History Characters / AnEarthWithoutGokuMainCharacters

* ForWantOfANail: Everything started with Goku/Kakarot not arriving on Earth due to either Cooler killing him, Bardock overthrowing king Vegeta and canceling Kakarot's mission, or the Kaio's actually doing their job and taking out threats to the universe early. The absence of Goku has led to enormous deviations over time.

* ForWantOfANail: Master Roshi deciding to take his students to Korins tower to train leads to king Piccolo reigning for a full year before eventually being defeated. He has used that time to make far more children than his counterpart in u18 did. As a result, Tien, Chiaotzu and eventually Krillin and Yamcha spend 2 years tracking his children down and killing them. Him succeeding in sealing king Piccolo instead of killing him like Goku did also causes Piccolo Jr to never be born. Instead his strongest 2 children strike a deal with Kami that he'll release their father if they win the tournament without killing anyone. Leading to the next budokai.

* ForWantOfANail: Getting sealed instead of killed like in u18 leads to Piccolo Jr never being born. The earthlings needing more time to defeat him leads to him reigning a year longer than he did in u 18. Which led to the creation of far more children, which led to the birth of Haarp, who would end up forming an "enemy mine" with the Z-warriors against the Saiyans and is just all around awesome. Also Bardock overthrowing Vegeta leads to his rerelease when the Saiyans attack Earth en masse, leading to him fusing with Kami and becoming the dominant side in the original "Nameless Namekian". Starting his third reign of terror on Earth with no one strong enough to stop him and eventually getting invited to the multiverse tournament. Whereas Cooler shooting down Kakarot's space pod just leads to him sitting in his container forever.

* ForWantOfANail: Like his counterpart, Vegeta realizes Namek must have Dragonballs when he sees Kamim, he doesn't have his scouter when he realizes this however, so Cooler never gets the memo and only knows the Dragonballs on Earth are real. Because of this it's unlikely Namek will be invaded in this reality.

[[caption-width-right:350: I'll reduce this whole planet to ashes]]

[[caption-width-right:350: I'll reduce this whole planet to ashes!]]

Vegeta

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* WeakButSkilled: Weak may be stretching it, but he mentions at the world martial arts tournament that while he lacks the raw power of his predecessor (Piccolo) his techniques are far superior, allowing him to become the strongest by far of Piccolo's children. After training with King Kai, one can't even call him weak anymore and he's more StrongAndSkilled. once. This leads to Haarps survival and thriving future while Piccolo stays stuck inside his rice cooker.

The Earthlings

Krillin

Yamcha

* ActionDad: He has a son with Bulma and he hasn't stopped training. While his son is barely 5 years old he's saving the earth against an alien invasion and is at one point the strongest living human on the planet.

Tien

Chiaotzu

Master Roshi

Bulma

Villains:

King Piccolo:

Haarp

* AdaptationalBadass: A given, the earthlings are all a lot stronger than they where in the manga at the start of Z, having received Korins training earlier and having trained under Popo gives Tien a power level of 406, Krillin 388 and Yamcha 365. Master Roshi is also stronger due to Krillin keeping him training as a sparring partner, with a power level of 315, he has actually surpassed Popo. They also fought King Piccolo head on and in general have a much more self-reliant attitude without Goku around.

* TheAce: Granted at one point they all where this in Dragonball, but Given that they eventually get invited to the multiverse tournament by the Vargas, who only pick the strongest people in the universe, they actually managed to become this outside of Earth as well. By the start of Z they have become the protectors of earth and Tien in particular has already surpassed Kami, making him the StrongestManInTheWorld Krillin being very close to Kami's power level.

* TheAce: He hunted down the majority of Piccolo's children and killed them all. Only one actually forced him to fall back on Chiaotzu's technique. A year later, he manages to defeat Haarp and Banjo. Despite both of them being stronger than him. He blasts Banjo out of the ring with a Kikoho, sending him flying off in the distance and uses the Mafuben to force Haarp to fall outside the ring. Despite only seeing Master Roshi doing it once before. He goes down the quickest of all the fighters against a disguised Kami, but after training for 3 years on Kami's lookout under Popo, he actually surpassed Kami and is the StrongestManOnEarth. He comes within a hairs breath of actually overpowering Raditz with his Kikoho and is the first along with Krillin to reach King Kai's planet.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Definitely where her attraction with Yamcha comes from, at least as far as physical powers and "bad boy looks" go.

