#piccolo has a mailbox

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball Super Movie 2: Super Hero (2/5)

This line might just encapsulate the entire movie. "Yeah, sorry, folks. They made me the star of the movie this time, so it probably won't be as good. Why are you all cheering? Did Goku walk by or something?"

Last time, we set up the main villains of the story. Now, it's six months later, and we find Piccolo sparring with Pan near his house. Yeah, Piccolo has a house now. I remember when they revealed the house in an early promotion for the movie, and everyone was nuts about it. Piccolo has a house! What's inside? Look, he has a mailbox! What kind of mail does he get? What a time to be alive.

So Pan is three years old, according to this movie, so I think the idea here is that this is set just before the 25th Budokai and the finale of Dragon Ball Z. So Super Hero represents a turning point for the franchise. Up to now, every story told under the Dragon Ball Super brand has been set during the ten-year-gap between DBZ Episodes 288 and 289. But now we're at the end, which means the next movie, anime, or manga arc has to make a big decision:

A) Set the story after the 25th Budokai, and work around Goku's decision to train Uub at his home village.

B) Ignore the "End of Z" continuity altogether and just keep trucking along like it doesn't matter.

C) Just keep telling stories in the small time interval between Super Hero and the 25th Budokai and hope no one calls attention to it.

D) Jump back to the beginning of the ten-year-gap and tell stories out of chronological order.

I think A or B is the most likely option, since they wouldn't have jumped this far forward in time for Super Hero if they were worried about staying inside the ten-year-gap. I also suspect that they'll try to respect the "End of Z" lore, if only because they've mentioned Uub a few times in the DBS anime, and Uub actually had a cameo appearance in the manga.

But no matter what happens, Things Are Going To Be Very Different. In theory, Toei/Shueisha can do just about anything with the franchise now. They could kill Bulma, or give Majin Buu a whole new transformation. I guess they could try to steer the storyline towards the events depicted in Dragon Ball GT, but I'm pretty sure that ship sailed when they turned the Pilaf Gang into children. The point is that anything is on the table.

But back to the matter at hand. Pan's whole deal now is that she trains with Piccolo at his house every morning, then runs off to attend preschool until 1pm. Piccolo thinks she's showing great promise as a martial artist, even more than Gohan did when Piccolo first trained him, and Gohan was a year older back then. Pan thinks that qualifies her to learn how to shoot energy blasts like Goten and Trunks, but Piccolo says she has to master the fundamentals first, which means Pan has to learn how to fly, among other things.

This is Pan's character arc for the movie. She's not a major player in this story, but she still has an obstacle to overcome, and by the end of the movie, she succeeds. This is a big leap forward from the Pan we saw in GT, who remained static through the entire series. I guess she sort of learned a life lesson in the TV Special, but she was 110 in that story, so I think the implication is that GT Pan was a bossy twerp for a full century, which isn't exactly satisfying.

The weird thing is that we saw Pan fly all the time when she was a baby. In the DBS anime Baby Pan flew out into space, and she'd float around the house and such. I guess she forgot how to do it, or it got harder as she grew up and gained some weight.

Pan asks if it's true that her dad (Gohan) could be even stronger than her grandfather (Goku) if he tried. Piccolo says that used to be true but he isn't so sure anymore. Pan says she's never seen Gohan in action, and Piccolo explains that he hasn't had to fight, but if the need arises, Gohan will fight when necessary. Then he sends her off to preschool. A short time later, he gets a phone call from Pan's mom, Videl.

Okay, so let's unpack all of this. Piccolo has a cell phone, but he just leaves it in his house while he's training outside, because his Namekian hearing can pick up the ringtone from hundreds of yards away. Also, he holds it like a weirdo, dangling it from his fingers like he found it at a crime scene. Also, the case looks like a cartoon character. This is Penenko, an in-world fictional character that seems to be very popular. Its like a cross between a penguin and a cat, and it has a green tie like Yogi Bear, which I think is a classy touch.

As for Videl, she needs Piccolo to swing by the preschool this afternoon to pick up Pan. This is because Videl teaches a combat sports class, and they're having a tournament today, so she can't make it. As for Gohan, he's too busy working on a scientific presentation, and he hasn't come out of his study in days. Piccolo is annoyed with this, but he agrees to pick Pan up. Videl offers to buy him lunch, but he reminds her he doesn't eat food, so Videl considers buying him a Penenko plushie instead. Piccolo doesn't want one, though, because he already has a pile of them in his house. Presumably those plushies represent a whole bunch of past favors he's done for Gohan and Videl.

Okay, more importantly, let's talk about Videl. This is her only appearance in the movie, save for a still image in the closing credits where she comes home to find the house has been damaged. Still, this conversation tells us a lot about what Videl's been doing ever since she and Gohan got out of school. She's teaching a "combat sports class". This makes sense to me, as she must have given up the vigilante work around the time she was pregnant with Pan. But teaching students how to fight would be easier for her, since she could set her own schedule and arrange for the students to train independently when she's not available. It's the perfect career for the new mom with a talent for whippin' ass.

