#tapion dbz

[icebuntea]

Shin x Tapion (idk a name for them yet)

They got reunited after a loooooong time, silly lovers💞

And I'll give more fanart to this ship bc I just fucking love it

[nightmarist]

i havent watched dragon ball in years but the mohawk alien elves are my favorite kind of guy. especially with little pearl earrings. i want to collect them all in a little harem.

[kanamedaite]

Dbz art dump!

[dadaonice]

Future Trunks

[mirukasan]

I made this one a year ago now, after hearing about Toriyama’s death ;;

I wanted to homage him by drawing my two favorite DBZ characters (I love redheads and punk haircuts so it was a foregone conclusion oops

[coderiderr]

HRHRGRHRGHHJ AHHH i did this hi. :)

Ball 1, Favorite Saiyan: Trunks Ball 2, Favorite Earthling: Yamcha Ball 3, Favorite Villain: Jeice Ball 4, Favorite Movie Character: BROLY (& Tapion) Ball 5, Favorite Android: 18 Ball 6, Favorite Technique: Wolf Fang Fist Ball 7, Favorite Transformation: :)

Individual images under the cut!

cheated a bit 4 favorite saiyan & movie character but shrugs

[markclarkii]

Tapion

[laladbzland]

[doomsdaily]

Tapion painting using POSCA markers and Apple Barrel acrylic paint.

[bygreat]

[treepan0]

just finished watching wrath of the dragon for the first time and I'm not crying, I swear I am totally not crying at all. (that is a complete and utter lie, I cried for a few minutes)

give the poor man named after tapioca a break, he desperately needs it T-T

edit: forgot to specify I hadn't seen the movie before.

[thatcasualgamergirl]

Fantastic art and great choices!

Drawing made based on this template by @ thatcasualgamergirl

I love doing this! There are several characters that I don't think I've ever drawn here, it was interesting ahshahd

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[gokusclit]

Sometimes I think about the fucking dbz movie with tapion i can’t remember the name and how trunks gets sooo attached to tapion right away like something about it broke my heart bc you can tell that is due to having an emotionally absent father he just wants an older male figure in his life so badly

[tobiasdrake]

Dragonball Daima VA trivia. Glorio is voiced by Koki Uchiyama, who has a ton of notable roles, but in terms of series you are familiar with he was Roxas and Ventus in Kingdom Hearts. Meanwhile in English he's Aaron Dismuke, who is best known as the original English voice of Alphonse Elric, but his other roles include Tapion's brother in the 13th DBZ movie, and Fuyuhiko in Danganronpa. The two share another character in Gen Narumi of Kaiju no. 8

Fuyuhiko makes sense. He certainly has that aloof gangster vibe. Alphonse is funny, though. XD

As for Roxas... Huh. Yeah, I can see it, but I can't quite put my finger on why.

[zorua-adorable]

i have seen all the dbz movies now!!! the broly one was so fuckign sick that was the coolest shit ever, and the noise i made watching tapion and trunks be cute...

godspeed honestly, since i still haven't fully watched through them all. outside of broly, which was your favorite? i'm partial to battle of gods (admittedly one of the few i've seen in full, plus i got into db not long before it was announced; also 'hero: song of hope' is a BANGER song)

also, speaking of wrath of the dragon, have you heard about the fansub scene of vegeta vs hirudegarn where he's like "i'll fucking kill you for destroying my fucking house"

[tokiro07]

I was talking to my buddy about an old post of mine where I said I want more Dragon Ball movie villains to come back and get either movies or small arcs dedicated to them and building up the non-Goku/Vegeta cast, and we came up with a few new ideas

Dr. Wheelo works as a recurring antagonist, as he can be a good excuse for multiple older concepts to be revisited. To start off, he enhances Tao Pai Pai to be a viable threat, giving Tien a good opponent with some personal significance. Yamcha may also be there to fight Wheelo himself, but it does seem like they're pushing Yamcha to just be a normal guy, so maybe not. Could also be a fun way to revisit Launch if we have a Tien-focused story

Androids 13, 14 and 15 are then brought back by Wheelo to fight 17, 18 and Gamma. When 13 goes Super Android by absorbing his teammates, Hedo finds a way for the good Androids to power up without absorbing each other. Wheelo has also upgraded himself since fighting Yamcha, giving Krillin an opponent for the arc

Bio-Broly is Wheelo's last creation, which would give Broly a reasonably strong enemy to fight without shoehorning him into any of the other villains' stories. It could also serve as a fun way to have DBS Broly fight an approximation of DBZ Broly, as he could reuse the old design with some tweaks

Tapion's return and training with Trunks causes a rift between him and Goten, which ultimately results in Trunks being too powerful for the two of them to perform Fusion anymore. After Trunks and Tapion defeat Hirudegarn with minimal help from Goten, Goten goes off on his own for a while to become a stronger fighter in his own right

