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  • ViskodViskod Registered User regular
    Frieza gets another form upgrade, can only be matched by SSB Vegito/Gogeta, challenges Goku and Vegeta to fight him in a fusion. They are killed and Earth is enslaved and sold because Vegeta won't do the fusion dance in front of Frieza.

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    edited February 2019
    Do you think there's going to be at least one problem that gets solved by Broly learning to go Super Saiyan God only his version of it is basically Super Saiyan 4

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I do not think we will see SS4 in Super ever

    It is so visually different than anything Toriyama was involved with and they have had 3 movies and 100+ episodes to reference GT at all and the closest we have gotten is...basically Pan existing?

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    Yeah that was just a haha

    It'd just be a shame if they spent a whole movie making Broly into one of the most compelling characters in the franchise and then didn't have him do anything but fade into the background

    I hope he plays some role in stories going forward

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited February 2019
    I would be really surprised if Broly doesn't factor in with Super pretty heavily when it returns

    The movie grossed triple what Battle of Gods and Resurrection F did in the US alone and was a gigantic success

    Given how prominent Beerus became in Super itself and Frieza returning for the ToP, Broly showing up and joining the cast proper seems almost certain

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  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    They could have easily buried Broly a number of ways but instead chose to put him somewhere Goku could easily reach and set up a status quo where Goku regularly visits him. I don't think he will be forgotten.

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  • EvilCakeEvilCake Richmond VARegistered User regular
    I still think Broly is lame :(

  • turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    Frieza needs to get something in the W column sometime soon. He's supposedly on a power level roughly equivalent to Goku or Vegeta but seems to mainly job at this point

    Watching that clip they seem to have put him in the Worf role, where he's the strongest one there is, so the new super character destroys him to show how strong that character is.

    I think they at least did him right having him hold out against Broly and not be at all worried he is still out there, but Frieza is very intelligent and it would've been nice to see him using some kind of tactics in that fight instead of just powering up.

    Frieza is very intelligent until you for real piss him off and then he gets sloppy and just tries to blow up his problems.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    turtleant wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    Frieza needs to get something in the W column sometime soon. He's supposedly on a power level roughly equivalent to Goku or Vegeta but seems to mainly job at this point

    Watching that clip they seem to have put him in the Worf role, where he's the strongest one there is, so the new super character destroys him to show how strong that character is.

    I think they at least did him right having him hold out against Broly and not be at all worried he is still out there, but Frieza is very intelligent and it would've been nice to see him using some kind of tactics in that fight instead of just powering up.

    Frieza is very intelligent until you for real piss him off and then he gets sloppy and just tries to blow up his problems.

    Funny, Vegeta was like this a lot early on.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Literally every DBZ villain is like that.

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  • darunia106darunia106 J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    Except Kid Buu.

    He's pure destructive id with no ego to get in the way.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    darunia106 wrote: »
    Except Kid Buu.

    He's pure destructive id with no ego to get in the way.

    Super Buu is like that, though.

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  • darunia106darunia106 J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    Yeah.

    Kid Buu isn't Super Buu.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I consider them to be different forms of the same villain.

    The thing I like about Kid Buu is that he’s dangerous because he just does not give a shit, not because he’s strong (he’s really weaker than Super Buu in fact)

    But he also evolved from a story that was really, really long in the tooth by the time he popped up.

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  • ZundeZunde Registered User regular
    edited February 2019
    It's a shame that we're likely not going to see SS4 in super because it happens to be my favorite form and what i heavily base my Xenoverse character on.

    The SS4 form is one of my favorite things to come out of GT and this is coming from somebody who actually really enjoyed GT

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    When Broly is sent back to his old world and Frieza is stopped from blowing up Cheelai and Lemo's escape craft later on Frieza talks about how he's going to let them (Cheelai and Lemo) "Tame" Brolys savage mind and that he still has plans to use Broly in the future.

