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[hero-17]

🔥🔥🔥BARDOCK EDIT🦅🦅

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[zenigatamarch]

“you will see the future fate of your own people. i will warn you now, that you have no future save that which is cursed! i condemn you to see your own future, and agonize over the form it takes!”

[dark-blend1]

★ 𝐌𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐥𝐢 ›

[saiyanmazen]

Favorite Dragon Ball movies: DBZ edition with Saiyans

There's a lot of DBZ movies and a limited amount of options. Therefore, I will split them into movies revolving Saiyans and those with other antagonists.

I've included specials and side stories. Sorry if I've missed some.

[ravoress]

Doesn't this technically mean, Bardocks wish for his sons, saved Vegeta, too? [edit: By extension, I mean - Same with Nappa] (someone who in alot of ways acts more like a brother to Goku then Raditz had the chance to?)

[bardocks-tiddies]

YEAAAAHAG‼️‼️

edited to add: i’m a dokkan girlie at heart and a learning new mobile games is hard and confusing, but i downloaded legends about a week ago because i saw an ad saying they were giving away free summons for an event (ik ik it’s silly, but i was already thinking about trying it out, so i figured might as well). i got a notification the other day about a goku AND bardock father-son unit and i knew i HAD to have it, so i used my ultra super move, WALLET.

[ozonelasher]

ok NOW it's done :3

edit: i can explain each one of these so i will :D under a readmore ofc

Bardock & Vegeta - These guys were the first DB characters I was really fascinated with. Kaki's pitch idea way back when I was 13 was literally, "What if there was a character like Vegeta except it's a woman?" Then as time went on and my political opinions developed more, I gave her a sort of 'rebel martyr' story that's ultimately derivative of Bardock: Father of Goku.

Kali - Kaki is to Kali as Goku is to Sun Wukong, basically. I pull from various forms of Kali for metaphor, but I primarily reference the legend where the goddess Parvati transforms into Mahakali in order to battle with asuras/demons.

Lucy (Elfen Lied) - She was essentially my first exposure to the idea of, "a woman with extremely destructive supernatural powers just wants to be loved and is angry about it."

Leeloo (The Fifth Element) - This is where I got the idea of someone being resurrected/coming back from the dead in order to the save the world, essentially. The resemblance ends there, lmao.

Xion (Kingdom Hearts) - Her story ultimately culminates in her becoming something she doesn't want to be, but is sadly pushed to embrace in the end. Kaki's storyline ends much in the same way.

[satoshi-mochida]

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO launches October 11 - Gematsu

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam on October 11, publisher Bandai Namco and developer Spike Chunsoft announced.

Get the latest details below.

Developed by Spike Chunsoft, known for their work on the previous Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi, Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO lets players get into epic battles alongside legendary characters from the series. Episode Battle will let players pick one of eight characters and relive key battle moments in the Dragon Ball saga. Custom Battle introduces a new element to experiencing Dragon Ball as a game, where players can try their hands at a match imagined by the developers or create their own battle situation and share it with the world. The new trailer also reveals new additions to the playable character roster with Goku (Super), Ultra Instinct, Gohan (Adult), Super Saiyan 2, Golden Frieza, Bardock, Raditz, Goku Black, Zamasu, and Jiren, Full Power.

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is available in the following editions:

The Standard Edition

The Digital Deluxe Edition which includes the Standard Edition, three days of early access to the game, and the Season Pass, which contains more than 20 characters including characters from Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero and Dragon Ball Daima as well as the Shenron Summon that can unlock items. Early access to downloadable content characters is also included.

The Digital Ultimate Edition contains the Deluxe Edition content as well as the Ultimate Upgrade Pack which includes the Goku (Super) Costume with Power Pole, an Emote Voice Set, one Customization item and two player card backgrounds. This edition also includes the possibility to summon Super Shenron to unlock items or characters.

The Collector’s Edition includes the content from the Digital Ultimate Edition along with an exclusive Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO diorama and a Metallic Bookmark.

