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GT is bad, that much is a given. Not anywhere near as much as Super in my opinion, but still a work of very poor quality that's cemented it's place as a contentious topic. That said, what would you do to change the story for the better?
As for my scenario...
I liked the concept of turning Goku into a child due to it being a way of nerfing him so he couldn't solo any threat with SS3, but that was made redundant fast when even the strongest foes prior to Baby only forced him to go SSJ and he got Toei haxes to his base form anyway. That said, it'd be a far better idea to simply kill Goku off. Have Pilaf say something such as "I wish you never existed! I could have conquered the world long ago if not for you." Goku is then sent to a realm of nothingness between the mortal Universe and Otherworld whilst Dende kicks the Pilaf gang off the temple and telepathically informs Vegeta due to him being the most reliable fighter left.
The expedition into space goes ahead with Vegeta forcing Trunks to go and Pan sneaking aboard. However, the leader would be changed to Piccolo. Big Green would explain that he reactivated the Ultimate Dragon Balls some time after the Cell Games as a last resort against a powerful foe, yet found there to be no positive that could come from using them against Boo due to the additional threat it would provide the Earth. Them surpassing the power of their creator was due to Piccolo being the combination of three Namekians making him a very special case. There, plot hole plugged. As such, Piccolo feels responsible for everything that just happened and wants to fix his problem personally. As to why Vegeta doesn't go, I'd say his protective paternal nature towards Bra would cause him to stay on Earth to protect his family from any unseeable threat such as Boo, as well as not wanting to coddle Trunks. Gohan is also busy as a scholar, though has balanced his role as a scholar and fighter much as the GT Perfect Files told but didn't truly show.
The events on Imegga can stay the same, but with Piccolo defeating Redjic. A good deal of time would be spent on Pan's character development as Piccolo acts as a mentor figure for her and allows her to grow past her bratty nature far quicker. I'd change Zunama's character to anything but an Oolong knockoff, but the general path into the Lood battle would be relatively the same, except with Lood's durability instead being a technology that reflects the plasma energy of Ki. One detail I would add would be Trunks offering a Capsule case as a gift to both the natives of Imegga and the planet Zunama was on. Also, I'd completely remove the skinny :withheld monkey that was Dolltaki.
Moving onto the Baby Arc, the beginning with Gill's betrayal would remain the same, though I'd completely change the Mega Cannon Sigma. Instead of surpassing previous opponents of the last arc, they'd instead rely on their teamwork to hold their own against the trio and eventually find an opening to paralyse Trunks after ganging up on him when analysing him to be the biggest threat. Pan and Piccolo infiltrate the base on M2, as Pan destroys Nutt as in the main timeline whilst Piccolo fights the rest of the Mega Cannon Sigma. The Sigma combine and can fight Piccolo very well due to their data, but ultimately lose. Trunks is freed, but then the trio have to fight against Rild. They get stomped by Rild's power and ability to manipulate metal, though after being fed two of the Senzu the group brought with them, Trunks unlocks SS2 whilst Pan unlocks SSJ and are able to put up a fight against Rild until he starts manipulating all of the planet's metal and events transpire in a similar manner to in the series, except with Gill's strategy being done with Piccolo rather than Trunks. The events with Baby go pretty similarly, but things change drastically after the events on M2. With months having passed since Imegga, Mu would have had time to expand his reach to Imegga and learn of Capsules, adding his upgrades to allow living organisms to be contained in them. Baby uses this to get to Earth in a far more logical way by overhearing most information about Earth and it's co-ordinates by hiding in a Capsule on the ship. Also, as far as Baby's abilities go, I'd change his mind control to simply controlling someone's body. There's no room for character development with mind control, whilst controlling their physical actions against their will is a different story.
