Bulma was never essential to the story of Dragon Ball.

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Scotty's 2025 resolution: say dumb stuff
"Very important or necessary"

Early DB: nobody to hit Goku with a car. He'd literally never met a human other than Gohan, in 12 years, despite spending lots of time running around outdoors. In other words, nobody visited those mountains. The dragonball combined with the dragon radar gave someone a reason to go into Goku's area.
Roshi: never meets Roshi without Bulma taking him from the mountains at that specific time so that he's there when Roshi comes to put out the fire. Delays everything, or he just never meets him ever, since Roshi rarely leaves his island.
RRA: same as below
King Piccolo: takes over the Earth if Goku isn't there to stop him. Even if you think Goku would have eventually left the mountains and found Roshi for training, he would have been weaker due to the delay.
Android Saga: no Trunks coming back without the time machine
Buu Saga: no Vegeta sacrifice and less of a general character change without Bulma

You're gonna make some bullshit arguments about how someone else would've done everything she did instead. But we can make that argument about every character except Goku.
 

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nobody to hit Goku with a car. He'd literally never met a human other than Gohan, in 12 years, despite spending lots of time running around outdoors. In other words, nobody visited those mountains. The dragonball combined with the dragon radar gave someone a reason to go into Goku's area.

Pilaf had his own radar and would have eventually come for Gokuu's ball. Then the story goes exactly the same but with Pilaf in Bulma's role

Not like it even matters because doing one thing at the start of the story doesn't make you important for all of it. Otherwise Mizuki is the most important character of Naruto, lol trash logic
 

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You've ignored most of it because you know you have nothing.
On top of what you ignored, there's also that without Bulma he wouldn't have befriended Yamcha. Pilaf also doesn't have the same personality as Bulma, which would cause the story to greatly change. I guess you're too terminally online to get that people are different from each other tho.
 

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Pilaf would of NOT replaced Bulma because guess what he is... A VILLAIN

He's not gonna be traveling with Goku and would try to kill him and either succeed in doing so or they would take his Dragon Ball and Goku would wind up dead either way.

But ignoring that... Pilaf would have 0 reason to travel with Goku... he would be alone until he would of met another Human... Pilaf would get his wish for World Domination and Goku and Co (If he wound of traveling with anyone else) would NOT of gotten to Pilaf in time (They lack a certain Radar to track the Dragon Balls)

Pilaf might eventually get attacked by the RRA (Who probably already killed Goku... Goku didnt really have a reason or a way to find Roshi) and then he would either die or flee and find DKP... who would kill everyone else with no opposition until Babidi decides to shank everyone alive and try to awaken Buu
 

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You've ignored most of it because you know you have nothing.
Pilaf alone proved everything you said wrong.

Not to mention you ignore the fact doing one thing at the start of the story doesn't make you important for all of it.
On top of what you ignored, there's also that without Bulma he wouldn't have befriended Yamcha.
Yumcha falls in love with Mai and nothing changes. They're an even better fit since they're both prudes.

Then Vegeeta steals Mai and Trunks ends up being Mai's son instead of her boyfriend LOL

Pilaf would of NOT replaced Bulma because guess what he is... A VILLAIN
Yumcha, Ox King, Lunch, Tenshinhan, Jiaozi, Piccolo, Vegeeta, Boo, etc were villains too and they all became Gokuu's friends. Pilaf himself becomes his ally in DBS. Eviler villains than Pilaf get redeemed all the time.
He's not gonna be traveling with Goku and would try to kill him
Even Bulma tried killing him as soon as they met. So did Yumcha, Blonde Lunch, Piccolo, Boo, etc.
and either succeed in doing so or they would take his Dragon Ball and Goku would wind up dead either way.
Burdack's wish made Gokuu immortal as a kid, so he doesn't die.
But ignoring that... Pilaf would have 0 reason to travel with Goku...
Gokuu kicks Pilaf's ass and Pilaf tricks him to help out like Bulma did.

And just like that, everything you said is wrong. More importantly, though, doing one thing at the start of the story doesn't make you important for all of it. Otherwise Mizuki is the most important character of Naruto despite the fact he never appears past the first chapter.