The Premium Collector’s Edition, available exclusively on the Bandai Namco Store, includes all Collector’s Edition content as well as a SteelBook and four exclusive cards from the Dragon Ball Super Card Game Fusion Worlds.

Watch a new trailer below. View a new set of screenshots at the gallery.

Release Date Trailer

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[hero-17]

💯 GOKU AND BARDOCK 🗣🔥🔥🔥

Who is the best Dragon Ball duo in your opinion?

Answer below in the replies 👇

[dragon-ball-meta]

I’m sorry but who is Iyoku? Also is Toriyama not able to switch who’s working on the manga given his status as creator?

Akio Iyoku. He's a former Editor-in-Chief for V-Jump and Saikyo Jump. He's at least partly responsible for Toriyama really coming back out of retirement to write new material, he helped adapt the Episode of Bardock special from the Heroes manga into an OVA, he helped edit Battle of Gods, I believe, was a Producer on the Broly movie and is Executive Producing Daima as well as running the "Dragon Ball Room", basically the brain trust of planning for the future of Dragon Ball He recently stepped down from his role at Shueisha and formed a company called Capsule Corporation Tokyo, and is trying to more or less get the rights to oversee most everything but the manga at this point, which... does not speak well of his feelings at that company. (Supposedly, it's also due to investors apparently pressuring Shueisha to more or less downplay DB in favor of One Piece since they feel that the reason an "old" show is competing with the current #1 seller is because Shueisha is mishandling it. This is reportedly part of why Super Hero was given significantly LESS promotion than Film Red received.) As for DB... It's hard to articulate the situation with the rights and control of the series. The rights are technically split between three companies: Toriyama's Bird Studio, Shueisha (which technically owns the manga), and Toei (which owns the anime). Those companies will often defer to him more since he's the creator and all, but they can, will, and do greenlight things without his permission or input, it's not really a necessity. And given Toriyama's got a rather non-argumentative nature, at least in public, and seems to shy away from drama, I don't think he's about to go storming into Shueisha's HQ and demand they fire him because he dislikes one thing or another regardless.

[demifiendrsa]

DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO - Release Date Announcement Trailer

Japanese version

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam on October 11, 2024.

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Latest details

Developed by Spike Chunsoft, known for their work on the previous Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi, Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO lets players get into epic battles alongside legendary characters from the series. Episode Battle will let players pick one of eight characters and relive key battle moments in the Dragon Ball saga. Custom Battle introduces a new element to experiencing Dragon Ball as a game, where players can try their hands at a match imagined by the developers or create their own battle situation and share it with the world. The new trailer also reveals new additions to the playable character roster with Goku (Super), Ultra Instinct, Gohan (Adult), Super Saiyan 2, Golden Frieza, Bardock, Raditz, Goku Black, Zamasu, and Jiren, Full Power.

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is available in the following editions:

The Standard Edition

The Digital Deluxe Edition which includes the Standard Edition, three days of early access to the game, and the Season Pass, which contains more than 20 characters including characters from Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero and Dragon Ball Daima as well as the Shenron Summon that can unlock items. Early access to downloadable content characters is also included.

The Digital Ultimate Edition contains the Deluxe Edition content as well as the Ultimate Upgrade Pack which includes the Goku (Super) Costume with Power Pole, an Emote Voice Set, one Customisation item and two player card backgrounds. This edition also includes the possibility to summon Super Shenron to unlock items or characters.

The Collector’s Edition includes the content from the Digital Ultimate Edition along with an exclusive Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO diorama and a Metallic Bookmark.

The Premium Collector’s Edition, available exclusively on the Bandai Namco Store, includes all Collector’s Edition content as well as a SteelBook and four exclusive cards from the Dragon Ball Super Card Game Fusion Worlds.

