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As a well-known {{Long Runner|s}} written by a [[Creator/AkiraToriyama notoriously forgetful writer]] who freely admits he [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants writes by the seat of his pants]], it's not surprising that the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise has its fair share of continuity errors, whether it be 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 {{Long Runner|s}} written by a [[Creator/AkiraToriyama notoriously forgetful writer]] who freely admits he [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants writes by the seat of his pants]], it's not surprising that the ''Dragon Ball'' ''Franchise/DragonBall'' franchise has its fair share of continuity errors, whether it be from a mistake or a {{Retcon}}.{{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.



* An infamous one that could have been easily repaired in the tankobon edition: during the Cell Saga, Future Trunks tells Goku that 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 anime fixes this by having Trunks only state that "two androids" appear and doesn't mention them by name.

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* An infamous one that could have been easily repaired in the tankobon tankōbon edition: during the Cell Saga, Future Trunks tells Goku that 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 This is because Toriyama due to ExecutiveMeddling, the fact many re-editions of the same saga don't even correct Trunks saying originally intended 20 and 19 when he first appears just screams to be the own author is not interested in fixing it.villains of the saga, but it was changed due to ExecutiveMeddling. The anime fixes this by having Trunks only state that "two androids" appear and doesn't mention them by name.



* When Krillin and Future Trunks arrive at Goku's house at the end of episode 138, Yamcha recognizes Future Trunks and calls him by name, even though Yamcha left the fight with 19 and 20 to take Goku home before Piccolo revealed his identity.



** In the ''Z'' anime filler, the Ginyu Force end up on King Kai's planet, and it's up to Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu to defeat them. Somehow, the heroes managed. 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).

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** In the ''Z'' anime filler, the Ginyu Force end up on King Kai's planet, and it's up to Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu to defeat them. Somehow, the heroes managed. managed 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).
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* 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. This was fixed with Beets of ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly''.

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* A rather minor one. Vegeta states his new armor during the Frieza Freeza 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. This was fixed with Beets of ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly''.



* Due to filler in ''Z'' having introduced what happens after death before Toriyama had completely explained it, there ends up being two conflicting ideologies for what happens in the afterlife. The Toei filler version is more close to a Western view of the afterlife, with a Heaven and general Hell, while Toriyama's is more of a Buddhist view with a purgatory, reincarnation, and more personalized Hells, as well as there being a process of draining you of all your evil if you were bad in life. Both end up clashing in the Buu Saga, due to Toriyama finally explaining more of how death works in the series, but Toei kept to their version for filler scenes. This also creates a contradiction within ''Kai: The Final Chapters'', which was part of a series created to be more close to the manga, since the kept in a few of the Hell scenes from the Buu Saga that showed the villains in Hell watching Goku fight Buu for no reason. It creates a further contradiction for ''Resurrection 'F''', which shows Frieza in a personalized Hell rather than the general one from ''Z'', which confused many fans who didn't know about this discrepancy.

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* Due to filler in ''Z'' having introduced what happens after death before Toriyama had completely explained it, there ends up being two conflicting ideologies for what happens in the afterlife. The Toei filler version is more close to a Western view of the afterlife, with a Heaven and general Hell, while Toriyama's is more of a Buddhist view with a purgatory, reincarnation, and more personalized Hells, as well as there being a process of draining you of all your evil if you were bad in life. Both end up clashing in the Buu Saga, due to Toriyama finally explaining more of how death works in the series, but Toei kept to their version for filler scenes. This also creates a contradiction within ''Kai: The Final Chapters'', which was part of a series created to be more close to the manga, since the kept in a few of the Hell scenes from the Buu Saga that showed the villains in Hell watching Goku fight Buu for no reason. It creates a further contradiction for ''Resurrection 'F''', which shows Frieza Freeza in a personalized Hell rather than the general one from ''Z'', which confused many fans who didn't know about this discrepancy.



* When Baby uses the Dragon Balls to revive Planet Vegeta, he makes all of Earth's inhabitants move there. This is despite the fact that, as stated in the Saiyan and Frieza saga, Planet Vegeta's atmosphere is too heavy for normal Earthlings to handle. By all accounts, the Earthlings shouldn't be able to even stand on that planet.

