Finally finished this poster parody sketch I did forever ago!
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Super Dragon Ball Heroes 44-46
It... kind of isn’t, really.
All right, so this is the second round of the Super Space-Time tournament. The figthers are all off in different battlegrounds, each fighting one of Aeos’ four warriors to win a fairy which they’ll bring to Aeos to claim victory. I think that’s how this works. I’m not sure if the first one to bring Aeos a fairy is the winner, or if it’s whoever brings the most. I guess it doesn’t matter much. Anyway, Goku’s on what looks like Earth, facing his father, Bardock. Goku doesn’t know Bardock, but Bardock knows him. Like Future Gohan, his powers were amplified by the Dark Dragon Balls when he entered into Aeos’ service. I guess this is the same guy who kept getting involved during the New Space-Time War arc. He didn’t have the Bardock headband like he does now, but unless Aeos has a fifth henchman, I don’t see who else it could be.
Meanwhile, Bardock’s comrade, Vidro, is fighting contestants on a different battleground. She can create clones of herself and fight multiple opponents at once. What I don’t understand is what happened to all of the other fighters. She’s taking on Yamcha, Hit, and Vegeta at the same time, but there were guys from two other teams involved here. Those two teams don’t seem to have anyone at the place where Goku and Bardock are fighting.
Anyway, Hit manages to get the drop on what I assume to be the ‘real’ Vidro, but then someone stops him before he can finish her off.
It’s Yamcha, and he tells Hit that he can’t just let Hit kill her, even if she is an enemy. I mean, yeah, there was no rule that said he had to murder Aeos’ warriors. He just needed to take the fairy from her, so I don’t get what Hit is doing. Hit seems insistent, though, so he concludes that he’ll have to kill Yamcha first.
This display from Yamcha has deeply touched Vidro, though, so she jumps to Yamcha’s defense.
Even her clone is confused.
Meanwhile, Bardock and Goku father-son beam struggle blah blah blah get back to Yamcha I want to see if he marries this lady!
Seriously, though, Bardock loses, but he doesn’t mind because if a fellow “low-class” Saiyan can improve this much on his own, then there’s hope for Bardock to do the same.
Meanwhile, Chronoa confronts Aeos while disguised as one of the competitors. The Time Patrollers had their own team in this tournament, and Chronoa infiltrated the tourney that way, probably so she could get close to Aeos on her own, since that’s the objective of the second round. She wants the Scroll of Eternity back, but nothing’s changed. Aeos tells her to take it by force if she thinks she can.
Then they power up to their super forms. Aeos goes first, expecting a fight, but Chronoa says she’ll only use this form to talk.
But Aeos sees this as pointless, as her mind is made up. Okay, the problem I have with this show is that they never explain anything past a superficial level. Aeos is the former Supreme Kai of Time, and now she’s come back because she believes Chronoa, her successor, has failed in her duties and allowed too many timelines to exist. Okay, fine, but why did Aeos step down from the office in the first place? Where has she been all this time, and why did she choose to come back now? And what gives her the right to just waltz back into her old job and take over? Does Chronoa have no authority in this? If she doesn’t, then what good is her title?
They struggle for a bit, and Chronoa concedes that all the timelines are a problem, but recent events have shown her that there are great possibilities in some of these timelines, and they’ve helped her overcome all the threats that have shown up in this web-anime. Wait, have they? Goku and Vegeta have handled the bulk of the work, and while there are two sets of them running around, that means you really only need two timelines, tops. Maybe a third, depending on how Trunks’ whole deal is.
I mean, from the layout of this tournament, Hearts and Cumber are from a separate timeline, since they were on a different team. And they may have helped out in the previous arc, but they were also villains. Seems to me that all these alternate timelines are usually the cause of the problems in this show, not the solution.
Anyway, Aeos overpowers Chronoa and gets ready to time-freeze her, when Goku shows up to turn in his fairy and claim victory.
He also wants to ask Aeos to not erase all the timelines where the losing teams came from. Well, we’ve been over this, but Aeos refuses to budge. So now Goku has to do something about this.
So now we’re doing Goku vs. Aeos, and he uses his Ultra Instinct speed to stay one step ahead of her time altering powers. She can’t time-freeze him if she can’t hit him with it.
But Aeos is pretty sharp, and she sets Goku up in a Hellzone Grenade situation. But Goku knows a counter to that, a move that’s near and dear to my heart...
Instant Transmission Kamehameha! Ha ha ha! Get Goku’ed, idiot!
