History Fanfic / TalesOfTheMonkeyQueen

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The policeman who helps Goku and Suno find Capsule Corp when they arrive in West City asks Bulma's father, Dr. Briefs, to make his car go faster, since it's a Capsule Corp model. After Dr. Briefs is done with it, it goes faster – than the speed of sound.

* OverprotectiveDad: The Ox King is this to Chi-Chi, as a result of her mother dying in battle when she was younger.

* HasTwoMommies: [[spoiler:Gohan and Goten.]]

-->'''Piccolo:''' "So. The end of the world again, huh?"
* WorthyOpponent: Piccolo Daimou admits that Goku is this to him after she comes back to fight him the second time.

** There's also quite a bit of ToyShip teasing early on with Krillin and Goku, with Bulma even seemingly actively playing ShipperOnDeck before [[spoiler: Suno enters the picture.]]

*** Some IdiotPlot storylines from the original are averted entirely thanks to characters communicating properly.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** The remaining Z Fighters refuse Goku's request to spare Vegeta, especially since her reasoning is wanting a rematch. Unfortunately, Vegeta uses the Solar Flare to blind them and escape.
** Goku and Gohan... smell really bad after spending a [[YearInsideHourOutside year/day]] in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
** Simlarly, Bacterion [[spoiler:died shortly after the 21st Budoukai from a severe bacterial infection, as he had never bathed in his life.]]
** While Jaco's KillEmAll method of dealing with Saiyans might be considered [[IDidWhatIHadToDo justified enough]] to keep him alive, he quickly got transferred to more dangerous assignments away from civilians.
*** The Galactic Patrol has the much more realistic number of 500,000 members.
** After King Cold and Freeza die on Earth, Goku gets a medal and the planet gets invited to join the Galactic Federation, because taking down one of the most powerful warlords in the universe ''and'' his heir apparent is pretty damn noteworthy.
** Bulma figures out Trunks is her son from the future after she has a one night stand with Vegeta, because how else would you explain a super saiyan from the future wearing a Capsule Corp. jacket.
*** Likewise, Vegeta figures out the same because how else would there be a Super Saiyan from the future with hair similar to the woman he just slept with.
** Unlike canon, most of the Z Fighters are recognized when they show up at the Cell Games given that all but three are finalists from previous tournaments and Vegeta invaded Earth and blew up a city. Only Gohan and Trunks are unknowns.
** Due to Vegeta having blown up East City, he has to go through a ''lot'' of legal trouble to "prove" he and the alien who destroyed a city are two different people.

** When General Blue continuously refers to himself as TheUbermensch, Bulma remarks, "[[Film/ThePrincessBride You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means]]."

* RealityEnsues:
** The remaining Z Fighters refuse Goku's request to spare Vegeta, especially since her reasoning is wanting a rematch. Unfortunately, Vegeta uses the Solar Flare to blind them and escape.
** Goku and Gohan... smell really bad after spending a [[YearInsideHourOutside year/day]] in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
** Simlarly, Bacterion [[spoiler:died shortly after the 21st Budoukai from a severe bacterial infection, as he had never bathed in his life.]]
** While Jaco's KillEmAll method of dealing with Saiyans might be considered [[IDidWhatIHadToDo justified enough]] to keep him alive, he quickly got transferred to more dangerous assignments away from civilians.
*** The Galactic Patrol has the much more realistic number of 500,000 members.
** After King Cold and Freeza die on Earth, Goku gets a medal and the planet gets invited to join the Galactic Federation, because taking down one of the most powerful warlords in the universe ''and'' his heir apparent is pretty damn noteworthy.
** Bulma figures out Trunks is her son from the future after she has a one night stand with Vegeta, because how else would you explain a super saiyan from the future wearing a Capsule Corp. jacket.
*** Likewise, Vegeta figures out the same because how else would there be a Super Saiyan from the future with hair similar to the woman he just slept with.
** Unlike canon, most of the Z Fighters are recognized when they show up at the Cell Games given that all but three are finalists from previous tournaments and Vegeta invaded Earth and blew up a city. Only Gohan and Trunks are unknowns.
** Due to Vegeta having blown up East City, he has to go through a ''lot'' of legal trouble to "prove" he and the alien who destroyed a city are two different people.

