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Also had a largely-unrelated TV Special (known as ''A Hero's Legacy'' in the Funimation dub), that was generally better received than the series itself. The special told the story of Goku's descendant, [[Sarcasm Mode|the cleverly-named Goku Jr]].

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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: {{spoiler|Piccolo, Goku, Krillin, plus several cities.}}

* [[Apocalypse How]]: Class 0 is standard for a minor villain to do, Baby wants to pull off an X-3 or X-4, and the Shadow Dragons are aiming for an X-5.

* [[Attack Backfire]]: Goku tries to take down [[Big Bad|Super 17]] with a variety of ki- based attacks, only to discover that he can increase his strength level by absorbing them.

* [[Attack Its Weak Point]]: The key to killing Luud.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: General Rilldo, the most powerful Machine Mutant.

* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: {{spoiler|18 holding Krillin's dead body telling him she loves him.}}

** Krillin too, being killed by the [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Android 17 after seeing only brief glimpses of him and 18 throughout the Baby saga. This being the series that it is, though, he gets better.

** Nappa didn't have a chance against Vegeta after returning from Hell.

* [[Back From the Dead]]: Many villains from all 3 series during the Super 17 arc.

* [[Backup From Otherworld]]: {{spoiler|Piccolo talks to Dende and works with him to rip open Hell so Goku can escape.}}

** [[Curb Stomp Battle|Not all]] [[Informed Ability|of them are more powerful than Majin Buu]]. Some are merely [[Warmup Boss|Warm Up Bosses]] or [[Elite Mook|Elite Mooks]].

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Goku and Pan try to do this for Trunks after Giru saved them from being steel, but he walks out and reveals that he didn't need it.}}

* [[Big Good]]

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Eis is German for ice. So "Eis Shenron" is literally "Ice Shenlong". The German version was likely used because of similar pronunciation, but with the right letter for the acronym.

** A particular point often discussed is that Pilaf shouldn't be alive at all, he would have suffered the same fate as Captain Ginyu in Dragon Ball Z when the Earth was destroyed.

** Then again most people could say GT is an [[Alternate Continuity]].

* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Some of the hell escapees are from the movies.

* [[Can't Catch Up]]: Is your name Goku? No? Sorry. Vegeta is pretty annoyed when he discovers Goku has left him in the dust AGAIN, with Super Saiyan 4. "The Heart Of The Prince" really gives us a look into his mind. Everyone else is pretty much pointless. Trunks is useful at first, but by the time Goku gets SSJ4, he's been left behind again. Pan is the only other character to stay important.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Starting with Planet M-2.

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Super Saiyan 4 Goku. Longer, even blacker hair, a deadly serious voice and personality, covered in dark red fur, dark red eyeliner, and downright frightening to be against. However, it's still Goku.

* [[Death Is Cheap]]: Played straight at first, then averted, then played straight.

* [[Defeating the Undefeatable]]: All. The. Time.

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: ... So uh, wasn't Uub supposed to be Goku's successor or something? Trunks also qualifies for this. Heck, this really happens to pretty much everyone who isn't Goku or Pan. If their name is not Goku, then alas, they are to be pitied.

** At least Trunks got a bit of time during the Black Star arc, Goten and Gohan barely got anything.

** This is one major thing that puts GT' canon status in some [[Canon Dis Continuity|serious controversy]] and is among the biggest criticisms at the series. Toriyama just created too many characters by the end of Z to manage.

* [[Determinator]]: It's easier to list the people who AREN'T this.

* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: What Super 17 does to Dr. Myuu.

* [[Dragons Up the Yin-Yang]]:

* [[Dub Induced Plot Hole]]: Quite a few in Funimation's dub, but the most egregarious example is Goku wondering whether he would have to go back to school after being turned into a child. Only he was raised in the mountains, lived in complete solitude and never even met another person besides his grandfather until he was 12, and he NEVER went to school.

* [[Dub Name Change]]: This happened to the Shadow Dragons; in Japan they were simply referred to by their number (as in, "Six-Star Dragon"), while the US dub gave them descriptive names. The Canadian Blue Water dub kept the original names.

** [[Blow You Away]]: Oceanus, the Six-Star Dragon.

** [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: Naturon, the Seven-Star Dragon.

** [[An Ice Person]]: Eis, the Three-Star Dragon.

** [[Power of the Void]] / [[All Your Powers Combined]]: Syn/Omega, the One-Star Dragon.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: The fight with {{spoiler|Luud}} ultimately boils down to this.

