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Vegeta As A Gun/Vegeta As A Bomb world is like Incredible . For my own personal interests. Everybody has different fighting styles based on their training and other abilities obviously and this is a very fun part of the story! Like “oh hey cool (x) used (y), that’s (z)’s move” is always nice. But Vegeta was very specifically trained to be A Weapon

In this way that nobody else really… was. And in a way that nobody really emulates except Gotenks, a little. Vegeta is a capable martial artist but like. He can DESTROY PLANETS FROM ORBIT and could have destroyed Earth. I think he probably relied a lot on the whole giant ape thing for like Melee at that point. like. wouldn’t you. if you could make a fake moon and just do it whenever you felt you needed to. you’d be a tiny but relatively sturdy gunbomb and then you’d have an unstoppable* tank mode. You don’t neglect your Base Form but you also don’t… plan around using it exclusively. Y’know. Goku would have died permanently if Yajirobe weren’t watching from the shadows with a sword. because he was. fighting a carefully groomed weapon of mass destruction. A person who has been dropped on planets alone to kill literally everyone for the past twenty years of his life as one of the only surviving members of his dead species. Serving your childhood through early adulthood as a weapon for the interplanetary warlord who blew up your planet and then lied to you about having done that. “Oh what a shame well it’s a good thing you’re still alive because you reeeeally are remarkable. Aren’t you? :)” #justvegetathings

You become his favorite reusable powerful explosive device. You become his Favorite Gun (i will make the Favorite Gun post eventually this is. the precursor. to the Favorite Gun post) but really a number of your climactic Moments in the story are self-destructions. It’s funny, you can sort of… follow his development using The Times He Expends As Much Energy As He Possibly Can to Destroy Everything Around Him as benchmarks.

(ravoress screenie ^)

And I mean the Majin influence on his body is sort of “harnessed” by him to a degree, but also like. He is visibly strained by the possession. I think it’s reasonable to say that it pushes him over a sort of edge and that he couldn’t Survive this very familiar Way of Releasing Energy because… there was a little too much, y’know? I don’t think he killed himself accidentally though, I think he knew what would happen, and I think he felt it was the only way to Take Responsibility for what he’d done to allow this to come to pass in service of his own selfish desires. What else could he do but give everything he has and more to try and put an end to the creature that’s already killed most of the planet? To finish what he started if you believe he allowed himself to be controlled (and I do)

It’s a very “lose the battle, win the war” impulse, but it’s what allowed him to keep his body in the afterlife and return to Earth. It’s a neat little bow out of the thread of his figurative And Literal self-destructive tendencies throughout the narrative. like yes it was For Nothing, in the short term. But it didn’t mean nothing. It’s part of transforming into something that he is only just Beginning to understand - a being that protects instead of destroys! He’s starting to want to Build Up instead of Tear Down you know. It’s natural that the end of a life of destruction comes as a real destruction of the self

It’s neat that within the text Android 18 has an explosive device removed from her body but that Vegeta can’t have his removed. It’s all of him.

#dbz #meta #vegeta #he's such a fucking phenomenal character #vegeta's character arc squashes zuko's like a bug (sorry kid) #(it does kinda make sense tho bc zuko has something of a creator's pet status and vegeta has. the exact opposite of that) #anyway that last part is yet another reason why eighteen is number one forever in my heart <3333

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just real quick - the similar part of the senju bros' (and their dad too actually) names is just the "ma" (間) part. you've got butsuma (仏間), hashirama (柱間), tobirama (扉間), kawarama (瓦間), and itama (板間).

also, the similar first names isn't really unique to naruto - it's an actual thing in japanese culture, hence why it's so common in anime.

for examply, oda nobunaga was the son of oda nobuhide, who himself was the son of oda nobusada. all of nobuhide's brothers and most of his sons had "nobu" in their names (nobuyasu, nobumitsu, nobutsugu, nobuzane; nobuhiro, nobuyuki/nobukatsu, nobukane, nobuharu, nobutoki, nobuteru). two of nobuhide's sons were also called hidetaka and hidenari, respectively, taking the second kanji from their father's name rather than the first.

this isn't always a thing, and it's significantly more common with men than women (i'm actually not sure if it happens much with women at all in real life tbh if it does i couldn't find any god examples)

a fun thing in the naruto universe is how names work

because like, in japan, the polite thing to do is call people by their LAST names, with given names being like. a friends/family thing?

except, in the naruto universe, they had the clan wars, which went on for GENERATIONS before the hidden villages were formed. And clan tensions were so tight that if you introduced yourself by your last name, someone might just try to kill you because your clan is allied with a clan thats allied with another clan who is an enemy of the person you're talking to.

obviously, this was a hassle.

so, there was like, an unspoken rule of only giving your first name, as seen with Hashirama and Madara. Because if you didn't know for a fact that someone was a senju or an uchiha, you could just treat them as another ninja and mutually decide not to kill each other. Things like the sharingan or any notable techniques would be a dead giveaway, but as long as you're not fighting, everyone can just. Politely not ask questions.

but also, because clans are important, they still want to have something which ties the clan together, if last names are omitted from conversation with outsiders.

