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It seems like it was only yesterday when we were all watching Goku power up for his Kamehameha attack for eight episodes in a row, but the Z-fighters are back with a brand-new animated feature film. “Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods,” the first Dragon Ball Z animated film in 17 years, takes place after the events of “Dragon Ball Z,” when the Z-fighters defeated Majin Buu (remember, that one dude who was basically an evil Hubba Bubba genie?). Now some big hairless cat dressed in Egyptian garb—supposedly some god of destruction—has come to fight Goku, simply because he’s heard of that one time Goku kicked Frieza’s ass like 20 years ago. Of course, in order to defeat this new boss, named Beerus, Goku will have to level up to whatever the next Super Saiyan category is—which is apparently Super Saiyan God level. ‘Cause his body’s too bubblicious for ya, babe [divider type=”space_thin”]Now, DBZ is like a classic to me, and I don’t want to hate on Beerus before even seeing him in action, but I wouldn’t be questioning the new film if Beerus looked like he could throw down like Frieza did before he was demoted to the weakest villain ever. Relatedly, didn’t Beerus get the memo about Frieza losing his villain street cred from years ago? Did he miss when Frieza went cyborg and came back years later with his daddy, threatening to kill the Z-fighters and get his revenge, but then future Trunks came along and just sliced him in half without even mussing a single purple (well, golden, from his …
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