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Feelings like shit, just want her back.
I'm on episode 18 of classic dragon ball and I'm so confused why they never brought Launch back, not even for Super.
Sure she's not a martial artist but she is the queen of comedic moments and I started to miss her as soon as I met her.
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It’s weird that she just straight up disappears.
That's when you know it's Toriyama authentic.
She doesn’t just disappear she goes with tien but it doesn’t work out. It’s quick and she’s never heard from again
Yeah, but I’m pretty sure in the manga she just disappears because Toriyama forgot about her.
There is a line about Lunch chasing Tenshinhan in chapter 196 (DBZ 2) by Kuririn
Tbh I’m not sure what he really could have done with her, she is the definition of a gag character and the gag had run it’s course
My headcanon is that she is in prison. She was on the run from the police when introduced so it makes sense
She is revealed to be a truck driver when Goku is forming the spirit bomb to take out Majin Buu.
Disappears harder than the Saiyin tail. Seriously, da heck happened to them?
I like to think that the PTSD of seeing Gohan go Great Ape was so great, that Piccolo convinces everyone to get rid of the tails of all the newborn Saiyans.
I mean once they're capable of the strength goten and trunks hold at such a young age, I can imagine that turning into an uncontrollable monster with tenfold the strength and god only knows what untapped power by also being able to go super saiyan, it's a very understandable precaution I would say
Toriyama said he forgot about her lol.
Yeah, Toriyama was great at crafting characters, moments, and worlds. Keeping a long running narrative consistent and cohesive? Not his goal.
She doesnt want you back, you need to move on
Ha she needs to hear that advice when it comes to Tenshinhan
Pretty sure she's still looking for him.
Actually she stopped looking for him it's in one of the dbz episodes where she says she's moved on.
Anything with Launch after the 23rd WT is anime filler.
Toriyama has also stated that she has stopped looking for him.
She wasn’t brought back cause toriyama forgot about her
makes lots of sense
That and Z onwards was far more serious.
She was in one or two episodes of Z briefly I thought, like giving her energy to goku for the super spirit bomb
Edit: she's actually in a good bit of Z as well as GT, just frequent brief appearances and flashbacks
I think that's only in the anime, she never showed up again in the manga.
That makes sense, I unfortunately cannot read
He actually didn’t, there’s an interview where someone asked where she was as of Battle of Gods and Toriyama explained he didn’t forget about her. I’ll need to look into the link, but a translated version exists on the kanzenshuu website
That is the article I’m thinking about
Part of liking dragon ball is accepting that a lot of things don't make sense and there's too many plot holes to count.
Indeed
She is somewhat more prominent in the DBZ Kakarot game, where she's in a lot of side content as you progress the game.
Launch was mostly there for humor and fan service since Bulma wasn't around when Launch was introduced.
Her lone piece of character development was being in love with Tien. Which apparently played out off screen and didn't work out.
Seeing as how Yamcha and Tien are basically struggling to exist later in the series it's hard to justify Launch
It didn't work out because Tien abused her and killed her when she tried to escape.
You could say she was BETRAYED
i want yajirobe back!
Honestly I want him back more than Launch.
He's the GOAT
yeah, especially since he had so much aura back in OG dragon ball
He's busy making a podcast with his buddy Andrew Santino.
I think it would have been fun if she joined Gohan, Krillin and Bulma on Namek. She would have been fun to have around
Launch and Puar should have joined the Namek expedition, both had good motives (ressurectcing Tien and Yamcha respectively).
Considering that Frieza and his soldiers could not feel ki without scouters and they lost all scouters early in Namel, the transformations of Puar had potential to be very useful.
Yeah, I think the early part of the namek arc before the arrival of the Ginyu force would have been a great place for a dragonball style adventure mixed with the tension of the early namek arc. Would need to have been rewritten a lot but you could easily still hit the same plot points in a different context.
My earth team would have been Bulma, Krillian, Launch, Gohan and why not include Yajirobe, Puar and Roshi. The second cooler movie which I hate kind of does this and they are the only parts of those films that I liked(roshi and the humans getting dragged by the robots, Yajirobe about to be dissected by a cheerful robot)
Can you imagine if some weaker freeza soldiers found bulma and launch and ended up gunned down? Or if a namekian village already agreed to give them a dragonball and launch still bullied them and pointed a gun at them to take it by force?
Her character design was actually pretty cool
First she started off nice and friendly and once she sneezed she turned into a ruthless gun slinger lol
Missed her unique gags.
