Web Video / Masako X - Dragon Ball What-If

Masako X's Dragon Ball What If is a series of discussion videos on YouTube headed by Lawrence Simpson aka MasakoX of Team Four Star fame as part of his Dragon Ball Discussion series of YouTube videos.

As the title states, the videos are generally a series of "What If?" scenarios in which certain events play out differently from what happens in the main canon and explores the consequences of paths that weren't taken as a result. The series started off with What If DBZ Movies Were Canon and spiraled from there, with What If Raditz Turned Good? being the first of the more popular topics. Eventually, Masako decided to dedicate a week of these theories on the first of every month, but once Dragon Ball Super ended, it turned into two What ifs per week on a Tuesday and Saturday. They covered a wide range of topics. You can find the playlist here.

They are, as followed:

1. What If DBZ Movies Were Canon?: Covers how the movies could fit into the main story.
2. What If Senzu Beans Never Existed?: Senzu Beans have been a lifesaver for Goku in the past. So what would happen if they were never created?
3. What If Goku Never Met Bulma?: What if the trigger that started the whole DB series never happened?
4. What If Piccolo Fused Early?: Explores what would happen if Piccolo fused with Kami during the events of the Saiyan Saga.
5. What If Kid Goku Turned Super Saiyan?: What if Goku gained Super Saiyan earlier then expected? This was the first topic to be covered in more than one video.
6. What If Raditz Turned Good?: A story that follows Raditz in becoming a part of the Z Fighters. His most popular one by far.
7. What If Krillin Killed Vegeta on Namek?: Krillin unfortunately makes a bigger wound than intended and Dende refuses to heal Vegeta.
8. What If Trunks Was Stuck in the Past?: The time machine unfortunately blows-up leaving Trunks in the past
9. What If Dragon Balls Couldn’t Resurrect People?: Exactly What It Says on the Tin, Shenron can't resurrect people here.
10. What If Vegeta was the first Super Saiyan?: Delves into how the overall focus of Dragon Ball Z would have changed if Vegeta became a Super Saiyan first instead of Goku.
11. What If Future Gohan Survived?: What if Future Gohan has survived the Android fight that killed him in the canon story?
12. What If Vegito Stayed Fused?: What if Potara Fusion was actually permanent and Vegito never split?
13. What if Goku never learned instant transmission?: This scenario involves Goku missing learning the technique during his visit to Yardrat.
14. What If Gohan Was Earth's Hero?: A story where his actions are correctly recognized instead of Mr. Satan taking the credit.
15. What If Goku Married Bulma?: Instead of proposing to Chi-Chi, what if Goku had hooked up with Bulma instead?
16. What If Nappa Turned Good?: Follows Nappa if he was the one who turned over a new leaf instead of Vegeta.
17. What If Piccolo Never Saved Gohan?: The iconic scene of Piccolo saving Gohan doesn't occur.
18. What If Gine Went With Goku?: What if Goku's mother, Gine, had gone with Goku when he left Planet Vegeta shortly before Frieza destroyed it.
19. What If Broly Turned Good?: Initially done as an April Fool's Joke in 2018, this one sees Broly crash-landing on Earth after the events of his debut movie. But instead of continuing his rampage as depicted in the sequel film, he winds up suffering amnesia and meeting Goten, who befriends him.
20. What if Cell Turned Good?: What if, when Future Trunks and Krillin find present day Cell, they get Bulma to reprogram him for the capacity to do good?
21. What If Goku Was Female?: Just what it says, what if Goku was born a female.
22. What if Frieza saw Vegeta's potential?: What if Frieza made Vegeta one of his elite soldiers instead of treating him as an inferior soldier like in canon?
23. What if Bardock convinced the Saiyans?: What if Bardock convinced a group of Saiyans to leave Planet Vegeta with him prior to its destruction?
24. What if Gohan Went Super Saiyan First?: What if Gohan went Super Saiyan during the Saiyan Arc, after Nappa killed Piccolo?
25. What if Beerus never woke up?: What if Beerus never woke up in Battle of Gods?
26. What if Frieza Listened to Goku?: What if Frieza took Goku's advice rather than trying to kill Goku on Namek?
27. What if Buu was in the Tournament of Power?: What if Buu didn't fall asleep before the Tournament of Power?
28. What if Vegeta celebrated Christmas?: Vegeta gets put through Yet Another Christmas Carol; done as a three-parter in December 2018 mostly as a joke.
29. What if Frieza and Doctor Gero teamed up?: A mysterious stranger meets Dr. Gero and encourages him to team up with Frieza. What if Broly was in the Android Saga? is a continuation of this storyline involving the Dragon Ball Super Broly.
30. What if Trunks met Kid Bulma?: A glitch in the Time Machine sends Future Trunks to the start of Dragon Ball instead of the Android Saga.
31. What if Hercule trained with Roshi?: Another April Fool's special, where Mr. Satan studies under Master Roshi.
32. What if Goku won against Master Roshi?: In the main canon, Roshi entered the first tournament under the disguise of Jackie Chun to defeat his students so they wouldn't get swelled egos. So what would happen if that fear came to pass if Goku had managed to land the last blow in their fight?
33. What if Goku never hit his head?
34. What if the Supreme Kai wasn't useless?: What if Shin was more proactive in his duties?
35. What if Dragon Ball Z never happened?: Raditz never visits earth.
36. What if Vegeta never turned Good?: What if Vegeta gets his wish for immortality on Namek?
37. What if Future Trunks was you?:
38. What if Bulma trained like Goku?: After the 21nd World Martial Arts tournament, Bulma becomes interested in learning martial arts.
39. What if Gohan was the Legendary Super Saiyan?: Instead of his normal rage boosts, Gohan instead suffers from bouts of Unstoppable Rage.
40. What if we rewrote Dragon Ball Super?:
41. What if King Vegeta Could see the Future?: King Vegeta is the one to get visions from the future instead of Bardock
42. What if Zamasu did nothing wrong?: Instead of going genocidally insane, Zamasu takes a different approach with the Babarians of his universe.
43. What if Krillin Became a Saiyan?: Krillin wishes to be like Goku in the time skip between Dragon Ball and Z, which Shenron interprets as "like a Saiyan."
44. What if Goku Landed at Capsule Corp?: Instead of landing at Mount Paozu, what if Goku landed at Capsule Corp?
45. What if Frieza Turned Good?: What if Frieza really was humbled by his defeat and turned good?
46. What if Trunks and Mai Stayed in the Past?: What if after the Goku Black saga, Future Trunks and Mai stayed with the Z-Fighters instead of going to the new future?
47. What if Goku Black turned Good?: After taking over Goku's body, Zamasu begins to experience new feelings that puts him at odds with Future Zamasu and their plan.
48. What If Frieza had a son?: What if Kuriza was canon?
49. What If the Ginyu Force turned good?: 2020's April Fools special, where the Ginyu Force become good guys.
50. What If Yajirobe trained like Goku?: Instead of slacking off and becoming lazy, What if Yajirobe continued to train?
51. What If Frost was Actually Good?: Instead of being a carbon copy of Frieza, what if Frost was actually a good guy like he said he was?
52. What If Bardock Defeated Frieza?: What if the events of Bardock: The Father of Goku went differently?
53. What If Videl Was A Z-Fighter?: What if Gohan trained Videl more effectively?
54. What If The Farmer DEFEATED Raditz?: What if Raditz's arrival went differently?
55. What if Yamcha Destroyed the Universe?: 2021's April Fools special. Yamcha turns evil and attempts to end the universe.
56. What if Young Gine Was Sent To Earth?: 500k Subscribers Special. The events of Dragon Ball happened with an earlier generation.
57. What If Raditz Went To Earth Instead of Goku?: Instead of Kakarot being sent to Earth, what if Raditz was the one who was designated that planet?
58. What If Babidi Turned Good?: Instead of dying at Buu's hands, Goku manages to save Babidi.
59. What If Turles Turned Good?:
60. What If Mr. Satan Was Evil?: Mr. Satan buckles down on being the Earth's savior even more than in the original and becomes the King of the Earth.
61. What If Goten was Goku Black?: Zamasu decides to take Goten's body instead of Goku's body.
62. What If Frieza was the Universe 9 Destroyer?: Rather than work with Goku in the Tournement of Power, Frieza accepts Universe 9's offer and joins them.
63. What If Goku Never Met Bulma? (2021): A one-shot remake of the original.
64. What if Chi-Chi was a Z-Fighter?: A 13-part series about Chi-Chi officially joining the Dragon Team and fighting alongside Goku.
65. What If Caulifla Was Goku's Daughter?: In the April Fools What If of 2022, Caulifla and Gohan's births are swapped, thus making her the daughter of Goku.
66. What If Broly Was Raised By Beerus & Whis?: While looking around on his staff for planets Beerus could destory, Whis comes across Vampa, leading to the young Saiyan Broly being raised on the God of Destruction's planet.
67. What If Android 21 Raised Goku?: Instead of landing at Mount Paozu, Goku lands at the Red Ribbon Army Headquarters.
68. What If Goku Was Betrayed By Beerus?: Beerus, recognizing his complacency among Mortals, seeks to cut off any personal connections to Goku, seeing him as a source of his own weakness.
69. What if Goku never hit his head? (2022): A multi-part remake of the original.
70. What if Piccolo Had A Son?: In the future timeline, Piccolo, right before his demise, spits out an egg (much like his father). This leads to the birth of his son, Bansuri.
71. What if Hit Replaced Champa?: After what seemed like an eternity of being a destroyer, Champa is ready to retire after the Tournament of Power, and thinks he has found the perfect candidate for his replacement in the form of Hit.
72. What if Goku Met Bardock in HFIL?: Goku and Bardock meet during the events of the Other World Tournament.
73. What if the Granolah Saga Never Happened?:
74. What if Cooler Was Canonically Good?: Cooler is not only integrated into the canon timeline, but also evolves to be more heroic.
75. What if Gine Trained With Bardock?:
76. What if Frieza Was Betrayed by Cui?: Before Cui heads off to follow Vegeta, he learns about the latter's Zenkai boost on Earth, leading to him playing it safer and surviving the events of Namek. After landing on Earth, can he become a great hero? No? Well...what about a great salaryman? First Entry of the 2023 April Fools’ Monthly What If Special.
77. What if Oolong Was a Z-Fighter?: Oolong finds out that rather than being a normal talking pig, he is the reincarnation of a Celestial Being and has the potential to reach that strength again. Second Entry of the 2023 April Fools’ Monthly What If Special.
78. What if Goku had a SISTER?: Bardock and Gine have a daughter named Jocha in between Raditz and Goku, born with an unusually high power level and captured by the Saiyan elites for their use. Third Entry of the 2023 April Fools’ Monthly What If Special.
79. What if Bardock Was the Super Saiyan God?:
80. we failed: A What If? released on 07/14/2023, following the Z-Fighters in a Future timeline where they mourn Goku's death and Androids 17 and 18 were never unleashed onto the world, as Future Cell has already absorbed them.
81. a friend at the end of time: A one-shot about a post-defeat Zamasu encountering and befriending an alternate future Trunks after he lands in his universe
82. curse you black
83. What if Shenron was a Z-Fighter?: After being destroyed by King Piccolo, Shenron is resurrected by Kami into a human body to better understand humanity.
84. What If Kid Goku was Possessed by Zamasu: Zamasu makes his wish on the Super Dragon Balls to change places with Son Goku. However he finds himself not in Goku's current body, but in the past where Goku is still a child living with Grandpa Gohan.
85. What If Akira Toriyama got his original Android Saga?: What if Androids 17 and 18, as well as Cell, didn't exist? In this world, Androids 19 and 20 are Gero's masterworks rather than the biomechanical Cell.
86. What If Arale stayed with Goku?: In the Red Ribbon army saga, Arale from Doctor Slump appeared in a one-off Crossover episode. But instead of staying in Penguin Village, what if she went with Goku?
87. What If Tarble Trained on Earth?: King Vegeta decides to send his weaker son Tarble to a remote planet, Earth, to fend for themselves. Once there, they are found by Master Shen, leader of the Crane school.
88. What If the Devilmite Beam worked?: Spike the Devilman was recruited by the Z Fighters to fight against the Saiyans

• He has also done five lightning rounds, where he goes over smaller stories where changes are too minimal and/or end badly too quickly to justify a full length video, an FAQ, some What Ifs he will never do, and the occasional Round Table dicussion.

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Masako X's Dragon Ball What Ifs contain the following tropes:

What ifs with their own pages:

• What If Raditz Turned Good?
• What If Goku Married Bulma?
• What if Nappa Turned Good?
• What If Gine Went With Goku to Earth?
• What If Cell Turned Good?
• What If Goku Was Female?
• What If Goku Won Against Master Roshi?
• What If Bulma Trained Like Goku?
• What If Krillin Became a Saiyan?
• What If Goku Landed at Capsule Corp?
• What If Frieza Turned Good? and Revelation 'F'
• What If Zamasu Did Nothing Wrong?
• What If Videl Was A Z-Fighter?
• What If Cooler Was Canonically Good?
• What If Raditz Went To Earth Instead of Goku?

General

• Adaptational Upbringing Change: The series has several discussion videos about a character receiving a different upbringing than in canon, such as Goku being raised at Capsule Corp by the Briefs family rather than by Grandpa Gohan, and how this changes the trajectory of the character(s) involved.
• Ascended Extra: Quite a few What Ifs see King Cold be promoted from a minor villain into a full on main antagonist or at least prominent side villain.
  • Due to his nature as an Outside-Context Problem that no events on Earth will change, Raditz tends to get more time in the spotlight (usually as an event similar to "Rocks Fall, Everybody Dies.")
  • The Kaioken technique often ends up this, with many of the Dragon Team besides Goku learning it. The Instant Transmission also gets this treatment several What Ifs.
• Adaptational Badass: Even in What Ifs were they're not the main character, a great many characters turn out much stronger than in canon.
• Adaptational Heroism: The "..turned Good" ones naturally see certain villains now fighting on the side of good.
• Alternate Continuity: More or less, considering the Dragon Ball series works on the Multi-verse theory.
• April Fools' Day: Has made it a tradition to start a new what if each time it comes around. These stories usually involve more out there and bizarre premises than the usual stories.
• Beef Gate: Raditz is a league far above the threats shown up until his appearance. If the overall power is worse than that of Goku and co. in the original Saiyan Saga, then there will be heavier losses, if not a downright Downer Ending.
• Butt-Monkey:
  • If a story takes place before Dragon Ball and then to the Saiyan Saga, or towards it, expect Vegeta getting a receiving end of an ass-beating by someone. Especially against the likes of Bardock, Gine, Raditz, and Nappa.
  • Yamcha never gets Bulma, even in stories where they are closer together. The current exceptions are What if Nappa Turned Good?, What If Goku Was Female?, What If Gohan Went Super Saiyan First and What If Hercule Trained Like Goku.
  • Vegeta often winds up dying in his stories, at least the ones that cover The Saiyan Saga. Ones that start later tend to be lighter on him.
• Canon Immigrant: If the situation calls for it, he may use characters/plot points from the non-canon Dragon Ball movies. Current examples include Cooler, Androids 13-15, and Tapion.
• Demoted to Extra: Vegeta tends to be less relevant if a What-If starts before his first defeat in the Saiyan Saga, as he's usually killed off instead of allowed to escape as in canon. If he's lucky, he'll be revived later on.
• Fix Fic: Consistently glosses over the filler arcs, usually with the Running Gag below. Usually also changes the ending of the Goku Black arc to a less bleak one, as well.
• Game Changer: Raditz, surprisingly. Since Raditz is so much stronger than everyone on Earth at the time of his appearance, Raditz usually changes the game as soon as he appears. As nothing that changes the story on Earth affects things that happen in space, he will always appear and throw a wrench in the plans of everyone (assuming the change happened on Earth, rather than something in space, of course). For example, in the case where Pilaf gets his wish to rule the world, then he then starts a world war with the Red Ribbon Army. When Raditz shows up, he's much, much stronger than Goku was when he defeated the RR. As a consequence, both sides are obliterated with ease.
• Heel–Face Turn: A lot of the "...turned Good" ones are pretty much centered around these.
• Japanese Delinquents: His explanation as for why Goku and Gohan would still have black hair in the first Broly movie in "What If The Movies Were Canon? video is because Chi-Chi convinced them to temporarily ease their power levels since in Japan, blonde hair is associated with delinquency in Japan and it could significantly affect Gohan's interview for a prestigious private school.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: Masako enjoys this element with the Angels like Whis and points out that the Super writers used it a lot, too.
• Physical, Mystical, Technological: The trio of storylines where Bulma, Chi-Chi, and Videl are turned into Adaptational Badass Z-Fighters contrast each other in this way. Although all three of them start off on the martial arts training route, they eventually branch off in different ways.
  • Videl is the Physical. Her DNA is altered by giving birth to a Saiyan and being exposed to God Ki, making her a lot stronger in addition to her continuing her martial-arts training with Gohan.
  • Bulma is the Technological. She starts developing training and strength-enhancing tools and gear for herself to fight on the front lines, eventually donning a whole suit of Powered Armor and even a Humongous Mecha.
  • Chi-Chi is the Mystical. She is taken on by Fortuneteller Baba as an apprentice and learns to use magic and ki in concert, and grows to outmatch even Babidi in mysticism.
• Point of Divergence: Naturally, a lot of the What Ifs occur due to an event either not happening at all or happening differently than originally prescribed.
• Recurring Element: In general, the what-ifs have a consistent element and is having Gohan have a more protagonistic rule despite the character's pacificism, to the point the character of the video topic (like Vegetto and Broly) serve as an Author Avatar of Masako just to point out about his wasted potential.
  • Raditz radically shifting things when the change is made in the Pre-Z era, due to his (comparatively) immense power level and nature as an Outside-Context Problem.
  • If the story begins before/during The Saiyan Saga, expect Vegeta to wind up dead either during it or The Frieza Saga. As such, a different character winds up traveling back in time to warn the Z-Fighters, since Trunks was never born.
• Running Gag: When dealing with the infamous filler arcs, Masako tends to say the following:
  MasakoX: There is no *insert saga here*, moving on.
  • There’s also this for when he addresses possible complaints:
    But Masako, *insert complaint here*. UNSUBSCRIBED!
  • Occasionally, his buddies over at Team FourStar will make fun of Masako's videos. The "Deadpool vs. Cell," video had a fake ad for a Masako video called "What is Trunks' Fursona," while the intro to the 2018 DBCember said that Masako couldn't help because he was working on a video titled "What if Chiaotzu was Alt-Right?"
  • From some What-ifs that take place before Z he likes to say:
  MasakoX: That is until Raditz shows up!
  • Masako making an innuendo and then saying "Stop it!" to the viewer or himself.
• The Stations of the Canon:
  • In most of the stories, Future Trunks and his timeline are completely unaffected by whatever other changes might have taken place. This can create some awkwardness, as seen in the "What If Goku Married Bulma?" series where Trunks has to deal with the fact that he doesn't exist in this timeline. This gets subverted in the "What if Nappa Turned Good," story, though. However, Masako later admitted that grew to regret this decision because of the missed opportunities it created, and even went back to Retcon the "What if Raditz Turned Good" series to give Future Trunks' timeline a stronger connection to the overall story.
  • More generally, the fact that a lot of the series’ villains are Outside-Context Problems or otherwise out of the main characters’ hands until they actually show up means that most of the sagas happen in some form or another, most notably Raditz, the Androids, Buu, and Beerus. This is generally averted, however, with stories that have earlier Points of Divergence, and thus butterfly away even major arcs.
• Story-Breaker Power: Given the extremely wide power gap between the original Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, any of the scenarios that involve an ability or character getting backported to Dragon Ball^note What if Kid Goku went Super Saiyan, what if Trunks traveled back to the Dragon Ball age, what if Gine went to Earth with Goku usually results in massive Curb Stomp Battles in the characters' favor.
  • As mentioned, Raditz showing up in worlds where Goku wasn't a powerhouse mean that he's significantly stronger than anyone else, and any storylines tend to stop as soon as he arrives.
• Truly Single Parent: Since we know next to nothing about Frieza's race, Masako decided to allow them to reproduce asexually, though he doesn't specify if it involves cloning, parthenogenesis, or something else. What if Frieza Turned Good? involves King Cold wanting a new son, while What if Frieza Had a Son? is pretty obvious, and both stories have the characters just create a child ex nihilo by themselves, with no mention of a mate whatsoever.
• What If?: The central premise of all the videos.

What If Senzu Beans Never Existed?

• Downer Ending: One of the alternate Masako presented was that Goku is killed in his final fight with King Piccolo who then proceeds to take over the Earth... until the arrival of Raditz who kills Piccolo himself and then gives Earth to Frieza. SO It's a double-whammy downer ending.

What If Goku Never Met Bulma?

• The Bad Guys Win: This version is basically every antagonist in the entire series getting their way at one point or another due to Goku never starting The Hero's Journey.
• Death by Adaptation: Bulma and Oolong last until their confrontation with the Carrotizer Bunny, who turns them into carrots and eats them.
• Downer Ending: Again ends on a bad note, three times over even. For one, Bulma ends up dead halfway into the journey, Pilaf finds the balls they collected, collects the rest, makes his wish and takes over the world. This leads into a war with the Red Ribbon army that goes on until Raditz comes to Earth, deals with them, finds Goku and either kills him or indoctrinates him into the Frieza Force which Masako notes if the latter happened, would be Frieza's revenge against Bardock for standing up to him. Even worse, Frieza finds out about Capsule Corp and uses their technology for his own ends.
• Evil Versus Evil: Pilaf and his gang eventually gets into conflict with the Red Ribbon Army because both groups want full power over the world.
• Hero of Another Story: Up until the confrontation with the Monster Carrot, Bulma is more or less the main character for the story.
• Point of Divergence: The main premise of the episode, as Goku meeting Bulma is integral to his hero's journey.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Due to the premise, many prominent villains never die such as General Red, Raditz, and Frieza. And since he never left the desert, Yamcha is spared from being blown up by a Saibamen.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Bulma only got as far as she did because Goku generally was the heavy hitter in their travels against some of the more supernatural threats. No Goku, no protection, so naturally the confrontation with Monster Carrot doesn't end well.

What if Piccolo Fused Early?

• Adaptational Badass: Naturally, since he and Kami fuse during the Saiyan Saga.
• Everyone Lives: With the added power boost, Piccolo easily manhandles the Saibamen and Nappa, which allows Yamcha, Tien, and Chiaotzu to stay alive and, along with Goku, all work together to defeat Vegeta and force him to retreat.

What If Kid Goku Turned Super Saiyan?

• Adaptational Badass:
  • Everyone trains together with Goku and becomes a lot stronger. Since Goku never dies and is able to train with his sons, Gohan never stops training and Goten becomes more focused as a fighter.
  • Since Goku became a Super Saiyan early, Dr. Gero became aware of the transformation, and as a result, Android 19 and 20 are much more powerful.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: The series' main premise, being the Super Saiyan form debuting in the King Piccolo saga instead of the Frieza saga.
• Adapted Out: Piccolo is never born in this timeline as Goku swiftly kills King Piccolo.
• Anti-Climax: Goku's battle with Frieza goes a lot differently here than in canon. In his base form, he completely dominates both First and Second Form Frieza, and then when Frieza changes into his Third Form, Goku just goes Super Saiyan and wipes the floor with him even more. Frieza then asks for time to change into his Final Form, but at that point, Goku's grown so bored with the tyrant that he just blasts him to oblivion on the spot.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • With Kid Goku a Super Saiyan, he dominates King Piccolo and kills him, taking Kami with him. This also results in Krillin staying dead between Tamborine killing him and the Namek saga, and being a child again when he's revived. After using the Namekian Dragon Balls to bring Krillin back, Krillin convinces them to not bring Kami back so that King Piccolo stays dead.
  • Goku kills Frieza on Namek.
  • Due to being much more powerful, Android 19 dominates Vegeta and kills him. He is eventually brought back with the Dragon Balls.
  • The Z Fighters find Gero's lab and Trunks is able to destroy Android 17 in his pod before Cell shows up and absorbs 18 to become Semi-Perfect. Goku eventually destroys Cell, taking 18 with him.
  • Due to Gohan keeping up his training, he kills Dabura with ease and Dabura is never able to give Babidi the idea of turning Vegeta into a Majin. The battle provides Majin Buu with enough power to awaken, but Vegeta kills Babidi, then he, Goku, and Gohan are able to combine their power and completely vaporize Buu.
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: When Krillin is brought back with the Namekian Dragon Balls, he is still a kid. He eventually uses the Earth Dragon Balls to get an adult body.
• Point of Divergence:
  • Piccolo's absence is notable in this version due to Goku killing King Piccolo before he could spit out Piccolo's egg.
  • Since Goku never dies, he never goes to King Kai to learn the Kaioken and Spirit Bomb, and never learns the Fusion Dance from the Metamorans. Since Frieza is killed before he can blow up Namek, Goku never lands on Yardrat to learn Instant Transmission. Fortunately, he becomes powerful enough that these techniques are not needed.
  • Out of gratitude for the Z Fighters saving his world, Dende agrees to go with them to Earth to become its new Guardian and the source of the Dragon Balls.
  • Since Cell is killed long before the Cell Games, Mr. Satan is only famous for being the World Martial Arts Champion and is not hailed as the savior of the world.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • The much more powerful Goku kills Raditz with ease instead of having to sacrifice himself. Everyone then survives the Saiyan and Namek Sagas.
  • Goku then kills Cell instead of having to sacrifice himself.
  • Android 16 survives and joins the Z Fighters after Bulma reprograms him so he will not try to kill Goku.
• Story-Breaker Power: Naturally, due to the Super Saiyan 50x power multiplier. This is deconstructed at first, with the rage and power of the transformation leading Goku to kill King Piccolo before they can use the Dragon Balls, preventing their usage and ensuring that Krillin stays dead for much longer as well as preventing the birth of Piccolo Jr.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Since 18 was destroyed when Cell was destroyed, Krillin doesn't get to marry her. In the final part, MasakoX throws as an aside that he eventually marries Maron.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Unlike canon, Goku's rage and sorrow over finding Krillin dead after the second tournament arc triggers his transformation into a Super Saiyan right there and then instead of years later on Namek like it originally did.

What If Future Gohan Had Survived?

