יום שני, 26 בדצמבר 2016
יום רביעי, 21 בדצמבר 2016
יום שלישי, 20 בדצמבר 2016
What rank do you think King Cold's soldiers were at?
From watching the anime (DBZ/Kai) & reading the manga, It seems to me that out of the 16 canonical soldiers (22 if you count the designing or coloring errors that made it seem like there were other soldiers there along the ones we see in Cold's spaceship) the majority are around Vegeta-Cui tier (excluding Iru and the other old soldier with the arm canon) while the few stronger henchmen (Captain, Fisshi, Jeice-esque etc.) were at least around the Zarbon-Dodoria's tier, Mecha-Frieza considered them to be strong enough to handle the Earthlings' resistance even though he, himself in his lower forms, had troubles to handle them on Namek (in Resurrection 'F' it seems like he didn't knew Piccolo was living on Earth, but he knew that Gohan - who back at the beginning of the fight had a power level of 200,000 - was a local Earthling) which would place them even higher than the notorious members of the Ginyu Force (excluding Captain Ginyu) who weren't near as strong as Krillin was when the battle vs. Frieza began (75,000).
I believe that King Cold - whose existence, according to Daizenshuu 7, was so secret not even the Ginyu Force were aware of him (despite Other World Tournament & Kid Buu Sagas' filler scenes + GT) - won't be hiring weaklings to serve as his direct command unit. The only time where we see them, in their original appearance (+ Cooler's Armored Squadron recolored sprites), clash with the Z-Fighters is in the 1992's NES game "Dragon Ball Z III: Ressen Jinzoningen" (Act 4 / Trunks Saga) where the human Z-Fighters (Krillin, Tien, Yamcha & Chiaotzu) have to fight them to free humans they've kidnapped.
However, and that's why I began to research this topic, in their later video games appearances they're always depicted as weaklings like the low-level Frieza Soldiers we saw on Namek (less than 1,500 BP): their depictions in "Dragon Ball Z: Budokai" (2002) is of Sui, Banan and Raspberry; in "Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku II" they're depicted as the common soldiers from the previous game; in "Dragon Ball Z: Hakanuaru Densestsu" (2007) they're depicted as Appule, Banan & Sui. in "Dragon Ball Z - Bodukai Tenkaichi 3" (2007) they're shown to be Banan-esque Frieza Soldier & Appule; In one of "Dragon Ball Heroes" 2010 intros they're seen as part of the common grunts Frieza has in his ship who charges at the invading Note & Beat only to be taken out with ridiculous ease, In "Dragon Ball Z - Dokkan Battle" (2015/2016) they're depicted as Sui.
TL;DR Dragon Ball Wikia calls them "Frieza's Subordinates" and while it's English site ranks their Captain as a Middle Class soldier & the others as lower class goons (but that's never stated in the official sources, just a decision by some random person who edited there. Yet in "Frieza's Elite" page there they're listed as "elite combatants" = the same tier as Vegeta, Cui, Dodoria, Zarbon, Shisami & Tagoma; which makes their credibility even more funny looking); their Spanish site is contradicting it and spams bs about their ranks/power with higher numbers which they pulled out of their asses.
SO Where do you rank these soldiers?
(Originally posted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dbz/comments/5jdkzq/what_rank_do_you_think_king_colds_soldiers_were_at/)
יום שבת, 17 בדצמבר 2016
יום ראשון, 11 בדצמבר 2016
יום ראשון, 4 בדצמבר 2016
My suggestions to how Resurrection 'F' Movie could have been better (applies to the arc too in a way)...
2 scenes of Frieza training with Tagoma on a mysterious planet (called: "Gravy") with gravity that rises as the time goes by, reaching that of over 500 times than Earth's in every 4 months time.
First scene having them struggling to move around in 50 G; the next one (after the scene listed below & 4 months of training had passed) having them moving more swiftly with Frieza having no problems at all as he flips over and quickly passes Tagoma as he throw punches and kicks in the air, then the following scenario occurs: a close-up on the tyrant's eye shows a lightning which means he attained the power needed for his next evolution, he declares that his training are over and contact his men to set course to Earth, laughing maliciously as the camera enters the darkness in his laughter/mouth.
The torturing of Tagoma (someone who at his best is even weaker than 10% of 1st form Frieza) concept as a training method to get a zenkai boost is truly idiotic, it'll be better to write it out.
Length: 3-4 minutes (1.5-2 each).
A scene of Sorbet explaining that Frieza ordered him to hire the most notorious/vicious mercenaries known in the universe to add them to his invading force after he concluded his current manpower won't be enough for the task. Sorbet then joyfully examines Shisami train with them, the scene ends with Sorbet turns to the camera grinning.