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Pan gets one that lasts from her first appearing to them going to space. First, her breaking up the bank robbery, and then her being treated like (and complaining about being treated like) a kid (she's 10, so it does make sense). Then, her stowing away and basically stealing the ship when Goku and Trunks discover her. Trunks gets one in the form of him abandoning Capsule Corp and flying off, changing in the clouds.

* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: Baby, in Vegeta's body. He alters it more and more over time.

* [[Evil Is Deathly Cold]]: Played straight with the Three-Star and Four-Star Dragons. Three-Star has powers over ice, and Four-Star has powers over fire. Three-Star is bad, Four-Star is good. They're twin brothers, by the way.

** Or have the ability to turn their opponents into chocolate or other harmless objects?

* [[Franchise Zombie]]: ''Z'' already had signs of this, but Toriyama no longer had any hand in the story outside of a basic outline.

* [[Gainax Ending]]: Clear proof that GT was a very rushed concept. What happens to Goku in the last 2 episodes is inexplicable and [[Shrug of God|there's no official explanation]]. He's finished, then he's dead and he talks to the world, then suddenly he's alive again, then in base form he cannot be killed by Omega (there's not even a halo to give us any idea), then after the bomb's thrown, he's apparently dead again and brought back to life, then he leaves. Vegeta knows something's up, then suddenly we see Goku's clothes left on the ground (that shot is chronologically out of sequence and is shown at the end of the next couple of events). DBZ's version of [[No Body Left Behind]] doesn't leave clothes behind. But then he's off to visit Roshi and Piccolo still fully clothed, and both also know something's changed about him, but "Are you...?" is not very helpful. When they take their eyes off him for a second, there's suddenly no one there, which is almost creepy. Then for some reason the Dragonballs merge into Goku, then he disappears. Where does he go? What happened to him? He doesn't return for 100 years, and, if you leave aside what you saw in A Hero's legacy, it's not clear if he's alive or dead (and, if he's alive, why he's only aged about 30-40 years instead of the full 100). To top it all off, he doesn't even seem bothered by the fact that almost everyone he knew is dead.

** Needless to add, forests of [[Epileptic Trees]] abound across the part of the Dragonball fandom who like GT.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Piccolo (twice, once after he's dead), Buu, 18 tries, possibly Earth Android 17, and others.}}

** {{spoiler|The Four-Star Dragon dies to save Goku. Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you remember he's created from the most evil wish, and comes from the Dragon Ball that belonged to Grandpa Gohan and later Goku. Therefore, he'd have the least negative energy (as it seems it builds up from being used for good), hence his similar opinion to Goku.}}

** Also, Cell and Frieza have their own trap for Goku turned against them in Hell.

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: The Tuffles. They were a peaceful people (according to [[Unreliable Narrator|Baby]], at least), who were almost completely wiped out by the Saiyans (who may or may not have been previously enslaved). So they created Baby, who plans on turning the entire galaxy into Tuffles. Nice, you went from genocidees to genociders.

* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: Hey Goku, you got your tail back. Too bad nobody told you you need to use Earth to turn into a Giant Golden Ape, then get yourself under control to become a Super Saiyan 4.

* [[Hulking Out]]

* [[Ineffectual Death Threats]]: Pan threatens to kill Giru all the time, to the point where it doesn't make any sense that he's even scared anymore.

* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]

* [[It's Personal]]: Here's an FYI - don't mess with humanity. Otherwise, you'll anger Goku. An angry Goku is a very, very dangerous Goku.

* [[Magic Pants]] : Super Saiyan 4, the form with its own instant tailor! Works both back and forth.

** Vegeta even gets gloves and a leather belt to match.

* [[Male Gaze]]: Pan has had at least one awkward close-up of her butt. The fact that she might be as young as ten didn't stop the crew.

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Dr. Myuu to Doltaki and Mutchie, beginning the transition to the Baby Saga.

* [[Miracle-Gro Monster]]: The Five-Star Dragon ("Rage Shenron").

