were apparently kidnapped by Dr. Gero, and how they were kidnapped by Dr. Gero and turned into cyborgs. Fuck that damn Gohan clone Oob.
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