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball Minus

So I’ve been covering the Jaco manga, but there’s one last chapter to go over, and that’s the Dragon Ball Minus feature at the end of the collected edition.  The finale of the Jaco story revealed that Jaco was sent to Earth to intercept a Saiyan invader, which turned out to be baby Goku.  So Jaco was a prequel to Dragon Ball all along, and now Dragon Ball Minus turns the clock back even further to show how and why Goku was sent to Earth in the first place. 

So let’s unpack this a bit.  In 1990, Toei produced the TV Special “Dragon Ball Z: A Lonesome, Final Battle – The Father of Z Warrior Son Goku, who Challenged Freeza.”  The English dub shortened this to “Bardock: Father of Goku”.  If you’re not familiar with it, I wrote about it here.  The special was a grim tale of Goku’s father, a brutal, uncaring cog in Frieza’s war machine.  Before he dies, one of Bardock’s enemies curses him by giving him visions of the future. This allows Bardock to see horrifying scenes of Frieza destroying the Saiyan homeworld, as well as the life of his infant son growing up on Earth. By the time Bardock understands what’s happening, it’s already too late.  But as Bardock dies with his homeworld, he takes solace in a vision of his son growing up to confront Frieza someday. 

It’s a darker story than most of Dragon Ball.  While DBZ had gotten very violent, it was still pretty clear who the good guys were.  But Bardock was an antihero at best.  I’m pretty sure the only purpose of the psychic powers was to make the character at least a little sympathetic.  By giving him a peek at his own destiny, you can have Bardock confront his own mortality, and share in the audience’s appreciation for his son.  Without those insights, Bardock would just be one Saiyan among many, with nothing to make him stand out besides a familiar haircut and a famous son that he doesn’t even know.

The story goes that the special left such an impression on Akira Toriyama that he decided to canonize Bardock by writing him into the manga.  When Frieza first meets Goku on Namek, Frieza finds Goku’s face somewhat familiar, and he recalls that one Saiyan who opposed him right to the very end.  So even though the Bardock TV Special was anime-only, I think a lot of fans considered it to be canon, since Toriyama had included the scene of Bardock opposing Frieza from the very end of the special. 

However, to quote Toriyama himself:

“I really like the story of Bardock, Goku’s father. It’s quite dramatic, and the kind of story ‘I absolutely wouldn’t draw’ if it were me. It was like watching a different kind of Dragon Ball in a good way, so I thought it was nice.”  --Akira Toriyama, Interview on October 5, 1995, published in Daizenshuu v.6.

So he enjoyed the Bardock special, but if he had to create his own story about Bardock and the destruction of Planet Vegeta, then it would be very different from “Father of Goku”, which he “absolutely wouldn’t draw”.  Not because he disliked the special, but because it’s just not the kind of story that he would tell. 

I say this because I think there were a lot of fans who took umbrage with Dragon Ball Minus for changing Bardock’s backstory from the lore we got in the special. But Toriyama practically warned us all way back in 1995 that if he ever did a Bardock story of his own, it would almost certainly be very different. 

So now that we’ve established that, let’s get down to business.  In this story, Bardock is killing aliens just like he did in the TV special, only he only seems to have one other Saiyan backing him up.  That unnamed Saiyan gets a call on his scouter, and he relays the message to Bardock: All Saiyans have been ordered to return to Planet Vegeta.  Bardock is immediately suspicious, since this seems to be an unprecedented move.  The Saiyans have been working for Frieza for some time now, and they’ve been spread out, conquering various planets for him.  Why would Frieza recall all of them back home at the same time?  When he sees Frieza’s spaceship in orbit around Planet Vegeta, he gets even more suspicious. 

Frieza’s visiting the planet because he’s had his henchmen talking to the Saiyan locals, asking them about their folklore.  His goons dismiss the tales of the Super Saiyan and Super Saiyan God, but Frieza refuses to overlook even the slightest possibility of a Saiyan growing powerful enough to oppose him.  As it is, he knows the Saiyans are too proud and willful to be truly loyal to him, so he feels justified in wiping them out before they inevitably turn against him. 