• Adaptational Badass: Gohan becomes the Super Saiyan God to face Beerus. He puts up a much better fight than Goku did because he embraced the transformation instead of being ashamed that he needed outside help to use it like Goku did, so the transformation lasts longer. This plus his Combat Pragmatist style means he lasts longer against Beerus. He and Trunks then achieve Super Saiyan Blue. Later, when Goku achieves Super Saiyan Blue Kaioken, he decides to teach it to Gohan, Trunks, and Vegeta. Future Gohan later gets Ultra Instinct during the tournament of power.
  • Future Trunks as well, due to training with Whis alongside Gohan. He even gains Super Saiyan Blue and is the one to kill Frieza when he comes back.
• Adaptational Heroism: Sort of. Future Cell is still around... but due to Goku and the Androids being dead, the time machine not existing, and the Z-Fighters all dwarfing him in power, has mainly been sulking about in the mountains drinking animals to survive. He's not necessarily good, but he's not a rampaging genocidal maniac. He later agrees to help create the Super Saiyan God (since he has Saiyan DNA) and then agrees to stay with Bulma in exchange for food.
• Adapted Out: The Goku Black Arc never happens due to Point of Divergence, since Trunks never went back in time in the first place and thus Zamasu's Start of Darkness never happens.
• Bittersweet Ending: In this rendition, Universe 7 actually loses in the Tournament of Power to Jiren since Gohan can't really tap into the Ultra Instinct power as well as Goku at the crucial moment of the battle, though luckily, Jiren wishes the universes back with his wish being that the tournament just be forgotten (albeit never getting the Character Development he got in the canon timeline since Gohan couldn't convince him to get stronger for the sake of others). Once the universe and Earth are restored, Gohan pleas with Beerus to give him another chance to control the power. Beerus does by bluffing to destroy the Earth if he's unsatisfied, giving Gohan the incentive to tap into the power more easily. The two battle with Gohan pushing Beerus to use all of his power, ultimately it ending in a tie when both are spent and fall unconscious in space. Whis saves the two, claiming Beerus "won" but was satisfied with the fight not to destroy the Earth to save face with the others and they head off. Beerus noting he'd have to start training more to keep up with Gohan's newfound power.
• Combination Attack: In a fitting form of irony, Gohan and Trunks take out Android 18 together in a similar fashion to how 17 and 18 killed Gohan in the main story.
• Canon Immigrant: Pikkon and Olibu from the Other World Saga filler are recruited to take part of the Tournament of Power.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Come time for the tournament with Universe 6, Hit actually manages to blitz through Vegeta, Trunks, Goku, and Gohan with relative ease since Goku isn't able to use Super Saiyan Blue Kaio-ken like he can in canon.
• Disappointed in You: Piccolo gets really disappointed when Gohan refuses to actually fight in the Tournament of Power.
• Everyone Lives: With the Androids dead, this allows the Earth to recover and Gohan and Trunks to learn of Namek from Popo. Bulma builds a ship, they head there and use the Namekian Dragon Balls to wish back everyone who died, except Goku because he died of natural causes. Later, when Beerus and Whis show up, Whis brings Goku back to life so the Super Saiyan God can be created.
• Handicapped Badass: Even missing one of his arms, Gohan is no less dangerous, managing to continue his training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber with Trunks and grows much stronger until he can outclass the Androids in strength by their next encounter. Heck, before that point, Bulma had offered to build a prosthetic for him but he refused until the matter with the Androids was settled. Eventually, he uses the Dragon Balls to get his arm back.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Future Cell never becomes a real threat, and prefers to stay hidden in the mountains and drink animals to survive. However, it's only because the Androids are dead and there are no time machine in this rendition, so since he stands no chance against the heroes as they are way out of his league, he prefers to lay low. He later agrees to help create the Super Saiyan God (since he has Saiyan DNA) and then agrees to stay with Bulma in exchange for food.
• Honor Before Reason: Gohan heavily protests his father giving Zeno the idea for the Tournament of Power, so although he joins Team Universe 7, he refuses to fight. He just stays in one spot and only defends himself if someone attacks him. This is reminiscent of his main timeline counterpart refusing to fight Cell.
• No-Sell: Piccolo and Pikkon are both from asexual species, so Ribrianne's love powers have no effect on them.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Goku, Gohan, and Caulifla get this when Goku provokes Kale into a fight and she nearly loses control of her transformation.
  • Gohan and Trunks when Jiren focuses his attention on them. Even more so when the pair try to fight him and naturally nothing fazes him.
• One-Winged Angel: After the Spirit Bomb nearly sucks Goku and Gohan into a black hole when they try to use it on Jiren, Gohan emerges with Ultra Instinct -SIGN-.
• Point of Divergence:
  • They later meet and befriend Supreme Kai, but he never takes them to the Z Sword, so Old Kai is still sealed in it.
  • Since nobody really connected with Hit, he refuses to work together with anybody and attacks and eliminates Olibu when he tries to form an Enemy Mine with him.
• Reconstruction: After the events of the original "History of Trunks" special Deconstructed the Death Is Cheap and Reset Button tropes the series loves to use, this alternate story brings them back. Once the androids are defeated, Trunks and Bulma head to New Namek (after getting directions from Goku and King Kai) and revive everyone they can, including most of the Dragon Team aside from Goku. Later, even Goku gets brought back by Whis, and Gohan gets his arm back between the Universe 6 and Tournament of Power arcs, essentially resetting everything back to before Goku contracted the heart virus.

What If Vegeta Was The First Super Saiyan?

• Adaptational Badass: Vegeta is, naturally, the first Super Saiyan. By the time the Android Saga comes around, he's obtained Super Saiyan Grade 2. He reaches Full Power Super Saiyan first and then he's able to reach Super Saiyan 2 before Gohan and defeats Cell. Eventually, he gets Super Saiyan 3, but realizes it's a pretty useless form due to the stamina drain.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Goku gets very resentful of Vegeta, with Vegeta constantly rubbing Goku's nose in the fact that he's stronger than Goku, with Goku becoming possessed by Babidi and becoming Majin Goku. The last straw is Vegeta forcing Dende to hide the fact that the Hyperbolic Time Chamber can be used more often, giving him an unfair edge.
  • Vegeta himself is even more haughty with his new powers, with him not even caring that his family is dead in the finale.
• A God Am I: After becoming the Super Saiyan God, Vegeta's ego grows so much he calls himself the Dragon Team's God.
• And I Must Scream: Evil Buu is horrified over the fact that Vegeta gained control over his body through sheer pride.
• Bring It: After SS Vegeta lands a hit on him, Frieza tries to save face and boast that he "let him do that". Vegeta then dares Frieza to punch him right on the cheek and doesn't even flinch when the fist makes contact.
• Combination Attack: Buuku and Gohan defeat Evil Buu with a Combined Kamehameha.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Downplayed in regards to Vegeta's battle with Frieza. Since he was slightly weaker than Goku before gaining the x50 multiplier of Super Saiyan, his new power level (125 million) is a lot closer to Frieza's (120 million) after ascending. This results in their fight being more evenly matched than it was originally, but once Frieza's Fatal Flaw kicks in, Vegeta quickly gains the upper hand. Then it's played straight.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Vegeta still gets beaten by the Androids and Perfect Cell, but due to him being more powerful than he was in canon, being at Super Saiyan Grade 2 against the Androids and Super Saiyan Grade 4/ Full Power Super Saiyan against Cell, he puts up a much better fight against them.
• Death by Adaptation: Since Goku doesn't know Instant Transmission in this what-if, Piccolo and Tien die trying to hold off Cell from absorbing the Androids.
• Downer Ending: Vegeta becomes the Super Saiyan God, further increasing his ego and making it so that the rest of the Dragon Team have no chance of catching up to him. He then manipulates Whis using partial truths so that he refuses to train Goku. This leads to Super Saiyan 3 Goku losing to Golden Frieza, and him blowing up the planet. Beerus then orders King Kai not to ask New Namek to revive everyone, since in this timeline he was only ever interested in Vegeta. To top it all off, the series ends with only member of the Dragon Team left alive being Vegeta, who gets to become the next God of Destruction for Universe 7.
• Enemy Mine: Goku willingly lets Good Buu absorb him to combat Evil Buu with Vegeta absorbed.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Much like in canon, Frieza's complete lack of fighting skill and inability to regulate his enormous power prove to be his ultimate downfall against Super Saiyan Vegeta on Namek, resulting in his death.
  • Super Saiyan 3's stamina bug is what causes Vegeta to be able to knock out Goku.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Because Vegeta was the first to turn Super Saiyan and managed to get his revenge against Frieza he somewhat mellows out compared to his canon counterpart. The price of this though is he never actually undergoes his real Heel Realization so now he's more akin to a Nominal Hero who's still a completely self-centered asshole to his allies.
• Irony: How the battle against Yakon plays out is this on a number of levels as Vegeta praises Gohan on using his head to defeat him as he rubs it in Goku's face. He uses the same method Goku did in canon (overloading him on ki) and in canon during this part, Vegeta was complaining about how Gohan let himself go in the 7-year age gap.
• In-Universe Catharsis: Vegeta is given a heaping dose of this during the climax of the Namek Saga; first, he ascends to Super Saiyan before Goku does, thereby surpassing his rival at last, and then uses his new power to finally achieve his life-long dream of killing Frieza and avenging the Saiyan race. The end result is that he is much more mellowed out and level-headed by the time of the Android Saga, although he is still prone to outbursts when he feels his dominance is being threatened.
• Point of Divergence: During his battle against Final Form Frieza in canon, Vegeta gave in to his despair and lost his will to fight when he proved no match for the tyrant. Here, though, his anger at himself for being weak, and well as his overwhelming hatred of Frieza in general, ignites his first transformation into a Super Saiyan before Goku even arrives to help, and the timeline diverges from there.
• Karmic Death:
  • After killing Vegeta's father, destroying the Saiyan homeworld, enslaving the survivors and subjecting Vegeta himself to years of abuse and humiliation all to prevent the Super Saiyan legend from coming true, Frieza finally gets what's coming to him on Namek when Vegeta transforms into one and rips the tyrant apart with savage glee before killing him at long last.
  • After trying to pull a "You Have Outlived Your Usefulness" against Goku, trying to make him explode the way Spopovich and Yamu did, Goku uses Instant Transmission and uses the last of his energy to kill Babidi, while also dying, himself
• Karma Houdini: What's Vegeta's punishment for acting like an absolute prick for the entire series? Being the only member of the Dragon Team left alive and getting to become the next God of Destruction.
• Kick the Dog: Vegeta, being a Nominal Hero here, goes out of his way to keep his allies from potentially getting stronger than him. This includes withholding information regarding how Goku and Gohan and further improve their Super Saiyan state. Also twice did Vegeta's actions play a catalyst in Goku dying in both the Cell and Buu sagas.
• One-Man Army: With the power of both Super Saiyan and Instant Transmission at his disposal, Vegeta single-handedly topples Frieza's entire empire following his escape from Namek and subsequent recovery on Yardrat. After killing King Cold, he travels from planet to planet laying waste to them and wiping out any and all of Frieza's followers in the process, leaving no survivors or loose ends that could potentially try to rebuild and get revenge on him later.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Goku's actions and attitude in the Buu saga after finding out about Vegeta hiding the fact that the Hyperbolic Time Chamber can be used more often from everyone else unsettles those that know him, culminating in him viciously beating Dabura to death.
• Pride: Vegeta's hallmark, of course. His pride even allows him some control over Buu after Buu absorbs him. In episode 8, Vegeta gains full control over Buu through this. Evil Buu eventually has to expel Vegeta because of his control over him.
• Swapped Roles:
  • Initially this seemed to be the case of Vegeta and Goku. Goku starts to go down a darker path triggered by Vegeta's actions. His death and revival during the Buu saga seemed to have finally set Goku back straight.
  • Goku ultimately ends up being the one to befriend Buu rather than Mr. Satan.
• Taking You with Me: After Babidi tries to have Goku die the same way he killed Spopovich and Yamu, but Goku kills Babidi with the last of his energy, dying himself.
• Victory by Endurance: Vegeta defeats Majin Goku by having him power up to Super Saiyan 3 and wasting all of his energy while Vegeta stayed at Super Saiyan 2 for most of the fight. He points out to Babidi, that regular Goku would never have done that, and that turning him Majin made him strong, but stupid.
• Worf Had the Flu: Vegeta loses to a combination of Android 17 and 18 due to the majority of his energy being drained during his fight with Android 19, even though he was Super Saiyan Grade 2 and would normally overpower them.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Babidi pulls this on Goku. Goku kills Babidi, too.

What If Vegito Stayed Fused?

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Zeno wants to meet Vegito, who had defused due to the Kaioken. Displeased at not being able to meet him, Zeno threatens to erase everyone. Even with this threat, Vegeta refuses to fuse again. Beerus is forced to get on his knees and beg him. Shocked that Beerus would do that, Vegeta agrees to fuse with Goku again.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Gohan, due to being pushed by Vegito into joining him in the time chamber, reattains his ultimate power-up much earlier and fights for Universe 7 in the tournament against Universe 6.
  • Since Vegito is much more powerful than Goku, he's able to push Hit into improving his Time Skip to one second instead of half a second, though Hit still loses.
• Adaptational Wimp: Vegito Black doesn't have access to the Super Saiyan Rosé transformation or even know how to turn into a standard Super Saiyan, so Vegito destroys him with ease.
• Adapted Out:
  • Vegito never cut out Fat Buu, so Super Buu doesn't turn into Kid Buu.
  • Goku Black is replaced by Vegito Black.
  • Since Vegito Black is killed early, Future Zamasu is unable to create his Fusion form.
  • Bra doesn't exist since Vegito doesn't sleep with Chi-Chi or Bulma anymore.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: By nature of being Vegito, this happens a lot:
  • His battle with Golden Frieza in a nutshell. Just in his base form, they're evenly matched, and when he breaks out Super Saiyan Blue, it's totally over.
  • His battle with Hit is similarly one-sided, and becomes even more so when Vegito decides to break out the Kaioken.
  • Perhaps his most extreme example yet, he quickly kills Vegito Black, out of outrage at what Black's done to Future Trunks and his timeline.
• Curb Stomp Cushion:
  • Super Saiyan God Vegito is able to put up a much better fight against Beerus than Goku did, though like canon, Beerus still wins but decides to spare Earth out of respect.
  • Future Zamasu still gets his butt kicked by Vegito, but due to his Complete Immortality, nothing that even Vegito does sticks.
  • Even Jiren isn't able to do much against Vegito Blue, since Gogeta Blue was able to handle Full Power Broly, who is about the same strength as Jiren, but Jiren does put up a decent fight.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • Vegito quickly rescues Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Piccolo from Super Buu's body, exits, then obliterates the weakened Super Buu, taking Fat Buu with him. As a favor to Mr. Satan, they bring back Fat Buu with the Dragon Balls.
  • Vegito obliterates Vegito Black when he arrives in the present instead of letting him escape.
  • Vegito then obliterates Present Zamasu during their sparring match after deducing that he is Vegito Black.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • After his first fight with Beerus, the God of Destruction asks Vegito why he stayed fused for so long instead of separating, revealing the Potara fusion to not be as permanent as they thought. Vegito is shocked to hear this since both Goku and Vegeta were certain that they would remain fused forever as Elder Kai told them.
  • Also when after Vegito uses the Kaioken against Hit, it causes the Potara Earrings to break and he defuses as a result.
  • Future Trunks gets this when he arrives in the present and learns that Goku and Vegeta fused into Vegito (he didn't know who Vegito Black was because he only called himself Black and he didn't notice his resemblance to Goku and Vegeta).
  • Future Zamasu also gets this when he finds out that Vegito killed Vegito Black.
  • Vegito has this reaction when he tries to kill Future Zamasu, only to learn he is immortal, commenting that so many villains sought out the Dragon Balls for immortality, but he never thought someone would actually achieve it.
• Disqualification-Induced Victory: Universe 7 wins the Tournament of Power after Toppo is disqualified after killing Buu.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Caulifla and Kale fused pre-tournament into Kefla, since this timeline has no time limit for Potara fusions, so she appears significantly earlier. It's even noted that Kefla's Super Saiyan form is stronger than Vegito's, likely due to Kale's Legendary Super Saiyan form.
• Finishing Move: The Final Kamehameha. The move that's a combination between the Final Flash and Kamehameha introduced in the games and used by Vegito against Fused Zamasu. He uses it to kill Super Buu, Golden Frieza, Vegito Black, Present Zamasu and uses it in a beam struggle against Jiren.
• Fusion Dance: Naturally, since Vegito is the main focus of the Narrative. In Episode 6, Kefla appears and we also get to see Tiencha, Tien and Yamcha's Metamoran fusion.
• Karmic Death: After all the misery that Vegito Black has committed against Future Trunks and his family and friends, when he goes back into the past to kill a fleeing Trunks, he ends up facing a livid Vegito, who ends up killing him in short order in revenge for what he's done.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: When Vegito Black enters the picture looking for Future Trunks, Vegito is so pissed off by what he's done to his son that he doesn't pussyfoot around when fighting him, instead going Super Saiyan Blue off the bat and proceeding to end him in short order.
• Papa Wolf: Vegito's paternal instincts flare up with a vengeance after Future Trunks tells him why he's come back, and when Vegito Black portals in to kill Trunks, Vegito enters a Tranquil Fury, goes Blue immediately, beats Black within an inch of his life, and carbonises him with a Final Kamehameha.
• Pet the Dog: After Vegito destroys Super Buu and takes Fat Buu with him, Mr. Satan cries when he realizes Fat Buu is dead. Vegito comforts him, says he was a true hero for befriending Buu and stopping him from killing people, and promises to use the Dragon Balls to bring him back.
• Point of Divergence:
  • Because Vegito Black and Future Zamasu are defeated relatively early, there was no need to summon Future Zeno and the future timeline was not erased. Vegito goes to the future timeline's New Namek and persuades the Namekians to use their Dragon Balls to slowly repair the damage the villains had done.
  • Because of Vegeta's more rational influence, they don't bring back Frieza for the Tournament of Power. Instead, they bring back Pikkon. Team Universe 7's roster becomes Vegito, Gohan, Piccolo, Tienshinhan, Buu, Krillin, Android 17, Android 18, Yamcha, and Pikkon. Roshi never gets to be part of the team, unlike the original.
  • Due to Universe 6's desperation to survive, Caulifla and Kale fuse into Kefla at the start of the Tournament of Power instead of in the middle. It's never established who the new 10th Universe 6 fighter is.
  • Since Frieza is killed and never returns, his empire collapses, meaning Broly and Paragus will remain stranded on Vampa for the time being.
  • Vegeta's more rational influence means instead of abandoning his families to train Uub in seclusion, Vegito has Uub and Uub's family move into West City so Vegito can train both Uub and Pan at the same time.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Universe 7 wins the Tournament of Power, but only after Buu is hakai'd out of existence and Toppo disqualified for it. They use the Super Dragon Balls to bring back all the erased universes and Buu.
• Rage Breaking Point: Jiren gets so angry that the Grand Priest had to pause the tournament and disqualify him and Vegito when his and Vegito's Beam-O-War were threatening the stands and Zeno's platform. Toppo then gets so angry at Buu not taking the fight seriously that he goes God of Destruction and eventually Hakais Buu out of existence, disqualifying him.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: In the Tournament of Power, flying isn't allowed. Jiren is so powerful that in desperation, Vegito is forced to fly to save himself from falling out of the ring. Fortunately, Zeno makes the rules and likes Vegito, so he waves it off instead of disqualifying him.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Future Trunks successfully uses the Mafuba to seal Future Zamasu in a jar. Vegito takes the jar to New Namek and the Namekians agree to guard it.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Since Kid Buu was never formed, the Earth and its remaining inhabitants don't get destroyed.
  • Vegito kills Golden Frieza in combat, not giving him a chance to blow up the Earth.
  • Future Zamasu is defeated and the future timeline is not erased.
• Story-Breaker Power: This shouldn't surprise anyone. As a result of not defusing, Earth never gets destroyed by Buu. It also means that once he attains Super Saiyan God, he forces Beerus to go all out immediately, and after he trains with Whis, his fights with Golden Frieza and later Hit go about how you'd expect. This is taken to the point that after he uses the Kaioken against Hit, it breaks the earrings and causes him to defuse.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Yamcha gets to join Universe 7's team in the Tournament of Power.
• Victory by Endurance:
  • Vegito beats the crap out of Future Zamasu over and over again, but Future Zamasu points out he is immortal and can endure anything he throws at him forever, while Vegito will eventually tire out. Vegito realizes he's right, so he, Future Trunks, and Future Mai retreat to the present and then go to Roshi to learn the Mafuba to hopefully seal Future Zamasu away.
  • Much to Vegito's shock, Kefla is actually stronger than him and beats the crap out of him. However, Vegito had done intensive training to build up his endurance which Kefla neglected to do, so she runs out of energy and defuses, allowing him to eliminate Caulifla and Kale.
• Wrecked Weapon: Future Trunks' sword fractures apart when he uses it to deflect one of Future Zamasu's blasts.

What If Gohan was Earth's hero?

• Celebrity Is Overrated: Gohan gets very tired of the attention his status earns him, which is why he breaks out the Great Saiyaman persona. Videl, harboring a grudge against Gohan, outs his secret identity to the press upon discovering it.
• Point of Divergence:
  • The cameras at the Cell Games remained intact, meaning the public saw Gohan defeating Cell.
  • Due to Mr. Satan losing his popularity and most of his money, 18 straight up beats him and takes the title instead of throwing the fight and blackmailing him.
  • Mr. Satan is never sent to Majin Buu and never befriends him. Buu never experiences the trauma that turned him into Super Buu, then Mystic Gohan arrives and destroys him.
• Relationship Upgrade: Due to Videl's resentment towards Gohan, Gohan ends up gravitating towards Erasa instead who, much like in canon, had a clear infatuation with him.
• Ship Sinking: Due to Mr. Satan being exposed as a fraud, he and Videl's life turned to ruin. This leads to Videl harboring a grudge against Gohan, ensuring their relationship never happens in this timeline.

What If Piccolo Never Saved Gohan?

• Adaptational Badass:
  • Since Piccolo has his potential unlocked and Nail isn't severely injured, Piccolo is much stronger after their fusion and kills First-form Frieza with the Hellzone Grenade. During the Android Saga, he easily defeats Android 19. After the 4 year time skip after Frieza's defeat, he's as strong as Super Saiyan Grade 2 Vegeta was, which is stronger than he was in the original timeline after fusing with Kami. When he does fuse with Kami in the finale, he's as strong as Super Vegito.
  • The Warrior Clan Namekians are all much stronger after training with Piccolo for 4 years.
• Adaptational Wimp:
  • Goku doesn't get as much time to train in the space capsule and is only at a power of 60,000 by the time he reaches Namek. He also doesn't get a zenkai boost after being injured or go Super Saiyan, as Piccolo kills Frieza before Frieza kills any Z fighters. He does unlock it shortly before the Android Saga, but is still too weak to hold his own against Android 19.
  • Gohan, as well, since he never got any zenkai boosts from the Saiyan saga or Namek saga battles, being dead at the time.
• Adapted Out:
  • The Ginyu Force don't appear, as Frieza believes he won't need them and is killed by Piccolo before he can.
  • Future Trunks doesn't exist due to Vegeta's death. He's replaced by Future Gohan.
• Back from the Brink: Piccolo helps restore Namek to its former glory, increasing its population and training its warriors to be much stronger. By the finale, Namek has become strong enough to become galactic protectors.
• Bash Brothers: Piccolo and Future Gohan both fight really well alongside each other against Androids 17 and 18, despite never having done it before.
• Behemoth Battle: Oozaru Vegeta vs Giant Namekian Piccolo.
• Canon Immigrant: Maima, one of the two Namekian warriors from the game Super Saiya Densetsu is mentioned in Part 4 as one of Piccolo's students.
• Covers Always Lie: The artwork for the 3rd episode shows Final-form Frieza being hit by the Special Beam Cannon, but in the episode, First-form Frieza is killed with a Hellzone Grenade.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Piccolo gets his potential unlocked, making him as strong as Nail. As a result, their fusion, which already would've been stronger than Second Form Frieza, demolishes First Form Frieza and vaporizes him before he even has a chance to transform.
  • Piccolo also easily dispatches Android 19.
  • Followed by Piccolo and Future Gohan easily taking down Androids 17 and 18, with Piccolo telling them they'd better not cause any harm.
  • Piccolo vaporizes Cell in his Imperfect form.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • As given by the title, Piccolo doesn't get to Gohan in time to shield him and Gohan dies instead of Piccolo.
  • Vegeta is also killed by Piccolo.
  • Yamcha and Tien are also outright killed by Androids 19 and 20.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation:
  • Zarbon and Dodoria are killed by Piccolo and Nail instead of by Vegeta.
  • Frieza is killed off by Piccolo instead of Future Trunks.
  • Cell is killed in his Imperfect form by Piccolo.
• Fusion Dance: Piccolo naturally fuses with Nail, but Nail, not having been severely injured, is more equal with Piccolo in their fused personality. Piccolo persuades elder Moori to lift the taboo on fusion, so it's more common, now that Namekians are no longer a Dying Race.
• I Choose to Stay: Piccolo decides to stay on Namek after the Frieza Saga, helping the Namekians rebuild and grow.
• Irony: Piccolo is for all intents and purposes, the leader of Namek. However, unlike Piccolo Sr., he's much more benevolent with Namek.
• Killed Off for Real: Despite Goku's plea, Piccolo kills Vegeta on Earth.
• My Greatest Failure: Piccolo is horrified at his inability to save Gohan and sets out to make things right.
• Shout-Out: In the Finale intro, MasakoX quotes a line from Half-Life: Full Life Consequences almost verbatim in his Piccolo voice.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • The Ginyu force and Cui aren't killed as they never went to Namek.
  • Androids 17 and 18 don't get absorbed by Cell.

What If Broly Turned Good?