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    Zunde wrote: »
    It's a shame that we're likely not going to see SS4 in super because it happens to be my favorite form and what i heavily base my Xenoverse character on.

    The SS4 form is one of my favorite things to come out of GT and this is coming from somebody who actually really enjoyed GT

    SS4 is good because it has a visual identity, which no other upgrade wince Super Saiyan The First has had in this series.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Drascin wrote: »
    Zunde wrote: »
    It's a shame that we're likely not going to see SS4 in super because it happens to be my favorite form and what i heavily base my Xenoverse character on.

    The SS4 form is one of my favorite things to come out of GT and this is coming from somebody who actually really enjoyed GT

    SS4 is good because it has a visual identity, which no other upgrade wince Super Saiyan The First has had in this series.

    Every form has a visual identity. SSJ2 has the least, since it’s just a bit spikier and with lightning, but it’s there. And SSJ3 has its dumb as rocks look. And then the god forms are all color coded.

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    Drascin wrote: »
    Zunde wrote: »
    It's a shame that we're likely not going to see SS4 in super because it happens to be my favorite form and what i heavily base my Xenoverse character on.

    The SS4 form is one of my favorite things to come out of GT and this is coming from somebody who actually really enjoyed GT

    SS4 is good because it has a visual identity, which no other upgrade wince Super Saiyan The First has had in this series.

    Every form has a visual identity. SSJ2 has the least, since it’s just a bit spikier and with lightning, but it’s there. And SSJ3 has its dumb as rocks look. And then the god forms are all color coded.

    Tiny palette swap does not count as a visual identity. SSBlue is just the same drawing for SSaiyan but you change what crayon you use to color it, and SS2 is SSaiyan but you add lightning aftereffects.

    I did consider SS3, admittedly. It probably does count, strictly speaking. It's just that since the main use of the form seems to be "too impractical to use in real matters", I wasn't sure how much should I count it.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    SS3 has no eyebrows and Raditz-length hair, so it's at least trying to be unique.

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  • turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    They forget to draw SSJ2's visual differences constantly, is the thing.

    Basically unless someone is explicitly calling out that they are using 2 to like show the badguy something it's a real crapshoot if the lightning sparks and slightly pointier hair will be present.

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    Given how Freeza's fight with Broly is actually framed—how his power-up physically pushes Broly back and that scene ends with him rushing Broly, then then ext cut goes into him starting to lose—I expect that, if the fight were more extended, we'd get a pretty long sequence of the big F fighting Broly blow-for-blow until Broly just keeps getting stronger and then starts to overwhelm him

    At this point I think Freeza's probably stronger than either Vegeta or Goku by a pretty respectable margin, he just doesn't get to show that off in any way except for surviving an ass-whooping that would have killed either of them ten times over

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    turtleant wrote: »
    They forget to draw SSJ2's visual differences constantly, is the thing.

    Basically unless someone is explicitly calling out that they are using 2 to like show the badguy something it's a real crapshoot if the lightning sparks and slightly pointier hair will be present.

    And sometimes someone is SS1 with just really spiky hair. The lightning is the only tell, really.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    I originally thought that SSJ2 was the white-gold version of the hair and that SSJ1 was the actual yellow gold version.

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    I feel like they should probably retcon SSJ2 out of existence

    It doesn't really...DO anything

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    I originally thought that SSJ2 was the white-gold version of the hair and that SSJ1 was the actual yellow gold version.

    And SS1 has been white-gold as well, like when Goku and Gohan master the form.

    Gohan's been the only time you could easily tell the difference because they put the effort into changing his hairstyle.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    I feel like they should probably retcon SSJ2 out of existence

    It doesn't really...DO anything

    But it does.

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    I got up to Goku's whole "see this is a Super Saiyan this is etc" in Kai before realizing there was already a level 2.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Super Saiyan God absolutely has a visual identity

    It re-colors the hair, but doesn't change the style if it, gives more cartoonish eyes and slims down the user

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  • turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    SSJ2 is extra confusing for new viewers because Vegeta spends most of that arc going on about how he's surpassed Super Saiyan when he hasn't because he's a moron.