Things go pretty similarly, except that rather than controlling Goten, then Gohan, then Vegeta, I'd have Gohan remain the top dog and have Baby's ability to control others diminish the more his Ki and body grew. He'd be an adult by the time he reaches Earth and to make him less of a joke, I'd have him start calling himself Tsurufurian King by that point. Vegeta actually fighting him would allow the Saiyan to confront the demons of his ancestry and for once have a villain somewhat justified in their goals. The King would be outmatched, especially once Gohan arrives and would retreat as the arc turns into a chase much like with 1st form Cell and using both Mu's knowledge and the Tsufururians' advanced technology such as that used against Lood, he eventually gains enough of an upper hand to overpower Vegeta but still no match for Gohan, uses his powers to merge with Vegeta's body, this being the only instance in which it also affects the host's mind. I'd also make his appearance identical to his second transformation, as having a transformation in the first place when he was already the strongest guy around was highly unnecessary. He then stomps Gohan and almost kills him if not for Kibitoshin using Kai Kai to save him as he did Galu.
Thus, the Tsufurian King's takeover of Earth commences. However, this isn't done through fear or mind control, but by showcasing his power to the populace and sharing Tsufurian technology with them, thus swaying all but the Dragon Team to his side. Kibitoshin informs Piccolo of what has happened, with the group agreeing it's best to be teleported to the Kaioshinkai to train, especially after hearing Gohan is there. However, when bringing the Dragon Balls, they notice one is a fake. Baby managed to envelop one inside his body and replaced it with a fake, thus prompting a conflict with him all the sooner. Gohan goes through the same tail growth training Goku did whilst Pan and Trunks have their potential unlocked over a series of days. Piccolo chooses not to as he knows the Saiyans far surpass him and has his own plan for battle; the Mafuba.
Meanwhile, the King is having an identity crisis as the personalities of himself and Vegeta conflict and merge, with his memory becoming jumbled between the identity of the two individuals. He even starts to consider that perhaps the Saiyans have changed somewhat. Nevertheless, he stays resolute in his goal to bring back the Tsufurian race, wiping out the resistance lead by Goten and taking Dende as a prisoner. Oob eventually fights against him and fuses with Boo as in the original and the battle concludes in the same manner. It's then that Pan, Piccolo and Trunks arrive to fight the King for the Dragon Balls. Despite putting up a good fight and their efforts overpowering King Tsufuru, he manages to win through his Plasma Reflective armour and discovering a new ability he used when attempting to quell Vegeta's personality. Spreading himself onto both Trunks and Pan for a moment each, he manipulates their minds in a manner not to control them, but to awaken the irrational fighting instinct of a Saiyan's Oozaru form and cause the two to defeat each other. Piccolo attempts to use the Mafuba, but the King sees through his plan due to the suspicious nature of the bottle and destroys it before taking Piccolo hostage. He then makes his wish for the Tsufurian/Saiyan homeworld to be restored near Earth and moves his followers there, with the majority of humanity complying as the Dragon Team are left beaten on Earth.
Not long afterwards, Gohan's tail regrowth is complete as he travels to Planet Tsufuru and faces it's King, going Golden Oozaru. Pan reveals herself to have snuck aboard a ship and pleads with her father to regain his rationality before being killed by King Tsufuru, thus prompting Gohan to go Super Saiyan 4. It's revealed Elder Kaioshin found out about it after spending a decade and a half researching Saiyan history and biology due to the power of Goku and Gohan having made him curious, so another plot hole plugged. The Tsufuru King would realise the form is the answer and counter to his critique of the Saiyans being controlled by battle frenzy as it's entirety is now brought out externally but with the control and rationality of their SSJ form. Gohan proceeds to defeat the King even without Oob's internal attack and he relinquishes control of Vegeta. The King realises that the Saiyans have truly evolved past the killers of his race and that he was wrong, hoping to instead restore his race on his own. However, the Earth is in danger as the quest to return the Ultimate Dragon Balls was a failure and humanity is moved to the Tsufuru planet, other than Piccolo staying behind to atone for his sin as trying to find the Ultimate Dragon Balls to deactivate them and bringing even more unknown threats to humanity can't be done. Thus, the arc ends on a mixed tones as not only do we have some actual character development for Baby, but both Piccolo and Goku are permanently dead.
