When a work is made, in theory the more details you add the better but I think there are times where they are not necessary, it is better to reserve those elements because they can play against and take away the seriousness to what you want to convey, now in my case as I celebrate those narrative details because it is in those moments when the memes are born that make us happy to remember them as good anecdotes.
Freezer is a character that marks the history of anime, many will remember him for his cruelty among other qualities assigned to villains of a story, created by the good Akira Toriyama to which I hope Kaiosama has him in his holy glory, has one of the most powerful arcs of all the animation or anime of Dragon Ball Z and it is there where he makes one of the most super strange argumental shenanigans and that is the title of this post.
In order to express myself calmly I open spoiler zone in case any reader has not seen this anime or arc in Dragon Ball Z which I highly recommend.
During the great battle between Goku and his friends against this Lord Villain with a jocular personality, remember that in this arc Goku for the first time shows us the Super Saiyajin and that is why it is an arc of power, Freezer during this conflict that has lost because our blond is giving him the beating of his life, wisely decides to destroy Namekusei with which I agree and it is a coherent strategy because he is a being that can survive in space.
All of the above is wonderful Mr. Freezer and Mr. Toriyama but I will never understand or have the answer why he said that in 5 minutes the planet would explode when never in the coherent life of a story is like that, our favorite big head must be that he had a very serious concussion in his big head and made him say some Super Incoherent numbers that rival Goku's Super Saiyajin.
The times in a story when they are named are important because they are generally used to put pressure on the viewer to help understand the stress that a character may have before for example an Apocalypse, explosion of a planet, the birth of your favorite character's baby or any other event that the author wants us to pay attention to that time variable but Freezer you went too many miles too far my good boy.
Back in the day when I was a teenager and watched this, I told myself that these minutes were eternal, the fight was zukulent BUT when is the planet going to explode if I've been watching for like ten chapters since I saw the big announcement from our favorite big headed villain Freezer about the destruction of the planet... and the scenes went on and on and on.
With the passing of time I realized that I was not the only one to catch this because I remember in college interacting with good friends of that time, we talked about these famous 5 minutes and we laughed at the incoherence and mischief of Freezer because he did not know anything of what he said. Facebook was born, the meme concept was born and I realize that the world saw those 5 minutes just like me because it is like waiting for your girlfriend to be ready in 5 minutes... we all know that she will not be ready in 5 minutes and the Universal Meme of this scene was formed and spread.
Next I will try to justify why Freezer said the planet would explode in 5 minutes.
- Brain Contusion:
Freezer's big head may have absorbed a lot of damage, this I already named and it is consistent that our favorite villain at this point didn't know the numbers he was saying because he couldn't sanely calculate them his brain.
- Freezer you are a Stupid!!!:
This is a famous phrase of Goku that acquires all the logic of the world when analyzed in detail, Goku sees that the planet does not explode and go as ten chapters of the anime then evidently realizes that Freezer does not know in his holy life that was what he meant because he is stupid.
- Freezer did not pass Primary School:
This is a theory that I raise and I like to know what you think, Freezer to be so powerful and the spoiled of daddy King Cold because he did not study and of course he says numbers as if they were potatoes which does not correspond with the physical phenomenon about the explosion of the planet because indeed he has the power to destroy but not the intellect to do good mathematics.
I have laughed while writing this post and my theories, I hope you tell me in comments if you noticed that these 5 minutes Freezer were indeed zukulent... but totally incoherent with the narrative in the big arc of Big Head Lord Freezer.
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