    The 4 "grades" of SSJ1 don't help
    1 regular
    2 Vegeta after time chamber, all muscled up, bigger power drain I think?
    3 huge, useless Trunks.
    4 Goku and Gohan after time chamber, pale yellow hair, no energy drain. Just better in every way basically.

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    i dunno i kinda like the idea that the cell saga is all about everyone desperately trying to break the super saiyan barrier and thinking they've done it only to realize that they haven't

    but, yeah it would've had a lot better payoff if SSJ2 was more distinct

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    I mean technically they did succeed. They could have utterly destroyed Cell even with just ascended SSJ1 had Vegeta not pulled a Goku and let the villain power up.

  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    turtleant wrote: »
    SSJ2 is extra confusing for new viewers because Vegeta spends most of that arc going on about how he's surpassed Super Saiyan when he hasn't because he's a moron.

    The 4 "grades" of SSJ1 don't help
    1 regular
    2 Vegeta after time chamber, all muscled up, bigger power drain I think?
    3 huge, useless Trunks.
    4 Goku and Gohan after time chamber, pale yellow hair, no energy drain. Just better in every way basically.

    That's just on-brand for Vegeta, who claimed he was a super saiyan like 4 times during the frieza saga.

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  • turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    i dunno i kinda like the idea that the cell saga is all about everyone desperately trying to break the super saiyan barrier and thinking they've done it only to realize that they haven't

    but, yeah it would've had a lot better payoff if SSJ2 was more distinct

    Yeah, I mostly just mean it isn't communicated to the viewer very well.

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  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    New chapter is out and I fucking love this new villain.

  • darunia106darunia106 J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    I consider them to be different forms of the same villain.

    The thing I like about Kid Buu is that he’s dangerous because he just does not give a shit, not because he’s strong (he’s really weaker than Super Buu in fact)

    But he also evolved from a story that was really, really long in the tooth by the time he popped up.

    Semantics! But yeah I totally get it.

    I just really like Kid Buu as a final villain for the entirety of DBZ (not DB as a whole, just DBZ). Like you said through the entirety of DBZ every villain strat is hold them off or talk them into stalling for enough time so that the guy who can defeat them can show up in time. With Kid Buu there is no way to talk to him and the heroes can barely hold him off. The only option is fight him now or the universe is doomed.

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  • SnowbearSnowbear Registered User regular
    Was Beerus GoD when Buu ate the Grand Kai? I have a hard time following Kai's as it seems they keep add extra tiers every the stakes need to go higher.

    If Buu ate the Grand Kai then wouldn't there have been a different GoD since they're bonded?how come a GoD never hakai'd Buu over the millennia

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  • AlphaRomeroAlphaRomero Registered User regular
    The GoD only dies if the Kai dies. The Kai didn't die.

  • NeveronNeveron HellValleySkyTree SwedenRegistered User regular
    Snowbear wrote: »
    Was Beerus GoD when Buu ate the Grand Kai? I have a hard time following Kai's as it seems they keep add extra tiers every the stakes need to go higher.

    If Buu ate the Grand Kai then wouldn't there have been a different GoD since they're bonded?how come a GoD never hakai'd Buu over the millennia

    Skimming the DB wiki, Buu's original summoning and sealing was five million years ago, and 70 million years before that Beerus sealed the Old Kai in the Z Sword. So he was definitely a God of Destruction at the time.

    However, not all of the Supreme Kai died to Buu - only two, IIRC? They need to all get wasted for the GoD to die, I think.

    (Or maybe Toriyama forgot that there are supposed to be four Supreme Kai per universe, I dunno.)

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    super makes it seem like each universe only has one supreme kai

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Its best to just assume all 4 were in the running to be Supreme Kai but Buu happened

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