As for how I'd change the next two arcs, I'll go into that in the next post. Feel free to share your own ideas or scenarios in improving GT.
As for my scenario...
I liked the concept of turning Goku into a child due to it being a way of nerfing him so he couldn't solo any threat with SS3, but that was made redundant fast when even the strongest foes prior to Baby only forced him to go SSJ and he got Toei haxes to his base form anyway. That said, it'd be a far better idea to simply kill Goku off. Have Pilaf say something such as "I wish you never existed! I could have conquered the world long ago if not for you." Goku is then sent to a realm of nothingness between the mortal Universe and Otherworld whilst Dende kicks the Pilaf gang off the temple and telepathically informs Vegeta due to him being the most reliable fighter left.
The expedition into space goes ahead with Vegeta forcing Trunks to go and Pan sneaking aboard. However, the leader would be changed to Piccolo. Big Green would explain that he reactivated the Ultimate Dragon Balls some time after the Cell Games as a last resort against a powerful foe, yet found there to be no positive that could come from using them against Boo due to the additional threat it would provide the Earth. Them surpassing the power of their creator was due to Piccolo being the combination of three Namekians making him a very special case. There, plot hole plugged. As such, Piccolo feels responsible for everything that just happened and wants to fix his problem personally. As to why Vegeta doesn't go, I'd say his protective paternal nature towards Bra would cause him to stay on Earth to protect his family from any unseeable threat such as Boo, as well as not wanting to coddle Trunks. Gohan is also busy as a scholar, though has balanced his role as a scholar and fighter much as the GT Perfect Files told but didn't truly show.
The events on Imegga can stay the same, but with Piccolo defeating Redjic. A good deal of time would be spent on Pan's character development as Piccolo acts as a mentor figure for her and allows her to grow past her bratty nature far quicker. I'd change Zunama's character to anything but an Oolong knockoff, but the general path into the Lood battle would be relatively the same, except with Lood's durability instead being a technology that reflects the plasma energy of Ki. One detail I would add would be Trunks offering a Capsule case as a gift to both the natives of Imegga and the planet Zunama was on. Also, I'd completely remove the skinny :withheld monkey that was Dolltaki.
Moving onto the Baby Arc, the beginning with Gill's betrayal would remain the same, though I'd completely change the Mega Cannon Sigma. Instead of surpassing previous opponents of the last arc, they'd instead rely on their teamwork to hold their own against the trio and eventually find an opening to paralyse Trunks after ganging up on him when analysing him to be the biggest threat. Pan and Piccolo infiltrate the base on M2, as Pan destroys Nutt as in the main timeline whilst Piccolo fights the rest of the Mega Cannon Sigma. The Sigma combine and can fight Piccolo very well due to their data, but ultimately lose. Trunks is freed, but then the trio have to fight against Rild. They get stomped by Rild's power and ability to manipulate metal, though after being fed two of the Senzu the group brought with them, Trunks unlocks SS2 whilst Pan unlocks SSJ and are able to put up a fight against Rild until he starts manipulating all of the planet's metal and events transpire in a similar manner to in the series, except with Gill's strategy being done with Piccolo rather than Trunks. The events with Baby go pretty similarly, but things change drastically after the events on M2. With months having passed since Imegga, Mu would have had time to expand his reach to Imegga and learn of Capsules, adding his upgrades to allow living organisms to be contained in them. Baby uses this to get to Earth in a far more logical way by overhearing most information about Earth and it's co-ordinates by hiding in a Capsule on the ship. Also, as far as Baby's abilities go, I'd change his mind control to simply controlling someone's body. There's no room for character development with mind control, whilst controlling their physical actions against their will is a different story.
