History Recap / DragonBallGTBabyArc

* BrainsAndBrawn: Baby is one of the most cunning villains in the franchise and also has the strength to back up his plans (at least, when he has stolen a sufficiently powerful body).

* UnholyMatrimony: After fully possessing Vegeta's body, Baby takes a possessed Bulma as his loyal companion. She designs the Super Blutz Wave Generator that allows Baby to transform into a Golden Oozaru and gleefully roots for him throughout his fight with Goku, much to Goku's consternation. Even after Baby is forced out of Vegeta's body she remains ever loyal to him and tries to motivate him to stay on Earth and fight alongside her against the Saiyans before he tosses her aside in his attempt to escape.

* UnholyMatrimony: After fully possessing Vegeta's body, Baby takes a possessed Bulma as his loyal companion. She designs the Super Blutz Wave Generator that allows Baby to transform into a Golden Oozaru and gleefully roots for him throughout his fight with Goku, much to Goku's consternation.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Baby is a massive hypocrite. He claims to hate all Saiyans for their genocidal conquests, yet he resorts to the exact same violent measures throughout the arc and steals Vegeta's body because he recognises the limitless potential of Saiyan power. In his Golden Oozaru form, he slowly degenerates into a mindless, rampaging beast, no different at all to the Saiyans that invaded his world.

* ChekhovsGun: Hey, remember the Sacred Water kept in Kami's Temple seen only in the Garlic Jr. {{Filler}} arc from ''Dragon Ball Z'' (not to be confused with the [[NamesTheSame Sacred Water]] or Ultra Divine Water owned by Karin in the main canonical manga)? No? Well, it nevertheless plays a vital role in this arc as Shin uses it to free the population of Earth from Baby's mind-control.

* ManchurianAgent: After being briefly possessed by Baby during their first encounter, Trunks unknowingly carries Baby's dormant parasitic spores in his body when he returns to Earth, which Baby activates and uses to take control of Trunks.

* PainToTheAss: After Shin rescues Goku, they realise that in order for them to win this time, Goku needs to reawaken his dormant Saiyan power and re-grow his tail. How do they do this? By transforming an alien critter into a giant pair of pliers and painfully pulling it out of Goku's asshole. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Seriously.]]

* AdrenalineMakeover: {{Parodied}}. Vegeta ditches the moustache, flat-top and slacks in favour of a more traditionally cool design in time for his bigger role in this arc. The only reason he does this is because Bra mocked his moustache. Nobody else notices or cares when he shaves it off, much to his irritation.

* ChekhovsGun: Remember the Ultra Divine Water kept in Kami's Temple seen only in the Garlic Jr. {{Filler}} arc from ''Dragon Ball Z'' (not to be confused with the Ultra Divine Water owned by Karin in the main canonical manga)? No? Well, it nevertheless plays a vital role in this arc as Shin uses it to free the population of Earth from Baby's mind-control.

* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Baby's M.O. is planting eggs in people's bodies which then corrupt and destroy them from the inside. Uub gives Baby a taste of his own medicine by allowing himself to be eaten by Baby and then attacking him from the inside when he least expects it, asking Baby if he likes how it feels as he does it.

* VillainHasAPoint: {{Defied}}. Yes, Baby is correct that the Saiyans were a savage, genocidal race of space pirates, but his attempt to invoke "an eye for an eye" against the living Saiyans on Earth is misplaced vengeance.

* EatMe: Baby seemingly reflects Uub's Chocolate Beam attack and turns him into a candy, which he then eats. As it turns out, this was Uub's plan all along as he secretly returns to normal and starts attacking Baby from the inside, giving Goku the perfect opportunity to finish him.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Baby is a massive hypocrite. He claims to hate all Saiyans for their genocidal conquests, yet he resorts to the exact same measures throughout the arc and outright steals Vegeta's body because he recognises the limitless potential of Saiyan power. In Golden Oozaru form, he becomes a mindless, rampaging beast, no different at all to the Saiyans that invaded his world.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever; Oozaru returns here, as both Goku and Baby turn into one during their fight, Goku's ultimately leading into his Super Saiyan 4 form.
* BigBad: Baby.
* BodySurf: How Baby survives, by slipping into the wounds of his host and taking over their bodies. He does this with Trunks, then Goten and finally Vegeta making him his main host.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Baby manages to do this to the whole of Earth by body surfing and leaving eggs in the host body that brings them under his command. Only Buu and Mr. Satan are unaffected as the egg can't hatch within Buu's body and Buu had hid Satan within his body.
* CerebusSyndrome: This is where the story goes from a light hearted space faring adventure to more serious on-the-line battles similar to "Z."

* EarthShatteringKaboom: The Earth gets destroyed again as Baby uses the Black Star Dragon Balls to make a wish, again starting the timer to the distruction of the planet. Luckily, Baby's wish was to recreate the Truffle Planet, so Goku and his friends simply move everyone on Earth there to save them before using Namek's Dragon Balls to recreate their home planet.

* TheMole: Giru is revealed to be one. However he [[HeelFaceTurn has a change of heart]] and helps the heroes.
* NextTierPowerUp: Goku gains Super Sayian 4 mode.

Continuing on from the ''Black Star Dragon Ball Arc'', the search bring the foursome to M2 a seemingly desolate planet that looks abandoned. However it turns out to be a trap set by Dr. Myuu whose actually been tracking the three for some time. He sends his mutant robots to attack quickly bringing a confrontation with the three Sayians. This all leads up to the discovery of Myuu greatest creation, Baby, who breaks free from his chambers and proves to a much more major threat when he brings his machinations back to Earth.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever; Oozaru return here as both Goku and Baby turn into them during their fight. Goku's ultimately leading into his Super Saiyan 4 form.

* BodySurf / GrandTheftMe: How Baby survives, by slipping into the wounds of his host and taking over their bodies. He does this with Trunks, then Goten and finally Vegeta making him his main host.

* CerebusSyndrome: This is where the story goes from a light hearted space faring adventure to more serious on-the-line battles similar to "Z".

* EarthShatteringKaboom: The Earth gets destroyed again as Baby uses the Black Star Dragon Balls to make a wish increasing the already limited countdown on the planet. Luckily Baby's wish was to recreate the Truffle Planet and Goku and his friends move everyone on the planet there to save them before using the Namek's Dragon Balls to recreate the Earth.

* ShonenUpgrade: Goku gains Super Sayian 4 mode.

* ArcVillain: Baby.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever; Ooorazu return here as both Goku and Baby turn into them during their fight. Goku's ultimately leading into his Super Saiyan 4 form.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Baby manages to do this to the whole of Earth by body surfing and leaving eggs in the host body that brings them under his command. Only Buu and Mr. Satan are unaffected as the egg can't hatch witin Buu's body and Buu had hid Satan within his body.

* WorfHadTheFlu: Due to Goku's child form he's nowhere near powerful to fight Baby and has to be saved by the Supreme Kai before he's killed.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Baby manages to do this to the whole of Earth by body surfing and leaving eggs in the host body that brings them under his command.

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