History Recap / DragonBallZAbridgedE40

* SchmuckBait: 18 asks Vegeta who "has two broken arms and is a total bitch?" Vegeta [[TooDumbToLive angrily states that 18 only broke one of his arms]] before she immediately does it to the other arm as well and answers with "This guy."

* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: After what occurred above, 17 asks 18 is she's into short people. 18 doesn't give a straight answer, but claims that "societal definitions of 'beauty' are BS, anyway".

** Krillin calls out Future Bulma for not telling Trunks that Vegeta tried to kill them all back in the Saiyan Saga. He then calls out Trunks himself because the 17 and 18 they just met are much stronger than the ones in his future.

* AllForNothing: Thanks to the beatdown they suffered, the Piccolo and Tien agree to this conclusion as the Androids are much stronger than them, even after three years of training and having ''two'' Super Saiyans on their side.

* WhatDoYouSeeInHim: After what occurred above, 17 asks 18 is she's into short people. 18 doesn't give a straight answer, but claims that "societal definitions of 'beauty' are BS, anyway".

* ChekhovsGun: Aside from the fact that he's not Goku ("''GOKU... NEGATIVE''"), Krillin's constant quacking saves him from getting attacked by any of the three current Androids, including 16 ("''BIRD... DUCK?''").

* CheckhovsGun: Aside from the fact that he's not Goku ("''GOKU... NEGATIVE''"), Krillin's constant quacking saves him from getting attacked by any of the three current Androids, including 16 ("''BIRD... DUCK?''").

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Piccolo goes off to re-fuse with Kami, Piccolo knows he's going to have a 2nd voice in his head and is constantly annoyed with Nail's voice bothering him. There's also the fact that both Piccolo and Kami are hardly on good terms.
* WhatTheHellHero: The middle part of a three-fer when Krillin tells Tien, Trunks, and Piccolo what happened after the battle between him and the Androids, especially 18:
-->'''Tien:''' [[CassandraTruth I]] ''[[CassandraTruth don't]]'' [[CassandraTruth believe you]].\\

* LampshadeHanging: While Piccolo is talking to Kami about the Android threat, Nail mentions on the side how there is a "tone shift" in the atmosphere,right before Kami responds how the Android will soon pale in comparison to another threat.

* ComputersSpeakBinary: Played with. Android 16 can speak normally but when he scans Krillin, the text is in binary to allude to his fully synthetic composition compared to Android 17 and 18 who were previously human.
-->'''Android 16:''' 01001011 01001001 01001100 01001100 00100000 01010011 01001111 01001110 00100000 01000111 01001111 01001011 01010101 00101110 00100000 01000110 01000101 01000101 01000100 00100000 01000010 01001001 01010010 01000100 01010011 00101110.[[labelnote:Translation]]KILL SON GOKU. FEED BIRDS.[[/labelnote]]

* SchmuckBait: 18 asks Vegeta who "has two broken arms and is a complete bitch?" Vegeta [[TooDumbToLive angrily states that 18 only broke one of his arms]] before she immediately does it to the other arm as well and answers with "This guy."

* MythologyGag: Krillin hints that they may need a "Super Namekian" to even the odds against the Androids, which is why Piccolo flew off so he can meet with Kami. In the canon, they all come to grips that Piccolo and Kami fusing will cancel out the power of the Dragon Balls. Here, none of them are aware of this effect until much later, though Kami warns Piccolo of this first.

** Android 17 warned the rest of the Z-Fighters last episode what would would happen if they try to interfere. With the exception of Krillin, everyone else suffered a brutal CurbStompBattle as a result, though none of them died like Trunks predicted.

** [[SilverVixen Panchi is credited as]] [="GILF"=] in the subtitles as well.