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* ActionGirl:
** Chi Chi
** And Bulma.
* AdaptationalBadass: Mai. In the cartoons she was an IneffectualSympatheticVillain, while in the film she's much more efficient [[spoiler: even if she does end up being a total AntiClimaxBoss]] and also [[AdaptationalVillainy much more evil]].
** Chi Chi
** And Bulma.
* AdaptationalBadass: Mai. In the cartoons she was an IneffectualSympatheticVillain, while in the film she's much more efficient [[spoiler: even if she does end up being a total AntiClimaxBoss]] and also [[AdaptationalVillainy much more evil]].
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* ActionGirl:
**ActionGirl: Chi Chi
** And Bulma.
Chi and Bulma, though the latter is a FauxActionGirl when it comes to her gun.
* AdaptationalBadass: Mai. In the cartoons she was an IneffectualSympatheticVillain, while in the film she's much more efficient[[spoiler: ([[spoiler: even if she does end up being a total AntiClimaxBoss]] AntiClimaxBoss]]) and also [[AdaptationalVillainy much more evil]].
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** And Bulma.
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** In the only tournament fight shown, Chi Chi is fighting Mai. These are, most likely, the only two female participants.
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** In the only tournament fight shown, Chi Chi is fighting Mai. These are, most likely, the only two female participants. They later fight again, when Mai has taken Chi Chi's form.
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* OvershadowedByAwesome: In lieu of Krillin, Yamcha and Bulma
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* OvershadowedByAwesome: In lieu of Krillin, Yamcha and BulmaBulma.
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* SwissArmySuperpower: The Kamehameha Wave, for some reason. In the source material it was purely an attack move, but in the movie we see it light and extinguish fires, and even heal a person from near death.
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** Oddly enough, the Kamehameha Wave itself. In the series the wave was an extremely powerful energy attack limite donly by the user's power, but that was it. In the movie the wave can do basically anything. It's shown putting out and lighting fires, as well as somehow healing a character from near death.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: 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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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Very much averted, 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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* AscendedFanboy: James Marsters referred to the anime as "the coolest television cartoon in the last 50,000 years."
** This is a unique case. Marsters watched the anime ''after'' getting the role of Piccolo in order the study the character.
** This is a unique case. Marsters watched the anime ''after'' getting the role of Piccolo in order the study the character.
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* InNameOnly: DBE has ''some'' elements in common with the original manga. Our hero Goku and a girl named Bulma are in search of the seven [[MacGuffin Dragon Balls]]... And that's pretty much it. Goku went from a twelve-year old [[ChasteHero Chaste]] {{Pollyanna}} {{Wild Child}} to a sixteen-year old negative High-Schooler who wants to get with a girl. He learns the Kamehameha waaay too late, and is too serious to even be considered the same character. Not to mention the fact that Kuririn, a highly important character in the original, was cut out (While [[FunnyAnimal Oolong and Puar]] may be understandable.) Bulma and [[AscendedExtra Mai]] go the other way and {{Took a Level in Badass}}.It has to be seen to be believed.
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* InNameOnly: DBE The movie has ''some'' elements in common with the original manga. Our hero manga, such as the presence of Goku and a girl named Bulma who are in search of the seven [[MacGuffin Dragon Balls]]... And that's pretty much it. Balls]]. But nearly everything else is heavily modified from the original canon. Goku went from a twelve-year old [[ChasteHero Chaste]] {{Pollyanna}} {{Wild Child}} WildChild to a sixteen-year old negative High-Schooler who wants to get with a girl. He learns the Kamehameha waaay too late, and is too serious to even be considered the same character. Not to mention the fact that Kuririn, Amd Krillin, a highly important character in the original, was cut out (While [[FunnyAnimal Oolong and Puar]] may be understandable.) understandable). Bulma and [[AscendedExtra Mai]] go the other way and {{Took a Level in Badass}}.TookALevelInBadass. It has to be seen to be believed.was declared CanonDiscontinuity by Toriyama.
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* InNameOnly: DBE has ''some'' elements in common with the original manga. Our hero Goku and a girl named Bulma are in search of the seven [[MacGuffin Dragon Balls]]... And that's pretty much it. Goku went from a twelve-year old [[ChasteHero Chaste]] {{Pollyanna}} {{Wild Child}} to a sixteen-year old negative High-Schooler who wants to get with a girl. He learns the Kamehameha waaay too late, and is too serious to even be considered the same character. Not to mention the fact that Kuririn, a highly important character in the original, was cut out (While [[FunnyAnimal Oolong and Puar]] may be understandable.) Bulma and [[AscendedExtra Mai]] go the other way and {{Took a Level in Badass}}.It has to be seen to be believed.