This doesn’t defeat Aeos, but it does disrupt her time field over this area, which... I don’t know what that means. She then decides that the alternate timelines are much graver threat than she realized, if they can produced fighters like Goku.
Meanwhile, back at the site of the Universe Tree, we find Mechikabura’s... ghost? Essence? I assume this is a manifestation of the “Dark Factor” that he released when Trunks killed him in Episode 20. Towa collected this energy and bequeathed it to Fu, who then lost to Goku. We still don’t know what became of Fu, but apparently the power he got from the Dark Factor is still lingering here, cursing Mechikabura’s enemies.
Then Demigra shows up and attacks this Mechikabura ghost and claims the power for himself. Okay...
Then Demigra attacks this tournament grounds Aeos has set up.
Once Aeos sees Demigra, she realizes that he was the “premonition of evil from space-time”. So I think the idea here is that she was worried that something bad would come from the alternate timelines, and she did all this to erase the alternate timelines and eliminate the problem, but now she sees that Demigra was the true threat all along? All right...
She also calls him “Majin Demigra”. I’ve noticed this a number of times in this series. For some reason, a number of characters have referred to Demigra and his underlings as Majins, like it’s a synonym for “demon”, or a specific type of demon. I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to work, but it’s definitely not a translation issue. I can hear the voice actors saying “Majin” plain as day, so I think the subtitles are just going along with it.
So Demigra grabs the humidor where Aeos has been storing the Scroll of Eternity, and declares himself the new Dark King and the ruler of space-time. So this is basically just like the story mode in Xenoverse 1, where he broke out of the Crack of Time, took over the Time Nest and absorbed Tokitoki. In the back of my mind, I’ve been trying to figure out if any of this material in SDBH can be worked into the Xenoverse continuity, but it’s really just telling the same story with different characters. It’s still the Time Patrollers, main timeline Goku, Towa and Demigra. The only difference is that all of these side characters keep showing up in the present, instead of the bad guys manipulating them in the past.
The first thing Demigra does is summon a goofy version of Omega Shenron from the Scroll of Eternity, sort of like how Goku Black did it before, only this one is much sillier. He looks like he fused with Demigra’s final form from the video games.
Then Xeno Gogeta shows up, because he really wasn’t that far away, and he’s a Time Patroller with a hobby of clobbering Omega Shenron. I’m not sure why he’s pink, though.
They basically go through all the spots from the original Gogeta 4 vs. Omega Shenron fight in GT. Well, not the bit with the streamers. It’s supposed to be a callback to GT, but ironically this fight is actually way, way better than GT. Better animation, better colors, and Gogeta’s fusion doesn’t dissolve.
Omega Shenron can’t even touch the guy, so Gogeta 4 polishes him off with a Big Bang Kamehameha like he should have done 26 years ago.
Aeos finally grants that she has to work with Goku and Gogeta to beat Demigra, so it looks like everyone’s on the same page now.
Meanwhile, Demigra’s right-hand woman, Robelu, is here to observe the battle, and she’s brought a plus-one to this event. Who could her mysterious ally possibly be? It’s Broly. Let’s just get this out of the way, it’s fucking Broly again.
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Top 10 Dragon Ball Villains
Number 1. Cell - Cell is a Perfect villain. He’s got the traits of 3 main villains (Piccolo, Vegeta, & Frieza), along with some Goku elements in the mix, and it makes sense when you remember that he’s an android with the cells of the universes strongest fighters. Also he’s got the ability to absorb people, can perfectly copy techniques that would take years to learn, has quite the suave and charming personality in his perfect form, is extremely funny and snarky sometimes, is terrifying a lot of the time, and overall Cell was designed to be the endgame villain of Z, before Toriyama was asked to write the Buu Saga. Also he’s the SECOND villain from Z to be brought into Super, excluding Buu, only that time he’s now this Shin Godzilla inspired monstrosity with the appearance of his second form. Even in THAT state he was frightening! He’s on the same level as Frieza, but is held back by the fact that he was basically an endgame type of villain put in a penultimate setting. Still, he was and is the PERFECT, Non-Frieza, Dragon Ball villain from the get so in terms of concept and execution.
Number 2. Frieza - What else is there to say about this douchebag that hasn’t been said already? Frieza is one of the most terrifying, entitled, ruthless, fake, genocidal, petty, vile, legitimately racist, and unapologetically evil villains to ever roam fiction, and yet he is still entertaining as all hell. Every word he utters is either filled with malice or sleezy, and when karma hits him in the face it’s all well deserved. God this bastard is a great hateable villain.
