Character comparisons between Supergirl and Dragon Ball
Superspeeder
Have you ever wondered how similar the characters of Supergirl/Superman and Dragon Ball are? Well wonder no more! In this hilarious tale, Bra fields questions(for her blog for those who haven't read Supergirl Z) asking her to do just that! You may be surprised at how similar they are!
Supergirl/Dragon Ball Z crossover Bra Briefs
Humor/Parody
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Chapter 14
Hey guys its Bulla here back for more Character Comparisons! How are you guys doing out there? Things here are crazy because Astra's body is now gone and now Dende has confirmed that Non has taken the body! I think that's just a low blow of course because you just let the dead man lie(or something like that). Of course there's the thing with Master Jailer that's coming in two days and he would want to slaughter all Kryptonians. I think my brother may agree which may(I afraid) cause some friction between the two of them because of the personal disagreement. Lets just hope its temporary! Now as to that computer hopper(as I like to call it) Dad says that there's an actual person behind the virus both mom thinks that's what this Project Myriad entails; crash all the computers and engineer a hostile takeover because they will have access to sensitive government info(which I'm afraid will also reveal the Dragon Balls and Trunks' time machine). I also heard whispers that there some sort of fortress way out there beyond the city and this fortress belongs to Kal-El(aka Superman). Piccolo is still concerned with what Kara will find in the fortress but he won't tell us. I think Mom's trying to bribe him with all the water you can drink but he won't cave. I don't understand it...how can a fortress belonging to Superman harm Kara? Well to be on the safe side of things Trunks will go with her just to be on the safe more thing I want to mention this new Cat Grant employee/prospect; her name's Siobhan Smythe(what a strange name then again my family's named after undergarments and Saiyans are named after vegetables so I should be the last one talking about strange names). Kara says she's very pretty but somewhat snide and my brother has the strangest feeling that underneath that veneer(I like that word Veneer) lies a banshee waiting to pounce. Isn't a banshee supposedly part of Irish Folklore?(don't ask Gohan told me all about that) Supposedly they are agents of death(*shudders*) but if she is a banshee I think Pan can relate to her because she doesn't think Siobhan has an ulterior motive to turn into one(if its true of course). I think Pan will empathize with her being a torched lost soul maybe she will tell her about some of the really awful things she's been true growing up without Videl and later on without Gohan(I don't know). Or maybe she will tell her about her trials in the HTC with my brother dealing with her nightmares of the androids/cell along with my brother(who was acting strange at the time too). I think she may have found her disciple(yay!)
Anyways that's enough about current events the number is 800-shenron that's 800-743-6766; and the email is bullabriefs so send all of your questions to that email! Lets go to the phones your on with Bulla "hey Bulla love your podcast and love the main story; you talked about the Tuffles and the Martians but can you speak about the Black Mercy that odiously was recent and impacted both you and your family thanks!". Well thank you for the call and you've given me another great topic to talk about the Black Mercy(oh boy now that was something else)! I still haven't gotten over the scare of actually seeing Kara so helpless; I know this has happened when Kara lost her powers but at least you knew that they were coming back! We didn't know if Kara was going to come out of that hallucination or not like Alex said she had to choose and of course Kara decided that Earth was her home(even though she was to keep Krypton in her heart forever). Now as to comparisons I have two today(yes two for the price of one)! The first is obviously the Tuffle Virus that had my brother in his own fantasy and the second is Goku's heart virus both in this time and in the past version my brother visited. Now I know you will say "BUT BULLA WE DON'T KNOW HOW GOKU GOT THE HEART VIRUS IN THE FIRST PLACE; ITS STILL A MYSTERY!" and that's true we don't know the causes of that heart virus(saw a video that said that Goku ate way too much bacon though that was funny). But in any case they are many similarities that I find between all three and I will go in depth about them today!
