Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27996636-20180225211948/@comment-28063230-20180309034943

NegativeSymptom wrote:

In Z, Goku is sometimes clueless, but usually serious, which isn’t his character at all. Actually, if it was by the author, it means it is.

Goku evolved, developed as a character, before DBS that's what the characters used to do.

It's a cheap treatment of the characters by TOEI, almost as cheap as the reused animations.

NegativeSymptom wrote:

Goku is made to be strong but pretty dumb, it’s a classic protagonist trope. We see the same in Luffy from One Piece. Not all dumbs are identical though.

Ichigo from Bleach is the best example of dumb in kinda control, Luffy is all out, which makes sense seeing as that's pure comedy (as OG DB used to be, but it's not anymore).

And yes I'm more than aware of that trope unfortunately, and I'm really tired of it, I was expecting the same excrement from My Hero Academia, oh, boy, I'm so happy that wasn't the case, love that series.

NegativeSymptom wrote:

Idk why people complain about Goku being dumb in Super when his character is literally supposed to be that dumb. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, people are complaining because that's not who Goku is supposed to be anymore.

In the DBS manga Goku is still dumb just not OG DB dumb, which makes sense as this is supposed to be set in DBZ times.