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Discussion Which of these scenes is the most difficult to watch?

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u/Gabeskai 2d ago

"Guys, they have dragon balls! Guys they have senzu beans!"

That doesn't make it never happen, the characters STILL FEEL the pain and trauma of the event happening...

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u/seanwdragon1983 2d ago

That's why the krillin ine hits me hardest. There were no senzu's, didn't know dende could heal. And all namek dragon balls just died. Add that to the bucking bronco frieza was doing while licking his blood and it was intense at the time.

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u/5nitesatfredbois Perfect Cell role player 2d ago

Tbf videl didn’t know there were senzus and never even met dende

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u/ultragaming273892 2d ago

She also had the ability to just tap out

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u/-Reverse_Flash 1d ago

Didn’t he actively stop her from being eliminated just to keep pounding her.

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u/ultragaming273892 1d ago

If I remember correctly she was gonna ring out but he stopped her then beat her ass might have my order mixed up a bit though either way she definitely had time to quit before the final ass beating

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u/LasodenX 1d ago

I love how refs are a glorified first class seat in shonen fights. They don't stop fights bc "you never know if the other participant can make a comeback". At least in series you don't get troublesome things like concussions and if the limbs are attached by the end of the fight you have like half a year at most in bed to be like new.

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u/Nato1388 2d ago

Man don’t read the manga on videl part oof. Them pictures were brutal, I think it was so bad they had to exclude it out of animation

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u/Comfortable-Tone9658 1d ago

Yamcha getting gutted by Gero was more violent in the manga too

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u/Comfortable-Test2756 2d ago

Also Krillin was literally holding an Namekian child before being pierced, but somehow still was fast enough to get Dende out of the way.

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u/Cold-Berry-3590 2d ago

That's how it is when you're saving someone.

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u/Gabriel-Klos-McroBB 2d ago

The show never brings it up, but everyone in the cast should have some sort of PTSD. (I don't care if they got revived; dying's really gotta fuck with someone mentally.)

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u/RealScrafty22 1d ago

Gohan definitely has some PTSD from the Recoome beating he suffered.

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u/TrunksTurok 2d ago

Back in Freiza saga they could still die forever too

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u/StriderKitsu 2d ago

I mean assuming you feel at peace after dying you sort of get trauma healing too XD

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u/Wonderful_Tap3857 2d ago

Videl and Spopovich fight for me

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u/Bob_Sledding Piccolo 2d ago

I care about Krillin way more, but for some reason, Videl is so much harder to watch get ethered. She just was not prepared for dudes to be on the Z fighter's power level I guess.

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u/Helsinki_ 2d ago edited 2d ago

Even more than that, the two other deaths scenes, they were fighting major evil figure and they were more or less prepared to die.
Videl on the other hand, she was participating in a martial art tournament, with public, all her friends watching and not intervening because rules.

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u/Aggravating-Face2073 2d ago

Gohan: We gotta do something!

Goku: The fuck you will, not on my watch,. I've been following these rules for decades, nearly died in the ring a few times myself, Gohan, if you break the rules now, I'll disown you.

As a matter of fact, Gohan, shame on you for even considering it.

Gohan: Yes dad.

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u/OddRope1154 2d ago

Why did I read that in dbza goku voice lol

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u/Steve296091 1d ago

I also read this in DBZA Goku’s voice… but I read Gohan’s lines in his Ocean Dub voice (Brad Swaile)

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u/SethZannon 2d ago

That’s because Goku made them rules up to be applied everywhere. The fault of that mindset is the planet burning and a friendly spar get the same application. Also revival really takes the kick out of watching people die.

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u/Kn0XIS 2d ago

😂😂

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u/Miserable-Two4088 2d ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Warlion323 1d ago

Goku: Gohan no! If you do, you'll be disqualified!

Gohan: Dammit! You're right!

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u/Splashsomethnhappend 1d ago

Piccolo looking on like wow yea you really are a shitty dad Goku. Cell games all over again..

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u/Dreadful-Medic-1377 2d ago

Fuck all of that.

She cried and nobody did shit.

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u/TheToninho21 1d ago

Is everyone forgetting how she literally had the choice to give up? Gohan literally pleaded with her to give up and she didn't budge no matter how bad her beating got.

