DBZ Plotholes

[SSJ2]

Post as many as you can think of here. Let's discuss them.

 

[Jerk Store]

Magical 8th Cell Jr. in the anime. I loved that lil stinker!

 

[sei'taer]

Cell regenerating from goku's kamehameha

 

[Six Trails]

The Dragon Balls only taking eight months to recharge after their first use.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Not really a plot-hole (well maybe depending on how you define one), but in the original manga run Trunks warned them of #19 & #20, but was corrected in later editions and prints.

 

[Let's Go Fearless!]

 

[Alin]

Not really a plot-hole (well maybe depending on how you define one), but in the original manga run Trunks warned them of #19 & #20, but was corrected in later editions and prints.

Wow. I never knew that. mg

Trunks' hairdo is a plot hole in my heart.

 

[Papasmurf]

Ginyu's power level

Everything in Gero's lab and Babidi's ship

@Fantastische Hure That shit actually wasn't even corrected in any run of the manga, Trunks mentioning the names of the androids is merely omitted in the anime and they simply retcon the statement later saying Gero and 19 weren't his future's androids

 

[Fantastische Hure]

That's surpsing. I thought they did. They even corrected Jeice's close to 20,000 statement about Vegeta.

I thought they corrected it in the edition of the manga that was released in the 2000s. I think that was called the Kanzenbans.

 

[Papasmurf]

They only corrected a few errors, like Vegeta's PL against Recoom being too low and the date of the CG being a plot hole if you take into account all the statements about time passing in the Cell arc like Goku's heart virus recovery and the 10 days before the CG.

My guess is still resents his editorial staff for interfering with his manga so much, so he's keeping that in as part of DB's history to blame them for his troubles 2

I do however consider the Kanzenban to be the true manga canon though, since Toriyama deliberately fixed the final chapter to contain a brand new ending.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Yeah, I know about the ending too, even-though the anime obviously only adapted the original ending.

But yeah, maybe it's pay-back to his editors even-though I thought they were good. Seemed to help a lot at times.

 

[Papasmurf]

Yeah, the Goku Black arc was created from a suggestion from one of his old editors too. (Ironic since they're the ones who practically molded the last arc F. Trunks appeared in ) Considering Toriyama's ideas before that weren't so good, like Freeza coming back with gold plating from training for a few months and another tournament arc with no real stakes, I think the manga might have been pretty dull if Toriyama just did whatever he wanted.

 

[Tapion]

Android 8 being revived by the Dragon Balls

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Yeah, the Goku Black arc was created from a suggestion from one of his old editors too. (Ironic since they're the ones who practically molded the last arc F. Trunks appeared in ) Considering Toriyama's ideas before that weren't so good, like Freeza coming back with gold plating from training for a few months and another tournament arc with no real stakes, I think the manga might have been pretty dull if Toriyama just did whatever he wanted.

Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing. The editors seem to be a really big part of DragonBall, other than maybe the last edit since I heard he let AT have the most freedom or whatever and let him do whatever he wanted to which ended-up being the Boo Saga.

 

[withheldforprivacy]

-Piccolo destroying the moon and then being impressed by Nappa's blast creating a crater.
-Namek 5 minutes
-Anime Vegeta pummeling Gohan, flying away and, next episode, being still there, as if he never left, and telling them how to revive Goku.
-Yamcha vs Olibu
-Goku vs Mutaito
-Goku being on a spaceship fast enough to cross in a week a distance that normal spaceships need 4000 years to cross (Earth-Namek),
yet the planets passing by being perfectly visible.
-Cell talking about Gero considering taking Trunkses cells, even though there was no Trunks in that future when Cell was being created.
-Anime Gohan having a nightmare with Perfect Cell, while still in Spirit Room, when he'd never seen what Perfect Cell looks like.
-Dende being able to see Buutenkses movements and warning Gohan to dodge.
-Blue SSJ God Goku being wounded by a plain ray weapon.
-Above King Piccolo tier characters being eaten by a fish.
-Piccolo talking to the boys in spirit room when he was out of the room.

 

[Tapion]

^Add Krillin and Gohan being impressed with Recoome changing a planet's shape even though they could probably destroy a planet or two at this point in the series.

 

[KyuubiAhri]

Vegito knowing about SGKA despite not being witnessed by goku and vegeta