Was there a scene in DB's World that made you cry?

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Re: Was there a scene in DB's World that made you cry?

Post by Piccolo Daimao » Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:27 pm

LiamKav wrote:
Piccolo Daimao wrote:Well, not necessarily. Vegeta was a bad guy, and I doubt anyone actually wanted him alive. He just happened to get bundled in with the others who'd recently been killed by Freeza and his men, due to the poor wording of the wish. They should've just said, "Revive all those who'd been killed by Freeza and his men, except the bad guys!" But I guess that wasn't on their mind in all the chaos.
Oh, I get that he was bought back by mistake. But after Goku's big speech and making him a grave with Awesome Eye Beams... well, it was moving, but also a bit "well, shit or get off the pot. If you miss him that much, go and bring him back to life."
I know that, just that I never thought Gokuu really cared for Vegeta or missed him, just that he respected him as a Saiyan warrior.
LiamKav wrote:
Well, Gokuu only ever said that really good guys would get to keep their bodies and train with masters in the afterlife after he died in the Cell arc. Beforehand, the assumption was that the heroes were granted their bodies by God just so they could train for a future threat and/or until they got brought back.

But the fact that the Dragon Balls can just wish people back to life, the ones on Namek can wish you back no matter how many times you died, it does demean the whole impact somewhat, to the point that Piccolo goads Boo into killing the rest of Earth's population to stall time for Goten and Trunks, with the knowledge that he can just restore them to life anyway.
Yeah. It was a gradual eroding of the seriousness of death. It's funny when you watch Kuririn's first death, and how everyone is extremely depressed, and even after they plan on bringing him back there's worries about storing his body, and everyone acts very glum and down about the whole situation. Fast forward to the middle of Z and it's like "eh, we'll just wish them back, no biggie." Like, why was anyone saying AT ALL that if Goku died they wouldn't be able to wish him back, when we'd just had a massive story-arc about the character's hunting for another set of Dragon Balls that had the extra bonus of being able to revive people more than once?
You mean in the Cell arc? Yeah, it's funny that no-one at all mentioned just hopping off to Namek (even if their spaceship had been destroyed or Dr. Brief/Blooma couldn't make another one, they could just use Gokuu's teleportation), but Gokuu probably interjected before anyone could come up with it.

And then Kuririn wasted a wish on removing #18's bomb rather than attempting to restore #16. Even if a machine technically doesn't have a life to revive, they could've at least wished to put his broken pieces back together and Blooma could try to boost him back to working conditions, or failing that, actually get their butts back to the battlefield, look for his parts, and put him back together. But no, they just left him in the dust, while everyone and their dog can get killed and brought back like it's fucking Groundhog Day. :roll:
Holden Caulfield in [b][i]The Catcher in the Rye[/i][/b] wrote:I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

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