[[caption-width-right:350:It's that fucking elektric rice cooker]]

* EnemyMine: With Kami in universe 3; realizing he's about to be killed if he doesn't fuse with Kami. They combine and become the nameless Namekian. Despite them both loathing each other. He only agreed to it if he where the dominant side of the fusion though.

* TheAce: Granted at one point they all where this in Dragonball, but Given that they eventually get invited to the multiverse tournament by the Vargas, who only pick the strongest people in the universe, they actually managed to become this outside of Earth as well. By the start of Z they have become the protectors of earth and Tien in particular has already surpassed Kami, making him the StrongestManOnEarth Krillin being very close to Kami's power level.

* ForWantOfANail: Everything started with Goku/Kakarot not arriving on Earth due to either Cooler killing him, Bardock overthrowing king Vegeta and canceling Kakarot's mission, or the Kaio's actually doing their job and taking out threats to the universe early. The abscence of Goku has led to enormous deviations over time.

* AdaptationalBadass: A given, the earthlings are all a lot stronger than they where in the manga at the start of Z, having received Korins training earlier and having trained under Popo gives Tien a power level of 406, Krillin 388 and Yamcha 365. Master Roshi is also stronger due to Krillin keeping him training as a sparring partner, with a power level of 315, he has actually surpassed Popo. They also fought King Piccolo head on and in general have a much more self-reliant attitude without Goku arround.

* TheAce: Granted at one point they all where this in Dragonball, but Given that they eventually get invited to the multiverse tournament by the Vargas, who only pick the strongest people in the universe, they actually managed to become this outside of Earth as well. By the start of Z they have become the protectors of earth and Tien in particular has already surpassed Kami, making him the * StrongestManOnEarth Krillin being very close to Kami's power level.

* AdaptationalBadass: He does quite a bit better here than he did when Goku was arround. He is trained by Gohan, puts up a good enough fight against "Jackie Chan", that the latter compliments him for it. (as opossed to u18 where he got blown out of the ring right away), actually fights against Piccolo's children (unlike u18, where he had a broken leg), trains under Korin, Popo and Kami way earlier, manages to defeat his masters killer (whereas u18 Yamcha lost at the time) and fight Raditz head on, surviving the whole battle and dealing him one of the deciding blows in the fight. By the time of the Vegeta Saga, he's more than three times stronger than he was in u18. (power level 4000) and is, for a while, the strongest being on earth.

* BigDamnHeroes: He shows up on his motorbike just in time to save Tien from surthen death against Raditz. He also regains consciousness at a critical point in the fight to help finish Raditz.

* {{Determinator}}: Goes after Raditz the moment he realizes Tien is in danger, catches up in time to save Tien, plans to sacrifice himself after Tiens death so Grandpa Gohan can escape, vows to kill Raditz after Gohan sacrifices himself, recovers from being knocked out just in time to drive his sword through Raditz. This guy did not stop fighting to protect the Earth and his friends.

* CantCatchUp: It's less pronounced than in u18. But it's still present. While he is immensely more powerfull here, he still falls a bit short: he dies against Piccolo, along with Gohan and Master Roshi, missing out on the rest of the fight. He is the only one who doesn't surpass Mr Popo in the timeskip.,Later when he dies again against Raditz. He's not strong enough to get to King Kai's planet on time to actually learn the kaioken and due to having already died twice, is left behind on King Kai's planet.

* CoolOldGuy: Just look at that cover

* WorldsStrongestMan: He was this in the past (among the humans), he has since lost this title, but he has kept up his traing again and is far stronger than he was before.

