Film Theory:  Dragon Ball Z, Frieza's 5 Minutes Was NOT A Mistake!

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levels of dialogue what is it the problem is your phone call, it's good that they contacted you before I disconnected your number poetry is just poetry now it's been a long time since we last covered Dragon Ball in fact, how to make a kamehameha wave was one of the first uploads on this channel unless of course you include that video where I talked about the power level of Ultra Instinct Shaggy.

Remember when that was a meme for a hot minute, but people love Dragon Ball, it played a big role in popularizing anime in the West. It gave Cartoon Network some of the highest ratings they've ever seen, and according to the npd group, Dragon Ball Z is the number one selling anime brand of all time. I'm sure you may have gotten some strange looks from your parents when they saw you. Watch Trunks yell at Frieza for 12 seconds straight in slow motion an hour later, but at its core it's really a show about overcoming obstacles in the face of overwhelming adversity and yelling in each other's faces for extended periods of time, but buried in the Dragon Balls. franchises over 600 episodes 19 movies and a Vegeta mustache one battle in particular has gone down in infamy not as the most incredibly powerful and ridiculously destructive fight nor as the most satisfying and well-written story arc that has the longest fight ever graced our television screens dare I say the longest fight in the history of all television yes I'm talking about the Frieza saga for those of you who nod your head or can read a title now for those of you who don't are familiar with dbz The Frieza Saga refers to episodes 75 to 107 of the original Dragon Ball Z game.

During this arc, the Z fighters go to the planet Namek to collect

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s that will allow them to summon a dragon capable of grant a wish. Their objective is to revive all those who died at the hands of the Saiyans several sagas ago, Frieza, the main antagonist of the saga, hears about the Namekian dragon balls and heads to the planet to wish for immortality, the two groups finally they meet and since this is dragon ball they fight for a long time to give you an idea, they are in nameks starting from episode 36 and the big bad Frieza really doesn't do much until episode 75 75 and here you thought my episodes were full of filler , but Of all that filler, nothing is as infamous as this moment.

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is all I need now. In most cases, this would make it look like the planet should explode in I don't know, five minutes. Know? due to the fact that you just said that, but this is Dragon Ball Z, so five minutes through the magic of the anime becomes and I'm not exaggerating on this at all, two hours, 38 minutes and 55 seconds or so , approximately one minute. is from the end of episode 97 to the destruction of the planet in episode 106. So what happens in that two and a half hour span?

Well, an hour and 18 minutes are spent showing the destruction of Namic, the events on earth, the home of King Kai, the home of Kami. look for subplots with vegeta and gohan that don't include

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bulma scenes and lastly, remember because what better time to remember your past decisions. They spend 35 minutes talking and this is specifically for anyone who talks cold as long as it is actively happening. the battlefield and ultimately spend 42 minutes throwing punches and concentrated balls of energy. Now it would be natural to assume that perhaps these wrestlers perceive time differently and that is why an estimate of five minutes increases to almost three hours that the show lasts. it has somehow slowed down the fight so we can see it and understand it.

It's all cinematic synchronization. This at least seems to be the most popular

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about what's really going on here. The animation staff animated the fight so you can understand what is happening. Looking at the comments on these types of videos, they also seem to agree, except there's one problem: the 35 minutes spent talking to Frieza, sound can only travel so fast, no matter what your power level, so sure which you can assume is literally everything else in those three. An hour-long time block is happening at the same time or at the speed of light, but the conversation scenes demonstrate that, at a minimum, the planet explodes no less than 35 minutes after Frieza's original five-minute prediction, so , why would Frieza say five minutes if Namek clearly survives long?

More than that, loyal theorists is what I am here to personally answer today. I think Frieza didn't miscalculate the time. In fact, I think he knew it would last a lot longer, so let's hope it's his body. I can accept it because today we end the debate once and for all. I'll start with the simple facts. If you do something frequently, no matter the task, you understand it well and when it comes to blowing up planets, Frieza is a pro, he knows what kind of planet, how much power and how long it will take to get everything working.

Kaboom, look no further than planet Vegeta, which he takes out without breaking a sweat, so what was his problem with planet Namek? Because? He was able to destroy it as easily as other planets. Well, first it was much denser than he expected. What I mean by this? Have you ever noticed that Namek has a very long diurnal cycle, like in every shot of Namic? it's during the day, well because Akira Toriyama hated drawing night scenes in the manga that made Tidally Locked Namek, this means that its rotation period coincides with its orbital period and I guess just to make sure it's daylight all the time , Namek is blocked, not alone. with one not just two but three suns, this is something that is actually confirmed in the manga.

Now, normally planets are ejected from these types of three-star systems because they are too unstable to maintain the gravity of three massive stars all acting the same way. A ball of dirt would normally rip apart a planet and tear it in multiple different directions, but somehow Namek is able to not only stay in orbit but also remain intact, so how could that be? It means one of two things: Namek is ridiculously big or it's ridiculously dense now there's not really a frame of reference for its size but we do have an indication that the world isn't particularly big in the manga frieza's henchman from doria says quote without our scanners it will be a real pain to track these last two dragon balls oh well at least it's not too big a planet and we also see that the planet collapses and that Gohan can travel back and forth between the battlefield and the capsule in a relatively short period of time, but without seeing the effects of Frieza.