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* When Baby uses the Dragon Balls to revive Planet Vegeta, he makes all of Earth's inhabitants move there. This is despite the fact that, as stated in the Saiyan and Frieza saga, Freeza Sagas, Planet Vegeta's atmosphere is too heavy for normal Earthlings to handle. By all accounts, the Earthlings shouldn't be able to even stand on that planet.



* 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 killed the Z-Fighters in Heaven they would [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]].

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* Another mistake from the Super 17 saga is the fact that, when Goku faces Frieza Freeza 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 killed the Z-Fighters in Heaven they would [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]].



* 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 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 only 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.
** 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 two Trunks' hair colors. It's not even questioned within the series itself.

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* 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 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,'' ''Z'', where he still had the purple hair and you can clearly tell it was originally Trunks' hair is purple, even with the filter they threw over the footage. Not only 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.
** 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 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 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 two Trunks' hair colors. It's not even questioned within the series itself.
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* When first summoning Porunga in the manga, Krillin is shocked to learn that the Namekian dragon grants three wishes. But Dende already told him this earlier. This was in fact the whole basis of his and Gohan's decision to team up with Vegeta: that they could each get a wish if they managed to gather the balls before Freeza.
* When Dende first displays his HealingHands, Vegeta angrily questions Krillin if they knew Dende had that power all along, to which Krillin responds that he didn't, because if he did, he'd have asked Dende to heal Goku instead of [[PutOnABus sticking Goku into a healing tank for a prolonged period]]. This seems to neglect that in an earlier panel, Freeza's ship (where the healing tank is) is shown to be at max only a few miles from where they are when they learn this fact- so there's no reason Krillin wouldn't send Dende back to heal Goku ''now''.
* After killing Jeice, Vegeta reasons that he's becoming a Super Saiyan, and smugly states that this is what Freeza feared most, hence why he killed the Saiyans before one could manifest. Except Vegeta was surprised to learn that Freeza feared the Saiyans when a desperate Dodoria told him earlier, and Dodoria also told him that Freeza feared [[ZergRush an army of Saiyans ganging up on him]], not a singular warrior. The latter reason was also given in the Bardock special, but is abruptly never mentioned again after Vegeta states that Freeza's true fear is a Super Saiyan.


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* Android 17 commends Vegeta's pride and courage while fighting Android 18, commenting that it's fitting of a Saiyan prince. Android 17 has no way of ''knowing'' that Vegeta is a prince: neither he nor Nappa ever mentioned it while they were on Earth. This was first brought up on Namek by Dodoria, and Gero's scouting robots explicitly did not go to Namek.
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* The Copy-Vegeta FillerArc presents base Goku and Vegeta as being leaps and bounds stronger than anything that came before, probably because the writers assumed that Goku's very high base power level from ''Resurrection F'' was still in-continuity. This was ''highly'' suggested [[RetCon not to be the case anymore]] by the time of the Champa arc which had already happened (it depicted Piccolo being able to potentially beat a guy ''Super Saiyan'' Goku struggled with, and also had Goku stating that Fat Buu could do well in the tournament). It was outright confirmed not to be the case in the Zamasu arc, when Future Trunks, who explicitly had trouble with Dabura fairly recently, is able to match Goku in the same form (SS vs SS, etc.) meaning that base Goku and Vegeta aren't that different from their Buu arc counterparts and their new massive power is limited to their new forms. The Tournament of Power doubled down on this by constantly showing characters without godly power-ups taking out characters that can give Goku and Vegeta's lower forms trouble, such two of the three Trio de Dangers members losing badly to SS Gohan and Fat Buu respectively, only to later force Goku and Vegeta to use Super Saiyan (and lasting a while even then) in the tournament itself. As a result of there being no Copy-Vegeta arc in the manga, this isn't a problem there. The anime staff seemed to realize their mistake at the beginning of the Tournament of Power arc, as Piccolo explicitly says that "the power [Gohan] used against Buu" is still relevant in that arc and something he needs to regain, and Gohan while explicitly far weaker than that level was able to match [=SS2=] Goku.
* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', we have a look at Bardock final stand against Freeza before being obliterated by his Supernova. While the image is clearly a homage to the [[Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku Father of Goku special]] and in fact doesn't contradict anything shown in the original manga (with the only possible exception being Bardock armor colors, which is hardly a big deal if you remember [[AdaptationDyeJob Freeza colors in the same movie]]), there is however two details that contradict his manga appearance and is the lack of his iconic bandanna and his armor having a right shoulder pad.

