History Headscratchers / DragonBallAbilities

* Is TimeTravel within the ''Franchise/DragonBall''-verse analogous to ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' - every time you time travel, a new timeline is created, or does it run more along the lines of TimeyWimeyBall, if we add the Time Rings into it? Also, ''two'' copies of the same individual co-existing in a timeline, like in the ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' "Future Trunks Arc" - how does that not create a TimeParadox? Bit confused by all this stuff. This is more about InUniverse things, not out-of-universe

** Don't know about everything else, but the official story about Trunks' sword (official as in what Wiki/ThatOtherWiki says) is that it's the same sword Tapion gives main timeline Trunks in "Wrath of the Dragon" (there's no explaination as to how Future Trunks got the sword and it's better that you don't think too much about it). As such, it's a magic sword and can't hurt it's owner. Don't blame me for the gaps in logic, I'm just parroting Wikipedia.

*** Because they keep their hairstyle at birth. Just as when {{Wolverine}} loses an arm from the base it grows back anyway just the way it was, a Saiyan's hair grows back until it is just the way it was.

** Krillin. He keeps training longer; the only reason Tien was better than him in the Cell Saga is because Tien's ki attacks are CastFromHP- other than that, Krillin was stronger even then.

** It on most major enemies past the Ginyu Force it might simply be a waste of energy. Cell and Buu regenerate, while 17 and 18 were actually cyborgs (humans with mechanical enhancements) as opposed to androids (robots that look human) the Z Fighters didn't know that until much later in the game. Frieza gets chopped in half by his own Kienzan, blasted by Goku and presumably was still physically on Namek when it exploded. All this after an exhausting fight and either knocked him out or put him in a coma but it didn't kill him. Decapitating Frieza may very well have simply resulted in Frieza's very pissed off head flying around shooting eye beams at you.

** That might constitute doing something to them. The rules of the Dragon are well laid out but not always consistent. The best example I can think of was the wish to remove the self destruct from the two androids. At no point in the Cell Saga are the self destructs shown to be malfunctioning or dangerous (to the owner) I don't see any reason why 17 and 18 would allow that to be taken from them. It might be nice encase say another monster that absorbs beings to take their power comes along that they at least have the option to self terminate and ideally take the bastard with them. Goku also had to specify on Namek for them to leave him and Freeza. Freeza I get may have submitted but if simply rejecting the wish was an option Goku had open to him he could have taken it. It would have saved him some conversation too since nobody would have argued with leaving Feeza on the dying planet to die alone.

** If we take Goku at his word it might be as simple as Vegeta never directly saw it done. Yeah he apparently saw it from Otherworld but maybe that's not good enough because he can't feel the technique to properly mimic it. Gottenks (or Goten and Trunks rather) ask to see the [=SSJ3=] form and Goku is shocked that they managed to do it after just watching it once. Perhaps [=SSJ3=] is (like Ascended Saiyan or whatever you wish to call Trunks' bulky form that Cell claims Vegeta could do, and Goku proved he could do) some kind of technique that a [=SSJ2=] can perform rather than an actual form in and of itself. I haven't watched GT (and most people don't really count that as cannon anyway) but I don't think Vegeta ever directly witnesses anybody transform in to [=SSJ3=]. You could ask the same about Gohan who is clearly more powerful than Goten.

* Is anyone bugged by the fact that Gotenks was able to Go Super Saiyan 3, but Vegeta didn't (granted Vegeta gets to turn [=SSJ4=] in GT, but still). How come Vegeta wasn't able to turn Super Saiyan 3 in the Buu arc?

** First, I believe you are referring to Ascended Saiyan or whatever the Trunk's exclusive tranformation is officially called. Not [=SSJ3=] which only Goku and Gottenks acheive and neither seem to be slowed down by it. Second I don't remember anything clearly stating that it does slow down the user. We only have Trunks to go by and (Time Travel complicates things) he's been a Super Saiyyan as long or longer (probably?) than Vegeta so it' snot really clear why Vegeta instinctively realizes the folly in that form. What is clear, and Cell points out, is that Trunks isn't fast enough to keep up with Cell and that Vegeta didn't bother tranforming because if he couldn't do it at his level of SPEED extra strength wouldn't matter. If we judge by Master Roshi and later from Cell himself it seems that increasing ones raw strength is easy (and presumably increasing speed alone is also easy) but speed with out the power to back it and strength without the speed to land your blows are useless. Trunks simply failed to do both. The point being he's probably not any slower than he was before transforming since he likely would have noticed THAT.

** First, I believe you are referring to Ascended Saiyan or whatever the Trunk's exclusive tranformation is officially called,. Not [=SSJ3=] which only Goku and Gottenks acheive and neither seem to be slowed down by it. Second I don't remember anything clearly stating that it does slow down the user. We only have Trunks to go by and (Time Travel complicates things) he's been a Super Saiyyan as long or longer (probably?) than Vegeta so it' snot really clear why Vegeta instinctively realizes the folly in that form. What is clear, and Cell points out, is that Trunks isn't fast enough to keep up with Cell and that Vegeta didn't bother tranforming because if he couldn't do it at his level of SPEED extra strength wouldn't matter. If we judge by Master Roshi and later from Cell himself it seems that increasing ones raw strength is easy (and presumably increasing speed alone is also easy) but speed with out the power to back it and strength without the speed to land your blows are useless. Trunks simply failed to do both. The point being he's probably not any slower than he was before transforming since he likely would have noticed THAT.