Dragonball Z Abridged Creator Commentary | World's Strongest 

LANI IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT I HEAR IT TOO

the VA for him definitely put more inflection on the "I'm", and Nick pointing it out makes me hear it so much clearer

Lani raises a great point there.

This is some frozen pea commercial levels of pet-peevishness 😂

Agreed, that said it goes by so fast and it's the only line he get so it's not the biggest of deals.

I know! It’s kind of adorable! Like he’s imagining it’s some kid’s birthday party and they might be disappointed it’s not the real world’s strongest fighter, and he wouldn’t want that to happen. That’s how that line read comes across to me and I love it

Same energy as that kid misspelling *Santa* in his letter asking for a puppy, but the fallen angel still gets him a "puppy" anyway so the kid isn't disappointed.

It’s like if David Blaine found out that a child wanted to see “the best magician ever” at his birthday party and was like “welp, gotta right that wrong” 😂

And Masako's delivery on "There's been a mistake, I gotta fix this" sounds exactly like a dad explaining how he has to pull an extra shift cause someone borked up inventory or something

Idk, shouldn't give him the benefit of the doubt

That line unironically goes hard for a series that is, in fact, a comedy parody.

@@kylebrady969 people constantly forget that dragon ball has been a parody all along. I guess it's hard to see from all that distance in the past.

Lani's delivery is AMAZING.

Oh shit that's so funny and it makes a lot of sense.

What if Kochin turned evil over time? Realizing the Red Ribbon paid handsome amounts of money for evil inventions after Wheelo already ended up in his robo-suit, and then went psycho after being left wandering the world looking for the Dragon Balls.

Or Kochin was like an incompetent intern who thought being a scientist meant being evil and no one stopped him after Wheelo got sick.

The “didn’t realize Kochin was an evil scientist” gets worse/funnier when you realize Kochin made the ball pit, biomen, and modified Zapzap, Blubblub, and Burr all without him ever noticing. Though, I’m just now realizing, whatever you have to say about Kochin’s morals you can’t deny he has loyalty. He spent 50 years finding the dragon balls (that a certain group kept taking) and tried his best to get a body for Wheelo.

Agreed. Also that shot of Kami and Nail during the ToP.

Accepted headcanon

​@@EvanSol919 As well as the Popo threatening Vegeta after breaking the hyperbolic time chamber 😁

And Goku being a literally man child

no that's definitely not the case. They just needed somewhere for him to chill out and store his collection of plushies so of course they'll show his house. Plus it's a neat way to reference Namek architecture

One of the best in the series, because it’s something I never really thought about before

It has the same energy as the Cooler 2 gag where Goku plummets to Namek after winning the day, and when he lands, there's just a hellish nuclear explosion for no reason

Every movie seems to have its one great bit goku putting down the spirit bomb vegeta getting kicked in the dick 1000 times or goten getting erased lol

It's the "good work team!" that slays me

She’s been 37 for ten years

I think mid 30s but sure, that definitely works either way 😂

@@twenty-fifth420she’s like 27 at the beginning of z so she’s like 29 max during this

@@cavemanbuddyolpalActually on the nose, she was born in Age 733 and this movie was probably in like 762. So 29. My bad!

I feel like Bulma helps run his business because she's bored and wants to. She could simply give him anything he needs, but running a business keeps Roshi going and sometimes he needs a hand.

​@@Marcelelias11He's on a list for sure at least

@@doctorsnakeeater1997You think Master Roshi is his real name?

⁠@@Marcelelias11he can also blow up the moon with zero effort and is best buddies with everyone alive that could stop him, so really who’s gonna hold him accountable?

​@@Marcelelias11For the drugs? Nah, it's a sovereign micro-nation. The various acts of perversion probably qualify him, though.

​@@Marcelelias11unless murder on international waters stuff like drug and alcohol consumption is legal

Yeah, if people dont know hes the world strongest then no one would come challenge him

Roshi's retired. It's a good move for Goku to want to go and fix things rather than letting his foster dad whose supposed to be retired need to work against his will.

