What if… Dragon Ball were to implement a Secret Invasion type of story, with a race of Ginyu type aliens body swapping into various bodies? How would swapping two beings into the same body at the same time?
Join Jelli and Bekinney as they continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon Dragon Ball Z by looking at episodes 71 through 75: "Goku is Ginyu and Ginyu is Goku," "Calling the Eternal Dragon," "Gohan, Defeat Your Dad," "Captain Ginyu…the Frog" and "Password is Porunga." We continue talking about the Ginyu Force, and this episode, zero in on Captain Ginyu, the namesake of the group.
In this episode:
- Jelli and Bekinney pass a certain ringed planet
- A decent batch of episodes
- Vegeta’s outfits and the internal consistency (or lack thereof) of Saiyan armor stretching to fit its wearer
- The man (?) of the hour: Captain Ginyu
- Ginyu’s personality resemblances in WWE, including Ric Flair and the Ultimate Warrior
- Ginyu’s physical resemblance to the Talosians of Star Trek
- Whether Ginyu’s body is his original, which spirals into a conversation about how multiple body swaps would work simultaneously
- What if: Ginyu’s species could ALL do the body swap and we had a Secret Invasion type of story in Dragon Ball with the Ginyus acting as the Skrulls
- Should we have done a Frieza episode before a Ginyu episode?
- Are Ginyu and Frieza stand-ins for Mephistopheles and Satan?
- Nio, a pair of wrathful dharmpala who are guardians of Buddha and destroy obstacles to enlightenment, also known as Agyo and Ungyo
- And invitation to be corrected on the connections we’re making
- Ginyu and Frieza’s comparability to Orcus, Sauron and Galactus
- and more, including some general pop culture, trivia, and editorializing, as usual
Join us as we continue to uncover the cultural meanings, publication facts, inspirations and more behind the wildly popular Dragon Ball franchise.
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