• Adaptational Badass:
  • Since the Buu Saga never really happened, Goku did not come back to life afterward. By the time of the BoG Saga, he's completely mastered Super Saiyan 3.
  • Vegeta as well, due to having trained with Broly.
• Alternate Continuity: One within one even. Despite the Dragon Ball Super: Broly movie releasing and making Broly now canon within the main universe. Masako decided he was too far into the scenario to change things now and thus decided stay the course with the original movie version of Broly, effectively turning this scenario into a separate continuity.
• Amnesiac Dissonance: Broly hits his head when he lands on Earth and forgets his hatred for Goku. It doesn't erase the part of him that keeps screaming about Goku, but to quote the Joker, he's like a dog chasing a car- he doesn't know what to do when he catches one.
• And Then What?: As mentioned in Amnesiac Dissonance, Broly remembers that he has a fixation on Kakarot, but due to the bump on the head, not the hatred or the reason why. So Broly rampages up to Goku, and then realizes he doesn't really know what happens next.
• April Fools: Was started this day. As such, Masako takes more liberties than he usually does for this story, taking it in a goofier direction.
• Berserk Button: Do not waste Broly's time and don't talk too much, especially if he's eager to speak with Goku. Babidi doesn't live long enough to regret this mistake. Also, do not threaten or attack Broly's friends, especially Kakarot or Goten.
• Canon Immigrant: Karoly from Dragon Ball: Fusions appears as Goku and Broly's Metamoran fusion.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Broly versus Dabura. Since SSJ2 Gohan is no match for Broly, but is an even match for Dabura, Broly obliterates the Demon King with no issue. It's even more one-sided when Broly faces off against Babidi. Poor, poor wizard.
• Deader than Dead: In the end, Future Zen-Oh’s assistance isn’t required to deal with Merged Zamasu thanks to his Power Degeneration, worsened to such a degree by the combined efforts of Karoly and Vegetunks that not only does his physical form eventually degrade to the point that he can no longer move, his very spiritual being is corroded along with it. The metaphysical damage is so severe that when he’s finally put down, he’s well and truly dead and gone, both in body and soul.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Slightly downplayed, during the meantime between the Buu Saga and the Battle of Gods Saga, as Broly searches his new purpose on Earth, after having Paragus locking his free will away for many years.
• Friend to All Children: Broly, unlike his movie counterpart, is this to Goten and Trunks.
• Fusion Dance:
  • Broly and Goku use Metamoran fusion to form Karoly.
  • Future Trunks and Vegeta also fuse into Vegetunks.
• Future Me Scares Me: Broly finds and unleashes Future Broly on Goku Black and is quite horrified at how he acts.
• Killed Off for Real: Merged Zamasu kills Future Broly.
• Odd Friendship: This What If sees Broly forming an The Iron Giant-esque bond with Goten, the son of the man he's hated since infancy.
• Story-Breaker Power: Played for Laughs, as Broly handily defeats Dabura and Babidi without issue and prevents the Buu Saga, much to most everyone's confusion.
  • Downplayed, if not outright averted once Super rolls around. While Broly puts up a much better fight than Vegeta or Goku against Beerus he still barely has to try to take him down, and once the events of Resurrection F happen Super Saiyan Blue more or less evens the power gap between the three Saiyans.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Goten gives Gohan an earful when he attacks Broly on-sight, nearly making a bad situation worse.

What if Goku never learned Instant Transmission?

• Death by Adaptation: Tien and Piccolo are killed by Semi-perfect Cell and everyone dies when Goku is unable to get the self-destructing Cell off Earth, resulting in its destruction.
• Downer Ending: Cell kills everyone by self-destructing. However, there is hope. If Cell doesn't destroy New Namek (and since he doesn't learn instant transmission from Goku), then the Z-fighters can use telepathy to have the Earth and some key players revived after their balls become active again (since they had to use the Namekian Dragon Balls to get Dende to Earth this time). In this scenario, Cell gets to have a great time destroying, conquering, or just absorbing interesting people for a Namekian year. Unfortunately, after everyone is revived and Cell can probably breathe in space, finding and defeating him for good may be impossible. Also, any Cell Juniors he creates get the chance to grow up and become strong which would suck even worse for the universe. In the end, Beerus would probably have to kill Cell when he eventually wakes up and does his job.

What if Frieza saw Vegeta's potential?

• Adaptational Badass: The Saiyan trio, as a result of being handed much more difficult missions by Frieza, are a lot stronger than in the original story. At the beginning of the Saiyan Saga, Vegeta is already around Zarbon's power, with the two others not far behind him.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Vegeta. Being treated better and becoming True Companions with Nappa and Raditz made him a much nicer person. This also translates to when he becomes Emperor of North Galaxy, as he gladly takes planets under his care and leaves their populations alone on the condition that he recruits their most powerful fighters.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership:
  • Vegeta is crowned Emperor of Universe 7 (or, at least, North Galaxy) after he becomes a Super Saiyan and kills Frieza. He regains his position in the finale, after teaming up with Goku to defeat Cooler.
  • Cooler usurps Vegeta and takes his place as Emperor in the second video.
• Badass Army: Vegeta travels around the galaxy after Frieza's death, taking the most powerful warriors of the planets he conquers at his side, creating one.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Dodoria ends up getting dispatched by the Saiyans with minimal effort on Namek.
• Demoted to Extra: Goku barely makes any difference in the story's plot, at least in part one and two.
• Fusion Dance: Vegeta and Goku fuse into Gogeta to defeat Metal Cooler.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Zarbon and Dodoria end up intensely jealous of the Saiyans due to them being more respected by Frieza than they were in canon, and eventually go to Namek with the intent to kill them.
• Hegemonic Empire: Vegeta ends up leading one, since he lets the planets and races under his rule go about their business provided they supply him with fighters for his military.
• The Reveal:
  • As Zarbon is dying after fighting Vegeta, he uses his last breath to reveal that Frieza was the one who destroyed Planet Vegeta, not meteorites, just to screw with the prince's head.
  • Vegeta returns to earth to recruit Goku to overthrow Cooler...and discovers he's become a Super Saiyan.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: When Bulma and Krillin use the Dragon Balls to bring Goku and Gohan back from the Saiyan trio's grip, the latter assumes that Piccolo used magic to help them. They are only partly wrong, as Namekian magic is indeed responsible for the escape of their prisoners, albeit it's Kami's and not Piccolo's.
• True Companions: Vegeta, Nappa, and Raditz become this, as they are much more satisfied with their lives and are less prone to diss each other out of spite. Raditz and Nappa's deaths at Frieza's hands on Namek are even the catalyst of Vegeta's ascension into a Super Saiyan, and he even uses the Namekian Dragon Balls to revive them after vanquishing his former master.
• Underestimating Badassery: Zarbon and Dodoria end up drastically underestimating the Saiyans on Namek, and pay dearly for it. Dodoria is killed with minimal effort, and while Zarbon puts up a better fight, he proves no match for Vegeta.
• Unwilling Roboticisation: Cooler uses the Big Gete Star to turn the Dragon Team and Nappa into cyborgs.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Fear of this is part of why Zarbon and Dodoria choose to attack the Saiyans on Namek. They're afraid that if the Saiyans get far enough into Frieza's good graces, he'll deem the two of them no use anymore and dispose of them.

What If Bardock Convinced The Saiyans?

• Adapted Out: Gine doesn't exist here, because MasakoX chose to only use Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku and not Dragon Ball Minus, so here, Bardock is a single father, though she does receive some form of mention in Part 6, implying she does exist in some capacity.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Bardock, naturally, is far, far stronger than in canon due to having a long time to train with other Saiyans, including his own family.
  • Frieza puts Nappa through nigh endless Training from Hell until he's as powerful as his first form.
• Adaptational Heroism: Raditz in this version since he left Frieza's employ upon finding out his true nature. As such when he's sent to Earth to find Goku by Bardock to help bolster their forces, their meeting is a lot less tense and he (with some help from Kami) convinces Goku and his friends to come with him to help the Saiyans on New Vegeta.
• Babies Ever After: In the final part, when Bardock's group comes home after defeating Frieza, Queen Casava reveals Bardock had gotten her pregnant.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: Goku and the other Z Fighters train with the Saiyans and teach them several useful skills like how to sense energy and how to suppress their power to hide from scouters. This makes them much more effective in attacking Frieza's empire.
• Canon Foreigner: Queen Casava, the mother of Vegeta and queen of all Saiyans. Somewhat zig-zagged as she was mentioned in the canon series but only in passing. Masako gives her a name and face here.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Raditz goes up against Nappa in a street fight that happens when the group confronts Vegeta to try and convince him to join their ranks. Now that he's been training and become way stronger, Raditz beats Nappa into the ground.
  • Nappa returns the favor during the Saiyans' initial assault on Planet 315, thanks to Frieza's Training from Hell increasing his power quickly and immensely.
  • Super Saiyan Bardock vs Final Form Frieza. Poor Frieza never stood a chance.
• Despair Event Horizon: After being forced to endure endless Training from Hell, Nappa becomes as strong as Frieza's first form. Thinking he has a chance at beating him, Nappa attacks him, only for Frieza to shift into his second form and beat him down. Nappa gives up hope and submits, becoming an Empty Shell that only exists to do Frieza's bidding.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • Casava doesn't really think much of Raditz and only allows him to go on Bardock's mission just to get him out of the way. She's pretty surprised when he not only comes back ahead of the four-year schedule that his ship would allow going to Earth and coming back thanks to Bulma making him a more powerful ship, but also manages to succeed in finding Goku and bringing his allies to help her race.
  • Goku, Raditz, Vegeta, and Bardock are strong enough to give Frieza trouble by working together, but then he starts his transformations. They had no idea he could do that and get beaten down until Bardock becomes a Super Saiyan.
• Didn't Think This Through: After Raditz convinces Goku and his friends to help the Saiyans, Bulma asks him how he expected to bring Goku to New Vegeta considering his pod is made for one person, with Raditz saying he didn't think of that. Bulma then makes a spaceship big enough for the group to go.
• Dirty Coward: Bardock accuses himself of acting like one for choosing to flee and fight another day rather than face Frieza himself as the tyrant destroys several Saiyan pods trying to leave Planet Vegeta.
• Disappointed in You: Bardock to Raditz for being unable to convince Vegeta and Nappa to join them.
• Dying as Yourself: In the final battle, Vegeta finally snaps Nappa out of Frieza's conditioning. Nappa charges at Frieza only to be killed by a Death Beam. Vegeta actually takes a moment to mourn him, even declaring that he died as a true Saiyan.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Vegeta is still...Vegeta. But even he is completely horrified and sickened when he realizes what Frieza did to Nappa.
• Hope Springs Eternal: Planet Vegeta is still destroyed along with most of Saiyan race, but several dozen manage to survive and rebuild on another world, with Queen Casava and Bardock as their leaders. Even better, one of Bardock's visions foretold that he and his son Kakarot would ultimately defeat Frieza side by side, giving him hope for the future of his family.
• La Résistance: Bardock and the surviving Saiyans start one, launching a series of attacks on the Frieza Empire, gradually gaining supporters from enslaved species who are glad to turn on Frieza now that they have a legitimate chance to overthrow him.
• New Eden: After months of traveling through space, the surviving Saiyans settle on another world located at the farthest corner of Frieza's Empire that was abandoned and forgotten. Dubbing the planet "New Vegeta", they build a new society akin to that of the Universe 6 Saiyans, albeit with more focus on training and becoming strong warriors like they were before Frieza's reign.
• No Range Like Point-Blank Range: After becoming a Super Saiyan and beating him down, Bardock kills Frieza by firing a Spirit Cannon while holding his head, destroying it.
• Oh, Crap!: When Nappa meets Raditz again, he jokingly looks at his power level...then realizes he's now 14,000 and thus way stronger than Nappa himself is.
• Red Baron: Bardock is dubbed "The Prophet" by the surviving Saiyans after he becomes their de-facto leader.
• Revenge: As he's escaping from Planet Vegeta, Bardock swears to get even with Frieza for killing so many Saiyans without giving them a chance to fight back.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!:
  • After Bardock successfully convinces (most of) his people that Frieza plans to destroy their homeworld and kill them all, they respond by grabbing any available space pods and getting the heck out of dodge. Some are killed when they fly too close to Frieza's flagship, but the rest head in the opposite direction and escape without him noticing.
  • After hearing the truth from his father about what really happened to Planet Vegeta, Raditz tries to inform Nappa and Vegeta what he's learned. When they don't believe him and Vegeta even threatens to report him to Frieza, Raditz decides to escape to New Vegeta on his own.
• Shout-Out: An important planet that manufactures ships and other machines is called Frieza Planet T-1000. MasakoX even confirms the shout-out.
• The Starscream: After they finally convince Vegeta to join them, Vegeta repeatedly tries to undermine Bardock's authority and become the leader. He's only kept in line because Bardock is stronger than him, so Vegeta regularly trains to surpass him.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • Some of the Saiyans question what Bardock means by his warning when he tries to suggest taking out Frieza. This, unfortunately, is met with derision since Frieza has a major army on his side, not to mention he himself is supremely powerful, so they opt to escape the planet for the time being instead.
  • That said, despite having a head start on getting off the planet, not all of the Saiyans survive due to a few of their pods flying too close to Frieza's ship and getting blasted.
  • Frieza's empire being galactic in scope means that the Saiyans' strategic attacks can happen so fast the rest of the empire doesn't even have a chance to react, let alone stop it due to sheer distance.
• Token Evil Teammate: Vegeta is this for the Saiyan resistance, being the only one of them who wishes to return to their old ways as marauders instead of their new, more egalitarian way of life.
• Training from Hell: Frieza puts Nappa through this for so long that Nappa becomes as powerful as Frieza's first form but is ultimately left an Empty Shell of himself.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Bardock becomes a Super Saiyan when Frieza beats Goku and Raditz within an inch of their lives.
• Vestigial Empire: After Bardock kills Frieza and destroys Planet 315 (a galactic communications hub), Frieza's Empire completely implodes overnight with zero chance of it ever rebuilding.
• We Have Become Complacent:
  • How Bardock feels about his kind after learning of Frieza's treachery, having served under him for so long that they forgot what it means to be true warriors. As such, when they arrive on New Vegeta and the surviving Saiyans make him their new ruler, he has them start training to increase their power.
  • This trope hits Frieza hard: due to having been so self-assured of his dominance, Bardock's calculated, effective rebellion isn't something he or the empire is prepared for. It also comes into effect when Bardock becomes a Super Saiyan during their final battle, as Frieza can't understand how anything alive could be more powerful than his final form, which costs him.
• We Will Meet Again: After watching helplessly as Frieza slaughters his people in deep space, Bardock makes it clear that he will settle the score with him one day, which is only reinforced by the premonition he has at that very moment.n
• You Have Failed Me: Frieza kills Zarbon after his group failed to stop the Saiyans from destroying the factories on Frieza Planet T-1000.

What if Gohan Went Super Saiyan First?

• Adaptational Species Change: As Vegeta burned his bridges with Bulma on Namek, Yamcha is Trunks’ father here, making him fully human rather than a half-human, half-Saiyan.
• Death of Personality: When Piccolo and Nail fused together at Elder Guru's request, because both minds weren't settling on who was going to be the dominant personality, the end result was a merger of both minds, but not the soul. As a result, both Piccolo and Nail vanished on the ether, their original personalities gone, but with their memories intact.
• Didn't See That Coming: While Dr. Gero was aware of Super Saiyan this time and could prepare for it, he didn't expect Gohan to learn how to control and harness his power on Namek. He also didn't anticipate Bulma breaking into his lab and taking Androids 16 to 18 before he could activate them.
• One-Hit Kill: Gohan, due to being over ten times stronger than him with a power level of over 49,000, vaporizes Nappa almost on contact with his Masenko.
• Ship Sinking: While Vegeta and Bulma have the chance to interact and form their relationship earlier here than they did in canon, it all goes right out the window after Dende reveals to the group that Vegeta intended to use the Namekian Dragon Balls to wish for immortality and then abandon the heroes to deal with Frieza on their own afterwards. Bulma, understandly feeling betrayed upon learning of Vegeta’s underhanded scheme, wastes no time in breaking things off for good, resuming her relationship with (and ultimately marrying) Yamcha once the latter is resurrected.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Future Gohan ends up surviving long enough to be the one to travel back in time and warn the heroes about the Androids.

What if Beerus never woke up?

• Bad Boss: Frieza blows up the Earth, killing all his men in the process. Not that he cares, as he can both breathe in space and is currently the most powerful mortal in the entire universe.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Without Beerus and Whis coming to Earth, Goku and Vegeta don't become gods, and thus the resurrected Frieza kills them both, destroys the Earth, and goes back to his reign of terror.
• Downer Ending: Frieza kills Goku and Vegeta, destroys the Earth, and returns to being the unopposed emperor of the universe.

What if Frieza listened to Goku?

• Ascended Extra: King Cold took Frieza's discovery to heart and trains to be able to keep him in line, this leads to him becoming the True Final Boss of the story.
• Bash Brothers: Goku and Trunks end up teaming up to defeat Frieza in this timeline. The two then, under the advice of Vegeta, preemptively take the fight to King Cold.
• Character Development: After being picked up by King Cold's starship and fitted with cybernetics, Frieza not only acknowledges how complacent he'd become up until his defeat at Goku's hands, but resolves to train regularly and further increase his power to avoid making the same mistake again.
• Crazy-Prepared: King Cold trained himself and reached the Fifth Form himself for the off chance Frieza went mad with power and he'd have to step in and stop him himself.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Frieza, astonishingly enough. Despite being the focus for most of story, he dies at the end of Part 3, whereupon King Cold takes over and becomes the Final Boss.
• Fatal Flaw: While Frieza overcame his stamina issue, he did not overcome his hubris and pride. Despite having the power edge, Trunks exploits his ego to blindside him, setting him up to be finished off.
• Hijacked by Ganon: Frieza ultimately dies in the third installment of the series to the combined forces of Goku and Trunks. King Cold promptly takes over as the Big Bad of the storyline.
• Hurl It into the Sun: King Cold is ultimately defeated by being blasted into the sun by Goku and Future Trunks.
• In Spite of a Nail: Ultimately the reason the What If? doesn't move past the fight with Cold: The deviation was minor enough that the end results don't affect the rest of the timeline.
• Too Fast to Stop: Trunks comes up with a plan to defeat King Cold by exploiting this trope: they trick him into chasing their space ship at such a high speed that he won't be able to stop in time. Goku then instant transmissions them out of the ship, allowing Cold to destroy it and then be blindsided with a double beam attack. Combined with his own momentum, he's sent flying into a star and killed.
• We Have Become Complacent: Frieza and King Cold both reach this conclusion and both train and reach a fifth form, more like Cooler's fifth form, rather than the Golden form.

What if Buu didn't fall asleep?

• Death by Adaptation: Buu, in anger over not being able to hit Dyspo, let's out an angry explosion with his Ki, killing him. Downplayed, since after the tournament concludes, Goku promises to use Earth's Dragon Ball's to bring him back to life.

What if Vegeta celebrated Christmas?

• The Aloner: The overall message Vegeta gets is that he isn't the loner he thinks he is. As his Ghost of Christmas Past (Frieza) points out, he had Raditz and Nappa for companionship when he was younger, and what he really wants is recognition and acknowledgement.
• Empty Shell: Vegeta's Bad Future involves his becoming a burnt-out intergalactic drifter who just stopped caring about basically everything and ended up dying alone and forgotten and buried in an unmarked grave (and he only got that because a passing alien was kind enough to bury his corpse).
• Meaningful Echo: In the Frieza Saga, Vegeta is killed and buried in a shallow, unmarked grave in the "space boonies", but gets saved by the Dragon Team and given a second chance. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows that if he continues being a standoffish jerk, he'll end up in yet another shallow, unmarked grave on a forgotten planet, only this time nobody will care enough to bring him back.
• Yet Another Christmas Carol: Downplayed; Masako outright says that his intent wasn't to make Vegeta go through a total 180° personality change like Scrooge in the original story, just to explain why his character softened enough that he willingly stayed at Capsule Corporation during the three-year gap before the Androids appeared.

What if Frieza and Doctor Gero teamed up?/What If Broly was in the Android Saga?

• Adaptational Badass:
  • While searching for New Namek, Krillin, Yamcha and Tien find Yardrat and decide to train there to learn Instant Transmission and Spirit Control, there. Tien learns it the quickest, with Krillin mastering it 3 weeks later and Yamcha 3 weeks after that.
  • In addition, Future Trunks also learns Yardratian techniques.
  • Frieza gets an android body with the same kind of infinite ki engine that 17 and 18 used in the original canon. He then proceeds to hold his own against Goku, Vegeta and Future Trunks in their Super Saiyan forms and likely would have won if Gero hadn't detonated his bomb.
• Adaptational Early Appearance:
  • The Z-Fighters end up finding Paragus and Broly in their quest to find New Namek.
  • Babidi and Majin Buu show up in place of the Cell Saga.
  • Zamasu was already present as the mysterious time traveler, but also confronts the heroes much earlier than canon.
• Adapted Out: Cell, Android 17 and 18 don't show up at all. Android 19's blueprints are mentioned, but never activated.
• Attack Its Weak Point: Broly severs Buumasu's hand wearing the Time Ring, and the Dragon Team combine their attacks to destroy it.
• Backup Twin: In a sense: Bulma has a back-up of Android 16, but he lacks most of his experiences with Broly and Buu. It doesn't matter as the three are able to rebuild their friendship.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Dr. Gero successfully manipulates Frieza and King Cold into forming an alliance and gains access to their resources. He kills Piccolo (and Kami), nearly kills Gohan but then detonates the bomb in Frieza's android body, which kills him, Goku, Vegeta and Future Trunks in the process. He then kills the Frieza Force and King Cold.
• The Cameo: The Parapara Brothers are offhandedly mentioned.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Buumasu is killed by being torn apart and turned into goo when his time ring is destroyed.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Buumasu dominates everyone he fights until Broly taps back into his rage.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Buumasu blows up Earth.
• "Everybody Dies" Ending: Part 4 of Broly in the Android Saga ends with Buumasu blowing up Earth.
• Fusion Dance: Zamasu and Super Buu fuse to make Buumasu.
• Heel–Face Turn:
  • With Goku dead, Android 16 is much more willing to work with the remaining Z Fighters.
  • Broly becomes heroic and eventually joins the Z-Fighters.
  • Broly helps convince Majin Buu to also turn against Babidi.
• Manipulative Bastard:
  • Dr. Gero successfully manipulates Frieza and King Cold into forming an alliance and gains access to their resources. He kills Piccolo (and Kami), nearly kills Gohan but then detonates the bomb in Frieza's android body, which kills him, Goku, Vegeta and Future Trunks in the process. He then kills the Frieza Force and King Cold. Zamasu killing him doesn't negate this.
  • Zamasu uses Gero to change the timeline and kill the most powerful members of the Dragon Team during the events of the Android Saga, then disposes of Gero once he was no longer useful.
• Odd Friendship: Broly and Android 16 end up bonding over their similar personalities. Later, Majin Buu befriends the duo as well.
• Portal Cut: Destroying the Time Ring results in Zamasu being pulled back to his future. Unfortunately, due to Potara fusion, he's permanently merged with Buu. The end result is Buumasu being split in two and Zamasu's death via interdimensional forces.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Being far more pragmatic than his son, Cold instantly realizes how immensely advanced Gero's technology is, even greater than the Frieza Forces', and convinces Frieza to agree to the Villain Team-Up.
• Split-Personality Takeover: Buumasu is largely dominated by Buu's personality, leaving Zamasu in the backseat for the most part.
• Terminator Twosome: A mysterious evil time traveler, later revealed to be Zamasu, comes back and meets with Gero for him to team up with Frieza.
• Unwitting Pawn:
  • Gero is ultimately a pawn of the mysterious time traveller, Zamasu.
  • Babidi also ends up working for Zamasu's interest.
• Villain Team-Up: The question being asked: what if Dr. Gero and Frieza teamed up against Goku? The result: It ends badly for the Dragon Team.

What if Trunks met Kid Bulma?

