#bardock's team

[turtletoads]

i just think theyre neat

[nemhaine42]

07.02.24 | Bunch of Jackasses (affectionate)

-be me -rewatch dbz for the first time in like twenty years -main thoughs: raditz = hng leg <3, bulma hair shiny, there should be more shapes for female saiyan body types -did a slight redesign for gine because if she's a soft character make her literally soft fam pls. also a headcanon for vegeta's mother, since his father was sucha giraffe i made her a scary pocket rocket just like her son. -i am of the opinion that vegeta was not dead long enough for the surely copious amount of blood that occurs when someone exsanguinates to dry, therefore when porunga flicks him back to earth he should be fucking saturated in his own barely congealed blood as well as a liberal coating of namekian dirt. -i understand why they did no draw or animated him that way but on the other hand i would like to see it

[ravoress]

[eggdoodles]

Bardock's gang,, my beloved

I planned to draw one of these comics👆 for each of the members with Bardock, and I might get to that soon,,

ALSO the first post has their names written in their handwriting style lol

For now here's the dynamic between all of em:

Bardock & Selipa = Straight friend x Lesbian who needs a fake boyfriend to chase away creepy men

Bardock & Toma = Virgin ((shocker)) x Promiscuous

Bardock & Panbukin = Bully x Victim ((yes bardock would bully him like an eighth grader))

Bardock & Toteppo = not much to say here, Toteppo unnerves almost everyone on the team

[laladbzland]

[fabuloustrash05]

RADTIZ HAS A PHOTO OF HIS FATHER IN HIS ROOM!!

[rose-ramblings]

you'll never guess what I've been playing lately

[facedock]

aaaand this is why Murdock’s not allowed to drive the van

[jacquelinemerritt]

Dragon Ball Z: Episode of Bardock Abridged Review

Originally posted December 14th, 2015

I’m not sure what’s going on, and I’m okay with that.

The scenario for “Episode of Bardock” set up by the source material is a very strange one. After being hit with Freeza’s planet destroying energy ball, Bardock is somehow sent back in time four thousand years, and he finds himself meeting the previous evolution of the Saiyan race and encountering Lord Chilled, the ancestor of Freeza.

He also apparently gains the power to go Super Saiyan, starting the legends that inevitably spread throughout the galaxy when he uses this power to defeat Chilled, which would seem to break every rule about time paradoxes that we know to exist.1 That scenario creates a problem very different from the problem of Revenge of Cooler; Team Four Star has to figure out a way to get us to suspend our disbelief despite the ridiculousness of this story.

Their solution is a damn clever one. To make this story palatable, they turn its ridiculousness up to eleven and add a layer of meta-commentary to the story itself. Right before Bardock gets transported to the past, the narrator claims that this should be Bardock’s end if it weren’t for the need to merchandise him, and then for good measure, the chorus to “Time Warp” from Rocky Horror plays. The purple Saiyans all sound like the exact same impression of Kermit the Frog, and their names are all misspelled derivatives of 90s rappers, with town doctor being named Dr. Dray and his son being named Twopock.

Lord Chilled, Freeza’s ancestor, is even more eccentric and demanding than his future progeny, and he has the most ridiculous British accent and high pitched voice of any character in the series. When Bardock realizes what is going on, it is the ridiculousness of this scenario that causes him to transform into a Super Saiyan and gain the power to defeat Chilled in time to Beethoveen’s Ode to Joy.

And finally, we cut to Goku telling Gohan this tale about his grandfather, who immediately questions the logical flaws in the scenario only to discover that hearing this story had actually all been a dream. Whether or not any of this actually happened to Bardock is left completely unresolved, and we the audience are left more confused than the story’s scenario ever could have made us on its own.

Rating: 5/5

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Stray Observations

1Unless time travel in the Dragonball Z: Abridged universe works like time travel in Lost, but as we find out in future episodes, it doesn’t.

This episode also serves as a much more effective introduction to Bardock’s character than “Father of Goku” did. His first reaction to meeting the purple Saiyans is to enter into an unfathomable rage, he critiques the people terrorizing the purple Saiyans for doing so ineffectively, and he casts shame upon the purple Saiyans for attempting to praise him. He’s also nicknamed “Violent Savior,” and if that doesn’t tell you a lot about him, I don’t know what will.

