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"We had a test in Math today....I hate math....so I zoned out into my
own
little fantasy world and reminisced about my child hood and how far
I've
come since the simple days of My little pony and Power Rangers. I must
admit
to you that Zarbon is one of my favorite characters in DBZ. Now keep
that in
mind as I tell you that I made a complete fool of myself in math class
as I
slammed my fist down onto to desk top and shouted "That's the
connection!"
My words echoed of the walls of the room that had, prior to my
outburst,
been completely silent. I tuned beet red, announced that I had the
attention
span of a cabbage, and commenced to failing my test. But that's not the point. The point is, that that connection that I had discovered was-- Well perhaps I get a bit ahead of myself... I've noticed certain similarities in anime characters before. You know like Vegita and Hiei from Yu Yu Hakusho, You know, the spiked black hair, the lack of significant height, the bad ass attitudes and hair trigger tempers... Anywho, it seemed to me that several anime characters had to have worked on other TV shows. *Remember I live in Crazy Fangirl Land most of the time so this made sense* As I pondered over one of my favorite subjects, Zarbon *duh ^^* I was trying to figure out more anime characters that looked and acted like him. I had one, Majare from the Yu Yu Hakusho movie but no more. And as my mind drifted away from anime because of lack of success in thinking of a match, I began thinking of one of my favorite childhood TV shows, Captain Planet. Ah! We are the children of the 80's! The age where any old thing you wore that you had had lying around in the dirty clothes, matching or not was a bold fashion statement! The age of Crewcuts and mock planet awareness... Then it hit me like a ton of bricks....After Zarbon failed at Dragonball....where was the poor out of work Fruit to go? He had a cameo on Yu Yu Hakusho, but that was just a one low budget movie deal. Poor, Poor Bon-bon....what to do. Sitting at home, in his gutted mansion, having spent all his fortune on jewelry and hair care products, what was he ever to do if he didn't get a job? His agent would occasionally call with an offer or two, but nothing long term, or even dignified ever popped up. No one was in need of a man with his particular talents, or coloration. As he neared the end of his rope he headed to the kitchen to gas himself in the oven to move on to a better place he remembered that he had sold the oven to buy that cute little Orbis ring with the tiger's eye and Marcasite accents. He cried out in vain and the phone rang. He picked it up and his agent on the other line practically screamed to him, "I got you a job! How would you like your own TV show!" Zarbon immediately accepted and ran down to the TV studio to sign the contract right away. There were two conditions however. One, He'd have to move to America and two, he'd have to cut his hair. His beautiful long emerald tresses that he worked so hard to avoid split ends! All the long arduous hours spent brushing it till it glowed with an unearthly light. But money was money. You can probably see where this is going... So, everyday a group of goofy kids ran around trying to stop polluters in non-violent, completely un-realistic ways and he was *almost* Always there to bail them out. *Unless of course Hoggish Greedly just happened to have an ever trusty high pressure hose attached to a tank full of ever convinient toxic waste.* "Earth!" "Fire!" "Wind!" "Water!" "Heart!" "GO PLANET!!" Thankfully he had few lines to remember... And there you have it. Zarbon is Captain Planet. Well I think Captain Planet is a pretty big celebrity..." ~Spara~ |