• Adaptational Badass: Trunks trains Goku, Krillin, and Yamcha, making them way stronger than Raditz. Gohan is given a little training and starts out brave instead of timid.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Trunks beating up Roshi isn't something he would do in canon, though seeing how Roshi was attempting to have his teenage mom flash him her panties, it makes some sense why he'd get violent.
• Broken Pedestal: After Trunks' bungling gets Gohan kidnapped by Piccolo, Goku loses all respect for him.
• But Now I Must Go:
  • After the Dragon Balls grant Bulma's wish, Trunks sadly admits to himself that he had fun hanging out with the group, but he has a responsibility to his home time. He gives kid Goku the heart medicine and can only hope that he will remember to take it when he gets sick, then gets out of sight and uses the time machine to go home. Bulma and Goku are heartbroken when they realize he is gone, especially since they had no idea where he came from.
  • After getting Gohan kidnapped by Piccolo, Trunks decides to atone by killing Dr. Gero and his Androids, then decides he has no more ties to this time and returns to the future.
• Death by Adaptation: People die different in this What If:
  • Trunks finds Dr. Gero's lab and vaporizes him and the Androids still in their pods.
  • Goku dies at the hands of Raditz, after the latter comes back to Earth alongside Nappa and Vegeta.
  • The rest of the Dragon Team were entirely decimated by Nappa, Vegeta and the Saibaimen.
  • And then Frieza kills Raditz, Nappa and Vegeta when he destroys the Earth.
• Downer Ending: And HOW! Oh, boy... Trunks had to see the consequences of his actions without being able to interfere, so... where to start?
  • Because Trunks abandoned the timeline at the worst time possible, the Dragon Team's efforts were more focused on retrieving Gohan from Piccolo's hands, making the focus on training for the Saiyan threat almost inconsequential, and by the time they were able to rescue Gohan, it was already too late to train properly, leaving the Dragon Team completely unprepared.
  • ...and because Trunks and Goku spared Raditz, when he came back alongside Nappa and Vegeta, he was stronger than before due to the beatdown he suffered, and he was more than happy to return the favor with interest, with him killing Goku, kidnapping his nephew, and the Saibaimen killing the rest of the Dragon Team, except for Piccolo.
  • And then Vegeta reveals to Frieza the existence of the Earth Dragon Balls. However, because Vegeta tried to trick him for the immortality wish, the Earth and the surviving Saiyans are destroyed by Frieza's hands-like he did previously with Planet Vegeta-and he then sets his next destination in order to satisfy his ambition for immortality: Planet Namek.
• Drunk with Power: In Part 5, when Trunks realizes nothing he does affects his own timeline and that he is way stronger than everybody, he becomes extremely cocky. He pays for it when Piccolo kidnaps Gohan.
• Extremely Protective Child: Trunks is naturally protective of Bulma. When Roshi is acting pervy towards her, which is when Goku originally could get the Dragon Ball, when Bulma flashed Roshi her "panties". Instead, Trunks punches Roshi a few hundred meters into the ocean.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Future Trunks, as a result of a glitch in the time machine.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • After winning the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament, Trunks attempts to return home, only to find the time machine has run out of fuel. He becomes really upset that he is stranded and cannot protect his mother and people from the Androids. Fortunately, Bulma promises to help him.
  • Trunks goes into another one when Gohan gets kidnapped by Piccolo. And again when he kills Dr. Gero while laughing like a madman and causing Bulma and Yamcha to witness this and alienate him.
  • Chronoa confronting Future Trunks causes him to almost immediately give up his time machine because of his previous time failures.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Future Trunks gets this when he realizes that he may have irrepairably spoiled Gohan's childhood with Goku.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Trunks knew that Piccolo would kidnap Gohan and the experience would turn Piccolo into a better person. However, he failed to realize that the changes he made to the timeline would mean Piccolo is still evil and Gohan is in great danger.
• No Ending: Masako ends the series with Trunks beginning things once more with the intent that fans decide how things play out in their heads.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Trunks is aghast at Vegeta's behavior before Chronoa points out that's exactly how he was acting before she confronted him.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: As opposed to the friendly take seen in most takes, Chronoa is far colder toward Trunks. Trunks' severe screwing up of this timeline and subsequent abandoning of it is the exact sort of thing she's meant to deal with. While she does give him a second chance, it's after showing him what his actions have caused and it comes with supervision and a worse punishment (erasing the timeline) should he repeat the same mistakes.
• Oh, Crap!: Raditz is horrified because Trunks' face looks like Vegeta's.
• Oh, No... Not Again!: Future Trunks attempts to return to the future, but instead arrives at the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament. He laments the time machine glitching again.
• Point of Divergence:
  • Though Roshi gives the group his Dragon Ball and gives Goku Nimbus, Roshi is pissed off that Trunks beat him up and refuses to help put out Fire Mountain, forcing Trunks to do it instead. As a result, Burning Attack becomes Goku's signature move instead of the Kamehameha.
  • With Trunks' help, the group easily defeats Emperor Pilaf's group and get the Dragon Balls. Bulma wishes for a lifetime supply of strawberries instead of Oolong wishing for panties. The group is never made aware of Goku's Great Ape transformation.
  • After arriving at the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament, Goku and Bulma persuade Trunks to join it. He ends up beating Tien and Goku and faces Piccolo in the finals. Kami apparently didn't see any need to possess a human and join.
  • When Trunks becomes stranded in this time, he trains with Goku and the others. The others become aware of Gohan a lot earlier and Trunks tells Goku about Saiyans. He also shows Bulma his time machine, giving her a lot more insight into future technology.
  • Trunks tells Goku and Chi-Chi about the future. Chi-Chi becomes very happy that her son grows up to be a great hero and allows Gohan to train as long as he also studies.
  • While the heroes are dealing with Raditz, Piccolo sneaks into Goku's home and kidnaps Gohan after a bit of a struggle to try to turn him into a weapon. Since Piccolo didn't deal with Raditz, his motives are for revenge against Goku and Trunks instead of to prepare for the Saiyans.
  • While Goku faces Piccolo to rescue Gohan, Trunks finds Dr. Gero's lab and blows it to smithereens, wiping out Gero and the Androids. Since Bulma had managed to refuel the time machine, he returns to the future, deciding that with all the training he did, he should be strong enough to beat the Androids of his time. However, when he arrives, Chronoa, the Supreme Kai of Time, shows up due to his tampering with history.
• "Ray of Hope" Ending: After showing Trunks the new Bad Future his actions have caused, Chronoa sends him back to when he originally arrived in the past to do things right. Of course, the caveat is that she'll be watching him, and if Trunks fails again she will erase the timeline.
• Reset Button: Chronoa shows Trunks the consequences of his interference, which will lead to his friends and mother getting killed by the Saiyans and Earth destroyed by Frieza. Chronoa offers Trunks another chance to set things right, albeit warning that she'll be watching him, and sends him back to when he first met the teenage Bulma in the past after the time machine malfunction.
• Shout-Out: In Part 4, Yamcha wants to be there with Trunks and Bulma when Trunks talks about time travel, wanting to hear about "Science. Time. Wibbly wobbly stuff."
• Signature Move: Because of Future Trunks' influence, Goku's new signature attack becomes the Burning Attack, instead of the Kamehameha.
• Spared by the Adaptation: When Raditz arrives, Goku, Krillin, and Yamcha easily beat him up, but they allow him to leave. Needless to say, this backfired horribly by the end of the story, because the beatdown he suffered gave him a Zenkai boost, and when he came back alongside Nappa and Vegeta, he was able to beat Goku to a pulp by himself, and then kill him.
• Story-Breaker Power: Given that this is Future Trunks, who has a base power level of around 4 million, now finding himself in the times of Dragon Ball, this is to be expected. Without any powering up, Trunks simply punches Roshi and sends him flying out to sea, leading Roshi to comply with their demands immediately afterwards. Trunks also no sells Yamcha's Wolf Fang Fist. He handily takes out Piccolo and tanks anything Piccolo tries to throw at him.
• Sure, Let's Go with That: When Goku asks Trunks who taught him, he answers Gohan without thinking. Goku assumes he was talking about Grandpa Gohan and Trunks quickly rolls with it.
• Surprise Incest:
  • Luckily, nothing happens before he finds out she's his mom, but Trunks did find teen Bulma cute. She is likewise attracted to him, but never finds out she's his mom.
  • He has a major slip-up, which causes him a pretty big BSOD on calling his mother, who is about the same age as him, pretty.
  • When Trunks returns six years later in Part 3, Bulma acts like he was a bad boyfriend who just vanished from her life with no explanation and tries to make him jealous by cozying up to Yamcha. An embarrassed Trunks points out that they were never a couple in the first place.
  • She finds out Trunks is her son in the 4th episode, prompting some external screaming and her covering up from her short shorts and skimpy tank top.
• This Cannot Be!: Piccolo is incredibly shocked to find he is no match for Trunks, especially when he goes Super Saiyan.
• Trapped in the Past: The time machine runs out of fuel, preventing Trunks from returning to his time. Bulma attempts to help him, but notes it will take years to recreate the fuel due to the limitations of present technology.
• Tranquil Fury: Chronoa when she finally catches up with Trunks is coldly contemtpuous of the mess he's made. She's willing to give Trunks a second chance as his intentions were noble, but makes it clear that if he goes on another power trip Chronoa will erase the timeline.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Future Trunks is nowhere near as outright skilled as a lot of his peers are, or will be, as shown by the main series. That said, he has a power level of 4 million, which, by the standards of classic Dragon Ball, is basically godlike (and this is a series where an old man can destroy the moon).
• What the Hell, Hero?: Goku yells at Trunks when he reveals he knew that Piccolo would kidnap Gohan and did nothing to prevent it.
  • Chronoa gives a colder, larger scale one as she shows Trunks the full consequences of meddling with history and reads him the riot act as a result.
• The World Is Just Awesome: When Trunks arrives in the past, he is overwhelmed by seeing so much greenery, wildlife, and intact cities, since in his time, the Androids destroyed it all.

What if Hercule trained with Roshi?/What if Hercule was a Z-Fighter?

• Adaptational Badass:
  • Roshi's teachings do wonders for Hercule, who not only matches a cybernetically-enhanced Tao in a straight-up fight, but defeats him with a Kamehameha. He and Goku are ultimately able to kill Raditz with a Combination Attack, and later goes on to training with Kami and King Kai.
  • Krillin also ends up stronger than canon due to training with Hercule and Goku, and getting training on King Kai's planet.
  • Due to Piccolo and Kami working together, Piccolo, Yamcha, Tien and Chaotzu are stronger come the Saiyan Saga.
  • On Namek, Guru unlocks everyone's potential, including Bulma's (Bulma becomes even more intelligent instead of stronger).
  • Bulma spies on Gero and upgrades a willing Yamcha into a cyborg like 17 and 18 to Beat Them at Their Own Game. This makes Yamcha far stronger than he ever was in canon, enough so he can demolish Android 19.
  • Hercule decides to train his students at Satan Castle properly so they can handle protecting the civilians who might be caught in the crossfire and maybe be an effective distraction.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game: Bulma, with her potential unlocked and far more intelligent, decides to do this to counter Gero by spying on him and copying his work to upgrade a willing Yamcha.
• Big Damn Heroes: After taking a beating from Super Saiyan Goku, Frieza resorts to firing a Death Ball at Earth. Future Gohan and Future Videl show up to block the attack and kill him.
• Bowdlerise: Masako has to work his way around saying Hercule's Japanese name because of YouTube's rules.
• Can't Catch Up: After Guru unlocks everyone's potential, Hercule realizes he and Krillin are now way weaker than Goku and starts to worry that they will become irrelevant. Krillin tells him it doesn't matter, as they are still friends and just have to be the best they can be.
• Clothing Damage: The Spirit Bomb that kills Vegeta also vaporizes Hercule's clothes.
• Cast from Hit Points: Guru is severely weakened by unlocking everyone's potential, hastening his death.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The cybernetically upgraded Yamcha demolishes 19 with little effort at all.
• Cyborg: In addition to 17 and 18, Bulma spies on Gero and replicates his cybernetics. Yamcha willingly allows her to convert him into a cyborg, making him much stronger than he ever was in canon. Enough so that rather than him being easily nearly killed by Gero, he completely crushes Android 19.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • Vegeta is vaporized by the Spirit Bomb.
  • Frieza beats Hercule to death and kills Krillin with his Death Beam. They are revived with Porunga.
• Defiant to the End: When Frieza is beating Hercule to death, Hercule defiantly spits in his face.
• Demoted to Extra: Since Raditz is killed before Gohan can have a chance to demonstrate his rage boosted strength, Gohan doesn't become involved in fighting. This goes away after the Saiyan Saga, where with Chi-Chi's permission, Hercule gives him and Videl training, and he and Videl join them on Namek.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Hercule was already the strongest base-line human on the planet who lacks Ki control. After being trained by Roshi in Ki control, his power level skyrockets to a point he can spar with Goku. Episode 3 sees him getting to train with Goku and Krillin on King Kai's world and gets to learn the Kaio-ken.
• Exploited Immunity: Vegeta in his Great Ape form grabs Hercule and starts crushing him. Hercule tells Goku to throw the Spirit Bomb at them, knowing that it won't harm him because he has become pure of heart. Later, Goku commends him for remembering that detail from King Kai's training.

• Future Badass: Future Gohan and Future Videl. For starters, Future Videl is powerful enough to catch Frieza's Death Ball and punt it into space!
• His Own Worst Enemy: Hercule is ultimately this, as his flaws were heavily holding him back. However, in the course of his training, he would overcome them and as a result become way stronger than he ever was in canon.
• Honor Before Reason: When the group returns from Namek and meets the revived Tien and Chaotzu, Yamcha tells them about Guru's potential unlock technique and says it is a shame Guru wasn't able to do it for them too. Tien says he would rather become stronger on his own instead of through outside help. Goku also doesn't like becoming stronger through outside help, but Piccolo says they need all the help they can get against Frieza.
• Idol Singer: Hercule's wife Miguel was one of these. When she is brought back for one day, she says she is popular in the afterlife.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • Raditz is killed without learning about the Dragon Balls. Vegeta and Nappa come to Earth anyway because they want to test their power against the people who killed him.
  • Tien and Chaotzu still die in the Saiyan Saga. They get squashed by Vegeta's Great Ape form.
  • Frieza still kills Krillin and Goku still goes Super Saiyan as a result.
• I Shall Taunt You: Hercule distracts Vegeta from the incoming and far stronger than canon Spirit Bomb by smack talking him.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • Goku, Krillin, and Hercule forgot to tell the others about the Spirit Bomb, so during the fight against Vegeta, when Goku hides to create it, the others angrily think Goku abandoned them.
  • When Hercule trains his students in ki manipulation, he doesn't tell them about the Androids, justifying it by saying he doesn't want to panic them.
  • Bulma and Yamcha don't tell the others that they're spying on Gero or that they've turned Yamcha into a Gero-model cyborg.
• Logical Weakness: Yamcha's cybernetic enhancements are derived from Gero's tech, thus the killswitch Gero developed for 17 and 18 works on him. Bulma admits it was an oversight on her part, and quickly moves to correct it.
• Manly Tears: As a reward for helping defeat Vegeta, King Kai asks Fortuneteller Baba to bring Hercule's wife Miguel back for one day. Naturally, Hercule cries when he sees her.
• Mundane Solution: How does Roshi know Hercule's backstory and motivations? He saw it on the news.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Hercule gets a Heroic BSoD after accidentally killing Raditz.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Hercule is able to talk down 17 and 18, thus sparing the group a fight...But as they're leaving Gero's lab Future Gohan and Future Videl attack them.
• No-Sell: 19 gets his hands on Yamcha and tries to drain him...but as Yamcha is now a cyborg just like 17 and 18, including an Infinity Engine, so it doesn't do a thing to him.
• Point of Divergence:
  • Rather than falling into his fear and cowardliness, Hercule decides to train to defeat Tao to avenge his master.
  • Goku senses Hercule and Krillin have greatly increased their power and investigates, so he meets his friends and they learn about Gohan a lot earlier than canon. Gohan and Videl also become childhood friends.
  • Krillin and Hercule join Goku on his journey along Snake Way. Since they work together by taking turns carrying each other while the other two sleep, and make sure not to fall off Snake Way or stop at Princess Snake's castle, they arrive at King Kai's planet early. This means they finish their training and make it back to Earth before Vegeta and Nappa arrive.
  • Frieza never finds out about the Namekian Dragon Balls, so he never goes to Namek...instead he goes to Earth to investigate Nappa and Vegeta's deaths.
  • Since Vegeta is dead, Future Trunks doesn't exist. Instead, the ones defending humanity from the Androids and who come to warn Goku about them are Future Gohan and Future Videl.
  • Goku never contracted the Heart Virus; instead he was killed by the Androids. Future Gohan and Future Videl simply came to the present to warn him about the Androids and tell him and the others to train hard if they want to survive.
  • Hercule decides to pass on his knowledge to his students so they can keep the civilians out of the crossfire when the Z-Fighters fight the Androids.
  • Due to Bulma being far more intelligent due to her unlocked potential as well as staying with Yamcha, she spies on Gero and upgrades a willing Yamcha into a cyborg. She has a human son with Yamcha that she names Trunks.
• Off with His Head!: Goku and Hercule use a Combination Attack involving Hercule using a feet Kamehameha which Goku fires into, allowing him to put all that momentum into a Dynamite Kick that unintentionally beheads Raditz.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Tao has one when he realizes Hercule actually outclasses him and is trained in Kame Style.
  • Vegeta has one when his scouter detects Goku, Krillin, and Hercule all have Power Levels of over 10,000. He immediately resorts to his Great Ape transformation.
  • On Namek, they use Porunga to bring back Tien and Chaotzu. Hercule tries to use the third wish to bring back Miguel, but Porunga says that can't be done as she died of natural causes. As they debate on the third wish, King Kai contacts them and warns that Frieza is on his way to Earth. After describing him, everyone is horrified and they use the third wish to teleport them back to Earth. Hercule comments if Porunga had granted his wish, they would not have been able to get back to Earth in time and the planet would have been doomed.
• Only Sane Man: Hercule becomes one compared to the rest of the Z-fighters. He considers protecting others more important than fighting and recognizes that 17 and 18 are moody teenagers rather than killing machines and actually manages to talk them down before Future Gohan and Future Videl screw things up.
• Only the Pure of Heart: Hercule survives the Spirit Bomb that kills Vegeta because he's pure of heart and thus unaffected.
• Race Against the Clock: On Namek, they quickly befriend the Namekians, but must race to find the Dragon Balls before Guru dies of old age. They barely make it, then after they make their wishes, Guru passes the Dragon Ball responsibility to Moori.
• Papa Wolf: Protecting Videl is a major motivation for Hercule. Finding out Future Videl is from a post apocalyptic future motivates him to get serious about stopping the Androids.
• Shout-Out: Masako calls Cyborg Yamcha YamTron
• So Proud of You: When Hercule deduces Future Videl's identity, he becomes very happy that she is so strong.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Goku isn't killed while fighting Raditz.
  • When Vegeta and Nappa arrive on Earth, the Z-Fighters arrive and stop them from blowing up the city, allowing the citizens to evacuate. Some of the civilans are unfortunately killed by the Saibamen before they are stopped.
  • Piccolo and Yamcha survive the Saiyan Saga.
  • Since Frieza doesn't call the Ginyu Force, they are still alive.
  • Future Gohan survived his battles with the Androids.
• Speak Ill of the Dead: Hercule asks Roshi to train him so that he can be strong enough to defeat Tao and avenge his master. Roshi refuses and says that based on what he saw on the news, his master was incompetent and deserved to die. Krillin eventually persuades Roshi to take him as a student.
• Superior Successor: Hercule as the new leader of Satan Castle and thanks to his massive power jump and more moral nature, he proves a far better instructor and teacher than his master was.
• Took a Level in Badass: Roshi's training causes Hercule's power to jump massively from being unable to do anything towards Tao to defeating him in a straight fight. Come the Saiyan Saga, he's strong enough to meaningfully help in the fight with Raditz.
• Transformation Is a Free Action: While Frieza is turning into his final form, Hercule says he's had enough of his transformations and kicks him in the head, knocking him down and interrupting it. Frieza is enraged and says he was rude to do that, then beats him to death and finishes his transformation.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Goku becomes a Super Saiyan when Frieza kills Hercule and Krillin.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Lampshaded when Hercule freaks out upon meeting the talking Turtle while his peers do not see anything unusual about that.
• Villainous Breakdown: Tao goes from confident to terrified on the ground when Hercule defeats him and running out of town with his tail between his legs.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Hercule chews out Future Gohan and Videl for screwing up their chance to talk the Androids out of fighting.
• The Worf Barrage:
  • Bulma creates a huge cannon that she fires at Frieza's ship as it approaches Earth. It destroys the ship and presumably kills all his minions, but Frieza is unharmed.
  • Hercule tries the same move that killed Raditz on Frieza. It has no effect.

What if Goku never hit his head?

• Adaptational Dumbass: Goku wasn't the brightest crayon in the cookie drawer to begin with, but in this version, he can’t even speak full sentences.
• Adaptational Wimp: Goku's original personality is too wild and feral to be taught discipline or martial arts by Grandpa Gohan, meaning that he's so weak the Pilaf gang can easily defeat and capture him. By the time Raditz arrives on Earth, Goku's power level is under 100!
• Adapted Out: King Piccolo remains sealed since Pilaf had no need for him after he became ruler of the world.
• Evil Overlord: Without Goku and his friends' interference, Pilaf is easily able to gather the Dragon Balls and get his wish to Take Over the World.
• Literal Genie: Pilaf, after witnessing the power of Great Ape Goku, uses the Dragon Balls to wish himself stronger than the strongest person on Earth. He gets it in the most literal sense; Pilaf becomes one power level point stronger than the next strongest earthling (the Ox King). Even then he's no match for Raditz.
• Villain Team-Up: Sort of. The Red Ribbon Army serve under Emperor Pilaf.
• Wild Child: Goku, more so than the original.
• Would Hit a Girl: When Bulma arrives looking for the Four Star Dragon Ball, Goku (having never learned he's supposed to be nice to girls) knocks her out with the power pole.

What if the Supreme Kai wasn't useless?

• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: Shin trains and becomes a far better Kai. The earliest change is developing a system with Beerus that limits Beerus's destruction to worlds that are beyond saving. Beerus is happy because Shin does the research half of the job with him, and is ultimately much more effective.
• The Champion: Shin chooses Yamoshi as the mortal protector of Universe 7, as Shin can't directly intervene in the affairs, but Yamoshi can when something isn't bad enough to call in Beerus.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Shin curb-stomps the evil Saiyans in seconds.
  • Yamoshi vs Beerus ends the same as Goku vs Beerus in canon, ultimately a curb-stomp in Beerus's favor, but one that impresses Beerus.
  • Yamoshi returns after training with Shin and Whis and obliterates the evil Saiyans easily.
  • Yamoshi vs Buu turns out to be this.
• Divine Intervention: Shin notices Yamoshi and descends when he's about to be killed by the evil Saiyans and annihilates his enemies.
• Point of Divergence: Shin chooses to actually train and become a good Supreme Kai rather than remain Incompletely Trained as he did in canon. Another nail is Shin descends and saves Yamoshi. As a result, the heroic Saiyans emerge victorious and the evil Saiyans are killed off. This all means the Saiyans are more like their Universe 6 counterparts than their canon selves, Frieza's family never rose nearly as high as in canon, and Goku and the other modern Saiyans are completely different than canon.
• God Is Good: Shin's advancement eventually leads to him becoming a far more competent and intelligent deity. Beerus, due to his agreement with Shin, is ultimately much more benevolent in this timeline, or at least less needlessly destructive and better at his actual job. Yamoshi also becomes a genuine Super Saiyan God and the heroic champion of Universe 7.
• Took a Level in Badass: Shin grows quite the spine and is willing to stand up to freaking Beerus.

What if Raditz never came to Earth?

• Adaptational Villainy: As Raditz never comes to Earth to force an Enemy Mine, Piccolo remains a villain and replaces Raditz as the Arc Villain of Z's first Saga. He also kidnaps and straight up tries to brainwash Gohan.
• Arc Villain: Without Raditz to force an Enemy Mine, Piccolo remains a villain and replaces him and Vegeta as the main villain for early Z.
• The Hero Dies: Goku still dies, but in this case, Piccolo kills him by sniping him with his Special Beam Cannon as he originally intended.
• More than Mind Control: Piccolo uses nightmare visions and manipulation to convert Gohan to his side.

What if Vegeta never turned good?

• Adaptational Badass:
  • In addition to Goku, Krillin, Gohan and, Piccolo all train on Yardrat and learn Instant Transmission, with Piccolo beginning to delve into advanced Yardrat techniques.
  • Yamcha is given immortality by Shenron, allowing him to be on par with Goku and Vegeta.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Paragus and Broly show up during what would be pre-Android Saga.
• Adaptational Heroism: Paragus. In canon, he wants revenge on Vegeta via proxy for his father banishing him and his son, and his parenting methods are...questionable, to say the least. Here, while not happy to be rescued by him, he doesn't outright antagonize him, and even tries to warn him about Broly's unstable nature. Once Vegeta is dead and his empire in ruins, he simply wishes to live a quiet life, to which Goku offers him a home on Earth.
• Adaptational Villainy: Vegeta, per the name of the what if.
• Adaptational Wimp:
  • Goku doesn’t unlock the Super Saiyan transformation on Namek, only managing to do so through later training.
  • This also applies to Vegeta himself, as he relies on the Zenkai boost and never really achives the power of Super Saiyan.
• Adapted Out: Due to Vegeta remaining in space, Trunks, and by extension Future Trunks, is never born.
• Complete Immortality: Vegeta's wish on the Namekian Dragon Balls grants him this. It is then stripped from him by the Namekian Dragon Balls right before Broly crushes him to death in his pod.
• Cowardly Lion: Despite being terrified of Broly, Yamcha quickly steps in and gives the Saiyan a proper welcome before Tien could escalate the situation into a fight.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: After trying to blow up the planet and having his immortality taken away, Vegeta is crushed inside his escape pod by a very pissed off Broly.
• Doppelgänger Attack: Goku, Gohan and Krillin all learn the Yardrat cloning technique.

• Healing Hands: Piccolo decides to learn Yardrat's healing hands technique so that Dende wouldn't have to get involved in their battles.
• The Hero Dies: Vegeta vaporizes Goku after he refuses to join him. He's brought back later.
• Mortality Ensues: Through the use of the Dragon Balls, the Z-Fighters revoke Vegeta's immortality just as he's about to be crushed to death by Broly.
• Mythology Gag: Vegeta's demise is very similar to Paragus's in the original Broly movie: Broly picks up his escape pod and crushes it. The only differences are that he isn't hurled into the path of a comet, and they had to undo his immortality first.
• Point of Divergence: Vegeta doesn't fall asleep after Captain Ginyu is defeated. As such, he's present when Porunga is summoned and is able to intimidate the heroes into wishing for him to become immortal.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Future Gohan survives his battles with the Androids and is the one sent back in time.
• Story-Breaker Power: Vegeta's newly gained immortality combined with the Saiyan's Zenkai boost means that Vegeta can simply let himself get heavily injured before instantly recovering and getting stronger as a result with no risk to himself. Through this, he manages to defeat Frieza without even becoming a Super Saiyan.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: After learning that the Earth dragon balls can't remove Vegeta's immortality because Porunga is much stronger than Shenron, Yamcha suggest giving Goku immortality so that Vegeta would know what it's like to fight against an immortal Saiyan. When Goku refuses as he doesn't want to be freely given a power-up, he wishes for the immortality on himself so that he can help Goku fight Vegeta.
• Victory by Endurance: When Vegeta and Goku let Frieza power up to 100%, Vegeta notices how the new form slowly drains Frieza's stamina. Due to Vegeta's immortality, he can survive anything Frieza throws at him, so he simply waits until Frieza gets tired out before killing him.
• We Can Rule Together: Vegeta offers this to Goku, and kills Goku after his refusal.

What if Future Trunks was you?

• Downer Ending: The story ends with Trunks and his time machine being utterly destroyed by Goku Black.
• Formula-Breaking Episode: Unlike his other What-Ifs, Masako puts the viewers in Future Trunks' shoes for this video.

What if Gohan was the Legendary Super Saiyan?

