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* EatTheDog: Gohan's dragon Icarus is cooked by Chichi for dinner after Earth is terra-frozen by Lord Slug's minions.

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* CurbStompBattle:
** Doradabo gets provoked by Piccolo, who proceeds to play with his food by breaking the guy's arm and comically knocking him off a building over and over before executing him.
** Once Goku arrives, the remaining two minions' attacks don't phase him and he kills them both in one hit each. Krillin thinks he might have been unnecessarily brutal.
** Krillin, for reasons not even he himself knows, decides he wants to take on Slug. Slug then pimp-slaps him over the horizon.
** To paraphrase Slug, the fight with Goku basically begins as Slug playing "competitive bitch-toss" with Goku as said bitch. Goku briefly returns the favor when he becomes the Champion of Christmas, but once that fizzles out he goes back to losing (though it isn't as brutally one-sided).



* ForgotAboutHisPowers: With great difficulty, Piccolo pulls himself in Slug's giant hand towards Goku so he can grab him and transfer his energy. He's most of the way there before it occurs to him it would have been easier to use his [[RubberMan stretchy arms]].



* LoudOfWar: While not ''loud'', per se, Gohan's whistling is torture to Nemakians. Piccolo remembered this later and tears off his own ears before getting Gohan to use this on Lord Slug.

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* LoudOfWar: While not ''loud'', per se, Gohan's whistling is torture to Nemakians.Namekians. Piccolo remembered this later and tears off his own ears before getting Gohan to use this on Lord Slug.



* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Slug's elite minions are a another bundle of cliche villain archetypes, as Piccolo notices immediately after learning about the "Misfit Minions" from ''The Christmas Tree of Might''. He then proceeds to label who is the ''pretty one'', the one ''with the strange power'', and the ''big, tough, stupid one''.

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* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Slug's elite minions are a another bundle of cliche villain archetypes, as Piccolo notices immediately after learning about his experience with the "Misfit Minions" from ''The Christmas Tree of Might''. He then proceeds to label who is the ''pretty one'', the ''weird one ''with with the strange freaky power'', and the ''big, tough, stupid one''.



* TheStinger: It is revealed that Slug is [[spoiler:the other half of Lord Guru. Guru is the ''evil'' half, and he suggested Slug should come to Earth to use their Dragon Balls and take over]].



* TheStinger: It is revealed that Slug is [[spoiler:the other half of Lord Guru. Guru is the ''evil'' half]].


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* UnstoppableRage: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Goku's losing to Slug, and a battered Piccolo suggests that Gohan do his usual thing of getting really mad and beating up the bad guy, but Gohan was drained unconscious and doesn't wake up until later.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Two of Lord Slug's minions are quickly executed after misnaming him "King Piccolo". The third had to add in "Lord Slug" repeatability to save himself from the same fate.

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* AccidentalMisnaming: Two of Lord Slug's minions are quickly executed after misnaming him "King Piccolo". The third had to add in "Lord Slug" repeatability repeatedly to save himself from the same fate.



* BigWhat: After tearing off his ears so he can't hear Gohan's whistling, Piccolo does this a few times.

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* BigWhat: After tearing off his ears so he can't hear Gohan's whistling, Piccolo does responds like this a few times.whenever someone talks to him, or even if he thinks they ''might'' be talking to him but they aren't.

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* ShoutOut: Upon killing Lord Slug, Goku in a ''very'' monotone voice declares [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "Now I must go. My planet needs me."]] Followed by an animation frame sliding off the screen into the air.

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* ShoutOut: Upon ShoutOut:
**When Piccolo slams one of Slug's minions into a lamp, the breaking glass and accompanying music are lifted straight from Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin.
**Upon
killing Lord Slug, Goku in a ''very'' monotone voice declares [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "Now I must go. My planet needs me."]] Followed by an animation frame sliding off the screen into the air.
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* TheStinger: It is revealed that Slug is [[spoiler:the other half of Lord Guru. He is the ''evil'' half]].

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* TheStinger: It is revealed that Slug is [[spoiler:the other half of Lord Guru. He Guru is the ''evil'' half]].
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* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Slugs elite minions are a bundle of cliche villain archetypes, as Piccolo notices immediately. He then proceeds to label who is the ''pretty one'', the one ''with the strange power'', and the ''big, tough, stupid one''.

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* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Slugs Slug's elite minions are a another bundle of cliche villain archetypes, as Piccolo notices immediately.immediately after learning about the "Misfit Minions" from ''The Christmas Tree of Might''. He then proceeds to label who is the ''pretty one'', the one ''with the strange power'', and the ''big, tough, stupid one''.
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* {{Blooper}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmIB9fVPoh4 As revealed in the creator commentary]], there's an audio cutoff of Bulma's line during the ActionPrologue[[note]]The original line was "Do you think it'll work", but the cutoff has her instead say "Think it'll work" with a very slight but noticeable cut.[[/note]] due to shifting audio around of a soundtrack earlier in the production, [[OldShame something that grinds KaiserNeko's gears greatly]].
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* ChekhovsGun: Gohan's whistling is torturous to Namekians' sensitive ears. He later gets him to use this on Lord Slug as a distraction while he lends his power to Goku. After he tears off his ears.

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* ChekhovsGun: Gohan's whistling is torturous to Namekians' sensitive ears. He Piccolo later gets him to use this on Lord Slug as a distraction while he lends his power to Goku. After he tears off his ears.

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