Dragon Ball Xenoverse

A video game released in early 2015 based on the Dragon Ball license. In Age 850 (The anime and manga end in Age 784) the Supreme Kai of Time detects something messing with the timeline. Future Trunks, who the Supreme Kai of Time drafted into being her assistant to atone for his misuse of time travel, is unable to directly interfere due to the events being attacked concerning people he knew. To get around this he uses the Dragon Balls to ask Shenron to find him a hero to help him protect time and space. This hero is a customizable player avatar

Xenoverse rescues a lot of plot elements and several stylistic elements from the defunct MMO Dragon Ball Online. This is noteworthy because those elements, including a few new characters, were directed by Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama.

A sequel titled, unsurprisingly, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 was confirmed for late 2016.


 * Adaptation Explanation Extrication: The game doesn't cover where the new Majin have come from. In Dragon Ball Online they were the result of Buu creating a mate for himself after stumbling upon some porn.
 * Artificial Human: Mira was one in Dragon Ball Online and while never directly stated confirms he still is. It's deliberately left open if the main character was summoned from some other place in space and time or was actually created by Shenron.
 * Ascended Fanboy: Some of the English voice options for the player character are by people who previously worked on Dragon Ball Abridged
 * Beam-O-War: Averted outside of cutscenes based on the original events of the series. Despite the iconicness to Dragon Ball, the developers couldn't find a way to make it work in a fight with more than two people nor make it something other than a button mashing contest that slowed down the gameplay.
 * Pummel Duel: This however is in. Both combatants are invulnerable while one is active and they always end in a tie with both combatants gaining a full bar of ki and suffering no damage.
 * Calling Your Attacks
 * "Close Enough" Timeline: The Supreme Kai of Time's powers are enough to smooth out things like a giant pink man coming out of nowhere to beat up the bad guy back into the original timeline once you've fixed the major damage.
 * The Greatest Story Never Told: Babidi, one of the NPC time patrol members, talks about how he is dealing with a wildly off the rails version of the pre-timeskip Dragon Ball timeline. In this timeline King Piccolo and his demon army, the Red Ribbon Army with Dr. Gero's android program unhindered by Goku interference, and (latter) Babidi with Majin Buu all fighting each other. All of this occurs off-screen.
 * Heroic Mime: Aside from grunting and Calling Your Attacks, the player character never says anything. Justified when time traveling as paradox prevention, but not when in the time nest
 * Lethal Chef: The Supreme Kai of Time, though this is only ever alluded to at the end of the DLC.
 * Random Number God: Drop rates and even if special clear conditions will actually apply is extremely finicky in the first game. The second has, thankfully, been confirmed to ditch it.
 * Set Right What Once Went Wrong
 * Time Cop
 * Villain Override: The main cause of most interferences to the timeline is the bad guys possessing one of the existing bad guys to increase his power..
 * Worf Effect: We know the newly powered bad guy is stronger because he can now beat up Goku/his friends. Future Trunks is beaten up a few times for this purpose too.