• Adaptational Badass:
  • In an effort to control his rage, Gohan begins training with Kami. While on Namek, he also trains with Nail.
  • Yamcha gets his potential unlocked by Guru.
  • Piccolo also gets his potential unlocked. After fusing with Nail, he's strong enough to fight with Frieza's third form and force him to turn into his final form.
  • Puar ends up in Ginyu's Body, and manages to fight Ginyu-in-Puar's body for a bit. He late regains his ability to transform, leaving him with Ginyu's strength and techniques in addition to his own.
  • All of the Dragon Team go to Yardrat to train. This includes Chi-Chi who learns Instant Transmission.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Of a sort: Nail and Piccolo fuse in their fight against the Ginyu Force, rather than against Frieza.
• Adapted Out: Future Trunks doesn't exist due to Vegeta dying in the Saiyan Saga.
• The Berserker: Gohan definitely more embodies this trope compared to his canon counterpart considering how much peril his bouts of Unstoppable Rage bring
• Bittersweet Ending: Gohan succeeds in destroying Android 17 & 18 by tapping into his LSSJ powers, but they consume Son Gohan for good. He ends up becoming Emperor of Earth and prepares it for future threats, annhilating Babadi & Dabura and preventing Majin Buu from being a threat. But he ends up cutting contact with everyone except Bulma, Purar, and Oolong, as they don't like who he's become. Some of the surviving Dragon Team return to searching for New Namek, hoping to resurrect Goku, Piccolo and many others lost to the Androids. Additionally, Gohan's determination to protect his Earth is extending to preemptively attacking outside threats.
• Curb-Stomp Battle
  • Gohan goes completely berserk on Raditz and utterly annihilates him.
  • When Cold, Frieza and their army arrive on earth, they're easily defeated by the Dragon Team.
  • Android 17 wipes the floor with both Piccolo and Gohan (even despite the latter's rage boost and turning Super Saiyan). The former resulting in his death.
    • ...and then Gohan returned the favor to both Android 17 and 18 after he unleashes the LSSJ transformation in their rematch, after struggling against them when he tried to be calm and logical with his approach.
  • He also curb stomps Babadi and Dabura with ease, preventing Majin Buu from being revived.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation:
  • Cui gets offed by Krillin cutting him in half with a Destructo Disk, rather than being blown up by Vegeta.
  • Nail, Piccolo and Gohan kill Dodoria and Zarbon.
  • King Cold and Frieza are killed by Goku when they attack Earth.
  • Android 19 dies thanks to the combined effort of the Dragon Team, after Krillin severs his hands with a surprise Destructo Disk.
  • Piccolo dies at the hands of Android 17, which takes Kami with him due to the life bond.
  • Goku's 2nd death happens against Android 17 instead of by the heart virus or Cell.
  • Android 17 and 18 die together against Gohan in his LSSJ transformation instead of being absorbed by Cell or Super Buu respectively.
• Dressing as the Enemy: Yamcha and Krillin do this to infiltrate Frieza's ship with Puar disguised as Cui. It ends up working quite well.
• The Hero Dies:
  • After killing Raditz, Gohan is unable to calm down and ends up killing Goku as well.
  • Goku's second death happens at the hands of Android 17 and 18 while he buys enough time for Krillin and Yamcha to escape.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • Dende overuses his healing powers on Goku and Piccolo, resulting in his death. He's brought back by the Dragon Balls.
  • Goku uses the last bit of his energy while suffering from the heart virus to hold off Android 17 so Krillin could get Yamcha away from the Androids. Unfortunately, it sticks.
  • Non-fatal example, but Gohan tapping into his LSSJ powers to destroy Androids 17 & 18 for good results in Death of Personality, which he considers Worth It to bring about peace and avenge Piccolo and Goku.
• Impersonation Gambit: Puar disguises himself as Cui and Frieza to infiltrate the ship and steal the dragon balls.
• Killed Off for Real:
  • Vegeta is killed off by Gohan during the Saiyan Saga. Which ends up backfiring horribly during the Android Saga. No Vegeta meant no Trunks, and in this What If, there was no Time Machine for someone to return to the past and warn Goku about the heart virus, causing the events to go a bit in-line with the Future Trunks timeline, with a mixture of some present plot points, like the presence of Android 19.
  • Goku dies for good against Android 17, since the Earth Dragon Balls are gone and the surviving Dragon Team are unable to find New Namek to use their Dragon Balls.
• Lethal Joke Character: Puar ends up interfering with Ginyu's bodyswap, resulting in him stuck in Ginyu's body.
• Mythology Gag: Puar-as-Cui says tells Appule that Krillin and Yamcha's names are Chestnut and Tea, respectively. Krillin and Yamcha were named after chestnuts and tea, respectively.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: What Gohan did to both Android 17 and 18 in their rematch, after reaching the breaking point and transforming into the LSSJ. They didn't have any chance against Gohan after the fact.
• No-Sell: Enraged by the death of Piccolo, one of his mentors, Gohan went on a rampage against Android 17, catching him off-guard... just for the barrage of attacks to do absolutely nothing. Then 17 proceeds to return the favor, beating Gohan to a pulp.
  • In Gohan's rematch against Android 17 and 18, at first, none of Gohan's attacks had any tangible effect against the pair of cyborgs, despite all the training he did in Yardrat, however... the script was flipped once Gohan became the LSSJ in that battle, which in turn, made both 17 and 18's efforts against Gohan in vain.
• Point of Divergence: Vegeta's death means there is no Future Trunks. Unlike most other What Ifs? where someone else takes his place, no one comes back and warns Goku about the Androids or his heart virus.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!:
  • Ginyu and the remains of the Frieza Force flee Earth after Cold and Frieza are killed.
  • The Dragon Team (minus a deceased Goku and Piccolo) are forced to do this so they can try and find New Namek and use their Dragon Balls to undo the damage of the Androids.
  • Androids 17 and 18 attempt to flee when Gohan goes
• Spared By Adaptation:
  • Yamcha and Piccolo survive the Saiyan Saga.
  • Ginyu, Burter and Jeice survive Namek. They also survive King Cold and Frieza's attack on earth.
• Tranquil Fury: Once Gohan reaches the LSSJ transformation against the androids in their second encounter, he's surprisingly calm, even when delivering a chilling speech to them after they try asking for mercy.
• Unstoppable Rage: Gohan suffers bouts of this.
• Villains Want Mercy: Android 17 and 18 attempt to persuade Gohan to spare them, but he refuses and kills them after delivering a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.

What if Trunks and Mai Stayed in the Past?

• Adaptational Jerkass: Trunks being unsympathetic towards Goku and Gohan's pleas to participate in the Tournament of Power is one thing, it's an entirely different thing for him to put all the blame on Goku for the entire situation with Zamasu- and even going as far as to also put the blame on him for the Tournament on him as well.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Goku and Gohan resort to begging Future Trunks to join Team Universe 7. It doesn't work.
• Babies Ever After: Shortly before the Tournament of Power, Future Mai reveals Trunks had gotten her pregnant. This really motivates him to survive. They eventually have a son named Pari (named after the Japanese summer clothing hippari, to fit with the Brief clothing theme naming).
• Back from the Dead: The remnants of the Frieza Empire eventually manage to revive Frieza with the Dragon Balls again.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • When Beerus tries to Hakai Future Trunks, Chronoa from Xenoverse shows up and stops him.
  • The assassins from Universe 9 hit Goku with the Energy of Destruction and he is too injured and exhausted to go Super Saiyan Blue to counter it. Just as he is about to be erased, Beerus shows up and casually makes the energy disappear.
• Bystander Syndrome: The Tournament of Power doesn't involve time travel, so Chronoa is completely uninterested in it.
• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Future Trunks is still traumatized by the Androids, so he finds it surreal when Android 17 gives him encouragement.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: When the End of Z arrives, Future Trunks and Mai are content living with their son Pari and their friends in a time of peace.
• Enemy Mine: When the Broly movie rolls around, Future Trunks ends up having to help Frieza fight off the rampaging Broly and buy time for Goku and Vegeta to fuse into Gogeta.
• Forgotten First Meeting: During the Tournament of Power, Future Zeno is impressed with Trunks' strength and asks who he is. The Grand Priest tries to remind him about him erasing the future timeline to deal with Infinite Zamasu, which was when he met Trunks, but the Zenos get bored and say they don't care.
• Godzilla Threshold: Chronoa says she had to break a lot of laws to show up and save Future Trunks from Beerus, but she couldn't allow him to die.
• Insistent Terminology: Chronoa insists on being addressed as "The Supreme Kai of Time" and gives Future Trunks a Dope Slap when he calls her Chronoa.
• Irony: Future Gohan trained Future Trunks. Now he is training Present Gohan, which he comments on.
• Jerkass Façade: Chronoa pretends to be angry with Trunks and chew him out for his time travel because Beerus is there. When they're alone, she admits that she actually completely understands why he did it, which is why she looked the other way at his temporal meddling and allowed his changes to stick.
• Jerkass Has a Point: At one point, Gohan gives up on training, saying he can't fight and provide for his family at the same time. Vegeta, while being very condescending, points out Bulma provides for his family while he concentrates on protecting them. Gohan realizes he's right and that he forgot about Videl's strength and talents.
• Keep the Reward: After Future Trunks and Mai get a house, Bulma offers to make it luxurious, saying it will be a reward for everything they went through. They decline, confusing her.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Future Trunks is chomping at the bit whenever he sees the Zenos. Vegeta points out that he dislikes the Zenos too, but it is really foolish to try to attack beings who can erase you in an instant. Trunks calms down a little, but he still gives the Zenos hostile looks.
• Misplaced Retribution: Future Trunks tells Goku, while refusing to take part in the Tournament (as he hates Zeno more than anyone else in existence) that the tournament and potential erasure of their home is all Goku's fault. Despite the fact that Zamasu was going to act regardless of Goku's interference or not, that Trunks himself caused a lot of Zamasu ire and actions as well, and that Goku suggesting the tournament actually saved the other universes from being erased outright.
• My Future Self and Me: Kid Trunks is really happy that his and Mai's future counterparts are staying. Future Mai tries to connect with her kid self, but her kid self is aloof. The four of them eventually bond while caring for baby Bulla.
• Nay-Theist: Future Trunks says based on the Zenos' actions, they don't deserve to be called gods or worshiped.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Future Trunks battles Dyspo and talks to him. He nearly manages to convince Dyspo to join forces with him, but then Gohan butts in and hits him, angering him and making him think that Trunks was just trying to trick him.
• Point of Divergence:
  • When Whis offers to create a new future timeline for Future Trunks and Mai, they decide it wouldn't be right for them as the new future people would not be the same as their loved ones. Also, Beerus forbids them from ever using the Time Machine again.
  • After Gohan found out about Future Trunks' ordeal, he was struck with guilt that he didn't help out and realized he was likely too weak to help. So he asks Trunks to train him and help unlock his stunted potential.
  • Future Trunks is eventually convinced to join Team Universe 7, so they don't revive Frieza.
  • The assassins from Universe 9 attack Goku. Without Frieza to back him up, he almost gets killed by the Energy of Destruction until Beerus and Whis show up and save him. Whis reports to the Grand Priest about the assassination attempt, resulting in Universe 9 being disqualified and erased before the Tournament of Power begins.
  • Due to not having to deal with people like Frieza, Toppo doesn't snap and turn into a God of Destruction, making it easier to defeat him, though he manages to eliminate Future Trunks before he is defeated.
  • Without anyone to back him up, Goku is eliminated by Jiren. Fortunately, the time limit runs out and Android 17 was still there, making it a tie. Jiren and 17 agree to use the wish to restore the erased Universes.
• Rage Breaking Point: After Future Trunks both refuses to join Team Universe 7 and insults the Zenos, Beerus gets so pissed off that he tries to Hakai Future Trunks on the spot.
• A Rare Sentence: After the Tournament of Power, Future Trunks thanks Android 17, then remarks he never imagined he would ever say that.
• Revenge Before Reason: When the Tournament of Power arc rolls around, Future Trunks is still angry at Future Zeno for erasing his timeline, so he refuses to help, even when Goku and Gohan point out their universe is on the line, saying he refuses to give the Zenos any entertainment. After spending time fighting alongside Chronoa, Trunks changes his mind.
• Took a Level in Badass: Future Trunks achieves Super Saiyan God while fighting alongside the Time Patrollers.
• Victory by Endurance: Toppo defeats Future Trunks when his Super Saiyan God power runs out, while Jiren defeats Goku when his Ultra Instinct runs out.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Future Trunks openly tells Goku that the Tournament of Power- and the situation regarding the erasure of Universe Seven- is Goku's fault, and Goku can fix it on his own. Even though that this is not true.
• Year Inside, Hour Outside: After saving Future Trunks from Beerus' wrath, Chronoa insists that Trunks work for the Time Patrollers to atone for his meddling with time. She takes him away and he has his adventures in the Xenoverse games. When she returns him to Earth, it turns out only a few seconds had passed for the others.

What if Goku Black turned Good?

• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Goku Black's final act before being killed by Vegeta is to flip the bird towards Zamasu.
• Heel–Face Turn: Goku Black turns against Future Zamasu due to the influences of Goku's consciousness.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Zamasu hijacking Goku’s body to enact his Zero Mortals Plan ends up really screwing him over in the long run, as the sociopathic Zamasu is not only saddled with Goku’s power and potential, but also his conscience. As a result, Goku Black is eventually crippled with remorse over his Ax-Crazy killing spree and ends up actively sabotaging his own plan, using Vegeta to commit Suicide by Cop in order to atone for his crimes.
• Humanity Is Infectious: The remnants of Goku's memories and emotions have an effect on Black, first seen when his attempt to mock the deaths of Goku's friends and family triggers a twinge of sympathy and My God, What Have I Done? in him.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: Goku Black forces Vegeta to kill him in order to prevent Future Zamasu from enacting his plan.
• Killed Off for Real: Vegeta vaporizes Goku Black, while Future Zamasu is overwhelmed and disintegrated by a combination attack from Goku and Vegeta.
• Redemption Equals Death: Goku Black finds redemption via Suicide by Cop. As a necessary factor in the ultimate defeat of Zamasu, he's Driven to Suicide, finding his redemption in letting Vegeta kill him.
• Villainous BSoD: Zamasu finds out the hard way that stealing Goku’s body also meant he inherited his conscience, as he starts to have some serious misgivings about his more viler acts. It gets to the point that he inevitably ends up conspiring with Vegeta to kill him to stop Future Zamasu’s plan coming to fruition, disgusted with himself for sinking to such genocidal depravity.
• What Is This Feeling?: Zamasu ends up being affected by various emotions and feelings from the remnants of Goku's consciousness in their body.

What If Frieza had a Son?

• Adaptational Badass: Like Frieza in Resurrection 'F', Cooler realizes that he's long since been outclassed and resorts to actual martial training to close the gap, gaining his own Golden 5th form Cooler ability.
  • Likewise Cooler's Armored Squadron, who served as his training partners. However, unlike Tagoma in Super, they weren't just punching bags and got in some actual training themselves. Between this, some bio-engineering enhancements, and dropping the goofy posing, they're powerful enough to force Goku and Vegeta to use Super Saiyan Blue — no mean feat considering this What If takes place after Dragon Ball Super: Broly.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Frieza by the time of the finale is much nicer.
• Canon Immigrant: Originally from the Neko Majin Z gag-manga, Kuriza makes his jump to the main timeline.
• Darkest Hour: Kuriza gets kidnapped, the Saiyans and anyone with their DNA get erased and Frieza gets defeated and his empire usurped by Cooler and his Armored Squadron at the end of part 4.
• Enemy Mine: Frieza is forced to get help from Bulma and the Earthlings to bring the Saiyans back and defeat his brother.
• Humiliation Conga: Frieza gets his son kidnapped, his butt kicked by Golden 5th-form Cooler, and his empire stolen by Cooler.
• Odd Friendship:
  • Kuriza gets along extremely well with Bra and Pan.
  • Berryblue and Bulma get along pretty well, over their ability to deal with hard-headed individuals.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Kuriza has Frieza level of powers as a young being. He also gets training from Vegeta alonside Bra and Pan.
• Superior Successor: Frieza passes off raising Kuriza to Goku and Vegeta in order to make him a better warrior.
• Truly Single Parent: It's implied that Frieza spawned Kuriza by his lonesome.

What If the Ginyu Force turned Good?

• Adaptational Badass:
  • Cell now has time skip abilities that were taken from Guldo.
  • The Ginyu Force were able to hold their own when fighting the Androids as a team.
• Adaptational Heroism: Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
• The Atoner: The Ginyu Force fights on the side of good to make up for the atrocities they committed on Frieza's orders.
• And I Must Scream: Because of the exact words Mr. Popo used that allowed the Ginyu Force and the Namekian villagers that Vegeta killed come back this means Cui, Dodoria, Zarbon, and all of Frieza's men, all came back... only to be killed again in the planet's destruction.
• Ascended Fanboy: The Ginyu Force's poses and fighting style are what inspired Gohan's Great Saiyaman persona, so its only fitting that he joins their ranks during the Buu Saga.
• Big Damn Heroes: According to Goku, the Ginyu Force lead him to Frieza's ship and knew how to fly it, which is how he escaped the exploding Namek.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Recoome, Burter and Ginyu end up Majinized by Babidi.
• Canon Immigrant: Androids 13, 14 and 15 appear here as well. Super Android 13 also showes up.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Semi-Perfect Cell deals one to the Ginyu Force, twice.
  • Once post Time-Chamber Vegeta and Future Trunks show up, they easily dispatch Androids 14 and 15 and then Super Android 13.
  • Majin Recoome delivers one to Krillin during the World's Martial Arts Tournment.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Even with the Potential Unleashed power boost, Jeice poses no real threat to Ginbuu after absorbing Gohan. But the fight goes on because Ginbuu wants to try and convince him and the rest of the force to join him in conquest.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation:
  • Dabura is killed by Recoome, Burter and Gohan.
  • Vegeta gets turned into candy and eaten by Buu.
• Everyone Has Standards: Even Goku is embarrassed by the Ginyu Force's dances and poses.
• Exact Words: Mr. Popo wishes for all those recently killed by evil-doers on Namek to be resurrected. As Vegeta hadn't fully joined the heroes, this includes those killed by him, like the Namekian villagers. Then Dende wishes for everyone on Namek except Goku, Frieza, and Frieza's men to be sent to Earth, which was why the Ginyu Force wasn't sent there.
  • This also means that Vegeta's other victims, (Cui, Dodoria, Zarbon, and a number of Frieza's foot soldiers) all came back only to be killed once again when Namek blew up.

• Fusion Dance: Goku and Gohan fuse into Gokhan via Potara Earrings.
• Grand Theft Me: Being Ginyu's signature power, he does try (and fail) to use it on Cell twice. However, Dr. Gero weaponizes the fact Cell has Ginyu's DNA and powers to force Cell to use it on him, hijacking Cell's body. During the Buu saga, Majin Ginyu is commanded by Babidi to use it on Evil Buu as he transforms into Super Buu, becoming “Super Ginyu” (later called Ginbuu) and successfully defeats and absorbs Piccolo, Goku (who never learned SS3 in this timeline), and Ultimate Gohan.
• Heel–Face Turn:
  • As per the title. Eventually, the Ginyu Force uses the Dragon Balls to change Captain Ginyu back from a frog. Captain Ginyu at first wants to bring back Frieza and serve him again, but the others manage to convince him to turn his life around.
  • Gohan and Goku manage to convince Majin Buu to join them
• Heroic Sacrifice: Guldo uses his time stop powers to save Gohan from Perfect Gero's attack, but is unable to avoid it himself.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Jeice and Guldo try this on the Majinized Force. It works on Burter and Recoome, but fails to work on Ginyu.
• Inspite Of A Nail
  • Gohan still becomes the Great Saiyaman. Videl still catches on and becomes the Great Saiyawoman.
  • Vegeta and Goku still fight Puipui and Yakon.
  • Buu is still freed and Dabura is still killed.
• Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand: What Jeice and the rest of the force do to reason with Ginbuu. It's what inspires him to release all their friends and the Buus.
• Mêlée à Trois: The fight between Android 17 and Piccolo quickly devolves into one of these when Androids 13-15, Cell and the Ginyu Force arrive.
• No-Sell:
  • Guldo can no-sell Cell's time skip, since he has time skips of his own.
  • Cell no-sells Ginyu's body swap ability by canceling it out with his own.
• Not Brainwashed: Jeice exposes that Ginyu had been free of Babidi’s control after taking Super Buu’s body, and Ginyu admits to wanting to be a conquerer and not a protector of Earth. The rest of the force are shocked by the realization, and Jeice tells Ginyu to leave so that he can reflect on what he’s done after he’s returned to his previous body.
• Point of Divergence:
  • Because of the Ginyu Force's presence, Cell now has time skip abilities, as well as Androids 13, 14 and 15 helping him.
  • Hercule is less prominant and famous, due to not taking credit for Cell's defeat.
  • Goten is more independent and much more organized, thanks to Goku's presence in his life.
  • Buu Saga: Burter and Recoome are captured by Babidi and Majinized. Later, while on Badidi's ship, Ginyu becomes Majinized as well. Buu is freed, and escapes with Majin Ginyu and Babidi. After training with the Kais, Goku and Gohan fuse into Gokhan and mange to talk down Buu.
• Redemption Equals Death: Ginyu stops Frieza from blowing up Earth, holds him and yells at Vegeta to finish the job. Vegeta obliges, vaporizing them both.
• Reformed, but Rejected: While Goku accepts them, at first, the other Z-Fighters, especially Vegeta, aren't convinced the Ginyus have reformed. They come around after a while though.
• Running Gag: Mentioning that Guldo is kind of a jerk, with Guldo saying that he’s working on it.
• Sentai: Naturally, since the Ginyu Force was created as a parody of them.
• Spared By Adaptation: Android 16 survives the events of the Cell Saga and joins the Ginyu Force.
• Superhero:
  • The group essentially fall into the role as they fight crime.
  • Gohan still becomes the Great Saiyaman, and joins them as the Great Saiya Force. Videl eventually joins them.
• Story-Breaker Power: The full terrifying potential of Ginyu’s body change is demonstrated when Babidi commands him to use it successfully on Super Buu, which later proves too much for Piccolo and even Goku to handle. Not even Ultimate Gohan is able to defeat him. The only thing that stops him in the end is his former comrades daring him to kill them, guilting Ginbuu enough to release all their friends and Buus he’d absorbed.
• Time Stands Still: Guldo, naturally, has this ability, and now Cell does, too.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Guldo, after spending some time with Krillin in the time chamber, becomes a fair bit nicer.
• Undying Loyalty: Jeice, Recoome, Burter and Guldo all swear loyalty to Goku after they witness him defeat Frieza. They still have this towards their former Captain, who they successfully convince to change his ways as well.
• Unskilled, but Strong: The Ginyu Force start training during the period between the Frieza and Android sagas, but are still no match for the 2 Androids.
• We Can Rule Together: What Ginbuu offers to his former comrades. They reject it and dare him to kill them instead.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Krillin assures Guldo that even though his battle power is low, he is still valuable to his allies.

What If Yajirobe trained like Goku?

• Brilliant, but Lazy: Subverting this is the difference between this and the main timeline: Yajirobe, as Masako points out, had a power level matching Goku's when they first met and managed to spike up to 900 during the one year training to fight the Saiyans despite not really trying all that hard. As such, in this timeline, Yajirobe actually applying himself is a major change.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Yajirobe's rematch with Goku at the start of Z ends with Yajirobe going all out and beating Goku effortlessly.
• Forgot Flanders Could Do That: As Masako points out, people tend to forget that Yajirobe was equal in power to Goku when they first met and went from a power level of 150 to over 900 in a year during the Saiyan Saga, meaning he's a lot more talented than he lets on. As such, him managing to catch up to Goku and even being a little stronger than him by training with Kami was surprisingly plausible.

• Implausible Fencing Powers: Yajirobe is able to reflect one of Raditz's ki blast back at him with his sword techniques.
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: Yajirobe is utterly bored in his rematch with Goku, easily holding his own and defeats him with little effort.
• Point of Divergence:
  • Yajirobe loses the Rock-Paper-Scissors match to fight Cymbal. This results in Yajirobe and Goku fighting each other and an actual friendship between Yajirobe and Goku.
  • As a result of this, Yajirobe is also able to drink the Ultra Divine Water.
  • Yajirobe and Goku manage to convince Bulma and Chi-Chi to flee Kame House with Gohan when they sense Raditz approaching. Unfortunately, it results in Piccolo kidnapping Gohan.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Yajirobe manages to surpass Goku at the beginning of Z. By the time Raditz shows up, he has a powerlevel of 1000.
  • As a result of this, both Goku and Piccolo continue to train, making them both much stronger when Raditz shows up.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Yajirobe develops a genuine friendship with Goku, and continues to help him in the fight against King Piccolo.

What If Frost was Actually Good?

• A Rare Sentence:
  • "That is until Cabba shows up! Never thought I'd actually say that..."
  • "The fact that their old leader had shacked up with the goody-goody Saiyans. Never thought I'd actually say that, either."
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Frost trains with Cabba, so both of them are stronger than they are in canon. As a result, Frost manages to beat Piccolo fair and square, using only his 2nd Form, and manages to match Super Saiyan Vegeta one on one in his Final Form, rather than being curbstomped by him. That is something that post-training Frieza was unable to do. Frost still gets curbstomped by Super Saiyan Blue Vegeta, but actually forced Vegeta to use it. The end of Part 2 has him going to Universe 6 to train with Goku, Vegeta and Cabba. After a bit of training, Frost could dodge some of Super Saiyan Blue Goku's attacks, though he doesn't yet have a Golden form. In Part 4, he's more powerful than Super Saiyan 2 Future Trunks. In episode 7, he finally gets his Golden Form, which makes him able to fight Hit for a bit, before getting more training under Hit. In the Finale, Frost gains slight time-skip abilities and is the one to ring-out Jiren with Goku, rather than Frieza.
  • Cabba is implied to have gained SSJ2 earlier than before, and possibly SSJ3, though this is never confirmed by the time of the Finale. He lasts longer than his canon counterpart, and indeed, longer than Kefla, Pirina and Saionel, thanks to Frost helping him, but still ends up getting ringed out by Jiren.
• Adaptational Heroism: Somewhat. Frost is still a Space Pirate and Fake Ultimate Hero, but he was a Noble Demon who genuinely didn't want to actually hurt anyone. His pirate crew turns on him and he ends up defeating them due to this standards, only for Good Feels Good to kick in and him to become genuinely heroic by episode 4. He considers using his poison needle in the Tournament, but decides not to, in the end. When seeing an opportunity to ring out Krillin in the Tournament of Power, he doesn't do so, instead fighting him honorably and ringing him out normally, rather than through a surprise attack.
• Be All My Sins Remembered: As of episode 4, Frost is more scared of being revealed as a former Evil Overlord and alienating him from Cabba and his Saiyan friends than simply being killed. His past crimes get exposed when they go to Sadala to try and find the Super Dragon Balls, and Frost willingly lets himself get arrested. However, Hit stops the prison transport to fulfill his contract...
• Berserk Button: Hit threatens Trunks, Mai, Vegeta and Goku's lives during his and Frost's fight, which also would jeopardize the Future Trunks timeline being restored, which Frost also got very attached to. This is what causes Frost to first turn Golden.
• Big Damn Heroes: Just as Frost is finally caught by Goku Black and Future Zamasu and about to be tortured to death by them, Goku, Vegeta, Cabba, Future Trunks and Mai show back up and rescue him.
• Constantly Curious: Goten and Trunks keep pestering Frost with questions about himself and "What's it like being a good Frieza?".
• Death by Adaptation: Or possibly just confirmed death, since he probably died the same way originally, but Jaco and the Galactic Patrol were all slaughtered by Goku Black.
• Enemy Mine: Frost and Cabba help the Universe 7 fighters against Anilaza and the Universe 11 Pride Troopers. Frost ends up helping Goku take out Jiren, knowing that Android 17 will wish back all the universes after talking with him.
• For Great Justice: Cabba's attitude and how he and Frost become involved with Future Trunks and Goku Black.
• Go On Without Me: Frost decides to stay in Future Trunks' timeline the first time the heroes go back, since there would be too many people in the time machine with Goku, Vegeta, Cabba, Trunks and Mai.
• Golden Super Mode: Frost is able to get his own Golden form in episode 7. However, since it was his first time using it, it suffers from the same stamina bug that Frieza's did. Luckily, he's able to scare off his former Space Pirate crew before it really gets to him, and Hit was being paid not to kill him by an unknown benefactor.
• Good Feels Good: Frost ends up turning genuinely good because of this. Stopping his previous crew from genuinely hurting people and fighting alongside Cabba makes him feel happy. Helping the Saiyans fight evil makes him gradually enjoy it more and more until he eventually becomes genuinely heroic. When he meets Haru and Maki, the children in Future Trunks' timeline, he genuinely wants to help them and Future Trunks' timeline.
• Guile Hero: Frost is no match for Goku Black or Future Zamasu 1 on 1, but he helps Goku in his fight against them by distracting them and when faced with Goku Black 1 on 1 after having Goku and the others go back to the past, he tricks Black by using his poison needle to poison Black and then shoots him in the chest with a Chaos beam, but was unable to finish him off before Future Zamasu showed up. He uses his Super-Toughness and endurance to continually outwit and evade Black and Zamasu until Goku and co. show back up.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite Frost and Cabba's help, Future Trunks' timeline still gets destroyed by Future Zeno. However, Frost's attachment to that timeline from spending weeks protecting the survivors there led him to argue that they should use the Super Dragon Balls to wish the timeline back into existence before Zamasu's rampage.
• Innocently Insensitive: Goku, Goten and Trunks are this to Frost by constantly comparing him to Frieza.
• Made of Iron: Him sharing Frieza's Super-Toughness is his main reason to stay behind in Future Trunks' timeline.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Frost finds ice cream amazing, and is surprised at it, stating that Universe 6's Earth destroyed itself.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Of a sort, Frost gets this after he tells Goku, Vegeta, Cabba, Trunks and Mai to go back in time since there wouldn't be room in the time machine. He realizes that he may have basically killed himself since Zamasu and Goku Black are stronger than him.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: When Future Trunks mistakenly attacks Goku, thinking he's Goku Black, Frost defends Goku, leading Future Trunks to attack him, instead, thinking he's Frieza. However, he does get annoyed at Goku when he sees Goku Black and how powerful he'd become because Goku held back in their fight.
• Pet the Dog: It's implied Hit was hired to kill Frost by his former crew, but after his fight with Goku, Hit warns him not to come home to Universe 6 with the implication he spared him.
• Properly Paranoid: Hit was hired, likely by Frost's former crew, to kill Frost. This understandably makes Frost very nervous and constantly looks over his shoulder for the assassin.
• Shout-Out: When Future Trunks arrives, Frost wonders why Future Trunks meeting his present counterpart doesn't end in something bad with:
  Frost: Shouldn't that future man meeting our Trunks cause some sort of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey trouble or something?
• Tired of Running: After being hunted by Goku Black and Future Zamasu for weeks, Frost is tired of running when he gets back to his own timeline.