Or that someone might be hurt if they’re mistaken for him.

i like the take of goku being loving to the point where he’s caring about someone mistakenly identifying the worlds strongest because he wants to ensure the true world’s strongest is there in case there was danger that only the worlds strongest could handle to save whatever could be threatening enough to need the worlds strongest around

@@exceedcharge1so it’s goku fault literally that the earth is in danger all the time

How do you put text in italics on here? I didn't know that was possible. Also, totally agree: "neutral science" is a great line.

​​​​@@MrDabman123Put underscores right before & after the part you want to italicize. _Ding!_ Like that.

@@TechnicalJimActual, you are a God! Thank you!

​@@TechnicalJimActual_yeeee_

@@MrDabman123 Additionally, if you put an asterisk (*) before and after, *you get bold.* And if you put a dash there instead, -you strike right through.- You can also *_-combine them.-_*

That's literally the plot to dragon ball...

honestly it'd be kinda fun to bring up the transformation school in Dragon Ball again.

@@sarafontanini7051 maybe in Daima, we can only hope

And a bitchin' tunic

I'm amused by this comment because it feels like you cant say ocarina without 'of time' at the end.

He’s Link dressed as Crono

@@domonikistheguy Try it, it's impossible.

Funnily enought Tapion came out 6 months before OoT

That sounded highly specific. Is everything okay? 😅

@@tonberry2670 Yes, my imagination just pinpointed exactly this comparison for some reason

But then that new customer is an old man trying who wants something fixed, but it's something easy like downloading the latest edition of javascript, which Shenron tries to explain but the old man is hearing none of that

​@@CrownofMischiefA job that shouldn't be frustrating yet is because of the people around you lol

Honestly I'd totally believe that in the DBZA universe version of GT, Shenron had just gotten sick and tired of everyone's shit, so using a couple loopholes in some of the more recent wishes he set it up so they'd keep making a few more wishes so he could activate the Shadow Dragon clause in his contract and finally get a chance to kick the crap out of them. Then once he got that out of his system he just sorta felt like seeing how far away he could abandon Goku before he realized something was off.

Perfect

Goku punches lots of people... more likely coincidence

​@@tsm688but then... Why him specifically?

​@@TheGoddamnBacon Well, he did say he'd deck the next person he sees. Seems Freezer was just a case of wrong place at wrong time.

I thought it was a reference to the Khmer Rouge because he usually wears one of those Mao Era unisex jumpsuits.

The Red Star is pretty obvious, but no matter how worse that reputation should be, can't criticize that ideology.

You mean it wasn't Animal Farm?

@@LycanFerretCould be both.

​​@@battlesheep2552In Toriyama's vision yeah probably. But TFS did not. The Mao outfit was used because in OG Dragomball Oolong actually wore it a number of times, that's not photo-shopped on

"evil science" "No! Neutral science at worst!"

I just can’t get over the delivery on “and FIGHT the elderly!”

Exactly. Poor Wheelo is just so pitiable in this version

Agreed. It's deprarious on it's own, but it's also a wonderful character moment

Blub Blub dying was very upsetting to me the first time I watched this. It still does to a degree.

I feel so bad for him, it tugs the heartstrings

​@@ericbright1742I got it!

😂 I do agree with him, when I heard that line I always thought: “wait weren’t you already the electrocutioner or am I missing something?”

He's also 100% right lol

he really is green 😌

Oh are we talking about their flubs? Because I have one that drives me INSANE. In super android 13, vegeta totals 8 androids, BUT he was only counting the androids that trunks didn’t warn them about, which reached 7. This mistake came from the fact that after learning of cell, he says “DO I HEAR 5?” Because he just found out about a fourth, and was waiting for the fifth. But they added 3 to that number and got 8 instead of 7, and I drives me crazy that no one talks about it.

That line has always, ALWAYS sounded weird to me, because of this!

>Wheelo breaks out Wheelo: HOW LONG HAVE I HAD THIS?! Kochin: Wait, you seriously didn’t know about the exoskeleton body I left for you? You really thought I would just leave you in a jar? What kind of monster do you think I- >Wheelo breaks floor and Kochin falls Kochin: FAIR ENOOOOOOOOOOUGH!!!!

You guys should try to do The Bojack movie as a Christmas special!

@@rickyhall1477 That or another Krillin movie pitch to Nappa like they did for Dead Zone.