The thing is, Videl's not just any martial artist. She knows basic ki techniques, but besides that, she's the daughter of a world famous celebrity buttkicker, and she earned a reputation of her own as a crimefighter. So this can't just be any old "combat sports" class. I mean, they're participating in a tournament for goodness sakes.

So this is my Videl headcanon: She's teaching people to fight crime. And not just any crime, but the rocket-launcher-weilding maniacs she used to fight when she was in high school. Videl stepped away from that life to focus on her family, but she's still got one foot in that world. It started as a self-defense class for women, and then she decided she could show them more advanced techniques, until eventually she had a cool stable of badasses.

The tournament she's talking about isn't some fun little romp, although to her it would be, and it's barely beneath Piccolo's notice. But to everyone else, it's some kind of hardcore mixed-martial-arts event. Videl brings her students in and they're all wearing kick-ass uniforms to represent their school. What kind of uniforms? Here's a hint:

GTH. That's the name of Videl's dojo. The Go To Hell Combat Club, so-named because you have to go to hell to learn the combat style of Mr. Satan's daughter. Imagine going to some indy wrestling show and instead of wrestlers out comes a bunch of MMA guys all dressed like Pan from this movie. It probably looks cooler on grown adults, which is why Pan likes to wear it.

So what's Videl wearing when she leads her squad to the competition? Oh, we already know the answer to that question, because we saw her return home from the tournament.

I mean, it makes so much sense when you think about it. remember, we saw Videl wearing regular clothes when she called Piccolo. She must have changed into her Battle of Gods red-devil dress specifically for the tournament. She might have a different outfit for fighting, but this is what she wears when she's in the corner for her students. She's like a sexy ECW manager, which explains the red leather dress, black tights and white go-go boots. She's so over-the-top with this thing that it makes the Great Saiyawoman outfit look dull by comparison, because she's trying to get over this image of smash-mouth combat supremacy. It's the same reason Mr. Satan wears the cape.

This is a weird tangent, I know, but for so many years I've heard fans lament the way Videl was depicted in Dragon Ball Super, and they're absolutely right, but I'm a "yes and" kind of guy when it comes to this stuff. There's nothing wrong with having Videl be a housewife as long as it doesn't preclude some other, cooler lore from happening off-screen. And Super Hero seems to be holding out an olive branch to the fans. Yes, Videl has a life outside the home. She teaches martial arts, so she clearly hasn't given up fighting altogether. How and how much she fights is left to the viewers imagination, and I can imagine a lot.

Anyway, I need to commission some art of the GTH school looking cool. Videl's in the center of the group with a riding crop or something. Gohan's in the background with a snack tray. He made Chex Mix for the whole class because he's a sweetie.

Back to business, Piccolo decides to head for Gohan's house and confront him over this. He knows Gohan won't answer the door, so he just flies to the window of his study and scrapes the glass with his fingernail to get his attention. This fucking rules.

Gohan's working on a study of a newly discovered ant species that glows yellow when threatened, like a Super Saiyan. Piccolo isn't even a little impressed, but he agrees to pick Pan up from preschool anyway. He asks why Gohan never trains anymore, and Gohan gives the stock answer about how nothing bad will happen, and even if it does, Goku and Vegeta will surely deal with it. I mean, that is what happened in the last movie, but they cut it pretty close in Resurrection F. Piccolo uses his clothes-altering powers to make Gohan wear his old training outfit, but that's about all he does.

I don't really understand this constant back-and-forth about whether or not Gohan trains enough in DBS. Obviously, Gohan let himself go in Res F, and then Gohan asked Piccolo to train him again to get him back in fighting shape. Then they made it look like he'd slacked off again leading up to the Tournament of Power, except he did really, really well in that arc. And now it's like he's slacking off a third time.

I mean, there's time for that. We're talking about a five or six year period here. It just seems odd to me that no one mentions we've been through this cycle before. I think the disconnect is that Gohan trains, just not often enough to satisfy the likes of Piccolo or Vegeta. He'll stop training for months or years at a time, so that he can concentrate on his biology career, and then he whips himself into shape when he has the time. This movie pretty much confirms that pattern, but each time it comes up, the characters always act like we haven't been here before.

Gohan offers him another Penenko plushie as thanks for picking up Pan, and Piccolo insists that he never liked them. I think it is very likely that Gohan and Videl do this to him on purpose. I mean, Videl knew this tournament was coming up, and she could have made other arrangements, but this way Piccolo feels obligated to be involved with their family. If they just invited him over to things, he'd probably decline, but this way he feels like they need him and he can act all put-upon, but he still gets to spend more time with Pan and such. Also they might be trying to fix Piccolo up with Pan's teacher, but we'll get to that later.

So now Piccolo just has to get in as much training as he can until 1pm, right? Wrong, because as soon as he sits down to meditate, some new guy shows up and attacks him. He refuses to identify himself, but the Red Ribbon pack on his uniform pretty much gives it away. Plus, this guy has no ki signature, so he must be an android or cyborg like Gero's creations.

