History SeriesContinuityError / DragonBall

* A rather minor one. Vegeta states his new armor during the Frieza Saga (the one without shoulder pads) is an old model, but we are never shown any armor like this one during the ''Father of Goku'' or ''Dragon Ball Minus'' specials.

'''Please note this is not a page to bash any of the series or the original manga'''. ''Dragon Ball'' is a beloved series, but it doesn't mean it can't be flawed in its narrative. Likewise, do not use a continuity error as an excuse to bash any of the series or the original manga or its writers.

* A rather minor one. Vegeta states his new armor during the ''Frieza saga'' is an old model, but we are never shown any armor like this one during the ''Father of Goku'' or ''Dragon Ball Minus'' specials.
* An infamous one that could have been easily repaired in the tankobon edition: during the ''Cell saga'', Trunks saves the Earth by killing Frieza, and then tells Goku he comes from the BadFuture that was destroyed by the Artificial Humans 20 and 19. When the gang defeat those villains, Trunks comes back and inform ''those aren't the androids'', and we are later introduced to 17 and 18. While this mistake can be forgiven for Toriyama due to ExecutiveMeddling, the fact many re-editions of the same saga don't even correct Trunks saying 20 and 19 when he first appears just screams the own author is not interested in fixing it.
** The same saga also includes Bulma during the first encounter with Trunks fully knowing that Doctor Gero is involved, and suggest killing him before the artificial humans are activated. Later, when she meets Trunks again, she states she wasn't aware Doctor Gero was even involved in the project. [[FlatWhat What?]]
*** The anime fixes both of these issues. Trunks only states that "two androids" appear and doesn't mention them by name, and Bulma doesn't mention Dr. Gero at all when first meeting Trunks.

* In the Dragon Ball Manga, when Super Buu escapes the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and leaves Piccolo and Gotenks stuck, Piccolo starts panicking because, according to him, as minutes were passing in the room, hours were passing in the real world. And when the two of them escape, we see that hours have indeed passed as Buu had enough time to turn the rest of the gang into candy and eat them. This runs counter to every other appearance of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, where its effect on time is the exact opposite. In the anime this is handwaved by Piccolo acknowledging he forgot how time worked and Buu had actually slaughtered everyone on the lookout in the span of seconds.

* In the second season, Trunks is able to detect Android 17's Ki, and is even able to compare it with that of Android 18...despite the fact that a major plot point in the background of the two androids when they were first introduced back in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' was that they didn't radiate Ki at all.
* Another mistake from the Super 17 saga is the fact that, when Goku faces Frieza and Cell and kills them in Hell, they respawn. A plot point from the Majin Buu saga (Filler, true, but GT is following this same idea) is that if Kid Buu kill the Z fighters in heaven they would cease to exist. What's with this inconsistency?

* Trunks design is something of an issue for many viewers. Trunks, as of ''Battle of Gods'' and ''Super'', should be around 13 to 14 years old, but he still looks like he is 8 years old like in the ''Majin Buu saga''. To make things rather problematic, his future counterpart looked his age in both the manga and ''The Trunks special''. The same applies to Goten and Marron, whose designs haven't changed.
* In Beerus' introduction, he claims to have wiped out the dinosaurs during his last visit to Earth. While they haven't appeared much since the early parts of ''Z'', dinosaurs appeared in the series since the first chapter of the ''Dragon Ball'' series, and Gohan cut the tail of a dinosaur during his time with Piccolo. Some fans like to FanWank that he meant a dinosaur era before the one in the present era, or that he actually didn't do a very good job at it, the latter at least which sounds like it could fit with how Beerus is shown to be a very lazy god.

** In the manga, the line Bulma asks kid Trunks is if it's someone with hair the exact same color as his, which shows that future Trunks' hair color was deliberately changed in the anime, as it was always meant to be purple just like Bulma's in the manga, which was originally meant to be purple. However, the anime staff, for some reason, changed it for no reason. Apparently, Toriyama's character design for future Trunks had him with the blue hair, but they didn't think to correct it when animating the episodes. However, this situation also happened with kid Trunks during Battle of Gods' production, but they corrected him on it then, so it doesn't make any sense why they didn't do it again, especially with the discrepancy between the 2 Trunks' hair colors.

* During ''Super,'' it's brought up that a Supreme Kai and Destroyer of a given universe are linked together similarly to how Piccolo and Kami used to be. In that if one is killed, the other also dies. But in the Buu Saga, there were shown to be four Supreme Kais, two of which were killed by Kid Buu, and another was absorbed by Kid Buu, which turned him into Fat Buu. Were there also four Destroyers, two of which died? What happened to the third then, considering that it was shown that being absorbed by Buu wasn't fatal, and people had been rescued after being absorbed?