For years i felt weird liking worlds strongest most, but now i lean into it, look tomar its you

This is my fave TFS movie. I wrestled with this and Broly (love Lani’s Vegeta) but what you said is why this edges

Same. I always assumed he was announcing himself, as opposed to correcting the name

Meh, I always heard it as a neutral correction: he just stating that he’s not Zap, he’s The Electrocutioner. It’s not like he’s upset at having to correct Freezer, he’s just stating the change.

Right, as opposed to emphasizing "Electrocutioner", showing he's fullheartedly accepted his change in name and occupation.

Then electrocutionate him! I don’t give a (bleep)!

“I’M the captain now” energy

I mean, I doubt he was looking for them for 50 years. The Z fighters use them multiple times in that span and would have stumbled upon him multiple times if he were searching for them for 50 years.

Presumably every time they did get used by someone else, he had to begin his work tracking them down all over again.

​@@squiddler7731Exactly

To be fair he did it with no Dragon Radar, that's a fair amount of time to find seven magic balls scattered over the face of the planet. For all we know some of them were in different countries.

​@@squiddler7731gotta wait a year each time they are used too just so they aren't inert...

Ya, that's a way better reason to want that body. Infinite lifespan to have all the time he needs to research and invent. Plus, Wheelo is an old man, and assuming it goes by the realistic concept that the voice comes from the body not the soul/brain, then Roshi's voice would sound the least strange for Wheelo to hear when talking.

Oh hey that's a fun an world building question. What's keeping Roshi from aging? Because if it's his mastery over ki control, that goes away if you take over his body. It's not like he asked the dragon balls for eternal life or anything, right?

@@spdewertton Was the phoenix joke in the manga or was it anime filler? I forget.

@@spdewertton so it's a bit ambiguous, but Turtle mentions a medicine/elixir of immortality in the original manga, but doesn't seem certain and Roshi doesn't confirm or deny it, however later on in the Piccolo Daimao arc he mentions the water of immortality not existing to Tenshinhan (this is literal translation from the manga, as Viz translates them as immortality elixir and elixir of immortality respectively). Ultimately, Roshi's agelessness is never truly explained, though Super once tried their hand with it as well with the Paradise Herb, though this was anime-only.

@@FightingFoodonsFanFortunately we know it does in TFS’ version, as shown with Goku and Ginyu.

Oh thats right, when they were looking for the basho sen

To bear fair, they didn't have to change the plot by that much. The only true deviation from the plot was making Wheelo sympathetic while his partner is the purest form of the Mad Scientist archetype that keeps making Wheelo's life miserable.

I like to imagine he has like regeneration abilities, and was left intact enough to make a full recovery

And combat!

​@@HunhowsShadowStalkernoooo...

And he has a crippling fear of death

I felt so bad cackling at his cries. So unnecessarily dark it becomes funny.

Or they're in Movie HFIL. They're probably past the strength cutoff (assuming Raditz as the minimum), and we know from Cell that being a programmed evil artificial life form is no excuse.

@@somejerk5662Maybe they graduated already? And because Kochin isn’t a robot in this version of the story, maybe he can be in HFIL?

@@BlusterTheBenevolent Sadly unlikely. Aside from his gun arm, he’s just an ordinary human so he wouldn’t be powerful enough to not be put in the cleansing machine.

​@@BlusterTheBenevolentHe's probably in another HFIL. He's too insane to be quickly rehabilitated IMO unless they decide to do the unthinkable.

I wouldn't say awesome is the right word, but it was a nice touch

It turned a Dark sad joke to Popo Sad joke, and it is both awesome and disturbing

I noticed. The timing is pretty neat.

I love that, I checked and you are the first one I saw commenting on this.

ohey

Ngl i thought that was the joke

I have so much empathy for Blub Blub, poor guy just can't catch a break, but his death sobs have me dying every time

@@Alvinia101 It's a bit neighbour, they're still friends (leastaways as far as I can tell)

I felt so sad for Blub-Blub

My favourite version has to be the Big Green dub. Goku’s line to Chichi is just peak 😂 “As long as he does his karate exercises he can do what he wants.” And of course the terrible Wheelo voice acting where it sounds like he’s drunk the whole time “Tell me…. Who is the strongest maaaaan”

Love how the comparison was put right after. And yes, spot on.

