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| Was Chi-Chi really a worthless character in the end? | |
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| DBZAOTA482 | Jul 8 2015, 08:40 PM Post #1 |
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After seeing her lame portrayal in Super thus far, I just had to post this... Anyways, if you've been around the fandom long enough, you'd know Chi-Chi isn't too well liked among the community… some even viewing her influence on the story as cancerous… is that affirmative? First, is her character/role. When we first saw her… she was the incredibly fearsome Ox-king's scared "warrior princess" who was capable of decapitating a T-rex by accident (shocking Yamcha and Puar)… she even gave Yamcha a hard time (in which he compliments her as a "fearsome brat" after knocking her out) and developed a crush on Goku by a misunderstanding…culminating in a proposal of marriage. 6-7 years later she became even stronger than before (not just physically) with now she seems to have actual martial arts training under her belt even participating in the 23rd Budokai (the hardest year where only the super experts make it through Spoiler: click to toggle ) and coming to fulfill the promise Goku made with her …likely also impressing him with how strong she gotten.Then DBZ happens, she suddenly loses just about everything special about her... she is just Goku's wife/Gohan and Goten's mother and her character is seemingly reduced to only having her supposedly negative traits played up. People would even believe that Goku's life and the turns of events of the series would pan out for the better if he had married Bulma (or other female character) regardless of the facts. Then there's her fighting abilities. Just because Goku beat her (via ring-out) with a charged Shockwave Fist (Kobushi no Shogekiha; which is like striking the air with tremendous energy according to Muten Roshi when trying to comprehend it) technique that Kami taught him and never did anything outside filler/movies people tend to ignore the rest of her fight against Goku in the 23rd TB, the praise she received, and the implications surrounding her entry into the tournament and even making it to fight Goku. Even going as far as to claim Mr. Satan or Videl (of all people) can beat her or people believing she's not even comparable to fighters from the early volumes… which still happen even to this day. Even her feat of being able to decapitate a T-rex is downplayed just cuz she used a weapon… even though she used her own strength to throw the blade and that was enough to cut the dinosaur's head off… it's also possible she was holding back given how emotion she was (I don't think even strong men can do that). Did Chi-Chi really offer nothing to the series, and the series would be better off without her? Is Videl also basically everything Chi-Chi failed at being (a female love interest for the main character who has natural fighting talent)? Of course, her potential is cut short but she's at least respected/taken seriously as a fighter (people even going as far as to making her out to be a lot stronger than she actually is) and is a love interest who's generally remembered for something other than her supposedly negative qualities. |
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Jul 9 2015, 01:10 AM Post #2 |
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I guess Chichi could have been that Videl character if the story itself gave her a chance. If Dragonball would have continued after the 23rd, she probably would have been right by Goku's side fighting villains like Garlic jr. or something. Ever since the Saiyans showed up, she, like Yajirobe, Chaozu for the most part, and many others, had to sit back and wait for their stronger mates to handle everything. |
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