Bojack then becomes an antagonist for Goten specifically, allowing for a more accurate recreation of Teen Gohan vs. Bojack now that Gohan has aged out of the part. Goten's new power differentiates him from Trunks significantly, and makes their fusion in the next arc they appear in more notable as it will combine their new disparate traits instead of just doubling up on Saiyan traits (edit: see my post on the Power Pole)

Garlic Jr., similarly, becomes an antagonist for Pan to parallel how he was defeated by kid Gohan without the need to rescale him too much. However, if we don't want Pan to have a major win this early, we could have Pan fight his first form and then use his power-up to explore Gohan's Beast form and possibly get some insight into Orange Piccolo, since Garlic is inherently related to Piccolo's backstory

Lord Slug, then, further expands on whatever hints we get about Piccolo by having an Orange form of his own, perhaps a mastered or elevated version of it with more unique traits. Given that Piccolo is a merging of Warrior- and Dragon-clan Namekians, perhaps it could have two modes and we've only seen the Warrior-mode. Potentially more interesting, Piccolo could need to overcome Slug's Orange form by finding King Piccolo's soul in Hell and taking on his Demon-clan abilities, truly making him a mix of all forms of Namekian. This would also be a good time to give the Orange form a real name

Turles is still introduced as a Universe 6 Saiyan, interrupting Vegeta training Cabba (+Caulifla and Kale), but now that Ultra Ego has been introduced, Vegeta clearly outmatches Turles, so he uses it as an opportunity for Cabba and co. to grow. Cabba takes out form 1 and Kefla handles form 2, but form 3 is too much for them, so Vegeta steps in with Ultra Ego, giving him some much-needed shine

Cooler still fights Frieza and shows us how the Fifth Form can potentially be differentiated from the Golden and Black forms, but mostly just serves as a way to elaborate on what Black can do before having Frieza fight Goku and Vegeta again

Janemba fights Buu, as I said before, but this time instead of serving as a jumping-off point for Uub, he actually serves as a way for Buu and Mr. Satan to work off each other; Janemba is a very tricky opponent, and Buu isn't particularly intelligent, but Mr. Satan is surprisingly smart and a competent martial artist (for a non-ki using human), so Mr. Satan could be helping Buu to read Janemba's fighting style and give him an edge, proving that Mr. Satan isn't the burden to the rest of the cast that he thinks he is

Baby would serve as a culmination of all of the Saiyan's arcs specifically, with all of the special forms and abilities found by Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Goten, Trunks, Pan and Broly being put on full display against their natural enemy

The Shadow Dragons would serve a similar function, but for the cast as a whole.

Syn/Omega would probably be similar to his original incarnation, with Goku and Vegeta working together and ultimately being defeated by Goku using a Universal Spirit Bomb, but all of the other Dragons would be fought by the rest of the cast.

Haze, as the weakest, would probably be reserved for the human cast - Krillin, Tien, Yamcha, etc. His energy-draining abilities would definitely be a challenge for them, and would require that they be more inventive in how they beat him than other characters likely would be

Eis was created by a wish involving Buu, so I'd enjoy seeing Buu and Uub team up against him, possibly leading to the creation of Majuub

Nuova, along the same lines, was created by King Piccolo's wish, so putting him against Piccolo and Gohan would work really well

Rage, being electrical in nature, could be a fun enemy for the Androids

Oceanus doesn't really have an obvious thematic enemy, but since the fight against her originally was the only one to actually introduce new characters (Colm and his village), using them as a connection to Pan would be a good way to give her more involvement in the arc

Naturon, as one of the eviler Dragons, would be a good enemy for Goten and Trunks to fight since they fancy themselves heroes. His possession ability could also be used to force them to fight each other

Other characters, like villains introduced in Dragon Ball Heroes, could also be canonized and used as a way to show off the newly gained powers, but the ultimate villain would almost definitely be Frieza since he keeps getting stronger and stronger and we've already seen him forced to team up with Goku. I'm sure new characters will continue to be introduced too, like Moro and the Heeters, and none of this even considered how Granolah might contribute to the plot going forward, but my main goal here was to focus on classic characters. I do like Granolah, though, so I hope they find reasons to bring him back somewhere in there too. Maybe he'll be involved in the Baby arc since the Tuffles and Cerealians are both victims of the Saiyans, so there may be good reason to reintroduce him in that arc

I'm willing to bet that basically none of this will happen, and that Toriyama will want to focus more on the new and will continue not to worry about the extended cast, but in my world, Dragon Ball utilizes its existing cast as much as humanly possible

If I'm only right about one of these, I honestly hope it's Cooler