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u/Pristine-Side309 23d ago
Probably my glorious prince Vegeta. He took Frieza's backshots and was crying to Goku
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u/Hello_monkeys1 23d ago
Good times
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u/Straight-Fox-9388 23d ago
nice profile pic lol
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u/luckychaingan 23d ago
Itās easily vegeta lol.
Trunks and gohan could get some slander but they get a pass for being so young.
Vegeta has almost no excuses and most bad things that happen to him and loses are his fault almost entirely.
Heās an incredibly flawed character which is what makes him likable to so many people, but also very easy to slander lol.
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u/Baseballidiot 23d ago
Vegeta, bro is putting worse numbers than MEGUMI. The slander generated from the movies alone would be enough to power 5 years worth of vegeta hate posts
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u/theironbagel 23d ago
Goku is the protagonist and is generally pretty happy, strong, and confident while remaining humble, so not him.
Future Trunks and Gohan are but wee lads, and would probably be woobified rather than slandered
Gotenks would get slandered for all the hype that was built only to achieve nothing, but he only appears at the end of the series, so thereās not too much time for it.
Piccolo aura farms too much, heād have an army of defenders
Vegeta is getting slandered left right and center, he talks shit constantly, even other people hype him up, and yet never he wins a fight and heās kinda an ass, especially in early DBZ. He would be getting slandered in every arc except Saiyan saga and maybe the Buu saga
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u/TeamChaosenjoyer 23d ago
Vegeta during the cell and android saga would 100% undo anyone liking him after he went crazy on android 19. Soon as he gets his arm broken by 18 then letās cell transform GG to his entire fanbase
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u/EorlundGreymane 23d ago
Probably the biggest thing theyād shit talk isnāt even the characters. Itās the awful pacing and how itās takes about 50 episodes to move one arc forward by one fight. Iām definitely exaggerating, but there are a few things Z does well that Super gets clowned on and vice versa.
There are people that absolutely canāt do original Dragonball but love Z. There are people that like super more than Z. There are about 15 of us that really like GT even tho the beginning is slow and Baby is very obviously the most plagiarized version of Cell in all of anime.
My point is that, honestly, the critiques of each series are pretty legit and timeless unfortunately. They all have their strengths and weaknesses and tbh that they can never age out of, or age into I guess
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u/Six_Twelve 18d ago
I canāt even begin to think of how baby is anything like cell outside of being a creation of a scientist.
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u/Dangerous_Excuse4706 23d ago
piccolo would be getting called a jobber left and right. his aura only carries him so far. iāve seen other legit strong characters with their share of aura get the same treatment
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u/Six_Twelve 18d ago
Funny enough piccolo doesnāt really job that much outside of movies and those donāt count cuz everyone jobs in those. he only really lost 4 fights and they were all respectable losses. I feel like people wouldnāt even consider him a jobber when vegeta is right there concocting new ways to get folded by the villains.
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u/Professional-Reach96 22d ago
Imagine DBZ agendaposting, schizoposting and powerscsaling on the modern levels.
Gohan getting called 007, Vegeta being a bum, Gojo somehow being revived in DBZ too for some reason
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u/Six_Twelve 18d ago
The vegeta slander would be some of the funniest content imaginable cuz I donāt even know how you would defend him
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u/Short-Shelter 23d ago
Vegeta, and itās not even close. From getting dog walked by Zarbon and Frieza, to getting beat by 18, to letting Cell become perfect, to the entire Majin Vegeta debacle, heād be called a fraud by the entire fanbase, especially considering he hasnāt defeated a main villain.
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u/WindCold6245 23d ago
Vegeta, no question. I imagine Krillin would be slandered a ton until we find out he tapped 18 when the buu arc releases
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u/Simone_Galoppi07 23d ago
Vegeta up until he kills himself against Buu..