This... might just be my favorite character moment for Frieza.  A lot of DBZ was devoted to explaining and re-explaining his decision to destroy the Saiyans.  His reasons generally boil down to the following:

1) If the entire Saiyan population revolted, they could pose a threat to his rule (Early Namek Saga, the Bardock TV Special)

2) Frieza’s afraid of a Super Saiyan emerging from the Saiyan population and overthrowing him (Late Namek Saga, and Dragon Ball Minus)

3) Beerus wanted to destroy the Saiyans but was too lazy to make the trip, so he commanded Frieza to do it for him.  (Battle of Gods)

What sets this story apart from the others, though, is that we get to see just how Frieza heard about the Super Saiyan Legend in the first place.  He asked around.  And apparently this isn’t the first planet where he’s done this sort of thing.  “I’m sure they’re just the usual heroic legends we hear about all the time.”

At some point, it hit me that Frieza has an interest in this sort of thing.  Not that he’s particularly fond of alien legends, but the characters in those stories the only thing that can possibly challenge his power.  So he seems to make a point out of learning about those mythical heroes whenever he can, just so he can weigh the risks of the legends coming true.

And maybe if the Saiyans were more devoted to him, like Zarbon and Dodoria, maybe Frieza might have chosen to ignore the Super Saiyan tale.  But he knows the Saiyans hate his guts, and he probably only kept them around as long as he did because his father had gotten so much use out of them.  And he might have been willing to keep the Saiyans alive a while longer, but then you have to factor in Beerus’s command to destroy them.  So in this story, Frieza asks if all the Saiyans are back home yet, and his men report that most of them will return within a month, but they’ll have to wait for stragglers if they plan to get them all.  Frieza won’t do it, though.  He plans to destroy Planet Vegeta one month later, and he can deal with the handful of survivors later.  He can just tell them Planet Vegeta got hit by a meteor. 

The story doesn’t spell it out, but I think Frieza accelerated his plans because he didn’t want to risk angering Beerus.  Not that Beerus was going to show up a month later to check his work, but Frieza had no way of knowing for sure, so better to blow 99% of the Saiyans away as soon as possible. 

And this is what saved Saiyans like Vegeta and Raditz.  Well, that, and the fact that Vegeta had no intention of obeying the order to return home.  Maybe he had the same suspicions as Bardock, or he just felt like he should defy Frieza wherever possible.  In this case, he could get away with ignoring the order, so he chose to ignore the order. 

As for Bardock, he finds his wife Gine chopping meat in his home village.  The narration informs us that the Saiyan population is only several thousand strong.  They’re warlike, so their population doesn’t increase too easily.  That sounds kind of vague, but interpret it as you will.  Bardock embraces Gine and asks about their children, which I think rubbed some fans the wrong way.  Gine wasn’t even in the TV Special, so the idea of Bardock being a loving husband and father bugged some people.  Hell, I think some fans can’t stand the idea of Bardock being anything other than a relentless badass.

Gine explains that Raditz has already been sent out into the field, with Prince Vegeta as his partner.  As for Kakarot, he’s been in an incubation tank for three years, and it’s almost time to take him out.  As he looks at Kakarot, Bardock resolves to steal a space pod and send the boy to another planet. 

Now, this also bugged some fans, because this directly contradicts what Raditz told Goku about how and why he ended up on Earth.  According to Raditz, Saiyan babies were tested for their combat potential, and those with the worst scores were sent to relatively defenseless planets, where they could either die alone or conquer with a bit less of a disadvantage.  Saiyan elites, like Raditz, Nappa, and Vegeta, were allowed to remain on Planet Vegeta and receive proper training and resources, so that they could fight as part of the Saiyan military. 

