Dragonball Z villain guide

[Freedan]

I think a lot of people who have ever watched Dragonball Z would agree that it tends to follow a pretty standard formula:

|---> - New evil appears.
| - Heroes go fight it.
| - Villain kicks ass.
| - One hero stays back to train/recover. Others get asses kicked in their absence.
| - Hero unlocks new power.
| - Turns the tide.
| - Briefly.
| - Villain gets stronger, kicks ass.
| - Hero gets even stronger.
| - Kills villain.
| - |
----

That's the general trend for each saga.

The villains in each saga also follow a bunch of standard conventions. Blowing up planets is a pretty common M.O. for them.

So this thread is devoted to defying convention. If you were a Dragonball Z villain, what would you do (or not do)?

My first suggestion:

- If a hero shows up to challenge me, I won't toy with him by using only 1% of my true power (slowly raising it to 10%, then 50% as he grows stronger). Instead, I'll use 100% and vapourize him with one attack.

What do you say?

[Jason Tandro]

Freedan wrote:

I think a lot of people who have ever watched Dragonball Z would agree that it tends to follow a pretty standard formula: |---> - New evil appears. | - Heroes go fight it. | - Villain kicks ass. | - One hero stays back to train/recover. Others get asses kicked in their absence. | - Hero unlocks new power. | - Turns the tide. | - Briefly. | - Villain gets stronger, kicks ass. | - Hero gets even stronger. | - Kills villain. | - | ---- That's the general trend for each saga. The villains in each saga also follow a bunch of standard conventions. Blowing up planets is a pretty common M.O. for them. So this thread is devoted to defying convention. If you were a Dragonball Z villain, what would you do (or not do)? My first suggestion: - If a hero shows up to challenge me, I won't toy with him by using only 1% of my true power (slowly raising it to 10%, then 50% as he grows stronger). Instead, I'll use 100% and vapourize him with one attack. What do you say?

This is very true.

How about I won't devote four episodes to charging up a super attack when I could do a flurry of small attacks and vaporize the enemy?

[inferiare]

Jason Tandro wrote:

How about I won't devote four episodes to charging up a super attack when I could do a flurry of small attacks and vaporize the enemy?

"OH MY GOD FREEZA IS GOING TO BLOW UP EARTH IN FIVE MINUTES!!!! (*five episodes later...*) OH MY GOD HE FINALLY EXPLODED EARTH!!!!"

Good god.


Though, if I were a DBZ villain, I would slowly kill everyone before going after the main good guy, usually Goku. Why? Because they all end up helping Goku in the end and I don't want a bunch of interference while I make his head pop off his neck like a squeezed bottle of ketchup.

[Dark_Gaia]

@ freedan: lol yeah thats a pretty accurate description of all of them. especially cell! but u forget the part where they talk crap to each other for half an hour before fighting, and pausing mid fight several times to make faces and talk some more lol

[EverPhoenix]

id make friends with the guys. and then, backstab them. that would be so much more effective than "hey, im the bad guy, i'm going to destroy the world. i'll use a part of my power and only show my true power when goku gets off his ass"

[chicken]

oh yea i remember that stuff... they were mostly looking at each other, maybe even talking... and if they were "fighting", you mostly saw dots flying over the screen, barely hitting each other

[SoulBlazerFan]

rainichan wrote:

Jason Tandro wrote: How about I won't devote four episodes to charging up a super attack when I could do a flurry of small attacks and vaporize the enemy? "OH MY GOD FREEZA IS GOING TO BLOW UP EARTH IN FIVE MINUTES!!!! (*five episodes later...*) OH MY GOD HE FINALLY EXPLODED EARTH!!!!" Good god. Though, if I were a DBZ villain, I would slowly kill everyone before going after the main good guy, usually Goku. Why? Because they all end up helping Goku in the end and I don't want a bunch of interference while I make his head pop off his neck like a squeezed bottle of ketchup.

Actually, it was like eight episodes later.

And Raini, you're scaring me.

[inferiare]

SoulBlazerFan wrote:

Actually, it was like eight episodes later. And Raini, you're scaring me.

That's what I thought, but I went with a lower number. XD I mean. 8 episodes for Goku to get out all of his "KAMEHAMEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" and all? COME ON.

...when don't I scare people?

[SoulBlazerFan]

rainichan wrote:

SoulBlazerFan wrote: Actually, it was like eight episodes later. And Raini, you're scaring me. That's what I thought, but I went with a lower number. XD I mean. 8 episodes for Goku to get out all of his "KAMEHAMEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" and all? COME ON. ...when don't I scare people?

::Nerd time:: Actually, it was the Spirit Bomb.

Well, you had really scared me up until you spoke about ripping peoples heads off. Kinda came out of left field in a discussion about DBZ.

[Freedan]

That 8-episodes thought gives me another idea.

If the hero stands in place for a long time with his hands over his head, obviously gathering energy for a large-scale attack, I won't stand in place for 4 episodes asking "what is he doing?!", and doing that eye-twitching, mouth-open, periodic gasping thing ("eugh.... uh.... oh.... augh....").

Instead, I'll pop his head off his neck like a squeezed bottle of ketchup.

[arkisdabomb]

I think every villain (and NOT just DBZ villains) need to just learn to shoot the fucker. Don't play around. Just get close and blast the skin clean off his face.

[tay120n64]

I'd send a bunch of disposable villains to tire him and the other heroes out, and when they barely when and are all tired, I'll pull out my uber-guns and make their heads explode all messy, like bottles of ketchup.

[Mantaray]

The show's still cool cause it doesn't suffer from moe [edit nowadays, i'd like to see some moe in that show XD.] Plus, it had some originality to it. Except the pacing was the most painful thing...

Goku: People of Earth... lend me your super pow3rz1!!!!!!!!111

Frieza: Ooooh, boy. This gives me more than enough time to blow up the world. *blows up world* Onto the next one. Good thing I can breathe in space, too.

[inferiare]

...my ketchup bottle analogy was a hit, I see.

[Jason Tandro]

arkisdabomb wrote:

I think every villain (and NOT just DBZ villains) need to just learn to shoot the fucker. Don't play around. Just get close and blast the skin clean off his face.

In otherwords, pull an Indiana Jones.