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** While a lot of details of the story are basically unfilmable in a mainstream live-action film, the fact that the story changes characters personalities so wildly is one of the things that keeps it from being accepted. Adaptations of american comic books change details often to make the story flow better (such as the Spider-Man movies making his transformation a result of genetic engineering, as opposed to radiation), but the personalities and motivations of the characters are kept largely consistent.
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** Which is a complete 180 to the source material, where Goku cares only about fighting and can barely comprehend the fact that he's engaged to Chi Chi without her sitting him down and explaining it to him.
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* ActionGirl: Chi Chi
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* ActionGirl: ActionGirl:
** Chi Chi
** Chi Chi
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* AdaptationalBadass: Mai. In the cartoons she was an IneffectualSympatheticVillain, while in the film she's much more efficient [[spoiler: even if she does end up being a total AntiClimaxBoss]] and also [[AdaptationalVillainy much more evil]].
* AdaptationalWimp: Goku. In the cartoon he was a OneManArmy who was bulletproof, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, and could easily outfight a tank. In the film, he's... well, not. He also has problems with the Kamehameha, a move he figured out after seeing it used one time in the cartoon, but which takes him all of the movie to get the hang of.
* AdaptationalWimp: Goku. In the cartoon he was a OneManArmy who was bulletproof, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, and could easily outfight a tank. In the film, he's... well, not. He also has problems with the Kamehameha, a move he figured out after seeing it used one time in the cartoon, but which takes him all of the movie to get the hang of.
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Overall, it wasn't received very well, being generally panned by critics and seen by most ''Dragon Ball'' fans as a prominent example of AdaptationDecay. ''Dragon Ball'''s creator, Creator/AkiraToriyama, also expressed some frustration with the final result, feeling that his input had been ignored by the producers, and told ''Dragon Balls'' fans to regard the film as an AlternateUniverse. According to TheOtherWiki, the movie grossed $30 million worldwide on its opening weekend, not quite covering its (variously reported) $30 million to $100 million budget.
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Overall, it wasn't received very well, being generally panned by critics and seen by most ''Dragon Ball'' fans as a prominent example of AdaptationDecay. ''Dragon Ball'''s creator, Creator/AkiraToriyama, also expressed some frustration with the final result, feeling that his input had been ignored by the producers, and told ''Dragon Balls'' Ball'' fans to regard the film as an AlternateUniverse. According to TheOtherWiki, the movie grossed $30 million worldwide on its opening weekend, not quite covering its (variously reported) $30 million to $100 million budget.
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I think enough time has passed to do some post mortem.
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Overall, it wasn't received very well, being generally panned by critics and seen by most ''Dragon Ball'' fans as a prominent example of AdaptationDecay. ''Dragon Ball'''s creator, Creator/AkiraToriyama, also expressed some frustration with the final result, feeling that his input had been ignored by the producers, and told ''Dragon Balls'' fans to regard the film as an AlternateUniverse. According to TheOtherWiki, the movie grossed $30 million worldwide on its opening weekend, not quite covering its (variously reported) $30 million to $100 million budget.
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Not to be Confused with ''DragonBallTheMagicBegins'' or ''DragonBallFightForVictorySonGoku''.
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Not to be Confused with ''DragonBallTheMagicBegins'' ''Film/DragonBallTheMagicBegins'' or ''DragonBallFightForVictorySonGoku''.''Film/DragonBallFightForVictorySonGoku''.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: Let's face it, the original DragonBall manga and anime would be just too damn ''weird'' to make into an American film.
** Though that's something like FridgeLogic since the Dragonball anime -has- been shown in the US for quite some time. While one could say that it might be too goofy for the mainstream (though there are goofy movies like ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' or ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' that made it to the mainstream), the '''only''' reason one would make a DB movie (as opposed to some other non-branded martial arts flick) would be to cash in on the name recognition.