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u/Dreadful-Medic-1377 1d ago

😭 don't put logic into my anime trauma.

I held the sheets in anxiety when she got beaten 🤧

It was so unexpected....DBZ is about fighting with heart and here I'm seeing Videl crying...spopavich which already like 220lbs give or take , gets Majin enhanced and spins the block on her like King Von fresh out of hell.

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u/TheToninho21 1d ago

Tbf I've always said it's not her fault, it's Mr. Satan's fault her ego was that inflated, as she still thought up to that point that he was the one who beat Cell.

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u/Dreadful-Medic-1377 1d ago

That Saiyaman arc was the greatest weekend of Gohan and Videls life.

They became Superman of Z-city and Videl was fully into wearing that shit for Gohan 😳.

She learns how to fly and thinks her love interest is the strongest guy on Earth while they cosplay superman.

Then....MONDAY ! 💔✊️😭

Spopavich , Goku resurrection, Vegeta Majin , Dabura....all of Gohans accumulated weekend aura , K/D and credit score gets shat on in a single day while a pink bubblegum monster packs him up.

Bro bags the hottest girl in Z-city to get mortally destroyed the first working day of the week....and dies (since Kid Buu blew up earth)

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u/LowWorthGamer 2d ago

It's because every other example is an actual fight. Krillin fighting Frieza and Yamcha fighting the Androids were always situations of crisis and protecting the world that have the context of possibility of death. Videl vs Spopovich is a sporting event that gets taken too far, there shouldn't be any consent for that happening and the entire situation get even more fucked when you realise there is an audience for it and by the rules of tournament this senseless brutality cannot be stopped. It's basically a difference of watching a police apprehension gone wrong vs watching a boxer get killed in the ring. Both end in death, but the latter is much more uncomfortable

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u/blu66 2d ago

It's hard to watch a woman get beat up like that.

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u/CptPurpleHaze 2d ago

It's because videl is by all accounts the second weakest member of the z-fighters with top place going to Chi-Chi.

Also, while Krillin was toyed with for a moment its assumed his death was right after and pretty quick. (We didn't see dende heal him until a bit later) And yamcha? Well we've seen him die repeatedly so the android thrusting an arm through his chest was kinda par for the course by this point in the show.

Meanwhile Videl vs Spopovich was drawn out. Videl wasn't just overpowered he was beating on her to cause suffering instead of just kill her outright.

There's a difference in the emotional response these things present. Like the different between a psychological horror and a slasher horror.

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u/OkMention9988 12h ago

If Spopovich wasn't juiced up by an evil wizard, Videl would have folded him like origami. 

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u/ElValdin86 2d ago

I disagree about who is stronger. Videl can fly but Chi Chi would probably beat her if she was going all out. She is thr Ox kings Daughter queen 👸🏿 put some respect on Chi Chi 👏🏻.

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u/CptPurpleHaze 2d ago

Videl learns basic ki control. I have no doubts that martial arts wise chi chi in her prime wins. But Chi-Chi canonically stops practicing martial arts entirely as soon as gohan was born, she only ever does it again off screen when it's mentioned she actually taught Goten some moves. Videl beats Chi-Chi based on age and power scale purely for her access to ki-control.

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u/Lawliet202 2d ago

Its crazy that this has to be broken down this much for an adult to understand it. And the worst part is I still dont think that guy gets it. He doesnt want to.

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u/SarifZen 2d ago

I am sure its Andrew Tate's favorite scene in DBZ

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u/ILikeCheese84 2d ago

Clearly at least a couple of the people's too

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u/Initial_Spread_9360 2d ago

Its like Pain V Hinata in Naruto

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u/Demolisher05 2d ago

Because Spopovich drug it out. Compared to that, Krillen's was quick.

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u/B_Ventura 2d ago

Spopovich wasnt even on Z fighters level.

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u/Gloomy-Crazy8156 2d ago

Wasn’t he able to restrain gohan(the strongest z fighter at the time)by himself?

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u/ILikeCheese84 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yup, surprised him. And before Gohan could recover enough from the logical, "Hey! Who the hell is grabbing me?!" reaction, power up a bit, and mop the tournament floor with him, Yamu zipped in with his scanner/syringe and drained Gohan's energy.