* HeroicSacrifice: Narrowly averted twice. The first time he uses the Mafuba to seal a young king Piccolo back into a container at the cost of his life force, Krillin gives him a senzu bean while he's in the process of dying and he recovers just in time to not die... Only to die immediately afterwards against Piccolo's children. The second time he considers sacrificing his life briefly to seal Raditz,arguing his life is not that important, but decides to trust in Krillin to finish off Raditz for the sake of future generations. The resulting fight leads to the death of Krillin, but Roshi's follow up attack freezes Raditz long enough for Yamcha and Kami to finish Raditz off. Roshi collapses from exhaustion just before the end of the fight but he recovers.

* SuperMode: His bulked up form is still something that has to be seen to be believed. He's somehow capable of perfectly controlling the size of his muscles. And he'll adjust them depending on who he's fighting.

* RetiredBadass: Averted, unlike universe 18, he actually comes out of retirement and resumes training. First as a sparring partner for Krillin, but then fully after the fight with Raditz. As of now he's fully active as a Z-fighter and training his ass off.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Mafuba, unlike in universe 18, he actually succeeds in sealing king Piccolo because Gohan is around to hold the cooker for him. He ends up surviving it too, thanks to Krillins intervention. Unlike in universe 18 where he died after failing to seal king Piccolo. As of now, in universe 9, Piccolo is still sealed in that cooker and it's unlikely he'll get out anytime soon.

* ForWantOfANail: Master Roshi deciding to take his students to Korins tower to train leads to king Piccolo reigning for a full year before eventually being defeated. He has used that time to make far more children than his counterpart in u18 did. As a result, Tien, Chiaotzu and eventually Krillin and Yamcha spend 2 years tracking his children down and killing them. Him succeeding in sealing king Piccolo instead of killing him like Goku did also causes Piccolo Jr to never be born. Instead his strongest 2 children strike a deal with Kami that he'll release their father if they win the tournament without killing anyone. Leading to the next budokai.

* TeenGenius: Just like in universe 18

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Definitely where her attraction with Yamcha comes from, at least as far as physcial prowers and "bad boy looks" go.

* ForWantOfANail: Getting sealed instead of killed like in u18 leads to Piccolo Jr never being born. The earthlings needing more time to defeat him leads to him reigning a year longer than he did in u 18. Which led to the creation of far more children, which led to the birth of Haarp, who would end up forming an "enemy mine" with the Z-warriors against the Saiyans and is just all around awesome. Also Bardock overtrhowing Vegeta leads to his rerelease when the Saiyans attack Earth en masse, leading to him fusing with Kami and becoming the dominant side in the original "Nameless Namekian". Starting his third reign of terror on Earth with no one strong enough to stop him and eventually getting invited to the multiverse tournament. Whereas Cooler shooting down Kakarot's space pod just leads to him sitting in his container forever.

* Irony: King Piccolo considered his son Haarp a disappointment for wanting to rule as a dictator instead of just destroying everything and terrorizing the populace. And urged him to be more like Xilophon. Another elite demon he spawned who layed waste to the southern capital. Xilophon would be dead 2 years later. Getting killed ofscreen by Tien and Chiaotzu. While Haarp would go on to not only become the strongest of Piccolo's children, but take the lead in an attempt to free his father. Actually survive said attempt, decide to retire to his dictatorship, casually killing heroes and being surrounded by the hottest women in the are for the next 5 years. He then gets killed by Raditz but makes a comeback when at the gates of judgment, using his wits and women to con Enma into letting him avoid Hell and go training on King Kai's planet. Learning the kaioken, one of the most powerfull and usefull techniques ever created and surpassing his father in power. He then gets wished back to life. For bonus points, he called a god a fat animal to his face. King Piccolo's disappointment has by far achieved the most out of all his children and is still around enjoying life while Piccolo sits inside a container waiting for Kami to die off old age.

[[caption-width-right:350:Your cowardice is shamefull human]]

* RefudgeInAudacity: At the gates of heaven and hell, about to receive judgement on his soul, does he beg for forgiveness? Does he scream in anger? Does he attempt to escape? No. He cons Enma by remaking his harem's bodies. Using them to seduce Enma by using his harem to seduce Yenma into giving him a "trial period" to redeem himself. Effectively escaping hell, getting a free trip to King Kai's planet, becoming far stronger than his father ever would have dreamed and essentially bribing his way back into the main plot and cast to become a main character. He later insults the god who taught him to his face, calling him a "fat animal" and then gets ressurected. Haarp is all around winning at life. And everything he does is just so crazy awesome he gets away with it.