* In the Dragon Ball Manga, when Super Buu escapes the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and leaves Piccolo and Gotenks stuck, Piccolo starts panicking because, according to him, as minutes were passing in the room, hours were passing in the real world. And when the two of them escape, we see that hours have indeed passed as Buu had enough time to turn the rest of the gang into candy and eat them. This runs counter to every other appearance of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, where its effect on time is the exact opposite.

** FanWank: Some fans came up with the theory that Saiyans physical attributes depend entirely on the setting and stress. Trunks and Goten don't look that different from Goku when he was 14 years old because all of them lived in peaceful times (And Goku wouldn't receive his most serious conflict until King Piccolo appeared), but Gohan and the future incarnation of Trunks had a [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed stressful]] [[BadFuture life]], making them age faster. This doesn't explain Marron's design, though, since she is human.

** FankWank: Some fans came up with the theory that Saiyans physical attributes depend entirely on the setting and stress. Trunks and Goten don't look that different from Goku when he was 14 years old because all of them lived in peaceful times (And Goku wouldn't receive his most serious conflict until King Piccolo appeared), but Gohan and the future incarnation of Trunks had a [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed stressful]] [[BadFuture life]], making them age faster. This doesn't explain Marron's design, though, since she is human.

** Fankwank: Some fans came up with the theory that Saiyans physical attributes depend entirely on the setting and stress. Trunks and Goten don't look that different from Goku when he was 14 years old because all of them lived in peaceful times (And Goku wouldn't receive his most serious conflict until King Piccolo appeared), but Gohan and the future incarnation of Trunks had a [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed stressful]] [[BadFuture life]], making them age faster. This doesn't explain Marron's design, though, since she is human.

* In the Dragon Ball Manga, when Super Buu escapes the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and leaves Piccolo and Gotenks stuck, Piccolo starts panicking because, according to him, as minutes were passing in the room, hours were passing in the real world. And when the two of them escape, we see that hours have indeed passed as Buu had enough time to turn the rest of the gang into candy and eat them. This runs counter to every other appearances of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, where its effect on time is the exact opposite.

* Vegeta, Goku, and Bulma travel to Trunks' timeline using Cell's time machine. Cell did not come from the same timeline Trunks did, but actually a third one. If they used Cell's time machine, they would have gone to his timeline, not that of Trunks.

* An infamous one that could have been easily repaired in the tankobon edition, but during the ''Cell saga'', Trunks saves the Earth by killing Frieza, and then tells Goku he comes from the BadFuture that was destroyed by the Artificial Humans 20 and 19. When the gang defeat those villains, Trunks comes back and inform ''those aren't the androids'', and we are later introduced to 17 and 18. While this mistake can be forgiven for Toriyama due to ExecutiveMeddling, the fact many re-editions of the same saga don't even correct Trunks saying 20 and 19 when he first appears just screams the own author is not interested in fixing it.

** In the ''Z'' anime filler, the Ginyu Force end up in King Kai planet, and is up to Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu to defeat them. Somehow, the heroes manage to give them a good fight despite the Ginyu Force being much stronger (as Recoome himself was able to beat the crap out of Vegeta, but somehow is having issue with ''Yamcha'' of all people).

* During Super, it's brought up that a Supreme Kai and Destroyer of a given universe are linked together similarly to how Piccolo and Kami used to be. In that if one is killed, the other also dies. But in the Buu Saga, there were shown to be four Supreme Kais, two of which were killed by Kid Buu, and another was absorbed by Kid Buu, which turned him into Fat Buu. Were there also four Destroyers, two of which died? What happened to the third then, considering that it was shown that being absorbed by Buu wasn't fatal, and people had been rescued after being absorbed?

As a well-known {{Long Runner|s}} written by someone who freely admits he [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants writes by the seat of his pants]], is not surprising the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise has many errors in the series likely from a mistake or a {{Retcon}}. Likewise, the writers in charge of the anime series have made mistakes from time to time in the series, either in ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' or the [[NonSerialMovie Non-Serial Movies]]. If the fans notice these mistakes, they are likely to either bash the anime writers for messing up, or give a FanWank explanation.

* In the Future Trunks Arc of the anime, Future Trunks' hair was recolored blue instead of purple, as it was previously. It's never stated if he dyed it or if it changed and when they reanimated a scene of of Trunks discovering Future Gohan's death from the ''History of Trunks'' special, he still had it. This contradicts episode 47, where they reused footage from ''Kai,'' where he still had the purple hair and you can clearly tell it was originally purple, even with the filter they threw over the footage. Not onlt that, but Bulma asks kid Trunks if the Trunks in the time machine has blue hair even though she never met him with that color hair and it's inferred that he'd never talked to them after he made a second trip to inform them that he defeated 17 and 18 in his timeline, so that makes ''no'' sense as to why she'd say that. Plus, kid Trunks still has purple hair and makes ''no'' effort to ask why his alternate older self has different color hair.