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* The Copy-Vegeta FillerArc presents base Goku and Vegeta as being leaps and bounds stronger than anything that came before, probably because the writers assumed that Goku's very high base power level from ''Resurrection F'' was still in-continuity. This was ''highly'' suggested [[RetCon not to be the case anymore]] by the time of the Champa arc which had already happened (it depicted Piccolo being able to potentially beat a guy who base Goku lost to and who ''Super Saiyan'' Goku struggled with, couldn't immediately put down, and also had Goku stating that Fat Buu could do well in the tournament). It was outright confirmed not to be the case in the Zamasu arc, when Future Trunks, who explicitly had trouble with Dabura fairly recently, is able to match Goku in the same form (SS vs SS, etc.) meaning that base Goku and Vegeta aren't that different from their Buu arc counterparts and their new massive power is limited to their new forms. The Tournament of Power doubled down on this by constantly showing characters without godly power-ups taking out characters that can give Goku and Vegeta's lower forms trouble, such as two of the three Trio de Dangers members losing badly to SS Gohan and Fat Buu respectively, only to later force Goku and Vegeta to use Super Saiyan forms (and lasting a while even then) in the tournament itself. As a result of there being no Copy-Vegeta arc in the manga, this isn't a problem there. The anime staff seemed to realize their mistake at the beginning of the Tournament of Power arc, as Piccolo explicitly says that "the power [Gohan] used against Buu" is still relevant in that arc and something he needs to regain, and Gohan while explicitly far weaker than that level was is able to match [=SS2=] Goku.
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* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', we have a look at Bardock final stand against Freeza before being obliterated by his Supernova. While the image is clearly a homage to the [[Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku Father of Goku special]] and in fact doesn't contradict anything shown in the original manga (with the only possible exception being Bardock armor colors, which is hardly a big deal if you remember [[AdaptationDyeJob Freeza colors in the same movie]]), special]], there is however are two details that contradict his manga appearance and is appearance: the lack of his iconic bandanna and his armor having a right shoulder pad.pad. This is because the aforementioned special gave him a different armor design than ''Super'', and Toriyama copied the former design for his manga. Why he changed its design for ''Super'' is unknown.
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* The Copy-Vegeta FillerArc presents base Goku and Vegeta as being leaps and bounds stronger than anything that came before, probably because the writers assumed that Goku's very high base power level from ''Resurrection F'' was still in-continuity. This was ''highly'' suggested [[RetCon not to be the case anymore]] by the time of the Champa arc which had already happened (it depicted Piccolo being able to potentially beat a guy ''Super Saiyan'' Goku struggled with, and also had Goku stating that Fat Buu could do well in the tournament). It was outright confirmed not to be the case in the Zamasu arc, when Future Trunks, who explicitly had trouble with Dabura fairly recently, is able to match Goku in the same form (SS vs SS, etc.) meaning that base Goku and Vegeta aren't that different from their Buu arc counterparts and their new massive power is limited to their new forms. The Tournament of Power doubled down on this by constantly showing characters without godly power-ups taking out characters that can give Goku and Vegeta's lower forms trouble, such two of the three Trio de Dangers members losing badly to SS Gohan and Fat Buu respectively, only to later force Goku and Vegeta to use Super Saiyan (and lasting a while even then) in the tournament itself. As a result of there being no Copy-Vegeta arc in the manga, this isn't a problem there. The anime staff seemed to realize their mistake at the beginning of the Tournament of Power arc, as Piccolo explicitly says that "the power [Gohan] used against Buu" is still relevant in that arc and something he needs to regain, and Gohan while explicitly far weaker than that level was able to match [=SS2=] Goku.
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* At first glance, the anime adaptation of King Vegeta's unseen rebellion against Freeza appears to make sense given what we know of the manga incidents, but the way it's presented contradicts ''Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku''.
** In the special, little Vegeta is on another planet when he is told about the destruction of Planet Vegeta. In the anime, he is on Freeza's ship, and somehow never noticed that his father and other Saiyans were killed off.
** Freeza somehow appears to kill both King Vegeta and Bardock at the same time on two different rooms.
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** This is mostly due to the "Dragon Ball Minus" bonus chapter at the tail end of ''Manga/JacoTheGalacticPatrolman'', where Bardock was redesigned and Goku's mother, Gine, was finally introduced. The beginning of this Broly movie effectively retells and expands upon part of the chapter, but then inserts the "Father of Goku" scene reference in there, trying to amend both to some degree. However, it also means that the original OVA's been completely rewritten over in canon as a result.
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** After Trunks got home in "A Worldwide Problem", Baby Vegeta said: "It's been a long time, eh son? ... The last time was on the planet M-2." However, Baby last saw (and possessed) Trunks on the planet Pital, not M-2.
* When Baby uses the Dragon Balls to revive Planet Vegeta, he makes all of Earth's inhabitants move there. This is despite the fact that, as stated in the Saiyan and Frieza saga, Planet Vegeta's atmosphere is too heavy for normal Earthlings to handle. By all accounts, the Earthlings shouldn't be able to even stand on that planet.



