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Stupid things about DB you used to believe

Post by Black_Liger » Fri Feb 20, 2015 2:34 am

Back when I was little, I used to believe that Akira Toriyama made ALL of the DB/Z/GT Anime himself, every drawing of animation, I also thought Kikuchi played the entire score by himself XD (I thought he recorded each instrument by separate).

I also thought that Goku survived Namek because he hid on a cave... (Of course! that would protect him from the planet's explosion).

Alongside the AF crap, I used to truly believe there was a saga after buu were he went evil and killed Trunks, then he became good again, and in the final battle he charged a kamehameha with one hand and a Genkidama with the other, the blast could be seen in all the universe... someone told me this, and I even got angry at people if they told me otherwise. XD

Also, I thought Lunch was Roshi's Girlfriend, and someone had tricked me into believe Raditz lived in Kame house's basement until Z XD
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Re: Stupid things about DB you used to believe

Post by Drayenko » Fri Feb 20, 2015 2:40 am

I thought Toriyama drew everything too. I also thought Bulma's mom was her sister.

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Re: Stupid things about DB you used to believe

Post by Black_Liger » Fri Feb 20, 2015 2:45 am

Drayenko wrote:I thought Toriyama drew everything too. I also thought Bulma's mom was her sister.
Welcome to the family XD, funny, I remember of a dub error that made Bulma's mom into her sister but I can't remember which dub :O
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Post by DBZAOTA482 » Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:16 am

Black_Liger wrote:
Drayenko wrote:I thought Toriyama drew everything too. I also thought Bulma's mom was her sister.
Welcome to the family XD, funny, I remember of a dub error that made Bulma's mom into her sister but I can't remember which dub :O
It was the Latin dub, though that was intentional since she's really young looking and Bulma's shown yelling at her a lot.
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DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
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I always side eye the people who say "Now my kids/today's kids can experience what I did as a child!" Nigga, who gives a fuck about your childhood? You're an adult now and it was at least 15 years ago. Let the kids have their own experience instead of picking at a corpse.

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Re: Stupid things about DB you used to believe

Post by LordCrumb » Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:21 am

Back when DBZ first started in New Zealand, and the first time I really got into it.. I used to download really small clips from various filesharing software and websites.. these clips would be in Japanese with what I now know as 'Fansubs'.

One of the first clips I ever downloaded was of Frieza cut in half, screaming up at Goku saying "nothing but a fucking monkey!". I used to think the Japanese version must have been like that all the time, with the swearing targeting adult audiences rather than children.

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Re: Stupid things about DB you used to believe

Post by Bullza » Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:48 am

I thought Dragonball Evolution was going to be good...

Yeah, beat that.

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Post by Gyt Kaliba » Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:02 am

I'm sure there are a ton of things, but the only one I vividly remember is someone explaining further story bits to me, and somehow they (or maybe just me) misunderstood something, and thought that after Cell, Majin Boo was also one of Dr. Gero's creations. So basically the entire last half of the series was all because of Dr. Gero. Yeah...
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Re: Stupid things about DB you used to believe

Post by NitroEX » Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:11 am

Someone had convinced me that getting to level 10 on Legacy of Goku would let you become a Super Saiyan (This was before I got the game). I spent what seemed like a week grinding and killing snakes and wolves (and that one big dinosaur) prior to fighting Raditz only to be hugely disappointed when it didn't happen.

The consolation was that Raditz became incredibly easy to kill.

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Re: Stupid things about DB you used to believe

Post by Kakacarrottop » Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:25 am

Dragon Ball Z is American

FUNimation created Dragon Ball Z

Ms Briefs and Mr Briefs aren't related to Bulma

Kid Gohan is a girl

Master Roshi is not a pervert
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Re: Stupid things about DB you used to believe

Post by Hugo Boss » Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:29 am

I used to believe that DBZ and DBGT main villains surpassed lightspeed and also that they could destroy galaxies.

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Post by Ajay » Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:35 am

"Vegeta killed Grandpa Gohan!"

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Re: Stupid things about DB you used to believe

Post by Mosaic » Fri Feb 20, 2015 11:03 am

When I was little I had a bootleg watch with Vegeta and Videl (with blonde hair). I was convinced that would be his saiyan wife that appeared later in the series. I really made up my own rumor as a kid. :D

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Re: Stupid things about DB you used to believe

Post by Dbzfan94 » Fri Feb 20, 2015 1:41 pm

Turles was Goku's brother.

Pikkon was Namekian.

GT Goku was actually Goten

A few more but I was so young I don't remember

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Post by Lord Beerus » Fri Feb 20, 2015 1:43 pm

Hugo Boss wrote:I used to believe that DBZ and DBGT main villains surpassed lightspeed and also that they could destroy galaxies.
Uh... about that... :P

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Re: Stupid things about DB you used to believe

Post by Lord Beerus » Fri Feb 20, 2015 1:45 pm

I used to believe that Goku's dad was a scientist.

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Re: Stupid things about DB you used to believe

Post by Dyno » Fri Feb 20, 2015 1:47 pm

Used to believe Vegeta was something related to Broly. :lol:

Kamehameha's potence was that of 25,000 (don't ask me where I got that number).

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Re: Stupid things about DB you used to believe

Post by voltlunok » Fri Feb 20, 2015 2:43 pm

Oh god....It's not entirely tied to DBZ but it was part of it. When I was young I used to think DBZ, Sailor Moon and Gundam Wing were the first anime ever created. Sooner or later I discovered otherwise (Thanks Dragon Ball & Saint Seiya!) but yeah.
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Post by DBZAOTA482 » Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:11 pm

Kakacarrottop wrote:Kid Gohan is a girl
Can't blame ya. He's like a male Chi-Chi.

Anyways, I believed Seripa was Goku's mom. I also believed Paikhun was Piccolo's brother or cousin. I still don't have no idea what the fuck he is.
fadeddreams5 wrote:
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
jjgp1112 wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:31 am I'm just about done with the concept of reboots and making shows that were products of their time and impactful "new and sexy" and in line with modern tastes and sensibilities. Let stuff stay in their era and give today's kids their own shit to watch.

I always side eye the people who say "Now my kids/today's kids can experience what I did as a child!" Nigga, who gives a fuck about your childhood? You're an adult now and it was at least 15 years ago. Let the kids have their own experience instead of picking at a corpse.

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Re: Stupid things about DB you used to believe

Post by dbzfan7 » Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:49 pm

In budokai 2 you could send Ultimate attacks right back at people if you twirled the analog stick enough to beat your opponent. Boy was I disappointed when I found out you only reduce damage.
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Re: Stupid things about DB you used to believe

Post by 90sDBZ » Fri Feb 20, 2015 4:12 pm

dbzfan7 wrote:In budokai 2 you could send Ultimate attacks right back at people if you twirled the analog stick enough to beat your opponent. Boy was I disappointed when I found out you only reduce damage.
i used to believe that too lol. :)

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