that is a constant in Dragon Ball.
enemies get defeated, surpasseda and then they become entourage
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It was hilarious watching Dragon Ball after growing up on Dragon Ball Z. When Yamcha shows up and is a threat I lost it.
I'm in the cell saga of dbz. Do those dragonball goons, the girl and the fox and the little blue baby tyrant ever come back?
That's the best part of the whole series IMO. I loved cell as a villain.
Yes, but you're decades away lmao
Oh jeez, so like... In super or something. That's amazing. Does Lunch ever come back after z? They just did her so dirty...
Hmm... She appears on and off at Kame House I think, but mainly as a background character. Agreed they did her dirty.
Piccolo noooooooooooooo!
Jesse and James were always effective, they just suck at villainy. They are good at dressing up, making rube-goldberg devices, and many other things, they just aren't evil enough to elevate that potential. If they were, Giovanni would be sleeping with the magi-karp, and Ash would be eaten by their Arbok.
good at dressing up
Ah yes, I still remember questioning my sexuality over James when I watched pokemon as a teenager. Good times
Was that with or without his massive tits?
What was the answer to the questioning?
Its always a maybe!
"But the as the stakes"
Kind of like what happened to Bush after Trump came around.
Seriously. I was at the right age to be much more politically intense back then and absolutely despised Bush.
Now, I almost feel bad about it after witnessing the last 20 years of politics.
We can have room in our hearts to hate more than one monstrous US president.
Well, there' also Nixon..
But only almost.
Yeah, I still think the criticisms of Bush were valid, but I'm so much more cool-headed as a person now that the difference in my response feels incongruent. Political news doesn't take an emotional toll on me like it used to, even though I objectively disagree with modern politicians more.
I think you're wrong that it doesn't take an emotional toll on you like before. However, it's such a toll that you just have to start ignoring it. Back then it felt useful to constantly pay attention. Now it's all so bad that if you paid attention to all of it you'd go insane, so we have to be more relaxed and only let the big things get to us.
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That's called "The Memory Hole".
We take all the illegality and corruption and horrific violence and torture and wars and media manipulation/intimidation and petty dictator shit and stuff it down the Memory Hole. Then we get to pretend
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This shit
Wasn't such a big deal after all.
Yeah but at least it was a scandal. That asshole, and a bunch of others, went to jail, even if it wasn't long enough. If it happened today they'd either never be charged or pardoned and that asshole would be the Secretary of Defense.
What in the ever loving fuck is this??? And why am I being shown it?
Americans "liberating" iraquis.
America has been the bad guys for close to a century at this point the difference maker is their marketing game was on point.
Now? They no longer with Saatchi and Saatchi lol
the only pass they get is that at least they fought the nazis one time. even though they now claim all the credit, and took them forever to join the fight, and had a strong faction that wanted to join the nazis, and it was American racism that inspired nazism, and nazis are now cool in America...
That spoiler tag did NOT work what the fuck dude
It follows lemmy spoiler format. Your ui is not compliant
Jesus Christ.
I very well remember seeing the censored version of that image... this is the first time I've seen it uncensored.
I've seen uncensored pics from the highway of death, other graphic shit that made it onto the early days of liveleak... but there ya go, memory hole in action.
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and then you have the venture bros, where the monarch starts off as goofy and ineffectual but becomes more menacing as the series goes on and the stakes get higher
I didn't realise that "Venture Bros" was a TV series and thought you were talking about Silicon Valley tech bros and venture capitalists and was like "sounds about right".
If anyone is a victim of "Villain Decay" in the Venture Bros its Brock Sampson. The Swedish Murder Machine is practically a teddy bear by the final arc.
They did fucking stellar work with the character growth. I normally hate the "you need to give it a couple seasons" kind of thing, but Venture Bros did so well to have a moment where you feel the tone start to change, and somehow, the goofier start ends up working in the shows favor.
I will never look at a Homies the same way again.
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"Supernatural" in a word
This same process is why u stop watching cop/detective dramas as soon as a protagonist gets kidnapped.
- This happens 100% of the time, usually 3 season in
- You know they’ve gone from procedural to full on drama at this point
- The quality always drops off a cliff here
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Hercule.
Dude didn't even have super strength.
Yeah, but you know shit’s about to get real when he summons all the characters into the drawing room.
Captain cold in cw flash
I don't think that's fair as Captain Cold was never a credible threat to a speedster in the first place
Just about nothing but another speedster is. The dude can think and move faster that the speed of light, he spent an entire episode in the split second it took for a nuke to go off. The fact that he's constantly getting his ass kicked is a flaw of the character more than the writing IMO (though don't get me wrong, the writing was also bad).
I loved in the first season and then again whenever Zoom happened where you'd get him saying at the end of the intro "My name is Barry Allen, and I'm the fastest man alive", immediately followed up with "Previously on The Flash: (highlight of him being outrun and beaten up by another guy)"
Villainflation
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