So they fight, and it doesn't go well for Piccolo. At one point he asks why he can see words appear whenever he gets his. I thought this was a cute fourth-wall-breaking joke, but in fact this new guy has a holographic projector that makes the comic book sound effects appear behind him.

The mysterious attacker only refers to himself as a super hero, and after he blows up the butte Piccolo is on, he flies back to his base, thinking Piccolo is vaporized. But Piccolo escaped unseen, and he decides to trail this guy and find out who he's working for.

This leads Piccolo to a secret base inside what I believe is a crater. It looks like the crater is full of lakewater, but it's actually a holographic illusion. Piccolo finds a goon in his size and swipes his uniform.

Inside, he finds the bad guy command center, where the new android reports to Magenta and Hedo. Piccolo learns that his name is Gamma, and there's actually two of them. Hedo already watched Gamma 2's attack on Piccolo via a remote feed from 2's eyes, and his only feedback is that 2 should have done a cool pose after killing Piccolo. Gamma 1 is more concerned that Piccolo might have survived because 2 was too sloppy to check for a body.

Sure enough, 1 reviews the footage and discovers evidence that Piccolo escaped. And since Magenta insisted that the Gamma's wear RR patches on their costumes, there's a real risk that Gamma 2 tipped their hand to the enemy. Gamma 2 isn't worried, though, because he still overpowered Piccolo, and the end goal is to defeat Dragon Team, so if this escalates the conflict, then so much the better.

And that pretty much sums up the Gammas' characters. They both play the superhero role they were designed to resemble, but 1 is more cautious and responsible, while 2 is more carefree and funloving. Earlier in the film, we see pictures of Hedo at some sort of autograph signing, and there's a character who looks almost exactly like the Gammas there, so I assume he designed his androids to look just like that character. Hedo doesn't seem too concerned with originality.

Carmine agrees with Gamma 1's concern. Their enemies have the combined power of Goku, Vegeta and Majin Buu, not to mention Mr. Satan. Apparently, the Red Ribbon Army still isn't clear on how powerful he is. If they find out about the Red Ribbon too soon, it could jeopardize everything, no matter how powerful the Gammas might be.

Hedo disagrees. Once he collects enough combat data from 1 and 2, he can simply upgrade them and create even more Gammas until they have enough power to tip the scales.

Apparently, Hedo doesn't think it would take very long to get more Gamma's manufactured, which is why they have these two booths already set up. This makes me wonder if Gamma 3 and 4 are already in there, just waiting for Hedo to activate them.

As for Magenta, all he wants to talk about is Hedo's other project-- Cell Max. This leads to a heated discussion over the value of the project.

Basically, Magenta considers Cell to be Gero's greatest creation, and while the RPC has Gero's notes on how to make Cell, they were too complex for anyone to reproduce the experiement. This isn't much of a surprise, since Gero never finished Cell the first time. When Gero learned that it would take decades to complete the work, he turned it over to his computer and moved on to working on his other plans. That computer never finished, because Krillin and Trunks destroyed it and the embryonic Cell back in DBZ Episode 145. However Magenta got the data on Cell, it must have been sent to him before then, but it would have only represented the earliest stages of the project. No wonder his own scientists couldn't get very far with it.

The only reason Magenta even considers it worth pursuing is because a completed Cell showed up to menace the world. Magenta thinks that Gero must have pulled it off somehow. What he doesn't know is that this Cell came from an alternate future where Gero's computer had time to complete the project. So Magenta knows what the finished Cell is capable of, but he doesn't have a complete recipe to make a new one.

But Dr. Hedo is even smarter than Gero, which is why Magneta hired him. The Gammas are fine machines and all, but what Magenta was really hoping for was that Hedo could take the notes on Cell and figure out how to build a new and improved model. And to his credit, Hedo was able to do that, but not completely. He created Cell Max's body and made him far more powerful than the original Cell, but he's still not done because his brain takes a long time to develop. I don't know if this is like a programming thing or Cell Max needs time for his brain matter to grow complex enough to support his mission.

At any rate, Magenta just wants to turn Cell Max loose right now, because he's so high on the prospect of unleashing such a powerful weapon. But Hedo warns him that they won't be able to control Cell Max the way he is now. If they activate him now, Cell Max might easily run wild and destroy the world, which defeats the purpose of using him in the first place.

Hedo's argument is that they don't even need Cell Max, so instead of wasting time on him, they should focus on the Gammas, who are more than powerful enough to carry out Magenta's plans. They can defeat Dragon Team, then the rest of the world will fall to the Red Ribbon Army, and then Magenta can reveal Cell Max to show off his power to the world. Magneta seems to buy into that idea, at least for now.

The thing is, we really don't know how long it would take for Hedo to finish Cell Max. It took Gero's computer decades to finish the original Cell, so maybe most of that time was spent developing his brain, and yet that Cell never did follow his programming completely. So maybe Cell Max would be uncontrollable too, no matter how much Hedo tinkered with him.

Then again, Hedo built the Gammas in just six months, so he's demonstrably smarter than Gero ever was. It's possible that he could finish Cell Max's brain in a matter of weeks and make him fully obedient. He just doesn't want to spend the time because it's busy work and Max doesn't look like a super hero, so he's not very motivated to complete the project. It kind of makes you wonder what Hedo could have accomplished if he'd given it his full attention.

