@Count Adramélekh Sear
I heard. I hope his family is doing okay.
@Littlecabbit
Honestly, Goku being able to regrow his tail back didn’t really make sense to me in the first place, especially considering for whatever odd reason it only happened to him and not any other Saiyan that got their tails chopped off.
I think part of that may have to do with the character design. I can buy characters like Piccolo and Cell regrowing body parts since they look less human (or even mammalian). Saiyans look a lot like people and the tails they have look like a regular ol’ mammalian monkey tails.
@Dustcan
@Littlecabbit
Eh, it probably is a retcon. Not that it’s anything all too new in this franchise. Even before GT and Super some of the video games and Daishensu (I hope I spelled that right) magazines would occasionally bring up bits of trivia that would retcon things.
Also in some occasions, anime filler or the dub will introduce its own things that get retconned. And translation errors can sometimes make things a bit more complicated too. For example, Freeza mentioned having parents in the English manga but that may have well been a translation error since the Japanese language lacks plurals. For all we know, maybe King Cold reproduced asexually like King Piccolo did.
@Mad Black
That too. Toriyama isn’t a creator that plans things. He does things on the fly, is forgetful (he forgot that he made Super Saiyan 2), and likes to cut corners (he even called himself lazy and admitted that he made the Super Saiyan look the way it does because he doesn’t like inking black hair).
There’s bound to be mistakes and deliberate retcons with this kind of stuff, especially when you have different people occasionally making the other content like the games, GT, and Super.