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Re: Your inside "fanon" things

Post by Bulma's Foot Masseur » Thu Aug 01, 2013 1:54 am

Bee didn't die between Z and GT. He just went off on his own to raise a family.

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Post by Gonstead » Thu Aug 01, 2013 5:05 am

I thought I remember seeing Bee somewhere in the early episodes of GT.
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Re: Your inside "fanon" things

Post by DNA » Thu Aug 01, 2013 9:26 am

Kamiccolo9 wrote:
DNA wrote: Just because I said I disbelieve that a certain power level is required, it does not mean that immense rage is the only factor.
What would you say the other factors are?
I've been thinking and what might be is a clear mind and a set goal. When Piccolo killed Kuririn, Goku had a set goal but not a clear mind, he was blinded by rage, he didn't even know who his enemy was.

When Freeza killed Kuririn, Goku had a goal and a clear mind about it. You could say fury is a trigger, but it might be more like a sense of "I need this in order to achieve my goal". In the cases of Goku, Vegeta, Trunks and Bardock, the goal was clear; they either needed to eliminate a threat and had no means for it, or in Vegeta's case, surpass a rival. What's special about Goku and Bardock is that they didn't even know it was a thing, they just knew they needed to eliminate the threat in front of them. Bardock focused on Freeza instead of Chilled, the former simply reminded him of the latter and the collected frustrations and the feeling of helplessness drove him into Super Saiyan.

Again, when Goku was a child, he did not feel helpless, he felt pretty confident of his capabilities. As an older man, facing an opponent who he simply could not beat after using everything he had, that feeling of frustration plus the rage trigger allowed him to transform.

The same is true with Gohan, he achieved Super Saiyan 2 because of his frustration, the clear mind about his goal, that he had to stop a threat, and the rage trigger.

If you can find an event where a Saiyan was clearly faced with all that and did not transform, then I take it back and accept that a certain power level is needed.

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