Top Gun

The Allman Brothers created the best goddamn driving music known to man.

Swinging back to the OP here, I think the primary difference is that Luffy has a very strongly-defined sense of justice and compassion. He does take some inherent joy in fighting, and he repeatedly insists that he be the one to personally take on the Big Bad of the arc (as if it would happen any other way), but for all his protests against wanting to be a hero ("They have to share the meat!"), he jumps right into the role if people are suffering or being oppressed. That goes triple if it's someone he considers to be a friend, even if that person had fought against him in the past. (See: the greatest punch in anime history.) His seeming stupidity could be better described as single-mindedness: he has the innate ability to see straight through to what's necessary to help someone, and lord help you if you're the ass he needs to kick in order to do so, even if it makes him an enemy of the entire world. And Cille already did a great job of explaining how Luffy has an inherent trust in his crew's abilities: he values them because they can do things he can't, and he knows that they can hold their own when times are tough. In turn, the rest of the Straw Hats are driven to be stronger in order to help Luffy fulfill his goal. Then you look at Goku, who...fights. And trains to fight. And that's about it really. He's in it almost entirely because he likes to fight, and he doesn't strive to get stronger in order to better protect people, but instead for its own sake. Yes he has friends and family, and he does care about them in his own way, but they're always secondary to his drive to be the strongest fighter in the universe. Hell, he's repeatedly put the entire planet (and more) in grave danger just for the sake of fighting his opponent at their full power. As much as he loves punching people, that's not something Luffy would ever do. (Also we all know that DBZ Abridged totally nailed how Goku's kids were conceived. "He said one week...I'm using it.")

*looks back at OP* https://www.youtube.com/embed/P5iqYuFmzqg

brb choking on massive amounts of irony And would anyone like to explain to ben what "taking it personally" actually looks like? Or should we all save ourselves that collective migraine?

Man you really have shit-tier tastes across the entire spectrum don't you?

hyyyyyype

Honestly it is something of a running gag that "nobody dies in One Piece except in flashbacks" (right up until it isn't anyway), and yeah there are a few cases like Pell's where by all reason someone really should have snuffed it, but it's easy enough to laugh off. The thing with DBZ is that there is A LITERAL DEUS EX MACHINA RIGHT IN THE NAME OF THE FRANCHISE. And that's not really a problem at all in the early days of Goku freaking out over Bulma's missing balls, because everything's kind of goofy and nothing's being taken seriously. But when you get to DBZ and there are these all-powerful villains and threats of massive destruction and apocalyptic stakes, any sense of dramatic tension gets sucked right out of the room as soon as you realize that any bad things that happened will get undone in the blink of an eye anyway. Hell, even Goku's "final death" at Cell's hands is a total joke when you see him immediately afterwards chilling all happy in the afterlife, and he's seemingly able to talk with anyone he wants at any time anyway. It makes me wish that Toriyama had stuck with the happy-go-lucky earlier tone of the series, because the alternative just doesn't hold up.

And yet you remain socially oblivious and can't separate terrible personal taste from dispassionate analysis. So have fun with that.

I normally mock people for saying this, but holy fuck tell me that second half wasn't scripted.

Except in this franchise "dead" means "okay guys see you next week!"

The commercials looked absolutely heinous, so I'm surprised to hear it's actually decent.

I heard the recent Street Fighter stuff was pretty heinous. The original movie would be too if not for Raul Julia absolutely chewing the scenery and dishing out some of the best one-liners ever.

ITT we learn that someone who "got straight A's throughout high school" can't even recognize basic plot progression.

I somehow doubt that Toonami is overly concerned with the opinions of a handful of nerd refugees from the decaying corpse of the ASMB.

It's fun watching someone who couldn't even pass a high school English class attempt to critique an author's writing abilities.

1/10 not even up to Zeni standards

Vampire Wars Psychic Wars Sword for Truth Descendants of Darkness MD Geist Virus fucking Buster Serge QED

It only takes three to slap someone upside the head.

I Stuck My Dick Into a Hole I Cut in My Waifu Pillow, but It Turned Out She's Really an Ancient Rabbit Goddess?!

Fair enough. That's not something I particularly understand beyond a cursory academic sense, but hell, you do you.

It's adorable watching ben get so butthurt over the shitty series he likes getting canceled while Togashi can take two-year breaks and still sell ridiculous numbers of volumes because he can actually write well.

No, seriously: unless you are the parent of young children, why do you even care what letters or numbers show up there? It's all completely arbitrary based on whatever standards & practices intern happens to be given the shitty job that week.

The fact that anyone gives a shit about what those little boxes full of letters say continues to bemuse me.

Oh shit, I totally forgot Psychonauts 2, though that wasn't a Kickstarter per se.

2/10 troll harder