Well, ain't that some coincidence?
Dragon Ball Multiverse started prior to Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods reviving the franchise, (outside of the occasional fighting game every year) meaning that the material created since, especially Dragon Ball Super, gives us plenty of examples:- Salagir stated that Goku and Vegeta haven't gotten much stronger since the Buu Saga despite twenty years passing and that Ultimate Gohan is way above them in terms of power. In the material from The New '10s Goku and Vegeta took several levels of badass since the Buu Saga, specifically becoming Physical Gods, with Gohan falling behind - taking until the Tournament of Power to catch back up to Blue Goku, who can still pull ahead of Gohan with Kaioken. Still, that short time span shows Gohan can easily catch up if he was properly motivated. He is able to nearly ring to restrain Dyspo even after using a power up that made Golden Freeza unable to touch him in the anime and fight Kefla to a draw in the manga, proving him among the top five of Universe Seven's team.
- Frieza's Butt-Monkey status is particularly hilarious given the Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' movie where he's Post-Battle of Gods Goku's level. As in, Resurrection 'F' Frieza would mop the floor with all the fighters in the tournament, being stronger than a Super Saiyan Blue Goku and Vegeta in terms of raw strength at the time of his resurrection. Even funnier since everyone in the web comic was shocked that King Cold could become as strong as Perfect Cell and it took him decades to become that powerful. Frieza only took four months. Then supplemental material like the Heroes manga made Cooler even stronger than that with no explanation.
- During the tournament, Goku is stunned when he feels Bra's power as a Super Saiyan, proclaiming her stronger than Vegeta and him. With Battle of Gods, Resurrection 'F' and Dragon Ball Super, this line comes off as unintentionally funny since Goku and Vegeta are stronger than Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks even without using God forms, and that was during the Champa Saga.
- U16's Vegito being seen as a benevolent god who has no equal in his universe comes off as hilarious since he would be little more than a flea compared to the Gods of Destruction, their angels, and the high tiers of Dragon Ball Super. And let's not even get into Zen'o, who can wipe out universes in the blink of an eye. Considering his personality though, that news would make him extremely happy.
- Goku said that he didn't teach Pan the Kaioken because it would be useless to her since she would eventually learn Super Saiyan. In Super with Super Saiyan Blue, it's possible to combine the Kaioken with a Super Saiyan form. Not only that, Pan was born of a still very powerful Gohan, and by age ONE she could already fly and use ki attacks, something her father at that age could not even dream of achieving.
- In general, the high tiers of Dragon Ball Super like Beerus, Hit, Goku Black/Fusion Zamasu, Toppo, Kefla, Anilaza, Broly, Moro and especially Jiren would stomp the entire tournament. And even they wouldn't be able to hold a candle to the Angels, or god help them, Zen'o.
- In Multiverse, Goku's mom is a hardcore Saiyan warrior who was the strongest Saiyan alive. Goku's canonical mother is the exact opposite, being a weak, soft-hearted person who wasn't cut off for battle. And then, Super introduced Caulifla, a female Saiyan from Universe 6 who actually looks and acts more like the Multiverse version of Goku's mom and even fulfills the criteria of being one of the strongest Saiyans from her universe.
- In Universes 1 and 10, the Supreme Kais dropped their oath of non-intervention and killed Broly, the Frost Demons, and Bibidi before they could become threats, all in the name of the 'greater good'. Super introduces Zamasu, a Supreme Kai-in-training who adopts a similar philosophy... but takes it much further, developing into a Knight Templar, Omnicidal Maniac who wants to kill all mortals since he believes they'll never be anything more than violent savages. For bonus points, Zamasu also comes from Universe 10, just Akira Toriyama's version of it.
- Years after being a fan premise, Super made a "inter-universal battle" a reality, first with the U6 and U7 Tournament Arc and then with the Tournament of Power battle royale. It's made even funnier when, just like Multiverse, the main universe in Dragon Ball averts The Earth-Prime Theory.
- On a similar vein, that this is a battle between timelines was eventually used in official content at least three times (Dragon Ball Legends, Dragon Ball: Fusions and Super Dragon Ball Heroes).
- Also funny, Vegeta specifically asked for a written test so mindless monsters wouldn't be allowed to fight, probably because he's thinking of Kid Buu. The Vargas really could've used such a test instead of just throwing Broly into the ring.