What if Bardock defeated Frieza?

• Beam-O-War: Thanks to generally better handling of the situation, the Saiyans are united behind Bardock, who goes Super Saiyan. As a result, instead of Frieza's Death Ball destroying Planet Vegeta, the Saiyans meet it in a collective one of these, allowing them to push it back and win.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Bardock easily defeats Captain Ginyu and King Cold due to their arrogance and inability to sense power levels making them drop their guard. Bardock's crew easily defeats King Cold's soldiers, as they have been training excessively and the average mook only has a power level of about 2000.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Frieza is killed off in the first part, resulting in King Cold taking over as the main antagonist.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Bardock and his crew defeat the Ginyu Force and King Cold, rescuing Prince Vegeta. Gine recovers Kakarot's pod and calls back Raditz. They live together as a family and the Saiyans are back as a warrior race.
• Evil Is Petty: King Cold doesn't give a darn about Frieza at all. His actions against the Saiyans are less about avenging his son and more about Frieza's death indirectly slighting his pride.
• Hostage Situation: King Cold reveals he has Prince Vegeta hostage and tells the Saiyans that if they want him to live, they will remain exiled on Planet Vegeta until the end of time, never able to explore the universe and fight anyone again. Bardock angrily challenges Cold to a duel and he accepts.
• How Do I Shot Web?: After going Super Saiyan the first time, Bardock can't figure out how to do it again. It takes a long training session before he can do it at will. The other Saiyans are disappointed that no matter how much they train, they can't figure out how to transform.
• The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Bardock's crew listened to his prophetic warning and intentionally slow down on their way to Planet Meat so he can catch up. Knowing the ambush is coming this time, Dodoria and his men are the ones to get ambushed and wiped out instead.
• Logical Weakness: Frieza is locked into a certain power level by the form he's currently in, and can't transform instantly. As a result, when he's blindsided by the Saiyans managing to return his Death Ball to sender, he doesn't have time to transform and is killed.
• Speak Ill of the Dead: While King Cold seeks revenge for Frieza's death, he also mocks him for losing to a bunch of "monkeys".
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Bardock is far weaker than Goku was on Namek. As a result, rather than going Super Saiyan allowing him to kill Frieza himself, it takes all the Saiyans plus him to do the job, and even then only by surprising him while he's in his First Form and not paying attention.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Bardock believes Toma had been killed, causing his anger and hate to reach the point he goes Super Saiyan.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Even after becoming a Super Saiyan, Bardock says he doesn't really feel that special. Gine tells him that he was always special to her.

What If The Farmer DEFEATED Raditz?

• Downer Ending: Trigga is accepted by the Z-Fighters and they are happy for a while. Then Androids 19 and 20 show up, much more powerful than anything they could have prepared for, and kill all the Z-Fighters before terrorizing the world.
• Extremely Protective Child: Piccolo shows up at the farm after sensing Trigga's power. Having been told of his crimes by the farmer and his wife, Trigga angrily attacks him to defend his home and adoptive parents.
• Fan Boy: The farmer and his wife watched the World Martial Arts Tournament on TV and are fans of Goku. When Goku arrives to investigate the massive power he sensed, they are excited to meet him and ask him to train Trigga so that he can compete in the next tournament.

• Happily Adopted: The farmer and his wife end up adopting the amnesiac Raditz, who becomes a loyal son.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Because of his amnesia, Trigga is still figuring out his powers and is wobbly when he flies.
• I Surrender, Suckers: When Trigga easily beats Piccolo, he surrenders and flies away. Just as Trigga and Goku relax, Piccolo comes back and tries to snipe them with the Special Beam Cannon. Fortunately, Goku is able to sense it and warn Trigga, so it hits him in the side instead of the center of his torso, then Goku is able to save him with a Senzu Bean.
• The Joy of First Flight: Trigga is very happy when he rediscovers how to fly.
• Meaningful Rename: Since Raditz cannot remember his name, the farmer and his wife name him Trigga (the farmer really likes his gun, especially its trigger).
• Messianic Archetype: After ending the story with a Downer Ending, MasakoX treats Nofu as this. His death to Raditz in the original story was a massive nail that, as far as this story's concerned, was for the greater good of the world as a whole, and promptly shows appreciation for Nofu's sacrifice.
• Mundane Utility: Trigga's strength is really useful in the farm.
• No Name Given: Masako only refers to the farmer and his wife by those titles. Trigga calls them "Ma" and "Pa". In Part 2, Masako did some more research and found out the farmer is named Nofu.
• Point of Divergence:
  • When Raditz tries to flick the bullet back at the farmer, he is able to use his gun as a shield. The ricocheting bullet breaks the gate on his ostrich pen and they stampede. While Raditz is distracted by this, the farmer shoots him in the back of the head, knocking him out cold and giving him amnesia.
  • Since Goku never dies, he never receives training from King Kai.
  • Vegeta and Nappa simply write Raditz off as dead and ignore him, so they don't go to Earth. As a result, the Z-Fighters never go to Namek and never encounter Frieza.
  • Ultimately, as the Androids were more powerful than Frieza, all of the above leads to a Downer Ending where a more powerful and more evil 17 and 18 destroy everything.
• Trauma-Induced Amnesia: When Raditz is shot in the head, he wakes up with complete amnesia.

What If Yamcha Destroyed The Universe?

• All Just a Dream: The finale reveals that the events of this What-If were just a vision shown to Yamcha by Shenron.
• Battle Trophy: As pointed out by Goku, Yamcha takes Broly's fur pelt as his own after killing him.
• Defiant to the End: While on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle, Vegeta mocks Yamcha's death by Saibaman one last time just as he gets impaled through the chest.
• The Dog Bites Back: Played for Drama. Beyond the realization about his legacy and the truth about the Dragon Ball universe, Yamcha's plan is especially fueled by his friends' mistreatment of him. His initial rant towards Goku and Vegeta about how meaningless the Dragon Ball universe is capped off with this tirade:
  Goku: Yamcha, buddy, this isn't you!
  Yamcha: Oh, but it is! Your old buddy Yamcha, that was left to rot in some Saibaman crater! Your old buddy Yamcha, that was impaled by Gero with nobody helping me! Your old buddy Yamcha, that was trusted less than Frieza for the Tournament!
• Expy: A medium-aware omnicidal Hero Killer? Looks like Yamcha just became Dreadpool!
• Face–Heel Turn: In case the title wasn't obvious enough.
• The Farmer and the Viper: After getting Goku to let him train on New Namek, Yamcha nestles into the Namekians' hospitality, so that they can kindly allow him to use their Dragon Balls to grant a wish. Said wish involves him becoming the strongest warrior in the universe, and afterwards, he stops Porunga from ever making another wish again and promptly blows up New Namek. He does the exact same thing to the Yardrats by getting them to teach him Instant Transmission before blowing up their planet and promptly beginning his tirade against the universe proper.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: What kicks off his turn to evil. Yamcha wishes on the Dragon Balls to find out what his legacy proves to be, and it turns out to be his defeat at the Saibaman and the infamous death pose... along with the many things it inspired, like memes and merchandise. He does not take it well.
• Hero Killer: The first major obstacles to his plan that Yamcha got rid of (after killing Frieza and Broly) are Goku and Vegeta, albeit the latter is offed with little effort.
• I Hate Past Me / Future Me Scares Me: The finale sees Yamcha traveling back to the events of the Saiyan Saga in order to wipe out the universe before he gets killed by a Saibamen, where he runs into his past self. He quickly gets annoyed by Past!Yamcha's idealism while Past!Yamcha is quickly weirded out and angered by the plan to wipe out the universe and the insulting of his friends.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Upon taking too much damage as a result of his Ultra Instinct transformation, Goku tries to get Yamcha to stop his omnicidal quest via this. It doesn't work.
  Goku: Yamcha... please... you're my friend...
  Yamcha: Don't worry, "friend". This won't hurt a bit. Ka...
  Goku: Yamcha, you're a good person!
  Yamcha: ...me...
  Goku: I don't understand why this is happening to you, but—
  Yamcha: ...ha...!
  Goku: Think about the others, Puar, Tienshinhan, Bulma, everyone!
  Yamcha: ...me...! (smiles) ...ha.
• Medium Awareness: His wish to find out his legacy grants him this on some level. The first part ends with him saying "this franchise has been going on for way too long, let's end it", lampshading the series' long running status. Following his ascension, it becomes even more obvious when he refers to things that he wouldn't have been around for, like the Sugar Bowl description of Frieza's personal spot in Hell. He even explicitly tells Goku and Vegeta that their universe is a work of fiction.
• Mythology Gag: Yamcha's appearance when given his newfound power (and general turn to evil) is a nod to Time Breaker Yamcha from Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Again, read the title on who.
• Whole-Plot Reference: An obvious one to Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe given how things start and how things end up: Yamcha sees too far beyond the fourth wall, goes mad and devises a plan to annihilate the whole universe with no one left standing.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Again, Yamcha and his plan to destroy the universe.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: At the end, after Shenron shows Yamcha the vision, he assures Yamcha that despite his embarassing legacy, he still matters in the grand scheme of things and that ultimately he has a good heart that would never betray his friends as shown in the vision when his past self tried to attack his god form. Yamcha understands and allows Puar the second wish who wishes for everyone to just have a good day. They’re rewarded with a party thrown by Bulma, both to celebrate their victory in the Tournament of Power and as an apology for her snapping at them earlier.

What If Young Gine Was Sent To Earth?

• Abusive Alien Parents:
  • Glacier is impulsive and verbally abusive to Cold, whom he considers too pragmatic and overly thoughtful. Cold puts up with his father's verbal abuses with his wisecracking tendencies.
  • Kiru is neglectful and verbally abusive to Gine, who's deemed too weak and soft for a Saiyan.
• Dark Lord on Life Support: Glacier sits in a hoverpod equipped with breathing mask and various life support systems plugged into his body.
• Deal with the Devil: King Vegeta II made a deal with Glacier and Cold that if Glacier's Empire helped the Saiyans to wipe out the Tuffles, they will pledge their service to Glacier.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite happening at a much earlier point in time, Grandpa Gohan still adopts a Saiyan, and said Saiyan still goes on a quest for the Dragon Balls with a Briefs.
• Jock Dad, Nerd Son: Middle-class warrior Kiru is resentful that her daughter Gine is too weak to be a warrior.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: A running theme.
  • King Glacier is an utter tyrant who looks down on “lesser beings” (I.E. Anyone who isn’t of his bloodline) and is looking to conquer the galaxy. Prince Cold is pragmatic person who is willing to trade with and make concessions to other races and wants an empire based on wealth trading planets.
  • Gine is an oddball of a Saiyan who lacks the Blood Knight tendencies of the rest of the species and spends most of her time running around with a gang of scavengers. Her mother, Kiru, is a traditional Saiyan warrior who despises her daughter’s weakness.
• No Honor Among Thieves: Prince Cold and his Father, King Glacier. The former is very pragmatic, and wants to operate the Empire like a business, with conquered and depopulated planets as the goods. Glacier is a more typical Galactic Conqueror, who looks down on his son’s dealings with “lesser beings”.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Grandpa Gohan survives Gine's Great Ape transformation with only minor injury.
• Original Character: Glacier, King Cold’s father and Frieza’s grandfather. Also Gine’s mother, Kiru.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Gine is weak by Saiyans' standard, but on Earth she's strong enough to lift a car.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Prince Cold complained to his father’s plan to depopulate the Saiyans, noting that their planetary conquests would be more difficult with their fewer numbers as well as a rebellion guaranteed to happened if the truth comes out on who done it and why it happened.
• Tsundere: Bardock shows shades of this towards Gine.
• Younger and Hipper: Pretty much every character, given the premise. Most notably middle-aged Grandpa Gohan, Prince Cold, Teenage Bardock, middle-aged Professor Briefs. Along with cameos from the likes of Paragus, Nappa, and Vegeta III (AKA, the person who would have been King Vegeta).

What If Babidi Turned Good?

• Backstab Backfire: While Super Buu is regenerating, Babidi attempts to betray Piccolo and regain control of Buu. It fails, resulting in Babidi being impaled on a rock.
• Bequeathed Power: It's revealed Babidi's power wasn't his own, but the spell Bibidi used to make him resulted in his power transferring to Babidi upon Bibidi's demise. When Babidi starts mellowing out, the same spell transfers his magic to one of his 'siblings' who he was unaware of.
• Be Yourself: Piccolo gives Babidi this advice: he's so busy trying to follow his father's goal that he's never been his own person, so try to let go of it and become his own person. This includes learning magic himself instead of relying on the power his father allowed him to have.
• Big Bad: Bebidi, Babidi's 'sibling', becomes the main antagonist, having awakened and gained Bibidi's power from Babidi when the latter mellowed out to the point the spell that made them both decided Babidi was no longer worthy of it. His goals eventually turn towards finding Moro.
• Butt-Monkey: Nobody respects Babidi after the Buu Saga.
• Clone Angst: As in canon, Babidi is a doppelganger Bibidi created that managed to survive. A lot of his issues come from this, especially when he started to see himself as a failure to his father. It turns out there were actually a lot of others, but he's seemingly the only one to survive.
• De-power: Babidi's slow shift of morality results in Bibidi's rules of his creation activating another doppelganger and transfering his powers to them instead.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Kid Buu is destroyed by a combination attack by Goku, Vegeta and Good Buu.
• Dramatic Irony: Babidi explains he is the reincarnation of his father and only continuing his plans. He then claims there's no way someone like Piccolo could understand that.
• Freudian Excuse: Babidi is a clone of his father who defined himself as his creator's heir and continuing his plan, some of which was preprogrammed by Bibidi. He grew up alone on an abandoned planet on which he was made.
• Good Feels Good: Babidi starts to somewhat enjoy receiving appreciation he gets from doing good deeds at Piccolo's demand, even if he's still not happy about it.
• Heel–Face Turn: While it takes a long time, Babidi does genuinely begin to warm up to the Z-Fighters and begin to actually care about them and the Earth, even if he won't admit to it.
• The Mentor: Babidi begins to teach Dende in magic, and proves surprisingly good at the role. As Masako points out, someone probably should've done this a lot sooner.
• No-Sell: Piccolo is the one largely acting as Babidi's handler, as his meditation and self-control lets him shrug it off his mind manipulation spells.
• Not Worth Killing: Goku convinces Fat Buu that Babidi isn't worth killing.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Babidi has one when he sees Super Buu, realizing just how much more dangerous and uncontrollable this version is.
  • And again when he sees Beerus. Then another when Beerus focuses on him and recognizes what he is.
• Past-Life Memories: Running into Beerus causes Babidi to experience a large flash of Bibidi's memories, including that Bibidi had met Beerus before.
• Point of Divergence:
  • Goku intervenes and tells Buu that Babidi is Not Worth Killing while also telling Buu not to cause trouble until Gotenks shows up. Buu injured Babidi's throat, meaning Babidi can't use his magic and Goku captures Babidi.
  • Babidi manages to hold Kid Buu in place with his magics just long enough for Goku, Vegeta, and Good Buu to destroy him, preventing Earth from being destroyed.
  • Babidi catches Frost's poison needle trick when before Piccolo's fight with him. He warns Piccolo about it, and Piccolo manages to expose and defeat him rather than losing.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Babidi gets sealed away by the Evil Containment Wave, though was still able to talk to Piccolo. He's let out after Super Buu comes into being.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Goku intervenes right as Buu prepares to kill Babidi, thus saving the wizard.
  • Babidi interferes with Kid Buu's attempt to blow up the world, thus preventing its destruction.
• Support Party Member: Babidi's no mainline fighter, but his intelligence and spells let's him figure out things, create barriers, and he eventually develops a number of buff spells to power the Z-Fighters up or debuff their enemies.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Babidi reveals he's basically his father's Reincarnation tasked with continuing his evil plans, Piccolo feels a degree of sympathy for him, due to having the same exact origin. This seems to be one of the reasons he spares Babidi after Kid Buu is killed.
• Taking the Bullet: Babidi grows close enough to Piccolo and Gohan to try and protect them from Frieza's death beam instead of Piccolo.
• Took a Level in Badass: Babidi training with magic books makes him regain a good bit of his power and possibly getting even stronger, enough for him to contribute to the 1000 Frieza trooper battle meaningfully. His forcefields even manage to resist Frieza's death beams, at least for a moment. He had to resort to spellbooks in order to do it, but it at least let's him actually use magic properly.
• Your Head A-Splode: Babidi, glad to finally have an excuse to fully cut loose on Freiza's troops, starts making their heads explode.

What If Turles Turned Good?

• Adaptational Backstory Change: Turles' backstory is changed enough that he hero worshipped Bardock and styled his hair like Bardock's, but was exiled from Planet Vegeta and only survives the planet's destruction by refusing to follow Frieza's order to return. While out in space, he then meets the Heaters who rescue & recruit him after his Saiyan pod is almost out of fuel.
• Adaptational Early Appearance:
  • The Heaters show up far earlier in this What-If by rescuing Turles when his pod had been sabotaged. They end up nursing him back to health and recruiting him as a mercenary and

also introducing the Tree of Might.

• Tights shows up earlier in the franchise, meeting Turles when he stops by her garage. They end up in a relationship.

• Adaptation Expansion: Turles and the Crusher Corps' backstories are all expanded on & changed to fit modern Dragon Ball, drawing from bits of obscure lore made for the movies.
• An Arm and a Leg: Turles loses his right arm due to Krillin's Kienzan during his attack on Earth. He gets a prosthetic which has to be replaced and upgraded multiple times because it can't handle the amount of power that Turles can unleash.
• Back from the Dead: Turles and Amond are wished back from the dead
• Character Development: Turles goes from an amoral space pirate but becomes a somewhat aloof but caring man who tries to protect everyone he cares for. He's also willing to step up and be a parent to his child, when in the past he would have just ignored his kid like most Saiyan parents.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation:
  • Amond is absorbed by Cell, much to Turles' horror. It ends up being the catalyst for Turles' transformation into Super Saiyan.
  • Perfect Cell impales Turles which causes
• Enemy Mine:
  • Turles and Prince Vegeta team up during the events of Namek and work together quite well, but both know that their partnership will end in mutual betrayal.
  • Turles and Vegeta end up teaming up with Gohan and Krillin against the Ginyu Force and Frieza, similar to canon.
• Fantastic Racism: King Vegeta's 'solution' to low-class warriors becoming stronger is to either sent them to find replacement worlds in case something happens to Planet Vegeta (not caring if they succeed or die), exile them, or execute them.

• Hero Worship: Turles has a ton of respect & admiration for Bardock, to the point he changed his hairsytle to match Bardock's. To the point that when he learns Kakarot doesn't want to be a typical Saiyan, it is genuinely baffling to Turles.
• Honorary Uncle: Turles becomes this to Gohan throughout the story. It's Turles' death in the Cell Saga that causes Gohan to go Super Saiyan 2.
• In Spite of a Nail: Most of the Namek saga goes according to canon, even with Turles' involvement. The only slight difference being that Turles kills Zarbon instead of Vegeta.
• Morality Pet: Gohan sort of becomes this for Turles, as he respects Gohan's intellect and pragmatism.
• Point of Divergence:
  • Turles changes the Android and Cell Saga for the better:
    • Turles fights Imperfect Cell a couple of times and Cell kills Amond, which triggers Turles' Super Saiyan transformation.
    • Turles also fights Perfect Cell before Goku, which is a fight he loses but he does wound Cell's pride. He ends up killed by Cell instead of Android 16, which causes Gohan's Super Saiyan 2 transformation. Because Gohan lacks the cockiness he did in canon, he ends up killing Cell before he tries to self destruct.
    • Turles and Amond go to hell and spend some time helping Goz and Mez, they end revived by the Dragon Balls by the Dragon Team after a few weeks.
• Red Baron: Turles gets the moniker "Mighty Turles" from Amond, which he, Raisin and Lakasai continues calling Turles throughout the story.
• Relationship Upgrade: Turles and Tights end up meeting while Turles is exploring Earth on his motorcycle. They end up dating throughout the timeskip and she reveals that she's pregnant right before the Cell Games. They have a son.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Daiz goes back into space in disgust when Turles refuses to continue the space pirate life.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Turles and the Crusher Corps all survive the events of Tree of Might, though Turles does lose his right arm.
  • Goku survives the Cell Saga because Gohan didn't get cocky when he went Super Saiyan 2, due to Turles influence. He, Vegeta and Turles spend a lot of time training and their rivalry becomes a lot friendlier.
• Android 16 isn't killed by Cell in this timeline, since Turles and Piccolo help fight Cell and Turles is killed instead.

What If Mr. Satan Was Evil?