**Camera pans super fast to the right**
Galactic Patrol HQ - Turns out these new recruits were wanted by this faction which made them to thicken their monitoring over the Frieza Force, the info gathered helps the Galactic King become aware of Frieza's revival and plan to attack the Earth, he alerts Jaco who is in charge of this planet and ask him to alert Bulma who is "friends with the Saiyan who defeated Frieza on Namek".
25 mercenaries in number, commanding 40 soldiers each, 5 of them per Z-Fighter during the battle (Volume 'F' mentions that they were given the newest type of Battle Armor however we only saw one of them in the film, 0 in the Dragon Ball Super anime & 27 in the manga).
Length: 2 mins.
Having Yamcha & Chiaotzu in the cast for the battle with Frieza's Army - they have 1000 soldiers, Earth now has 8 protectors (7 Z-Fighters + Jaco) which makes the odds in 1:125 which is much better than 1:177. Write out Krillin's post-trauma shock (pathetic to make him scared of soldiers Raditz can probably fight after having courage to fight Kid Buu 5 years earlier), but keep Frieza's promise to his men he'd give whoever kills him a planet of his liking. After beating up all the weak soldiers & the more dangerous mercenaries with ease, Shisami ask his bosses to join the battle and attacks Piccolo who just defeated his last rival, after a close fight the Super Namek takes him down with a Special Beam Cannon; Tagoma who is now a giant douche mocks Shisami for being pathetically weak (may add something like: "I'd kill him myself, eventually..."), he proceeds to loudly disrespect the annoyed Sorbet by asking Frieza to give him his position if he'll kill the resistance, when Sorbet yells at him he stays quiet and scolds him with his look, frightening his former superior officer, Frieza laughs as he enjoys the new evil personality of Tagoma agrees to nominate him as the chief commander of his army and to also give him a planet of his liking (as in DB Super episode 21).
Tagoma then uses after-image to get to the surface and sneaks on the exhausted Piccolo from behind, kicks him to the ground and rips off his arm when he tries to fight back, he then proceeds to decimate him like in the anime arc, Gohan blasts him off and gives Piccolo a Senzu bean, then once the fog from the blast is gone Gohan notices that Tagoma is still on his feet, laughing that he can't be defeated by weaklings like him, he looks at the other Z-Fighters and challenge them all to come at him, Gohan realized that slacking off training may have costed him this one, so he goes SSJ (much to Frieza & Sorbet's surprise/shock) and takes Tagoma out with one blow to the gut. Frieza has the same dialogue with the last soldier as in the movie, then he kills all his dying defeated men (with the Z-Fighters taking a jump above the blast, Jaco is in the safe back with Bulma), and decides to attack Gohan before he even landed on the surface with a quick barrage of Death Beams, knocking him to the ground.
Length: 17 minutes (instead of the current 15).
Majin Buu joins the battle with Frieza, sensing the dying ki of SSJ Gohan, he wakes up, and rushes to the battlefield (breaking Satan's house's window, leaving him and Bee amazed), Buu deflects Frieza's final death beam that was aimed at Gohan half a second before Piccolo managed to sacrifice himself for his student. While Frieza is shocked at the appearance of a new fighter in the ring, Gohan gets a Senzu bean from Krillin, experiences a Zenkai boost, turns SSJ 2 and intends to take on Frieza for his family (I'd say that if his Mystic Form was a 1000 then he's now at roughly 3/4 of it).
Length: 1:20 mins.
A fight scene of Frieza using 80% of his newfound power in his 1st form, Frieza is damaged but is not taken down by the two, as he powered up insanely in Gravy. Then Bulma interferes after talking with Whis and asks everyone to raise their Ki to the max as Goku (& Vegeta) needs to sense their presence in order to teleport back to Earth from Beerus' Planet. Even though Gohan's power level only keeps on rising as he fights the tyrant (now a 7/8 of his Mystic prime) and Mr. Buu's regeneration is proving troublesome to him, Frieza (who noted he won't be able to keep this up if the scnario keeps on going that direction [with a possible counting of the others jumping in]) holds the fight before continuing to his 2nd form, noting he can kill the two later and that their action is probably the key of bringing Goku to him.
Length: 2 minutes.
I wouldn't mind having Vegeta to kill off Frieza but then again it was a good opportunity to demonstrate Whis' rewinding time technique, so why not? here, Goku, have it, send him back to hell. Frieza is finally getting to be killed by his arch-nemesis.
Overall movie length: 105:20 mins AT MOST instead of the original 93 minutes.
Chances they'll remake it one day to be like this: 5% (the Future Trunks Special Edition with 12 more minutes was nice, but this Goku Black/Zamasu thing has no place in RoF, at least to my taste). Honestly, as a self-taught Animator, I'd say all they have to do besides creating the scenes listed above is to add the characters of Yamcha, Chiaotzu, Tagoma & Majin Buu to existing cells/frames and animate them along as needed to be in the given scenarios. Sounds easy, but considering the fact it takes 25 frames to create 1 second of footage, it means many-many drawings.
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