** Though that's something like FridgeLogic since the Dragonball anime -has- been shown in the US for quite some time. While one could say that it might be too goofy for the mainstream (though there are goofy movies like ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' or ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' that made it to the mainstream), the '''only''' reason one would make a DB movie (as opposed to some other non-branded martial arts flick) would be to cash in on the name recognition.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: Let's face it, the original DragonBall ''Dragon Ball'' manga and anime would be just too damn ''weird'' to make into an American film.
** Though that's something like FridgeLogic since theDragonball ''Dragon Ball'' anime -has- been shown in the US for quite some time. While one could say that it might be too goofy for the mainstream (though there are goofy movies like ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' or ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' that made it to the mainstream), the '''only''' reason one would make a DB movie (as opposed to some other non-branded martial arts flick) would be to cash in on the name recognition.
** Though that's something like FridgeLogic since the
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** There's also the fact that the original DragonBall anime and manga were very "animated", and wouldn't work too well in live action. Doing an animated film of some kind would've worked much better. The series itself had been very popular in the US for almost a decade beforehand, though doing a film while the series was popular would've been a better idea (it was past it's prime in 2008).
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** There's also the fact that the original DragonBall ''Dragon Ball'' anime and manga were very "animated", and wouldn't work too well in live action. Doing an animated film of some kind would've worked much better. The series itself had been very popular in the US for almost a decade beforehand, though doing a film while the series was popular would've been a better idea (it was past it's prime in 2008).
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* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: 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]].
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* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: Goku and the gang must acquire all the Dragonballs before an upcoming solar eclipse, when Oozaru will return and joins join Piccolo. When said eclipse appears, [[spoiler: Goku transforms into Oozaru]].
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: The movie ends with [[spoiler:the main characters heading off to look for the dragon balls again.]]
* 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.]]
* 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.]]
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: The movie ends with [[spoiler:the main characters heading off to look for the dragon balls Dragon Balls again.]]
* AntiClimax: Piccolo creates several creatures to fight the heroes.[[spoiler: It [[spoiler:It takes the heroes about 10 seconds to defeat them. Then, Mai shows up. She takes another 3 seconds.]]
* AntiClimax: Piccolo creates several creatures to fight the heroes.
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** This is a unique case. Marsters watched the anime ''after'' getting the role of Piccolo in order the study the character.
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* AsianGalWithWhiteGuy: Goku and Chi Chi. [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender inverted]] by Bulma and Yamcha.
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* ShoutOut: There are actually a TON of references to the original series including (but no limited to):
** Goku makes mention of a race called "Nameks"
** Gohan finding Goku in a crater
** Goku eating a large chunk of meat off the bone
** Piccolo's ship looks like one often used by Emperor Pilaf
** Goku being forced to train while wearing a large, heavy backpack
** Piccolo giving life to creatures from his own body
** Chi Chi's house resembling a giant castle
** The World Martial Arts Tournament
** Roshi's collection of porn
** Goku's bike resembles the one Gohan rides in the opening to several episodes after the Cell saga
** Speaking of, Goku's entire high school schtick early in the film resembles Gohan's Saiyaman arc in the anime.
** Roshi's (mildly) pervy behavior
** Roshi's terrible hawaiian shirts
** The jar Roshi attempts (and fails) to seal Piccolo in
** The Wish [[spoiler: being used to revive Master Roshi]]
** Bulma's capsule cars
** Goku's hair: while preparing for the party (where he confronted the bullies), he spends some time styling it only to have it snap back into exactly its normal form, complete with sound effect.
** 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.
** Goku makes mention of a race called "Nameks"
** Gohan finding Goku in a crater
** Goku eating a large chunk of meat off the bone
** Piccolo's ship looks like one often used by Emperor Pilaf
** Goku being forced to train while wearing a large, heavy backpack
** Piccolo giving life to creatures from his own body
** Chi Chi's house resembling a giant castle
** The World Martial Arts Tournament
** Roshi's collection of porn
** Goku's bike resembles the one Gohan rides in the opening to several episodes after the Cell saga
** Speaking of, Goku's entire high school schtick early in the film resembles Gohan's Saiyaman arc in the anime.
** Roshi's (mildly) pervy behavior
** Roshi's terrible hawaiian shirts
** The jar Roshi attempts (and fails) to seal Piccolo in
** The Wish [[spoiler: being used to revive Master Roshi]]
** Bulma's capsule cars
** Goku's hair: while preparing for the party (where he confronted the bullies), he spends some time styling it only to have it snap back into exactly its normal form, complete with sound effect.
