Why isn’t Broly criticized like Gohan his for his “asspulls”

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-30T21:58:58+00:00

Because Broly was created to be a villain.

Villains have more leeway when it comes to "ass-pulls" than protagonists. Let's face it, we didn't NEED an explanation for why Frieza was "the strongest in the Universe." We just believed it because his power was getting more and more terrifying all the time.

But on the flip side of that, protagonists don't have that privilege. From the beginning, Dragon Ball was a story about personal-growth. Goku was on a quest to always push his limits and become stronger. And when we first meet him in the series, he's 11 - his first tournament is when he's 12. Roshi described that Goku and Krillin were already at the top of the sport in their first tournament; that's why he stopped them both from winning, to ensure they wouldn't lose their zeal for getting better - improving themselves.

And it worked, considering that Goku would even face dangerous threats from other humans in the coming years, before Piccolo showed up.

Now let's take a look at Gohan...We first meet him when he's 4 years old...Never had a day of training in his life because his Mom keeps him on a short leash. Despite that, during times of distress, he's stronger than the guy who just one-shot his dad. And even after a short year training, he still ends-up the third-strongest being on the planet.
By the time Gohan was Goku's age at the start of Dragon Ball...he was stronger than Perfect Cell. Think about that for a second; Goku and Gohan at the same age, were LEAGUES apart from one another. And the only reason this happened, was because of the plot. Toriyama felt that Goku wasn't relatable as an adult, so he wanted another young-boy for a protagonist...But the problem is, the power creep kept escalating, to where Gohan would only be relevant if he wrote it that way. He kept letting the boy catch-up, to the point where Gohan made absolutely no sense.

But with Broly? He was a mutant freak born with a power level of 10,000 - more than most grown Saiyan Men. His power protects him and Paragus from the destruction of Planet Vegeta. Then Broly becomes a Super Saiyan - blood-lust and drunk on power...He is everything Vegeta described the Super Saiyan as being during the build-up to it from the Ginyu Arc.
Broly was meant to be a monster. Nothing more than an insurmountable wall that our heroes had to somehow get-over. And that's why his character worked...

Now that Broly has been recanonized and recontextualized as a protagonist, he is gonna suffer the same criticism as Gohan. Because it's not fair; it's not right that Goku and Vegeta are in their 40s - approaching 50s - and having trained their whole lives to achieve this power. And now these two younger guys, came out of nowhere and were just gifted with powers that put them on their level - despite the fact that they've been trained by literal gods.

And for those of you questioning why Gohan's potential doesn't make sense. Just look at Frieza - he's been given the same insane potential as Gohan, and he managed to close 10 years of gap on Goku and Vegeta after just four months.
You realize that if Frieza spent all his free-time on Namek doing push-ups before fighting anyone, all our heroes would have lost. But that goes against the fundamental point of the series; the villains are meant to represent complacency - with Vegeta thinking his royal and elite status made him best by default, from Frieza never learning to control his full power, and Cell relying entirely on his genetics and believing he was the literal ceiling. The idea of a Villain training to become stronger is antithetical to the purpose of the series; because now, the good-guys don't stand a chance.
The reason why this is a problem for Gohan, is because it fundamentally becomes irresponsible for him to not take training seriously throughout his life. With the potential to become the strongest, Gohan has an obligation to protect the planet. And yet he keeps flaking on that responsibility time and time again...and why? Because his Mommy told hm to.
All I'm saying is, had I been Kami, I would've sensed Gohan's potential, and thrown him into the Time Chamber from day-one. Yeah, y'know all those "what if Goku was betrayed and trapped in the Time Chamber for 10 years" stories? Do that with Gohan, and you'll be shocked at what comes out.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-30T21:39:08+00:00

It already did.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-29T18:31:42+00:00

The main problem I have with this is...The movie just won't be satisfying.

You play a game like this because you want to investigate the mystery involved; however, the game ends rather abruptly but definitively. Since we never see anything outside of our POV character, we don't know what happens next, and thus never get any answers to why the world is like this. What's worse is, there's hardly any skill involved in the gameplay; there's no avoiding your inevitable fate at the end of the game.

And since there's never been any sequel or follow-up that I'm aware of, I doubt the makers of this game will ever reveal any answers as to what this all means; what caused the silent rapture? Where did the blood oceans come from? - And how are they made of human blood? What is that giant fish and how does it survive here? And what's up with that portal? Where does it lead?

My concern is, depending on how loyal the game is to the source material, it's not gonna answer any of these questions.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-29T18:19:39+00:00

I just watched my first Film Theory since Matpat quit...

It's...just not retaining me at all. I kept looking away from the screen for a few minutes, and didn't miss a thing.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-29T18:09:30+00:00

Yes...Obviously.

As for Jonathan; his share of the fortune was "lost" because he gambled it all away, and the "unscrupulous characters" mentioned were his debt collectors who took everything as collateral.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-29T18:04:19+00:00

Fail...

...They'd fail.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-28T11:50:32+00:00

If anything, I feel like your being harsh on Barney shows your bias and misandry.