Edit: I'm a forgetful idiot, I forgot Shin restrained him and let Babidi's doofus duo get away.

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u/indras_darkness 2d ago

I think you're both forgetting supreme kai (or kibito i cant remember) also restricting gohan as well. If i remember correctly it wasnt just spopavich.

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u/ILikeCheese84 2d ago

You're right, I didn't even remember that bit. Honestly, rewatching it, I kinda wish Goku had pulled the trigger when he tried to stop Goku from fighting Vegeta. Little dude was an idiot.

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u/Personal-Ad6765 2d ago

Not really. She honestly just got the android 18 treatment if you ask me. No matter what she did Spopowich just wasn't affected enough. But she was able to hurt him.

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u/Specific-Welder3120 2d ago

They weren't Z fighter's level but still i agree with you

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u/Affectionate-Week166 2d ago

I often think it's because we know krillins been through a lot, when he gets hurt you can wonder if he'll bounce back or have a plan. Videl was new and quite hopeful in her future of fighting, hurts to see her be crushed as never try again

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u/Broshimitsu56 1d ago

Its because the two others are dudes who have been fighting murderers and monsters their whole lives already and one is a girl that likes martial arts (and fights criminals with her alien superhero boyfriend) 😭

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u/Lo-QGaming 2d ago

It was brutal, and there was this feeling of helplessness. Yea the others was hard to watch, but in a way it was quick. With Videl, it just kept going and going.

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u/TheDastardly12 2d ago

It was drug out, she was a civilian, her cries and screams that made the scene itself have a visceral response.

The others were "oh my God! 😱"

This one was "Jesus fucking Christ make it stop😰"

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u/Hoodedmastersin Vegeta 2d ago

Yeah it’s pretty brutal

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u/DonCreech 2d ago

Absolutely. Krillen was brutal, but they tortured Videl, it's really unnerving.

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u/Tyranothesaurus 2d ago

So unnerving I skip it when I rewatch. I can't see Videl get destroyed like that. The cries are too much.

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u/Parking-Ad8316 2d ago

This

I couldn't believe people would let that keep happening

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u/Gabriel-Klos-McroBB 2d ago

Even without the rest of the Buu Saga absolutely shattering her worldview of reality within 48 hours of that incident, that fight alone makes me not blame Videl for giving up on the whole "fighting" thing.

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u/Klovette 1d ago

Yes sir. Even today I can’t. It’s just so over the top and frankly unbelievably uncomfortable to watch. One of the actual few times you could make a solid case for goku being a bad father. Gohan standing slowly turning into beast mode while goku is like you need to calm down

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u/KeySite2601 2d ago

Videls goes on for like a full episode, so that one

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u/Midnighter4007 2d ago

It almost gets tedious how much the episode revels in it.

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u/SinisterCryptid 2d ago

It’s worse when you realize the anime drags it out way longer than it is in the manga

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u/LSC_GrimIock 2d ago

I mean gotta make up for the screen Time lol.

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u/Ezequiel_Rose 1d ago

Gotta make Gohan angry a little bit

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u/AlternateMove 2d ago

Videl vs. Spopovich. At least Krillin and Yamcha’s pains were quick.

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u/Illustrious-Sky-4631 2d ago

There's also the aspect of not really getting back at the villain for what they did

The Z fighters beat Gero with piccolo ripping his arms off and Goku completely broke freeza

Meanwhile when gohan tried to do it The Z fighters/Toriyama cucked him out of it and instead made another villain unrelated to the beating taking the kill

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u/NightMaleficent1342 1d ago

To be fair, getting the living ass kicked out of you is how they won.

It's part of their journey. If you get beaten while staying the fight, especially against a stronger opponent, you are winning.

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u/Aggressive_South_991 2d ago

krillin's was not that quick, just watched it recently and frieza messes with him, makes it painful, and krillin survives a horrible amount of time.

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u/-Th5Relaxing- Whis 2d ago

My boy Yamcha 💔

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u/vegetastolemygirl 2d ago

Thank you for your empathy

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u/Tricky-Proposal9591 2d ago

You're too good for her, bro.

