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duhragonball · 2 years ago

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Super Dragon Ball Heroes 7-12

These two might be my favorite characters in this whole thing.

This is the “Universal Conflict” arc of SDBH, although as far as I’m concerned, this is just a continuation of the Prison Planet arc we were in before. I mean, the Prison Planet exploded, but Fu and Cumber are still in play, and nothing really got settled, so this just proves that calling it “The Prison Planet Arc” was a bad idea.

At the end of Episode 6, Universe 6 was under attack, so Vegeta and Future Trunks headed there to assist. Episode 7 opens with Hit, Caulifla and Kale fighting aliens on some unidentified planet. Cabba’s also involved, but he’s been taken out of the fight, I guess.

These two bad guys are basically eating Universe 6′s lunch. I mean, Hit’s a pretty big deal, and they’re taking turns fighting him for their own amusement.

Here’s Kale doing the Tails-gets-trolled face.

Then Vegeta and Trunks arrive, and this is presented like some game-changing moment, even though Hit has defeated Vegeta in his Super Saiyan Blue form before. So I’m not sure why Vanilla Super Saiyan Vegeta and Trunks is supposed to matter.

From his secret base, the bad guys’ leader watches this development and seems to approve. Also Zamasu is with him, and apparently taking orders from the guy. The boss says that he has to wait to resume his Zero Mortals Plan until after Grand Zeno has been defeated. Okay...

Back at the fight, the two aliens suddenly turn into clouds of sparkles and enter the bodies of Caulifla and Kale, possessing them. That’s right, these two are Tuffle Machine Mutants like Baby from Dragon Ball GT. Of course, no one in this show is aware of the events of Dragon Ball GT, so the two Tuffles, Kamin (the girl) and Oren (the boy) have to explain what they are.

For some reason, I thought these two were from Universe 6, which may be true, but this episode doesn’t confirm it. I mean, we’re in U6 right now, but that doesn’t mean these two couldn’t have come from one of the others. Anyway, I know they’re not from U7, since those Tuffles were wiped out by the Saiyans. Wherever Kamin and Oren are from, they were created by Tuffle technology to be the perfect weapons, but then the Tuffles began to fear them, and tried to destroy them. I’m pretty sure Kamin and Oren then wiped out the Tuffles in turn, so we can think of them as something like a Tuffle version of 17 and 18.

Anyway, I like these two because they take the stuff that made Baby interesting and carry it forward, without a lot of the dumb stuff that GT saddled Baby with. And these two characters actually get a minute to tell their origin and share their motivation, which is more than most characters get in SDBH.

So now Vegeta and Co. have to free the gals, which turns out to be pretty quick and clever. Trunks and Hit attack them and get them in holds, and then Vegeta launches a Final Flash at them. Kamin and Oren panic and abandon their hosts, and I guess Vegeta’s shot misses? Or Trunks and Hit dodge in time? It’s not really clear.

Then the gang’s leader shows up and uses a gravity technique to force all the good guys to the ground. He introduces himself as Hearts, and says he’ll defeat Grand Zeno, and eliminate all the other deities as well.

Let’s just get this out of the way, Hearts is voiced by Takehito Koyasu, who plays Dio in the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure anime. It’s good casting, but it’s also just Koyasu doing his Dio voice on a different character, which is pretty distracting if you’ve watched JJBA like I have. Also, his goggles and the lines on his face keep reminding me of Agent X, Marvel Comics’ short-lived Deadpool spin-off character.

Hearts threatens to use the defeated heroes’ energy to fuel the “Universe Seed” which is the thing he plans to use to defeat the gods, but then Kamin and Oren protest, saying they want to toy with these guys some more. Hearts agrees to let them have their way, which seems kind of stupid. I mean, does he want to charge up this Universe Seed or not?

Hearts asks Zamasu to come with them as they withdraw to some other Universe to absorb their energy for a while, and Zamasu gets all indignant about a mortal giving him orders. Okay, but how did these guys get together in the first place? That’s what I want to know.

Hearts reads Hit’s mind and discovers that Hit considers Jiren of Universe 11 to be the strongest mortal, so they go to U11 to check him out. And this leads to Cumber vs. Jiren, because Cumber is part of Hearts’ team too, remember? Goku defeated Cumber on the Prison Planet, and then Hearts’ team showed up and took Cumber before it exploded. Say, whatever happened to Goku, anyway?

For some reason, he’s at Grand Zeno’s palace, and the Grand Minister is... doing something with him. My guess is that he trained Goku to fight Hearts, because he went to the trouble of dressing Goku up in the same clothes he wears, but this is never actually stated.