This is less important in the modern era, but it's still present - everyone in naruto's academy class, even students who aren't friends, exclusively use their classmates first names. Even the teacher isn't immune, he's called Iruka-sensei, not Umino-sensei.

Which is why most clans have first names with common, repeated elements, especially where the main line comes in.

Ino/Shika/Chou is the obvious one, but you also have things like the Hyuuga having a history of the first-born having their name start with Hi (Hizashi, Hiashi, Hinata, Himawari, etc.) or the senju having -rama (Hashirama, Tobirama, Kawarama), the Inuzuka being named after animal body parts (Tsume - claw, Kiba - fang, Hana - nose), all sorts of stuff like that.

It works both in universe (clan loyalties and traditions) and out of universe (group similar characters together)!! its really neat!!!

kishimoto did a lot of dumb things with the Lore and consistently forgot details he'd written about earlier on, but when he DOES have a consistent worldbuilding thing it's super cool to think about.

#naruto #naruto shippuden #senju clan #it uh. may appear as tho i have an interest in the sengoku period. bc i do a bit #but yeah the name passing-on thing didn't come from naruto #actually one of my favorite anime examples is from bleach #ishida uryuu's father is ishida ryuuken but ryuuken's father's name was souken. #passing down the ryuu instead of the ken was part of ryuuken's way of distancing himself from his quincy heritage iirc

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so I’m reading baccano and I come across this quote:

“If there was one thing he hadn’t liked, it was that afterward, no matter how hard he’d trained and mastered techniques, the people around him had explained it all away with the word talent. It was humiliating, as if his effort was being reduced to nothing, but in the end, he’d accepted that, too. I bet mastering techniques this simple doesn’t count as ‘effort,’ he’d thought. In which case, he decided, he’d acquire something even bigger than his so-called talent.”

the Sasuke vibes I got from this caught me off guard.

#naruto #naruto shippuden #uchiha sasuke #sasuke and claire would. not really get along very well i don't think #having said that claire and sakura would get along way too well for all the worst reasons lmao #claire stanfield #felix walken #the rail tracer #vino #all the other names that lil weirdo has gone by

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youre an olympic level hater. i respect it.

they asked me to represent my country in the sport of hating i said no. i hate my country

#sasuke......

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#naruto #naruto shippuden #uchiha madara #i picked ''bc he was right'' but tbh that's not really why #he's completely shit out of luck from day one and it's great #area man doomed by the narrative takes the time to have a brief romance that is also doomed by the narrative #but also he's just incredibly funny #he literally lives in the explain your backstory for five episodes straight world and all we hear from him is about how cool hashirama was #we don't hear pretty much anything about madara from the man himself. we hear it from obito or itachi or hashirama or black zetsu #and none of those sources are particularly reliable #of all of them hashirama's story is the most trustworthy but he has a clear bias and as i've mentioned before an even clearer agenda #he's not just telling sasuke what he remembers of his childhood he's actively choosing to portray madara in a sympathetic light #the madara we see through hashirama's eyes is a very different man from the one we see during the fourth war #which makes sense! part of their whole story is about people changing #but we never find out why. we know nothing. all we can do is try to trace together a rough outline from the crumbs he left us #he really is just a ghost

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rin: i need to kill myself so konoha isn't attacked by a bijuu

obito: ninetails, i choose you!

Obito summoned Kurama on Rin's grave.

#naruto #naruto shippuden #nohara rin #hatake kakashi #uchiha obito #for the record. i support him in this #rin deserved to live

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#naruto #naruto shippuden #uchiha itachi #suicide bait #uchiha sasuke #hoshigaki kisame #deidara #uzumaki naruto #pain #pein #orochimaru #unfair that sakura didn't also get to tell him to kill himself where's the hashtag feminism

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Madara in eternal tsukuyomi.

#naruto #naruto shippuden #uchiha madara #senju hashirama #hashirama: i'd put you first #madara: ....unrealistic. blocked and reported #no but i don't think even this would make him happy lmao he would never be able to trust it #plus i think if hashirama had at any point pre-konoha picked madara over tobirama madara wouldn't have been able to trust that either #like yes madara wants hashirama to choose him but he also absolutely does not want that #it's a no-win situation for both of them really #even in the infinite tsukuyomi i think this would probably just make madara worse in the long run #which. to be clear. i am 100000% here for

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everybody in naruto wants so badly to not be in naruto anymore that's why they keep killing themselves

kakashi’s dad, rin, minato and even obito’s deaths being due suicide is crazy like damn. nobody wanted to spend time with kakashi fr