* CrossesTheLineTwice:
** When asked how he could kill children, Freeza remarks that a planet could be filled with the number of children he's killed. His next scene involves Freeza pondering exactly how many planets' worth and trying to work out the math. ''[[UpToEleven And then]]'', a chapter or three later, he wonders to himself how many planets' worth of ''elderly'' people he's killed.
** Lapis and Lazuli have... low opinions of Gero's clothes for them.
--->'''Lapis:''' I look like I'm going to release [[Music/KurtCobain a series of hit albums before making out with a shotgun.]] \\
'''Lazuli:''' I look like I'm all dolled up to suck off my stepdad for money to go to the mall.

* AdaptationalBadass: Suno and Chi-Chi, in the original Dragon Ball, were respectively more or less a civilian, and a BadassNormal who more or less retired from fighting after the start of Z. Here, they’re both members of the Z-fighters, and Suno is more or less Krillin’s main rival for the position of the strongest “pure” human.

* AntiClimax: Suno lampshades as she’s helping storm Muscle Tower that it is, mostly, not really that impressive (granted, she’s doing it with Goku).
--> Suno couldn’t help but wonder how these people managed to terrorize them for half a year.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The policeman who helps Goku and Suno find Capsule Corp when they arrive in West City asks Bulma’s father, Dr. Briefs, to make his car go faster, since it’s a Capsule Corp model. After Dr. Briefs is done with it, it goes faster – than the speed of sound.
* BigWhat: Suno’s reaction when [[GodJob Kami]] summons Goku to the Lookout.
* BlackComedy: InUniverse, Krillin darkly notices that Goku’s cause of death is listed as “Assisted Suicide”, with Cell as the “Assistant.”

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience[=/=]OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Red Ribbon Army enforces this, with the rule apparently being that, after you join, you take a color as your name, and you aren’t allowed to use your birth name.

* GroundhogPeggySue: Future Trunks’s intention by coming back to the past. [[spoiler:And in Chapter 90, Cell is revealed to have abused this. Big time.]]
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Revealed in Chapter 75 to be why Cooler hates Freeza – Cooler worked and trained for his entire life to get stronger, whereas Freeza was born GooGooGodlike, and was as strong as Cooler was after years of training without even having to work for it.

* HugeGirlTinyGuy: Downplayed: While he’s hardly small, Yamcha is shorter than [[spoiler:his wife Chi-Chi.]]

* ImGoingToHellForThis: While nothing ever comes of it, Bulma, after first meeting Goku, intends to use her to help gather the Dragon Balls by saying Goku could use them to wish back Grandpa Gohan… and then make her own wish instead. While she's stated and shown to feel rather guilty about this (especially after they get to know each other better), she initially intended to go through with it.

* MadScientist: Bulma shamelessly admits that she is this, and it shows more than once. However, she’s a (relatively) moral MadScientist, especially when compared to Dr. Gero.

* MassOhCrap: When Goku arrives at the Red Ribbon Army’s main base with combat on the brain, they (understandably) panic.

* NonIndicativeName: General Blue lampshades that the Red Ribbon Army doesn’t always have names that make sense in its "code."
--> He peered over the edge of his magazine at a barrel-shaped boar man with purple fur. Sergeant… Mauve, was it? Really his fur was more of a Maroon, but Private Maroon was also in his troop. Funnily enough, he was a panda. But such was the lot of the color coordination in the Red Ribbon Army.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: At first, Dr. Gero seems like he wants the best for humanity, and seemingly created Cell to defend Earth from [[AliensAreBastards alien invaders]], and hated Goku because she destroyed the Red Ribbon Army, his main source of funding (as well as Commander Red being a friend of his). However, he’s entirely too willing to “purge” some of humanity due to his belief that the world cannot sustain a continually-booming population, [[spoiler:and a computer download of his personality claims that he intended to have Cell eliminate humanity from the start and replace the population with Cell Jrs. Whether AIIsACrapshoot occurred, or the original Gero suffered MotiveDecay, is unclear.]]

* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Goku and Gohan both essentially revert to their “primal” instincts during the Oozaru transformation.

* PoliceAreUseless: Subverted – while they’re not much use in the fights present in this series (understandably), a policeman helps guide Goku and Suno to Capsule Corp the first time they arrive in West City.

