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* [[Adorkable]]: 16-year-old Gohan. Studious, socially awkward, and has a love of superheroes while failing to realize that the only person who thinks Great Saiyaman is cool is his 7-year-old brother.
** Goku, Yamcha, Krillin (growing up with someone as goofy as Son Goku really rubs off on you), Goten and every lovable and goofy member of the Ginyu force is a rare evil example.
* [[Adult Child]]: Son Goku is a rare ''positive'' example of this trope, despite being an [[Idiot Hero]] and does cause a lot of [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] moments. There are also moments when he tries to give the responsibility of saving the earth to other people--namely children like Gohan, Goten, and Trunks.
*** Chi-Chi, Gohan and Goten really pulled the short straw with this one.
** Majin Buu is the bad kind of adult child, though he does redeem himself.
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* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]]: DRAGON! DRAGON! ROCK THE DRAGON! DRAGONBALL Z!
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWrEbLPxSdY What is my destiny Dragonball]
* [[And I Must Scream]]: Piccolo tries to inflict this to Super Buu by destroying the door to the [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|Hyperbolic Time Chamber]]. Apparently Buu has a grasp of this trope, and quite fittingly screams his way out.
** Gohan sealing Garlic Jr in the Dead Zone also qualifies.
** Also the likely fate of anyone who falls victim to the Evil Containment Wave, being trapped in an otherwise empty container until someone opens it back up.
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*** The ultimate one is when while fighting Vegetto, he goes even further to threaten a '''Class Z''' multi-dimensional collapse when he suffers an epic [[Villainous Breakdown]].
* [[Arc Villain]]: Most of the standalone villains, notably Garlick, Commander Red and Pilaf.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Freeza states that three things he does not tolerate are cowardice, military insurrection, and bad haircuts.
* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]: Pretty much every villain in the series, but Tien is probably the [[Trope Codifier]] for [[Anime]].
* [[Artistic Age]]: Gohan during the Cell Games fits Type 1, while little Goku in the original ''Dragon Ball'' goes in Type 2.
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** No, they wouldn't. The expressed reason for why they wiped out planets is because Frieza was there in the first place. They didn't have the technology to spread across the stars, so Frieza allowed them that opportunity in exchange for being useful tools in galactic domination. They would have essentially remained barbarians if it wasn't for Frieza. Frieza's influence made them even ''worse''. In fact, the modern Saiyans are Frieza's [[Gone Horribly Right]] of an ''entire race''. So he wiped them out.
** A modern comparison could be made to the [[Mass Effect|Krogan]]-like the Saiyans, they were 'uplifted' far too early to grow out of their barbarism so they could be used by the more advanced races. The side effect was the Krogan began populating Citadel worlds causing a war, and the Saiyans became too strong for Freeza-a [[Complete Monster]] but a [[Genre Savvy]] one, to ignore. Thus, the Krogan got the Genophage inflicted on them, and the Saiyan's were wiped out.
* [[Autobots Rock Out]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcV-73d_0YA Done] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7mzjFHYSDY all] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJXRz9D8880 the] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLnha3kYHwc time] in the [[
** And in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vMprHWFi7E the North American version] of Budoukai 3's theme
* [[Auto Doc]]: The healing tanks used by Freeza's forces.
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* [[Battle Royale With Cheese]]
* [[Beam of Enlightenment]]
* [[Beam
* [[Beam Spam]]: Vegeta in particular is notorious for using this... ...to little effect.
* [[Become a Real Boy|Become Real People]]: Subverted. Krillin uses the Dragon Balls to wish Androids 17 & 18 fully human. When the dragon says he can't, he wishes to remove the bombs inside their bodies instead. 17 and 18 are actually augmented humans who are still able to have children.
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Son Goku and '''especially''' his eldest boy Son Gohan: People in this universe are nice because they can ''afford'' to be nice.
* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: The Supreme Kai thinks this when he finds out how powerful the earth Saiyans are. To explain: this guy is the series' equivalent of [[God]] and yet his power level is nothing compared to them.
** Special honors to Vegetto who is the only character to retain ''all his power'' and gain an even greater speed advantage due to his size after being turned [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|into a Coffee flavoured jawbreaker by Buu.]] If anything this is where Buu gets his worst and most embarrassing beating.