I want them to randomly bring her back with the excuse of "she was raising tiens' kid"
That kid would make a great villain
Krillin references her in Sparking Zero. So at least they still remember she exists!
Yeah I agree, she was funny :)
It would have been funny if she had been 17's wife and was teaching their kids how to fire guns and 17 was too dense to find it wrong.
Well she made a cameo in the buu saga, she was in one of the shots of people lending energy for the Spirit Bomb
Toyotaro should bring her back in Supers.
DB already has a massive cast they refuse to properly use.
Honestly the best way to bring her back is just by saying she got released from prison
For what? Shes absolutely useless now
The JP voice actor also does Big Mom from one piece. It threw me for a loop when she reprised the role in one of the dragon ball games. Her voice has changed dramatically from the 80s.
Literally just had this thought today! I want Launch back!
Ask tien to have her pull up, idk
I assume Toei avoided using her in their own material in Super just in case Toriyama decided to bring her back in some way. I wonder if Toyotaro or Toei will have her appear again in future material.
I just finished the 22nd tournament arc (again) and I agree. I felt the same way. She needs to be brought back.
Female Male Fusion
Ah yes, the original super saiyan
Toriyama forgot about her ass
Who is she again?
People say it's because she's no longer relevant, but that's bullshit. If Fucking Oolong can still be in the background, so can she.
Launch has more value to me than mr wished for women's underwear to save the world
Forget it dude, move on.
Ah, launch is one of my favorite original characters. I miss her too : )
How different would the Namek arc be if Launch was there with Bulma? 🤔
Only thing that will happen is that she will at least be around Bulma
Bulma gets shot, Trunks doesn’t get born, no training for the androids, no heart medicine, everyone dies.
Go play The Breakers there's her skin as a survivor
She was in quite a few episodes of Z and some GT but it's about half flashbacks in Z
Yes
Too late....the golden 1980s and 1990s are gone.
She is no longer relevant in the 2010s and 2020s Dragon Ball Series sadly. society is different, Audience is different, thus the type of characters would be different.
Imagine she meets zeno, sneezes and then starts firing at him pissing him off and universe 7 gets erased. Would be funny to see
I like her a lot, a dense but super loyal friend who is a pretty girl. But she doesnt really contribute to the more serious situations in Z especially when we already have plenty of goofballs like Pilaf and Mr Satan. Tien doesnt have much of role either, being usurped by Piccolo and Vegeta and he is only rarely around.
Tien doesnt have much of role either, being usurped by Piccolo and Vegeta and he is only rarely around.
Tien gets an infinite pass for his role in delaying Semi-perfect Cell absorbing 18.
Everybody talks about Goku's impressive friend making skills, but they fail to mention his most impressive persuasion yet has been Blonde Lunch
She would have been the strongest Z fighter no doubt. If she got a chance and a reason to train. Maybe they coulda done something cool and said they could use potara to split into two since they are technically already kind of two souls in one body.
That would have been a cool episode.
she got shot and killed while robbing a bank 💔💔💔
No. What the hell would Lunch contribute to the franchise at this point?
She deserves to be a wife for one of the Z fighters and part of the story as far as wives go. She was so forgotten.
Wow what an honor. Get to be a wife and nothing else.
Better than nothing at all lol
I’d say they both are worse.
Tien literally murdered her.
She was always useless
genuinely i disagree
in the OG series at one point she straight up saves Goku and Krillin from General Blue
he has them both captured and Lunch is the one who saves them, there is no indication that young Goku, and certainly not Krillin, are going to be able to survive the bomb and the series would technically have ended right there if not for our girl
also fun fact: her real name is Lunch, it's only in the funimation dub that it was changed to Launch, just like how Bra was renamed to Bulla
bro, they literally saved her and brought her to master roshi to train. without her, how would the plot advance
Nah, sorry. I'm glad Toriyama forgot about her. Her shtick got old really fast.
The Only good female character in dragon ball
No
Are we all ready to admit that Launch was the original Super Saiyan?
Funnily enough, they reference it in dragon ball sd:
https://scans.lastation.us/manga/Dragon-Ball-S-D/0012-005.png
Not for no reason, it's cause she thinks they're being perverts. Goku's the student of a pervert so I'd say it's a reasonable thing to think.
hon she'd literally pull that shit out just to shoot lead into the air 😭😭
LITERALLY looking for any excuse to use a gun
So its kinda like detroit then
Honestly I feel like that shit has to be out of instinct rather than actual malice with how often she does it. Like “I’ve got the goddamn 500 bullets-a-day subscription I am NOT getting kicked out cause my ammo cases start filling the damn house”