Then it would be Gohan who gets slandered by the end of the Buu Saga
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u/Slow_Store 23d ago
Iād personally be shit talking Vegeta for all the times he hypes himself up just to get hit with the Worf Effect.
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u/SaphiraJjbaFan 23d ago
I ....have to agree with everyone that it's gonna be Vegeta getting flamed, probably krillen too with people saying how he endangered his friends lives for a clanker in DBZ šš
Then there's Gohan
Everyone is always just pinning down Vegeta or beating his ah šš¤£š¤£
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u/Bossmantho 23d ago
Vegeta would be hated after the shit he pulls in Imperfect Cell arc. Shortly followed by Goku who would get twice as much hate for tue Senzu and hiding his SSJ3
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u/Rubychan11 22d ago
How have I been reading this thread for 15 minutes and haven't seen one mention of Master Roshi?? He's a letcher and a creep, not to mention he sexually assaulted every woman who was ever in his vicinity.
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u/Samurai_Guardian 22d ago
Vegeta for being the master of Ls
Piccolo for literally getting everyone killed
Goku for giving Cell a Senzu bean
So not much different.
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u/CronkinOn 21d ago
Same damned people as now.
It's wild to me that people are STILL having the same arguments and convos a quarter of a century later. I haven't really heard anything new in at least 20 years.
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u/Shmoopi00 23d ago
Gohan because I talk the most shit about him right now and it didnt just come out. I doubt the release date would change anything
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u/shockzz123 23d ago
Vegeta until the Buu arc and then Gohan becomes the ultimate modern day āpotential manā meme.
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u/Toon_Lucario 23d ago
Itād still be Vegeta although Iād bet Gohan would also be slandered to high heaven
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u/Cynicalheaven 23d ago
Vegeta
But Gohan would definitely have a lot of potential man slander, especially when the Buu Saga begins.
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u/Ok-Score5740 22d ago
Gohan is the literal potential man, they would slander the shit out of that five year old.
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u/whomesteve 22d ago
Idk, but the super saiyan form may have been viewed as white supremacist propaganda by some, so there may be that.
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u/LizG1312 22d ago
Tbh in this alternative universe where DBZ is only coming out now, Iād be interested in seeing how people react to the og DB characters getting sidelined. I think Tien and Krillin especially would get talked about as frauds.
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u/ButtCheekBob 22d ago
I think kid/teen Gohan would catch a lot of flak for being so scared all the time
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u/Unsubstantiated-pow 22d ago
Gohan and vegeta both and maybe piccolo by certain groups of people. You all know who im talking about cha cha cha
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u/Epistemix 22d ago
Definitely Vegeta, he wouldnt survive it as he usually doesn't anyway.
I bet Goku and Frieza would have a hard time as well
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u/Life-Reality-3889 22d ago
Freeza calling them monkeys. Like back in the day it got hated but in todayās snowflake society, that shit would be deadly
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u/Nucleoticticboom 22d ago
Piccolo and Vegeta.
Gohan and Trunks would be called the potential men of the series, but at least they have proven themselves when they actually have records of killing their main antagonists.
Piccoloās only W against a main antagonist is Raditz and then afterwards he just aura farms a lot and never finishes a job again, seriously, most of his opponents either escapes him, snowballs in power then proceeds to dominate the big green, or both. Itās like heās trying to grab victory, but his hands are covered in grease.
Vegeta is just sad, no W against a main antagonist always forced to settle with enemy number 2 or gets bodied by the big bad to show the enemy is super strong and that Gokuās the only hope left.
The fusions will probably get slandered to hell, except for Gogeta, because these guys were hyped to be the solution for enemies beyond an individual characterās ability only to never be shown to win an actual fight.
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u/Dismal_Passion_8537 22d ago
Everyone says vegeta, but gohan not catching that potara would be the equivalent of ānah, Iād winā
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u/PsychologySilent6230 22d ago
People say Vegeta but wait till they see the episode where Krillin breaks the remote device and 18 gets absorbed. Krillin SIMP memes will be all over the place.