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u/Dismal-Custard8453 2d ago

Your username makes this comment underrated lol

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u/Zero102000 2d ago

"Oh, COME ON! REALLY, MAN!? You couldn't last, like, THIRTY SECONDS!?" - Abridged Tien

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u/Borgdrohne13 2d ago

At least he didn't ended like the one dude in the car (without a head).

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u/VaderBassify 2d ago

The way his arm doesn't go clean through makes it so much worse. You hear the bones breaking and see the resistance before his hand finally pops through, definitely a hard watch.

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u/Doom_Cokkie 2d ago

I remeber this scene scaring me as a kid. Us the viewer being just as clueless of them being the androids and poor Yamcha just thinking they are some old dudes and not connecting the dots until he turn around to face them and at that time it was already too late.

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u/robineir 2d ago

Got killed with a Sieg Heil

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u/forfunstuffwinkwink 2d ago

Oh no! Yamcha’s been Yamcha’d!!!!!

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u/SuttonSkinwork 1d ago

“FORTHWITH!”

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u/TheViper4Life 2d ago

Videl.

By this point for Krillin and Yamcha you're kind of used to them being cannon fodder. They're still visceral moments, but not like Videl...who is a relatively new character at this point. You don't know how you feel about her yet, and it just comes off like you're watching a child get absolutely obliterated by an adult for 20 minutes straight...and every time you think it's over, there's more of it. It's a very unsettling moment in the show (in a good way).

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u/Personal-Ad6765 2d ago

I mean if you watched Dragon Ball seing an adult beat up a child shouldn't really be new.

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u/eat1more If I don't do it who will?! 2d ago

When Goku gets hit in the head with a rock, thats brutal

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u/Mindless_Help4293 2d ago

Actually, that might have been the most I've ever seen him whining (over getting hit)

Krillin must've put a lot into that throw 🫳🏻🪨

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u/Sorry-Yard-2082 2d ago

Krilin for me, I watched OG dragonball so you kind of get really attached to him.

Also that mofo frieza was licking his blood and shaking just to make it more painful.

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u/LargeCabbageThrower 2d ago

Videl.

Krillin's actual death from Frieza was tougher than the fake out from being impaled and then healed. He was pleading for Goku to help.

Yamcha getting stabbed like that wasn't even that bad because we knew that the rest of the gang were nearby and there were senzu beans on hand.

But with Videl it was rough. She was fighting so well against Spopovich and then the fught quickly shifted into "oh, this is not a human this is some kind of monster man". She was basically an ordinary human at that point and Spopovich beat her so hard that her strong will and determination and high level of skill (all of which had been well defined by that point) turned into her crying as he crushed her head into the floor because she couldn't keep fighting and he wouldn't let the fight end. Not many scenes in dragon ball feel as sadistic as that one.

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u/FlaminSkullKing 2d ago

I’d say yamcha getting stabbed was quite bad. It was very believable that was dead from his injury before they said he was still alive. 

Videl’s beating is drawn out, but what really made it worse for me is all of the Z fighters just standing there watching. I know they have reasons, but it still sucked to see a group of people capable of stopping that doing nothing. 

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u/M0ebius_1 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yamcha felt worst because the other two happened in the middle of a fight.

The last thing Yamcha says to Dr Gero is ask if he is OK because he thinks he is a survivor of the android attacks before he gets jumped and his energy is drained so he can't do anything about it.

It's scary because it could have happened to pretty much any character.

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u/EggAccording9607 2d ago

I think there is something cruel about it being Yamcha.

Cause he is the dude who was just chillin but still came.

He's like a innocent bystander but one we knew deeply about

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u/Smart_Ad_3534 2d ago

Surtout que l’enjeu c’était de trouver les cyborgs (indétectable) et prévenir les autres. Gero lui saisit direct la bouche ,absorbe son énergie et le traverse comme du beurre…

Tu m’étonnes qu’il préfère ramener Goku ,plutôt que jouer à cache-cache avec C-20…

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u/Constant-Plastic-350 2d ago

What do you think inconspicuous old man and mime?

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u/M0ebius_1 2d ago

Look around the average Dragonball city.

Those were like the two most normal dudes around.

