Dragon Ball/YMMV: Difference between revisions

* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: {{spoiler|Vegeta's murder at the hands of Freeza.}}

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpkeAQG6kQw Perfect Cell's Theme] also deserves a mention. It sounds like an evil techno/metal fusion. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|How perfect.]]....If only they actually played this version in the show. That said, the version they ''do'' have in the show that loops over and over IS an [[Ear Worm]].

* [[Complete Monster]]: FreezaFrieza was such a long lasting villain and so irredeemable that prettyhe’s muchone [[Onlyof Mostlythe Dead|dyingmost twice]]memorable andvillains hisin spectacularthe finalseries, deathbeing atresponsible thefor handscommitting ofSaiyan Trunksgenocide is(though quitethey franklywere notevil, painfulthey orwere also loyal to Frieza) and humiliatingenjoying enoughit. His sickening attack on the Namek village attains a level of chilling brutality that few anime have matched since.

** Dr. Gero could be called one for being responsible for ''everything'' that goes down in the Cell Saga purely out of hatred. Cell also implies that he may have intended for Cell to destroy existence. In [[Dragon Ball GT]], Gero apparently wanted to replace ''all life'' with artificial beings. And why does he do all this? Pure blind hatred for pretty much everything.

** [http://www.animenewsnetwork.comcc//news/2007-01-08/oricon-fans-want-l-char-aznable-spinoffsIn a japanese poll]{{Dead link}} asking manga fans which characters they'd like to see spinoff stories about, Krillin was the only dragonball/Z character to make the list. Despite being relatively weak compared to the saiyans, Krillin's bravery and heart in the bleakest of situations have earned him his fair share of fans, and believe it or not, he isn't as worthless as DBZ abridged might lead one to believe. (Up until the end of the Frieza arc, at least.)

* [[Fridge Logic]]: [[Dragon Ball/Headscratchers/Headscratchers/DragonballGeneral|Has its own page.]]

** ''Dragon Ball'' (especially ''Z'') in general is even more popular internationally than it was in Japan. For example, in the week of September 16-2216–22, 2002, Dragon Ball Z was once [http://www.animenewsnetwork.comcc//news/2002-09-28/dragonball-z-tops-ratings the highest rated show on cable] and one of the top three shows in ''all television'' (cable or broadcast) for preteen/younger teenaged boys (9-14) in America.

** For the Funimation dub of DBZ, many would say that it was during the Cell Saga that is when most of the cast were able to settle in to their performances, [[Chris Sabat]] stopped trying to impersonate [[Brian Drummond]]'s Vegeta and several stand-out perforancesperformances that were step-up from the season 3 dub (Eric Vale as Trunks, Chuck Huber as #17, Dameon Clarke as Cell, and Chris Rager as Hercule) were introduced.

* [[Heartwarming Moments (Sugar Wiki)|Heartwarming Moments]]: [[Dragon Ball/Heartwarming|Have their own page.]]

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Played with, subverted, and [[Smugthen Snake|subverted]]boomeranged with Cell. In his imperfect form, Cell runs rings around the Z fighters as he masterfully evades their attempts to ambush him while draining countless cities of their population's bio extract. Upon finding himself sorely outclassed by Vegeta later in the series, Cell tricks the Saiyan prince into allowing him to absorb Android 18 by promising to provide him with an opportunity to test the full extent of his newfound power. In the ensuing rematch, he succeeds in reaping vengeance upon Vegeta by breaking him down physically and psychologically. When facing Trunks, he shows how savvy he is about how raising his strength and muscles only slow him down. And ''then'', rather than kill Trunks and everyone else, Cell instead opts to hold a martial arts tournament where all of Earth's greatest fighters can challenge him and be defeated....and he ''announces this to the entire planet'' [[Do Not Adjust Your Set|on TV]] [[For the Evulz|just so he can see them panicking and living in fear.]] During the Cell Games, however, Cell becomes increasingly reckless and overconfident in his actions until he ultimately loses control when Gohan became a Super Saiyan 2. And said state was precisely what he was seeking; the problem was that he never really calculated that Gohan's power increase would be far greater than his. However, he ''still'' manages to rebound from this [[Villainous Breakdown]] inducing defeat, though by that time he's in full [[Ax Crazy]] [[Omnicidal Maniac]] mode.

* [[Mis BlamedMisblamed]]: No, [[Akira Toriyama]] ''didn't'' write the anime - He wrote the manga it was ''adapted'' from. (The pacing of the anime was actually out of his hands; they ''intentionally'' made filler arcs with his mild supervision, and padded the episodes so they wouldn't [[Overtook the Manga|overtake the manga]].

** Four words for Super Buu's one: his [[Kill All Humans|Genocide Blast attack]]

** Kid Buu crosses it not only by destroying the Earth but destroying whole planets full of innocents just to [[Blood Knight|"play]] with [[The Hero|Goku]] and [[The Lancer|Vegeta]]

* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: Gohan's development as a hero and as his father Goku's eventual replacement as protector of the Earth certainly counts as this. During the Buu Saga a lot of focus is placed on Gohan's hidden powers and despite becoming the strongest (non-fused) character in the series he is not the one to defeat Buu. Goku defeats Buu and reclaims his role as the main protagonist. There were mixed reactions in the fanbase about this. [[Fridge Logic|Which is why Dragon Ball Kai ended with the Cell Saga]] [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|making this canon at least in their universe]]. [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Until "The Final Chapters" got made, that is.]]

** Many of these fights conveniently happen after they're causing trouble in Hell.You'd think they'd be [[Genre Savvy]] enough to start [[Training Fromfrom Hell|training there]].