* Irony: King Piccolo considered his son Haarp a disappointment for wanting to rule as a dictator instead of just destroying everything and terrorizing the populace. And urged him to be more like Xilophon. Another elite demon he spawned who laid waste to the southern capital. Xilophon would be dead 2 years later. Getting killed offscreen by Tien and Chiaotzu. While Haarp would go on to not only become the strongest of Piccolo's children, but take the lead in an attempt to free his father. Actually survive said attempt, decide to retire to his dictatorship, casually killing heroes and being surrounded by the hottest women in the are for the next 5 years. He then gets killed by Raditz but makes a comeback when at the gates of judgment, using his wits and women to con Enma into letting him avoid Hell and go training on King Kai's planet. Learning the kaioken, one of the most powerful and useful techniques ever created and surpassing his father in power. He then gets wished back to life. For bonus points, he called a god a fat animal to his face. King Piccolo's disappointment has by far achieved the most out of all his children and is still around enjoying life while Piccolo sits inside a container waiting for Kami to die off old age.

* Determinator: Goes after Raditz the moment he realizes Tien is in danger, catches up in time to save Tien, plans to sacrifice himself after Tiens death so Grandpa Gohan can escape, vows to kill Raditz after Gohan sacrifices himself, recovers from being knocked out just in time to drive his sword through Raditz. This guy did not stop fighting to protect the Earth and his friends.

* TheAce: He hunted down the majority of Piccolo's children and killed them all. Only one actually forced him to fall back on Chiaotzu's technique. A year later, he mangages to defeat Haarp and Banjo. Despite both of them being stronger than him. He blasts Banjo out of the ring with a Kikoho, sending him flying off in the distance and uses the Mafuben to force Haarp to fall outside the ring. Despite only seeing Master Roshi doing it once before. He goes down the quickest of all the fighters against a disquised Kami,but after training for 3 years on Kami's lookout under Popo, he actually surpassed Kami and is the * StrongestManOnEarth. He comes within a hairs breath of actually overpowering Raditz with his Kikoho and is the first along with Krillin to reach King Kai's planet.

* Can'tCatchUp: It's less pronounced than in u18. But it's still present. While he is immensely more powerfull here, he still falls a bit short: he dies against Piccolo, along with Gohan and Master Roshi, missing out on the rest of the fight. He is the only one who doesn't surpass Mr Popo in the timeskip.,Later when he dies again against Raditz. He's not strong enough to get to King Kai's planet on time to actually learn the kaioken and due to having already died twice, is left behind on King Kai's planet.

* DangerousForbiddenTEchnique: The Mafuba, unlike in universe 18, he actually succeeds in sealing king Piccolo because Gohan is around to hold the cooker for him. He ends up surviving it too, thanks to Krillins intervention. Unlike in universe 18 where he died after failing to seal king Piccolo. As of now, in universe 9, Piccolo is still sealed in that cooker and it's unlikely he'll get out anytime soon.

* For want of a nail: Master Roshi deciding to take his students to Korins tower to train leads to king Piccolo reigning for a full year before eventually being defeated. He has used that time to make far more children than his counterpart in u18 did. As a result, Tien, Chiaotzu and eventually Krillin and Yamcha spend 2 years tracking his children down and killing them. Him succeeding in sealing king Piccolo instead of killing him like Goku did also causes Piccolo Jr to never be born. Instead his strongest 2 children strike a deal with Kami that he'll release their father if they win the tournament without killing anyone. Leading to the next budokai.

* ForWantOfANail: Getting sealed instead of killed like in u18 leads to Piccolo Jr never being born. The earthlings needing more time to defeat him leads to him reigning a year longer than he did in u 18. Which led to the creation of far more children, which led to the birth of Haarp, who would end up forming an "enemy mine" with the Z-warriors against the Saiyans and is just all around awesome. Also Bardock overtrhowing Vegeta leads to his rerelease when the Saiyans attack Earth en masse, leading to him fusing with Kami and becoming the dominant side in the original "Nameless Namekian". Starting his third reigh of terror on Earth with no one strong enough to stop him and eventually getting invited to the multiverse tournament. Whereas Cooler shooting down Kakarot's space pod just leads to him sitting in his container forever.