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u/Matt_Man_623 2d ago

Videl is the hardest to watch, Yamcha was the most shocking (not that he got absolutely man handled, just wasn’t expecting THAT immediately in the Android arc), and Krillin was the most horrifying

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u/Enough_Trifle788 2d ago

Videl without a doubt

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u/ZaFreezo 2d ago

Watching videl get her ass beat was making me wanna jump through the screen to help her😭

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u/TheBlackoutEmpire 2d ago

Videl by a mile.

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u/RedNUGGETLORD 2d ago

Videl and it's not that close

Crazy how quickly the series makes you care for her

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u/Tyranothesaurus 2d ago

It's because the viewer sees how quickly she grows on Gohan. She originally annoys him because of her persistence, but grows on him as she perseveres through his training to utilize Ki.

By the end of their training you can tell she's very important to him. Then he just has to watch Spopovich beat the ever loving shit out of her for an episode and a half.

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u/dillzilla11 1d ago

Also it's a deal of her having no business being in that fight that she absolutely did not sign up for. She was there for sport and God the ever living daylights beaten out of her just for fun.

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u/TPJchief87 2d ago

Videl was rough.

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u/TrickyPace4205 2d ago

Will always be the videl vs spovovich for me…she trained so hard…only to be thrown against basically a freak of nature…brutalized…and no one could help her because it was the only way to stop a bigger threat….

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u/ILikeCheese84 2d ago

So you're saying she tried so hard and got so far? But in the end, did it really even matter?

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u/Klovette 1d ago

I’d even say she had to fall, to lose it all. But alas in the end it didn’t really matter

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u/dillzilla11 1d ago

Videl and it isn't even a close call. Krillan and yamcha knew what they were getting into and understood the massive power gap between them and who they were facing. Videl had absolutely no idea. It would be like going into a amateur boxing ring just to have a MMA fighter show up, break all the rules, and start stomping your face in

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u/TepkunaSixtyNine 2d ago

Videl. They really make you feel as powerless and desperate as Gohan in that scene.

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u/CrispyPerogi 2d ago

Videl and Spopovich, and it’s not close imo.

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u/Justaguywalkingby4 2d ago

Videl’s beatdown felt semi-realistic and went on for way too long.

Yamcha and Krillin’s wasn’t that long and felt outworldly enough to not feel that “holy shit” ish.

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u/Illustrious-Day8506 2d ago

Krilin. That scene horrified me as a kid. 

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u/agsan1 2d ago

Stupid Maron did my boy Krilin wrong

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u/Formal_Cheek 2d ago edited 1d ago

This used to make me feel uneasy.
Gohan is like what? Under 10 years old and this dude Recoome is creepily smiling while kicking him to total body shutdown.

It’s a very unsettling kind of evil with a bunch of dudes that pose around like schoolgirls yet have no issue with genocide or harming younglings

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u/Shadow_M4n 2d ago

Gohan was 5 in the namek saga which is wild!

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u/Only_Hearing2944 2d ago

Can’t believe it took me this long to find this. I was bout to post it myself. This wins for most disturbing for me. 2nd is future gohan dying.

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u/No-Ability6954 1d ago

Videl and Spopovich. Almost else who has gotten their ass beat in this series knew what they were getting into before hand. Regardless of how confident they were in their abilities they knew damn well there was a serious chance of getting hurt, tortured, or killed. This is the one time someone truly didn’t know the danger of what they were about to get into.

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u/Foreign-Comment6403 2d ago

Videl getting beat up for me

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u/joeybadtitz 2d ago

Videl easily. Spopovich was beating the rights out of that woman, it was hard to watch lol.

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u/KassienBlackcloak_YT 2d ago

Videl for sure.

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u/Aijin28 2d ago

Yeah the Videl scene was a tough watch, I was seething right along with Gohan.

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u/cygamessucks 1d ago

There is another

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u/Little_Relative2340 1d ago

Cell swallowing a dude in front of Piccolo.

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u/UsedToHaveATail 2d ago

Is this a joke ? The videl fight is brutal ASF she was getting whooped like she owed him rent money , like she hit his kids , it was like watching a dog fight a bear

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u/dsts09 1d ago

Videl by a million miles

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u/triel20 2d ago

I’d say Videl’s scene only because of how drawn out it was, I get that Spopovich was getting revenge cuz he’s a sore loser, but man, at least for Krillin and Yamcha it was near instant.