#naruto #naruto shippuden #suicide ment #no but seriously the suicide rate in that series is insane #whether by their own hand or by someone else's it's bonkers #multiple characters are shown attempting seppuku. hanzou does this WHILE HE IS ALREADY DECEASED #every major event involving hinata has something alarmingly close to her being suicidal and it's never addressed ever #one of naruto's best scenes is just him going ''let's kill ourselves together <333'' to sasuke #hell a bunch of characters commit suicide while they're already dying #minato interrupted his own suicide (sealing the kyuubi into naruto) with a different fucking suicide (shielding naruto from the kyuubi) #nagato obito rin kisame danzou deidara sasori (sorta??) yahiko haku hiruzen madara (the second time) shisui itachi (also sorta) #even anko and gai both had attempts #plus there's all the characters sacrificing themselves like tobirama and hizashi #and characters who could leave a lethal situation but choose to either stay or make it worse (zabuza and inoichi and shikaku etc) #basically if a character's death is never explained or in anyway ambiguous you can kinda just assume they killed themselves

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man the wave arc must've been a trip for sasuke even before the actual fight on the bridge.

imagine some old man lying to you and endangering (understandably tho) you and your fellow twelve-year-olds and then guilting you about how if he dies his poor daughter will be left all alone and then you go to his how and meet her and her disillusioned rage-filled son who watched his father's brutal murder and became trapped in an obsessive hateful spiral bc he couldn't even imagine a world in which the monster who ruined his life would ever cease to be present in every waking misery-filled moment of his pitiful life and then your dumbest friend yells at him for not trying to punch his way out of crushing systemic oppression and you aren't really paying attention to any of that bc his mom is uncannily similar to your mom in just enough ways that you're totally fine spending as much time Not Dealing With That and climbing trees instead

and then you do go to the bridge and you get fucked up so bad your magic eyes activate (actually they already activated but you don't know that bc your dickweed brother was too busy traumatizing you to say "oh hey nice sharingan good job sasuke") and then your stupid idiot orange-wearing jerkwad teammate who won't leave you alone and also kissed you once barges in like a stupid orange-wearing idiot and you fling yourself in front of him as a meatshield and hope someone else deals with your dickweed brother bc you probably just got yourself killed for this idiot

and then you wake up and everybody except your team is dead and your other teammate is crying bc she thought you were dead but it turns out the guy who killed you (who also looks a little bit like your mom but maybe you're just losing it and anyway he's got a hole in his chest now so who cares) was too nice to kill you and the last time someone could've killed you but didn't for some reason it went Super Great so you kinda just wanna go home and sleep for like a week but before you can do that the townspeople name the bridge after your dumb teammate even tho as far as you're aware you're the one who nearly died for it and the rest of your team looks basically ok while you are literally covered in holes but sure fine whatever

and then you go home and it turns out that everything just gets worse forever

#naruto #naruto shippuden #uchiha sasuke #tazuna #inari #gatou #kaiza #uzumaki naruto #tsunami #uchiha mikoto #uchiha itachi #haruno sakura #haku #hatake kakashi #suigetsu: hey do you know where zabuza's sword is i want it #sasuke: yeah we can go get it. heads up tho i will be dissociating the entire time so don't talk to me or i'll stab you #suigetsu: k

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birth certificates always say certificate of live birth or something we need ones that say this guy hatched from an egg

#reminds me of that one post about orochimaru i made a few months ago.....

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this is why you bitches who pretend to get naruto piss me the fuck off. because someone put the one tailed beast in you one time and you think because naruto helped you and related to your dilemma that you are now besties for life? i bet your fake ass won’t. i already know it. and who’s gonna be here to pick up the pieces when y’all inevitably break his heart to be “kazekage” or “chasing rainbows” or whatever? me bitch. and sakura but she not here by choice. so.

#mnksalnklsandkasld #this is so fucking funny #naruto #naruto shippuden #team seven #rip kabuto got bullied by sasuke again #uchiha sasuke #yakushi kabuto #gaara #genuinely i love this beef between gaara and sasuke that the fandom just. decided on #there's zero canon bestie-related hatred but fan content constantly has them giving each other shit. and i love it #sakura would rather be at the club

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#wh #ok

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#m;k;dnk;sd;sal #ok england i'll give you this one

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Someone please ask Nappa, old man deserves recognition for raising a gremlin that's too big and another gremlin that's too small

#dbz #kakavege #ksldnklansdksal #YES CLONE VEGETA THEORY SPREAD FURTHER MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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lee asked me why i never cried over neji. had to tell him that unfortunately i do not cry over men. if neji wanted my tears he should've come out when he had the chance

#realtentenfacts #naruto #naruto shippuden #tenten #rock lee #hyuuga neji #team gai #toxic aro lesbian tenten my beloved

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#What chapter is this I need to check mine in German lmaoooo#I think I would remember if it had been censored like that tho lol#The gay sex jutsu wasn't censored either so it's unlikely#But to be fair I have the recent big ass rerelease they did of the entire manga in 24 volumes

the above panel of nicotine-free shikamaru is chapter 331 (volume 37), and sexy boy on boy jutsu is chapter 347 (volume 38)

#naruto #naruto shippuden