History Anime / DragonballGT

* NoahsStoryArc: In the first season, Bulma just happens to have one of these tucked away beneath the Capsule Corporation in order to evacuate everyone to the new planet created by Baby with the Black Star Dragon Balls.

* {{Facepalm}}: Vegeta's reaction after seeing Goku lose against a harmless boy in episode 41.

* TheArtifact: Pan's bandanna is supposed to be a ContinuityNod to the Great Saiyaman, as it wears the same orange color. This doesn't work since in the anime version of the Majin Buu saga (and most adaptations) make the bandanna white, losing the reference.

* ApocalypseHow: Class 0 is standard for a minor villain to do, Baby wants to pull off an X-3 or X-4, and the Shadow Dragons are aiming for an X-5.

** In the Creator/FUNimation dub, Goku is played by Stephanie Naldony in his kid form, Creator/SeanSchemmel in his [=SSJ4=] transformation and Shane Ray in his Golden Ape transformation.
** In the same dub, Syn Shenron is initially voiced by Bob Carter, but his VA switches to Creator/ChristopherSabat when he transforms into Omega Shenron.

* CrossdressingVoices:
** Masako Nozawa, once again, reprises her role of both kid and adult Goku.
** Stephanie Nadolny also returns to voice kid Goku for the first time since the Funimation ''Dragon Ball'' dub.
** Laura Torres returns to voice kid Goku in the Latin American dub.

* DotingGrandparent: Goku is very protective of Pan, even if she [[{{Tsundere}} doesn't always reciprocate]].

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: In the original Japanese version, each of the Evil Dragons are named after the Chinese words for the number on their Dragon Ball, followed by the words for "Star Dragon", so if we romanise from the original Chinese words, the one-star dragon is Yi Xing Long[[note]]Pronounced EE SHING LONG[[/note]], the four-star dragon is Si Xing Long[[note]]Pronounced SUU SHING LONG[[/note]], and so on. Funimation decided to drop this entirely, and instead go with names along the lines of a first name with some sort of meaning, such as the four-starred dragon's fire ability leading to "Nuova", followed by "Shenron", their name for the eternal dragon Shén Lóng. This was tied up with its own overarching naming scheme where, when you put the first letter of each dragon's name one after the other, it spells "SHENRON".\\
Blue Water's dub respects the original naming scheme, though it uses similar logic to saying Shenron instead of Shén Lóng, by romanising the Japanese approximations of the Chinese words, and for unknown reasons, they swapped Shinron out for Shenron. So, the one-star dragon is Ii Shenron, the four-star dragon is Su Shenron, and so on.\\
Since Funimation decided to give the one-star dragon a name change (and a voice actor change) when he absorbs the other Dragon Balls and achieves his ultimate form (the Japanese and Blue Water versions made no changes at all, though after this power-up, they tended to put "Super" in front of his name), this means that the one-star dragon has four different official names; Yi Xing Long, Ii Shenron, Syn Shenron, and Omega Shenron.

''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', the first ''Dragon Ball'' show covering new material since ''GT'', doesn't acknowledge ''GT'' and contradicts it at several points. Though ''Super'' is not set after ''Z'' (it takes place after the Buu arc but before ''Z's'' DistantFinale), these contradictions are enough to bring ''GT's'' canonicity into question. There has yet to be an [[WordOfGod official statement]] about this though so ''GT's'' status remains an open question for now.

The series itself was less successful than the previous ''Dragon Ball'' or ''Dragon Ball Z'' and is [[BrokenBase polarizing]] among traditional fans. Unlike its predecessors, it didn't spawn any theatrical movies, but does have a largely-unrelated [=TV=] Special (known as ''Anime/DragonBallGTAHerosLegacy'' in the Funimation dub), that was generally better received than the series itself. The special tells the story of Goku's descendant, Goku Jr. The series' art direction was also carried over to the 25th-anniversary film ''Anime/DragonBallThePathToPower'', which loosely re-adapted the first third of the original manga. There were also two video games released under the ''GT'' label: ''Final Bout'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation in 1997 (notable for being the first game to be released in America with the ''Dragon Ball'' brand intact), and ''Transformation'' for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance in 2005.

* ProbabilityPileup: They discover that the key to the truly legendary transformation (the one that warranted the genocide in the first place) is the Saiyan tails that Goku and Vegeta had long since gotten removed as liabilities. As soon as Goku unlocks it after a complicated series of events --regrowing his tail, transforming into the great ape, retaining consciousness, and transforming into a super saiyan while an ape-- Vegeta, Gogeta, and Broly are soon to follow.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Four-Star Dragon]].

%%* InvoluntaryShapeshifting

** Goku doesn't take well the reveal about Baby enslaving Gohan and Goten.

%%* {{Revenge}}: Baby's primary motive.

* 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 painful solution of simply forcing the tail out with a pair of pliers.

* WhamEpisode: "The Greatest Surprise" and "The Shadow Dragons".

* AlternateContinuity: Strongly implied to have become this after the release of two canon movies written by Toriyama himself, ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods Battle of Gods]]'' and ''[[Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF Resurrection ‘F’]]'', and the ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' anime. While these are all {{interquel}}s set before the end of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', they introduce quite a lot of content that forces ''GT'' into this trope; such as having Pilaf's gang be the ones wished into kids instead of Goku, Super Saiyan Gods, the [[DestroyerDeity Gods of Destruction]], revealing that Goku is nowhere near the strongest being in the universe and that the likes of Vegeta and even Frieza are capable of catching up with him, and showing Kibitoshin de-fused back into Shin and Kibito. The RubberBandHistory storyline of the video game ''VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse'' outright acknowledges this, with Time Patrol Trunks acknowledging the events of ''GT'' as an AlternateTimeline in its DLC story chapters.

%%* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: Imecka.

* OverprotectiveDad: Possibly Vegeta. It's up to the viewer whether he attacked the teenage punks because they made fun of him or whether he didn't like them hitting on his daughter... [[TakeAThirdOption or both.]]

* GrandFinale: Well it was meant to be one for the franchise anyway. It does bring more closure to the original TV run then the ''Z'' series did if nothing else.

%%* BareYourMidriff: Pan and Bra/Bulla.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: General Rilldo, the most powerful Machine Mutant.

%%* QuirkyMinibossSquad / TeamRocket: The Para Para Bros.

* OffModel: While the series differs considerably from Toriyama's style, it remains consistent within itself for the most part. That said, one animation team in rotation is particularly notorious for its low quality.
** The two episodes done by Creator/{{Dogakobo}} are also remarkably different than the rest of the show. This is perhaps most noticeable in the way Cell and Freeza look more pointed and overly-detailed under their supervision.

%%* CasualDangerDialog: Pretty common.

The series itself was less successful than the previous ''Dragon Ball'' or ''Dragon Ball Z'' and is [[BrokenBase polarizing]] among traditional fans. Unlike its predecessors, it didn't spawn any theatrical movies, but does have a largely-unrelated [=TV=] Special (known as ''Anime/DragonBallGTAHerosLegacy'' in the Funimation dub), that was generally better received than the series itself. The special tells the story of Goku's descendant, Goku Jr. The series' art direction was also carried over to the 25th-anniversary film ''Anime/DragonBallThePathToPower'', which loosely re-adapted the first third of the original manga.

* NiceHat: Pan's fisherman's hat in episode 64 and ''A Hero's Legacy''.