** 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.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** The Dragonballs have the added ability to [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings make Goku see horrible things if he touches them.]] For bonus points, the old master (Roshi) wraps it in cloth to prevent this.
** There are actually a TON of references to the original series including (but no limited to):
** *** Goku makes mention of a race called "Nameks"
** *** Gohan finding Goku in a crater
** *** Goku eating a large chunk of meat off the bone
** Piccolo's ship looks like one often used by Emperor Pilaf
***** Goku being forced to train while wearing a large, heavy backpack
** Piccolo giving life to creatures from his own body
** Chi Chi's house resembling a giant castle
** The World Martial Arts Tournament
** Roshi's collection of porn
***** Goku's bike resembles the one Gohan rides in the opening to several episodes after the Cell saga
** *** Speaking of, Goku's entire high school schtick early in the film resembles Gohan's Saiyaman arc in the anime.
** Roshi's (mildly) pervy behavior
** Roshi's terrible hawaiian shirts
** The jar Roshi attempts (and fails) to seal Piccolo in
** The Wish [[spoiler: being used to revive Master Roshi]]
** Bulma's capsule cars
***** Goku's hair: while preparing for the party (where he confronted the bullies), he spends some time styling it only to have it snap back into exactly its normal form, complete with sound effect.
** *** Piccolo's ship looks like one often used by Emperor Pilaf
*** Piccolo giving life to creatures from his own body
*** The World Martial Arts Tournament
*** Roshi's collection of porn
*** Roshi's (mildly) pervy behavior
*** Roshi's terrible hawaiian shirts
*** The jar Roshi attempts (and fails) to seal Piccolo in
*** The Wish [[spoiler: being used to revive Master Roshi]]
*** Bulma's capsule cars
*** Chi Chi's house resembling a giant castle
*** 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.
** The Dragonballs have the added ability to [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings make Goku see horrible things if he touches them.]] For bonus points, the old master (Roshi) wraps it in cloth to prevent this.
** There are actually a TON of references to the original series including (but no limited to):
**
** Chi Chi's house resembling a giant castle
** The World Martial Arts Tournament
** Roshi's collection of porn
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** Roshi's terrible hawaiian shirts
** The jar Roshi attempts (and fails) to seal Piccolo in
** The Wish [[spoiler: being used to revive Master Roshi]]
** Bulma's capsule cars
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*** Piccolo giving life to creatures from his own body
*** The World Martial Arts Tournament
*** Roshi's collection of porn
*** Roshi's (mildly) pervy behavior
*** Roshi's terrible hawaiian shirts
*** The jar Roshi attempts (and fails) to seal Piccolo in
*** The Wish [[spoiler: being used to revive Master Roshi]]
*** Bulma's capsule cars
*** Chi Chi's house resembling a giant castle
*** 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.
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* DeadPersonConversation: [[spoiler: Goku has a conversation with his grandfather after Mai shoots him with a ray gun and leaves him near-death.
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* DeadPersonConversation: [[spoiler: Goku has a conversation with his grandfather after Mai shoots him with a ray gun and leaves him near-death.]]
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* ShallowLoveInterest: Possibly Chi Chi for Goku and definitely Yamcha for Bulma.
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Misuse of YMMV trope. It\'s about fan reactions to changes, not for you to say that it does suck.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Where do you even begin detailing everything they changed?
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** Mai uses a character's blood in a spell to mimic him or her.
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** Mai uses steals a character's sample of Chi-Chi's blood in a spell to mimic him or her.take her form.
* DeadPersonConversation: [[spoiler: Goku has a conversation with his grandfather after Mai shoots him with a ray gun and leaves him near-death.
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* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler: The last shot of the film shows us that [[BigBad Piccolo]] has survived Goku's attack and is now being nursed back to health by a woman, for who all we know could be Mai in another guise.]]
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* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler: The last shot of the film shows us that [[BigBad Piccolo]] has survived Goku's attack and is now being nursed back to health by a woman, for who all we know could be Mai woman who's life he spared earlier in another guise.the film.]]
* FightingFromTheInside: After being transformed into Oozaru, Roshi, with his dying breath, manages to get through to Goku and get him to change back to his old self.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: When Chi Chi reveals that she knows of the existence of ki and states that her name doesn't mean she's an idiot, Goku proceeds to embarass himself this way.
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* SpotTheImposter: Goku had to do this when Mai disguised as Chi-Chi fights the Real Chi-Chi. It didn't go too well.
