Dragonball Evolution: Difference between revisions

 

 

Goku is a young high school student who must battle the evil space overlord Piccolo and retrieve the Dragon Balls in order to stop Piccolo's massive ape servant, Oozaru. Along the way, Goku loses his grandfather and meets an inventor named Bulma, a martial arts master named Roshi, and a bandit named Yamcha.

 

Has a tie-in video game.

 

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* [[Action Girl]]: Chi Chi

* [[Anticlimax]]: Piccolo creates several creatures to fight the heroes. {{spoiler|It takes the heroes about 10 seconds to defeat them. Then, Mai shows up. She takes another 3 seconds.}}

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Mai was originally just a minor character who was a henchwoman to second-rate villain Pilaf. She also becomes an [[Adaptational Badass]].

* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: James Marsters referred to the anime as "the coolest television cartoon in the last 50,000 years."

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Gohan.

* [[Badass Normal]]: Yamcha and Bulma, though they do almost nothing of consequence compared to Goku.

* [[Beam-O-War]]: Sort of.

* [[Beta Couple]]: Yamcha and Bulma.

* [[Blood Magic]]

** Piccolo creates creatures from his blood.

* [[Cleavage Window]]: Although Mai mostly has adequate protective gear, she leaves her chest unprotected. [[Fan Service|Huh.]]

* [[Composite Character]]: Goku and Chi-Chi could just as well have been called Gohan and Videl.

** [[Fridge Brilliance|Goku's]] [[Made of Iron]] [[Fridge Brilliance|though.]]

* [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday|Dangerous Eighteenth Birthday]]

* [[Deadly Dodging]]: When Goku is confronted by a couple of bullies at the big party, he informs them that he promised he wouldn't fight them - before smoothly allowing the bullies to beat the crap out of each other and the head bully's very expensive car.

** During the final battle, Bulma must fight Mai alone for the Dragon Ball.

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Goku takes on Piccolo, [[Informed Ability|who is hyped all movie long as an extremely powerful badass]]. [[Anticlimax|He isn't]].

* [[Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting]]: Most of the bullies use the usual assortment of [[Good Old Fisticuffs|punches you'd expect from untrained jocks]]. The one Asian in the group, though, adopts a fighting stance and tries to use a flying kick.

* [[First Girl Wins]]: Chi Chi for Goku.

* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: Goku is choleric, Yamcha is sanguine, Roshi is melancholic and Bulma is phlegmatic.

* [[Large Ham]]: Master Roshi and Piccolo.

* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Chi Chi

* [[Necessary Drawback]]: Roshi tries to seal Piccolo again, even though it sucks out his life force. [[Senseless Sacrifice|It doesn't work]].

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: All Goku can say when Roshi catches him in his house.

* [[Not Screened for Critics]]: Both American and Japanese.

* [[Race Lift]]: In the original, everyone was [[Mukokuseki|vaguely Japanese]]. In this movie, the two leads are white and everyone else is Asian.

* [[The Reveal]]: It's no real shocker to those who are DB fans {{spoiler|but Goku and Oozaru are one and the same}}.

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Possibly Chi Chi for Goku and defenitely Yamcha for Bulma.

** Goku makes mention of a race called "Nameks"

** Gohan finding Goku in a crater

** The Wish {{spoiler|being used to revive Master Roshi}}

** Bulma's capsule cars

** A quick reference to "chi chi" being Japanese for "boobs" ("Just because my name is Chi Chi doesn't mean I'm an idiot"). In the manga, Master Roshi goes off muttering at one point about how the name Chi Chi would be better suited for the larger-chested Bulma.

* [[Spot the Imposter]]: Goku had to do this when Mai disguised as Chi-Chi fights the Real Chi-Chi. It didn't go too well.

* [[Stock Scream]]: of the Wilhelm variety.

* [[Stock Subtitle]]: "Evolution".

* [[Total Eclipse of the Plot]]: Goku and the gang must acquire all the Dragonballs before an upcoming solar eclipse, when Oozaru will return and joins Piccolo. When said eclipse appears, {{spoiler|Goku transforms into Oozaru}}.

* [[Tournament Arc]]: Averted; it looks like the World Martial Arts Tournament, but it has a different name, Goku doesn't fight in it, and it's barely shown.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Very much averted, as Bulma in the original story was conspicuously a blunette. In some scenes she's got one lock dyed blue, likely as a nod to the original.

 

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