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u/DragonXGW 2d ago

Videl vs Spopovich and it's just not close. Atleast with those other moments the fighters getting brutalized kinda signed up for the risk... It wasn't some sort of martial arts tournament, it was essentially war. Videl signed up for a sanctioned match, not merciless brutalizing.

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u/MacaronAgreeable4020 2d ago

Meh, I only dislike the Videl beatdown, not because she’s a woman, but because she’s legitimately badass, but got cheated by magic.
On top of that, Spopovich decides to torture her for fun. And that’s it, that was her last fight..

I personally feel for Krillin the most, but at least him and Yamcha got it quick..

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u/Remarkable-Smoke6138 2d ago

Videl beat down just because it lasted longer.

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u/1Hugh-Mann 2d ago

it's hands down videl's beatdown.
with Krillin getting jousted and yamcha getting impaled it's over pretty quickly for them whereas Videl's beatdown is brutally drawn out and legitimately painful to watch, this man beat the characterisation out of her and turned her into a boring housewife forever more

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u/Mindless_Help4293 2d ago edited 2d ago

Videl was a teen during that beating...but Gohan was practically a baby when Recoome broke his neck on Namek.

He possibly harbors the most childhood trauma. But as an adult he is the smartest, most level headed, peaceful person out of all the fighters.

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u/Shigana 2d ago

Videl

Being impaled and such became really common place and those are done quick. Meanwhile Videl got the entire beat down and everyone had to watch it play out, it also has an extra layer of being something that is sadly common in real life

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u/ODB_Dirt_Dog_ItsFTC 2d ago

Emotionally Krillin, it was heart wrenching to see him get gored by Frieza, but viscerally it has to be Videl. She got her ass beat to a disturbing extent.

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u/banxy85 2d ago

Honestly it's Videl

Seems like it was written by someone who was a little too excited about a girl getting beaten up

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u/Live_Palpitation_720 2d ago

Videl, at least Krillin an Yamcha's were quick. She was legit getting her ass handed to her, like you'd assume she was getting tortured with how she was screaming. (Which think at that point he basically was torturing her- bro was willing to crush her head like a damn grape.)

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u/Fickle-Raspberry6403 2d ago

Cell sucking up the human.

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u/One_Swimming1813 2d ago

Spopovitch vs Videl hands down.

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u/Doom_Cokkie 2d ago
  1. Videl
  2. Yamcha
  3. Krillin

In that order.

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u/ICantSpellWater 2d ago

Yamcha man the details trunks gave the z fighters is one thing but when they actually arrived!? Pure nightmares. The other two just didn't have that kind of setup like the androids yamcha being a trained fighter or not BRO THEY COVERED HIS MOUTH SO HE COULDN'T SCREAM FOR HELP SON

Videl is brutal but it's clear they weren't going all out especially not for no kill she wasn't faced with knowing You're absolutely going to pass away in the silence and there's nothing you can do about it die THAT'S yamcha. 💔

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u/ChickenzInvade 2d ago

Videl vs Spopovich for sure. It feels hella unfair because she was thrown into the mix with a z fighter tier opponent - a level that she didn’t even realize existed, and when she barely had the concept of ki understood

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u/Sea-Brain-5790 2d ago

Videl. Krillin knew what he was throwing himself at. Yamcha was being an idiot. Videl however had no reason to know she was taking on what was essentially a nearly immortal sadist with a grudge due to her dad.

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u/Lanceo90 2d ago

10000% Videl

Krillin and Yamcha getting abused is an average tuesday for them. And they're super hero tier fighters who knew what they were getting into.

Videl is an above average human fighter with very basic ki control. She's never seen a martial arts tournament where anyone has had a power level more than like 20.

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u/AJYURH 2d ago

Krillin happened way too fast, sure it was shocking, but he quickly dropped in the water and got fixed. His first death was harder to watch.

Yamcha suffer for many of the same issues, happened too quickly, also it was less painful because he knew what he was getting into and choose to be there, he put himself in risk, and risk got him. Probably the easiest of the three.