The first comparison I have made is the Tuffle Virus that invaded my brother and caused him to have his own fantasy(he still doesn't want to say anything about what happened between him and dad a few days ago). In any case they both came from their "native worlds" so to speak; the Black Mercy came from Krypton and the Tuffle Virus came from planet Vegeta. Both attacked silently and unobserved(though Dende for some odd reason thinks otherwise) and neither my brother nor Kara were prepared before the parasites had them trapped(according to their own accounts). Now they went through a series of weird events on their planets(which is also the same) but at the same time both were created to give them a false sense of "peace"; its pretty clear that Non has studied both my brother and Kara in depth and knew that if he placed the viruses in the right spot that they would use the thoughts of Kara and Trunks themselves to create the fantasy.
There's another reason that they were the same in that neither of them could've been removed by force; they each needed the person trapped to reject them themselves. If they did remove it by force both the Black Mercy and the virus could've killed them both and moved on to grant other people their ultimate dream life. Both also required that another person entered the minds of the trapped individuals in order to experience what was going on in "real time" and you have to take note that when both Gohan's and Alex's body were twitching they were feeling pain in real time on either Krypton or Vegeta(as they later stated to us). Both Trunks and Kara had to fight the individual parasites with everything they had and with Dende's and(I hate to say this) Max's help along with Gohan's and Alex's speeches that convinced both Kara and Trunks to return to the real world although Dende has since found out that Kara and Trunks were communicating with the spirits of Jeremiah and Grandpa Gohan(hey he's the guardian he has to know!) The final reason I say they are the same is that we don't know for how long the black mercy and the Tuffle virus was out there in space with Non(maybe it was in Fort Rozz) but I don't think its a coincidence that both managed to find their respective ways to Earth.
Now the other comparison I made was Goku's heart virus now before you say "BUT BULLA ONLY ALEX SHOWED SIGNS EVEN REMOTELY SIMILAR TO WHAT GOKU EXPERIENCED WITH THE HEART VIRUS!" and to some extend that's true but at the same time Alex said when they tried to remove the Black Mercy by force Kara's body vibrated like crazy the same way Goku's body shifted whenever he felt heart pains. Now I think its rather frightening that like Goku's heart virus, the Black Mercy had no "natural" cure and that help had to come from an outside source. There is a slight difference in that Goku(in the past) had the heart medicine whereas Kara didn't have anything to help her but it was clear that while their bodies were still(once Goku got the heart medicine) that their minds were still active. Even more similar is that they both had dreams but that was different because Kara dreamed about Krypton and her idyllic life while Goku dreamed the Androids were about to kill his entire family. Now although Goku(our Goku) died the past Goku got over the heart virus the same way Kara got over the Black Mercy and I think its most touching that both Goku and Kara had people they could rely on to help them fight for their lives. They had loved ones(Goku had the alternate universe's Gohan, his alternate universe's Chi-Chi, and his alt. universes friends while Kara had my family(well my brother had his own battle to fight), her sister Alex, John, Pan, and her friends Winn and James to help her fight this virus and bring her back. Now Goku was happy to be back and even though it did take a while(my brother and Kara were both a bit shaken up in the aftermath) they too eventually became happy to be back on Earth. This proves the old adage; there's no place like home and on that note until the next time I do another character comparison this is Bulla Briefs signing off!
Me: ONCE AGAIN I HAVE TO ANNOUNCE THAT THIS STORY IS ON HOLD UNTIL SUPERGIRL(ONCE AGAIN) GOES ON HIATUS! NEW EPISODES AIR MONDAY SO GET EXCITED WE'RE COMING INTO THE HOME STRETCH BABY! Bulla's joke in this chapter refers to Episode 34 of Dragon Ball Z Abridged: News of Future Past so if you haven't seen that episode(or the new one they posted 2 days ago) watch it its really funny. I have a ton of respect for those guys in terms of writing/editing their episodes even if they make some of our beloved characters a bit OOC(Kid Gohan and Goku) but then again it does make for some pretty humorous moments such as the song Goku sings to Gohan expressing his desire for Gohan to become a Super-Saiyan and of course TFS Vegeta's mustache song that was daydreamed by TFS Goku(which in of itself was inspired by GT Vegeta's "I shaved my moustache you idiot!" to Chi-Chi)