- In a more specific example, both stories have an alternate universe where we see what the Saiyans would be if Frieza hadn't existed. Multiverse's Universe 10 shows them as barely better than cavemen and so ridiculously weak that even turning into Great Apes can't help them, while Super's 6th Universe shows them as becoming a race of noble heroes who have evolved beyond the need for tails, and one member is powerful enough to impress his universe's God of Destruction. Cabba, the Saiyan from U6, is strong enough to fight evenly against Vegeta in his base form, after he has been training with Whis. For reference, in Super, base form Vegeta is stronger than Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks to the point that he can No-Sell hits from him and takes Gotenks down in a couple of attacks. Then the Universe Survival Saga made it even funnier by revealing that Universe 6 has its own Legendary Super Saiyan, although Super's version was called Berserker Super Saiyan, which also applies to the Super version of Broly.
- Also related to Frieza and his clan's Butt-Monkey status, U6 has a Good Counterpart (although we find out he's just as evil as Frieza in the anime) to Frieza in Frost. He's even stronger than Frieza even after he trained, although he lacks Frieza's golden transformation.
- Before the release of Resurrection 'F', Multiverse had a short script of Piccolo finger flicking Frieza and causing his head to explode, making fun of the idea of Frieza's revival given how weak he would be compared to the rest of the cast. In the retelling, Frieza kills Piccolo with one Death Beam, in his weakest form, while sitting in his hover chair.
- How the multiverse works in the web series is vastly different from Toriyama's version. For one, the "multiverse" isn't just different timelines, they are their own physical universes with only the twin universes sharing the same planets and species. Splitting a timeline doesn't just split a universe, it splits ALL extant universes on that timeline as well. Second, there are only seven official timelines as of this writing (two that were created during the Future Trunks Saga by Beerus and Whis). Instead of endless timelines being created through 'what ifs', time is linear unless it is altered by outside forces, which causes a new timeline to be form (there were an infinite amount of timelines discovered after the events of the original manga run in Dragon Ball Online, so this could still end up being true in the Dragon Ball Super continuities.)
- The controversies surrounding the "Mirai" special (see Ass Pull in the YMMV page) regarding that timeline's version of the Buu Saga got thrown into pretty sharp relief when Super handled the same plot without getting nearly as complex: Future Trunks got warned about Babidi by the Supreme Kai, trained with the Z-Sword to become more powerful, and became strong enough to defeat Dabura and Babidi before they could revive Buu.
- Future Trunks in Multiverse is very powerful, but he never achieved Super Saiyan 2. Instead, he mastered his Super Saiyan Grade 3 form to be used in small bursts, giving him the power of a Super Saiyan 2 without losing speed. In Super, Trunks can become a Super Saiyan 2 and is at least as strong as Super Saiyan 2 Goku and Vegeta from the Buu Saga since he was able to deal with Dabura by himself. In the manga, Trunks is evenly matched against Super Saiyan 3 Goku. It then goes a step further when Trunks achieves Super Saiyan Rage, a form that seems to be just shy of Super Saiyan Blue in power.
- In Super, while sparring with Vegeta, Future Trunks uses his Super Saiyan Grade 3 form after Vegeta reveals his Super Saiyan Blue form. Vegeta becomes upset at Trunks for using a slow, obsolete form, and charges him, only for Trunks to suddenly go back to Super Saiyan 2 and attack. This is similar to how Trunks was able to keep up with Super Saiyan 2 Vegeta during their match in Multiverse, using Super Saiyan Grade 3 to attack and then reverting to a normal Super Saiyan so his speed doesn't decrease. In Super's case, Trunks only used Super Saiyan Grade 3 to catch Vegeta off-guard.
- Dragon Ball Super reveals that non-Supreme Kais can only stay fused for one hour if they wear the Potara Earrings. This casts the whole of Universe 16 into a much funnier light. For one, the Kais considering Universe 16 Vegito's existence "blasphemy" makes even more sense when this plot twist means he shouldn't have existed long enough to father Bra into her late teens. There's also the matter of Universe 16 Bra, as her specific characterization and life only differ from the canonical Bra's because of Vegito being her father. It also makes the Kais sound even more like Zamasu since they actually said that mortals fusing is a sin, and the mortals should stop trying to copy the gods. One seriously wonders how Salagir would have chosen to make Universe 16 different from the canonical universe if the one hour time limit had existed before Multiverse began.
- Made even more hilarious in hindsight when you realize that in both versions of Super, Shin and Kibito managed to separate after being fused via the Potara by asking Porunga to break the fusion apart, meaning that even if the fusion was permanent, Porunga could just revert Vegito back into Goku and Vegeta.
- The entirety of U13 became hilarious with the release of Super Dragon Ball Heroes, whose first few expansions included versions of Vegeta, Nappa, and Raditz who had achieved not just Super Saiyan, but Super Saiyan 3 before they ever came to Earth.
- During the Universe Survival Saga, there's a scene where Goku comes up with the idea of Team Universe 7 using Senzu beans mid-battle, only for Whis to shoot it down by saying it'd be against the rules and would just piss off Zen'o. Now recall all the controversy over Bra using Senzu hidden in her gloves during her fight with King Cold...