Needless to say, all of this freaks Piccolo out, so he excuses himself and finds a quiet spot to make a phone call to Bulma. She tells him Vegeta has been away for three weeks now, training on Beerus' planet. And Goku went along with him, so they're both unavailable. Piccolo asks her if she can use that device Whis gave her to call him, and she says she'll see if she can reach them that way.

I just want to pause here to admire Bulma's yellow jumpsuit. This is definitely one of her hottest looks, perhaps because it's so workmanlike and unsexy. She just makes it look cool because she's Bulma. She just got done welding a quantum computer to a ham radio or something.

In the meantime, Piccolo leaves the RR base to go to Korin's Tower and get some senzu beans. He's still in the mindset that Goku and Vegeta will be the ones to take care of things, but he has to do as much as he can in the meantime to improve their chances.

As he flies through the holographic lake, we get a nice exterior shot of the base. So yeah, it does look like a couple of craters, although I'm not sure what the use was in disguising the inside when you can see all this stuff built up around the outside. I guess they have some sort of phony mining operation set up if anyone snoops around.

And that'll about do it for now. I've still got a couple of image spots for this post, so let's show off the photos on Gohan's desk. Pretty cool.

And here's a cool shot of Cell, since he came up in conversation.

[moyratcc]

[bitchyfoxymama]

Travelin Soldier - Steve Rogers X Reader

A/n: Angsty angst, just pure sadness based on this song. Wrote this awhile ago bc the song reminded me of Steve even though it takes place about 20-30 years later during the Vietnam War.

Warnings: war time, death, sadness, broken hearts

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The year was 1943 and you were a simple girl working in a diner across from coney island, were working in the diner after school, trying to make as much money as you could before you left for college the following year. You tightened the bow in your hair, grabbing your notepad when you see a handsome young man sitting in a booth. He  looked nervous, so you walked over to him and gave him a little smile.

“Hey there darlin’ how are you? Are you ready to order?” you say pulling out a pen.

  “would you mind sitting down for awhile and talking to me, I'm feeling a little low” he asks.

“Sure, but i'm off in an hour and i know a quiet place where we can go.”

An hour later you walked down to the pier and sat at the edge just staring out at the ocean

“Look i know you might have a boyfriend but I don't have anyone to send a letter back home too, my best friend is already off fighting in the war and i want to send a letter back to you” he says staring out at the ocean “My name is steve by the way, Steve Rogers”

“My name is (y/n) (l/n) and I would be honored to receive your letters steve” you say smiling and grabbing his hand while writing down your address. 

“Well ma’am it seems as though my bus has arrived, Ill send you the first letter as soon as i get to base” he said as you both walked back to the bus stop. 

“Alright i'll be waiting by my mailbox everyday until it comes, Steve Rogers,” you give him a tight hug and off he goes to fight in the war against the Axis powers.

Letter after letter was sent between me and Steve over the course of a few months but not everyone was happy with my growing love for Steve because he was 21 and you were only 18 but that never mattered because in his letters he shared his love for you as well. 

You were waiting for him to come back home to me. The letters started from an army camp in upstate New Jersey  and then from a camp in germany. In his letters he wrote how at night when he was worried or scared he would remember the day when you met on the pier and how you smiled.

“Don't worry but i won't be able to write for a while” said his last letter to you, but then the letters stopped all together. You were worried but Steve said he would come back home to you.

It was a friday night and you were getting ready to play your piccolo in the marching band when the lord's prayer was said and the national anthem rang.

“Folks, will you bow your heads for the list of locals killed in war. Steven Grant Rogers, James Buchanan Barnes....” When you heard Steve's name you ran off the bleachers and hid underneath them crying your eyes out, your future you’d planned in the few short months that you had known each other was gone. 

Never more, you thought as you thought you were going to be alone when the letters says ‘A soldier's coming home’

[pickleandthequeen]

Piccolo is no longer homeless lol

HIMS HAS A HOUSE

A HOUSE

With a MAILBOX

[fandom-trash-xl]

Ok, so the reveal for the new Super movie was kind of underwhelming because we didn't even get any hints about what it's even about. But, at least we got a kid Pan design and Piccolo has a house with a mailbox. Crumbs of info, but somewhat sustainable crumbs.

So, I drew the new Pan outfit so I'd have something to post- and in the process I realized that this outfit looks a lot like Luke from Professor Layton, not gonna lie.

[moonstoneunivs]

Sons of Crystal Forest

Part 1

Title screen in expensive animation.

Cut to the Son house

Goku and Chi chi getting things prepared for a two week camping trip.

Goku

Thank you honey, I hope you and the girls won't be too lonely without us.

Chi chi

OH Goku, I’ve survived you being gone for months and you being dead twice, I think I’ll live.

Chi chi looks at a picture of Her, Goten and Gohan alone.

Chi chi

Just please make sure you’ll come back in one piece.