-->'''Goku''': Oh, will you ''shut up''?! I’m so sick of this! All you ever talk about is your Saiyan pride! How you were ''meant'' to be the strongest, how you were ''meant'' to be better than me! That’s the craziest thing, Vegeta, you ''were'' stronger than me! I had to [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique multiply my strength]] ''four times'' to be stronger than you, and I still needed [[KidHero Gohan]], [[BestFriend Krillin]], and [[HappilyMarried Suno’s]] help to beat you! But I didn’t let it bother me! You wanna know why? Because I never took anything for granted! I never just ''assumed'' [[SmallNameBigEgo that I was the best!]] I’m ''glad'' Freeza [[DoomedHometown blew up]] [[LaserGuidedKarma our stupid planet]]! Because otherwise, I might have grown up to be a ''coward'' like you! [...] What else would you call it? What would you call it when the second life goes any way other than exactly how you think it’s ''supposed'' to, you start to have a crisis? [[MightMakesRight What do you call it when your life is validated by being strong enough to do whatever you want]] and [[VillainousBreakdown falling apart when suddenly that changes]]? [''points to the [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Majin tattoo on Vegeta]]''] [[EvilIsEasy What do you call taking the easy way out]] [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter when things got hard]]? [...] Do you want to know why I let you live? Not just because you were strong. Not just because I wanted to fight you again so that I could prove I could beat you on my own. But because somewhere, deep down, I ''knew'' that you could have been ''more'' than what you were. That there wasn’t that much separating what I could have been from what you were. [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre I wanted to give you the chance to better yourself, to prove me right.]] But if ''[[EntitledBastard this]]'' is all you are... I should’ve just let Krillin kill you.

* ShipTease: It’s all but outright stated that [[StarterVillain Raditz]] and [[CoDragons Zarbon]] were lovers before the former’s death here.

** Tensinhan roars "[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure DOOOOOORARARARARARARA!]]" as he’s beating Android 14 with the Kaioken Times 4. Which actually doubles as a ShoutOut InUniverse, as Ten is a massive [=JoJo=] fan.

** The line "Kaiouwha–?" gets dropped by Android 13 right before Yamcha nails him. He also says, "Now y’gone and did it... I've lost mah trucker hat!"

---> '''Goku:''' "So is this the strategy you've developed in the last seven years? Talking me to death? Because I hate to tell ya, that's gonna be a pro–"\\

* TheSocialDarwinist: Aside from the Saiyans, the Arcosians are also revealed to be this (or at least, Freeza's family is). Surprisingly, they're actually civil about it – King Cold was entirely accepting of the idea that Cooler might one day overthrow him and kill him.

--->'''Commander Black:''' I am Commander Black of the Red Ribbon Army and–\\
'''Suno:''' ''[leaps at him with a flying kick]'' You don’t get a monologue!
** Vegeta is interrupted mid-sentence multiple times by the Z-fighters as he’s trying to rant instead of [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim killing them]].

* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Averted – in the Red Ribbon Army arc, two of their jet pilots are given a brief introduction – that is, before Goku smashes their planes for shooting at her, Bulma, and Suno.
* WhyWontYouDie: Sergeant Metallic (due to being a robot) doesn’t die when his head is blown off, or his chest is blown up, or when he sacrifices one of his arms for a RocketPunch, much to Suno’s frustration.

* WorthyOpponent: Piccolo Daimou admits that Goku is this to him after she comes back to fight him the second time.
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Part of the reason why Yamcha and Bulma break up is because Yamcha had sex with Launch, even though nothing “came” of it.]]

* BadassGay: Raditz (and Zarbon), Recoome, Suno.

* BiTheWay: Chi-Chi is just as interested in Goku as in canon, [[spoiler:and later marries Yamcha]].

''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/4469405/chapters/10157336 Tales of the Monkey Queen]]'' is a canon rewrite of ''Manga/DragonBall'' by Tropers/SonOfSharknado and Tropers/{{Zelenal}}. Starting from the very beginning, it tells of a world where Son Goku was a girl and explores not only the ramifications of that but also numerous other changes.