* [[Misplaced Retribution]]: Baby's attack on Goku, Trunks, Pan, Vegeta and the other people with Saiyan blood, as well as all of humanity, and he plans to attack the entire galaxy. This is all revenge for what the Saiyans did to the Tuffles. Vegeta and Goku were not even born yet (and Vegeta would have been a baby if he was), the others were certainly not born yet, the rest of the galaxy wasn't involved, and Frieza killed all the Saiyans who could have been there in a combat role (as in, not babies). Basically, he's taking out his anger over what King Vegeta and Bardock's generation did on their kids, grandkids, great grandkids, friends, family members, fellow inhabitants of the Earth and fellow inhabitants of the universe.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Pan's fisherman's hat in episode 64 and ''A Hero's Legacy''.

* [[Never My Fault]]: Bulma manages to blame Goku for starting the cycle of searching for the Dragon Balls, when he didn't even know what they did until he met her.

* [[New Season, New Name]]

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The constant overuse of the Dragon Balls over the course of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z is what causes the creation of the Shadow Dragons.

* [[Our Hero Is Dead]]: Following Goku's initial loss to Baby Vegeta.

* [[Overprotective Dad]]: Possibly Vegeta. It's up to the viewer whether he attacked the teenage punks because they made fun of him or whether he didn't like them hitting on his daughter... [[Take a Third Option|or both.]]

* [[Overtook the Series]]: It's anime-only continuation after the manga ended.

* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Think of it like this: The weakest Z-Fighter, Pan, is stronger than Frieza (as she was stronger than Android 20 (Dr. Gero), who was stronger than Frieza). Frieza could blow up a world with one attack. That's the weakest person who still shows up and fights.

* [[Planet of Hats]]: [[Unreliable Narrator|According to Baby]], the Tuffles were a planet of peace-loving, kindhearted people.

* [[Please Put Some Clothes On]]: Goku has no objections to being naked. Pan does.

* [[Porn Stache]]: Vegeta. Then Bra informs him it's awful, and he shaves it.

* [[Post Script Season]]: Times Two. The show itself is a [[Post Script Season]] for [[Dragonball Z]], while everything after the Baby Arc is a (very, very good) [[Post Script Season]] for the show itself.

* [[Punched Across the Room]]

* [[Punny Name]]: Don Kee. (It makes more sense in Japanese, where he's "Don Kia", a pun on ''akindo'', meaning "merchant".)

** Actually kinda [[Fridge Logic|makes sense]], considering the fact that some of the folks being kept down there are exponentially more powerful than the ''gods'' of the universe. And Piccolo's stronger (or at least more tactically brilliant) than them.

* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] / [[Team Rocket]]: The Para Para Bros.

* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: In marked contrast to earlier series, GT used random pop songs from popular Japanese artists of [[The Nineties]], including the late Izumi Sakai (a.k.a. ZARD), idol Shizuka Kudou, and pop staples DEEN, WANDS, and Field of View. They're fairly memorable, but they really have absolutely nothing to do with the series in terms of lyrical content.

* [[Red Alert]]: Giru has a tendency for this. ''"Danger! Danger! Pan! Danger!"''

* [[Redundant Rescue]]: {{spoiler|When Goku and Pan try to "save" Trunks from being stuck as a metal... thing.}}

* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]: Pan does this with the spaceship's keys, though it seems unlikely that [[Pettanko|she]] would be able to pull this off.

* [[Villain Forgot to Level Grind]]: Painfully apparent when the old villains escape from Hell. Vegeta defeats Nappa without even trying, and Goku beats Freeza and Cell effortlessly in spite of the trap they set for him.

* [[Violence Is the Only Option]]

* [[The Walls Are Closing In]]

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: The Five-Star Dragon {{spoiler|gets his ass kicked by rain.}}

* [[Wham! Episode]]: "The Greatest Surprise" and "The Shadow Dragons".

* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: Giru is treated like a full character, having started out as a good guy. However, he's still a Machine Mutant. The rest of the Machine Mutants are killed without any moral problems, despite the fact that the are clearly sentient.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: The Machine Mutants are treated like your standard mooks. That is to say, slaughtered. [[Fridge Horror]] sets in when you remember that they're all sentient, and at least some, like Rilldo, have souls.

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]: Puck}}

* [[Identical Grandson]]: Goku Jr.. Technically, he's Goku's Great Great Great Great Grandson (according to the final episode of GT, anyway; he just calls Pan "grandma" in the special). However, while looking exactly like Goku, he has a completely different personality.

* [[Lovable Coward]]: Goku Jr.

* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: Two of the forest demons let flirting distract them from their goal.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: {{spoiler|Pan definitely looks old, but nowhere near her actual age of 110-114}}

* [[Overly Long Gag]]: Great-great-great...