Bulma pulled Gokuu out of the mountains (someone else would have done that anyway) and she spends the rest of the story only being used for perverted, misogynist gags and worthless plot devices that are never fleshed out as they're always brief or swept off-screen. Making dumb shit like time machines off-screen and having sex with mass murderers doesn't make her important. The plot in Dragon Ball is bullshit and the only thing people watch it for are the fights. Bulma doesn't fight so no one gives a fuck about her.
 

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Wildly wrong thread

there is no convincing that you're wrong... you view Bulma only though a shitty random artical
 

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Still waiting for Scotty to elaborate how the story would flow without Bulma. Saying "Pilaf replaces her" isn't enough, he had a totally different MO when collecting the balls.
 

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Still waiting for Scotty to elaborate how the story would flow without Bulma.

Already did.

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for you to elaborate how doing one thing at the very start of the series makes you important for the entirety of the series. Oh, right, it doesn't.

Bulma sucks dog shit
 

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Which one thing:

-finding Goku
-getting the DB from Roshi by exploiting his perviness
-Used to trick Oolong when they first meet him
-giving Goku, Krillin and co access to vehicles to traverse land, sea and air
-getting Yamcha training from Roshi
-giving Goku access to the means to travel to Namek within a week
-allowing Future Trunks to come to the timeline
-allowing Cell to come to the timeline
-giving Vegeta a path to becoming integrated to Earth culture
-being a big part of Vegeta's motivation to sacrifice himself to protect the Earth/his kith and kin

Unless you think Pilaf is going to fuck Vegeta, after having an affair with Dr Briefs and Roshi is going to invite Yamcha to train so he can get to perv on Pilaf, Pilaf can't fill in for Bulma.
 

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She's a great foil.

There's nothing "great" about a blatantly sexist, stereotypical, and misogynist depiction of a woman who is only ever utilized for perverted gags and bullshit plot devices that always get swept off-screen because the series doesn't care to ever flesh them out.

Not sure if you understand how stories work and how you have to have different characters to play off of.

Not sure if you understand that you don't actually need female characters repeatedly being sexually harassed, assaulted, or sexualized for the sake of perverted gags and fan-service. Nor do you need actually bullshit convoluted off-screen plot devices like time machines or even radars being made.

There's no substance to Dragon Ball and the plot is all bullshit. It's full of inconsistencies, plotholes, asspulls, retcons, etc and all sorts of shit that doesn't make any sense, but that doesn't stop it from being a tremendous success. Why is that? Because people are entertained by all the flashy battles. The only thing that matters is the fighting. That's the only thing people give a fuck about seeing at the end of the day. They watch Dragon Ball because they want to see Gokuu, Gohan, Vegeeta, Trunks, Piccolo, Broly, Freeza, etc kick ass and do flashy shit. Bulma doesn't fight, so she's unimportant. The only people who care about the deeper lore and background info are just fucking nerds.

It's funny, because when the plot takes a break from the fighting to focus on other shit like lighter hearted road adventure plotlines and slice of life misadventures, people lose interest. That's why the Pilaf arc was unpopular, why Great Saiyaman was unpopular, why GT's early episodes were unpopular, and why most of Daima is dismissed as being boring as fuck by the fandom (it's only now when SS4 becomes canon and Gokuu is an adult again that interest is reignited. Of course, there was also some excitement when Vegeeta turned SS3, too). Even when Battle of Gods came out, the number one complaint was that there wasn't enough fighting.

Toriyama and Toei could have made a series starring Bulma with no fighting whatsoever, but they didn't, because they knew that shit would flop and nobody cares about Bulma (save for the degenerates who just want to see her ass and titties).

Scotty, you dumb, brah.

Allow me to reciprocate your energy.

No, you're just retarded. Even with all my very extensive knowledge of Dragon Ball, I recognize that it's all just dumb bullshit. You have to parrot @Warmmedown because you can't make your own arguments. Everything he said has already been debunked multiple times in this very thread. His stubborn ass just repeats the same dumb shit over and over again like a broken record because he can't handle being wrong, but why don't I debunk his braindead talking points again so you can see.

-finding Goku

Someone else was going to do that anyway and doing one thing at the start of the story doesn't make you important for all of it.

-getting the DB from Roshi by exploiting his perviness

Flashing her vagina at an old man as an underage girl while the reader sees her bare ass for the sake of perverted fan-service doesn't make her important. You actually typed out this bullshit with a straight face.