Planet destroyer as such, we can assume that the planet's strength comes not from its size but from its density, which extends the time it takes for the planet to explode and this surprises Frieza. He even makes a comment after firing his attack on Namic's core saying I have too much power, this line isn't Goku by the way he's not even looking at him, he says it to himself because he knows right away it will take more time to what he initially thought and when goku calls him out on the next line, he watches his attention audibly turn you couldn't do it you couldn't move on after all huh so what do you do if you're Frieza at this point you've miscalculated your attack and you're against the ropes against a really difficult Opponent, well one thing we have seen throughout the various battles is that Frieza is quite intelligent and becomes much dumber as the series progresses, but in this main arc he is very strategic and serves as the polar opposite of Goku, where Goku fights. in fair terms, Frieza fights dirty where Goku improvises, Frieza comes up with some pretty interesting strategies despite all the boasting and confidence, Frieza never assumes things will turn out well.

He takes on the destruction of Planet Vegeta to prevent an uprising and, upon his loss of the throne, destroys an entire planet. Planet based purely on the legend of the Super Saiyan, plus militaristic self-preservation and management of an empire. 448 planets. Frieza constantly uses psychological warfare against his opponents. He seems to be a follower of Sun Tzu's teachings because you can actually trace most of his tactics back to the art of war, here is an example from the book, wake him up and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity, force him to reveal himself to find out his vulnerable points for all the memes about him not being his final form, Frieza.

He hides his true nature because of this Sun Tzu quote. A true fighter does not reveal his true abilities until he has completely discovered his opponents. In fact, he does it quite a bit. One of Frieza's distinguishing characteristics is that he often does not move a limb during a fight; while it could simply be a result of how confident he is, it also has to be one of the other strategies in the art of war. . quote again be extremely subtle even to the point of being formless be extremely mysterious even to the point of silence, therefore, you can be the director of the opponent's destiny by not allowing his movements to be predictable.

He is a total wild card on the battlefield. You can't dodge or block what you can't see coming and when your opponent isn't even there. moving there is no way to prepare for a counterattack, this all plays into Frieza's psychological warfare throughout the series, we see instance after instance of Frieza belittling his opponents when he fights the spike. Frieza praises his power level of 42,000 only to reduce it revealing his is 530,000 building his confidence only to completely break it by crushing the genuine effort the nail had to light up making the future fight in vain and again these are all art of war lessons quotes supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting if your opponent is temperamental seek to irritate him pretend to be weak he may become arrogant if he is taking it easy do not give him rest a great example of this is when Gohan vegetates and dende are forced to watch helplessly.

While Frieza literally plays with Krillin impaled on his horn by treating this powerful fighter as a mere toy, Frieza makes his raw power and inhumanity seem that much more invincible, instilling fear in everyone he encounters. look, including Vegeta himself, they are demoralized, they have lost the battle before. It's really started because they are very afraid of their opponent, they advance a little and we can see the same kind of twisted demoralization tactics used during his fight with Piccolo: he intentionally humiliates and tortures Piccolo for fun, but also to send a warning. For everyone else watching from below, that feeling of helplessness he hoped to inspire must be setting in nicely even in Piccolo's final moments.

He lets the Namekian resurface just so he can finish the job in front of Gohan because Frieza has great hearing. He meets Piccolo. It means a lot to the boy, so he forces Gohan to watch his death, devastating Gohan's morale during his fight with Goku. He constantly mentions how he killed so many people, the Namekians, his friends specifically Krillin, all in an effort to distract and anger Goku, but it doesn't work, the two start fighting in episode 87, but 10 episodes later, Frieza states that he can't win by conventional means, so his most drastic offensive strategy is to blow up the entire planet knowing that Goku will die and be fine in the vacuum of space, but when the planet doesn't completely explode as expected, he has to come up with a plan. to lie following another of Sun Tzu's quotes.

The entire war is based on deception. In the midst of chaos, there are also opportunities in the moment. Frieza uses to destroy the planet and thought that the only thing he had to do is force Goku to rush to

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somewhere and look for an opportunity to deliver the final blow by setting the timer for five minutes. Frieza intends to plant fear and doubt in Goku's head. there is no time to think that you ever play chess using a stopwatch, it is the same thing that forces you to move faster and be constantly thinking about the clock ticking in the background when Frieza clearly lets his opponent know that Goku will die in the explosion While Frieza survives whether true or not, it puts a lot at stake for Goku, he has to finish the job now to avenge his friends, but time is ticking just as Sun Tzu said, he created chaos and there are opportunities in chaos, the crux of The thing is, Frieza certainly used the entire five minutes as a means of psychological warfare to ensure Goku's defeat.

The only problem was that not only did he underestimate the energy needed to destroy the planet, but he also underestimated Goku himself, but hey, that's just a theory, a movie. Theory and Goku begins to turn on the light bulbnext time on Dragon Ball Z. You know, I love the Christmas season, but I'll be honest. I missed the tablespoons. Surely I'm not the only one with a hole the size of a Jack-o-lantern. Right at heart, my fellow ghoul enthusiasts, ghoul enthusiasts, we're in luck thanks to our sponsor for today's episode, Shutter, as the world's largest streaming service for horror thrillers and supernatural content, Shutter , it's creepy 24/7, 365 days a year.

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