Number 3. Zamasu/Goku Black - Cheers to the first villain that ACTUALLY sees himself as the hero in this series. Zamasu is a pompous asshole of a Supreme Kai with a god complex that stole Goku’s body in the future, and is hellbent on eradicating all mortals with the help of an immortal alternate timeline version of himself. At first he was Universe 10′s North Kai, meaning that he was watching mortals from afar, before becoming the apprentice of the Supreme Kai, Gowasu. However he wholeheartedly believes that mortals will always be violent savages who only exist to destroy, and the only reason why he became Gowasu’s apprentice was to change that. However after finding out about the existence of Goku, it didn’t take long for the growing darkness in his heart to drive him to come up with the idea to steal Goku’s body and create the “Zero Mortal Plan.” Zamasu himself acts very formal and humble, but he’s self-righteous and is preachy as all hell, both in the main timeline and the alternate future. Then there’s Goku Black, a self righteous prick of a god, and utter lunatic who enjoys the thrill of the fight, and the bloodshed that comes with it, played by none other than Goku’s english and japanese voice actors. And finally there’s Merged Zamasu, the fusion between Goku Black and the alternate Zamasu, and Zamasu’s truest self. A genocidal, self righteous, mad deity willing to do anything to ensure that his twisted sense of justice prevails. So in spite having a diabolos ex-machina ending to his arc, Zamasu is on the same level as Frieza and Cell.
Number 4. Demigra (Xenoverse & Heroes) - I wasn’t big on him at first, but I realized that this guy was a good antagonist for Xenoverse & Heroes. Sure he only appears midway through the story, but he makes up for that by being quite the threat. Demigra was the former Supreme Kai of Time, before getting booted out of his position for some shady shit, and landing in the place that would soon become the Demon Realm. In short, he’s basically some kind of REAL Demon God, a true Satan figure, unlike Dabura and King Piccolo. So he continues to go on raiding the Time Nest, before being sealed away, but the more distortions in history happened, the closer he became to being free. Heck even while imprisoned, he could summon mirages of himself to alter history by corrupting allies like Piccolo, powering up foes like Buu, or straight up trying to piss off and control The God of Destruction! Oh and did I forget to mention that he revels in every bit of torment he causes, so he truly lives up to being a devil in that part. If you think he sounds like some Dragon Quest, Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy, or Fire Emblem villain, I wouldn’t blame you, but I think that’s what makes him stand out compared to other villains in the series. In short, Demigra is offputting at first, but that nature makes him stand out in a pretty good way. It’s such a shame he’s not in the mainline series.
Number 5. Vegeta (Saiyan Saga) - Vegeta was at his best in Z, ESPECIALLY when he was the main villain of the Saiyan Saga. That arrogance, that persistence, that pride in being a living weapon, and the fear factor he brought to the table is truly unforgettable. God I miss having legit Saiyans as cruel as hell villains.
Number 6. Broly (DBS) - The Non-Canon Z Broly was a pyschotic jock, and an okay villain who was motivated by an infant crying and being stabbed by King Vegeta. The canonical version of the character however is a lot less of a kill happy sadist and more of a gentle soul with the body and power of 50 nukes that he has no control over. He’s not truly a bad guy, but he was still a main antagonist, mostly because his horrid ass father, Paragus ordered him to fight Goku and Vegeta, and Frieza cause him to snap twice in the same day. Plus when he snaps and rages, he SNAPS AND RAGES LIKE A WILD ANIMAL. Sure he was only a villain for like one movie, but his time as an out of control weapon is still great. Congrats Toriyama on making a weak ass non-canon villain into one of Super’s best antagonists.
Number 7. Piccolo (OG Dragon Ball) - Before Piccolo was the team dad and the braincell of the Z Fighters, he was the Demon King Piccolo, the evil half of the namekian, Kami, and Goku’s greatest foe. He was terrifying at times, but he also had this level of theatircality to him. Also, in terms of “Big Bad Satan” Archetypes, as King Piccolo, he was pretty good. After he’s offed by a kid Goku. However King Piccolo spat out an egg at the a few seconds before he died, and a few years later we get to King Piccolo’s reborn self, simply named Piccolo Jr, a younger and stronger copy of himself with his soul and memories intact, who’s out get revenge on Goku. And after being defeated for the second time, they became rivals, a few years later in Z they team up against Raditz, Piccolo takes in Gohan, and the rest of his well written redemption arc is histoy.