Narrator: “So ends the tragic fate of Bardock. Or so you’d think, if you didn’t know a thing about merchandising!”

Bardock’s “spiker” train of thought is very similar to a lot of the things we see Goku thinking.

Chilled: “In honor of their deaths, my men shall now and forevermore be given the names of fruits! Pineapple, bring us to planet Plant.” Yellow Alien: “So am I Pineapple?” Chilled: “Yes!”

Henchman: “Hello. We are the Space Police.” Aice Cube: “Man, fuck the police!”

Space Police: “We are here to collect space criminals and other ne’er-do-wells.” Dr. Dray: “I can assure you we have already exiled Chris of the clan Brown from our planet.”

So, if the purple Saiyans get pregnant by being hurt, does that mean I have to kinkshame an entire race?

Chilled: “Because of Raisins! Raisins is my intelligence officer.”

Chilled: “These people seem to have great respect for you. What is your secret?” Bardock: “Maybe it’s because I don’t look like a giant purple and orange tampon.”

[risingsouls]

[GOD. Tora. You poor man having to put up with these guys. Fasha and Bardock are always challenging each other and he’s just like “SIGH we’re a TEAM guys!”

I love it. :’3 Bardock and Fasha being hyper competitive with each other is so great.]

[xoxo-figgs]

watching dbz always has me thinking my ass can draw. I'm so annoying. sitting here looking at the shapes and lines and being like yep... yep... if i would just go grab my tablet i got this.

[acoldsovereign]

tag drop.

[ravoress]

Fasha -

[smellpelt]

I can never decide if I want to go all in on calling dragon ball characters by their japanese names or by their more well known usa dub names

[tobiasdrake]

I wonder, is it possible to look at the way Raditz, Nappa, and Vegeta fight (maybe Bardock's team, too, if you think Toriyama had enough involvement in those animated projects) to reconstruct any general principles of Saiyan martial arts training?

I talked a bit about Raditz and Nappa here as well as going into a particular Saiyan technique I find interesting here.

It is interesting to note that both Nappa and Vegeta are proficient in that technique to varying degrees, while Raditz is not. Raditz is completely basic as a fighter, having not even trained out his tail weakness when Nappa and Vegeta have.

Though it's not clear if this implies that the elites as a whole receive better instruction than the low-class Saiyans, or if Nappa's simply reaped the benefits of following Vegeta around more closely than Raditz, and doing whatever he does.

Though they do have some distinctive arts, such as the previously discussed remote detonation technique. That both Nappa and Vegeta are familiar with it implies a bit of standardization. In fact, Vegeta knows all the top-tier Saiyan arts.

He can even rattle off the science behind Oozaru transformations. He's kind of a nerd. That's an interesting note to keep in mind when thinking about his relationship to Bulma.

(He's also vain about his beauty, fun fact.)

Dude was putting off the Oozaru transformation because it's ugly so he didn't wanna.

By Vegeta's admission, the fake moon technique is one of the most advanced techniques in Saiyan martial arts. And. Uh. Yeah. Yeah, compressing the planet's atmosphere with a continuous ki sphere in order to create a finely tuned reflection of sunlight that produces a certain kind of radiation....

Yeah, that sounds complex as fuck. No wonder only nerds super-elites like Vegeta can do it.

The Oozaru is the primary mechanism by which Saiyans destroy worlds.

With that in mind, it makes sense that the ultimate and most complex Saiyan martial art is the ability to manually induce this transformation. The most devastating thing a Saiyan can ever do in a fistfight is find a way to become the Oozaru despite environmental limitations.

Their battle plan revolves so heavily around this transformation, they've even developed battle armor that stretches to accommodate the vast increase in size. Everything they do as hand-to-hand fighters is a fallback for when the Oozaru is not available.

As he notes above, Vegeta specifically chose a full-moon night to attack Earth on in order to let him and Nappa access their full power - Though Nappa died before the moon came out. And also Piccolo blew up the moon after Nappa and Raditz entered their spaceflight stasis sleep, so that was a non-starter.

