History DBZAbridged / TropesSToZ

** Cell uses one to knock out [[{{StreetFighter}} Ken]] himself in the Cell Games shorts when Ryu and Ken arrive to challenge him.

** Subverted with the line "The name's Recoome. It rhymes with doom. And you're gonna be hurting all too soon." Rather than make fun of it, they turned the ham UpToEleven and made it Recoome's CatchPhrase for his wrestling persona.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Piccolo's destruction of the moon has a catastrophic effect on the oceans and causes many deaths due to flooding.
** In the original show, Piccolo threw Gohan at a mesa to draw out his power, causing him to obliterate it in a panic. When he tries it here, it fails and Gohan painfully collides with it.
** Half of Gohan's childhood was spent training, nearly being killed, and watching friends die, with his father nowhere in sight. All this terrible stuff has left some obvious mental scars on him, resulting in psychotic outbursts, and Gohan himself acknowledging that he has issues.
** Krillin states that he sees a therapist to help deal with all the insults and mockery he gets as the ButtMonkey.
** Vegeta stops to monologue and laugh manically before stealing the Dragon Balls on Freeza's ship, and ends up being spotted by a guard because of it.
** Goku quickly eats a long, huge bowl of ramen noodles...and notes he isn't pooping tonight and would have to eat a high fiber dinner.
** The heart disease that kills Goku in Future Trunk's timeline and incapacitates him in the Android Saga comes not from an alien pathogen as in canon, but from his excessive consumption of bacon and other fatty foods.
*** Additionally, when Trunks gives Goku the medicine needed to prevent this, he lies about what flavor it is to ensure that he'll take. Unfortunately, it didn't occur to him that Goku would realize it wasn't the flavor he promised, resulting in him refusing to take it until after he becomes ill and has no choice.
** The end of ''Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan Abridged''; Sure, Goku has killed Broly and avenged the South Galaxy's destruction, but is South Kai happy about it? Of course he isn't, because his entire galaxy and every single person who lived in it are ''still'' gone. All King Kai can do is offer a halfhearted apology since there are no Dragon Balls that can bring that many people back to life. [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Probably]]. But hey! [[RefugeInAudacity Now South Kai has a lot more options for competitors]] [[CallForward in the upcoming Other World Tournament!]]
** While the fandom likes to make fun of Goku for being a bad dad, the Abridged movies show that his constant absence to go train and neglect his family have serious consequences. With her husband gone, Chi-Chi has been left to raise Gohan alone, straining her relationship with both her husband and son. This is taken a step further in the non-canon movies. When Goku disregards his wife's concerns that her father the Ox King will have to pay a fortune to send Gohan to college, Chi-Chi outright states that she wants a divorce.
** After years of putting up with this neglect, Future!Gohan completely disowns his father in ''The History of Trunks''. He likewise leaves his overly strict mother after realizing he could literally just fly away and never have to see her again.
** When Piccolo gives Gohan a copy of his own clothes, he adds that the ShouldersOfDoom will make it hard for him to walk around doors and crowds.
** When Goku fights against Cell, he teleports to avoid a Kamehameha Cell launches at him and the beam travels harmlessly into space. In TheStinger, it turns out that the blast didn't dissipate, and instead kept going until it actually destroyed a planet.
** When Bulma offhandedly makes TheReveal that Android 20 is Dr. Gero, none of the Z Fighters have any idea who he is, all of them being martial artists and most of them living far from civilization.
** As an alien, Vegeta would have no knowledge of many of Earth's customs or amenities such as condoms.
** The Hyberbolic Time Chamber is a SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere and there is literally nothing outside of the living area and door but a vast white void of space. Under normal circumstances, people can get a bit loopy from isolation over a short period of time never mind staying in a place like that for a relative year. In real life extended periods of isolation can lead to PTSD and sever mental trauma that people can never fully recover from. Even with another person inside to help you stay sane and filling the biologically programmed need for social interaction, Gohan and Goku still started into some SanitySlippage, Piccolo even with two other voices in his head that were independent entities he could converse with started to hallucinate after three days, and Vegeta alone went full on gibbering lunatic a la castaway in as little as two days.
** Two counts when Trunks confronts the Androids of his time:
*** In the original show, Trunks shows up just in time to save an old man from being killed by 17. Here, 17 doesn't take nearly as long and kills him before Trunks arrives.
*** When Trunks shows up to deal with them, he decides that talking is not a free action and vaporizes 18 while she is distracted by her conversation with 17.

* SpacePirate: Bojack, who was a modern criminal type in-series (or rather, movie), but here is a traditional arrrr type, possibly to make up for the fact that he is a voice-only character.

** While the fandom likes to make fun of Goku for being a bad dad, the Abridged movies show that his constant absence to go train and neglect his family have serious consequences. With her husband gone, Chi-Chi has been left to raise Gohan alone, straining her relationship with both her husband and son. This is taken a step further in the, non-canon, movies. When Goku disregards his wife's concerns that her father the Ox King will have to pay a fortune to send Gohan to college, Chi-Chi outright states that she wants a divorce.

** As an alien, Vegeta would have no knowledge off many of Earth's customs or amenities such as condoms.

** At the end of the Kai version of season 3, 16 waltzes on screen and remarks “By the way, I never died in this one.”

** Vegeta(also) says this when he realizes Goku's "super saiyan" form is not a lot to show.

** When wishing back Goku Shenlong suggests just wishing Vegeta and Nappa dead, while Roshi ignores his advice.

* SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler: Dodoria isn't actually male in this series, and hid her gender for unspecified reasons.]]

