#rotamania

All right, so fuck everything else.  It’s ROTA TIME.  ROTAMANIA is about to sweep the multiverse!  Hit his theme music!

So let me explain, while we rock out to “Great Expectations”.

I hate the team Champa fielded for the Destroyer Tournament about 70 episodes back.  They were cheap, and some of them were just warmed over copies of pre-existing characters.  So when the Tournament of Power was announced, I was worried-- correctly-- that Champa would just use the same five guys all over again.  But the ToP requires a team of ten, which meant Champa would have to find five more fighters.  I had a lot of hope for those other five warriors, and fortunately, Universe 6 did not disappoint.  Caulifla and Kale were way cooler than Cabba, and Saonel and Pirina will get their time to shine soon enough.  And as for the tenth fighter...

Hell yeah, it’s a red warthog dressed in a spooky druid robe.  His name: DOCTOR ROTA.  Fuck yes.  What kind of crazy-ass powers does he have?  What sort of mind-blowing, game-changing abilities does this guy bring to the table?  Rota may not be a medical doctor, but he is the cure for the first five guy on his team.  Where they were boring and weak, he’s completely unlike everything else Universe 7 has. 

And now.  Now.  Dr. Rota is going to strut his stuff.  I like Piccolo and Gohan, but let’s face it.  They’re in the wrong place at the wrong time!  Because now, Rota is going to show us exactly why he’s called Doctor. 

Wait, what? 

Oh fuck, he’s been shot!

Also, in the dub, he cries out “How can this beeeeee!” which is how I learned he was voiced by the guy who plays Invader Zim.   Classic.  Total Classic. 

So is Dr. Rota dead?  No.  Piccolo quickly reasons that someone is playing sniper, and if they kill their targets, they’ll be disqualified on the spot. 

As they rush to find cover and flush out the shooter, Piccolo and Gohan discover a crystal orb, which Piccolo suspects is the shooters way of tracking them down. 

Turns out this dude has been spitting them out all over the place.

Also, the orbs do help him locate his targets, but not by sight.  Instead, this guy does it by heat signature.  That’s a problem, becuase Gohan and Piccolo can suppress their ki and stay out of sight, but they can’t hide their body heat. 

But they can shoot at the rubble around them, which creates hot spots that confuse the sniper. 

But the sniper just starts aiming in multiple angles.  Now, while this is going on, Tien, Goku, and Vegeta have also become aware of the sniper, and while Piccolo and Gohan can’t spot him, their group does.  Goku also notices that the guy with the orbs is only directing the energy beams to their targets.  The beams themselves are coming from some other guy.  He shoots at this dude, and he redirects the power and sends it to his orbs. 

So while Tien goes chasing after the energy beam guy, Goku and Vegeta take the fight to the guy with the orbs.  Unfortunately, when they shoot ki blasts at him...

He just absorbs their energy and shoots it right back at them.  This guy is Prum, by the way. 

Meanwhile, Tien splits into four bodies to help him track down Prum’s partner, Harmira.  Harmira may not have the same precision aim as his partner, but his energy beams are dangerous, and he keeps jumping from place to place, so he’s hard to find, and Tien will be coming right at him.  So the four bodies will give him twelve eyes to search, and hopefully make it harder for Harmira to stop him.

Back at Prum’s location, Vegeta has figured out that if he can’t shoot energy blasts at Prum, then he cand just throw crap at him instead. 

With no offensive capabilities of his own, Prum can only run and hide, and call out in vain to his partner, who’s got troubles of his own.

Harmira manages to fell three Tien bodies, but the fourth finally catches up to him and disables his arms with a Ki Ko Ho.  Harmira says that he can’t even raise his arms to shoot anymore...

But that’s okay, because he can still shoot the stage beneath him, and collapse the part Tien’s standing on.  Whoops.

Harmira gloats as Tien falls, and Piccolo reminds Gohan that this is exactly why you shouldn’t let your guard down.  But he’s not talking about Tien.  He’s talking about Harmira.

Because Tien’s other three bodies have caught up to him, and they drag him over the edge as well, so Tien and Harmira both get eliminated together.  I’m kind of curious what would happen if Tien had just pushed him over the side, though.  Like, if one of Tien’s bodies falls out and the other three stay in the ring, is he eliminated or not?

So with Harmira out of the game, Prum is doomed.  Goku and Vegeta prepare to throw him out, but then--!

That’s right, bitches!   DR. ROTA IS BACK!  Did you think a meager ki blast would be enough to stop the great Dr. Rota?   Hell no!  He’s here with a prescription for revenge!

Now, at long last, the time has finally come for Dr. Rota to reveal his true power, the reason he is called “doctor”!  And Prum shall feel the full fury of--

... and Vegeta eliminated them both.  Aw...