Gets Yamcha every time too

@@bloodanddajugsoh you…

​@@bloodanddajugsGood one

Just realized Yamcha is left dead in this movie.

The Yamcha bit doesn’t always get me, but the CALLBACK to the Yamcha bit always has me rolling

I heard he scattered 7 Tomar Emeralds across Burbank California.

I heard he offered to give the location of the 7 Tomar Emeralds to TFS to get this role.@@redfalconfox

*T h e W h e e l o f u n k o i s b i g g e r t h a n t h e r e s t*

Seeing Tomar in other material always gives me war flashbacks.

@@TubbzYTwatch Hunter x Hunter or Jojo dubbed

Maybe Yamcha developed somewhat of an immunity to suicide attacks; he's the only one who would've survived Cell.

Wait, can’t you hear Yamcha groaning? Like, wasn’t that him at 16:00? I thought he was just extremely hurt, not actually dead.

Nah Super's shown that Yamcha's gotten strong enough to survive doing the poser.

I like that, no matter what, even the weakling Yamcha can tank godly hits.

yeah but thats filler. so in anime yes but in the manga oolong is the only pig man

@@michaelbucher9001 Oolong: Last of the Pig Men

@warlordofbritannia thats why hes the legendary super swine

@@michaelbucher9001 DAS SWEIN!

I thought he was a shapeshifter?

Kirito abridged? Sao abridged right?

@@MrShazaamable it’s a joke Izzy and co. Have over there.

Yeah, Kirito Emiya is absolutely not a saibaimen

Medicine definitely saved incomparably more lives than the atom bomb has killed.

And transport‚ and housing‚ and industrial agriculture. And internet and telecommunications. I mean those are not absolutely 100% positive‚ but they still make everyone's life easier on a daily basis.

Yeah, penicillin alone outweighs all the damage the other things did a thousandfold

@@Dr.CaveCurinas Vaccines and the fact that we basically eradicated smallpox, had eradicated measles, would be able to quickly cure people suffering and dying from tuberculosis, and we survived more than one global pandemic are AMAZING wins for science! I could say a lot more, but we could start a thread here.

"Sterilization treatments might want to weigh in." No matter what you say positively about science, Kochin will find a negative.

Amen to that! Can’t believe I have been watching them for half my life. It’s been one hell of a ride

greater words have never been said

It's been like 7 or 8yrs for me but yes agreed

I don’t know if amazing is the word you’re looking for. Autistic? Maybe. Amazing? Ehhh..

Same here! found these guys back when I had just graduated high school and been locked in for the ride ever since!@@NintenJoe09

I mean that would have been the direction for his character. Match his martial arts and studious sides and have him be a fighter who relies more on magical items and unique techniques to keep the Earth safe, instead of just raw power. That'd been fun to watch.

@@spdewerttonfacts

@@spdewerttonhe should be smart enough to use tools aka weapons more than just his body

Well, there’s also Xeno Goku…

@@BlusterTheBenevolent i absolutely love xeno goku's design and that he carries around his power pole. such an underrated design, I wish there was more love for him.

I know right, somehow I feel worse for him every time I watch this version 😢

Right?! They didn't even mention it, I just never noticed until just now, and this is my most rewatched DBZA movie!

Because Lani immediately distracted them with his pet peeve about line reading 😆

wait i don’t get it

@@godlytyungodlygoku: hey are you that freezer guy Frieza: I am lord frieza yes Goku: imma deck you in the schnoz

@@goodguyshuckle9270 well yeah ik that’s a reference but since they didn’t do that why is the og comment talking about a call back

As someone said in another comment chain, a year later the gang could have resurrected him and Bulma and Wheelo could have restored him to his original version.

@@kryptonianguest1903 Thank you. I was too distraught to think about that. You have given me a hopeful headcanon

😂 it's very good, i love the way they talk

So basically, it is because the Z fighters are spending time defending the Dragon Balls from those who would otherwise use them and also defending Earth from progressively higher stakes that Dr. Kochin was able to get the Dragon Balls?

@@iantaakalla8180 It's because of that that it took him 50 years. The downtime after rezzing Goku is how he was able to get them.

Yeah legit today I learned, I could’ve sworn Wheelo was the same voice as 20.

Even he gets upset at himself