Alternate Reality DBZ: Difference between revisions

* [[Ascended Extra]] - Despite dying after the second episode, Raditz shows up repeatedly. Gozar's making up for the lack of screentime this villain gets (especially compared to other villains.)

* [[Are We There Yet?]]: In Episode 38, Piccolo keeps asking Goku this on their way to the location where the androids will appear. Once Goku threatens to kill him if he asks one more time, he rephrases the question.

* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: Between Gozar and Team Four Star; [[Heterosexual Life Partners|a much milder and more platonic version, though.]] Gozar has taken his fair share of [[Take That|potshots]] at Team Four Star's series, even [[Death Note|writing their names in the shinigami's notebook]] at one point {{spoiler|forgetting that he'd need their ACTUAL names for it to work}}. However, he has admitted in his "Gozar Speaks" segments that he's good friends with them, and members of Team Four Star themselves have not only cameoed in ADBZ, but openly stated in their first FAQ that they like his work and would be delighted to have Gozar in one of their episodes.

** For an interuniverse example, Piccolo and Gohan.

* [[The Brute]]- Nappa: "Now to further stereotype the big dumbass who likes to attack the weak."

* [[Bumbling Dad]]- Frieza's dad King Cold.

* [[Butt Monkey]]- "Mystic" Gohan

** Gohan in general never gets to do anything heroic, even when he canonically should.

** Also, the "Parenting with Vegeta" skits turned from Vegeta giving weird and bad parenting advices to Vegeta giving advices on how to be [[Abusive Parents]].

* [[Flowery Insults]]:

* [[Foe Yay]]- Goku and Cell

** May also count as [[No Yay]]

* [[Gilligan Cut]]- While not in the strictest definition, earlier it is stated that Piccolo is a huge fan of Celine Dion. In episode 14, Bardock states that he sees a vision of his son defeating Vegeta, The king responds with "That is about as likely as a badass Namekian warrior being a huge Celine Dion fan."

** Played straight in Episode 22 when Vegeta refuses a bet that if the Giants beat the Patriots at the Superbowl, Gohan wouldn't be able to call himself "Mystic" anymore, not believing the then-undefeated Patriots could lose. Cut to the Giants beating the Patriots, much to his shock and rage.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]] - Doore from Episode 48 and 51 is voiced by Takahata101. He voices Nappa of [[Dragon Ball Abridged]].

* [[Insistent Terminology]] - <s> Android</s> Jinzoningen. Gohan flips out when Cell mispronounces manga.

* [[It Was His Sled]]: At the end of Episode 31, after Goku seemingly dies from Namek's explosion ...

* [[Jerkass]]: Vegeta

* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]- Happens to both Android 17 and 18 in Trunks' timeline, as well as one of Garlic Jr's minions.

* [[Narration Echo]]: In episode 26

'''Narrator:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|"I just said that!"]] }}

* [[Negative Continuity]]: Almost everyone except for Nappa is always better by the next episode. That includes Cell, Frieza, Bardock, Vegeta, and even Raditz. Gozar even admits this on his site.

* [[Overly Long Gag]]: "ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT KRILLIN!?"

** Bardock: "FRIEZA!!!" What? "FRIEZA!!!" WHAT!? "FRIEZA!!!" WHAT!?

Goku: No you're not! You must be his brother! }}

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]- Dodoria

* [[Suicidal Overconfidence]] - Bardock is certain he can defeat Frieza despite losing to Dodoria.

* [[Switching to GEICO]]: Vegeta at the end of Episode 8, after Piccolo reminds him he wasn't featured prominently in the episode.

* [[Take That]]- In episode 24, Gozar mocks the Naruto series.

** In Episode 58, Mr. Popo says [[Dragon Ball Abridged|"Pecking Order"]]. Krillin then tells him to shut up. However, this most probably came out as a joke.

* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]- The only person who liked Gohan (especially Mystic) was Piccolo in the early episodes. However, Piccolo later jumped on the Gohan-hate Bandwaggon. This was lampshaded at the end of the Majin Buu Saga retelling when Trunks [[Continuity Nod|reminds him of his meltdown when Gohan went on his first date.]] After that, Piccolo seems to be Gohan's friend again.

* [[Too Cool to Live]]- "Future" Gohan, ironically. Lampshaded in a title opening:

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: "Wheeee! Wheeee! La la la la la la! Wheeee! I'm Frieza! Wheeeee!"

* [[Training From Hell]]: ''Ok, let me show my form of training. It's called THROW YOUR STUDENT AT A MOUNTAIN AND SEE IF HE LIVES!''