History Anime / DragonBallGT

* NiceHat:
** Pan's fisherman's hat in episode 64 and ''A Hero's Legacy''.
%%** [[spoiler: Played straight with the Spirit Bomb. Last use was in the Buu saga, about a decade ago in-universe. It's now universal sized!]]

* {{Flanderization}}: Goku's BigEater trait is taken UpToEleven in this series. Almost every episode has him eating, complaining about being hungry or just mentioning food.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first saga of the series attempted to recapture of the tone of the [[Manga/DragonBall original series.]] Focusing more on the comedy and adventures of collecting the dragon balls. It wasn't until the second arc, the Baby Saga, that the series returned to the tone of ''Z.''

* DeliberateInjuryGambit: [[spoiler:Majuub's plan to help beat Baby. He got himself turned into chocolate and eaten. Mind you, Baby chewed, so it doesn't make that much sense.]]

%%* DiabolusExMachina: The Shadow Dragons.

* DeusExMachina: At the verge of defeat against Baby, Goku looks up at the Earth on the New Planet Vegeta and begins transforming into the needed Golden Oozaru, essentially being "saved" by the Earth despite no previous mentioning of this ability to transform just by looking at planets even being possible for Saiyans.

It is soon revealed that unlike their regular variants, the Black Star Dragon Balls scatter throughout the entire ''galaxy'', and that if they aren't found within a year, [[EarthShatteringKaboom the Earth will explode]]. And so, Goku heads out [[RecycledInSpace into space]] with Trunks and his granddaughter, Pan. Starts off with [[LighterAndSofter the trademark humor of the early parts of]] ''Dragon Ball'', before [[CerebusSyndrome rapidly returning to the more action oriented style of the previous series]].

* RecycledInSpace: For the first arc, the early ''Manga/DragonBall'' series [[AC:In Space!]]

* PostScriptSeason: Times Two. The show itself is a PostScriptSeason for ''Dragon Ball Z'', while everything after the Baby Arc is a PostScriptSeason for the show itself.

* StoryBreakerPower: You thought Super Vegito was ridiculous? Allow us to introduce Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta. Who's might far surpasses every other known character in the series at this point to sheer mind-numbing degrees. Whereas Goku and Vegeta together as SSJ4s can't even begin to slow [[FinalBoss Omega]] down, Gogeta treats him like absolute child's play far worse than Vegito did to Super Buu. And only the heroes' lack of knowing their high power level drains fusion time faster is what saves the shadow dragon from instant annihilation.

* StoryBreakerPower: You thought Super Vegito was ridiculous? Allow us to introduce Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta. Who's might far surpasses every other known character in the series at this point to sheer mind-numbing degrees. Whereas Goku and Vegeta together as SSJ4's can't even begin to slow [[FinalBoss Omega]] down, Gogeta treats him like absolute child's play far worse than Vegito did to Super Buu. And only the heroes' lack of knowing their high power level drains fusion time faster is what saves the shadow dragon from instant annihilation.

* BerserkButton: Baby completely loses any restrain when fighting Goku, going so far to being willing to let his followers die as long it allows him to finish Goku.

* CrapsackWorld: Just about every planet ever. The only ones to not be this had low-level civilization. Even the galaxy, and the universe, could be seen as this, with Hell opening up, a dimension that screws people over and kills them, and plenty more.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Super Saiyan 4 Goku. Longer, even blacker hair, a deadly serious voice and personality, covered in dark red fur, dark red eyeliner, and downright frightening to be against. However, it's still Goku.

* EarthShatteringKaboom: The side-effects of the Black Star Dragon Balls. You use them, and you get one year to retrieve them. Otherwise, boom. [[spoiler: The first time they get used, they are retrieved. The second time, everyone is too busy stopping Baby after he uses them. The Earth explodes, but not before everyone who isn't Piccolo is saved. Then they wish Earth back.]]

* KickedOutOfHeaven: Piccolo sacrifices himself to ensure the Black Star Dragon Balls can never be used again. Shortly after, in order to help Goku (who was lured into Hell after the barriers between the living world and the afterlife were broken), he goes on a rampage so he'll be kicked out of paradise and cast down into Hell.

* SinsOfOurFathers: Baby is out for revenge against the Saiyans, of whom Goku and Vegeta are the only full blooded survivors. And he willingly states this word by word when he's telling Vegeta his backstory.