* [[Big Bad]]: Emperor Pilaf, Commander Red, Master Shen, Piccolo, Vegeta, Frieza, Cell, Buu, and a few others thrown in-between.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Piccolo pulls this off for Gohan in nearly every DBZ movie before the post-Cell timeskip.
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* [[Came From the Sky]]: How Saiyans usually arrive on earth.
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Because of how impressed Toriyama was with the Bardock special, Goku's father gets a cameo later on in the manga.
* [[Can't Catch Up]]: Takes this concept and runs with it. [[
** By the end of the series, even the final big bad Super Buu is desperately trying to play catchup with the Saiyans. Gohan was able to effortlessly defeat Super Buu without the need (or ability) to transform. Later, when Buu had absorbed Gohan and obtained his power, he was easily beaten by the original Super Saiyan form of Vegetto, who was probably capable of at least one and probably two more levels of Super Saiyan transformations on top of that. The only reason there was any tension at all for the final battle against Kid Buu was that Goku and Vegeta didn't want to fuse again on PRINCIPLE.
*** It should be pointed out that Vegetto was able to handle Buu ''even before transforming''.
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* [[Crazy Consumption]]
* [[Crossover]]: With ''[[Doctor Slump]]'' and ''[[One Piece]]''.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Goku, Gohan, Goten...[[Overshadowed By Awesome|and even Krillin]].
** The entire Ginyu Force basically personifies this trope. The only reason they come off goofier after the fact is because Goku shows up and easily takes them out.
* [[Cryptic Background Reference]]: How did Yamcha get those scars? And how come Senzu beans/revival doesn't heal them?
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* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: The term "senzu bean" when senzu means "holy bean."
* [[Detonation Moon]]: Many many times. It comes back several times though, for various reasons.
* [[A God Am I|A Devil am I]]/[[Card
{{quote| '''Piccolo''': He's a monster!<br />
'''Broly''': Monster? Wrong, I'm the devil! }}
* [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?]]: ChiChi slaps Majin Buu, the scourge of the universe, ''in the face'' and gets turned into an egg and crushed in response.
** Chibi Trunks also moons and flips off Brolly in DBZ Movie # 11
** Roshi to Broly in the first Broly movie
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** During the Frieza saga (befor Goku turned Super Saiyin) Goku caught Frieza's tail, and decided to say this to him:
{{quote| Goku: Man, when's the last time you had a bath? Yeah, no foolin'. Woo, it's downright unpleasant back here!}}
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Demon King Piccolo does the unthinkable after getting his big wish and ''blows the Dragon into pieces with one shot.'' At that time in the series, that was pretty much equivalent to killing God.
** Arguably this happens constantly from that point onward, as every villain after that is ''way'' stronger than Piccolo.
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Muten Roshi.
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** The anime at least has a scene where Goten, while being trained by Chichi, turned Super Saiyan without realizing it and kicked her to the ground.
*** Which sort of indirectly shows that ChiChi was [[Made of Iron]]. Seriously, Goten should've broken her in half.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Crowds of people joyously cheering for Mr. '''''Satan'''''.
** -> Grandpa Gohan(after accidentally ripping off Goku's tail): Goku, does your backside still hurt?
* [[Doing in The Wizard]]: DBZ kinda does this. It doesn't do away with fantasy elements completely, mind you, but it does explain Goku and Piccolo's powers as being alien rather than supernatural. It doesn't explain all the other weird stuff in the series though...
* [[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]: Piccolo Daimao introducing himself as the [[President Evil|new ruler of the world]], and Cell announcing the Cell Games.
* [[The Dragon]]: Pretty much one per story arc, from Mr. Black to Commander Red all the way to Dabra to Babidi. The best example being Captain Ginyu, leader of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]], The Ginyu Force, to Frieza.
* [[Dragon
** Majin Buu is more or less this to Babidi; though in a subversion, since he starts out as an overgrown baby, Buu takes a while to realize how little power Babidi has. Majin Vegeta might also counts, and he ''does'' realize that Babidi is inferior.
** Dr. Gero is inferior to (and killed by) his android creations, though his Dragon Cell never meets him, as Gero dies before he wakes up. Cell expresses admiration for Gero for being so smart as to create him, but it's reasonable to assume that, if Gero were alive, that would probably not have saved him.
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