Number 8. Beerus - He’s a cat destroyer god with the personality of a cat, how was he NOT a good villain? He only eats, sleeps, blows up planets, and acts like an ass. Like this guy tried to blow up earth after his pudding got eaten by Majin Buu! Sure he’s not an active villain, and he’s currently on Goku and the Z-Fighers side, but let’s be glad it’s staying that way.
Number 9. Cooler - He’s basically Frieza’s pompus, envious, and slightly insecure older brother. Literally anything one could say about Frieza can qualify to Cooler, however there’s noticeable differences, outside of the more masculine appearance. He’s less got less of a faux politeness, actually inspires loyalty in his soldiers, and is a lot more pragmatic in general. However, just like his brother, he falls into similar traps.
Number 10. Android 21/Vomi - Ah yes, this bitch. Android 21 was the main villain of Fighterz, and a pretty damn good one. She’s kinda like a mix between Majin Buu and Launch from the OG series, with some scientist elements sprinkled inbetween. By that I mean she’s got two different personalities, a calm and collected scientist with some semblance of a heart, and a literal pyschotic power hungry monster that can absorb people by turning them into sweets. Out of all the modern DB villains, she’s one of the better ones. Oh, she also is designed after Dr Gero’s wife, Yomi.
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LONG POST WARNING!!!
HEIGHT COMPARISIONS
- PART 1
I'm comparing model sizes and it's automatically height comparison. This one made me chuckle a little. People headcanon Fu very tall, but he seems to be like 5'9???
Comparing with Majin 21.
Compared to Whis. She is "about as tall as Whis" but she also wears heels. Perhaps she could be slight taller than that? Who knows.
Also found Shallot pretty sure that's a fan model but I think he's a bout like 5'9 too.
. . . Cute. Shin is so tiny..
Zamasu. Here Tani butt & I kinda love her back profile & how I designed her corset to be "tail-friendly".
Demigra seems to be about as tall as Whis!
Also look how Tani's design is based of demon realmer except she's wearing silver instead of gold. I just prefer silver over gold.
That's it for now!
I'm still experimenting but I really like Tani's height and features. It's different but also not too off. Just fine.
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Hear me out:
Also hear me out:
Demigra is hot even in his monster form. I want him
i NEED him......
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the most obvious and shall i say lowest common denominator interp of chronoa x demigra is this like oooh she's so good and innocent and he's so mean and evil but maybe she can fix him... or they just kiss and she pulls away like no, no this cant happen... but the truth is they experimented in supreme kai of time college together but then she found out he was feeding tokitoki cigarettes and observing the spacetime fluctuations that were created by doing that and so they had that falling out. he betrayed her trust and their friendship so she sealed him away in limbo for 75 million years. and he's PISSED OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and chronoa is sad because god she keeps getting betrayed by people and having to seal them away im limbo for 75 million years it's a really lonely situation :( and one where she's sort of forced to grapple with the fact that it's a fucked up thing to do to someone. and the really interesting thing, is then demigra shows up again and voices his ambitions to usurp her but then spends the next like year as a "temporary ally" bc there's always some bigger and more scarier threat at that particular moment so as much as he's her mortal enemy they're always on the same fucking side and it really gets kind of suspicious like come on man are you being totally honest with yourself? bc you haven't done a single evil thing since getting back. and of course NOW he is in the latest arc but, yet, one might notice he hasn't had his confrontation with chronoa yet.. and i hope it's chewy and delicious. they are THE beef and the rivalry. goku and aeos get out of the way they need to talk about this. i want to see THEM fight 1v1 so bad even though i know they'll never do it....
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Edgelord of the Day #95:
Demon God Demigra
From: Dragon Ball
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aggie io doodles feat my buddy gina @pussyfootmaneuver
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Three Dark Kings....three attempts at this style lmao.
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Super Dragon Ball Heroes 47-49
All right, it’s about time we wrapped this web-anime up...
So Demigra gained Dark Factor powers, plus he controls the Scroll of Eternity, so he’s riding high at the moment. The first thing he does is alter the landscape of Aeos’ tournament battleground. I’m not sure why this matters, since none of these environments were real or anything, right?
Then he summons various bad guys to fight the warriors on the battleground. And not just the usual suspects, either. We’re talking deep cuts, like Chilled from “Episode of Bardock”, and Fin, a Majin from the SDBH manga. I think Towa created Fin, but I’m not sure.
