ITT: Forgotten powers and abilities

Remember when Piccolo could become giant? Why did Toriyama never have him do that again?

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Because it doesn't make any sense. You can't be "piccolo" if you're huge.

Getting giant post Sayain saga is a useless power and only serves to make you a bigger target and the bonuses are far less useful that just charging up and compressing power see Cell saga and how Super Vegeta, Super Trunks and Cells attempts at going swole worked out compared to SP Cell and SSJ2

Rewatch that scene and tell me how well it goes for Piccolo. It’s very obvious why he never dared to do that again.

Remember Dio's eye beams?
Remember Star Finger?
Remember when Hierophant Green could kill with paintings?
Remember when Silver Chariot could become faster by shedding the armor?
Remember how J. Geil had an anti-rain force field?
Remember when Gold Experience could deflect all damage?

Because he gets BTFO and loses his trump card because of it in the next episode.

Didn't Slug pull the same trick in the Dragon Ball movie

Yes, he does. And just like Piccolo, it ends bad for him.

I don’t think it’s a matter of “author forgot about this technique”, it’s just that there was no particular reason to use that technique again.

When was the last time a DB main character used forcefields? That was a thing.

Gohan used a ki shield thing in the manga not long ago.

>Kakyoin paintings
I am so fucking tired of speed-watchers/readers ignoring the fact that the painting had NOTHING to do with it, it was just another weird visual thing Araki did
Literally the next scene he threw the painting away and tore it to shreds because it was pointless. He attacked in conjuncture WITH the painting because he is a Jojo character and that's just what they do
Stop spreading these dumb lies
Everything else is right tho

It's filler, but he did some weird roid rage shit when he fought Garlic Jr. the second time.

why don't kirllin nor piccolo multiply themselves?

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I think it's just inefficient compared to dodging or body strengthening or directed energy deflection

Literally cuts power in half every time you use it
It is a cool ability, but the fact that Toriyama wrote that as the caveat made it absolutely worthless, even when it first appeared

remember when goku made the ground explode with his eyes to bury vegeta? imagine if goku could simply blow everyone up and save us time fighting

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Remember when Goku could read Krillin's mind just by touching him?

17 used the shit out of it during the Jiren fight

Don't they still use telepathy quite often, coulda sworn Goku used it to call Piccolo during Super Broly

That’s not really a forgotten technique. Jiren uses it all the time.

Telepathy yes, mind reading no

is this thread about powers and abilities an individual character stop using or just in general?

Whatever happened to those fairies Orihime had?

Remember Krillin’s Destructo Disk? I barely do.

Literally anything Yamcha's ever done. 90% of the shit Tenshinhan's done too.

>Why did Toriyama never have him do that again?
Because Toriyama's writing and fights became hack-tier at basically the same point in time. In a world of plot armor and big numbers, there's no room for technique or cunning. All the abilities that get any actual use in DBZ are different color ki-beams that do exactly the same thing, and ass-pull powerup forms that serve no purpose other than telling you 'this character is now stronger and can punch harder and dodge better until he can't'

I kinda miss when Yamcha had a sword.

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His main move, and every villain ever steals it. You not remembering it for some reason doesn't count as forgotten
This better be bait

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underrated post

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It's that attack everyone brings up when you mention how useless the side characters are.
>but he WOULD have killed x if they didn't dodge it!

I didn't even include when Frieza used it to defeat himself

Also, Joseph came to Morioh to use Hermit Purple to find RHCP, but never tried to use it to find Kira.

>A move so good, Vegeta, Frieza and 18 all stole
I'm actually surprised Solar Flare got dropped though

Solar Flare doesn't involve shooting laser blasts or punching, so of course it got dropped.

It isn't the most frequent use, but dropped?
It is used in late DB for the first time and was pretty powerful throughout
Then in the Goku against Vegeta, then Krillin against Dodoria, then Frieza
Cell uses it multiple times throughout his transformations, Goku uses it in Otherworld
In Super Krillin uses it against Goku, in the manga Trunks uses it and was taught by Gohan so he uses it
Tournament of Power Krillin uses it again, then Goku against Kaulifla
Even used in GT.
No my dude, this move was NEVER dropped