* In the Tenkaichi Budokai, Uub, as Papayaman, wears a helmet during the tournament but head wear is prohibited while competing.



** During the Super 17 Saga, deceased villains in Hell and on Earth are shown without halos, despite being crowned with them in filler episodes of Dragon Ball Z, but they have ones while waiting in front of the Check-In Station.



* When 17 attempts to control 18, Krillin states that 17 hates Dr. Gero. He states that the reason why is because he gave 17 human emotions. However, it was stated earlier, during Dragon Ball Z, that 17 hated Gero because the doctor kidnapped him and his sister off the streets and forcibly turned them into androids. Counts as a DubInducedPlotHole as well, seeing as the original Japanese version does not go into the specifics regarding why 17 hated Gero.
* 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.



* 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.

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* When facing Rilldo, Son Gohan transforms into a Super Saiyan...despite Goku states the fact that Dragon Balls can be used to revive Krillin, however, the Ultimate/Mystic transformation unlocked to him by Old Kai in the Majin Buu saga is supposed to Dragon Balls have his fighting capacity maxed at all times. This is explained in ''Super'' as previously revived him being out in Dragon Ball which makes it impossible to use them to revive him again. Later, Krillin is revived when the Dragon Balls are used to bring everyone back, even though they should be incapable of practice as a fighter, so he's not able to reach his full power anymore unless he trains again.
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* Similar to the above example, among the revived fighters from hell is Android 19. Android 19 is a fully mechanical creation of Gero, so unless he created another 19, is impossible for him to be on hell due to lacking a soul.
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** This is mostly due to the "Dragon Ball Minus" bonus chapter at the tail end of ''Manga/JacoTheGalacticPatrolman'', where Bardock was redesigned and Goku's mother, Gine, was finally introduced. The beginning of this Broly movie effectively retells and expands upon part of the chapter, but then inserts the "Father of Goku" scene reference in there, trying to amend both to some degree. However, it also means that the original OVA's been completely rewritten over in canon as a result.
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** During the fight between Super Saiyan God Goku and Beerus in the extended edition of Battle of Gods, we actually ''see'' a dinosaur. So that may have been the intention...

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** During the fight between Super Saiyan God Goku and Beerus in the extended edition of Battle of Gods, we actually ''see'' a dinosaur. [[https://i.stack.imgur.com/1WhSV.jpg dinosaur]]. So that may have been the intention...intention, or some people involved in the animation either missed that part of the script, or wanted to deliberately contradict it.
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** During the fight between Super Saiyan God Goku and Beerus in the extended edition of Battle of Gods, we actually ''see'' a dinosaur. So that may have been the intention...
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* The of episodes 73-74 of the anime is about a movie studio making a movie about the Great Saiyaman, but no one knows who is the real identity of the hero. This contradicts the events of the Majin Buu saga where not only did Gohan classmates discovered who he was and publically yelled his name during said tournament, he himself went against Kibito without wearing his sunglasses and went Super Saiyan. It could be argued the wish to make everyone forget all the events with Majin Buu made everyone forget Gohan's identity, but this is never stated anywhere.

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* The plot of episodes 73-74 of the anime is about a movie studio making a movie about the Great Saiyaman, but no one knows who is the real identity of the hero. This contradicts the events of the Majin Buu saga where not only did Gohan classmates discovered who he was and publically yelled his name during said tournament, he himself went against Kibito without wearing his sunglasses and went Super Saiyan. It could be argued the wish to make everyone forget all the events with Majin Buu made everyone forget Gohan's identity, but this is never stated anywhere.
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* The of episodes 73-74 of the anime is about a movie studio making a movie about the Great Saiyaman, but no one knows who is the real identity of the hero. This contradicts the events of the Majin Buu saga where not only did Gohan classmates discovered who he was and publically yelled his name during said tournament, he himself went against Kibito without wearing his sunglasses and went Super Saiyan. It could be argued the wish to make everyone forget all the events with Majin Buu made everyone forget Gohan's identity, but this is never stated anywhere.

