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* [[After the End]]: Planet M-2.
* [[Age-Inappropriate Dress]]: Bra is about the same age as Pan. Her outfit really doesn't seem like it, though.
* [[
* [[Air Jousting]]
* [[Alien Among Us]]
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** Nappa didn't have a chance against Vegeta after returning from Hell.
* [[Back for the Finale]]: Almost every surviving character Goku, Pan, and Trunks encountered in space shows up and has a speaking part (or at least a grunt) in episode 63 where they {{spoiler|help Goku take out the [[Big Bad]]}}. {{spoiler|1=Goku Jr. and Puck from the TV special show up in the epilogue for episode 64.}} {{spoiler|A video montage featuring all the character from the past ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' series shows while Goku is walking through the tournament halls in the last minutes of ''GT'' in episode 64.}}
* [[Back
* [[Backup From Otherworld]]: {{spoiler|Piccolo talks to Dende and works with him to rip open Hell so Goku can escape.}}
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Pan. She may be a bit emotional, and can't really take pain at first, but no matter where you are in the show, she can kick ass. She just doesn't really get a chance to do it too often because the villains all need to be on Goku's level. Her lightning fast domination of Android 20 is a good example, however.
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* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: Much of what occurs in this series has recently been contradicted by ''Dragon Ball Online'', a MMO with significant input from [[Akira Toriyama]] himself.
** 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]].
** Plot Holes, numerous inconsistencies and almost paradoxical contradictions were what actually threw the series' Canon hopes out of the stadium. The most serious of these can be seen on the [[Dragon Ball GT/Headscratchers|Headscratchers Page]]
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Some of the hell escapees are from the movies.
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* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Most of the fights against the weaker Shadow Dragons.
** SSJ3 Goku gets this treatment by Baby Vegeta, and then proceeds to give it back when he becomes SSJ4.
** Omega Shenron is the most powerful villain in all three entire series and he still gets this by SSJ4 Gogeta. Yeah he's that good.
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Pan, and possibly Goku again, depending on your definition of cute.
* [[Cycle of Revenge]]: Depending on who you believe, Vegeta or Baby, this either started with Baby's creation or the Saiyan-Tuffle War. According to Vegeta, the Saiyans were treated like slaves by the Tuffles. According to Baby, the Saiyans were unprovoked. Either way, the Saiyan-Tuffle War happened. The Tuffles then created Baby, who would later take over Vegeta's body, as well as most of humanity, and all the people with Saiyan blood on Earth besides for Goku and Pan. Because of this, Goku is forced to kill Baby. Luckily, Baby had no family, ending it.
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* [[Distribution of Ninjutsu]]
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: What Super 17 does to Dr. Myuu.
* [[Dragons Up the Yin-Yang]]:
* [[Dressing as the Enemy]]: Pan, on Planet M-2, using a broken robot.
* [[Dub
* [[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.
* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: The side-effects of the Black Star Dragon Balls. You use them, and you get one year to retrieve them. Otherwise, boom. {{spoiler|The first time they get used, they are retrieved. The second time, everyone is too busy stopping Baby after he uses them. The Earth explodes, but not before everyone who isn't Piccolo is saved. Then they wish Earth back.}}
* [[Elemental Powers]]: Used by the Shadow Dragons-
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** 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.
* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]: At one point, Chichi slaps Baby-possessed Goten so hard that he goes careening past a shelf and knocks over two pictures. One of them is a generic picture of Bulma, Vegeta, and their kids, but the other is of tiny, [[Dragon Ball|DBZ]]-aged Bra being held by Vegeta and pulling his face into a really annoyed smile.
* [[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.
** It doesn't add up to his fate in A Hero's Legacy, Goku ''is'' clearly no more and it makes it appear like the whole cast just passed on when their time was up. However "A Hero's legacy" was made earlier just after the Baby Saga and they intended Goku to be clearly dead by this point and be the [[Spirit Advisor]] to Goku Jr. At that time, no one had any idea how GT was going to end or just how they were going to get there. Seriously.
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* [[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.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard|Hoist By Their Own Petard]]: Dr. Gero ([[Running Gag|again]]) and Dr. Myu, at the hands of Super 17.
* [[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.
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* [[Living Prop]]: Bra does about three things in GT. Get Vegeta to shave that awful facial hair, make Vegeta take her shopping, and give some power to Baby. About the only reason they introduced her seems to be to give Vegeta another kid, who's nothing like him. And perhaps someone for the [[Yuri Fans]] to ship Pan with.
* [[Magic Music]]: The Para Para Brothers
* [[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.
* [[Make Room for the New Plot]]: The last few Black Star Dragon Balls are found alot faster and easier so that the heroes will return to Earth, discovering Baby has taken it over.
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* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Super Android 17 and Syn/Omega Shenron love this way of fighting.
* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Majuub gets {{spoiler|turned into chocolate and CHEWED UP, yet lives.}}
* [[No One Should Survive That]]: At one point, Pan, Goku and Trunks get so close to a sun that, by all scientific information available, their ship should have melted and they should have instantly been burnt to a crisp.