* Irony: King Piccolo considered his son Haarp a dissapointment for wanting to rule as a dictator instead of just destroying everything and terrorizing the populace. And urged him to be more like Xilophon. Another elite demon he spawned who layed waste to the southern capital. Xilophon would be dead 2 years later. Getting killed ofscreen by Tien and Chiaotzu. While Haarp would go on to not only become the strongest of Piccolo's children, but take the lead in an attempt to free his father. Actually survive said attempt, decide to retire to his dictatorship, casually killing heroes and being surrounded by the hottest women in the are for the next 5 years. He then gets killed by Raditz but makes a comeback when at the gates of judgment, using his wits and women to con Enma into letting him avoid Hell and go training on King Kai's planet. Learning the kaioken, one of the most powerfull and usefull techniques ever created and surpassing his father in power. He then gets wished back to life. For bonus points, he called a god a fat animal to his face. King Piccolo's dissapointment has by far achieved the most out of all his children and is still around enjoying life while Piccolo sits inside a container waiting for Kami to die off old age.

* WeakButSkilled: Weak may be stretching it, but he mentions at the world martial arts tournament that while he lacks the raw power of his predecessor (Piccolo) his techniques are far superior, allowing him to become the strongest by far of Piccolo's children. After training with King Kai, one can't even call him weak anymore and he's more *StrongAndSkilled.

* Irony: King Piccolo considered his son Haarp a dissapointment for wanting to rule as a dictator instead of just destroying everything and terrorizing the populace. And urged him to be more like Xilophon. Another elite demon he spawned who layed waste to the southern capital. Xilophon would be dead 2 years later. Getting killed ofscreen by Tien and Chiaotzu. While Haarp would go on to not only become the strongest of Piccolo's children, but take the lead in an attempt to free his father. Actually survive said attempt, decide to retire to his dictatorship, casually killing heroes and being surrounded by the hottest women in the are for the next 5 years. He then gets killed by Raditz but makes a comeback when at the gates of judgment, using his wits and women to con Enma into letting him avoid Hell and go training on King Kai's planet. Learning the kaioken, one of the most powerfull and usefull techniques ever created and surpassing his father in power. He then gets wished back to life. For bonus points, he called a god a fat animal to his face. King Piccolo's dissapointment has by far achieved the most out of all his children and is still around enjoying life while Piccolo sits inside a container waiting for Kami to die off old age.

* TheDogBitesBack: Piccolo constantly telling him he's a dissapointment and not acknowlidging his accomplishments leads to Haarp deciding to let bygones be bygones instead of fighting all of Earths warriors at once. This leads to Haarps survival and thriving future while Piccolo stays stuck inside his rice cooker.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Definitely where her attraction with Yamcha comes from, at least as far as physcial prowers and "bad boy looks" go.

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* For want of a nail: Master Roshi deciding to take his students to Korins tower to train leads to king Piccolo reigning for a full year before eventually being defeated. He has used that time to make far more children than his counterpart in u18 did. As a result, Tien, Chiaotzu and eventually Krillin and Yamcha spend 2 years tracking his children down and killing them. Him succeeding in sealing king Piccolo instead of killing him like Goku did also causes Piccolo Jr to never be born. Instead his strongest 2 children strike a deal with Kami that he'll release their father if they win the tournament without killing anyone. Leading to the next budokai.

* ForWantOfANail: Everything started with GOku/Kakarot not arriving on Earth due to either Cooler killing him, Bardock overthrowing king Vegeta and canceling Kakarot's mission, or the Kaio's actually doing their job and taking out threats to the universe early. The abscence of Goku has led to enormous deviations over time.

* SuperMode: His bulked up form is still something that has to be seen to be believed. He's somehow capable of perfectly controlling the size of his muscles. And he'll adjust them depending on who he's fighting.