Goku grabs Chi chi close and kisses her

Goku

I’m done with being gone I’m ready to be here with all of you

Cuts down to the kitchen, Goten watching tv and Videl and pan help Gohan get ready

Pan

Daddy going

Gohan

Yes princess, but when daddy gets back, we’re going to play all day… thanks babe you know me I only know how to pack a school bag

Videl

And it���s mostly just notebooks and like one pen… by the way is trunks going or anyone else going with you?

Goten

No, Trunks, Bulla and Bonnie and Clyde are going to Volo island, which funny enough they own.

Videl

How about…

Goten

Oolong’s been drafted, Tien and Yamcha are renewing their vows, Krillin and 18 are booked on their staycation, Piccolo is taking a decade long nap and the less I say about Roshi the better

Videl and the rest look confused

Videl

Anyway Me, mom and this little lady are going to unwined

Videl looks around

Videl

(Chi chi has been driving me up the WALL I’m going to take her for spa if it kills her)

Goku enters the room

Goku

Are my boys ready!?!

Gohan and Goten

YES! Sure.

Cuts to them outside

Chi chi

GOKU, DON’T FORGET YOUR JACKET!

Goku

Honey it's going to be warm at nigh…

Chi chi

GOKU YOU ARE NOT GETTING ANOTHER COLD!!!

Goku takes the jacket

Gohan

Be super good, for mommy and grandma, *boop* *boop**boop**boop*

Pan

Giggles

Gohan looks into Videls eyes

Kami I love you

They kiss

Goten on the phone

Yes Jessica the 3rd, no Rebecca ours is the 4th and Chelsey, wear the blue one… no the dark blue one.

Chi chi takes the phone she looks angry

Won’t be needing this

Goku

okay bye every, let’s get going boys, I want to be at Crystal Forest before the fish fall asleep.

Videl

Oh, this is going to be nice for them to… Pan do not touch that… to get some guy time and just relax with… Pan! I said put it down! Anyway let’s get lunch started.

Chi chi

Let’s, I’m just going to get the mail.

Chi chi goes to the mailbox and takes out three letters and gets to the last one and her eyes look scared

Son boys walking the path

Goten

Dad I’m already sleepy can you carry my stuff

Goku

Okay

Goten

And me

Goten gets on Goku’s shoulders and rest on his head in goku’s hair

Gohan

Dad!

Goku

What, my little boy is sleepy

Rustle in the bushes we close in a sinister pair of eyes

!!!

*laugh that sounds like minecraft eating*

Cuts to a dark room with figures on podiums, the one in the middle speaks

Leader

Prid, you have returned what have you found

Prid

The son men are going on a little camping trip, they’re right for the picking my King

Leader

Good, the saiyan blood will be ours! AND ONCE WE SUCK THEM DRY THEY’LL KNOW WHO IS THE ONLY VILLAIN IS!!!

(While he’s talking we see a big gorilla like henchmen trying to eat a snake like member looking longingly at the leader)

They all laugh

$$$

Sire why don’t we just start collecting the dragon balls and get some real power

Leader

Sadly not for another 4 months

The one in the Leader drops a round white stone, then a woman in all red raises a crab claw

XXX

Sire, may I have the young one… Goten I believe that cuties name is

Leader

You may keep his empty husk, Luz

Luz

Even BETTER!!!

Leader

Anyway, be off with all of you, go out and bring me their blood!

Back to the son, boys setting up the tent.

Goten

Bro I can not wait get my tan on, it’s how Lucy likes it

Gohan

Which side piece is she

Goten flips him off while smiling

Goku

Alright, we have all our sleeping bags, grill, tub and snacks

Gohan

On snacks on snacks on snacks

Goku

So what do you boys want to do first

Gohan

Well Videl gave me this camera so hiking

Goten

I’m down

Son boys walking in the forest

Gohan

Goten look it’s a phizzle bird

Goten

Don’t those things hate bright flashes

Gohan

Don’t be ridiculous

Goten

Dude you taught me that when I was 10

Gohan

It’s not even on fla-

*CLICK* *FLASH*

The bird looks right at Gohan and starts pecking at his head

Goku & Gohan start laughing their asses off and Goten takes the camera and does a selfie

We see more of them climbing and hiking and laughing with each other all the while Prid and another henchmen who’s made of gold spying on them

They get back to camp

Goten

That was great

They all freeze, all their food in gone

Gohan

Damn racoons

Goku

Well looks like we’re fishing

Goku starts taking off his clothes

Gohan

Dad are you sure you should be doing that

Goku

What we’ve all seen eachother naked

Goten

This is why I don’t bring girls over dad

Gohan

Yes, but this is public camping grounds and we did bring swimwear

Goku

Come on who’s going to notice

Luz in a nearby tree has to be pulled back by all of her comrades

They then all splash around in the water catching fish

Back to the girls

Videl

Chi chi that was great, but now I have a surprise for everyone

Pan

What is it mommy!

Videl

A SPA DAY!

Chi Chi

NO!

Videl

Why not?

