Dragon Ball Tropes (2024)

1. Characters / Dragon Ball

  • DBZ Movie Villains

  • The Dragon Ball franchise has a lot of characters, who have taken place in many kinds of stories, ranging from the canonical ones from the manga, the filler from the anime series, and the ones who exist in the many video games. Many of these …

2. Manga / Dragon Ball - TV Tropes

  • Dragon Ball chronicles the adventures of a cheerful monkey boy named Son Goku, in a story that was initially inspired by the Chinese tale Journey to the West ( ...

  • Dragon Ball began as a manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama and serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1984 to 1995, after concluding his previous mega-hit manga Doctor Slump, and spawned a franchise that would become a global …

3. 10 Shonen Tropes Dragon Ball Created - CBR

4. Dragon Ball - All The Tropes

  • 18 nov 2022 · Dragon Ball began as a manga written by Akira Toriyama, chronicling the adventures of a cheerful monkey boy named Son Goku, in a story that ...

  • Dragon Ball began as a manga written by Akira Toriyama, chronicling the adventures of a cheerful monkey boy named Son Goku, in a story that was originally based off the Chinese tale Journey to the West. The manga was soon adapted into one of the most popular animes ever made.

5. 18 Ridiculous Tropes Dragon Ball Z Used More Than Any Other Anime

  • Over 600 fans have voted on the 18 Ridiculous Tropes Dragon Ball Z Used More Than Any Other Anime. Current Top 3: Resurrection, “I Was Just Holding Back!

  • When it comes to cartoon classics that abuse tropes, Dragon Ball Z is one of the worst offenders. The show checks them off one at a time, including classics like escalation, face turns, selfless sacrifice, and, of course, resurrection. Characters spend entire episodes posing as they fall into...

6. Dragon Ball Z | Tropes Fanon Wiki - Fandom

  • The series is the Trope Namer for Planet-or-Villain Saga, in which a story arc is named after a location or the arc's main villain, and Padding Filler Z, in ...

  • The most popular anime series in North America. Years have passed since Goku defeated Piccolo in the World Martial Arts Tournament. Goku and Chi-Chi now have a son (Gohan), Piccolo reformed, and... What's that spaceship doing, flying into Earth? Turns out, the arrival of Raditz kickstarts the Saiyan Saga, and Goku is revealed to be a Saiyan too... albeit one who "didn't complete his mission", thanks to the events that kickstart the comedic half of the Dragon Ball franchise. Popularized anime in

7. The 10 Most Overused Dragon Ball Z Tropes - CBR

  • 23 mei 2024 · Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball Z is one of the most celebrated anime of all time, but it's also guilty of routinely turning to several tropes.

  • Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball Z is one of the most celebrated anime of all time, but it's also guilty of routinely turning to several tropes.

8. Dragon Ball/YMMV - All The Tropes

  • 21 nov 2021 · Magnificent Bastard: Played with, subverted, and then boomeranged with Cell. In his imperfect form, Cell runs rings around the Z fighters as he ...

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9. TV Tropes.com's Wild Mass Guessing entry on Dragon Ball - Kanzenshuu

  • 10 nov 2009 · It's strange that he refers to himself as "The Prince Of All Saiyans", since he's technically the king because his father is dead. The obvious ...

  • Garlic And Garlic Jr. Are Namekians: Take a short Namekian, remove the antennae and muscles, recolor sea green, and add spots and wrinkles. What do you get? Garlic Jr

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