Thought of another way that
DB would be changed if Alan Moore, Frank Miller or another gritty/noir graphic novel artist wrote it. Kame-sennin would be a sexually frustrated serial rapist with deep-seated psychological problems due to his uncontrollable libido and mental/emotional stress from the intense discipline of his martial arts and status as "the Muten Roushi". However, his reputation would've gone down in years after he'd been exposed for his sex crimes, but Gokuu and Kuririn, the former not knowing and being borderline retarded, the latter deluding himself that it's just media lies and both of them being largely naive and uncaring children, still go to train under him anyway.
In fact, pretty much everyone, just like Batman, his enemies, and the superheroes in
Watchmen, would be fucked in the head. If I'm going to be gritty for gritty's sake (that might not necessarily be how Moore or Miller write their stories, since I don't know
that much about them), you might as well say that Blooma was molested by her playboy, philanthropist and alcoholic father Dr. Brief when she was a child and her mother never noticed or did anything about it because she herself was trapped in an abusive relationship with him and often abandoned her daughter to hit on younger men.
Blooma's abuse at the hands of her father, who was meant to be the only man she could 100% trust, affected her view of men, so she continuously whored herself out to men, especially bad boys. She'd have definite "daddy issues", using them for both sex and security. This is where the baddest boy of them all, Vegeta, comes in, compared to a relative softie (who wasn't even a bandit anymore) and overall loser Yamcha. If he actually
did cheat on her, she would've stayed with him because she literally likes bastards, but since he's mostly shy around them and strongly against infidelity, she gave him the boot.
LiamKav wrote:Piccolo Daimao wrote:The Silk Spectre II in Watchmen was a pretty decently portrayed and strong character, despite her revealing costume, reliance on the Superman of the story who she got into a relationship with at 16, and probably being the least likeable character due to her whining.
Bulma is far less fan-service than her reputation deserves. She tends towards short skirts and the odd bit of flashing, but she also spends large portions of the series dressed perfectly sensibly. Her entire time on Namek, and the whole of the Artificial Human and Cell arcs, for instance.
I've also not read Watchmen yet, but isn't there something about Silk Spectre II falling in love with her rapist, or something like that?
OK, well, especially before the Freeza arc (I guess, when she was still pretty young, so that's understandable), she spent a lot of time in revealing clothing and, before the 22nd TB arc (around the time
DB shifted to a more serious tone; note that there were no more gags involving a naked, penis-exposed and/or randomly peeing Gokuu, although that could be more to do with the fact that he was now 15 and might have developed to the point that it wouldn't be cute anymore), various scenes where she got her tits or panties out, inadvertently or not, to a couple of main male characters in the series, mostly serial sexual harasser Kame-sennin.
And no, that's her mother, the first Silk Spectre. She was a burlesque dancer and loves her sex symbol status, despite not seeming to have any actual fighting skills, since there was an article about her criminals basically lining up to be arrested by her, and the fact that she had a good agent and the only reason she became a costumed crimefighter was for the money and, in an interview it's hinted that it was a "sex thing" too. Something like that.).
The Silk Spectre II - who was pretty much coerced by her mother to carry on her career and sex symbol status (even down to the costume, which I found a bit odd that a mother would encourage her daughter to go out fighting dangerous criminals dressed like that), was shown to have genuine fighting skills and a strong character - was pretty much the complete opposite of her and was disgusted at the porn magazines that her mother's fans sent to her.
But it's much more complex than that, since they had something of a rocky relationship that isn't
entirely explored and she still feels guilty about herself, other than the fact that he gave the gift of her daughter. You really need to read it to understand.
