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  • Anti-Climax Boss: Once Gohan reaches his state of Super Saiyan 2, Bojack simply is no match for him.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Zangya is extremely popular despite her small role, mostly because she's one of the few fighters in the franchise who is a female and extremely powerful. Her being killed off by Bojack to attack Gohan was declared to be a sad moment by the viewers. She has consistently appeared in many video games alongside her boss, with one exception.
  • Even Better Sequel: Widely considered to be one of the most fun non-serial movies in the franchise, thanks to being one of the only movies where Goku's presence isn't that relevant, giving Gohan some time to shine, some fun fights, especially the one of Trunks against Tenshinhan, being one of the few Dragon Ball Z movies that can easily fit into canon, and being visually pretty. The most common complaint is how motivation-less Bojack's crew is, and even then, they have fans.
  • Fridge Brilliance: The Kais imprisoned Bojack in a star. This makes sense when you realize he's as strong as Cell, if not stronger, meaning he was essentially Frieza in personality and motives, but leagues stronger. Sealing him away might have been the only way to stop him period at the time.
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  • Smurfette Breakout: As mentioned above, Zangya is easily the most popular of Bojack's minions, and possibly the most popular movie villain minion, and regularly shows up alongside Bojack in video games.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The Intergalactic World Tournament (Tenkaichi Dai Budōkai) was the most innovative and creatively fun tournament concept ever written at the time. The idea of a Tournament Arc split into multiple sections, with different objectives each round, all for the sake of making First Contact with powerful alien warriors who'd fight in the semi-finals is a strong enough idea to carry the entire film, and yet it ultimately just gets hijacked by Bojack's crew and turns into another brawl, with the alien warriors turning out to be charlatans who are quickly offed. Given that the main criticism of the villains is their lack of motivation for being on Earth in particular, it would have been a simple enough fix to have them participating in the tournament legitimately, or remove the fakeout and make them the great warriors the tournament representatives contacted, with the twist being that those great warriors are evil rather than fakers.


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