Chi chi darts her eyes around

Chi chi

I just want to stay here and clean

Pan

Grandma, you do that everyday let’s go and relax

Videl

Pan lock the door and let’s go

Chi chi

Wait, I have to iron Goku’s clothes

Videl

They’ll only get wrinkled again

Chi chi

I have to do the taxes

Videl

We all know Goku does that

Chi chi

I have-

Videl

To have a good time and relax for once in your life

Cuts to the spa and them getting all pampered up we even see Pan in a kid spa area

Videl

Isn’t this nice!

Chi chi is silent

Videl

You what Gohan’s been doing lately, he’s been dancing to disco right before he falls asleep

Chi chi still silent

Videl

So are you enjoying yourself

Chi chi

Sure, look I have to get dinner ready

Videl takes the deepest of breathes

Videl

Chi chi what is up!?!

Chi chi pulls Videl close and harshly whispers

Chi chi

OKAY SO WHEN GOKU DIED… AGAIN, I DIDN’T WANT GOHAN TO FIGHT AND GOTEN WAS JUST BORN!

Videl

Where is this going

Chi chi

I FELT ALL ALONE AND UNPROTECTED SO I DID SOMETHING DRASTIC I HIRED SOME GANGSTERS TO PROTECT MY FAMILY

Videl

:0 … from what?

Chi chi

I was not thinking straight I thought more evil bug men and androids would come after us

THEY JUST SENT ME A LETTER

Gangsters letter

Dear chi chi

It has been 20 years since you’ve hired us and we want it so pay up or we’ll kill you and your family.

Anyway have a good day,

Jake

Videl

Direct, but Chi chi it’s okay we can go to Krillin with this

Chi chi

Shakes her head

Videl

Well dad will gives us the money

Chi chi

No, I'm sick of staying back and not doing anything IT'S TIME TO FIGHT!

Videl completely understanding nods

Videl

Me and Pan are ready

Chi chi

I’m not going to let Pan get involved in this

We suddenly move to the front door

THIS IS A ROBBERY!!! PUT ALL THE LAVENDER LOTION IN THE BAG!

Pan

HIYA!

Pan then chops the man right in the stomach

Videl gives Chi chi a look

Back with the boys drag nets filled with fish

Goku

That was great boys, we’ll eat for days

Gohan turns to Goten

More like a day ;)

That night we see them eating and having a good time, Goten sitting politely on a log and Goten sitting in his dad's lap

Goku

So Goten finished with school, now what?

Goten

More school like with Goten

Gohan

It’s not all bad and you’re not a dweeb like me maybe you’ll make friends

Goten rolls his eyes

Goku

I remember when I had to work so damn hard on the farm just to get you through your first year

Goten

Yeah, because Mr. Asshat wouldn’t just give you and Videl money

Gohan

Goten! There’s a reason he would have been bankrupt if he paid for both of us

Goku

I just don’t know what we’re going to do about you

Goten

I could stay home with you and you could train me to become stronger, like you promised

Gohan

Mom would love that

Goku

Haha, well sure, yeah, we can do that until we build up the money

Goten

Then I can make some money at the tournaments

Gohan looks up at the stars

Gohan

That reminds me when you and me dad were in the time chamber preparing for the cell games, those were the best moments of my childhood and maybe even life

Goku

Man… I wish I was there for you kids more, I wish I didn’t die, I wish I didn’t sacrifice myself and stayed dead; because of some crap I thought about myself

Gohan

Dad we love you and we hold nothing against you

Goku

I know, but it’s just… I feel like sometimes… piccolo’s your real dad

Goten and Gohan look at eachother and burst out laughing

Goku

What?

Goten

Dad, really?

Goku

Yes, look at all the stuff he does for you

Gohan

Yes, he’s a great friend, loves kids, but he’s not my parent who I love, when you were gone he wasn’t there for me neither

Goten

Also let’s talk about that training or as I like to call it, bullying

They all laughed

Gohan

He is amazing with Pan though and I don’t even know every other child is like call 911, but she treats her better than me

Goku

*laughs* thanks kids I feel better now

It goes silent for a bit

Goten

Dad you know how I always say the shoe will be on the other foot

Goku nods

Goten

It’s just I always wanted to be stronger than you, but it’s more like I want to be you, I heard stories of you and how you had so much love and yet so much power (cries) You are my everything dad I love you so much

Goku embracesses Goten

Goten

You kids are my everything, all I want you kids to be is yourselves and buddy I know for a fact the shoe will be on the other foot, you’ll go ultra mega instinct super great ape saiyan.

Goten laughed and dried his tears

They start going to bed

Goku holds Goten by the shoulders

Goku

Buddy are you okay to be here

Goten

Yeah, yeah dad I’m just glad I got that off my chest

Goku

Ok, I love you my sweet boy, with all my heart

Gohan walk out in his Teddy bear underwear

Goten

Bro, really?

Gohan

What?

Goten

I think Pan’s diaper’s had less embarrassing prints!

Gohan

They hug my waist and are cozy

Goten

Are… are they ladies panties

Goku

Do you wanna talk about-?

Gohan

Say what you want I’m secure!

They all go to bed

We then see a silhouette of similar shadowy figures

Prid

Do you have the syringe, Graedig?