Dragon Ball Minus flips that idea on its head.  Yes, Raditz was correct about the Saiyan practice of “infiltration babies”, as Gine puts it.  That is a thing Saiyans do with their weakest children.   However, in this case, Bardock is using that practice without permission.  Instead of waiting around for the authorities to decide where to assign baby Kakarot, Bardock is going to send him to Earth, just to keep him safe from anything Frieza might be planning. 

And, perhaps unintentionally, these differences provide a critique of “Father of Goku.”  Like I said earlier, the only real purpose of giving Bardock visions of the future was to make him sympathetic.  He could foresee Frieza’s treachery and realize he was doomed, but he could also foresee his son thriving on Earth, eventually rising up to avenge his people. 

But Dragon Ball Minus cuts the Gordian Knot in half with a sword.  Why does Bardock need psychic powers to predict Frieza destroying the Saiyans?  The Saiyans have resented Frieza from the beginning, so why would they expect anything less than treachery from him?  Bardock doesn’t need the gift of prophecy to figure this out.  He just needs to pay attention to what’s going on around him.  And as for his son, maybe Bardock could just care about Kakarot from the beginning. He doesn’t need to see visions of Goku growing up on Earth.  He can just see the baby floating helplessly in an incubator and then imagine what will happen to him if he’s still on Planet Vegeta when Frieza makes his move. 

And this might irritate some Bardock fans, but at least this way he gets some agency and character development.   The dirty little secret about “Father of Goku” is that Bardock is a puppet of fate in that special.  The Kanassan is destined to give him the curse of foresight.  And once Bardock has that curse, he’s powerless to prevent Planet Vegeta’s destruction.  He sees Goku’s future, and seems to approve, but he has no control over that either.  Others make the decision to launch Goku into space, and so everything Bardock does in the special is futile. 

Sure, “Father of Goku” kind of works because of that futility.  I’d argue that “futility” is a theme of the story. That’s what makes it dark.  But I prefer Toriyama’s take, where Bardock suspects that he’s already doomed, but he still gets to make a choice to do something about it.  By sending Goku to Earth, Bardock gets to make a difference, even if he doesn’t realize how big a difference it will be. 

As they prepare the pod for launch, Gine asks why they don’t just all leave the planet in pods, and Bardock explains that Frieza would just track them down with scouters.  Kakarot, with his miniscule power level, can escape, but they’re trapped here, on Planet Vegeta, while they wait to find out what Frieza has planned for them all.  The two of them say their goodbyes, and Gine makes plans to contact Raditz to tell him where they’ve sent Kakarot.  She also promises to retrieve the boy if Bardock’s fears turn out to be unfounded.  But we know how that will turn out. 

So they watch the pod leave in an emotional scene. 

But the launch has not gone unnoticed.  The Galactic King has discovered the Saiyan invader heading toward Earth, so he orders Jaco to intercept it.   He clearly isn’t too concerned about the matter, though, since he regards Jaco as one of his least reliable Patrollers, and the Earth as a backwater planet of little importance.  I guess he sort of cares, but not enough to send the best.

But we already saw how Jaco handled that mission.  He missed Kakarot’s arrival on Earth, and he was adopted by Son Gohan instead, and grew up to become Son Goku, who would confront Frieza on Namek.  And now you know.... the rest of the story.   Paul Harvey... Good Day?

So that wraps up Jaco.  The only real issue I see with all of its retcons to Dragon Ball lore is the fact that Jaco has such close ties to the Brief family, and he even gives Dr. Brief his spaceship to reverse engineer, and yet this never came up in the Namek Saga, when the good guys desperately needed a way to travel through space.   Instead they use Kami’s old spaceship, which took a month to make the trip, and then Dr. Brief reverse engineered Goku’s space pod, which made the journey in six days.  Maybe Jaco’s ship was slower?  Or they just forgot about it?  Oh well. 

I’ll be taking a break for a couple weeks, and when I get back, we’ll star in on Dragon Ball Super. Until then, keep watching the skies.

[defrain]

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[acoldsovereign]

THE KAROSEANITES & THEIR HOMEWORLD.

