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What Happened to Lunch?
Topic Started: May 24 2013, 04:31 PM (395 Views)
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Anyone who saw the original Dragonball should remember Lunch - a mild-mannered girl with blue hair who was frequently the (oblivious) target of Muten Roshi's lecherous tendencies. That is, of course, until she sneezed...at which point she became a gun-toting maniac with a habit of getting in trouble with the law. Point is, from the time she was introduced until the end of the 23rd Budoukai, Lunch was there. She was a minor character, sure, but she was still part of the core cast at that time.

Flash forward 5 years, when Raditz shows up on Earth and Gokou is on his way to a little reunion with his friends at Kame House. Lunch isn't present, but this is acknowledged - when Bulma asks where she is, the response is that she went chasing after Tenshinhan after the last tournament and hasn't been heard from since. So, okay, she had a reason for being absent at that point in time...but ignoring the filler material early in the Saiyajin arc where she was still around, why was she never shown, even as a background character, for the rest of the series?

Well, there is a legitimate answer to this question. You see, Toriyama has this habit of forgetting things about his own series' (it's also the reason no one's tails every grew back post-Saiyajin arc, and Goten and Trunks didn't have them - his joking reason for that being 'it's a recessive trait'). But the thing about Lunch is that this time, he actually outright forgot about the character completely. That's right!! I mean, it's hard to blame him in a way, when everyone was on Namek for so long and a lot of the original Earth cast wasn't present (and with that being a pretty long arc, he didn't have a whole lot of opportunity to draw unimportant Earth characters in the background), but...to forget one of your own characters? Shameful. He did remember her just at the very end of the series when everyone is donating energy to Gokou's giant Buu-destroying Genki-Dama, but he replaced her with #17 at the last minute (at least the anime honored her by giving her a cameo there!!).

And so, that's the official reason Lunch just up and disappeared...but this is the headcanon section!! We're not interested in the truth here!! So here's my version of what happened to Lunch.

I like to think there's no reason to doubt the stuff that happened in the early DBZ filler actually happened since there's nothing else to contradict it. She was hanging out with Tenshinhan and Chaozu the whole time from the end of DB up to Z, but then Tenshinhan gets increasingly fed up with her habits of doing things like robbing banks...then Kuririn and co. come to summon him to train to protect the Earth, which Lunch mocks him for. As we know, he goes anyways and trains, then fights the Saiyajin and is killed by Nappa. Lunch sees this on TV and drowns her sorrows at a bar. I'm pretty sure that's the last we see of her in the filler until the end of Z. Presumably, that makes her remember her old friends and she reunites with them later - as she appears in Yo! Son Gokou and Friends Return, at least, which takes place after the Buu arc.

But what happened to her in-between all that? I'm sure she went on all sorts of rampages once Tenshinhan died, becoming even more violent and dangerous than normal in her grief. She probably ended up getting caught and arrested eventually, and spent a few years in jail. Of course, that time in jail just made her tougher (at least when Nice!Lunch wasn't being made the prison bitch of the other women D: ), and when she got out, she wreaked even more havoc across the land. While Gokou and Co. were dealing with the likes of Cell and Buu, she was terrorizing the countryside, and no one noticed because the military and police were all focused on the big green bug monster who was going around draining civilians of life and starting crazy tournaments, or the fat pink genie turning erryone into candy. In that time, she managed to get rich from robbing banks and stealing the priceless jewels from museums and shit. She had even started collecting the Dragonballs during one point, hoping to wish she could be queen of the world (not like she couldn't have taken it by force, but it would be so tedious, y'know?), but that's when Mr. Popo showed up and laid the smack down because bitch ain't no match for Mr. Popo. You remember that one point in the Cell Arc when Mr. Popo said he'd gone and gathered the Dragonballs, right? And how we never actually saw what happened (which is a shame because that'd have been a cool filler arc)? Yeah, that's what happened. Oh, and he robbed her while he was at it, taking all her treasure and jewels for himself, because he's Mr. Fuckin' Popo.

So now, having lost everything, Lunch was at rock bottom. Mr. Popo had even taken her guns and she didn't have the money to buy new ones or the brute force to steal more because, well, who would fear her when she doesn't have guns...so she said fuck it and got a job for the Dragon World's equivalent of Fed-Ex. That brings us to where we find her at the end of Z when Gokou is asking for energy for his giant Genki-Dama, and since she's Good!Lunch at the time, she happily raises her hands and offers her energy. But then she sneezes and remembers, hey, that's right, I have old friends I can mooch off of. So once Buu was defeated she showed up at Kame House and asked if she could live there again since she had nowhere else to go, and she's been there ever since, as seen in Yo! Son Gokou and Friends Return.

THE END.
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