User blog comment:Ss4mott/PTSN/@comment-4640094-20110109054701/@comment-3097771-20110109163232

Tien's useless, there's no denying that. And Toriyuma realized this. So at the very end he put him there to make an impact, but all it showed was poor writing. The idea of it all was highly reused, from the dende scene in the frieza saga. -KidVegeta