History SeriesContinuityError / DragonBall

* 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 off-screen, is impossible for him to be on hell due to lacking a soul.

* Another mistake from the Super 17 Saga is the fact that, when Goku faces Freeza and Cell and kills them in Hell, they respawn. A plot point from the Buu Saga is that if Kid Buu killed the Z Fighters in Heaven they would [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]].

* After Tien Shinhan breaks Yamcha's left leg, he has a cast on his left leg in the manga. However, when he arrives to Goku and King Piccolo's battle, he has his cast on his right leg, and it remains on his right leg until it heals. Presumably, Toriyama forgot which leg was broken after only having to draw Yamcha from the waist up while he was in the airplane.

** 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).

* When Android 17 donates energy to Goku's Super Spirit Bomb to defeat Kid Buu, he says it's been a long time since he's heard Goku's voice, even though 17 had never met Goku. This is because in Toriyama's draft, it was Lunch who gave her energy in this panel. 'Manga/DragonBallSuper'' also fixes this, when Goku recruits 17 for the Tournament of Power.

* Another mistake from the Super 17 Saga is the fact that, when Goku faces Freeza and Cell and kills them in Hell, they respawn. A plot point from the Buu Saga (filler, but ''GT'' follows the anime continuity) is that if Kid Buu killed the Z Fighters in Heaven they would [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]].

* When Goku and Gohan visit Korin's Tower after training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, Gohan acts like he's never met Korin before, despite meeting him in the hospital after the fight with Vegeta.

** 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, which was purple in the manga but [[AdaptationDyeJob changed to blue in the anime]].

* A five-year old Bulma appears in ''Manga/JacoTheGalacticPatrolman'', while Goku is stated to be three years old when he's sent to Earth, making Bulma two years older than Goku. Apparently, Toriyama checked the beginning of ''Dragon Ball'' in which Goku says he's 14 and Bulma is 16, but in the next arc Goku says he's actually 12 after he learned to count, meaning he's actually four years younger than Bulma.

* 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 and ''Resurrection [='F'=]'' and ''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... which only makes his showing in ''GT'' look even worse retroactively because that series claims that Gohan ''did'' keep up with his training after ''Z''--[[InformedAttribute something that doesn't match his on-screen performance in the slightest]].

* A rather minor one. Vegeta states his new armor during the Freeza Saga (the one without shoulder guards) 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''.
* In the anime-only flashback of Vegeta abusing Guldo in episode 62, Vegeta is wearing his Namek Saga armor and missing his tail.

* 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 nearly 30 years later in the manga of ''Manga/DragonBallSuper'', where they were revealed to have survived, but were tamed by Android 17 to help him with his ranger activities.

* 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 Freeza in a personalized Hell rather than the general one from ''Z'', which confused many fans who didn't know about this discrepancy.

* 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, and 2) Vegeta wasn't even able to sense energy before the Namek saga.
* Baby tells Trunks during their reunion in episode 28 that they last met in Planet M-2. This isn't possible, as Baby possessed Trunks on the planet Pital in episode 24.

* 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.

* 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 Dr. Gero's androids when they were first introduced back in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' was that they didn't emit ki at all.
** 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 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.
* Another mistake from the Super 17 saga is the fact that, when Goku faces Freeza and Cell and kills them in Hell, they respawn. A plot point from the Majin Buu saga (filler, but ''GT'' follows the anime continuity) is that if Kid Buu killed the Z-Fighters in Heaven they would [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]].

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* Trunks' design is something of an issue for many viewers. Trunks, as of ''Battle of Gods'', 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 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.

** During the fight between Super Saiyan God Goku and Beerus in the extended edition of Battle of Gods, we actually ''see'' a [[https://i.stack.imgur.com/1WhSV.jpg dinosaur.]] So that may have been the intention, or some people involved in the animation either missed that part of the script, or wanted to deliberately contradict it.

* 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 ''Z'', where you can clearly tell 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.

* 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.
* 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. It could be argued that Goku only needs to be in his base form to gather the energy, as the spirit bomb he used against Buu was complete when he transformed, and he similarly turned into a Super Saiyan Blue when Jiren began puhsing back the completed spirit bomb.

* 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 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 Dabra 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 is able to match [=SS2=] Goku in sparring.
* 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]], there are two details that contradict his manga appearance: the lack of his iconic bandana and his armor having a right shoulder 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.

* 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 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.

** During the fight between Super Saiyan God Goku and Beerus in the extended edition of Battle of Gods, we actually ''see'' a [[https://i.stack.imgur.com/1WhSV.jpg dinosaur]]. So that may have been the intention, or some people involved in the animation either missed that part of the script, or wanted to deliberately contradict it.

* Baby revives Planet Vegeta with the Black Star Dragon balls, and in turn, moves the inhabitants of Earth in order to have slaves to rule. The problem comes from the Saiyan saga establishing Planet Vegeta has a different atmosphere than Earth, thus, it makes no sense Earthlings can even stand in there.

* Baby tells Trunks during their reunion in episode 28 that they last met in Planet M-2. This isn't possible, as Baby possesed Trunks on planet Pital in episode 24.
* Baby's wish to move all the inhabitants of Earth to the newly revived Planet Tuffle/Vegeta makes no sense, as it was previously established back in the Saiyan saga that Planet Vegeta's atmosphere is too heavy for normal Earthlings to handle. Earthlings shouldn't even stand in the planet.

* 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 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.

** 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.

* 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.
* 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.

* In the English dubs of both ''Z'' and ''Kai'', when Krillin and Future Trunks arrive at Goku's house, Yamcha recognizes Future Trunks and calls him by name, even though Yamcha left the fight with Androids 19 and 20 to take Goku home before Piccolo revealed his identity.

* 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 Androids 19 and 20 to take Goku home before Piccolo revealed his identity.

* 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''.

* 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 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).

* 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.

* During ''Super,'' it's brought up that a Supreme Kai and God of Destruction of a given universe are linked together similarly to how Piccolo and Kami used to be, so 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?

* When Android 17 donates energy to Goku's Super Spirit Bomb to defeat Kid Buu, he says it's been a long time since he's heard Goku's voice, even though 17 had never met Goku. This is because in Toriyama's draft, it was Lunch who gave her energy in this panel.

** 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?]] Like in the previous case, the anime fixes this; Bulma doesn't mention Dr. Gero at all when first meeting Trunks.

* A rather minor one. Vegeta states his new armor during the 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''.

* Android 16's 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? It's actually a case of ExactWords: the wish that 16 was excluded from was "revive everyone killed by Cell." The wish that revived Arale and 8 (and everyone else) was more generally to restore everything that was destroyed. This would include man-made objects such as buildings, vehicles, and 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. 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.

* Two incidents involving Yamcha in filler that didn't exist in the original manga.

* 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 Freeza in a personalized Hell rather than the general one from ''Z'', which confused many fans who didn't know about this discrepancy.

* In the Tenkaichi Budokai, Uub, as Papayaman, wears a helmet during the tournament but head wear is prohibited while competing.
* 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 Dr. Gero's androids when they were first introduced back in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' was that they didn't emit Ki at all.
** 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.
* Another mistake from the Super 17 saga is the fact that, when Goku faces 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 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.

* 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 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 is able to match [=SS2=] Goku in sparring.
* 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]], there are two details that contradict his manga appearance: the lack of his iconic bandanna and his armor having a right shoulder 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.

* 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.