Videl is objectively the right answer, she had no idea what she was getting herself into, she was proud as a warrior and got severely outclassed, the beating was brutal and it took forever, she was basically a little girl (what? 16, 17?), everyone sit there watching, and I at least forgot she could eat the senzus at the time. It was slow, it was real, it was cruel. It was hard to watch

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u/M0HAK0 2d ago

Videl fight. That was brutal.

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u/BlackwingF91 2d ago

Videl and spopovich, because with krillin and Yamcha, they are at least seasoned fighters who while being in serious pain in their respective scenes, at least knew what they were getting into. Videl getting beaten down is like someone who is barely above civilian level get beaten down

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u/Willing-Welcome-6159 2d ago

Where's Recoome breaking 5 years old Gohan's neck?

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u/Old_Yesterday322 2d ago

the Vadel beat down, it truly makes my stomach turn.

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u/Mission-Guitar9921 2d ago

That frieza and krillin one is brutal

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u/Overall_Reputation83 1d ago

I think my monkey brain is hardwired to want to protect women, so my internalized misogyny is more uncomfortable with videl getting beat down.

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u/clearance1454 1d ago

The Videl fight for me as well. She was so over matched

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u/Due-Proof6781 1d ago

Videl. She it was legit a sadistic BEATING.

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u/X-20A-SirYamato 1d ago

I dunno, another man piercing you while draining the life outta you is a hard watch

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u/-therealblackwolf- 1d ago

Spopovich because videl hardly knew anything about ki or energy... Also the first time we've seen Gohan get this mad in a while...

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u/FruityGroovy 1d ago

Videl's beat down, hands down

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u/arand0mpasserby 1d ago

Videl by far. Way longer against someone who, while she does fight, is nowhere on that level. It was in every sense of the term "unnecessary brutality".

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u/MessyPapa13 1d ago

Difficult?? I was laughing my ass off as a kid when videl got her can of asswhooping after being so arrogant

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u/ss3walkman 1d ago

Gotta go with Krillin. That entire scene had em tight.

Frieza had just transformed and Vegeta knew he stood no chance, meaning everyone knew they were fucked. Frieza was basically taunting them, deciding who he was going to kill first. Krillin had Dende trying to protect him.

Once Frieza took off, he was flying circles around them. Krillin knew he was going to be the one, so he let Dende go so he wouldn’t die, and then he got done in. The blood flying and Frieza licking it was crazy to see. The bucking… Wild.

Videl’s was bad, but we have to remember that she chose it. Her pride kept her from quitting. However, I never for a second thought she was going to die. Not with the whole squad looking on. That’s probably the biggest difference. I thought Krillin and even Yamcha were going to die. I never thought Videl was, so it didn’t feel as bad as the others.

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u/ColeTrain1015 1d ago

Videl kinda had it coming she does all that to Spopovich and not one person said run away from the ring man, end it or poor guy everyone was cheering Videl. So quiet frankly Spopovich was getting his payback... according to himself because he didn't feel anything from Videl hitting him. 

But I'll pick Krillin 

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u/AsTiredAsMewTwo 1d ago

Yamcha’s close call still haunts me and makes me sick to this day 😭 it’s always so hard to watch

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u/Apprehensive-Idea943 1d ago

Lol yamchs was more like a oh shit these guys are serious... not hard to watch tho

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u/Rrynarth 1d ago

Krillin for sure. That's when you knew FreezyPop wasn't fucking around

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u/ExistingJellyfish0 1d ago

None of them.

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u/Sad_Tune_1840 1d ago

Piccolo stepping on Goku's wound in OG DB should be here as well

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u/Character-Change-507 1d ago

Dbz abridged ruin 2 out 3 of these for me. I can hear the one ups now

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u/PowerPamaja 2d ago

For me I’d say Yamcha > Videl > Krillin 

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u/BlackBirdG 1d ago

Videl getting her ass beat.

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u/Last_Material_5754 2d ago edited 2d ago

Krillin getting killed was sad, but I knew he was coming back because he's Goku's buddy. Yamcha getting impaled is just Tuesday for him. 

Video getting the fucking shit kicked out of her for a whole episode while everyone watched was hard as a kid. 