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* SpotTheImposter: Goku had to do this when Mai disguised as Chi-Chi fights the Real Chi-Chi. It didn't go too well.He ends up knocking the real Chi-Chi out and only realizes his mistake when he sees the cut on her arm that Mai had inflicted on her during their earlier match.
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On the wikipedia article — and it gives a source — it\'s been listed as having a $30 mill. budget for a while, so...
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* WordSaladTitle: ''Dragonball '''Evolution'''''. ItMakesSenseInContext as being either an adaption or RuleOfCool.
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An American LiveActionAdaptation of ''Manga/DragonBall''. The trailer can be viewed [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo4t8PeqJ6E&fmt=18 here]].
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.
According to TheOtherWiki, the movie grossed $30 million worldwide on its opening weekend, not covering its (variously reported) $45 million to $100 million budget.
Has a tie-in video game.
Not to be Confused with ''DragonBallTheMagicBegins'' or ''DragonBallFightForVictorySonGoku''.
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!!This movie provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Chi Chi
* AlternateDVDCommentary: A [[{{Rifftrax}} riff]] provided by [=TeamFourStar=] of the ''WebVideo/DragonBallAbridged'' series.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: The movie ends with [[spoiler:the main characters heading off to look for the dragon balls again.]]
* 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.]]
* AscendedExtra: Mai was originally just a minor character who was a henchwoman to second-rate villain Pilaf. She also becomes an AdaptationalBadass.
* AscendedFanboy: James Marsters referred to the anime as "the coolest television cartoon in the last 50,000 years."
* AsianGalWithWhiteGuy: Goku and Chi Chi. [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender inverted]] by Bulma and Yamcha.
* BadassGrandpa: Gohan.
* BadassNormal: Yamcha and Bulma, though they do almost nothing of consequence compared to Goku.
* BeamOWar: Sort of.
* BetaCouple: Yamcha and Bulma.
* BloodMagic
** Piccolo creates creatures from his blood.
** Mai uses a character's blood in a spell to mimic him or her.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Poor Grandpa Gohan.
* CleavageWindow: Although Mai mostly has adequate protective gear, she leaves her chest unprotected. [[FanService Huh.]]
* CompositeCharacter: Goku and Chi-Chi could just as well have been called Gohan and Videl.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Goku ''hops across'' a lava flow by using Mook bodies as stepping stones.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Goku's]] MadeOfIron [[FridgeBrilliance though.]]
* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: Mai is chasing Bulma and about to deal a killing blow when [[spoiler: Yamcha shoots her from behind]]. A deleted, alternate version of that scene actually has her [[spoiler: impaled by shrapnel, but still taken out by Yamcha]].
* [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday Dangerous Eighteenth Birthday]]
* DeadlyDodging: 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.
* DeadpanSnarker: Bulma
* DesignatedGirlFight
** In the only tournament fight shown, Chi Chi is fighting Mai. These are, most likely, the only two female participants.
** During the final battle, Bulma must fight Mai alone for the Dragon Ball.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Goku takes on Piccolo, [[InformedAbility who is hyped all movie long as an extremely powerful badass]]. [[AntiClimax He isn't]].
* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped A House On Him]]: The sad fate of [[spoiler:Gohan]].
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler: The last shot of the film shows us that [[BigBad Piccolo]] has survived Goku's attack and is now being nursed back to health by a woman, for who all we know could be Mai in another guise.]]
* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: Most of the bullies use the usual assortment of [[GoodOldFisticuffs 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.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: True to the source material, Oozaru is a giant monkey.
* FirstGirlWins: Chi Chi for Goku.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Goku is choleric, Yamcha is sanguine, Roshi is melancholic and Bulma is phlegmatic.
* GratuitousJapanese: Mai has a scene that's all in (subtitled) Japanese.
* GunsAkimbo: Bulma. Shame she [[ATeamFiring misses]] [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy everything]] [[FauxActionGirl she shoots at]].
** ImprobableAimingSkills cutting both ways?
* HighSchoolAU: No, seriously.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: At the beginning, Goku cares more about dealing with bullies and getting with Chi Chi than with his kung fu-ing.
* InvisibleToNormals: Ki attacks
* ISurrenderSuckers: Bulma tries this with Mai.
* JerkJock: One of the guys who bullies Goku at school.