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* In episode 109 of the anime, during the Tournament of Power, Krillin states that the Spirit Bomb cannot be used by a Super Saiyan, as their hearts are polluted by rage and a Spirit Bomb requires a pure heart. This contradicts both the original story (where Goku fired a Spirit Bomb against Kid Buu as a Super Saiyan) and even another anime-only ''Super'' sequence (Trunks subconsciously gathering energy for his "Spirit Sword" as a Super Saiyan). It seems that
Hiroshi Yamaguchi confused one of the NonSerialMovie climaxes with an event from the main series. At the end of ''Super Android 13'', Krillin says the same thing; this was well before the fight with Buu, so the writer of the film Takao Koyama didn't know it at the time.

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* In episode 109 of the anime, during the Tournament of Power, Krillin states that the Spirit Bomb cannot be used by a Super Saiyan, as their hearts are polluted by rage and a Spirit Bomb requires a pure heart. This contradicts both the original story (where Goku fired a Spirit Bomb against Kid Buu as a Super Saiyan) and even another anime-only ''Super'' sequence (Trunks subconsciously gathering energy for his "Spirit Sword" as a Super Saiyan). It seems that
that Hiroshi Yamaguchi confused one of the NonSerialMovie climaxes with an event from the main series. At the end of ''Super Android 13'', Krillin says the same thing; this was well before the fight with Buu, so the writer of the film Takao Koyama didn't know it at the time.
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* In the 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. This is later handwaved by Piccolo acknowledging he forgot how time worked and Buu had actually slaughtered everyone on the lookout in the span of seconds.
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* In the 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.

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* In the 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 This is later handwaved by Piccolo acknowledging he forgot how time worked and Buu had actually slaughtered everyone on the lookout in the span of seconds.

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* In the anime version of ''Super'', during the Tournament of Power, Krillin states that the Spirit Bomb cannot be used by a Super Saiyan, as their hearts are polluted by rage and a Spirit Bomb requires a pure heart. This contradicts both the original story (where Goku fired a Spirit Bomb against Kid Buu as a Super Saiyan) and even another anime-only ''Super'' sequence (Trunks subconsciously gathering energy for his "Spirit Sword" as a Super Saiyan). It seems that Toei confused one of the NonSerialMovie climaxes with an event from the main series. At the end of ''Super Android 13'', Krillin says the same thing; this was well before the fight with Buu, so the creators of the film didn't know it at the time.
* In the same episode, Tenshinhan refers to the Spirit Bomb as the "final trump card that always saved us." Again, this seems to be a case of Toei mixing the movies with the main series: while it did kill several NonSerialMovie villains such as Uiro, Tullece, Slug, and Android 13, it only ever worked once in the main story. Even then, just barely (against Kid Buu).

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* In episode 109 of the anime version of ''Super'', anime, during the Tournament of Power, Krillin states that the Spirit Bomb cannot be used by a Super Saiyan, as their hearts are polluted by rage and a Spirit Bomb requires a pure heart. This contradicts both the original story (where Goku fired a Spirit Bomb against Kid Buu as a Super Saiyan) and even another anime-only ''Super'' sequence (Trunks subconsciously gathering energy for his "Spirit Sword" as a Super Saiyan). It seems that Toei that
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confused one of the NonSerialMovie climaxes with an event from the main series. At the end of ''Super Android 13'', Krillin says the same thing; this was well before the fight with Buu, so the creators writer of the film Takao Koyama didn't know it at the time.
* In the same episode, Tenshinhan refers to the Spirit Bomb as the "final trump card that always saved us." Again, this seems to be a case of Toei the writer mixing the movies with the main series: while it did kill several NonSerialMovie villains such as Uiro, Tullece, Slug, and Android 13, it only ever worked once in the main story. Even then, just barely (against Kid Buu).
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* In episode 33, Baby feels the need to check Vegeta's memories to know what a Great Ape is... ''despite the fact Baby already knew what one is'', as the Tuffles were crushed by them in his own words.
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* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', we have a look at Bardock final stand against Freeza before being obliterated by his Supernova. While the image is clearly a homage to the [[Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku Father of Goku special]] and in fact doesn't contradict anything shown in the original manga (with the only possible exception being Bardock armor colors, which is hardly a big deal if you remember [[AdaptationDyeJob Freeza colors in the same movie]]), there is however one thing that contradicts his manga appearance and is the lack of his iconic bandanna.