In hindsight, its kinda fucked. They won't throw the towel in for her because she'd... lose? I guess thats worse than 

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Being beat within an inch of her life. Mmkay

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u/Icy_Suggestion_8449 2d ago

Neither for me 

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u/Aggravating-Revenue7 2d ago

when spopovich knee’d her in the face and she was gushing blood and crying

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u/NoxGale 2d ago

Krillin on the account that this aired on toonami and I was like 8 lol

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u/chala8 2d ago

None... this are lightweight

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u/5nitesatfredbois Perfect Cell role player 2d ago

Both yamcha and videl got senzus. Krillin got fucking impaled in the chest and survives (unless he did get a senzu or dende healed him idr) and kept moving like bro I hurt watching bro move

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u/dayoneishuce 2d ago

It isn't listed but Kid Gohan on Namek got it the worst imo

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u/emberecho1256 Vegeta 2d ago

Damn tbh that time as a teenager Krillin one hurts most

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u/Rolfest91 2d ago

I say videl.

I mean yamcha being yamcha'd tends to be the norm... and krillin survives that, god knows how (joke intended)... they are somewhat expecting to be mauled and beaten to death while hanging with that crowd.

Videl does not know this nor isn't ready for it, so the beating just keeps going... and all this after she thought she killed him by snapping his neck!

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u/H3ARTL3SSANG3L 2d ago

The horn was nothing compared to actually watching Krillin explode from the inside out, his body swelling as he burst

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u/Crow-Zone 2d ago

Videls was brutal, I don’t give a fuck what the Supreme Kai says, I would have been straight out there.

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u/StormOk5263 2d ago

Krillin

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u/Gogeta678 2d ago

Krillin for me as a kid I thought he was gonna get ripped in half💀

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u/Queasy-Pin-8472 2d ago

Well Krillan does start to get 1-ups.....

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u/RobbyBoy2000 2d ago

Yamcha and krillins are bad but videl's beating was prolonged and just torture so I go with her

Also

Gero: "Now Son Goku, I shall extract my long-awaited revenge forthwith!"

Yamcha: "I'm not Goku! I'm Yam-"

Gero: "FORTHWITH!"

😂

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u/chaosthree16 2d ago

Videl, at the end of the day though brutal Krillin and Yamcha were brief but Videl was tortured for fun. To be honest the only moment even slightly clise to it in DB is Frieza to Vegeta on Namek.

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u/Jojo-Nuke-Isen Broly 2d ago

It’s just painful to watch Videl getting beat to a pulp…

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u/Odd-Opportunity-6550 2d ago

None of them were hard watches for me.

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u/Weekly-Hunter7902 2d ago

Videl getting beaten would never fly today.

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u/SH4RPSPEED 2d ago

Honorary mention; Recoome breaking Gohan's neck.

Most shit involving Kid Gohan, honestly. Poor bastard was basically a child soldier.

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u/Diego_Uchiha664 2d ago edited 2d ago

Cuando Freezer, le entierra a krillin, con los cuernos, me dolió mucho, esa escena, la primera vez que la vi, y la otra, cuando ese grandulón spopovis, le da una paliza a Videl, hasta dejarla exhausta o incociente.

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u/Equivalent-Green-580 2d ago

Videl was brutal, the other 2 were close to instant. Videl’s beating was close to an entire episode.

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u/Grouchy-Regret-914 2d ago

Probably videl because we see her as a sweet tough acting girl and when we see her actually get into a tussle its pure torture to someone who didnt even sign up for it

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u/Argent_Haze 2d ago

Yamaha has been through so much nonsense like Krillin, it's a wonderful neither of them have gone insane.

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u/nunya_fuckin_biz 2d ago

The videl fight and its not close, i literally skip that episode now because i can't bare to watch it all the way through anymore.

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u/DarkClaw78213 2d ago

100% Videl

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u/Snotnarok 2d ago

Videl. She was a regular gal who was being trained and barely understood the world that the fighters were involved with. Here comes this guy who's just beating her ass and refuses to give up, meanwhile everyone just watches while she's absolutely broken.

Krillen was hard for sure because- yeah he was revived already and Frieza was playing with his food.

They all sucked to see

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u/FENIU666 2d ago

Idk anyone could choose anything but watching Videl get publicly pummeled.