* KamehameHadoken
* KidsAreCruel: The JerkJock tries to run Goku down with his car.
* LargeHam: Master Roshi and Piccolo.
* LittleMissBadass: Chi Chi
* MoneyDearBoy: See HamAndCheese.
* NecessaryDrawback: Roshi tries to seal Piccolo again, even though it sucks out his life force. [[SenselessSacrifice It doesn't work]].
* NoSell: When Mai takes on Goku, she lands a solid punch to his face. Goku [[MadeOfIron doesn't seem to notice]].
* NotWhatItLooksLike: All Goku can say when Roshi catches him in his house.
* NotScreenedForCritics: Both American and Japanese.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: In lieu of Krillin, Yamcha and Bulma
* PlotInducedStupidity: Piccolo is shown crushing a ''house'' with his mind. Later, when a Dragon Ball rolls out of his grasp, why doesn't he mind-grab it?
** It also doesn't make any sense as to why he dropped a house on Gohan instead of questioning him about the Dragon Ball.
*** Well, maybe he figured Gohan wouldn't have told him anything.
%% Please see the discussion page before another round of deleted and replace for PragmaticAdaptation -- FastEddie
* PragmaticAdaptation: Let's face it, the original DragonBall manga and anime would be just too damn ''weird'' to make into an American film.
** Though that's something like FridgeLogic since the Dragonball anime -has- been shown in the US for quite some time. While one could say that it might be too goofy for the mainstream (though there are goofy movies like ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' or ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' that made it to the mainstream), the '''only''' reason one would make a DB movie (as opposed to some other non-branded martial arts flick) would be to cash in on the name recognition.
** Roshi in particular played up his "goofy mentor" role and played down his "perverted old man" personality. He still has his porn stash and managed a PG rated feel-up on Bulma, but requesting a PantyShot would be a bit too much.
*** Observant tropers may have noticed his t-shirt, with a sexy anime girl in it.
* RaceLift: In the original, everyone was [[{{Mukokuseki}} vaguely Japanese]]. In this movie, the two leads are white and everyone else is Asian.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Goku's kept changing color [[spoiler: after his transformations into Oozaru form]].
* TheReveal: It's no real shocker to those who are DB fans [[spoiler: but Goku and Oozaru are one and the same]].
* SchizoTech
* SealedEvilInACan: Piccolo is originally bound up in a jar, but escapes offscreen. Subverted, sort of, when Roshi later tries to trap him again, Piccolo fights his way out.
* SequelHook: See AndTheAdventureContinues and TheEndOrIsIt
* ShallowLoveInterest: Possibly Chi Chi for Goku and definitely Yamcha for Bulma.
* ShoutOut: There are actually a TON of references to the original series including (but no limited to):
** Goku makes mention of a race called "Nameks"
** Gohan finding Goku in a crater
** Goku eating a large chunk of meat off the bone
** Piccolo's ship looks like one often used by Emperor Pilaf
** Goku being forced to train while wearing a large, heavy backpack
** Piccolo giving life to creatures from his own body
** Chi Chi's house resembling a giant castle
** The World Martial Arts Tournament
** Roshi's collection of porn
** Goku's bike resembles the one Gohan rides in the opening to several episodes after the Cell saga
** Speaking of, Goku's entire high school schtick early in the film resembles Gohan's Saiyaman arc in the anime.
** Roshi's (mildly) pervy behavior
** Roshi's terrible hawaiian shirts
** The jar Roshi attempts (and fails) to seal Piccolo in
** The Wish [[spoiler: being used to revive Master Roshi]]
** Bulma's capsule cars
** Goku's hair: while preparing for the party (where he confronted the bullies), he spends some time styling it only to have it snap back into exactly its normal form, complete with sound effect.
** 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.
* SpotTheImposter: Goku had to do this when Mai disguised as Chi-Chi fights the Real Chi-Chi. It didn't go too well.
* StockScream: of the Wilhelm variety.
* StockSubtitle: "Evolution".
* StockFootage: [[FreezeFrameBonus Paying close attention]] during Goku's "premonitions" whenever he acquires a Dragon Ball reveals that the movie uses a fair amount of stock footage. Examples include {{Film/Armageddon}} and Film/IndependenceDay.
* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: 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]].
* TournamentArc: 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.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: The first chunk of the movie is focused on Goku's conflicts with school bullies. If your name was Goku and you lived way the hell outside the rest of the city with some creepy old dude who told you stories about aliens called Nameks, you'd get picked on too.
