It’s not uncommon for Dragon Ball to “forget” about characters. Even characters who were once central to the story, like Yamcha and Oolong, who have been progressively fazed out of the narrative over time. The same goes for Tien. In Tien’s case, though, another character who was forgotten before Dragon Ball Z began could perhaps be partially to blame for the three-eyed shaolin monk’s increasing irrelevance from the series. Launch could’ve been Tien’s lifeline.If modern Dragon Ball fans never heard of Launch, that would be understandable. She was part of the main cast during the original Dragon Ball series, but somewhere in the transition to DBZ, she was lost. In truth, Akira Toriyama later admitted that he had simply forgotten about her, and she has remained a piece of lost Dragon Ball history ever since. While things have gotten along fine without her, it’s no question that her continued presence in the series would have given Toriyama more reason to keep Tien around in the long run.In some ways, Launch is the result of Dragon Ball’s bygone era of female objectification. Most people associate this aspect of Dragon Ball with Bulma, and while that’s certainly true, Launch arguably had it worse. Her entire introduction into the series was the result of a “fetch quest” given to Goku by Roshi to bring him a pretty girl in exchange for him training the boy in his renowned Turtle school of martial arts. In upholding his end of the bargain, Goku brought him Launch.
It’s not uncommon for Dragon Ball to “forget” about characters. Even characters who were once central to the story, like Yamcha and Oolong, who have been progressively fazed out of the narrative over time. The same goes for Tien. In Tien’s case, though, another character who was forgotten before Dragon Ball Z began could perhaps be partially to blame for the three-eyed shaolin monk’s increasing irrelevance from the series. Launch could’ve been Tien’s lifeline.
If modern Dragon Ball fans never heard of Launch, that would be understandable. She was part of the main cast during the original Dragon Ball series, but somewhere in the transition to DBZ, she was lost. In truth, Akira Toriyama later admitted that he had simply forgotten about her, and she has remained a piece of lost Dragon Ball history ever since. While things have gotten along fine without her, it’s no question that her continued presence in the series would have given Toriyama more reason to keep Tien around in the long run.
In some ways, Launch is the result of Dragon Ball‘s bygone era of female objectification. Most people associate this aspect of Dragon Ball with Bulma, and while that’s certainly true, Launch arguably had it worse. Her entire introduction into the series was the result of a “fetch quest” given to Goku by Roshi to bring him a pretty girl in exchange for him training the boy in his renowned Turtle school of martial arts. In upholding his end of the bargain, Goku brought him Launch.
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