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* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', we have a look at Bardock final stand against Freeza before being obliterated by his Supernova. While the image is clearly a homage to the [[Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku Father of Goku special]] and in fact doesn't contradict anything shown in the original manga (with the only possible exception being Bardock armor colors, which is hardly a big deal if you remember [[AdaptationDyeJob Freeza colors in the same movie]]), there is however one thing two details that contradicts contradict his manga appearance and is the lack of his iconic bandanna.bandanna and his armor having a right shoulder pad.
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* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', we have a look at Bardock final stand against Freeza before being obliterated by his Supernova. While the image is clearly a homage to the [[Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku Father of Goku special]] and in fact doesn't contradict anything shown in the original manga (with the only possible exception being Bardock armor colors, which is hardly a big deal if you remember [[AdaptationDyeJob Freeza colors in the same movie]], there is however one thing that contradicts his manga appearance and is the lack of his iconic bandanna.

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* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', we have a look at Bardock final stand against Freeza before being obliterated by his Supernova. While the image is clearly a homage to the [[Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku Father of Goku special]] and in fact doesn't contradict anything shown in the original manga (with the only possible exception being Bardock armor colors, which is hardly a big deal if you remember [[AdaptationDyeJob Freeza colors in the same movie]], movie]]), there is however one thing that contradicts his manga appearance and is the lack of his iconic bandanna.
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* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', we have a look at Bardock final stand against Freeza before being obliterated by his Supernova. While the image is clearly a homage to the [[Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku Father of Goku special]] and in fact doesn't contradict anything shown in the original manga (with the only possible exception being Bardock armor colors, which is hardly a big deal if you remember [[AdaptationDyeJob Freeza colors in the same movie]], there is however one thing that contradicts his manga appearance and is the lack of his iconic bandanna.

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* Android 16's death. Since he is fully robotic, it is stated 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, as she's shown safe and well in ''Super'') are revived. What happened to 16, then?
** 16 didn't return because the wish was to resurrect everyone killed by Majin Buu, which Android 16 wasn't. Doesn't erase the wish plothole, though.
** Important to note that they also wished to restore the Earth as it had been destroyed by Buu, this brought back man-made constructions and is potentially why Android 8 or Arale were revived as well.
* Cell states his offsprings, the Cell Jr., have the same powers as him. Yet, when they are killed by Gohan, they don't regenerate at all.
** This was corrected in the manga of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', where they were revealed to have survived, but were tamed by Android 17 to help him with his ranger activities.

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* Android 16's death.death is a possible example. Since he is fully robotic, it is stated 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, as she's shown safe and well in ''Super'') are revived. What happened to 16, then?
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then? It's actually a case of ExactWords: the wish that 16 was to resurrect excluded from was "revive everyone killed by Majin Buu, which Android 16 wasn't. Doesn't erase the Cell." The wish plothole, though.
** Important to note
that they also wished revived Arale and 8 (and everyone else) was more generally to restore the Earth as it had been destroyed by Buu, this brought back everything that was destroyed. This would include man-made constructions objects such as buildings, vehicles, and is potentially why Android 8 or Arale were revived as well.
yes, robots.
* Cell states his offsprings, the Cell Jr., have the same powers as him. Yet, when they are killed by Gohan, they don't regenerate at all. \n** This was corrected nearly 30 years later in the manga of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', where they were revealed to have survived, but were tamed by Android 17 to help him with his ranger activities.



* 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 more convulted, his future counterpart looked his age in both the manga and the ''History of Trunks'' special. The same applies to Goten and Marron, whose designs haven't changed.

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* 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 more convulted, convoluted, his future counterpart looked his age in both the manga and the ''History of Trunks'' special. The same applies to Goten and Marron, whose designs haven't changed.



* 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 the Namekian Dragon Balls (as they explicitly 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.

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* In the anime version of ''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 the Namekian Dragon Balls (as they explicitly 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. Not present in the movie or the manga versions of the story.



* 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, but in the same chapter, it states he was around for 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 timeline, 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.