* WordSaladTitle: ''Dragonball '''Evolution'''''. ItMakesSenseInContext as being either an adaption or RuleOfCool.
** Actually no, there's no real justification for the "Evolution" subtitle
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: 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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An American LiveActionAdaptation of ''Manga/DragonBall''. The trailer can be viewed [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo4t8PeqJ6E&fmt=18 here]].
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.
According to TheOtherWiki, the movie grossed $30 million worldwide on its opening weekend, not covering its (variously reported) $45 million to $100 million budget.
Has a tie-in video game.
Not to be Confused with ''DragonBallTheMagicBegins'' or ''DragonBallFightForVictorySonGoku''.
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!!This movie provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Chi Chi
* AlternateDVDCommentary: A [[{{Rifftrax}} riff]] provided by [=TeamFourStar=] of the ''WebVideo/DragonBallAbridged'' series.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: The movie ends with [[spoiler:the main characters heading off to look for the dragon balls again.]]
* 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.]]
* AscendedExtra: Mai was originally just a minor character who was a henchwoman to second-rate villain Pilaf. She also becomes an AdaptationalBadass.
* AscendedFanboy: James Marsters referred to the anime as "the coolest television cartoon in the last 50,000 years."
* AsianGalWithWhiteGuy: Goku and Chi Chi. [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender inverted]] by Bulma and Yamcha.
* BadassGrandpa: Gohan.
* BadassNormal: Yamcha and Bulma, though they do almost nothing of consequence compared to Goku.
* BeamOWar: Sort of.
* BetaCouple: Yamcha and Bulma.
* BloodMagic
** Piccolo creates creatures from his blood.
** Mai uses a character's blood in a spell to mimic him or her.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Poor Grandpa Gohan.
* CleavageWindow: Although Mai mostly has adequate protective gear, she leaves her chest unprotected. [[FanService Huh.]]
* CompositeCharacter: Goku and Chi-Chi could just as well have been called Gohan and Videl.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Goku ''hops across'' a lava flow by using Mook bodies as stepping stones.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Goku's]] MadeOfIron [[FridgeBrilliance though.]]
* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: Mai is chasing Bulma and about to deal a killing blow when [[spoiler: Yamcha shoots her from behind]]. A deleted, alternate version of that scene actually has her [[spoiler: impaled by shrapnel, but still taken out by Yamcha]].
* [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday Dangerous Eighteenth Birthday]]
* DeadlyDodging: 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.
* DeadpanSnarker: Bulma
* DesignatedGirlFight
** In the only tournament fight shown, Chi Chi is fighting Mai. These are, most likely, the only two female participants.
** During the final battle, Bulma must fight Mai alone for the Dragon Ball.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Goku takes on Piccolo, [[InformedAbility who is hyped all movie long as an extremely powerful badass]]. [[AntiClimax He isn't]].
* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped A House On Him]]: The sad fate of [[spoiler:Gohan]].
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler: The last shot of the film shows us that [[BigBad Piccolo]] has survived Goku's attack and is now being nursed back to health by a woman, for who all we know could be Mai in another guise.]]
* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: Most of the bullies use the usual assortment of [[GoodOldFisticuffs 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.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: True to the source material, Oozaru is a giant monkey.
* FirstGirlWins: Chi Chi for Goku.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Goku is choleric, Yamcha is sanguine, Roshi is melancholic and Bulma is phlegmatic.
* GratuitousJapanese: Mai has a scene that's all in (subtitled) Japanese.
* GunsAkimbo: Bulma. Shame she [[ATeamFiring misses]] [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy everything]] [[FauxActionGirl she shoots at]].
** ImprobableAimingSkills cutting both ways?
* HighSchoolAU: No, seriously.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: At the beginning, Goku cares more about dealing with bullies and getting with Chi Chi than with his kung fu-ing.
* InvisibleToNormals: Ki attacks
* ISurrenderSuckers: Bulma tries this with Mai.
* JerkJock: One of the guys who bullies Goku at school.
* KamehameHadoken
* KidsAreCruel: The JerkJock tries to run Goku down with his car.
* LargeHam: Master Roshi and Piccolo.
* LittleMissBadass: Chi Chi
* MoneyDearBoy: See HamAndCheese.
* NecessaryDrawback: Roshi tries to seal Piccolo again, even though it sucks out his life force. [[SenselessSacrifice It doesn't work]].