They are a slender, thin, waif-like Alien group hailing from Planet Karosea. Like their blue-skinned counterparts, they are unable to verbally communicate through their mouths but for a different reason altogether. Their ki technique comes through their throat in a terrifying form of telekinesis. Specifically, Karoseanites must speak in HUSHED WHISPERS, because the technique activates over a certain volume, no matter how well trained (or not) the individual in question is-- it is involuntary and discriminates between no one. The strongest application of this ability sees them causing earthquakes, while the weakest (or more mundane) forms are: bursting eardrums (and causing them to bleed), bodily paralysis*, and the standard 'moving things/objects' with a verbal command or thought.

Unlike the Kokytans, Karoseanites have a set sex (but no concept of gender B.M). Karoseanites are all male with no exception.

Unfortunately, Maiz is not the first Saiyan visitor, much less invader of Planet Karosea-- her mother beat her to it much before she was born. This incident skyrocketed Karne to the position of 2nd Lieutenant, as this was a case nobody wanted to take/was strong enough to clear. Karne did it with major difficulties, but made the higher officials surrender in twenty days and twenty Karosean nights-- translating to a month on most other planets.

BONUS (KARNE EDITION):

When Karne took this mission, she almost died because she underestimated the strength of their telekinesis. One of her hearts exploded. Luckily, the backup heart (Saiyans have two of them), kicked in immediately.

When Karne returned from this mission, it marked the end of her tenure as part of Team Bardock. The two remained good friends and close enough that she'd try to find ways to get him a promotion as well as her former teammates. Unfortunately, none of her attempts worked.

The Karoseanites Maiz would conquer later are actually the descendants of the original Karoseanites that barely survived Karne. They are the same group genetically and physically, but something changed in between those decades.**

BONUS (MAIZ EDITION):

Karosea is a red, orange and brown heat-based planet with yellow skies. This explains the inhabitants' ruby red skin and hairless bodies. As an adaption to the heat, their pores periodically exude steam that can melt your face off if you're standing too close. In present day, Maiz makes them wear thermal clothing that regulates their body heat. It took a while to get the process correct-- many of them, as Maiz found out were allergic to Kokytan technology. Specifically, a metal in it.

Their days are bright and long and nights are shorter and pitch black as a result of them having two suns and no moons. Water on their planet is scarce.

In between Karne's visit and Maiz's invasion, the planet fell into disrespair. They became deathly afraid of further invaders and turned introverted. The Karoseanites were so traumatized by Karne that they didn't fight when their planet was sold and made a promise to stay 'out of sight, out of mind' as long as they could stay on their home planet. The brokers that brought them stayed for some months (a couple of years on other planets) until they got tired of the mostly unworkable planet. They didn't realize they were free until a budling (what they call a child) went outside and saw their spaceships were gone. Reluctantly, they all came out of their hiding places and after making sure they were free indeed, began rebuilding. Again, unfortunately, they had trouble with this because they didn't realize their own planet had changed so much within the time they were gone.

Despite them being strictly male and being able to reproduce, they are able to grow breasts. It's uncommon but for the ones that have done so, it's been determined to be a genetic mutation in their DNA inherited by the trauma of Karne. Maiz found this (and still finds it) hilarious, as it infers the Karoseanites have a fractured sense of identity and can take on traits unalike them for comfort. Their breasts are merely cosmetic; there's no use or need they fulfill.

Karosea was the second planet Maiz conquered, after Kokytus. Because Maiz looked so much like her mother as a teenager (albeit with straighter hair), they mistook her for Karne initially. She was 13-14.

*Their ability to paralyze others depends on the opponent's base strength. If the Karoseanite is at a disadvantage, the ability won't work.

[markzschiegnerii]

And with this the 2023 Comic Dub season comes to an end. Good Night

#RWBY #MyHeroAcademia #RubyRose

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Edited by Bardock DX and Enigma2Me

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