Bulma was never essential to the story

AlphaMaleScotty said:
She didn't invent the Dragon Radar lol; Pilaf had his own and he eventually perfected his to have live video feed via his satellite, a feat Bulma couldn't replicate. We even see in DBS that Pilaf is smarter than Bulma as he realized the Time Machine could jump to other timelines by changing its frequency


Gokuu would have left the mountains without her; Pilaf would have come for his Dragon Ball and either he steals it or tricks Gokuu into helping him. Then Pilaf becomes his friend just like Bulma, Oolong, Ox King, Yumcha, Pu'er, Tenshinhan, Vegeeta, Piccolo, Seventeen, Eighteen, Boo, etc did. He becomes his ally in DBS anyway


Burdack already wished for Gokuu to be immortal for all of his childhood with the Cerealian Dragon Balls, so he never dies as long as he's a kid


She didn't pilot the ship to Namekku; it was on autopilot the whole time. She spends the whole arc hiding in a cave and never needed to come to Namekku


She didn't "soften" Vegeeta at all; Vegeeta started becoming soft as a result of Freeza crushing his dreams and killing him. Vegeeta didn't give a shit about Bulma as he was gonna let her and baby Trunks be killed by Gero. Ultimately, it was Future Trunks who truly softened Vegeeta.


She wasn't even needed for Trunks to be born because Vegeeta could have just knocked up her mom if he felt like it


Making a Time Machine fucked over the spacetime continuum and violated divine law. And it eventually led to Zamasu killing everyone on Earth and Zeno erasing the multiverse


More importantly, though, doing one thing at the start of the story doesn't make you important for all of it.

Being used for half-assed plot devices that the story sweeps off-screen doesn't make you important, either. The Time Machine is just a nonsensical plot device that Toriyama pulled out of his ass and doesn't make any sense.


The plot in Dragon Ball is bullshit to begin with. It's a fighting series and all that matters is the fighting as that's the only thing the series actually focuses on and is what makes the series popular.


Gokuu, Gohan, Vegeeta, Trunks, Piccolo, Broly, Freeza, etc are the "important" characters because they're the ones who do all the cool flashy shit that Dragon Ball is known for. Bulma doesn't fight, so she's unimportant.

Nothing Bulma does is ever a point of focus in the series. Most of the time whenever she's on screen, she's just used for misogynist, perverted gags. This is a god awful depiction of a woman. There are fairly well written female characters in anime/manga/fiction in general and Bulma isn't one of them

Facts. Could go on but I'm just keeping this short and sweet.

AlphaMaleScotty said:
She didn't invent the Dragon Radar lol;

AlphaMaleScotty said:
@Irshiki She's not one of the main characters. The protagonist is Gokuu. Bulma is just part of the supporting cast.

The rest aren't my assumptions and yes, Burdack did wish for Gokuu to be immortal as a kid; not my fault if you didn't read Dragon Ball Super.

@Dumb Pilaf had a radar too and his was accurate enough as he already had a Dragon Ball when he debuts. He later improves his radar to be a satellite radar with live video feed, a feat Bulma couldn't replicate. Pilaf's canonically smarter than Bulma, she's worthless.

AlphaMaleScotty said:
@Irshiki DBS is part of the same story and is canon LOL. More so DBS's comic as it was supervised by Toriyama. The anime was written by a bunch of random writers and is all over the place.

If we're going to discuss what would happen in the plot if not for Bulma, then we look at the whole thing, including stuff that was only revealed much later. Otherwise there's no point in discussing the story from an in-universe perspective at all; can't pick and choose which events matter and which events don't.

As the Burdack retcon shows, the plot in Dragon Ball is bullshit. Nothing is set in stone; shit gets retconned all the time because everything only happens at the author's whim. There are plenty of asspulls, inconsistencies, and shit that doesn't make any sense. To argue this or that wouldn't happen because of Bulma is pointless; things only happen if the author wants them to, so it's all arbitrary.

At the end of the day, only the fighting matters as the series only focuses on that and that's the only thing people care about seeing. Bulma doesn't fight so she's useless.

AlphaMaleScotty said:
@Irshiki Dragon Ball is a fighting series LOL. It started off as a shitty parody of Journey to the West; nobody gave a fuck about it and it was unpopular, so Toriyama made it about fighting. From there, it became popular. It's funny because Toriyama determined that the best way to make the series popular was to bench non-combatants like Bulma and put more of the focus on Gokuu.

Bulma has more screentime in the Pilaf arc = the series is unpopular.
Bulma is almost absent from the Jackie Chun arc = the series becomes popular.

So, no one cares about her. Even funnier, the majority of American fans skipped the original Dragon Ball as Funimation dropped it in favor of DBZ, which began airing in 1996. Despite the fact this left viewers with a much smaller understanding of the plot and lore, DBZ was still a huge hit, unlike DB's 1995 dub, which was a flop. Bulma is supposedly such an important character for pulling Gokuu out of the mountains, yet most viewers didn't even see that part of the series.

And no, the DBS anime isn't canon. Toriyama was actively involved in the making of the manga.

AlphaMaleScotty said:
@Irshiki Ironic you're trying to insinuate that I'm sexist when Toriyama was the one who drew Bulma getting sexually harassed and assaulted repeatedly, even when she was a minor. Even drew her bare ass and breasts multiple times when she was only 16. Oh, yeah, and Toriyama also drew a comic where a woman turns to prostitution after repeatedly getting raped. He also said he wanted to spy on his daughter bathing as an old man.

I understand who Toriyama was completely. He was a degenerate pervert.