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Villain Decay
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damn you, Kakarot!
Reminds me of D&D in a high level party and you run into a couple giant spiders. Aww... how cute!
Is this a good example?
Sort of, except he was probably the smartest of the lot by cloning himself, and then one of them got smart enough to off all the other clones. By himself he was manageable. He had the luck or foresight to cause problems when other problems granted the opportunistic window.
That too, but also, he sort of downgraded the egoistic Goa'ulds seeking to be Gods to like.. somewhat grandiose villains who know they're villains and don't delude themselves about being gods. Also, he then joined with SG1 to fight the... the... ohmygod. I need to either lower the amount of Ambien I take or rewatch SG1. The baddies from the other galaxy. I won't google it I'm gonna let that fester until I remember it.
Ori ? Ancient but with a big fuck you to your face ?
I heard that something like this happened in an old superman villain. It took one season to defeat him. But later they defeat two by throwing a table at them
But not the Joker.
that is a constant in Dragon Ball.
enemies get defeated, surpasseda and then they become entourage
It was hilarious watching Dragon Ball after growing up on Dragon Ball Z. When Yamcha shows up and is a threat I lost it.
The list of opponents Goku agrees need to be eliminated is much shorter than the list of ones he wants to fight again when they are stronger. Despite most of them after the start of DBZ being existential threats.
Though he goes back and forth on Frieza lol.
Frankly speaking Frieza has somewhat mellowed out, probably the end result of being killed and sent to hell a couple times. He went from let's genocide the filthy monkeys to let's torture the filthy monkeys, which is progress I guess.
I'm not sure if the anime will ever get there, but if you read the manga past the end of Super (which ends on the Tournament of Destruction saga last I checked, like the one with Jiren, and then the Brolly movie), there's more Frieza development. Btw I suggest reading even the parts at the start; it's more of a companion piece than the retelling of the exact same story on a different medium. There is overlap between them, of course, but also a bunch of not overlap. Like Zamasu is more fleshed out and his whole path makes more sense in the manga.
Anime has more fighting, manga has more story telling.
Eh I'll stick with Z super and the newer stuff isn't really my thing.
I'm in the cell saga of dbz. Do those dragonball goons, the girl and the fox and the little blue baby tyrant ever come back?
Yes, but you're decades away lmao
Oh jeez, so like... In super or something. That's amazing. Does Lunch ever come back after z? They just did her so dirty...
Super or GT, if memory serves right Pilaf (the blue gremlin) is the instigator of GT.
Hmm... She appears on and off at Kame House I think, but mainly as a background character. Agreed they did her dirty.
Toriyama pulled a D&D and kinda forgot about her
That's the best part of the whole series IMO. I loved cell as a villain.
Piccolo noooooooooooooo!
Kind of like what happened to Bush after Trump came around.
I was telling my Zillennial partner about Bush this morning. About the extraordinary renditions. About kidnapping and torturing a fellow Canadian citizen for no fucking reason. About prosecuting child soldiers and holding them with adult mercenaries for a decade or more. About sanctioned torture, unsanctioned mass abuses, and complete abandonment of due process. And "y'all" are shocked today to find you live in a fascist country. Like, how the fuck are you surprised.
They’re not surprised. Lots of Americans wanted this. Stupid as fuck population.
Seriously. I was at the right age to be much more politically intense back then and absolutely despised Bush.
Now, I almost feel bad about it after witnessing the last 20 years of politics.
Nah don’t, bush was a horrible monster.
We can have room in our hearts to hate more than one monstrous US president.
Well, there' also Nixon..
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That's called "The Memory Hole".
We take all the illegality and corruption and horrific violence and torture and wars and media manipulation/intimidation and petty dictator shit and stuff it down the Memory Hole. Then we get to pretend
NSFW
This shit
Wasn't such a big deal after all.
Yeah but at least it was a scandal. That asshole, and a bunch of others, went to jail, even if it wasn't long enough. If it happened today they'd either never be charged or pardoned and that asshole would be the Secretary of Defense.
What in the ever loving fuck is this??? And why am I being shown it?
Americans "liberating" iraquis.
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Jesse and James were always effective, they just suck at villainy. They are good at dressing up, making rube-goldberg devices, and many other things, they just aren't evil enough to elevate that potential. If they were, Giovanni would be sleeping with the magi-karp, and Ash would be eaten by their Arbok.
good at dressing up
Ah yes, I still remember questioning my sexuality over James when I watched pokemon as a teenager. Good times
Was that with or without his massive tits?
Haha they were crazy, totally forgot this episode existed
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What was the answer to the questioning?
I found that I‘m attracted to rather feminine people, although gender/genitals don‘t really matter to me.
Idk how to label that if that‘s what you‘re asking
I'm guessing you smashed Miquella?
In every aspect, yes. Poor Radahn got his consort stolen I guess
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and then you have the venture bros, where the monarch starts off as goofy and ineffectual but becomes more menacing as the series goes on and the stakes get higher
I didn't realise that "Venture Bros" was a TV series and thought you were talking about Silicon Valley tech bros and venture capitalists and was like "sounds about right".
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