* NoSell: When Mai takes on Goku, she lands a solid punch to his face. Goku [[MadeOfIron doesn't seem to notice]].
* NotWhatItLooksLike: All Goku can say when Roshi catches him in his house.
* NotScreenedForCritics: Both American and Japanese.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: In lieu of Krillin, Yamcha and Bulma
* PlotInducedStupidity: Piccolo is shown crushing a ''house'' with his mind. Later, when a Dragon Ball rolls out of his grasp, why doesn't he mind-grab it?
** It also doesn't make any sense as to why he dropped a house on Gohan instead of questioning him about the Dragon Ball.
*** Well, maybe he figured Gohan wouldn't have told him anything.
%% Please see the discussion page before another round of deleted and replace for PragmaticAdaptation -- FastEddie
* PragmaticAdaptation: Let's face it, the original DragonBall manga and anime would be just too damn ''weird'' to make into an American film.
** Though that's something like FridgeLogic since the Dragonball anime -has- been shown in the US for quite some time. While one could say that it might be too goofy for the mainstream (though there are goofy movies like ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' or ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' that made it to the mainstream), the '''only''' reason one would make a DB movie (as opposed to some other non-branded martial arts flick) would be to cash in on the name recognition.
** Roshi in particular played up his "goofy mentor" role and played down his "perverted old man" personality. He still has his porn stash and managed a PG rated feel-up on Bulma, but requesting a PantyShot would be a bit too much.
*** Observant tropers may have noticed his t-shirt, with a sexy anime girl in it.
* RaceLift: In the original, everyone was [[{{Mukokuseki}} vaguely Japanese]]. In this movie, the two leads are white and everyone else is Asian.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Goku's kept changing color [[spoiler: after his transformations into Oozaru form]].
* TheReveal: It's no real shocker to those who are DB fans [[spoiler: but Goku and Oozaru are one and the same]].
* SchizoTech
* SealedEvilInACan: Piccolo is originally bound up in a jar, but escapes offscreen. Subverted, sort of, when Roshi later tries to trap him again, Piccolo fights his way out.
* SequelHook: See AndTheAdventureContinues and TheEndOrIsIt
* ShallowLoveInterest: Possibly Chi Chi for Goku and definitely Yamcha for Bulma.
* ShoutOut: There are actually a TON of references to the original series including (but no limited to):
** Goku makes mention of a race called "Nameks"
** Gohan finding Goku in a crater
** Goku eating a large chunk of meat off the bone
** Piccolo's ship looks like one often used by Emperor Pilaf
** Goku being forced to train while wearing a large, heavy backpack
** Piccolo giving life to creatures from his own body
** Chi Chi's house resembling a giant castle
** The World Martial Arts Tournament
** Roshi's collection of porn
** Goku's bike resembles the one Gohan rides in the opening to several episodes after the Cell saga
** Speaking of, Goku's entire high school schtick early in the film resembles Gohan's Saiyaman arc in the anime.
** Roshi's (mildly) pervy behavior
** Roshi's terrible hawaiian shirts
** The jar Roshi attempts (and fails) to seal Piccolo in
** The Wish [[spoiler: being used to revive Master Roshi]]
** Bulma's capsule cars
** Goku's hair: while preparing for the party (where he confronted the bullies), he spends some time styling it only to have it snap back into exactly its normal form, complete with sound effect.
** 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.
* SpotTheImposter: Goku had to do this when Mai disguised as Chi-Chi fights the Real Chi-Chi. It didn't go too well.
* StockScream: of the Wilhelm variety.
* StockSubtitle: "Evolution".
* StockFootage: [[FreezeFrameBonus Paying close attention]] during Goku's "premonitions" whenever he acquires a Dragon Ball reveals that the movie uses a fair amount of stock footage. Examples include {{Film/Armageddon}} and Film/IndependenceDay.
* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: 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]].
* TournamentArc: 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.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: The first chunk of the movie is focused on Goku's conflicts with school bullies. If your name was Goku and you lived way the hell outside the rest of the city with some creepy old dude who told you stories about aliens called Nameks, you'd get picked on too.
* WordSaladTitle: ''Dragonball '''Evolution'''''. ItMakesSenseInContext as being either an adaption or RuleOfCool.
** Actually no, there's no real justification for the "Evolution" subtitle
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: 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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