- In Multiverse, Future Android 17 and 18 are revealed to have become defective and less powerful after going years without a tuneup. When 17 showed up in Super, he's revealed to have been training and has managed to hit god-tier all on his own, both in anime and manga. It helps that according to the official guide books the Androids are still mostly human with biological enhancements and their only mechanical modifications being their infinite energy power sources and shutoffs that have to be externally triggered via remotenote .
- U19's characters are all named for appliance manufacturers, like Phipsil (Philips) and Magsuns (Samsung). In Super we have Universe 11's Pride Troopers, whose names come from the appliances themselves, like Jiren (range) and Dyspo (disposal).
- Universe 19 are pretty minor characters who are Out of Focus, Overshadowed by Awesome, using powered armors and technology to fight the tournament. Sounds pretty similar to Universe 3 in Super, a universe who use cyborgs and machines to fight during the Tournament of Power.
- Related to the above, Hatchiyack's appereance in Multiverse becomes funnier in Super when Universe 3 would use a Hatchiyack expy in the form of Anilaza who, while both appear for a very short time (Some pages and one episode of Super), would show more creativity in his fighting style compared to its inspiration.
- U7 has a Super Namekian named Gast, originally Nail of U7, who fused with every other member of his race on Namek to beat Freeza before going on to beat Cell and Majin Buu too. In Super the two Namekians of Universe 6, Saonel and Pirina, are revealed to be so strong because after they learned about the Tournament of Power and what was at stake, a massive amount of other Namekians volunteered to fuse with them and give them strength for the tournament. But rather than being on Super Vegito's levels, they're only relative to Ultimate Gohan in the Dragon Ball Super anime and they're weaklings who are tossed aside like trash by Kale in the Dragon Ball Super manga. The Moro Saga of Super makes this even more comical, as a warrior made up of dozens of fused Namekians in "our" universe is casually killed in seconds by Moro, who mocks them (him?) for the effort.
- Dragon Ball Multiverse's version of Universe 10 has the worst performance in the tournament. Super's Universe 10 also proves to have the worst performance of any other team.
- Multiverse's Broly is a Base-Breaking Character due to the perception that he's a Creator's Pet, essentially being the "classic" version but ramped up even further until he can challenge Super Saiyan 3 Vegito. The movie Dragon Ball Super: Broly makes this hilarious all around, firstly because Akira Toriyama's version of the character is vastly more powerful than U20 Broly (his full power Super Saiyan form is stated by Goku to possibly be stronger than Beerus), but also because Toriyama's reimagining of the character completely throws out the original "crazed berserker" portrayal that serves as the basis for Salagir's version, instead making him a kind-hearted wildman akin to Tarzan. Additionally, whereas Salagir's Broly is constantly increasing in raw power, Toriyama's Broly becomes stronger because he adapts to his opponents and learns how to fight them over time. Finally, the movie ends with Goku actually befriending Broly, something that would be unimaginable with the original character or the Multiverse incarnation.
- Fans have noted how Bra as a Super Saiyan 2 has a strong resemblance to Kefla from Dragon Ball Super, even wearing similar looking outfits and having pretty similar personalities. Bra is the daughter of Vegito, a Potara fusion, while Kefla herself is a Potara fusion of Caulifla and Kale. Many fans have latched on to this coincidence, and Asura himself has done a lot of art of them comparing them to each other.
- Grand Supreme Kai in Dragon Ball Multiverse is shown to be an absolute joke, most prominent during the Majin Rebellion where he mostly stands on the sidelines before getting pathetically killed by Majin Bra. Super reveals that Grand Supreme Kai had magic that was capable of sealing the planet eater Moro's powers away. Had it not come at the cost of his own divine powers, he would have likely defeated Buu.
- Future Trunk's solution to the slow speed of Super Saiyan Grade 3 is to constantly switch between Grade 2 and Grade 3, only transforming right as he's about to attack. This is remarkably similar to how Goku and Vegeta solved the stamina issue with Super Saiyan Blue, with them constantly switching between Super Saiyan God and Super Saiyan Blue, only using it when attacking or defending.
- In his match against Hirudegarn, Cell uses Piccolo's ability to turn himself into a giant in order to go toe-to-toe with the demon. Come Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, the Big Bad is a kaiju-sized clone of Cell called Cell Max. Fittingly, Piccolo uses his giant form in order to fight Cell Max on equal footing.
- Arale being able to Curb-Stomp Android 18 via Rule of Funny is this after episode 69 of Dragon Ball Super, where she's able to do the same against Vegeta and Super Saiyan Blue Goku.