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[[folder:''Dragon Ball GT'']]
* In the second season, Trunks is able to detect Android 17's Ki, and is even able to compare it with that of Android 18...despite the fact that a major plot point in the background of the two androids when they were first introduced back in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' was that they didn't radiate Ki at all.
* When facing Rilldo, Son Gohan transforms into a Super Saiyan...despite the fact that the Ultimate/Mystic transformation unlocked to him by Old Kai in the Majin Buu saga is supposed to have his fighting capacity maxed at all times.
** This is explained in ''Super'' as him being out of practice as a fighter, so he's not able to reach his full power anymore unless he trains again.
* A [[GrandTheftMe Baby-possessed Gohan]] seemingly vaporizes Piccolo and Goten. However both later appear unharmed episodes later.

As a well-known {{Long Runner|s}} writen by someone who freely admits he [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants writes by the seat of his pants]], is not surprising the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise has many errors in the series likely from a mistake or a {{Retcon}}. Likewise, the writers in charge of the anime series have made mistakes from time to time in the series, either in ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' or the [[NonSerialMovie Non-Serial Movies]]. If the fans notice these mistakes, they are likely to either bash the anime writers for messing up, or give a FanWank explanation.

* Two incidents involving Yamcha in filler that doesn't exist in the original manga.
** In the ''Z'' anime filler, the Ginyu Force end up in King Kai planet, and is up to Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu to defeat them. Somehow, the heroes manage to give them a good fight despite the Ginyu Force being much stronger (As Recoome himself was able to beat the crap out of Vegeta, but somehow is having issue with Yamcha of all people).
** In the ''Z'' anime filler, Olibu and Pikkon were stated and shown to be as strong as Goku during the Cell saga (And Pikkon is implied to be even stronger than Perfect Cell, as he's able to [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomp]] Cell in Hell). But, Yamcha, who decided to stop training and was miles weaker than Goku at that point, managed to defeat both fighters during the Majin Buu saga filler.

* In Beerus' introduction, he claims to have wiped out the dinosaurs during his last visit to Earth. While they haven't appeared much since the early parts of ''Z'', dinosaurs appeared in the series since the first chapter of the ''Dragon Ball'' series, and Gohan cut the tail of a dinosaur during his time with Piccolo. Some fans like to FanWank he meant a dinosaur era before the one in the present era, or that he actually didn't do a very good job at it, the latter at least which sounds like it could fit with how Beerus is shown to be a very lazy god.

* There is a timeline inconsistency with how long Belmod has been a God of Destruction. In the manga, Belmod states he has been a God of Destruction for around 300.000 years years, but in the same chapter, it states he was around a Hide and Seek tournament between all the gods of destruction, which according to Whis, was before Shin became a Supreme Kai. According to the timelines, Shin has been a Supreme Kai for at least 5 million years, meaning that by all means, Belmod should've be older than simply 300.000 years.

* In the second season, Trunks is able to detect Android 17's Ki, and is even able to compare it with that of Android 18... despite the fact that a major plot point in the background of the two androids when they were first introduced back in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' was that they didn't radiate Ki at all.
* When facing Rilldo, Son Gohan transforms into a Super Saiyan... despite the fact that the Ultimate/Mystic transformation unlocked to him by Old Kai in the Majin Buu saga is supposed to have his fighting capacity maxed at all times.

* Possible explanation: the wish in the Buu Saga was for everyone who had been killed since the start of the Tournament to be revived, which rules out Android 16. This still leaves the plothole that fully-robotic folk like 16, 8 and Arale ''can'' be revived, but the characters had no experience with that claim so it could be just blind ignorance.

As a well-known LongRunner writen by someone who freely admits he [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants writes by the seat of his pants]], is not surprising the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise has many errors in the series likely from a mistake or a {{Retcon}}. Likewise, the writers in charge of the anime series have made mistakes from time to time in the series, either in ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' or the [[NonSerialMovie Non-Serial Movies]]. If the fans notice these mistakes, they are likely to either bash the anime writers for messing up, or give a FanWank explanation.

As a well known LongRunner writen by someone who freely admits he [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants writes by the seat of his pants]], is not surprising the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise has many errors in the series likely from a mistake or a {{Retcon}}. Likewise, the writers in charge of the anime series have made mistakes from time to time in the series, either in ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' or the [[NonSerialMovie Non-Serial Movies]]. If the fans notice these mistakes, they are likely to either bash the anime writers for messing up, or give a FanWank explanation.