• Adaptational Jerkass: While Dabura did kill Satan, who not only had become a full blown villain, but Gohan ruthlessly killing Dabura when he proposed a truceis a bit more cold than he'd be more normally..
• Adaptational Villainy: Mr. Satan, obviously. He starts out well intentioned but quickly jumps off the slippery slope and into full on villainy.
• Adaptational Wimp: Vegeta's fighting spirit is broken by Gohan's beatdown of him, which is a vast departure from the man who had been tortured and beaten to death before and still retained his warrior pride.
• Adapted Out: Majin Buu is never released from his cocoon and Goku never returns from Otherworld.
• All for Nothing: After Mr. Satan breaks one of their energy-gathering tools, Babidi complains that they'll need to retrieve another one from their ship. This causes Hercule to despair, believing that his efforts to stop them were pointless and that he only succeeded in getting himself killed.
• Ambition Is Evil: Hercule's ambition grows with his ego as time goes on. To the point that he eventually decides to become King of Earth.
• Bittersweet Ending:
  • Bitter: Videl is killed by Vegeta's rampage, Mr. Satan is killed by Dabura and countless innocents are killed. Gohan is considered the most wanted man on the planet, having to sever ties with his family and friends minus Piccolo for their protection, with any hopes of having a normal life or a career gone for good. He also blames himself for everything that happened. Vegeta is left broken and depressed over his actions under Babadi's control, his fighting spirit broken.
  • Sweet: Gohan and Piccolo are able to revive everyone except Mr. Satan. Videl chooses to let everyone thinks she's still dead so she can stay with Gohan and help him train. Piccolo is able to help them train, as well as help Gohan keep in touch with his family.
• Blackmail: Videl threatens to expose Gohan's Secret Identity as the Great Saiyaman unless he teaches her how to fly and fight like he does.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Mr. Satan and Vegeta at the hands of Babidi. It ends badly.
• The Corpse Stops Here: When Gohan/the Great Saiyaman is seen cradling Hercule's body, the military assumes he was responsible for his death and immediately open fire, forcing him to flee.
• Cruel Mercy: Gohan spares Vegeta's life, and stresses that if he ever causes trouble again, he still won't kill him. He'll just beat him so badly that he comes to fear fighting rather than living for it.
• Death by Adaptation: Videl dies because of Vegeta's rampage (but is brought back due to the Dragon Balls) and Mr. Satan dies due to Dabura stabbing him with his sword and is Killed Off for Real since Dabura is a demon.
• Didn't Think This Through: Played for Drama; Videl didn't consider that her bodyguards might witness her going off with the Great Saiyaman and report what happened to her father... or that Mr. Satan might resort to extreme measures to track her down.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Gohan is... less than impressed by Vegeta's assertation that he's "reclaiming his pride as a Saiyan warrior" by giving in to Babadi's Mind Control.
• Disproportionate Retribution: When Videl receives a minor injury while fighting crime, Mr. Satan decides that the solution is to start running the world as a Police State. Downplayed, however, as this was done at the "suggestion" of Babidi.
• Drunk with Power: Hercule really grows used to his Popularity Power as time goes on.
• Heel Realization: Videl's death, coupled with Gohan desperately trying to protect Hercule from Vegeta despite everything he'd mistakenly assumed about him, causes Hercule to realize how he'd lost sight of what truly mattered most.
• Hope Spot: After Videl gets a minor injury while fighting crime, it seems like Hercule finally realized that he was neglecting his daughter... until he starts amping up security instead. Then he falls under Babidi's control...
• Hypocrisy Nod: When Vegeta scoffs at Gohan's carelessness, scornfully remarking on him picking a 'princess' as a potential Love Interest, Bulma playfully points out that both he and Goku wound up with women of similar status.
• Improperly Paranoid: Once he realizes that the Great Saiyaman is 'the golden warrior' who defeated Cell, Mr. Satan immediately assumes that he's out for revenge on him for Stealing the Credit.
• It's All My Fault:
  • After finding Videl's body, Hercule blames himself for letting his ambition blind him, holding himself responsible for her death.
  • Gohan similarly blames himself in the aftermath, lamenting that he should have focused entirely upon his training and preparing for any future threats rather than trying to have a 'normal life'.
• Karma Houdini: Outside of suffering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Gohan, Vegeta faces no real comeuppance for the fatalities and destruction he causes in Satan City under Babadi's influence. Downplayed in that Gohan's beatdown of him breaks Vegeta's spirit and leaves him afraid of the possibility of fighting Gohan again. For someone like Vegeta, being stripped of the spark to fight is a Fate Worse than Death.
• Killed Off for Real: Mr. Satan is victim of this, since in the Dragon World, being killed by a demon prevents your soul going to Otherworld or being resurrected.
• Knight Templar Parent: Mr. Satan is extremely overprotective of Videl to the point that a minor injury leads to him creating a police state and trying to set the world's military on the Great Saiyaman when he thinks Videl was kidnapped. It ends badly.
• Last Request: After Gohan tells him that Videl can be brought back, Mr. Satan asks him to take care of his little girl before succumbing to his wounds.
• More than Mind Control: Vegeta claims that he willingly accepted Babadi's power because he was tired of his cushy, comfortable lifestyle and wanted to reclaim his pride as a Saiyan.
• Parental Neglect: The hustle and bustle of his fame and power leads to Hercule really neglecting Videl, and essentially leaving her to be raised by his assistants.
• Police State: Under Babidi's influence, Mr. Satan starts running the Earth as one. Satan City is described as being essentially a military stronghold.
• Popularity Power: The rep Hercule gets from "defeating" Cell leads to him getting honors and awards, being elected mayor of a city, and eventually becoming King of Earth.
• Rage Breaking Point: Weaponized by Hercule. Recalling how Gohan became 'the golden warrior' the first time around, he screams for him to "Look what they did to my baby girl!", drawing his attention towards Videl's body and pushing him over the edge.
• Redemption Equals Death: Following his Heel Realization, Hercule sabotages Babidi's plans, getting gut-stabbed by Dabura for his troubles.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Videl's desire to escape the Gilded Cage her father has been building around her spurs her to demand Gohan's help with getting stronger. When he takes her off for training, it's immediately mistaken for a kidnapping, and things only go further downhill from there.
• We Have Become Complacent: Played for Drama; Vegeta questions his own desire to protect the safe, comfortable life he's been enjoying with Bulma, believing that a true Saiyan warrior would welcome the challenge of having all of Earth's military forces aligned against him.
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: As Hercule becomes increasingly wrapped up in running the city, then his campaign to become the new king of Earth and all that follows, he has less and less time to spend with Videl.

What If Goten Was Goku Black?

• The Bad Guy Wins: Despite the heroes' best efforts, they ultimately fail to thwart the Zero Mortals Plan thanks to the two Zamasus deciding to fuse earlier with even greater power.
• Point of Divergence:
  • The main diverging point comes from Zamasu decided to pull a Grand Theft Me on Goten rather than Goku, wanting to relish in the irony behind the idea of Goku's son becoming the antithesis to everything he stood for.
  • Following the body switch, Goten Black decides to lay low and build up his strength through rigorous training, unlike in canon where he immediately went on a rampage after becoming Goku Black. This results in an even more dangerous adversary.
• Future Me Scares Me: A variation, as Goku is hit with this hard after Zamasu drops the bombshell of Goten Black's origins. Goku got an even greater rage boost and was able to land a good blow or two on Goten Black, but he still got smacked around hard.

What If Krillin WASTED Vegeta on Namek?

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Due to Vegeta only being revived after Cell is defeated, he does not form a relationship with Bulma, nor is he very close to any of the Z-Fighters.
  • Due to never being activated, Krillin never gets with Android 18.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • As the title somewhat suggests, Vegeta’s plan of having Krillin blast him results in his death. Unlike in canon, he is not wished back until after the Android/Cell Saga.
  • Goku dies to Android 19 from a combination of the heart virus and having his life force drained.
  • Androids 16, 17, and 18 are all killed when the Z-Fighters destroy Gero’s lab.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation:
  • Android 19 is killed by Future Trunks rather than Vegeta.
  • Piccolo chops off Dr. Gero’s head rather than 17.
  • Cell is killed in his imperfect form during his attack on Ginger Town.

What If Frieza became the Universe 9 Destroyer?

• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Frieza excels at being the Universe 9 destroyer and with his new supreme Kai, Wakai, eventually raises it's mortal level to 1st overall, after a few thousand years. His good work and the two Zeno's indifference to ruling eventually causes the Grand Priest to remove their erasure powers and install Frieza as the Omni-King.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Frieza ends up becoming the Omni-King after doing an excellent job with Universe 9, with the Zenos removed from power by the Grand Priest after the Zenos erased the other 11 universes on a whim. He also gets to be immortal, outlive Goku and the Dragon Team and then enjoy Universe 7 being erased while Universe 9 survives.
• Canon Foreigner: Due to Ro's smugness and lording over his life bond, he gets erased and new character Wakai takes his place.
• Chessmaster Sidekick: Mohito is this to Frieza, speaking with the Grand Priest about Ro neglecting his duties and being erased, as well as arranging for Wakai to take his place. He then helps arrange for Frieza to become the new Omni King after the other 11 universes are erased.
• Deal with the Devil: How Sidra ultimately feels about accepting Frieza's help and conditions. Note that this case is a destroyer god feeling wary about a deal with a mortal.
• Everyone Has Standards: Nobody is happy when the two Zenos erase every universe except for Universe 9.
• The Good King: Frieza is this, of a sort. Due to his character development, he becomes more like his father in ruling over Universe 9. Eventually the mortal level is raised all the way to 1st overall. His excelling at being a God of Destruction eventually leads to him becoming The Good Omni-King after the Zenos had the other 11 universes erased on a whim, with Frieza and the Grand Priest recreating 11 other universes to be similar in template to Universe 9. He still destroys worlds and really loves his job, but he's a very benevolent GoD.
• Point of Divergence:
  • Frieza is able to act on his offer to betray Universe 7 and join Universe 9 since Beerus and Whis don't show up immediately.
  • Frieza also succeeds at his plan to dethrone and overthrow the gods.
• Turncoat: Frieza ultimately betrays Universe 7 and joins Universe 9 for the Tournament of Power.
• The Load: Ro ends up becoming this, as while Frieza actually tries to improve the mortal level of Universe 9, Ro continues to ignore his duties as the Supreme Kai, only this time unlike with Sidra, Ro uses his life bond to keep Frieza off his back. Unfortunately for him though, Mohito reveals his actions to the Grand Priest, leading to his erasure.
• The Unreveal: It's never revealed who takes Frieza's place on the Universe 7 team, or who Frieza replaces on the Universe 9 team.

What if Goku Never Met Bulma? (2021)

• Downer Ending: It's a slightly brighter ending than the original since most of the main characters do survive, but they are now under the thumb of the Frieza Empire. Both the Capsule Corp and the Red Ribbon Army create technology for them while Goku gets recruited and conscripted as a soldier.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Goku ultimately gets recruited by Raditz, having never undergone any character development.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite Bulma and Oolong's survival, the ending ultimately plays out exactly the same as the original story; King Piccolo takes over and enslaves the Earth, and then Raditz shows off and immediately wastes him.
• Killed Off for Real: Master Roshi dies in his attempt to seal Piccolo with the Mafuba. Raditz later shows up on Earth and kills King Piccolo, resulting in Kami's death.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Bulma and Oolong got abruptly killed off in the original version of the story. Here, they managed to successfully survive their journey to collect the Dragon Balls on their own.

What if Chi-Chi was a Z-Fighter?

• Adaptational Badass:
  • As the title implies, this Chi-Chi is a Z-Fighter here. She gets trained by Fortuneteller Baba to use magic, rather than purely ki based or physical attacks. In part 4, she gets to drink the Ultra Divine Water. Part 7 has her going to King Kai to get training from him. After getting gravity training on the way to Namek, she's at around 70k without any powerups like Kaio-ken and 100k after getting her potential unlocked by Guru.
  • Krillin gets to drink the Ultra Divine Water, as well, making him significantly stronger. Chi-Chi later teaches him, Goku and Piccolo Kaio-ken.
  • Raditz gets a couple zenkai boosts from first being beaten up by Chi-Chi, Goku, Piccolo and Krillin and then another when Krillin, Piccolo and Goku rescue Gohan (who had also given Raditz a beating due to finding out Raditz killed his mother).
  • Piccolo is stronger, as well, learning Kaio-ken and getting gravity training on the way to Namek and getting his potential unlocked.
  • Tenshinhan and Yamcha also go to Namek and get gravity training and getting his potential unlocked.
  • Goku gets zig-zags this: Due to training with others on the way as well as getting his potential unlocked, which puts him at 300k. However, he never got any zenkai boosts during his time on Namek, though.
• Adaptational Curves: Thanks to her training, Chi Chi has bigger, more defined muscles here.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Future Gohan was a cold and harsh trainer to Future Goten and Future Trunks, having internalized Vegeta's "Saiyan pride' ideals. This ultimately led to Future Trunks dying, causing Future Goten to disown his older brother.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Piccolo undergoes his character development of loosening up and his Heel–Face Turn earlier, due to Chi-Chi's motherly instincts.
• Adaptational Villainy: Blond Launch becomes an antagonist here as a result of Chi-Chi stopping her when she robbed a bank.
• Adaptation Expansion: Baba training Chi-Chi in magic grants her a bigger role than in Dragon Ball.
• Catch-22 Dilemma: Vegeta places Chi-Chi in one during the Cell Saga. He requests to go into the Room of Spirit and Time with her, Chi-Chi has no qualms with this since it means she can take out her aggression on him. It's only about four months in that she realizes he tricked her: She can wail on him all she like, but the zenkai boosts he gets from recovery would make him stronger and eventually he would surpass her in strength even with her magical training. But if she stops, he wouldn't be strong enough to face the androids and this is a situation that needs everyone on deck. While Vegeta mocks her for falling for it, he likewise, in his own way, encourages her not to give up either.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Chi-Chi is leagues above Babidi in magic power and easily kills him in seconds once they confront each other.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • Goku, rather than Krillin, gets killed by Tambourine.
  • Chi-Chi, rather than Goku, gets killed by Raditz.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation:
  • Tambourine is killed in the first encounter, since it's Krillin and Chi-Chi together fighting him.
  • King Piccolo is also killed by Krillin and Chi-Chi, being vaporized by a double Kamehameha.
  • Nappa gets killed by a Special Beam Cannon from Piccolo, rather than being killed by Vegeta.
  • Goku vaporizes 2nd Form Frieza after going Super Saiyan.
  • Future Trunks is outright killed during the Android attack on the carnival.
  • Babidi is killed by Chi-Chi rather than Buu and Dabura meets his end at the hands of Goku and Gohan.
• Dirty Old Man: Averted, Roshi doesn't perv on Chi-Chi, due to his respect for Ox King.
• Hero-Worshipper: Gohan becomes one of Vegeta due to Raditz's stories about him and the favorable impression he left on him by "calling out" Raditz for killing Chi-Chi. Gohan eventually sneaks into Vegeta's pod and goes to Frieza planet 79 with an unconscious Vegeta.
• Karma Houdini:
  • Blond Launch is allowed to flee after she shoots and minorly wounds Chi-Chi during the third tournament since Piccolo doesn't see much worth in killing her when he confronts her, though warns her not to come near Chi-Chi again. She does try to invade Chi-Chi's wedding to Goku later on, but is deterred by Piccolo and that is pretty much the last we hear of her in the story.
  • Raditz doesn't really pay for tricking the heroes by sending the Saiyans to Earth out of spite after they reclaim Gohan.
• Kid from the Future: As usual, someone from the future comes back, this time Future Goten is the one to come back in time. Since Future Goku didn't spend as much time in space, it took longer for the heart virus to kill him, and Future Goten ended up being born before Future Goku died.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Chi-Chi learns magic from Fortuneteller Baba, so she augments her martial arts with magic.
• No-Sell: Chi-Chi no-sells Babidi's mind-control attempt, since she's so much more powerful than him, magically.
• Playing with Fire: Chi-Chi's magic takes the form of fire, as does Gohan and Goten.
• Point of Divergence: The changes start when, after witnessing his Kamehameha, Chi-Chi asks Roshi to train her.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Chi-Chi and Krillin go on one after the death of Goku.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Frieza steps in once the scouter senses Goku's power level spiking to 300k, rather than calling the Ginyus, noting that they'd be killed by the Z-fighters right away.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: After fighting Goku, Krillin, Chi-Chi and Piccolo for a bit, Raditz bails after he starts getting tired by killing Chi-Chi and then taking off in the pod with Gohan.
• So Proud of You: Ox-King says this to Chi-Chi by the time of the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Krillin doesn't die by the hands of Tambourine, instead, it's Goku.
  • Most of the martial artists aren't killed by Tambourine and King Piccolo's children, since Tambourine gets killed much quicker by Chi-Chi and Krillin.
  • Goku isn't killed during the fight with Raditz, instead it's Chi-Chi.
  • Raditz successfully escapes from Earth with Gohan.
  • None of the Z-fighters are killed during the Saiyan attack.
  • Dodoria, Zarbon, the Ginyu Force and most of the Frieza soldiers survive Namek, since the Z-Fighters were so much stronger, Frieza stepped in himself and got killed much quicker. Because of that, Namek doesn't get blown up, either.

What If Caulifla Was Goku's Daughter?

• Accidental Misnaming: 4-year old Caulifla accidentally calls Raditz "Radish" and Piccolo "Pickle".
• Adapted Out: Gohan isn't around, naturally, instead being replaced by Caulifla. Zig-zagged, however, as it's implied and later stated that Gohan was moved to Universe 6 in her stead.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Caulifla is now a half-Saiyan in Universe 7 and the daughter of Goku and Chi-Chi, instead of being a full-blooded Saiyan in Universe 6. Part 2 implies that Gohan is a full-blooded Saiyan in Universe 6 in her stead and later parts confirm this.
• Adaptational Badass: The rest of the Z-fighters are stated to be stronger as a whole than canon when fighting Nappa and the Saibamen, with everybody surviving the initial battle, and with Raditz able to fight evenly with Nappa.
• Adaptational Wimp:
  • Piccolo doesn't fuse with Nail, and is much weaker than canon. He does later fuse with Nail before the Androids arrive, due to Nail being bored. Since Nail was stronger and not severely injured, it made him nearly as strong as Super Saiyan Goku and Raditz, making him an Adaptational Badass. It's also stated by Pybara that he could de-fuse them with the Forced-Spirit Fission later, if needed.
  • Goku never gets the zenkai boost from being injured in the Captain Ginyu fight. By the time of Future Trunks' arrival, Goku hasn't transformed into a Super Saiyan, yet. It takes until before the Androids show up for Goku, Raditz and Caulifla to get the transformation.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Due to Yamcha’s wish preventing Frieza from transforming, he’s hopelessly outmatched by Goku’s Kaioken x20 power-up.
• Daddy's Girl: Goku and Caulifla were already something of a Birds of a Feather in the actual canon of Super, so her being Goku's daughter here leads to the two developing an extremely close relationship.
• Dumbass Has a Point: Chi-Chi is unable to come up with a response when Goku realizes the hypocrisy in her disliking Caulifla showing too much skin and fighting, things she did herself when she was younger.
• Edible Theme Naming: Raditz remarks that Goku at least gave Caulifla a proper Saiyan name, unwittingly.
• Family Eye Resemblance: Caulifla is revealed to have Gine's eyes by Raditz.
• Feminine Mother, Tomboyish Daughter: Given Chi-Chi's daughter is now Caulifla, this is a given.
• Good Parents: With Caulifla actually being more outgoing and adventurous compared to Gohan, Goku is more actively involved in the parenting duties, actually taking Caulifla out with him on his escapades through Mount Paozu. He even takes charge of trying to correct her creepily sadistic tendencies in fights that came to light in her fight against Captain Ginyu.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Piccolo still wants to fight Goku, but this time to best him in a true fight, rather than resorting to a cowardly sneak attack to kill him. He also joins the Z-fighters to combat the Saiyans,
• Heel–Face Turn:
  • Raditz becomes increasingly unwilling to go through with kidnapping Caulifla and taking Goku away once he sees her resemblance to Gine and her playful rebelliousness. After Vegeta and Nappa accidentally find out about the Dragon Balls, he immediately joins Piccolo to try and think of a way to fight them off.
  • Due to Caulifla's understanding of their rebelliousness, Androids 17 and 18 turn good significantly earlier.
• Little Miss Badass: Caulifla gets gravity training and learns Kaio-ken from Goku on their way to Namek. However, he warns her not to use Kaio-ken, as it would be dangerous for someone so young and inexperienced. She also gets Super Saiyan in part 7 at 9 years old.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Caulifla ends up ignoring orders to get Androids 17 and 18 to Bulma at Capsule Corp and instead takes them to an arcade. Android 16 is sent to bring them back by Bulma, but Caulifla succumbs to peer pressure from Androids 17 and 18 and attacks 16 with 17's help. Because of this, Cell ends up absorbing Android 18.
• Precocious Crush: 7-8 year old Caulifla gets a crush on Future Trunks.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Imperfect Cell acts like a child due to Caulifla being the basis of his personality, down to calling Piccolo and Raditz "Uncle Pickle" and "Uncle Radish" and trying to hug Raditz. He still has the same homicidal tendencies. Both Piccolo and Raditz are naturally unnerved by him.
• Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Yamcha uses a wish to stop Frieza from being able to transform, trapping him in his weakest first form.
• Stupid Sacrifice: Raditz and Piccolo both get killed while arguing about who should sacrifice themselves to protect Caulifla from Nappa's Mouth Cannon.
• Thicker Than Water: After briefly connecting with his niece, Raditz finds himself unable to carry out his orders or wanting to come to blows with his brother. When Vegeta learns about the existence of the Earth's Dragon Balls, Raditz undergoes a Heel–Face Turn, choosing to want to protect his surviving family.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Caulifla's rather sadistic injuring of Ginyu's body while in Ginyu's body disturbs and unnerves even Goku.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: After his surprise attack Special Beam Cannon kills Goku, Piccolo feels rather bad and cowardly that he had to resort to such a tactic to kill Goku.
• What the Hell, Hero?: A Downplayed example, but after Piccolo fuses with Kami, Raditz questions why he did that and deprived them of having the Dragon Balls.
• Would Hurt a Child: Vegeta fights and injures a 9-year old Caulifla and turns up the gravity up to 400x normal. He then tries to get her to kowtow to him and stomps on her. However, the very independent Caulifla gets really angry at Vegeta trying to force her to respect him and turns Super Saiyan for the first time and then breaks his ankle.

What If Broly Was Raised By Beerus & Whis?

• Adaptational Wimp: Goku and Vegeta never become Super Saiyan Gods or get any of the training from Whis.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Because Future Zamasu was never dealt with by the Dragon Team, he murders Future Trunks and succeeds in his Zero Mortal Plan on a smaller scale.
• Break the Haughty: Broly ends up destroying Beerus' confidence and spirit, which ends with him going to sleep for centuries and eventually being fired from the position of God of Destruction.
• Disproportionate Retribution: See also, Irrational Hatred. Broly hates Goku and beats him within an inch of his life all for seemingly trying to steal Whis' attention from him. One, Goku doesn't even know who he or Whis even is. Two, while Whis was intrigued by Goku beating Frieza, he ultimately couldn't care less about him, since he's training Broly to become something far more than what Goku is now.
• Everyone Has Standards: Whis is disgusted by Paragus' abuse of Broly and ends up taking him from Paragus.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Broly becomes this towards Goku, but they eventually come to an understanding during the events of Dragon Ball Super.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: After witnessing Paragus' abuse of Broly, Whis takes Broly, then erases all memories of Broly from Paragus' mind and leaves him on Vampa alone.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Because Broly destroys Goku Black so quickly and orders Future Trunks to go home without any further assistance or investigation from the Dragon Team, Future Zamasu's Zero Mortal Plan succeeds.
• Parental Substitute: Whis acts like this for Broly, training him as a GoD candidate and giving him a happier life than he had on Vampa. He doesn't quite get mortals, but he does more good than harm.
• Point of Divergence: Broly becomes the Super Saiyan God instead of Goku and because of how he utterly crushes Beerus in their fight, Beerus ends up going to sleep for the next few centuries. Because of this, the Universe 6 tournament and Tournament of Power don't end up happening.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Whether the Ressurrection F events happen are left unclear.

What If Android 21 Raised Goku?

• Adaptational Name Change: The Goku of this universe is named Jasper, another type of red crystal like his adoptive mother.
  • Android 21's human template is named Hima, based off of hematite, following the Theme Naming of Androids 17 and 18, Lapis and Lazuli. In canon, 21's human template is named Vomi.
• Armor-Piercing Response: When Gero accuses Hima of letting her emotions get in the way, she counters that he's the one currently being overwhelmed by his own emotions. Namely his greed, mania and obsession.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: MasakoX rules that the Androids' enhancements enable them to move and function freely in space with no ill effects.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Frieza learns this the hard way in a fashion that has nothing to do with the Dragon Balls. The Androids grant his wish for mercy... by forcing him to make a galaxy-wide broadcast admitting that he'd underestimated Earth and would be retreating, warning others to avoid the area. This utterly ruins his reputation, along with ensuring that the Cold Empire would be kept busy dealing with the fallout.
• Brain Uploading: Gero eventually does this to himself so that he can continue his research long after his original body has given up the ghost.
• Cain and Abel: Raditz initially plays the Cain to Jasper's Abel. Later, after Jasper has been brought Back from the Dead and upgraded, the two have a rematch, with Jasper ultimately sparing Raditz as a final act of humiliation.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After all the hardship they endured, Hima and her sons become the head of the new, much more benevolent Red Ribbon Army.
• Heel Realization: Gero has a somewhat Downplayed one after the fall of the Red Ribbon Army, as he apologizes to Hima while convincing her to work together with him. As he puts it, the time away from the main base to concentrate on his own projects, coupled with the alien invasion, has helped him find some perspective.
• I Have No Son!: Jasper makes clear to Raditz that he has never considered him to be a brother. After dealing with him, he promptly turns to Gebo and cheerfully asserts that he's the only brother he's ever had.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Gero pointedly refers to Goku as 'it', 'the alien' and 'the creature', berating Hima for getting attached to him.
• May–December Romance: Hima is significantly younger than Gero, but still wound up having a son with him.
• Off to Boarding School: Dr. Gero shipped their son off to boarding school without bothering to tell Hima first, much to her frustration.
• Parental Substitute: As you might've gleamed from the title, Android 21 takes Goku in as a child and acts as his adoptive mother.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Exploited by Hima, who convinces Commander Red that dissecting the alien child would be a waste when they could instead be raised and groomed as a Super-Soldier for the Red Ribbon Army.
• The Remnant: Following Raditz decimating the bulk of their forces, including both of her sons, and the subsequent invasion of Frieza's forces, Hima finds herself as one of the last survivors of the Red Ribbon Army, forced to work alongside Gero.
• Take Over the World: Rather than making the wish he originally wanted the Dragon Balls for, Commander Red decides to follow through with the wish the rest of the Red Ribbon Army believed he intended to make: world domination.
• Trapped in Villainy: Hima was struggling to find employment when she first met Gero, who got her involved with the Red Ribbon Army. They then had a child together, making it incredibly difficult for her to get away from the evil organization.
• They Would Cut You Up: Gero is all too eager to experiment upon Goku, dismissively declaring that nobody would miss the infant.
• Villains Want Mercy:
  • During their rematch, Raditz desperately wants to live, but recognizes that Jasper will likely eliminate him even after he's held up his end of the deal. Jasper lets him go, while making clear that he will kill him if they ever meet again.
  • Frieza begs to be spared, and gets his wish... after being forced to make a humiliating broadcast admitting his defeat to the galaxy.
• We Can Rebuild Him: A variant; after Jasper and Gebo are among the many casualties claimed by Raditz, the two are wished back. Gero then convinces both of them to be upgraded into Androids in order to stand a chance against Frieza's forces, alongside their mother.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Hima is utterly furious with Gero upon learning that he'd secretly gathered up the Dragon Balls and stored them away in his lab instead of using them to do something about Frieza's forces.
• Would Hurt a Child: Gero unhesitatingly uses a cattle prod to subdue the infant Goku, repeatedly shocking him into submission.

What If Goku Was Betrayed By Beerus?

• Back from the Dead: Goku and Vegeta as per Dragon Ball tradition are brought back by the Dragon Balls after Beerus kills them.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Beerus effortlessly kills Goku and Vegeta, using 100% of his power.
• Everyone Has Standards: Whis is against Beerus enslaving Broly to make him a GoD candiate, as well as Beerus betraying and killing Goku. He even subtly helps get Zeno involved, which results in Zeno erasing Beerus.
• It's All About Me: Beerus cuts contact with the Dragon Team and enslaves Broly because he felt like he was getting soft and was annoyed that none of the Saiyans wanted to be a GoD candidate. He then murders Goku & Vegeta as a result.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Beerus finally gets what's coming to him when Zeno arrives and erases him for killing Goku.
• Oh, Crap!: Beerus when Zeno shows up and sees Goku's corpse. He's promptly erased by the Zenos.

What if Goku never hit his head? (2022)

• Adaptational Personality Change: Naturally due to never hitting his head, Goku is much rougher in personality than in canon. That said, he is willing to change, but only on his own terms.
• Canon Welding: Masako uses a mixture of Dragon Ball Minus and the Bardock special in this What-If. While Gine does exist, Kakarot was sent to earth as an infant like in the special.
• I Owe You My Life: Downplayed. Goku is aware that Grandpa Gohan saved his life and nursed him back to health, leading to him being more respectful to the man.
• Mugging the Monster: Unlike in canon, since Goku is not only more brutal in how he deals with enemies, but he also had something to eat and is therefore not incapacitated by his hunger, Yamcha's attempt to rob Bulma under impression that she was easy to rob only earned him a beating from the young saiyan. He wisely escapes from the pair with a beat-up face.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Goku has this expression when his first attempt at a Kamekameha accidentally destroyed Bulma's vehicle.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Goku being more independent leads to him being somewhere else when he turns into a Great Ape, leading to Grandpa Gohan surviving.