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* 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, but in the same chapter, it states he was around for 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 timeline, 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. This is a continuation of a plethora of problems concerning Shin's age; he says he's older than 5 million in the original manga, [[http://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/saikyo-jump-june-2014-issue-twel-buu-mysteries/ but Toriyama]] stated in 2014 that Supreme Kais only live for around 75 ''thousand'' years. So the manga was probably treating that as a retcon. Then, to make things even more convoluted, the manga went back to the original "5 million years ago" timeline in the Moro arc, via the narration of a flashback to when Buu fought the Supreme Kais.


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* In the anime version of ''Super'', during the Tournament of Power, Krillin states that the Spirit Bomb cannot be used by a Super Saiyan, as their hearts are polluted by rage and a Spirit Bomb requires a pure heart. This contradicts both the original story (where Goku fired a Spirit Bomb against Kid Buu as a Super Saiyan) and even another anime-only ''Super'' sequence (Trunks subconsciously gathering energy for his "Spirit Sword" as a Super Saiyan). It seems that Toei confused one of the NonSerialMovie climaxes with an event from the main series. At the end of ''Super Android 13'', Krillin says the same thing; this was well before the fight with Buu, so the creators of the film didn't know it at the time.
* In the same episode, Tenshinhan refers to the Spirit Bomb as the "final trump card that always saved us." Again, this seems to be a case of Toei mixing the movies with the main series: while it did kill several NonSerialMovie villains such as Uiro, Tullece, Slug, and Android 13, it only ever worked once in the main story. Even then, just barely (against Kid Buu).
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* During Vegeta's encounter with Baby in episode 27, Vegeta senses Baby's energy and recognizes him as a Tsufurian/Tuffle. ''This makes absolutely no sense'' for the following reasons: 1) Tuffles were already extinct by the time Vegeta was even born, meaning he has no reason to be able to remember a race he never met's energy, and 2) Vegeta wasn't even able to sense energy before the Namek saga.

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* During Vegeta's encounter with Baby in episode 27, Vegeta senses Baby's energy and recognizes him as a Tsufurian/Tuffle. ''This makes absolutely no sense'' for the following reasons: 1) Tuffles were already extinct by the time Vegeta was even born, meaning he has no reason to be able to remember a race he never met's energy, met, and 2) Vegeta wasn't even able to sense energy before the Namek saga.
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* 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 killed the Z-Fighters in Heaven they would [CessationOfExistence cease to exist]].

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* 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 killed the Z-Fighters in Heaven they would [CessationOfExistence [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]].



* A [[GrandTheftMe Baby-possessed Gohan]] seemingly vaporizes Piccolo and Goten. However both later appear unharmed episodes later.

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* During Vegeta's encounter with Baby in episode 27, Vegeta senses Baby's energy and recognizes him as a Tsufurian/Tuffle. ''This makes absolutely no sense'' for the following reasons: 1) Tuffles were already extinct by the time Vegeta was even born, meaning he has no reason to be able to remember a race he never met's energy, and 2) Vegeta wasn't even able to sense energy before the Namek saga.

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* Due to filler in ''Z'' having introduced what happens after death before Toriyama had completely explained it, there ends up being two conflicting ideologies for what happens in the afterlife. The Toei filler version is more close to a Western view of the afterlife, with a Heaven and general Hell, while Toriyama's is more of a Buddhist view with a purgatory, reincarnation, and more personalized Hells, as well as there being a process of draining you of all your evil if you were bad in life. Both end up clashing in the Buu Saga, due to Toriyama finally explaining more of how death works in the series, but Toei kept to their version for filler scenes. This also creates a contradiction within ''Kai: The Final Chapters'', which was part of a series created to be more close to the manga, since the kept in a few of the Hell scenes from the Buu Saga that showed the villains in Hell watching Goku fight Buu for no reason. It creates a further contradiction for ''Resurrection 'F''', which shows Frieza in a personalized Hell rather than the general one from ''Z'', which confused many fans who didn't know about this discrepancy.



* 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 more convulted, his future counterpart looked his age in both the manga and the ''History of Trunks'' special. The same applies to Goten and Marron, whose designs haven't changed.

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* Trunks 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 more convulted, his future counterpart looked his age in both the manga and the ''History of Trunks'' special. The same applies to Goten and Marron, whose designs haven't changed.



** 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 twp Trunks' hair colors.

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** 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 twp two Trunks' hair colors.colors. It's not even questioned within the series itself.

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