The trouble isn’t so much that there’s too much stupid to get rid of, but that if you get rid of all the stupid, there’s hardly anything left. The setting of DBZ is pretty much baloney all the way down.
Although an omake doesn’t really require much material, so I suppose it might be possible to pull something off.
I’m not sure if anybody’s seriously writing this up, but I’m bored so I may as well make some points just in case.
1- Going by the manga, Krillin’s Destructo Disk move (presumably made based on first use when training for the Saiyans post-Raditz) can literally cut thing through anything. Going by the anime, Cell blocked one but he’s several sagas after the start.
2- There is an ACTUAL AFTERLIFE in the DBZ-world (and they know it- Krillin died and was brought back, for one thing). For an ordinary person this might not mean much, but a rationalist acting under the assumption is going to seem insane.
3- Ironically, there is one point where being rational MIGHT work to a character’s disadvantage. After Goku idiotically believes Raditz’s claims to have reformed (his tail has been grabbed making him vulrnable), Raditz knocks out Goku making the situation appear hopeless. This is solved by arguable deux ex machina (I can’t quite remember if it was foreshadowed)- Gohan gets angry, and manifests enough power to seriously wound Raditz and give the good guys a fighting chance. Gohan’s just a kid, so if he were rational he’d probably stay out of it since he doesn’t know about his hidden power.
4- The saiyan Royal family has an Artificial Full Moon technique, which factoring for power loss to make it multiplies their power level by 10 (in terms of actual effectiveness going by the series it rises considerably but not that much). There are pros and cons to sharing it of maintaing power v.s effectiveness of the Saiyan race.
The obvious things to do with it (mass-immortality etc) are undermined the premise- from what I remember of the manga (good read when out of brainpower), Kami created the Dragon Balls so that mankind would have a hope even in the darkest of times- he failed to anticipate the Dragon Radar which made finding them trivial.
Upgraded Kami would probably realise that given the power of Shenron, he could create the Dragon Balls in such a way that, directly or indirectly if necessary, he could mold the world and prevent such dark times in the first place. It would then be down to whether he was smart enough to WANT everybody to be immortal.
The trouble isn’t so much that there’s too much stupid to get rid of, but that if you get rid of all the stupid, there’s hardly anything left. The setting of DBZ is pretty much baloney all the way down.
Although an omake doesn’t really require much material, so I suppose it might be possible to pull something off.
I’m not sure if anybody’s seriously writing this up, but I’m bored so I may as well make some points just in case.
1- Going by the manga, Krillin’s Destructo Disk move (presumably made based on first use when training for the Saiyans post-Raditz) can literally cut thing through anything. Going by the anime, Cell blocked one but he’s several sagas after the start. 2- There is an ACTUAL AFTERLIFE in the DBZ-world (and they know it- Krillin died and was brought back, for one thing). For an ordinary person this might not mean much, but a rationalist acting under the assumption is going to seem insane. 3- Ironically, there is one point where being rational MIGHT work to a character’s disadvantage. After Goku idiotically believes Raditz’s claims to have reformed (his tail has been grabbed making him vulrnable), Raditz knocks out Goku making the situation appear hopeless. This is solved by arguable deux ex machina (I can’t quite remember if it was foreshadowed)- Gohan gets angry, and manifests enough power to seriously wound Raditz and give the good guys a fighting chance. Gohan’s just a kid, so if he were rational he’d probably stay out of it since he doesn’t know about his hidden power. 4- The saiyan Royal family has an Artificial Full Moon technique, which factoring for power loss to make it multiplies their power level by 10 (in terms of actual effectiveness going by the series it rises considerably but not that much). There are pros and cons to sharing it of maintaing power v.s effectiveness of the Saiyan race.
The obvious focus would be the not-quite-eponymous wish-granting dragon.
The obvious things to do with it (mass-immortality etc) are undermined the premise- from what I remember of the manga (good read when out of brainpower), Kami created the Dragon Balls so that mankind would have a hope even in the darkest of times- he failed to anticipate the Dragon Radar which made finding them trivial.
Upgraded Kami would probably realise that given the power of Shenron, he could create the Dragon Balls in such a way that, directly or indirectly if necessary, he could mold the world and prevent such dark times in the first place. It would then be down to whether he was smart enough to WANT everybody to be immortal.