What if Piccolo Had A Son?

• Abled in the Adaptation: Bansuri's healing is so strong that not only does it revive Gohan, it also brings back his arm.
• All Your Powers Combined: Kami confirms that Bansuri has traits of both Warrior and Dragon Clan Namekians. Elder Moori confirms in part 7 that he's similar to legends of the ancient Namekians before they split into clans.
• Healing Hands: Much like Dende, Bansuri has the ability to heal people. However, Bansuri's healing is apparently much stronger than Dende's, so much so that he is able to bring Gohan Back from the Dead and regrow his arm.
• Kid from the Future: Bansuri joins Future Gohan on the trip to the past to warn the Z Warriors about the androids.
• Magikarp Power: Bansuri took a long time to hatch and isn't aging at the same speed as normal, staying as a toddler for years. However, it's implied this is because he'll become considerably stronger than normal once he does mature. His healing abilities are also far superior to Dende's, to the point of being able to regrow limbs and revive someone who recently died. In part 7, Piccolo is able to teach him pretty quickly how to do a Special Beam Cannon and it shocked everyone how powerful it was.
• Musical Theme Naming: Much like his father, Bansuri is also named after a musical instrument.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Trunks waking up from Gohan's Percussive Prevention earlier due to Bansuri crying leads to them finding Gohan right as he's being killed by the androids, allowing Bansuri to revive him with his Healing Hands.

What if Hit Replaced Champa?

• Acrofatic: During his training with Champa, Hit realizes that he's a lot faster and more graceful than his appearance would lead you to believe.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Enforced. When Hit fully ascends to God of Destruction, his memories and mind are altered slightly to make the job easier.
• Brought Down to Normal: The fate of a retired God of Destruction is to lose their memories of being one, their powers, and their immortality to live out the rest of their natural lifespan as mortals. This is Champa's fate, and Beerus eventually joins him so the brothers can live out their lives together.
• Deity of Human Origin: As the title suggests, Hit is chosen as Champa's successor as God of Destruction.
• Hitman with a Heart: Hit has a moral code, refusing to harm innocent people and having rules he follows. Vados reassures him becoming a God of Destruction won't force him to compromise on his rules, as the job only calls for causing necessary destruction. Comically, after he DOES become a God of Destruction, he requires Vados to actually contract him to destroy planets, something she finds amusing. He also waits until Beerus and Champa both die before he destroys the planet they lived on during their final days as a way of saying goodbye.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: One reason Hit initially turns down Champa's offer is because he refuses to kill innocent people. Vados clarifies the job actually discourages doing that and he only needs to destroy things that need destroyed if he became God of Destruction. She actually points out this rule is one reason he's perfect for the job.
• Noble Demon: As always, Hit is a contract killer with a code of ethics and rules he won't break. Vados notes this is exactly the reason he's a perfect choice for God of Destruction, as while Champa and Beerus don't show it, Gods of Destruction normally limit their wrath to things that truly deserve or require it.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Beerus is genuinely broken up and upset to learn Champa is retiring, and thus will lose his memories of being a God of Destruction, become mortal, and eventually die. Likewise, Champa is very hesitant to actually tell him about it. As much as they bicker, the two are still brothers, after all.
• Pet the Dog: Beerus being genuinely upset that Champa is retiring and eventually relinquishing his position as the GoD of Universe 7 so they can spend what's left of their lives together.
• Strong and Skilled: Hit is shocked to realize that Champa is far more skilled and precise than one would expect from him. Champa points out that while he and Beerus like going big, they know how to be extremely precise and each God of Destruction has their own preferred method of using the Power of Destruction.
• Super Mode: Hit gains one after enough experience with the Power of Destruction, calling it his "Contractor of Destruction" form.
• Superior Successor: Hit proves a far better God of Destruction than Champa was, and doubles the Universe's mortal level in 100 years. Him being this trope was exactly why Champa chose him in the first place.

What if Goku Met Bardock in HFIL?

• Back from the Dead:
  • After the Buu saga's done, Goku gets Bardock resurrected with the Dragon Balls thanks to Dende modifying Shenron to resurrect people who had been dead longer than a year.
  • Bardock has Whis transfer his lifeforce to Raditz, swapping places so Raditz gets a second chance at life.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: How Bardock sees Goku/Kakarot, he finds his son extremely exasperating but greatly respects his strength and being a Super Saiyan.
• Character Development: Bardock softens a little bit throughout the story, becoming less of a jerk to his family. While he never develops a real relationship with any of them, he does come to appreciate them to some extent after Goten helps him train and Pan is born.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: Bardock is a traditional Saiyan and he doesn't really get human culture, which causes conflict between him and the Son family.
• Go Out with a Smile: Bardock does this after his lifeforce is transferred to Raditz, telling him not to get himself killed a second time. He also tells Goku he's glad to have met him.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Bardock in the end transfers his life force to Raditz, believing that Raditz wanted a second lease on life much more than he did.
• Innocently Insensitive: Much to Bardock's irritation, Goku doesn't understand tact and offends Bardock quite a bit.
• In Spite of a Nail: Bardock's presence changes very little of the canon story, the only difference being he takes Videl's place in the Super Saiyan God ritual and ends up on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle by Frieza and stops Sorbet from shooting Goku when he lets his guard down during the Resurrection F saga.
• Jerkass: Bardock is an asshole to Goku's family, especially Gohan and Goten since he thinks they're annoying and too soft. He changes his mind about Goten.
• Jerkass Realization: After Bardock requests to have his life force transferred over to Raditz and tells Goku that, while he does appreciate the effort Goku went through to revive him, he doesn't belong in the present, Goku realizes that he was just thinking about what he wanted rather than what his father wanted.
• Lost Lenore: Gine is this for Bardock, as much as Saiyans can have one of these. He never finds her in HFIL and ends up missing her and her cooking. A while after the Resurrection F saga, he does end up reuniting with her by having his life force be given to Raditz.
• Morality Pet: Gine is this for Bardock, her memory stopping him from making some selfish choices. Goten also grows on him and brings out his better nature.
• No Place for Me There: Bardock comes to the conclusion that he doesn't belong in the world of the living after 40 years of being dead. As Chi-Chi puts it, his soul is still in Otherworld.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Vegeta decides to help out Goku with getting Bardock to be nicer to his family, as they're all much stronger than he is. He also takes offense to how Bardock insults Goten.
  • Bardock's overall treatment of Pan, the only extended family he has that he regards with with actual warmth as he falls asleep next to her telling her about stories of his past. In addition, apparently, he and Piccolo get along due to their similar dispositions.
  • Yemma allows Bardock to spend eternity in the city of Hades with Gine, as a sign of respect for Bardock turning over a new leaf during his time while he was alive. He also allows Raditz to be freed from hell and brought back to life.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • Goku has never been all that fussed over his Saiyan ancestry or who his parents were. So when he finally meets Bardock in Otherworld, he thinks it's neat but there's no heartwarming reunion or a traditional father/son relationship.
  • Bardock being a traditional Saiyan means that he doesn't bond with Goku or his family the way humans would, much to the frustration of Chi-Chi, Gohan and Goten.
• Together in Death: In the end, Bardock gives his life energy to Raditz so that he can reunite with Gine in Otherworld and wait for the Dragon Team to join them.

What if the Granolah Saga Never Happened?

What if Gine Trained With Bardock?

• Adaptational Badass:
  • Gine triples her power level from 500 to 1500 after training for a bit with Bardock. After this, he says the kid gloves can come off and her power level doubles again when Selypa checks it.
  • Bardock's power level raises from 10k to 12k after training with Gine and then it goes up to 16k after training more with her, which makes him the strongest Saiyan alive at that point.
• Adaptational Curves: Gine is noted as having much more well defined muscles after training.
• Amazonian Beauty: Gine is noted to be more muscular after training for a bit with Bardock and she's still the cute Gine.
• Composite Character: Bardock is a combination of both Bardock: Father of Goku and the Dragon Ball Super: Broly incarnations. He has his crew from Father of Goku as well as Gine.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation:
  • Instead of being killed by Vegeta on Earth, Nappa is killed by an enraged Gine after he mocked Bardock and threatened Raditz.
  • Gas is killed by Bardock's Spirit Cannon after he tried to kill Gine and the Cerealian survivors and Elec also gets killed by a ki blast from Bardock after trying a surprise attack on him, rather than both being killed by Frieza many years later.
• Green-Eyed Monster:
  • Selypa for Gine. Selypa has the hots for Bardock and doesn't get why he likes Gine. Because of this, she picks on Gine a lot. This is what prompts Gine to start training.
  • Possibly King Vegeta for Bardock after he hears Bardock has a higher power level than him. He sends Nappa to spy on Bardock's crew to see if they may plan a rebellion against him.
• Jerkass: Selypa is starting to grow increasingly antagonistic towards not just Gine, but to a lesser extent to Bardock and their son Raditz. It has gotten worse when Gine killed Selypa’s new boyfriend Nappa.
• Mama Bear: At first, Nappa is choking Gine, but then he threatens Raditz, who was only a baby at the time, and she breaks free of his chokehold and breaks some of his ribs before then stomping on his throat and choking him to death.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Muezli is saved from being killed by Elec by Gine.

What if Frieza Was Betrayed by Cui?

• In Spite of a Nail: Cui barely impacts the canon story, the only difference being that he finds Vegeta underwater after Zarbon destroys him in their fight and returns him to the ship, instead of Zarbon having to go back and find him. Cui also chooses to not get involved further in the canon storyline.
• Like a Duck Takes to Water: Cui's menacing looks and smooth negotiations makes him a valuable employee at Lucky Food. He even makes it pretty far up the corporate ladder and helps them become a global corporation.
• Oh, Crap!: When Vegeta finally returns to Earth and tracks down Cui, Cui is understandably terrified due to the power gap between them. Fortunately for Cui, Frieza & King Cold arrive on the planet which distracts Vegeta from killing Cui.
• Point of Divergence: Cui learns from the medic about how Vegeta has gotten stronger after the latter's defeat on Earth. This makes him more reluctant to antagonize or fight him, sparing him from his canon death.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Cui becomes a slightly better person thanks to his time on Earth, enjoying being with a couple of his coworkers and reforming from his time in the Frieza Forces.

What if Oolong Was a Z-Fighter?

• Adaptational Badass: It's right in the title: Oolong learns he's a divine helper like Mr. Popo, but higher ranking and more powerful than him before being banished to earth for a crime. When Cooler shows up, standing up to Salza to protect Goku causes Oolong to unlock his full original power. While unable to stand up to Cooler, he's able to curbstomp Salza in his true form.
• Angel Unaware: Oolong turns out to be the reincarnation of a powerful divine attendant banished to Earth for an undisclosed crime.
• Becoming the Boast: Oolong decides to stand up to Salza to protect Goku. This results in him unlocking his divine power and transforming into his original form. While Oolong is unable to stand up to Cooler, he is powerful enough to curbstomp Salza.
• Big Bad: Cooler arrives in the second part and serves as the main antagonist, forcing Oolong to actually unlock his divine power.
• Excalibur in the Rust: The nine-toothed rake Oolong was found with turns out to be a divine weapon.
• First-Episode Twist: Oolong finds out that not only was he adopted as a baby, but that he came from otherworldly origins just like Goku.
• Shout-Out: The divine rake that Oolong came to Earth with is one to Zhu Bajie, whose signature weapon is a steel nine-toothed rake and who Oolong was an Expy of back in the first arc of Dragon Ball.

What if Goku Had a Sister?

• Aborted Arc: Because of Jocha peacefully coming to Earth earlier than when Raditz shows up, the Saiyan saga starts only when Vegeta and Nappa start looking for her. It ends before they can arrive at Earth when Jocha defeats Vegeta and Nappa defects to the Z fighters.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Goku gets training with Jocha in the room of Spirit and Time before the Saiyan saga occured.
  • When Kami warns them that Vegeta and Nappa are on their way, Tien and Piccolo start training with Jocha and Goku. Additionally, because they don't know where exactly she is, and aren't in a rush because they don't know about the Dragon Balls, Vegeta and Nappa take significantly longer to arrive, giving the Z-Fighters more time to train.
  • Jocha begins to train Tien and Chaotzu in the Kaio-ken and Spirit Bomb. Yamcha also joins in the training but doesn't quite get the hang of Kaioken, but is better than the rest of the Dragon Team with handling the Spirit Bomb.
  • She also starts to train Piccolo in the Kaio-ken, as well. He can reach Kaio-ken x20 when the humans struggle with Kaio-ken x2.
• Alternate Personality Punishment: Defied when Tien goes after Bad Launch after she shots Jocha for how close she was with he Triclops, only to find a rather horrified Good Launch in her place. Tien bitterly thinks to himself that Bad Launch deliberately did this knowing he wouldn't hurt her innocent Alter, though he makes it clear to Launch that her Bad self shouldn't show her face here.
• Amazon Chaser: Vegeta begins to find Jocha attractive after she kicks his ass.
• Amazonian Beauty: Jocha is well muscled, but cute and is the same 5'9" that her brother Kakarot/Goku is.
• And Then What?:
  • Jocha is in a crisis of "What next?" after she has no new purpose in life when the Vegeta and Nappa threat is resolved. Training under King Kai doesn't really help, either.
  • The fact that Nappa gets a gig as a NWA wrestler just gives her more angst.
• Big Damn Reunion: Jocha, when she finds her younger brother is still alive is overjoyed, so much so that when she recognizes that he has a lot of Bardock's features, she cries out his name at the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai. When she finds out that he has a fiancé, she's also very happy. After the tournament, she, much like Raditz, but in a calmer, more tactful way explained that she was Kakarot's sister and he's an alien. Part 3 expands on the explanation.
• Break Them by Talking:
  • Vegeta succeeds in doing this by taunting her that her big brother Raditz, who she had admired for much of her life for "trying to defend her" as she was taken away by the Saiyan Elites, is revealed to have been the one to have sold her out. Vegeta then nearly kills her, if not for Nappa hitting Vegeta out of the way.
  • Jocha taunts Vegeta, "Prince of all Saiyans" that he now serves no one, but rules over no one, now that Nappa has defected.
• Cain and Abel: Raditz despises his younger sister for not only taking some of his parents' attention but also having a power level in the hundreds. This leads him to rat out her power level to the Elite Saiyans, knowing that they will take her away from her family.
• The Cameo: Onio, from Toriyama’s gag manga Neko Majin Z, appears as the leader of the band of Saiyan Elites who abduct Jocha.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Thanks to her training on Earth, Jocha is able to defeat Vegeta with little trouble.
• Death by Adaptation: Raditz dies a lot earlier by being on Planet Vegeta when Frieza proceeds to nuke it.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In canon, Raditz dies when Goku told Piccolo to fire his Special Beam Cannon at him, taking both himself and his brother out. In this scenario, he dies alongside his parents when Frieza proceeded to destroy Planet Vegeta.
• Edible Theme Naming: Like all Saiyans, Jocha is named after a fruit or vegetable, in her case the achojcha fruit.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Nappa never tried to beat up or take advantage of Jocha, since King Vegeta III intended her to be his son's consort/mate.
    Masako: He was a brute and a thug, but at least he had some decency!
  • When he sees Vegeta resort to a rather dirty trick in Break Them by Talking, Nappa gets disgusted and stops him and undergoes a Heel–Face Turn.
• Face–Heel Turn: Launch shoots and badly wounds Jocha after she had let her guard down out of jealousy. Good Launch is horrified at what Blond Launch had done and Tien advises her that Blond Launch best not show her face around him.
• The Force Is Strong with This One: When Jocha arrives at the 23rd Tournament, Roshi immediately picks up how powerful she is, and his students and Piccolo follow soon after. Recognizing that she's stronger than all of them combined, with her power level of 10,000, when Goku and Piccolo are the strongest on Earth in the 300s, he advises against confronting her until they are sure of her motives.
• Heel–Face Turn: Nappa turns against Vegeta when he resorts to a trick to defeat Jocha.
• Hope Spot: In-Universe, after a fruitless search for Jocha, Bardock hoped that Kakarot would be born with a high-power level like her and become strong enough to get revenge and find her. He is devastated learning that the new -born's power level was merely two, unaware of how much stronger his youngest son was capable of becoming.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Raditz told the Saiyan Elites about Jocha's power level knowing that they will take her and force her into becoming a Child Soldier. This ends up with Jocha being with Prince Vegeta off-world when Planet Vegeta is destroyed by Frieza, while Raditz is killed in the disaster alongside his parents.
• Long-Lost Relative: After 20 years believing she was the Sole Survivor of her family, Jocha is ecstatic find her younger brother Kakarot/Goku is still alive.
• Mistaken for Cheating: When Jocha calls out Goku's name, albeit his Saiyan name, Chi-Chi confronts her and asks how she knows Goku. When Jocha finds out Kakarot/Goku has a fiancé, and a strong one at that, she's elated, much to Chi-Chi's confusion.
• Original Character: Jocha, Goku's older sister born and captured before he was born.
• Retcon: In Part 6, Nappa and Vegeta's scouters were destroyed, but in Part 9, Nappa still has his and it causes Frieza to find out about the Dragon Balls.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: The arrival of Goku's much stronger sister forces Piccolo to make a tactical retreat after the tournament.
• Ship Tease: Part 3 onwards has some between Jocha and Tien. Him calling her out on her violent past, even though she's dozens of times stronger than him, earned her respect. It doesn't really go anywhere because neither are all that interested in romance.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Nappa defects to Jocha after Vegeta resorted to cheap shots and Break Them by Talking once it was clear Jocha outclassed him.
• Stalker with a Crush: Discussed. Chiaotzu suspects that Tien spying on Goku and Jocha's training is less about trying to figure out what his rival is up to and more because he has a crush on the older Saiyan after she "whispered sweet nothing into his ear", since he hasn't stopped talking about her afterwards.
• Statuesque Stunner: Jocha is the same 5'9" as her little brother and is cute in a well-built, battle-scarred way and Masako implies that Roshi kept an eye on her not just because of her power level.
• Stealth Pun: Masako jokes that Nappa "Wasn't the smartest cabbage in the salad drawer." Nappa is named from "Napa cabbage" in the original manga.
• Super Breeding Program: Despite Jocha coming from a lower class, King Vegeta planned to have her become his son's mate to create a powerful lineage thanks to her power level. Though even as children the two can't stand each other. Even when both are adults, Jocha believes that Vegeta's only repeating what he's been told and is actually not interested in the idea of continuing the Royal Saiyan bloodline. With her, at least. Though he does find her attractive after she kicks his ass in parts 5 and 6.
• Trailers Always Lie: The thumbnail art of part 2 has Jocha looking angry at Chi-Chi, complete with a angry vein who is yelling at her. Nothing of the sort happens and Jocha is happy when she meets Chi-Chi.
• Villain Reveals the Secret: In part 6, Vegeta reveals to Jocha that her brother Raditz was the one to sell her out to the Saiyan Elites out of jealousy of her power.
• Weak, but Skilled: From Jocha's point-of-view, Goku during the 23rd World tournament is this. His power level might be weaker than hers was when she was a fetus, but his martial arts makes him a notably impressive fighter in her eyes.
• Wilting Odor: Jocha in Part 3 is noted to be particularly smelly due to not being able to bathe for several months during her travel to Earth.

What if Bardock Was the Super Saiyan God?

• Adaptational Badass: Bardock for obvious reasons. Due to Yamoshi's intervention, Bardock learns of the Super Saiyan God and completes the ritual. He even achieves Ultra Instinct due to a combination of all of his training with Whis as well as Yamoshi doing a Fusion Dance of sorts.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Beerus and Whis show up once they detect God Ki on Planet Vegeta. Bardock basically becomes Whis' protege and Beerus' plaything and pet of sorts.
• Big Good: Yamoshi is this, wanting to avert the canon destruction of Planet Vegeta. He succeeds thanks to Bardock going Super Saiyan God and Beerus being curious enough to keep Frieza from blowing up Planet Vegeta.
• Composite Character: Bardock is a combination of both Bardock: Father of Goku and the Dragon Ball Super: Broly incarnations. He has his crew from Father of Goku as well as Gine, they all help him with the Super Saiyan God ritual and then vanish from the story.
• Point of Divergence: Thanks to Bardock becoming the Super Saiyan God, Planet Vegeta is never destroyed and Kakarot never leaves for Earth.

We failed

• Downer Ending: Cell successfully absorbs Androids 17 and 18 and there's no one powerful enough to stop him.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: Krillin has reoccuring nightmares of an island being attacked, which he realised was Amenbo Island after seeing it on TV. He goes to explore but when nothing happens, he finds a sense of peace and the nightmares fade.
• Point of Divergence: Goku dies for good, but the events of History of Trunks don't happen because Cell arrives from the future, kills Dr. Gero and then absorbs 17 and 18.
• I Should Have Been Better: Bulma blames herself for Goku's death by the heart virus and that she could have been better prepared. Krillin also blames himself for not doing enough to support Chi Chi and Gohan in their grief.
• Killed Off for Real: Goku died for good due to the heart virus in this timeline.

A friend at the end of time

• Call-Back: Zamasu is able to see the various What If? from this series.
• Continuity Nod: The stories that Zamasu tells Trunks are the various What Ifs told by MasakoX over the years.
• The Ending Changes Everything: The Reveal that this version of Trunks becomes Nomad.
• Heel–Face Turn: After his imprisonment and thousands of years, Zamasu underwent a Heel Realization about the flaws of his Mortal Extermination plan, and now helps and aids loss travelers that end up in his dead timeline.
• Odd Friendship: A post-Heel–Face Turn Merged Zamasu after his final defeat and a young Trunks that becomes Nomad.
• Stealth Prequel: At the end of the video, this is revealed to be the origin of Nomad from What If Goku Landed at Capsule Corp?.
• Rewatch Bonus: Trunk's anger when hearing about the timeline where Goku married Bulma is reminiscent of the Alternate Timeline Trunk ending up in that world and learning about that relationship and his father Vegeta's early death. It takes an additional meaning after the revelation that he becomes Nomad, and is likely from a timeline where Bulma and Goku (or rather Boxer) are siblings.
• That Man Is Dead: At the end, Zamasu somberly thinks to himself that what made the Traveller (Trunks) is now gone, and all that is left is Nomad.

What if Shenron was a Z-Fighter

• Be Careful What You Wish For: In part 3, Shenron is curious to learn how humans create their own life. He ends up finding out how perilous the process is when Chi-Chi is giving birth to Gohan.
• Big Damn Heroes: Just as Semi-Perfect Cell is about to kill Piccolo, Shenron arrives and uses materialization magic to stall Cell long enough to not only recover his friend and teleport away, but also buy time for 18 and 16 to escape.
• Brought Down to Badass: After Piccolo and Kami's death, the Dragon Ball goes with them. While Shenron doesn't die, he loses access to his magic, though still possesses his ki and martial art skills.
• Camera Fiend: Shenron starts taking photography as a hobby while staying with the Son family, even taking photos of his time on Namek. He sees photographs as a triumph in preserving fleeting moments against the flow of time.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Despite he and Shenron outmatching Vegeta in strength, Nail decides to spare the Saiyan's life as he can tell his potential will be useful in the fight against Frieza.
• Deity of Human Origin: At the part where Kami and Piccolo fuse to take on Cell, Shenron becomes the new Kami.
• Evil Counterpart: At first, this was played straight with Shenron and Piccolo Jr. While both may have their links to Kami, Shenron seeks to help humans grow while Piccolo Jr. still want to take over the world. However, the events of not just Dead Zone but also the Saiyan Saga resulted in Piccolo Jr. dropping the evil part completely.
• Fastball Special: During their training session in a memory of Goku's fight against Frieza, Tien throws Yajirobe towards Frieza, with the ronin able to cut off more of Frieza's tail.
• Godzilla Threshold: Discussed between Shenron and Kami regarding Piccolo Jr, with Kami telling the former that if neither he nor Goku are able to defeat and seal the new Demon Lord, they will have to kill him even if that means killing Kami in turn.
• Humanity Ensues:
  • In the process of his resurrection, Shenron is given a human body to better understand the humans of Earth. He has immense strength and the potential to grow stronger, but the power of the wish are solely in the Dragon Balls. This trope is what also allows Shenron to live past the death of Piccolo and hence Kami. All that happens is that Shenron loses his horns which represents his dragon powers.
  • As an extra defense for the new Namek and its inhabitants, Porunga is given a humanoid form following the events of the Frieza saga, allowing him to train and fight alongside the Namekian warriors.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite the presence of human Shenron, the events of Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, the Saiyan Saga, the Namek Saga, and the early portions of the Android Saga still mostly go as they did in canon.
• Karmic Jackpot: Part of the reason Shenron chooses to train Yamcha and boost his confidence is that he remembers the ex-bandit wishing for everyone killed by King Piccolo and his minions to be resurrected, rather than just his close friends like Krillin and Master Roshi.
• Parting-Words Regret: Part 7 has Shenron regret the last thing he said to Kami before the latter's demise, realizing that what Kami did was to allow Shenron to be his own person and hence he didn't need to be angry with Kami.
• Not Me This Time: At the end of Part 3 where Goku and Shenron arrive back to the Son home finding Chi-Chi and the Ox King knocked out while Gohan is missing, Shenron initially suspects that Piccolo is behind the attack. Chi-Chi has enough strength to tell them that it wasn't Piccolo but a new group of adversaries. Part 4 reveals that it was Garlic Jr.
• Secret-Keeper: Kami, Popo, and Goku are initially the only ones who know that "Shen Lang" is actually Shenron. Chi-Chi finds out after marrying Goku and he shares it with her, while Piccolo deduces that he's Shenron but doesn't decide to share it. Part 7 drops this trope when Shenron reveals to Krillin the truth about his nature.

What If Kid Goku was Possessed by Zamasu?

• Be Careful What You Wish For: Zamasu wishes to inhabit Goku's body, to understand his power and make it his own. He gets it alright, but finds himself in Goku's childhood body, rather than his grown up one.
• Pet the Dog: After Grandpa Gohan nurses Zamasu as Goku back to health after his rampage as a great ape, Zamasu is touched and decides to revise his plan to only kill off immoral mortals.

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"But that's where we'll be leaving things for right now."

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