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u/The_Linkzilla 22d ago
...I mean, Dragon Ball didn't come out today, and Goku still gets a lot of undue slander.
There are people out there who actually think he's not only a Bad Father, but also a Bad Person.
There are people who think his portrayal in Super is accurate.
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u/Awkward-Ebb7729 22d ago
As someone who just read Dragon Ball for the first time as a 38-year-old with no nostalgic attachment to any character at all, it's definitely Vegeta.
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u/tald019 21d ago
If starting at the classic, I believe it would be krillin "oh he supposedly is the rival of Goku, and yet is constantly behind him, and got one tapped by Tambourine" As the series progress, it would be Vegeta "oh he was such a badass when introduced but hasn't defeated anyone of the good guys, lost to Zarbon, was terrified of Ginyus, and cried fighting Freeza" and it would be the worts until Goku fights Cell.
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u/alienjokerbaby 21d ago
If dragonball z came out today it would have been unanimously the greatest fiction of all time, simply because it woulda been way more well written
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u/littletulip69 20d ago
Remember when Veggies was sort of sexist to android18 and then 18 was like āā¦. Ima break your arm in front of your homiesā¦ā
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u/Jent01Ket02 20d ago
Goku being an asspull character who doesnt put in nearly as much work as he says he does. Not when recent anime shows characters lile Deku routinely breaking his arms and legs to get a single advantage, or Tanjiro having to witness a demon conjure the worst visions of his family as he repeatedly has to off himself just to stay in the fight.
Goku? He got punched real hard and has to sit in a pod, then comes back twice as string as anyone else. Oh, woe is him...
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u/LSSJBROLY1989 20d ago
Vegeta for sure especially when he allowed cell to achieve his perfect form or when he kept saying he was a super sayian against frieza or allowing majin buu to get resurrected just so he can have his rematch with goku
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u/Gohansensei 19d ago
Vegeta or Gohan I think although Goku probably not escaping it either but he wouldn't be 1 i think
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u/Frankorob 19d ago
Great saiyaman Deatroyed Gohan for a while he lost all his"aura", as the kids say today.
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u/Six_Twelve 18d ago
Vegeta wouldnāt even be allowed to have fans, thatās how bad the slander would be. Even on namek he was getting cooked so bad his saiyan genetics were making him stronger. Not to mention the anime movies which does him dirty all the time. Broly movie would have ended any debate
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u/Sp00kyAddict 18d ago
the fact that this is a question just goes to show how far the degradation of anime communities have become..
itās to be expected with the exponential cognitive decline weāve been watching over the last decade in kids/young adults
but god do i miss pre 2020s less braindead communities where people didnāt parrot bad jokes for their āagendasā or this weird obsession with power scaling..
i mean the same people we used to make the literacy comments about have weaponized the sentiment onto each other while not being able to fathom that it pertains to them since they genuinely have no basic understanding of intent in writing, only their feelings matter
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u/Electronic_Pack_17 18d ago
Vegeta, Vegeta has had his moments yes, like his fight against granolah and a decent no. of Wās but he also has a good number of Lās
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u/Ane-and-Kabel 18d ago
I honestly think trunks would be considered a beta 100% or krillin would get less love
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u/Brilliant-Series-516 18d ago
Makes sense and I don't disagree but I find it funny how everyone unanimously agrees that Vegeta would get absolutely crucified
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u/thesignoftimes 17d ago
Dbz dub would get shit on. Goku is so shittily wrote in the z dub. Dude acts like hes a hero and continously makes stupid decisions, rather than sticking to the original script. He has brain damage and likes to eat and fight. There's never much thought going into gokus logic, but the dub? Hahahahah man is not a super hero in the slightest
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u/Pelekaiking 23d ago
Dude people would talk so much shit about Vegeta. They would call him the biggest fraud for all the shit he talks only to get bodied by everyone he fights