Graedig pulls out a sharp shiny needle

Hey guys so this is something new I'm writing a script for this DB movie and it's about Goku, Gohan and 18-year-old Goten (because this little bitch needs to grow up) go camping... and that's it (JK) vampires are involved. Hope you enjoy this is something new for me. This is part 1

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The existence of the mailbox itself implies that Piccolo's home has a legitimate address, as in this is a registered location on the mailing route. Can you imagine the trek that poor courier has to go through just to slip in a coupon for Pizza Hut?

I can't believe Piccolo hit his mid life crisis, turned yellow, bought some uggs, and built a summerhome in the middle of nowhere with a mailbox that will literally Never be used what a king

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PICCOLO HAS A HOUSE AND A MAILBOX

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My Top Posts in 2021

#5

every saiyan ever: what the fuck is a goku? 

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#4

“She doesn’t need my help to be intimidating, but I like to back her up, anyway.”

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#3

Jared Keeso is built like a brick shithouse and I love it. Especially with the pants that actually fit.

Like… honestly….. the delivery of the entire show is incredible. Pants and tucked in shirt included.

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#2

Bulma is taller than Vegeta and I refuse to acknowledge or accept anything that suggests otherwise, canon or fan made. At BEST they are the same height.

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#1

Piccolo is no longer homeless lol

HIMS HAS A HOUSE

A HOUSE

With a MAILBOX

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Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero

I guess I should provide my hottt takes on the new DBS movie.  A few days ago, they did this video for Comic Con announcing the title of the movie and teasing some details about the story.  

I gotta say, this is exactly why I’ve never had any interest in Comic Con.    They put this on YouTube, I guess because of the pandemic, but any other year they would have gathered an enormous crowd and made them stand in line for hours to watch all of this in person.   I live in the Midwest, and when I went to comic book conventions it was for the sole purpose of rummaging through back issue bins.   SDCC was always promoted like the biggest and most important convention in the U.S., but all I ever heard about it were trailers for movies and TV shows.   Or, like, you had to go to Comic Con because that was the only way to get an exclusive Orange Lantern Hal Jordan action figure or something.   They would always hype up all of this useless stuff and I just never heard of anything so important that I was willing to fly out to San Diego and stand in line for three hours for it.   So now SDCC peels back the curtain with this video, about something I’m fairly interested in, but it’s really not that big a deal.  I found out most of the information on Twitter before I even knew to watch this video.

But I’m just not that hyped about trailers or sneak peaks or sneak peaks at trailers.   Which is probably why I waited this long to talk about it.  

I’ll just go through the video.   The first four minutes are Hironobu Kageyama performing “Cha La HEAD Cha La” live on the stage.   That’s a pretty epic way to open this, but I feel like it oversells the importance of this event.  You finish watching him and you think you’re about to see the movie itself, instead of hearing from the people who made it.  

Next we have Sascha, the host of this panel.   He speaks better English than I do, but I’m not sure what the point was in having any of this in English since he has to talk to the guests in Japanese.   Pretty much all of the important information in this video is in Japanese, and I think everyone understood that going in.   I guess it does give an international feel.  If I spoke another language as fluently as Sascha, I’d want to show it off too.

4:56 is where Masako Nozawa comes out, and she’s just a joy to watch.   She looks like this sweet grandmotherly figure, all warm smiles and then she busts out “Ossu! Ora Goku!” and immediately sounds like a badass. 

Guest #2 is Akio Iyoku, Toriyama’s editor.   Not to be confused with the awesome editor who poo-pooed all the androids and Cell’s semiperfect form.    That was Yu Kondo.  Iyoku comes out dressed like Goku, but he can’t talk like him so he’s immediately second-tier. 

Guest #3 is Norohiro Hayashida, Producer from Toei Anaimation.   He is also rocking the Goku cosplay, which would be a faux pas in most fandoms, but he can just say that he’s cosplaying as Krillin or Yamcha, which gives him greater nerd credibility because those are more obscure references.

Around 8:30 we really start getting into this, and they show us a model sheet of Piccolo.  Is Piccolo being in the new movie a big surprise?   He had a dry spell in the mid-90s, but he’s been in every Dragon Ball movie made in this century so far.   And it’s not like they changed his look, like when they put Goku and Vegeta in those adorable coats last time.   I’m not complaining about any of this.  It’s nice to see that a) Piccolo is confirmed for new movie and b) they didn’t tinker with his appearance.  

All I’m saying is that they only brought up this model sheet to show off how they’re using his color scheme from the manga as opposed to the anime.   Hence the red belt and the yellower arm sections.   In the anime, the belt was always blue, and his biceps were hot pink instead of off-yellow.   But it’s such a subtle thing that even Sascha didn’t pick up on it.   It’s like they were hyping up the fact that it’s such a minor change.    I like it, don’t get me wrong, but it’s a weird flex.   Also, he looks like he still has his five-fingered anime hands, so I’m not that impressed.   Give us four fingers, Toei!