Raditz wasn't intending to fight when he came to Earth; He was just here to pick up his brother and things spiraled out of hand from there. So he didn't have the luxury of the full moon or the technical skill to compress atmosphere and compensate.

What this means is that a large portion of Saiyan battle strategy has never really been depicted. The only properly trained Saiyan warrior in Oozaru state we've ever seen was Vegeta here.

And he's fighting a Goku who already burned out his body from a Kaio-ken x4 he couldn't contain, so the competition is next to zero. Goku lands some solid hits on Vegeta because... Well, he's Counter-Fighter Goku. He's the master at breaking down his foe and making the most of whatever he's got.

Motherfucker you've been on death's door for the last five minutes how dare

Goku is obnoxious to have to fight. Truly.

But because the only proper fight we ever with a fully-trained Oozaru is against the like 5% Goku has left in his tank, we never get to see the Oozaru properly tested. Whatever its full capabilities truly are, that remains known only to them and the races they've destroyed.

As for Bardock, Toriyama had little involvement beyond assisting with character design, as is typical of his involvement with the anime specials. Though it's interesting to note that he loved the Bardock special. Toriyama rarely even bothered to watch the anime of his own work, but he had high praise to sing of Bardock.

"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."

Bardock captivated Toriyama for being a take on Dragon Ball he, himself, wouldn't have been able to make. Which. Made it funny. Years later in Dragon Ball Minus. When he tried to make it. And arguably proved himself right. But I digress.

Toriyama liked Bardock so much, he even canonized the special for the manga.

Toriyama fucking loved this special. This rarely happened. The only other time a character created for the anime ended up appearing in the manga, it was to canonize the concept of the Kaios being a set of Four Heavenly Kings rather than the one guy.

Papaya is a fruit and fruits work for Frieza. What are you not telling us, South Kaio? I'm on to you.

And then, decades later, the bestest boy of Dragon Ball Super.

Love him so much.

[fabuloustrash05]

Things that are canon in Dragon Ball Z Abridged but NOT in actual Dragon Ball Z (Part 3)

Check out Part 1 and Part 2

Tien and Chiaotzu are Jewish

Frieza is convinced Zarbon’s girlfriend’s name is Chuck

Krillin has a bad habit of blurting out important/embarrassing information to the bad guys when he is scared

Vegeta’s short height was caused by the effects of Nappa force feeding him coffee as a baby

Gohan hates his dad

Princess Trunks~

King Cold likes to walk around naked, Frieza finds it disgusting and uncomfortable but King Cold argues that he literally has nothing to hide/cover up (so does Frieza always walk around naked like Vegeta claims??)

Goku and Cell are “Fight-Sexual”

Android 15 has a drinking problem (none of the other androids like to talk about it)

There’s a Space France

And a Space Mexico

Tien has a fantasy football team

Future Bulma wants to bang Future Gohan

The planet of psychics that Bardock and his team destroyed (Frieza Planet 419) has miraculously repopulated, now none of Frieza's men go to that planet

Dodoria is known as the most beautiful women on her planet

Android 17 is a natural blonde and dyes his hair black

Vegeta doesn’t know what a condom is (same thing can probably be said about Goku)

Tien is the only serious character in the show and he knows it

King Yemma is divorced and his wife took the kids

Goku most likely doesn’t see Chichi as his wife, more of a beautiful women that just so happens to live with him and feeds him

Nappa has a Spacestagram account

Kami’s old spaceship he used to come to Earth in goes by voice commands when hearing someone say “Popo” instead of "Piccolo" because "it knows better"

Space Hulu exists

Bulma broke up with Yamcha through King Kai's telepathic call

Recoome is a five time wrestling champion

Every planet Frieza has conquered he just names after himself followed by a random number, he doesn’t even go in numerical order, just picks a random number each time

King Yemma has everyone strip when they reach the afterlife

Dende hates Krillin

Dende also hates Videl and has banned her from The Lookout cause "No girls allowed" (confirmed by Taka)

In hell HFIL Radtiz is constantly being bullied and beaten up by Frieza and his men

Frieza doesn’t pay his henchmen

Cooler does pay his henchmen

Spacey’s (it’s good food, in space)