* SurroundedByIdiots:
** Vegeta uses these exact words when he realizes Goku's no brighter than Nappa.
** Also Freeza, much to his chagrin. Except for [[HypercompetentSidekick Ginyu]] who, quirky as he might be, calms Freeza down with sensible advice.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
** Planet Vegeta was blown up by falling rocks, not a Death Ball thrown by Freeza. At least, that's what its Wikipedia entry says.
--->'''Wiki page:''' [[WikiVandal P.S. Freeza rules you!]]
** Gohan's stupid-looking watch tells time, and nothing else...
** When Vegeta asks Krillin to ''almost'' kill him, we get a blend of this and ExactWords.
--->'''Krillin:''' And there's no repercussion for this?\\
'''Vegeta:''' I will not ''punch'' you.\\
'''Krillin:''' Oddly specific.
*** Krillin doesn't listen to his instructions, so Vegeta threatens to punch him anyway.
** Mr. Popo doesn't torture. ''Cats''.

* SuperSentaiStance:
** The Ginyu Force, as expected. In Episode 22, Goku tells Ginyu it's boring, and an offended Ginyu says that he makes these poses to raise morale.
** As a sort of CallForward, in the ''Episode of Bardock'' movie, Lord Chilled's [[LastRequest final, dying wish]] is that going forward, each of his empire's most elite warriors must be instructed in Dance Choreography so that they may "dance all over our opponent's balls."
* SurroundedByIdiots:
** Vegeta uses these exact words when he realizes Goku's no brighter than Nappa.
** Also Freeza, much to his chagrin. Except for [[HypercompetentSidekick Ginyu]] who, quirky as he might be, calms Freeza down with sensible advice.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
** Planet Vegeta was blown up by falling rocks, not a Death Ball thrown by Freeza. At least, that's what its Wikipedia entry says.
--->'''Wiki page:''' [[WikiVandal P.S. Freeza rules you!]]
** Gohan's stupid-looking watch tells time, and nothing else...
** When Vegeta asks Krillin to ''almost'' kill him, we get a blend of this and ExactWords.
--->'''Krillin:''' And there's no repercussion for this?\\
'''Vegeta:''' I will not ''punch'' you.\\
'''Krillin:''' Oddly specific.
*** Krillin doesn't listen to his instructions, so Vegeta threatens to punch him anyway.
** Mr. Popo doesn't torture. ''Cats''.

** The heart disease that kills Goku in Future Trunk's timeline and incapacites him in the Android Saga comes not from an alien pathogen as in canon, but from his excessive consumption of bacon and other fatty foods.

** The Hyberbolic Time Chamber is a SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere and there is literally nothing outside of the living area and door but a vast white void of space. Under normal circumstances, people can get a bit loopy from isolation over a short period of time nevermind staying in a place like that for a relative year. In real life extended periods of isolation can lead to PTSD and sever mental trauma that people can never fully recover from. Even with another person inside to help you stay sane and filling the biologically programmed need for social interaction, Gohan and Goku still started into some SanitySlippage, Piccolo even with two other voices in his head that were independent entities he could converse with started to hallucinate after three days, and Vegeta alone went full on gibbering lunatic a la castaway in as little as two days.

'''Broly:''' [[FamousLastWords Ka... ka... ROOOOOOT]]!

'''Vegeta:''' [[{{Mondegreen}} Sure you can.]]\\

* ZeroesAndOnes: When Android 16 is scanning Krillin, a binary readout is on the bottom of his RoboCam. [[spoiler:KILL SON GOKU. [[RunningGag FEED BIRDS.]]]]

* ThemeTuneCameo: In Episode 17, Bulma is humming ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4O9U1it44I Romantic Ageru Yo]]'', from the original ''Manga/DragonBall'', when Krillin arrives with the Dragon Ball he got from Super Kami Guru.

-->'''Guru:''' ''[about Krillin]'' I see something within this young man: strength yet untapped, power yet unleashed. Now hold still, as I ''unleash the valley of strength hidden deep within! [nimbus of lights surround Krillin]'' There! I have unlocked your potential.\\

'''Krillin:''' ''(sighs)'' Like Yamcha.\\

** DBZ Abridged Kai 3.5 offers a 2-in-1 Take That to yaoi fangirls who read incest manga, ''and'' Porn Hub, which has been flooded with incest porn as of the last few months.

* SelfParody: [[Anime/DragonBallKai Dragonball Z Kai Abridged]], which parodies the very concept of TheAbridgedSeries by retelling the entire first season in ''two minutes''.

''["[[Anime/DragonBallKai Chou ★ Super Dragon Soul]]" starts playing]''\\

** As in the original series, Bulma makes this suggestion when Goku tells the group about the androids. Only Vegeta just shoots it down instantly, wanting the challenge.

'''Goku:''' Kaio- OhCrap

** This changes later on when a bulky Super Saiyan form used by trunks inexplicably does become slower from increased mass, despite it being far less of a gain than the Oozaru form or even the mass gained by his opponent's, Cell's, transformations. This time, Goku's observation of the effect comes across as him being a genius when it comes to fighting.

** In ''Kai Abridged 3.5'', Perfect Cell throws a hissy fit at the fact that all of his cool scenes were skipped over as well as the fact that he was ranked fourth-best ''Dragon Ball'' villain over King Piccolo. He demands that they all come over and let him kick their asses as is his proper way of things. He doesn't get it as the ''Kai Abridged'' rules immediately kick in and he's killed.