Also, some of Mechikabura’s crew from the Dark Empire saga, again seen in the manga. This is weird, because a number of these guys would consider Demigra an enemy, although maybe they’d sing a different tune since he’s the Dark King.
We finally got Super 13 and Lord Slug in this show. So now the only classic movie baddies left unused are Garlic Junior and Bio-Broly. I’ll be looking for them down the line, when SDBH releases the “Fugliest Yaoi Couple” Arc.
Oh, and here’s Baby Vegeta and Hatchiyack, ready to take on Jiren. See, what irks me about this series is that this would actually be pretty fun to watch. Would these two brutes stand a chance, or would Jiren blow them away with his awesome strength? But instead we just get this one shot to tease the idea, with no follow-through. And that would make sense, considering that we have a main plot to follow, but that main plot always involves the same characters doing the same moves over and over again.
And we’ve got Cell, but so what? This show already brought back Cell and didn’t do anything with him, so why should I get excited when they do it a second time?
Also, SSJ4 Broly is here, but Xeno Gogeta takes care of him. I’m not clear on whether this was a bad guy Demigra arranged to help him, or if this is the same Broly who was entered in Aeos’s tournament, and he just wandered over here on his own.
Seriously, this is really weak stuff. We’ve seen fusion in this show at least ten times now, and this is the second or third time they’ve had Broly barge into the story as a wildcard. I was going to say they had Broly fight Gogeta already, but no, that was Vegito the last time, my mistake. I mean, what the hell? The whole appeal of Dragon Ball Heroes was the plethora of what if scenarios and weird dream matches that you couldn’t get anywhere else. But this show’s been running for five years now, and what do they do? Broly vs. Gogeta. Yeah, that’s totally fresh and novel. It’s not like they made a feature film about it or anything.
Goku tries to stop Demigra, but he gets wiped out, so Aeos tries to beat him with some big special move she rarely uses. Also no sale. Demigra just powers out of it the same as anything else.
Meanwhile, I gues Chilled must have killed Vidro’s people, because he talks about finishing the job when he sees her, and this gets her all fired up.
Vidro and Yamcha do a combo move where he makes a Soukidan and she covers it in broken glass, and they drop it on Chilled’s head. Then Vidro proposes to Yamcha, so things are moving very quickly here.
Demigra’s got Goku dead to rights, but then Vegeta shows up to make the save, and that gives Chronoa and idea. She asks Aeos to keep Demigra busy while she executes a plan to save the day. Is it fusion? Yes, yes it is.
Meanwhile, Trunks and Future Gohan are getting beat down, and Gohan apologizes for letting him down, but Trunks tells him that they can protect each other this time, and fight side-by-side. And I guess that’s a dream come true for both of them, since Trunks never had the chance in his timeline, and this version of Gohan comes from a world where he survived but his Trunks got killed.
So Vegito seems to turn the tide against Demigra, but he’s not too worried because he estimates that their fusion will dissolve relatively quickly if he keeps fighting at this level. So Demigra weathers the storm and...
Yeah, they come apart, and Demigra takes out Vegeta just to make sure they don’t try this again.
Demigra powers up and powers up his minions, then shoots a big energy ball down at Goku. He tries his best to stop it, but he can’t do it alone.
But then he’s joined by Future Gohan, who reluctantly left Trunks to fight alone so he could lend support to Goku.
But Trunks isn’t alone for long, as a bunch of good guys start showing up to help. Are these the other fighters from the tournament? Didn’t Aeos erase them already?
Then Bardock shows up to help Gohan and Goku against Demigra. He gives them a pep talk and they power up some more. Goku goes Ultra Instinct, Bardock turns Super Saiyan 4...
... And I don’t think Future Gohan changes at all. Well, anyway, their combined power finally pushes Demigra back...
... and that’s it. We’ll have to wait until Episode 50 comes out to see if Demigra is defeated or not. I would think this would do the trick. I mean, they already used Fusion as a false finish, so if this triple Kamehameha can’t do it, I don’t know what else there is to try.
So for now, that takes care of Super Dragon Ball Heroes. It’s a fun little diversion, but it’s pretty weak on plot and long-term storytelling. The show mainly depends on namedropping and cramming as many power ups and characters into each episode to get attention. I’m glad I waited this long to watch the whole thing in a short period of time, because checking this thing out in 9 minute installments once every 6-8 weeks would get really, really frustrating.
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