* SuperMode: While ''Z'' only went to level 3 of the transformation, ''GT'' in particular is notable for introducing Super Saiyan 4, which is so powerful that a Saiyan must become a Golden Great Ape before attaining this form, and unlike all others, this form involves a Saiyan keeping their hair dark but having a copious amount of it as well as growing red fur all over their body and regrowing their Saiyan tail if it's missing.

* WaxOnWaxOff: Old Kai has Goku unlock his hidden power by making him operate a giant coffee grinder. Somewhat subverted as the actual goal was simply to regrow Goku's tail, and the training is quickly abandoned for the faster solution of simply forcing the tail out with a pair of pliers.

* AscendedFridgeHorror: The Shadow Dragon Arc explores the PowerAtAPrice aspect of the Dragon Balls that was never originally explored but merely hinted in the series. After all, such powerful wishes and magic must come with a catch. Repeatedly using the Dragon Balls builds up negative energy which is dependent in size on the grandiosity of the wish one makes. Goku and his friends have used the Dragon Balls throughout the series to fix the world and during their adventures that the negative energy accumulated becomes astronomical, corrupts the Dragon Balls, and gives birth to Shadow Dragons which nearly destroy the world entirely. As the Shadow Dragons point out, they wouldn't even exist if the heroes hadn't [[NiceJobBreakingItHero kept abusing their wishes in the first place.]]

** In the second arc, Trunks is able to detect No. 17's Ki, and is even able to compare it with that of No. 18... despite the fact that a major plot point in the background of the two androids when they were first encountered back in "Dragon Ball Z" was that they didn't radiate Ki at all!

** During the Super 17 Saga, deceased villains in Hell and on Earth are shown without halos, despite being crowned with them in filler episodes of Dragon Ball Z, but they have ones while waiting in front of the Check-In Station.
** Goku states the Dragon Balls can be used to revive Krillin, however, the Dragon Balls have previously revived him in Dragon Ball which makes it impossible to use them to revive him again. Later, Krillin is revived when the Dragon Balls are used to bring everyone back, even though they should be incapable of bringing Krillin back again.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Pan gets one that lasts from her first appearing to them going to space. First, her breaking up the bank robbery, and then her being treated like (and complaining about being treated like) a kid (she's 10, so it does make sense). Then, her stowing away and basically stealing the ship when Goku and Trunks discover her. Trunks gets one in the form of him abandoning Capsule Corp and flying off, changing in the clouds.

* BadassMustache: Subverted with Vegeta. It's so bad that his own daughter scolds him for it and has it shaved off.

%%* UnstoppableRage

%%* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption

%%* VoiceOfTheLegion: Syn Shenron.
%%* TheWallsAreClosingIn

** Goku. It's apparently a Saiyan trait. Even ''before'' turning into a kid, he's supposedly in his 40s-50s, and yet barely looks any older than in the Cell saga of ''Z''. Immediately after being reverted to child size, he makes a reference to CompulsorySchoolAge in the Funimation dub.

%%* DotingGrandparent: Goku.

* KidAppealCharacter: Pan is an AnkleBiter. Even if she'd get destroyed in the main fight, she still tends to try, and if she's not doing that, there's a good chance she's doing something else on her own, which tends to help out ([[spoiler:pursuing Giru, finding and saving the kid who was possessed by Baby, and calming Goku down while he was a Golden Great Ape are all good examples]]).

* OvertookTheSeries: Its anime-only continuation after the manga ended.

* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:The final scene of the series takes place 100 years after Omega Shenron's defeat. An elderly Pan is watching her grandson when she sees Goku, now an adult again, among the spectators. She tries to go to where he's sitting, but he leaves before she can get there. As he leaves the stadium, Goku reminisces on his adventures before hopping on his Flying Nimbus and flying away.]]

%%* NotSoHarmlessVillain: A few of the Shadow Dragons.

* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:The final scene of the series takes place 100 years after Omega Shenron's defeat. An elderly Pan is watching her grandson when she sees Goku, now an adult again, among the spectators. She tries to go to where he's sitting, but he leaves before she can get there. As he leaves the stadium, Goku reminisces on his adventures before hopping on his Flyimg Nimbus and flying away.]]

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: A certain Saiyan named Goku.]]

%%* DistantFinale: Is 100 years distant enough for you?

%%* PowerMakesYourHairGrow

* DarkerAndEdgier: Starting with Planet M-2.

** When Baby uses the Dragon Balls to revive Planet Vegeta, he makes all of Earth's inhabitants move there. This is despite the fact that, as stated in the Saiyan and Frieza saga, Planet Vegeta's atmosphere is too heavy for normal Earthlings to handle. By all accounts, the Earthlings shouldn't be able to even stand on that planet.