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As a well known LongRunner writen by someone who freely admits he writes by the seat of his pants, is not surprising the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise has many errors in the series likely from a mistake or a {{Retcon}}. Likewise, the writers in charge of the anime series have made mistakes from time to time in the series, either in ''Anime/DragonBallGt'' to the {{Non serial movie}}s. If the fans notice these mistakes, they are likely to either bash the anime writers for messing up, or give a FanWank explanation.

'''Please note this is not a page to bash any of the series or the original manga'''. ''Dragon Ball'' is a beloved series, but it doesn't mean it can't be flawed in its narrative.


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* Android 16 death. Since he is fully robotic, he can't be revived by the Dragon Balls, meaning he is KilledOffForReal. But, in the Majin Buu saga, after the planet is destroyed by Majin Buu and its inhabitants are revived by Porunga, Android 8 (and possibly Arale) are revived. What happened to 16, then?

** In the ''Z'' anime filler, The Ginyu Force end up in King Kai planet, and is up to Yamcha, Tien and Chiatzu to defeat them. Somehow, the heroes manage to give them a good fight despite the Ginyu Force being much stronger (As Reecomme himself was able to beat the crap of Vegeta, but somehow is having issue with Yamcha of all people).
** In the ''Z'' anime filler, Olubi and Pikkon were stated and shown to be as strong as Goku during the Cell saga. But, Yamcha, who decided to stop training and was miles weaker than Goku at that point, managed to defeat both fighters during the Majin Buu saga filler.

[[folder:Dragon Ball Super, Battle of Gods and Resurrection of F.]]
* In Beerus introduction, he claims to have wiped out the dinosaurs during his last visit to Earth. While they haven't appeared much in ''Z'', dinosaurs appeared in the series since the first chapter of the ''Dragon Ball'' series, and Gohan cut the tail of a dinosaur during his time with Piccolo. Some fans like to FanWank he meant a dinosaur era before the one in the present era.
* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', Captain Ginyu returns and mentions as having been on Earth as the Namekian frog. That means that he must have been on Earth when it was destroyed by Kid Buu. Apart from the fact that he couldn't have been revived by Namek's Dragonballs (as they wished for only whose who are not evil to be resurrected), it makes no sense he wouldn't mention being killed in his backstory or why he would be restored in the Namekian frog's body.

[[folder:Dragon Ball GT]]
* In the second season, Trunks is able to detect No. 17's Ki, and is even able to compare it with that of No. 18... despite the fact that a major plot point in the background of the two androids when they were first encountered back in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' was that they didn't radiate Ki at all!
* When facing Rilld, Son Gohan transforms into a Super Saiyan... Despites being the "Saikyou no Senshi" and having his fighting capacity maxed at all times.
* A [[GrandTheftMe Baby possessed Gohan]] seemingly vaporizes Piccolo and Goten. However both later appear unharmed episodes later.

* In Beerus introduction, he claims to have wiped out the dinosaurs during his last visit to Earth. While they haven't appeared much in ''Z'', dinosaurs appeared in the series since the first chapter of the ''Dragon Ball'' series, and during Gohan cut the tail of a dinosaur during his time with Piccolo. Some fans like to FanWank he meant a dinosaur era before the one in the present era.

* In Beerus introduction, he claims to have wiped out the dinosaurs during his last visit to Earth. While they haven't appeared much in ''Z'', dinosaurs appeared in the series since the first chapter of the ''Dragon Ball'' series. Some fans like to FanWank he means a dinosaur era before the one in the present era.

* ''Anime/DragonBallGT'':
** In the second season, Trunks is able to detect No. 17's Ki, and is even able to compare it with that of No. 18... despite the fact that a major plot point in the background of the two androids when they were first encountered back in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' was that they didn't radiate Ki at all!
** When facing Rilld, Son Gohan transforms into a Super Saiyan... Despites being the "Saikyou no Senshi" and having his fighting capacity maxed at all times.
** A [[GrandTheftMe Baby possessed Gohan]] seemingly vaporizes Piccolo and Goten. However both later appear unharmed episodes later.

* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', Captain Ginyu returns and mentions as having been on Earth as the Namekian frog. That means that he must have been on Earth when it was destroyed by Kid Buu. Apart from the fact that he couldn't have been revived by Namek's Dragonballs (as they wished for only whose who are not evil to be resurrected), it makes no sense he wouldn't mention being killed in his backstory or why he would be restored in the Namekian frog's body.