* [[No Saving Throw]]: Earth Android 17 vs. Hell Fighter 17, when Earth 17 attacks Krillin and 18.
* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]: A few of the Shadow Dragons.
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* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: The Seven-Star Dragon ("Naturon Shenron")
* [[Oddly Common Rarity]]: In [[Dragonball Z]], the need for a spaceship was something really, really bad. Not even Capsule Corp could pull that off. Now, Capsule Corp can build spacecraft within the week, complete with extras like a flatscreen TV. And that's when it takes off before it's even ready.
** [[Justified Trope|Justified.]] It's been at least twenty years since Capsule Corp built their first spaceship, and Bulma and her dad could have only gotten more efficient. That plus the series' general adherence to reality makes it easier to rationalize.
* [[Off-Model]]: Less common than in Z, but still there.
* [[Older Than They Look]]:
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* [[Only I Can Kill Him]]: Oh, that's cute, someone other than Goku is trying to kill the [[Big Bad]].
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]
* [[The Other Darrin]]:
** The Blue Water dub, which aired in Canada and the UK, had a different voice cast to their dub of ''[[Dragonball Z]]''.
** The Funimation dub mostly averts this. The only exceptions were Videl and Pan (which makes sense, as she's 5 years older now).
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* [[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.
* [[Plot Hole]]: The entirety of the [[Dragon Ball GT/Headscratchers|Headscratchers page]] makes you wonder how the series was even possible at all.
* [[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.
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* [[Separated From the Adults]]: The many, many times Pan's separated from everyone else.
* [[Serial Escalation]]: All of the villains are much stronger than Freezer. Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta stands out the most; he has been named as the single most powerful character in the Dragon Ball universe.
* [[Series Continuity Error]]: After Gohan was given the ultimate power-up by the Elder Kaioshin in ''Dragon Ball Z'', he was told that he no longer needed the [[Super Mode|Super Saiyan]] transformation. Yet here he uses it.
** Of course, one has to remember he didn't ''lose'' his Super Saiyan transformation, and was explicitly stated to not have been training at all in the period between Z and GT. So it only makes sense he would need it again after getting soft all those years.
* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: Giru has a tendency to become incapacitated whenever the [[Big Bad]] rears their ugly head.
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* [[Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass]]: Nova Shenron summons a giant lens and use it to fire an extremely hot sunbeam.
* [[Sole Survivor]]: Baby, to the Tuffles.
* [[Space Brasilia]]: The ruins of the city seen on M-2 are clearly this, just with a long period of abandonment after the apocalypse.
* [[Specs of Awesome]]: Gohan
* [[Spit Take]]: Vegeta's reaction, after Bulma tells him she can make him a [[SSJ 4]].
* [[Stealth
* [[Super Mode]]: While Z only went to level 3 of the transformation, GT in particular is notable for introducing Super Saiyan 4, which is so powerful that a Saiyan must become a Golden Great Ape before attaining this form, and unlike all others, this form involves a Saiyan keeping their hair dark but having a copious amount of it as well as growing red fur all over their body and regrowing their Saiyan tail if it's missing. Needless to say, it's awesome.
** Interestingly, the mechanics allow one to skip levels, as Vegeta manages 4 without ever having become a Super Saiyan 3.
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* [[This Way to Certain Death]]: Under the Black Star Dragon Balls is a whole bunch of skeletons. One must wonder, were those people there for the Dragon Balls, or did [[Dragon Ball Abridged|Mr. Popo just need to get rid of some bodies?]]
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: [[Villain Decay|Cell and Frieza]].
* [[Timeshifted Actor]]:
** In both English dubs, Goku's actor changes as he shifts between his child and adult/SSJ4 bodies.
** In the Funimation dub, Pan's actress changes during the flashbacks from when she was a toddler. Oddly, this is averted with old lady Pan, who has the same VA as 10-year-old Pan.
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* [[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.
** This is also evoked when Giru first joins the team. Pan starts threatening Giru after he assimilated their Dragon Radar, when Trunks stops her. She tries to say he's [[Just a Machine]], but Trunks explains that because the little robot is clearly experiencing fear, it must be sentient, and should be treated as such.
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Baby Vegeta worries he'll become this in exchange for the power to match SSJ4 Goku, and it is subverted when he reveals he still can talk and reason....but not for long, as he slowly but surely begins to lose his grip on sanity, as a result of both his unnaturally enhanced power and his maniacal obssession to kill Goku at the expense of everything else, even his own planet.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: The Four-Star Dragon and Legic.
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** That's because at the time it was made, no one had planned on GT's actual ending. However as the fandom suffered from [[Ending Fatigue]] and ratings plummeted by Super 17 Saga, Toei rushed to end it somehow.
* [[Spirit Advisor]]: {{spoiler|The original Goku}} is briefly this to Goku Jr. after he finds the Dragon Ball.
* [[Training
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: {{spoiler|Pan}} fears that Goku Jr. may feel this way and blames herself for not being more supportive of him.
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