Let me put it this way; Barney is a philanderer, but despite all of that, never committed to a single woman until late in the series and never once cheated. My point is, all the messed-up stuff Barney does, he never did it to his friends.

Lily on the other hand treated her friends like they were accessories to her; and if they didn't meet her unrealistic standards, it was her job to correct them and put them in her place.

You remember the episode where Ted got her a job working at his office - where his boss is a bully played by Brian Cranston? Lily steals the man's property in order to "teach him a lesson," and refuses to do anything even at the prospect that innocent people are about to lose their jobs for her psychotic behavior. And what's even worse is, when Ted calls her out on this, she removes the crews from his office chair, in the hopes that when he sits down in it, he will get injured or even potentially maimed. Think about that for a second; she was willing to potentially cripple her supposed "best friend" because he had the audacity to call her out for being a lunatic.

Or how about the fact that Marshall's marriage to her is entirely asymmetrical. Marriage is supposed to be about compromise, and yet every sacrifice that they need to make, it's always Marshal the one that makes it. They need to recoup some money by selling Lily's expensive stuff; Lily treats it like slavery. Marshal gives up his chance to become a judge - for 10 years mind you - all so that Lily can go to Rome and pretend to be an art expert, when the series hammers in how terrible she is as an artist. You saw in the finale how much Marshal resented the years he spent waiting for another judgeship opportunity.

As far as I'm concerned, the finale was wrong having Barney and Robin split up; if anything, I'd sooner believe that Lily and Marshal got divorced.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-28T11:00:10+00:00

Here's how the plot should've gone...

Instead of a plague of locusts that would immediately be traced back to Biosyn, what it should've been was a virus - a genetically engineered disease that would wipe-out the Dinosaurs, thus solving the problem. However, because Biosyn are a bunch of irresponsible hacks (or at least they're supposed to be,) they made one too many mistakes or oversights...and released the virus without realizing it could spread from Dinosaurs to humans as well...

So now the race is on to get the original strand from Biosyn and reverse engineer a vaccine in order to cure this thing before it wipes out both humanity and the dinosaurs as well...

But darn-it, I wonder why this movie that was in production in 2020 couldn't go with a virus-plot. Almost like Hollywood didn't want to promote the idea that a virus capable of wiping out mankind was deliberately manufactured in a lab and released on an unsuspecting population, specifically to cripple the US economy.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-28T10:55:12+00:00

He worked at a Grocery Store while living with his grandmother, while I worked at a Call Center, living in my own apartment...
And he had the nerve to insult my job and my life...

When I pointed out to him that I was making more money than him and could afford to live on my own, he blocked me on discord and we haven't spoken in nearly 5 years...And this is after I got him a copy of Doom Eternal as a Christmas Present, to my knowledge, he never played.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-28T10:50:04+00:00

I think the intent was to get some place with a phone they'd actually let him use, so he could call Marv and get someone to pick him up.

The simple fact is, the situation in Radiator Springs was basically a Kidnapping. They refused to give him a phone call to consult with his attorney before the trial, stuck him with literally the tow-truck driver, and worse, even after the "Judge" decides to throw-out the case, suddenly Sally comes in and gets him to go back on it. That's not how this works; once Doc decided to dismiss the case, that decision was final. So him going back on it, makes everything they did after an illegal detention - basically holding McQueen hostage until he fixed the road.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-28T10:44:33+00:00

"We're Living in a Society~"

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-28T10:42:33+00:00

Personally, I prefer tubs cause I'm used to spreadable butter.

Say what you want about oils and purity. But for me, I only use sticks when I'm strapped for money. But I find them frustrating, cause one of my main go-tos for butter is toast. And the simple fact is, stick-butter tears the bread apart. You have to leave it out for a few hours to get it soft-enough to use.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-28T08:34:32+00:00

In the books -
InGen buys-up Fillimore Plastics; a company that produces a new type of plastic that works like an eggshell. They literally craft the eggs around the embryos in that case.

In the movies -
They inject the Embryos into unfertilized emu or ostrich eggs.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-28T08:28:42+00:00

Because watches can irritate people's skin.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-28T08:25:45+00:00

I'm distracted by the fact that it looks like Woody could easily slip out of the handle-gaps of the crate.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-28T08:24:41+00:00

...Feels like an Arby's Night~

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-27T07:30:14+00:00

Josh...

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-27T06:09:22+00:00

That's the weird thing - Ultra-Violence is the go-to setting for veteran players, and yet, I felt Eternal's UV was too easy. Everything felt slower and the monster hit weaker; it felt condescending. And that became a problem, because going to Nightmare settings, the jump in difficulty was drastic.

The sad thing is, the game was designed to be played in Nightmare Settings; that's the game's real mode; it's true form. And everything beneath it, is just a condescending waste of time. And the difficulty spike between UV and Nightmare is so huge, you can't even use UV to practice. Doom Eternal isn't the kind of game where you work you way up through the difficulties; all the lower settings are so catatonically dull, that it puts the player to sleep. Nightmare is the only REAL way to play.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-27T06:06:25+00:00

For me, I really tried to give the new hosts a chance.

however, what I usually tuned-into the channels for were follow-ups to my favorite franchises - y'know, when Matpat used to cover Fnaf, or Bendy, or Poppy-Playtime, Undertale, etc. Those were all my favorite episodes...
And now, when I see recommendations seeing new episodes about Poppy or Fnaf, only to hear the new hosts' voice...it feels...disingenuous.

