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** As well as giving some actual screentime to, Tien Shinhan, Yamcha, and Chaotzu before the Nappa fight. The latter three heroes also got a well-deserved [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]] when they thrashed the Ginyu Force as part of the training they received from Kaio-sama.
*** Actually, Toriyama was not as involved with the anime as some would think. He states in an interview that he "had faith" in the anime staff. He gave the occasional filler idea, such as Yamcha being a baseball player, but not much else.
* [[Adaptation
** There's also a very significant difference between the manga and anime versions of Namek's explosion. In the manga, Goku is shown flying towards Frieza's ship with several Ginyu pods in sight. He finds the ship useless, flies up and says Namek's about to blow (and the view shifts to King Kai). In the anime, Goku is helplessly raging above the ship while we actually SEE the planet go up in smoke and supposedly take him with it without much doubt. Since we actually SEE his on screen death in the anime, his later explanation that he "found a pod, jumped in, hit the button and made it out of there" is certainly in line with the MANGA. As for the ANIME version, it's utter [[Canon Dis Continuity]]/[[Retcon]]/[[Ass Pull]] considering how far they went to SHOW him dying.
** One of the more infamous examples occurs in a [[Filler]] episode of the Red Ribbon Army Saga. In this episode, a "Dr. Flappe" is credited as the creator of Android 8. Years later during Dragon Ball Z, Dr. Gero is revealed as the true creator of the androids. A popular fan theory to work around this is that Dr. Flappe and Gero were partners on the android project.
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{{quote|''"Yes! We're going to make it through this without losing anyone!"''|Son Gohan, watching Piccolo's [[Curb Stomp Battle]] with Android 20. Sadly, [[It Got Worse]].}}
** Everyone in the Dragon Ball universe save for [[Fake Ultimate Hero|Mr. Satan]] has died/been absorbed/eaten atleast once. Even Majin Buu himself.
* [[Alternate Continuity]]: The [[Non
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Future Trunks went back in time to prevent the world being wasted by Androids, after the Z-Fighters were killed and Goku died of an alien heart disease.
** The series slowly updates its Scale of Destruction as it progresses. Villains show some restraint most of the time by keeping to destruction below their class ratings.
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* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: The series went though this after {{spoiler|Krillin was killed by Piccolo Daimaou's henchman Tambourine}}.
** Inverted with the Buu Saga, which had a far more humorous tone than much of the preceding material.
* [[Character
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]
* [[Charlie Brown From Outta Town]]: Jackie Chun, Mighty Mask
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* [[Distribution of Ninjutsu]]
* [[Ditzy Genius]]: Bulma. Especially in ''Dragon Ball'' and in the anime's Frieza saga.
* [[Do Androids Dream?]]: Or specifically, Do Androids [[Curb Stomp Battle|experience]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|fear]]?
* [[Does Not Know His Own Strength]]: Goku and Gohan in some filler episodes.
** And in one of the manga chapters, Goku playfully flicks ChiChi and accidentally sends her through a wall and into a tree.
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** 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.
** In the Red Ribbon Army, there's Officer Black, who is much more competent and threatening than Supreme Commander Red.
** For most of his first appearance, Broly is under mind control from his much weaker father Paragus, who led the Z Fighters to the planet to fight his son. When Broly is freed, [[Self
** Tienshinhan.
* [[Dragons Up the Yin
* [[Drum Bathing]]: Goku commonly uses this as the default bathtub at his house. One notable moment is in the Tree of Might film when he bathes in it with Gohan.
* [[Dub Induced Plot Hole]]: Inverted in the original Japanese version. Cell says that as long as his head survives, he can regenerate his body whenever he wants... but at one point, his ''head'' came off in the fight with Goku, meaning he shouldn't have been able to regenerate. [[Artistic License Biology|The dub version said that every cell in his body has a life of its own, meaning that even if there was only one cell there, he could regenerate]].
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