Meanwhile, Vegeta and Trunks follow the bad guys to Universe 11 (how?), and Vegeta gets possessed by Kamin. This time, Kamin transforms Vegeta’s body more than he did Caulifla’s. I get that this is their special power, but to have them use it again so soon after the last time is kind of weak.

So while Trunks has to fight his possessed dad, Jiren and Cumber have a hoss battle. Big meaty men slappin’ meat!

Then Hearts tells Cumber to go to Universe 3 for some reason. Cumber doesn’t like that but he still plays along. So was he on Hearts’ team before Fu captured him, or did Hearts convince him to join the team after he rescued him?

So this leads to Zamasu fighting Jiren which is... pretty fun actually. Jiren just clobbers the shit out of the guy, but none of it works because Zamasu is indestructible.

And Kamin Vegeta beats up Trunks, who is basically useless in this show. Then, suddenly, the Grand Minister brings Goku to the battlefield.

This is so fucking stupid. The Grand Minister actually pulls off that Dorito uniform really well. He just makes it work, I don’t know how. But when you have a guy standing next to him in the exact same outfit, they both look like idiots. Fortunately, the Grand Minister leaves right away, allowing Goku to handle things as he sees fit.

So Goku goes Ultra Instinct and cleans house, and he hits Kami Vegeta so hard that Kami gets knocked clean out of Vegeta’s body. Cool!

Kamin and Oren can’t stop Goku, so they join together to become Kamioren. Trunks is shocked that they can do this, as if he hasn’t already seen several characters combine like this before.

But Kamioren can’t stop Goku either, so Hearts brings in another teammate, Lagss. Lagss has a technique where she shoots broken glass as Goku, and it’s very effective, even though it never actually cuts him. I guess it’s like magic glass that only inflicts pain without injury?

So Vegeta goes after Kamioren instead, since he wants revenge for how they made a fool of him earlier. He uses his Super Saiyan Blue 2 Royal Evolution (Evolved) ~Sign~ Level B, and hits Kamioren so hard they separate.

Then Hearts decides to step in and fight Goku, since he’s intrigued by Goku’s UI power. He can tell that it isn’t complete, so he plans to force Goku to improve his mastery of UI, then defeat him.

That all sounds very high and mighty, but all Hearts actually does is that same cheap gravity field thing he did before. As Goku struggles, the Supreme Kai of U7 shows up and they teleport back home.

Hearts then decides that Universe 7 should be their next target, but they have to go pick up Cumber from Universe 3, I guess. Also, they put Jiren in a box. I dunno what for.

Meanwhile, Fu is watching all of this from some other laboratory he has. He seems very pleased with everything that’s been happening, as if he and Hearts are on the same side. I mean, he seemed to anticipate Hearts’ arrival into the story, so maybe they’re in cahoots, or he’s just letting Hearts do his thing because they happen to share a similar goal.

In Universe 7, Goku has assembled a posse to defend it from Hearts’ crew. I’m not sure why he picked Piccolo and 17 but didn’t invite Gohan or 18 to this party, or any of the other Z fighters. Mostly, I’m just grateful that this show skipped the obligatory “Buu would help but he’s asleep” scene.

Here’s Oren doing some liquid metal stuff. I like Oren a lot.

Meanwhile, I think Cumber is still in Universe 3? I’m not sure, but he runs into a new foe arranged by Fu. It’s... Cooler. Again. Well, this time Fu turned him into Meta Cooler, so he’s stronger this way! Wait, Cooler hated Fu when they last met, and now they’re on the same side?

Then Meta Cooler transforms, becoming Golden. He dubs this form-- you might want to sit down for this-- Golden Metal Cooler. Shocking.

Cooler actually gets the upper hand in their fight, and he powers up a big finishing attack, but then the left side of his head starts to break down, so he has to withdraw.

Cumber calls him a coward, but he passes out from Cooler’s parting attack, so I guess this is a draw. Which... is pretty good for Cooler, except I have no idea why these two were fighting. How did Cooler turn into a machine? You’d think that Fu arranged it, except he says Cooler was transformed by the Big Gete Star, just like in Movie 6, where Metal Cooler was first introduced. But it’s the same Cooler we met in this series, right?

I mean, was Cooler trying to stop Cumber or help Fu, or both, or neither? Was he just out to prove he could stand up to Cumber? Seriously, why is Cooler even in this thing? I think SDBH might be the third best Cooler story by default, but it makes no sense.

Back on Earth, Hearts does the same cheap gravity thing he always uses.

Then he powers up, and says the Universe Seed is nearly ready. I don’t know if one has something to do with the other, or if it’s just a coincidence. Anyway, Goku will have to fight him, but we’ll cover that next time.

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