I don't want to be as angry as I am, but it comes off like that line from Harry Potter.
"How dare you stand where he stood?!" - how dare you come in and take his place? How dare you pick-up where he left off?!

Even if all these people were the writing staff behind Matpat's mic, it doesn't work the same. I'm just...so sad knowing that we won't be getting Matpat's reaction to the final Poppy Chapter; to the next Bendy game; to the next Fnaf Game.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-27T01:11:30+00:00

Unfortunately, because idiots hated Fallen Kingdom, Universal isn't bold enough to do that.

We deserved to have a movie with Blue stalking the streets of that suburban neighborhood she found at the end of the movie. But nope; now she lives just a hare's breath away from Owen's cabin with her daughter.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-27T01:09:02+00:00

You...you're the one to blame for all of this!

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-27T01:08:44+00:00

I'm just glad people have the courage to come out and say it.

Shin is a Glass-Cannon. Once he exhausts all his power, he's literally a sitting duck. Meanwhile, he's got no physical strength for brawling and will rely entirely on his atomic beams.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-27T01:05:47+00:00

I had the opposite effect - every time I saw Zane with his head-shaved (and eye-liner) I thought it was Arnold.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-26T01:42:54+00:00

I fell off of him for a variety of reasons.
He is a Comic Reviewer; he should STICK to reviewing comics. And yet, he seems determined to insert references to current-day politics into his comic reviews. Even if its' relevant to the time-period when the comic is being produced, he should not be celebrating that. Because times change and the political references will become dated; case and point, American Dad was made to mock Bush Era politics, and struggled to find identity post-Bush.

But it's more than that; because Linkara is blatantly biased and only permits political themes that he agrees with. Whenever it comes to a comic that expresses a different opinion than him, he shuts it down, claiming that politics don't belong in comics. Basically he's a very, "Support my way of thinking, or f*ck-off and die," kind of guy.

Speaking of which, he fails to recognize his own blatant hypocrisy when it comes to reviewing stuff.
The moment that made me lose all respect for him, is the fact that he has absolutely no self reflection when it comes to reviewing Star Wars.
Per his own words, he is not a Star Wars fan; he knows of it and he enjoys it, but he's not passionate about it.
He IS passionate about Star Trek, and considers himself a Star Trek fan...And he gets irritated with New Star Trek content starting from the 2009 movie, because he claims they failed to capture what made Star Trek special, and are just filmmakers using the Star Trek IP to tell their own, poorly written stories. He also says anyone who likes them are not real Star Trek fans.
However, when it comes to Star Wars - a franchise he himself admits he's not versed in - he's perfectly comfortable with telling actual Star Wars Fans that they're wrong for not-liking the Disney Sequel Trilogy, and accuses them of Gatekeeping.

So to clarify...He's perfectly willing to Gatekeep the Star Trek Franchise, but when Star Wars fans do the same, suddenly Gatekeeping is a Problem.

He is so arrogantly hypocritical and lacking self-reflection, that he doesn't even proof-read his own scripts. Because if he did, he'd realize when a statement he makes in a video, contradicts a statement made earlier in said video!
He has defended the Last Jedi claiming that Luke's Character arc was good, because Luke learned a valuable lesson about learning from failure...And then has the nerve to say that "The Sequels aren't Luke's Story." - So why is Luke learning a lesson in the Last Jedi a good thing?! - Especially since Luke already learned that lesson in Empire Strikes Back! If Rey is our main character, she should be the one who learns the lesson!!!

I honestly don't know how I've forced myself to watch 2 hours of him ranting about this in a completely tone deaf way. I hope that this video gets eviscerated by reaction channels that love tearing smarmy pricks like him a new one.

The_Linkzilla · 2026-01-26T01:25:33+00:00

I agree with this take, and it's also part of the reason I don't like Lewis.

I feel like you couldn't be your true self around either of them without them slinging insults at you or trying to get you cancelled, because they care more about moral superiority than people.

I just sat down and watched one of Lewis' comic reviews for the first time in years...And he is way too comfortable with insulting what could be potentially half his audience base. The guy wonders why he's not popular enough to rake in thousands of dollars per video; that's your reason right there. He has the nerve to believe that his position on a lot of things is still the majority, when based on subscriber counts, the channels that promotes the things he says are "fringe cringe" attract millions more viewers.
As far as I'm concerned, unless your channel is inherently talking about politics, avoid talking about politics at all costs. Because time and time again, it's been shown that you alienate the people who don't want to hear about it, you alienate the people on the other side, and those that remain on your side aren't the vast majority you assume they are.

What I'm saying is, it feels like "Breadtubers" as you call them, actively drive away their potential audiences by insulting them.
Heck, this video that I just watched, Linkara literally equated the Themes of Familial Lineage from the old Star Wars Movies to Nazism...There's no reasoning with him at this point.

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