!This work contains examples of:

* [[spoiler: AdaptationalAlternateEnding: Unlike the original continuity, Gohan is the one to kill Kid Boo. After having the energy of the Genki Dama transferred into him by Goku, he finishes Boo off with his signature move: the Ryuhameha.]]

-->'''Lapis:''' I look like I'm going to release [[Music/KurtCobain a series of hit albums before making out with a shotgun.]] \\

* ImGoingToHellForThis: While nothing ever comes of it, Bulma, after first meeting Goku, intends to use her to help gather the Dragon Balls by saying Goku could use them to wish back Grandpa Gohan… and then make her own wish instead. While she’s stated and shown to feel rather guilty about this (especially after they get to know each other better), she initially intended to go through with it.
--> Bulma had also had a rough time that night, wondering if the world’s largest chocolate fountain was really worth going to Hell for.

* [[spoiler: MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: It turns out that Main Timeline Cell originally came from a timeline where she won, and has been doing this for the past 50 years after leaving it.]]

-->North: [[spoiler:Bei]]\\
South: [[spoiler:Nan]]\\
East/Shin: [[spoiler:Dong]]\\
West: [[spoiler:Xi]]\\
Grand Supreme Kai/Daikaioushin: [[spoiler:Shengda]]\\
Elder Kai: [[spoiler:Pracya]]
* NonIndicativeName: General Blue lampshades that the Red Ribbon Army doesn’t always have names that make sense in its “code.”

** In Chapter 79, Vegeta watches what appears to be Dragon Ball’s interpretation of “Curse of the Black Pearl.”
** Tensinhan roars “[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure DOOOOOORARARARARARARA!]]” as he’s beating Android 14 with the Kaioken Times 4. Which actually doubles as a ShoutOut InUniverse, as Ten is a massive [=JoJo=] fan.

** The line "Kaiouwha–?" gets dropped by Android 13 right before Yamcha nails him. He also says, "Now y’gone and did it... I’ve lost mah trucker hat!"
** To Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths when Goku is fighting [[spoiler:the Majinized]] Vegeta.
--> '''Goku:''' “So is this the strategy you’ve developed in the last seven years? Talking me to death? Because I hate to tell ya, that’s gonna be a pro–”
--> '''Vegeta:'''“Actually, Kakarot, I thought I’d ''beat'' you to death.”
* TheSocialDarwinist: Aside from the Saiyans, the Arcosians are also revealed to be this (or at least, Freeza’s family is). Surprisingly, they’re actually civil about it – King Cold was entirely accepting of the idea that Cooler might one day overthrow him and kill him.
** [[spoiler:However, both of them drew the line at Freeza killing them and taking over, because both of them knew that [[PsychopathicManchild Freeza’s ego]] and AGodAmI beliefs would not allow him to coexist with [[DestroyerDeity Beerus]], who Cooler and Cold knew might destroy the entire Arcosian Empire if Freeza tried to attack him]].

--> So. The end of the world again, huh?

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: [[spoiler:Unlike the original continuity, Gohan is the one to kill Kid Boo. After having the energy of the Genki Dama transferred into him by Goku, he finishes Boo off with his signature move: the Ryuhameha.]]

* Adaptational Alternate Ending: [[spoiler:Unlike the original continuity, Gohan is the one to kill Kid Boo. After having the energy of the Genki Dama transferred into him by Goku, he finishes Boo off with his signature move: the Ryuhameha.]]

** Also defied when Gohan gets picked to fight Buu- the Supreme Kai telepathically contacts him to explain the situation beforehand, instead of just showing up at the tournament. [[spoiler: This one stems from Xi having more experience than Shin.]]

** [[spoiler:While they were already badass in canon, later on, Lapis and Lazuli (Androids 17 and 18) both respectively start training under the Crane and Turtle schools of martial arts.]]

--> '''Commander Black''' - “I am Commander Black of the Red Ribbon Army and–”
--> Suno leapt at him again with a flying kick. “You don’t get a monologue!”

* WhatMeasureIsAmook: Averted – in the Red Ribbon Army arc, two of their jet pilots are given a brief introduction – that is, before Goku smashes their planes for shooting at her, Bulma, and Suno.

* [[spoiler:YourCheatingHeart: Part of the reason why Yamcha and Bulma break up is because Yamcha had sex with Launch, even though nothing “came” of it.]]