-Used to trick Oolong when they first meet him

Gokuu was the one who beat Oolong. All Bulma did was interrupt him by flashing her titties at Oolong's disguised form because she's a dumb brat who goes head-over-heels for every handsome guy she sees.

-giving Goku, Krillin and co access to vehicles to traverse land, sea and air

Lol no. Gokuu spent most of his time flying on his cloud as a kid. Then, he learned to fly on his own and even teleport. Characters like Yumcha, Roh-shi, Oolong, Kurilin, etc already had their own vehicles and capsules without even coming into contact with Bulma.

-getting Yamcha training from Roshi

Yumcha is fodder and she's not the reason Roh-shi trained him at all. He simply asked Roh-shi to train him after the Baba tournament.

Oh, but now you'll bring up how Kurilin sexually assaulted her by flashing her titties to give Roh-shi a nosebleed, which led to Yumcha beating the invisible dude, as if this is an important scene that highlights her "usefulness". Too bad it doesn't. It's just yet another perverted gag for the sake of degenerate fan-service.

-giving Goku access to the means to travel to Namek within a week

Wrong again. Dr. Brief was the one who made Gokuu his spaceship.

Bulma's stupid ass blew up Nappa's ship, so they needed to use Kami's instead. She was never needed to come to Namekku at all; her original plan was for Popo to go to Namekku all by himself. She only went because Kucklin was afraid something would go wrong with the ship and she would be the only one able to fix it. Too bad nothing went wrong with the ship, so there was no point in her coming at all.

Bulma wasted time reprogramming Kami's spaceship to her own language; all they needed to know were a few Namekkian buzzwords to operate it. She wasted further time by installing a stereo, a bigger bed, and a shower, none of which are necessary for space travel as we see from Burdack, Raditz, Vegeeta, Nappa, Gokuu, damn near every pureblooded Saiyan, Kami, Freeza's men, etc.

Contrary to retarded fan belief, she didn't pilot the ship at all as it was on autopilot the whole time. Bulma then spends her entire time on Namekku hiding behind in a cave or the middle of nowhere. She has the nerve to bitch and complain about being left behind when everyone else is getting their asses beaten or killed.

-allowing Future Trunks to come to the timeline

Just another bullshit plot device that Toriyama put no thought into. Bulma's counterpart from an alternate future who never appears randomly built a time machine off-screen so she could send her son into the past. Trunks could come back in time through a wormhole in a squirrel's anus and it wouldn't matter.

There was never any reason for Toriyama to introduce time travel in the series. None of it made any sense and it's one of the main reasons why the Android/Cell arc is a trainwreck.

-allowing Cell to come to the timeline

Allowing the villain to appear and nearly kill everyone doesn't make her useful. It just shows how she screws everything up.

Speaking of which, her making the time machine violated the laws of nature and gods. It fucked up the spacetime continuum and it eventually led to Zamasu killing everyone on Earth, as well as Zenoh erasing the multiverse. "But that was Zamasu's fault" She had no business making a time machine in the first place as the gods deemed it illegal and if you're going to give her credit for the whole series just because she met Gokuu in the first chapter, then by that logic, she deserves the blame for Zamasu's rampage.

-giving Vegeta a path to becoming integrated to Earth culture
-being a big part of Vegeta's motivation to sacrifice himself to protect the Earth/his kith and kin

She housed a mass murderer who committed genocide multiple times and even had a baby with him for the sake of a bullshit plot device, which was just for there to be a Super Saiyan from the future. For that reason, Toriyama randomly made Bulma have Vegeeta's baby even though they had almost zero interactions before in the story. Even then, Vegeeta and Bulma didn't interact much in the original manga.

Getting mind broken and killed by Freeza was the catalyst for Vegeeta softening up. With his pride crushed, he was a broken man, so he decided to fuck one of the sluts he was living with at Capsule Corp and forgot to pull out (he could have just knocked up Bulma's mom and nothing would change in the story). Even then, he didn't give a shit about Bulma or their bastard child, as we see when he doesn't bother saving them from Gero.

Vegeeta only became a good guy when he realized how much he cared about Future Trunks. Bulma doesn't get any points just for fucking a mass murderer and giving birth to the baby.

And as always, everything you say is a crock of shit. Cope.
 
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