Sascha asks Masako Nozawa what she thinks about Piccolo and she just starts off with “He was Gohan’s teacher,” and talks about how strong and cool he looks.    She speaks of him like he’s a family member, because she’s awesome.

Next up, we have Pan, and now we’re talking.  The scuttlebutt is that this was the character Toriyama was referring to when he spoke of an “unexpected character”.  And I guess Pan fits the bill, since I don’t think anyone expected her to be this old in the movie.   I understand this is her kindergarten uniform, so she’d have to be about five or six years old.  I love Masako Nozawa’s reaction here.   Throughout this video, you can see that Goku and Gohan aren’t just roles to her.   

I’ll put on my fanboy hat here and point out that Pan’s age may imply that this movie takes place after the final episode of Dragon Ball Z.    She looks older here than she did when she fought Wild Tiger, at any rate.   So far, the entire Dragon Ball Super franchise has been set during the ten-year gap between the Buu crisis and the finale of Z.    So everyone has been wondering if DBS would move beyond End of Z, or whether Akira Toriyama even still recognizes the continuity of those final chapters.   They were supposed to be ten years of peace, but all the battles in DBS say otherwise.   Also, I’m pretty sure Pan and Bulla’s ages in the DBZ finale don’t line up well with their appearances in Super, but I’ve never studied it very closely.  

So this might be set post End of Z, or this might be Toriyama retconning End of Z altogether.  I’m interested to see which way this goes. 

Here’s Krillin, still working for the police, although his uniform looks more like Bronze Age Lex Luthor than anything else. Like Piccolo, the “big” story here is that he’s been tweaked to resemble the coloring in the manga, so his sclera are now white instead of fleshtoned.  

Never mind that, here’s Piccolo’s house.  This is probably the breakout star of this video, because I think everybody is excited to see Piccolo’s house.   Because it’s new lore!  No one even knew if he had one or not.   It was a running gag in DBZ Abridged that he was homeless.   I mean, congratulations to Krillin for getting his eyes colored in right, but that doesn’t tell me anything new about the character.  But Piccolo’s house is a big friggin’ deal.   What’s inside of there?  What’s on the second floor?   Check out his mailbox.   What kind of mail does he get?  It’s exciting.  

Nozawa even points out that she and her co-workers would talk about this sort of thing in the recording studio.    That’s a big deal to me, that the voice actors think about the same kind of stuff that I do as a fan.   

Around 15:30, they start talking about Toriyama’s commitment to the making of this movie, which seems like a weird thing to focus on, because he wrote the screenplay to the last two movies.   Did anyone think he was stepping back? I get the impression that there’s still some hard feelings about the failure of Dragon Ball Evolution, in the sense that they want to reassure everyone that we’re still in good hands.   I suppose one of these days, Toriyama won’t be as heavily involved in a project like this, so maybe it makes sense for Toei and Shueisha to make it clear that today is not that day.

On the other hand, Toriyama was just as involved with Broly as he was with Resurrection F, and Broly was a much better film.  The Dragon Ball Super manga seems to have revived the old argument over who’s to blame when the story is a letdown, and I think that misses the point.  Look, the Zamasu arc sucked, and I don’t care who wrote what parts, or whether Toriyama had a bad idea or whether he handed a good idea off that was badly executed.   They can hash that out behind the scenes if they want to.  

About 19 minutes in, they show us this model sheet, and refuse to explain who these guys are or what they’re doing in the movie.   Are they villains?  Who knows?  I’d like to think they’re important characters to the story, but I have my doubts that Krillin will have a big part to play.  

At 20 minutes, they announce the title of the movie, and I’m not very thrilled with “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero.” They can talk it up as much as they want, and maybe the title is relevant to the plot, but it’s just too many uses of the word “super”.   Especially when they’ve got another series called “Super Dragon Ball Heroes” on YouTube. 

Then we get this teaser trailer, or whatever you want to call it, with a CG Goku hopping around and doing his classic fighting pose.  Now, for some reason, lots of people concluded that this means the entire movie will be done in this CG style, which has led to a debate over whether or not that’s a good thing.  If they can make the whole movie look this slick, then I’m fine with it.  Hell, I’m not picky.   They could animate the whole thing in Yukio Ebisawa style, and I’d be thrilled. 

But I’m not understanding where people got the idea that it’s definitely going to be a 100% CGI movie.   They never spell that out in this video, and they even go out of their way to admit that this shot of Goku isn’t actually from the movie.   So is there some other source people are referring to, or did everyone just jump to conclusions?  

And that’s pretty much it.   I don’t mean to sound negative on this panel, but I don’t feel like they revealed very much, unless this is actually going to turn out to be Piccolo and Pan having an adventure by themselves.    I think Toei could make a movie like that and it would be a success, but I have my doubts that they’d go in that direction.  If this is going to turn out to be another big slugfest with Vegeta, then I’m down for that too, but don’t show me Piccolo’s house if the movie’s going to be about Vegeta punching a guy. 

Bottom line: I’m still looking forward to this, but I don’t feel like I know much more about the movie than I did before.   Well, except for the part about Piccolo’s house.  I’m looking forward to seeing the inside of it.