History Fridge / DragonBallZ

* One of Gotenks' signatures is his very unique techniques of Ki Manipulation, resulting in his Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack and Ultra Buu Buu Volleyball. For the latter, though, it opens with Gotenks encasing Buu in rings of ki to restrain him. ''Vegeta'' actually pulls this move off when he fights Goku under the Majin influence, successfully binding Goku to a rock face mid-fight. Maybe Trunks (and by extension Gotenks) saw his dad working on this at one point and thought it was a cool idea?
** Speaking of Gotenks, the ''only'' two things that actually keep him from being as [[GameBreaker broken as Gogeta]] are the time limit and the two boys' immaturity. Imagine having both the power to fight Super Buu to a relatively even match ''and'' the ability[=/=]creativity to employ techniques that conventional fighters won't see coming and can't defend against? Buu's version of the Super Ghost Kamikaze almost ''killed'' Ultimate Gohan because the latter had no idea how to address that sort of technique.

** Uub's family situation makes a lot of sense when you know the real idea of reincarnation according to Hinduism. Where you are now in your current life is the consequence of your 'own' actions, and thus deserved, in your past life. Because Majin Buu was a terrible being who did great evil, his reincarnation, Uub, was born into a very harsh life as punishment.

*** What Gohan is, given a certain definition of the word, is ''just.'' It is not the purity that leaves Gohan's heart as a SSJ2 - it's the ''mercy.'' Gohan didn't want to inflict suffering on Cell for suffering's sake. He wanted to inflict it on Cell because Cell had inflicted suffering on his friends. Given the power gap between many of the Z-Fighters and the Cell Jrs, the Cell Jrs. could have easily just killed most of them - but Cell instead had them hold back enough so that Gohan could listen to them suffering. So Gohan, when pushed beyond the breaking point, had an equal payment in mind when dealing with Cell. An eye for an eye, so to speak.

** Dr. Gero didn't select Lapis and Lazuli to become his subjects because he had the creation of Cell in mind. He most likely selected them because they were runaways and would not be missed if they disappeared. When their rebellious attitude became too much for Gero and he shut them down before the events of the Cell saga, that's when Gero started to consider [[IncrediblyLamePun incorporating them into something bigger]].

** Also, we see that bank robbers were brought back to life, and in ''Super'' we see that major jerk Barry Khan was revived too as well as [[Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperHero the survivors of the Red Ribbon Army]]. Porunga may have decided that only the irredimably evil people were excluded by the wish, and Vegeta had already started becoming a decent person even before dying.
*** Alternatively, Porunga was interpreting the wish from the perspective of what Namekians believed to be good and evil. Alien dragon, alien values.

** Given his fame, Mr Satan would be challenged by many [=McDojo=] owners falsely claiming to be able to use ki, expecting to be ignored by the far more famous guy... Except Mr Satan is someone who'd never waste a chance to show off, and would not only accept at least a few such challenges but have them broadcast. And once the fight went the way of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBNX6GsUI1o MMA instructor Xu Xiaodong versus Tai Chi master and supposed qi user Lei Wei]], they'd be humiliated. Rinse and repeat, and by the time of the Cell Games people had decided to disbelieve ki and rationalized King Piccolo and the Saiyan in some way.

* Before Vegeta blew himself up trying to kill Majin Buu we're told that he's far too evil to not go to Hell, but when, three days later, all the good people killed by Buu are brought back Vegeta too finds himself alive again... Thanks to a number of actions Vegeta did during the arc fully knowing his fate and that if he pulled it off he was cutting his brief reprieve short, ''starting'' from sacrificing himself knowing that this one good deed wasn't enough to spare him from his fate. One good deed wasn't enough, but repeated ''selfless' deeds he expected would still lead him to Hell were.

* Mr Satan is very strong for someone who can't use ki, even using a FlashStep once. That's likely That's likely where his skepticism about ki, and the general public following suit, comes from:

* Vegeta's dying speech [[DubText as given in the old dub]] carries some terrifying implications for how Frieza selects his elite soldiers. He forced a young Vegeta to work for him under pain of his father's death, killed his father anyway, and spent the following years molding corrupting Vegeta into a walking WMD. Vegeta begs Goku not to let Frieza "do it to anybody else", implying that he knows for certain that Frieza will repeat the process on another prospective soldier ''because he's done this before''--destroying everything in the lives of his elite until there's nothing left for them to fight for but him, then essentially brainwashing them into not ''wanting'' to fight for anything else. Really makes you wonder about the higher-ranked mooks encountered in that arc...