Things go pretty similarly, except that rather than controlling Goten, then Gohan, then Vegeta, I'd have Gohan remain the top dog and have Baby's ability to control others diminish the more his Ki and body grew. He'd be an adult by the time he reaches Earth and to make him less of a joke, I'd have him start calling himself Tsurufurian King by that point. Vegeta actually fighting him would allow the Saiyan to confront the demons of his ancestry and for once have a villain somewhat justified in their goals. The King would be outmatched, especially once Gohan arrives and would retreat as the arc turns into a chase much like with 1st form Cell and using both Mu's knowledge and the Tsufururians' advanced technology such as that used against Lood, he eventually gains enough of an upper hand to overpower Vegeta but still no match for Gohan, uses his powers to merge with Vegeta's body, this being the only instance in which it also affects the host's mind. I'd also make his appearance identical to his second transformation, as having a transformation in the first place when he was already the strongest guy around was highly unnecessary. He then stomps Gohan and almost kills him if not for Kibitoshin using Kai Kai to save him as he did Galu.
Thus, the Tsufurian King's takeover of Earth commences. However, this isn't done through fear or mind control, but by showcasing his power to the populace and sharing Tsufurian technology with them, thus swaying all but the Dragon Team to his side. Kibitoshin informs Piccolo of what has happened, with the group agreeing it's best to be teleported to the Kaioshinkai to train, especially after hearing Gohan is there. However, when bringing the Dragon Balls, they notice one is a fake. Baby managed to envelop one inside his body and replaced it with a fake, thus prompting a conflict with him all the sooner. Gohan goes through the same tail growth training Goku did whilst Pan and Trunks have their potential unlocked over a series of days. Piccolo chooses not to as he knows the Saiyans far surpass him and has his own plan for battle; the Mafuba.
Meanwhile, the King is having an identity crisis as the personalities of himself and Vegeta conflict and merge, with his memory becoming jumbled between the identity of the two individuals. He even starts to consider that perhaps the Saiyans have changed somewhat. Nevertheless, he stays resolute in his goal to bring back the Tsufurian race, wiping out the resistance lead by Goten and taking Dende as a prisoner. Oob eventually fights against him and fuses with Boo as in the original and the battle concludes in the same manner. It's then that Pan, Piccolo and Trunks arrive to fight the King for the Dragon Balls. Despite putting up a good fight and their efforts overpowering King Tsufuru, he manages to win through his Plasma Reflective armour and discovering a new ability he used when attempting to quell Vegeta's personality. Spreading himself onto both Trunks and Pan for a moment each, he manipulates their minds in a manner not to control them, but to awaken the irrational fighting instinct of a Saiyan's Oozaru form and cause the two to defeat each other. Piccolo attempts to use the Mafuba, but the King sees through his plan due to the suspicious nature of the bottle and destroys it before taking Piccolo hostage. He then makes his wish for the Tsufurian/Saiyan homeworld to be restored near Earth and moves his followers there, with the majority of humanity complying as the Dragon Team are left beaten on Earth.
Not long afterwards, Gohan's tail regrowth is complete as he travels to Planet Tsufuru and faces it's King, going Golden Oozaru. Pan reveals herself to have snuck aboard a ship and pleads with her father to regain his rationality before being killed by King Tsufuru, thus prompting Gohan to go Super Saiyan 4. It's revealed Elder Kaioshin found out about it after spending a decade and a half researching Saiyan history and biology due to the power of Goku and Gohan having made him curious, so another plot hole plugged. The Tsufuru King would realise the form is the answer and counter to his critique of the Saiyans being controlled by battle frenzy as it's entirety is now brought out externally but with the control and rationality of their SSJ form. Gohan proceeds to defeat the King even without Oob's internal attack and he relinquishes control of Vegeta. The King realises that the Saiyans have truly evolved past the killers of his race and that he was wrong, hoping to instead restore his race on his own. However, the Earth is in danger as the quest to return the Ultimate Dragon Balls was a failure and humanity is moved to the Tsufuru planet, other than Piccolo staying behind to atone for his sin as trying to find the Ultimate Dragon Balls to deactivate them and bringing even more unknown threats to humanity can't be done. Thus, the arc ends on a mixed tones as not only do we have some actual character development for Baby, but both Piccolo and Goku are permanently dead.
As for how I'd change the next two arcs, I'll go into that in the next post. Feel free to share your own ideas or scenarios in improving GT.
) Goten's subconscious. 
